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
what does this mean if the people who are supposed to fighting don't....fight
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
what does this mean if the people who are supposed to fighting don't....fight
You could almost forget people don't have enough money for food and the planes aren't running regularly and federal workers don't know when their next paycheck will come through
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
You could almost forget people don't have enough money for food and the planes aren't running regularly and federal workers don't know when their next paycheck will come through
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Fascinating. So Congress knows how to write a bill allowing people to sue federal officers?! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Fascinating. So Congress knows how to write a bill allowing people to sue federal officers?! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
"He called affordability a 'new word' and said that Republicans had not talked enough about it. He then blasted it as 'con job' by Democrats. Eventually he declared, 'I don’t want to hear about the affordability.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Trump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ Message
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November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"He called affordability a 'new word' and said that Republicans had not talked enough about it. He then blasted it as 'con job' by Democrats. Eventually he declared, 'I don’t want to hear about the affordability.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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"none of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid."
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‘There is no law here’: Deadly Brazil police raid failed to capture or kill gang leaders
The governor of Rio de Janeiro has touted the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history as a success, but none of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"none of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid."
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"Even before the U.S. gathered war crimes intelligence from within the Israeli military, some lawyers at the State Department ... repeatedly raised concerns with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel might be committing war crimes" www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say
The previously unreported intelligence pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply with Israel’s public stance defending its actions.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Even before the U.S. gathered war crimes intelligence from within the Israeli military, some lawyers at the State Department ... repeatedly raised concerns with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel might be committing war crimes" www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Same people who pitched a fit about the closure of churches during COVID, I will add.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Same people who pitched a fit about the closure of churches during COVID, I will add.
Was reading the suit against Alan Dershowitz noted in the newsletter and discovered that Batya Ungar-Sargon, formerly at Newsweek opinion and now at NewsNation, is also being sued by Rabbi Shmuley. Lots going on in this case. Come for the defamation, stay for the Kosher sex and Michael Jackson
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Was reading the suit against Alan Dershowitz noted in the newsletter and discovered that Batya Ungar-Sargon, formerly at Newsweek opinion and now at NewsNation, is also being sued by Rabbi Shmuley. Lots going on in this case. Come for the defamation, stay for the Kosher sex and Michael Jackson
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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After posting a picture of himself emerging from the Twin Towers Rudy Giuliani now says he will be going on Lindell TV (yes, as in Mike Lindell) to tell you just what he thinks about Mamdani's election win
November 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
After posting a picture of himself emerging from the Twin Towers Rudy Giuliani now says he will be going on Lindell TV (yes, as in Mike Lindell) to tell you just what he thinks about Mamdani's election win
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New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.
we're about to see a wild years-long campaign of racism that's totally detached from anything Mamdani actually does in office or says
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
we're about to see a wild years-long campaign of racism that's totally detached from anything Mamdani actually does in office or says
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Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
We're simultaneously asked to believe that these are fierce defenders of freedom who face gargantuan obstacles in the pursuit of justice, but also being hit by a sandwich or briefly obstructed in a car irrevocably dismantles Very Important law enforcement initiatives and needs criminal charge
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're simultaneously asked to believe that these are fierce defenders of freedom who face gargantuan obstacles in the pursuit of justice, but also being hit by a sandwich or briefly obstructed in a car irrevocably dismantles Very Important law enforcement initiatives and needs criminal charge
The NYT, Washington Post, AP and Reuters obis for Dick Cheney all mention that he shot his friend in the face. Fantastic.
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The NYT, Washington Post, AP and Reuters obis for Dick Cheney all mention that he shot his friend in the face. Fantastic.
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Your favorite journalist is barely subsisting (if at all) on UI, side gigs, a struggling newsletter, SNAP, and/or a horrifying freelance rat race before either crashing out spectacularly or barely rebuilding their career while the worst ppl u know are raking in the dough at the top of CBS News
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Your favorite journalist is barely subsisting (if at all) on UI, side gigs, a struggling newsletter, SNAP, and/or a horrifying freelance rat race before either crashing out spectacularly or barely rebuilding their career while the worst ppl u know are raking in the dough at the top of CBS News
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This is so incredibly embarrassing.
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is so incredibly embarrassing.
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I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11?
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
![PROBE RIPS ANDY IN $130M HUD MESS
By Deborah Orin
Published Sep. 10, 2001, 4:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON – Federal watchdogs today will testify that Andrew Cuomo’s “lax oversight” let crooks loot a housing program for the poor that will now cost taxpayers $130 million to bail out.
At issue is Cuomo’s role as Bill Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development and his pet home-ownership program for the poor, which collapsed in scandal.
Today’s bipartisan congressional hearing was called by Rep. Sue Kelly (R-Westchester), with Reps. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) – who backs Cuomo’s gubernatorial rival Carl McCall – and Felix Grucci (R-L.I.) also expected.
“Decisions made during [Cuomo’s] tenure opened up this program to widespread fraud and abuse while the concerns of federal investigators were ignored,” Kelly said.
The program was supposed to help poor people fix up housing. But instead, it left tenants stuck in 719 homes – including almost 200 Harlem brownstones – that are mostly a mess, in foreclosure and, in some cases, without heat.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/bafkreihyqpupyp3u22r7upavo3tpwgtjgseq5ay77oq6vodleupm75cqny@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11?
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this:
nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
He left "Friday for a Halloween party and a fund-raiser at his Florida residence. When he weighed in briefly on the shutdown, it was to cast the potential loss of benefits that millions of Americans rely on for groceries as mostly a problem for Democratic voters."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
As the Shutdown Pain Grows, Trump Attends to Other Matters
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November 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
He left "Friday for a Halloween party and a fund-raiser at his Florida residence. When he weighed in briefly on the shutdown, it was to cast the potential loss of benefits that millions of Americans rely on for groceries as mostly a problem for Democratic voters."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
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purging even the slightest form of dissent from your inner circle famously worked incredibly well for saddam hussein, maybe he’s just trying to learn from the best
With the revised + updated version of my WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUTIN coming out next week, a chance in @thetimes.com to consider what seems has changed since writing the original in 2018. In short, Putin has become 'Putin squared,' almost a caricature of himself
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Putin still thinks he’s a genius. All the naysayers are gone
The Russian leader was once willing to listen to his critics. But now he surrounds himself with yes-men and is obsessed with his legacy
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November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
purging even the slightest form of dissent from your inner circle famously worked incredibly well for saddam hussein, maybe he’s just trying to learn from the best