Michael Morisy
@morisy.bsky.social
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civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
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chicago.suntimes.com
At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
trib.al
morisy.bsky.social
Looking for folks who’d be good to have on a panel or discussion around government (local particularly) open meetings — let me know if you know anyone who’d be good to invite, especially if that’s you!
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture
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shastascout.bsky.social
We are pushing back on behalf of the public we serve after being restricted by the local election office. A free press is central to a healthy and civically-engaged community.
facoalition.bsky.social
FAC is representing @shastascout.bsky.social in this letter to Shasta County's elections official after he said the outlet was not "legitimate" and illegally removed her from a media release distribution list.
FAC Represents Newsroom After Shasta Elections Official Illegally Excludes its Journalists from Media Release Distribution
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firstamendmentcoalition.org
morisy.bsky.social
AI detection program is “'reliable, accurate and an important tool' in addressing improper use of AI, Adelphi said in court papers." (They are not reliable or accurate, as the article notes! [Also, omit redundancies!])
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kendraserra.bsky.social
I've been following the Lattarulo case involving the seizure of an immigration attorney's cell phone at Logan Airport (complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...) pretty closely and I'm left with a big question that none of the coverage has answered.
storage.courtlistener.com
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cjciaramella.bsky.social
lol, here's some incredible college football content. In the hype video Oregon posted after Penn State, Dan Lanning lectures his team on broken windows theory, but it's pro-breaking windows.

"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...
a screencap of Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning standing in front of a projector screen displaying a slideshow. The current slide has a headline "BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY."
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davidho.bsky.social
“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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muckrock.com
As part of our new design, we’re also now offering a Data Liberation Project beanie in our MuckRock swag store! www.muckrock.com/store/
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ericumansky.bsky.social
That immigration agent who threw a woman to the ground, prompting DHS to declare his conduct "unacceptable"?

He's back at the courthouse.

And DHS still won't tell us his name.
tilleckert.com
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy
morisy.bsky.social
Glad that this is getting coverage, but the chilling effect is here! Apple and Google are very clearly chilled! Speech is restricted with no legal basis! No experts needed, it's just facts!
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.
Brendan Carr, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission:
President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape. And the way he's doing that is,
when he ran for election, he ran directly at these legacy broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS.
For years, government officials just allowed those entities with execs sitting in Hollywood in New York to dictate the political narrative. And he has fundamentally changed the game. And you see that really having consequences that are just rushing all through media.
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
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nysfocus.bsky.social
Almost half of New York's newspapers have closed in the last 20 years. New York Focus launched in 2020 to fill those gaps.

5 years later, we’ve grown into a statewide newsroom making real impact:
✨ Nearly 1 million annual readers
✨ 15 full-time staff
✨ Investigations that sparked real change
morisy.bsky.social
With the DOJ's argument essentially being ICEBlock was used to deduce that ICE agents were at an ICE facility. Follow that line of argument and I guess they outlaw signage next?