Dan Moritz-Rabson
@dmoritzrabson.bsky.social
I report on the criminal legal system and fact check things. Published in ProPublica, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, and other places. Researcher/fact checker at Freakonomics Radio Network. Email me at dmoritzrabson@gmail.com. Clips at dmoritzrabson.com
shoutout the very transparent NYC government for issuing its 24th extension of a records request for correspondence i filed in May 2020
December 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
shoutout the very transparent NYC government for issuing its 24th extension of a records request for correspondence i filed in May 2020
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Scrolled over a photo and was like “I think that’s a J6er” and sure enough it was Russ Taylor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Scrolled over a photo and was like “I think that’s a J6er” and sure enough it was Russ Taylor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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U.S. Military Killed Boat Strike Survivors for Not Surrendering Correctly
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...
U.S. Military Killed Boat Strike Survivors for Not Surrendering Correctly
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
U.S. Military Killed Boat Strike Survivors for Not Surrendering Correctly
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...
Before ordering a second strike on their boat, Adm. Frank Bradley sought legal advice from JSOC’s top lawyer, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, The Intercept has learned.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/b...
"Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to be wrong...In DOGE’s published list of canceled contracts and grants, for instance, the 13 largest were all incorrect."
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to be wrong...In DOGE’s published list of canceled contracts and grants, for instance, the 13 largest were all incorrect."
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Use of force by members of the NYPD surged 20% last year to 11,746 incidents — a record high since the department began detailed record-keeping on the issue in 2016, according to a police department report quietly posted online in recent days. — @yoavgonen.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/u...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/u...
Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
www.thecity.nyc
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Use of force by members of the NYPD surged 20% last year to 11,746 incidents — a record high since the department began detailed record-keeping on the issue in 2016, according to a police department report quietly posted online in recent days. — @yoavgonen.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/u...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/u...
glad to see the op-ed pages are still unwavering in their commitment to addressing the hard topics
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
glad to see the op-ed pages are still unwavering in their commitment to addressing the hard topics
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Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice.
DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...
DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice.
DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...
DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...
this is the writing of someone who has never reported on something that prompted serious pushback from a press office on a story. it's also the thinking of someone whose "free thinking" news outlet publishes thinly veiled propaganda with "hot new takes" that are actually just poorly reported garbage
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
this is the writing of someone who has never reported on something that prompted serious pushback from a press office on a story. it's also the thinking of someone whose "free thinking" news outlet publishes thinly veiled propaganda with "hot new takes" that are actually just poorly reported garbage
"336 people died while incarcerated in New Jersey between 2018 and 2024. The medical examiner attributed a majority of the deaths — roughly 6 out of every 7 — to natural causes, though the report takes care to note that such a determination doesn’t necessarily mean a death wasn’t preventable."
NJ releases prison death data for first time in effort to bring closure, accountability
336 people died while incarcerated in NJ between 2018 and 2024, according to the state.
gothamist.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"336 people died while incarcerated in New Jersey between 2018 and 2024. The medical examiner attributed a majority of the deaths — roughly 6 out of every 7 — to natural causes, though the report takes care to note that such a determination doesn’t necessarily mean a death wasn’t preventable."
love 2 create a trash system for all the garbage we're leaving elsewhere
December 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
love 2 create a trash system for all the garbage we're leaving elsewhere
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities like gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
oh so the federal government does know how to release files as a pdf??
weird, my foia experience would make me think otherwise
weird, my foia experience would make me think otherwise
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
oh so the federal government does know how to release files as a pdf??
weird, my foia experience would make me think otherwise
weird, my foia experience would make me think otherwise
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“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
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Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.
Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect | CNN
CNN spoke to several security experts to better understand the growth of Brown’s surveillance system, why its cameras failed to capture the attack or suspect, and the concerns about privacy and academ...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.
we don't talk enough about how mark zuckerberg keeps doing some weird make-a-wish thing with ufc fighters and some braindead reporters blow smoke up his ass for it
bleacherreport.com/articles/253...
bleacherreport.com/articles/253...
Mark Zuckerberg Spars with Merab Dvalishvili on Video After UFC Star's Loss to Yan
Mark Zuckerberg has established himself as a quality fighter over the last few years, and now he's taking on UFC stars.
bleacherreport.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
we don't talk enough about how mark zuckerberg keeps doing some weird make-a-wish thing with ufc fighters and some braindead reporters blow smoke up his ass for it
bleacherreport.com/articles/253...
bleacherreport.com/articles/253...
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New @theintercept.com: Georgia was supposed to kill Stacey Humphreys last night. But his execution was abruptly called off by the clemency board after its newest member was exposed as the DA's victim advocate at Humphreys's trial.
Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
Stacey Humphreys’s death sentence was rooted in juror misconduct. His fate is in the hands of people directly involved in his trial.
theintercept.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New @theintercept.com: Georgia was supposed to kill Stacey Humphreys last night. But his execution was abruptly called off by the clemency board after its newest member was exposed as the DA's victim advocate at Humphreys's trial.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
I would also like to stop working and get back to my true calling of endlessly shitposting
Breaking News: Dan Bongino, the FBI deputy director, said he would step down next month, ending his brief but tumultuous stint at the bureau.
Bongino to Step Down From F.B.I.
The departure of Dan Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.
nyti.ms
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I would also like to stop working and get back to my true calling of endlessly shitposting
I have unfortunately just learned about the term “drone as a service“
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I have unfortunately just learned about the term “drone as a service“
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Oh, you mean TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet who was interviewed by the NYTimes’s Ross Douthat THIS WEEK where he talked about how much he cares about fact-based, non-conspiratorial media and Ross didn’t challenge him at all on that assertion?
Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect.
Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oh, you mean TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet who was interviewed by the NYTimes’s Ross Douthat THIS WEEK where he talked about how much he cares about fact-based, non-conspiratorial media and Ross didn’t challenge him at all on that assertion?
"The group said the jury in Humphreys' case initially deadlocked 11-1 in favor of life without parole, which under Georgia law should have resulted in a life sentence. Instead, the court ordered jurors to continue deliberating until a death sentence was reached."
Georgia parole board suspends scheduled execution of Cobb County death row prisoner
Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.
www.cbsnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The group said the jury in Humphreys' case initially deadlocked 11-1 in favor of life without parole, which under Georgia law should have resulted in a life sentence. Instead, the court ordered jurors to continue deliberating until a death sentence was reached."
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New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.
Despite Declining Support for the Death Penalty, Executions Nearly Doubled in 2025, Report Says
Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions in 2025.
theintercept.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.