Michael Morisy
@morisy.bsky.social
civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
“There's a reason Claude makes an announcement and Thomson-Reuters stock goes down.” @michaeljaylissner.com on @free.law and AI taraherman1.substack.com/p/freeing-th...
Freeing the Law: An Interview with Free Law Project's Executive Director Mike Lissner
A conversation with the Executive Director of Free Law Project on how AI can expand public access to the law, and building access to justice from the outside in
taraherman1.substack.com
The Accountability Project now uses MuckRock accounts for authentication! Researchers and journalists can search across an index of more than 1.9 billion public records. publicaccountability.org
The Accountability Project
publicaccountability.org
Not only am I not connected on Linked with my co-founder, we're only 3rd degree connections. Truly inspirational levels of non-onlineness.
If you're a smaller, indie journalism org, you should care about serving your audience and work to deserve the trust you build with them. Here are some useful ethics checklists to help make sure you're covering your bases. trustingnews.org/show-youre-t...
Show you’re trustworthy: An ethics checklist for creator journalists - Trusting News
This checklist not only walks creator journalists through the basic ethics of journalism, but also includes information for how they can make those ethics and credibility clear to their audience.
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If you're a trans person who isn't a journalist and you see a big, scary claim from a small independent publication, it's always worth taking a closer look at how that publication verified the claims, what evidence they provide, and how they describe uncertainty. trustingnews.org/what-informa...
What information from independent creators can you trust? This checklist will help - Trusting News
With more influencers and news sources emerging each day, it’s becoming harder and harder to tell what's true.
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Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 5h ago1. Recent reporting has sparked fears that the Trump admin is beginning to revoke trans people's passports by declaring us 'national security risks.' But is it true? As per Transitics' investigation, no. There is no evidence to suggest that trans people’s passports are being revoked. Here's why.
Release the Klaxon! 🚨 I've been using this version for the past month, and it's a much easier experience for watching pages, choosing a part of the page to watch and seeing where I already have alerts. Go try it.
MuckRock@muckrock.com · 6h agoThis year, we’ve been hard at work on Klaxon Cloud, our tool to watch the sites you care about for changes. We are proud to announce two new Klaxon Cloud features make it easier than ever to create new alerts and track changes across websites over time. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
Need to keep tabs on an agency‘s leadership, stealth edits to press releases, or another online updates? Klaxon Cloud is now easier than ever and still free: Use your MuckRock account to get started.
MuckRock@muckrock.com · 6h agoThe Klaxon Cloud browser extension, available for both Chrome and Firefox. The Klaxon Cloud website, which acts as a central landing hub to view and manage all of your scheduled Klaxon Cloud alerts and view all your tracked changes. www.klaxoncloud.org
I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵
The SEC bought airline ticketing data to monitor worldwide flights. New documents we got show the data wasn't just for U.S. domestic flights, or even international arrivals. It included flights between foreign countries too. All queried without a warrant www.404media.co/the-sec-boug...
The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.
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A week after Trump issued his "national emergency" proclamation for the southern border, the military began planning for a potential invocation of the Insurrection Act & much more. Another major #FOIA get, out now. cc: @radleybalko.bsky.social @cjciaramella.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/northco...
my latest build is a desktop arcade machine that actually works and plays more than 20 custom 8-bit games made this week by @nytimes.com folks as part of maker week.
AI in the courts: Most of Reddit's claims against Perplexity and SerpApi for training their LLMs on Reddit (users') data survive, in 63 page ruling by SDNY Judge Engelmayer. But who would get damages: Reddit users? Inner City Press on the case(s)
The story: bsky.app/profile/joem...
Joe Murphy@joemurph.bsky.social · last wk.Data from job boards and surveys show an unusually cool job market for new graduates, as well as a multiyear decline in entry-level job postings. Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
An Arkansas law that lets censors put librarians behind bars if children get a hold of sexy books can take effect, now that the Eighth Circuit rejected a lower court's determination that the law is unconstitutional. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
State law that puts librarians in legal peril gets green light from Eighth Circuit - Arkansas Times
Act 372 makes furnishing minors with harmful or obscene materials a misdemeanor punishable with up to a year behind bars.
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OK! I have read the complaint in the "Grok (OK, fine, xAI) (OK, fine, SpaceX) sues Minnesota over obscene deepfake law" lawsuit, and I'm here to break it down. Link to the complaint below, so you can follow along. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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In December, I sent 115 requests to see if any of them had contracts with Palantir. 114 said no. The one that did... it took four months and a lawyer to get my hands on the contract. And yes, they used the firm to crunch student data. www.foiaball.com/p/public-uni...
The one university that contracted with Palantir
And yes, student data was involved.
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Oh, it's bad. He doesn't say Blanche is pulled, but, he does. I think the only fair reading of this is that Trump is not willing to let Blanche back down on the audit immunity.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d agoNYT on the Blanche vote delay that’s the result of Cornyn and Tillis not being on board due to where things stand with the IRS audit immunity provision. “‘I can see why he wants it, because it provides immunity from audits no other taxpayer would get,’ Mr. Cornyn added. “
NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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We just need to update and re-issue the Elements of Style on a quarterly basis to keep things straight.
Lane Greene@lanegreene.bsky.social · 6d agoGreat news: you can use the em-dash again. We studied a lot of AI prose, a lot of our own, and that of other journalistic outfits and books. The analysis found that today's models uses the em-dash slightly less than we do. www.economist.com/culture/2026...
This feels more like a personality matrix. What a great showdown.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · last wk.Is Oppenheimer, WALL-E, The Matrix, or 28 Days Later the best doomsday movie? After a series of head-to-head matches, Bulletin readers have voted on the final four. Which will win? Comment which movie is your favorite on Instagram to be entered into a giveaway: buff.ly/HftgAvE
“Initially I couldn't believe Google could be so dumb to kill the thing it makes literally all its money from, but lately I've arrived at another conclusion: Google knows it's killing the open web and is doing it on purpose. There's no way no one at Google realizes what's happening.”
Drew Curtis@drewcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.
Just played with the new “describe and extension in Safari and it will automatically make it” and it flawlessly handles two simple ones perfectly. Nice little feature!
William Carlos Williams appears in post-credits scene of Howl: “I'm here to talk to you about the Beat Generation Initiative”
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Anthropic finally posted its government request transparency report for the last half of 2025. Previously it reported 0 requests and disclosures, but that seems to have changed! www-cdn.anthropic.com/5d453bc3285b...
Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
Floridians!! Ashley Moody has become the latest loud Senator demanding the Senate stay in session to pass the SAVE Act. But while she was AG, she failed to prosecute a Russian citizen who fabricated >100 voter registrations. And DOJ's treatment of it is a bit weird emptywheel.net/2026/07/25/t...
The (Russian) Foreign Vote Fraudster Trump Didn't Mention - emptywheel
Last year, Trump's DOJ got guilty pleas from a Russian and his Uzbek buddy based on illegally registering false identities to vote in Florida. And yet the case against the Russian is getting weird in ...
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