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Dan Moritz-Rabson

@dmoritzrabson.bsky.social
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I report on the criminal legal system and fact check things. Published in ProPublica, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, and other places. Former researcher/fact checker at Freakonomics Radio Network. Email me at dmoritzrabson@gmail.com. Clips at dmoritzrabson.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why not waterboarding, John, you’re familiar with that
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
on top of other things, i have questions about the nuts in this photo and the use of the word "plants"
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The drooling infatuation is bad but nothing will top the Times reporter who spent his Valentine’s Day with a chatbot instead of his wife
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Well now the problems I had looking up specific people last week makes sense. And yes that is deeply messed up. If someone is in ICE custody, they should be findable, full stop. It's already bad enough that people disappear from the system while they're being transported somewhere else.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Free power broker on 30th street
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lee will be killed in hours unless SCOTUS intervenes or Gov Ivey grants clemency. Lee was sentenced to death when a judge overrode a jury's recommendation for life without parole. He elected to die via nitrogen, but after AL's protocol was blocked the state said it will use lethal injection.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Curious that a sitting federal judge is participating in a debate about the future of birthright citizenship, an issue currently being litigated: fedsoc.org/events/the-f...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is an insane, authoritarian attack on speech. Rubio shut down an email/web hosting service for activist groups as a “foreign terrorist organization” because a far right think tanker and Daily Caller writer claimed it was used by Antifa and Stop Cop City.
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Activist Blogging Platform Shuts Down After Terrorism Designation - UNICORN RIOT
Washington D.C. — On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury designated a volunteer tech collective behind a popular activist blogging platform a terrorist organization.  Autis...
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“the reason they attacked us is because they hate our Constitution — which I carry with me all the time. They hate our values. They hate our freedom of religion. They hate our freedom of speech, and we have preserved that in the 25 years since.”
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why do all these Nazis keep showing up on Republican campaigns, it's a real mystery washingtonsun.com/senate/huste...
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Husted Fires Political Director Over Past Nazi Posts
The former staffer had posted profile photos featuring Nazi officers and wore the attire in a group photo in 2018.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the current lead story on the new york post — a publication hellbent on demanding more patriotism, lambasting people for not loving cops enough, and spreading racist stereotypes — is about lady gaga’s baby
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
why are the comments disabled on the erika kirk op-ed the new york times just push alerted everyone to read
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
make cholera great again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A mother and daughter were nearly killed when their car was struck and flipped four times. ICE arrested them at the hospital. No criminal history or removal orders for either. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE arrests mother and daughter at Florida hospital after car crash
Agents arrest women who ‘almost died’ after they were hit by vehicle and their car flipped over four times, family say
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The department confirmed that one of the two deaths is the one Parsons referred to: an infant with a positive measles test." www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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RFK Jr. says Shapiro’s office may have fabricated measles deaths
After reporting two deaths, Pennsylvania's governor said the health secretary wasn't helping to control the disease's spread.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
apolitical court things
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NEW: An undercover ICE agent’s dropped recording device revealed a purported operation that religious groups say violates a court order barring most immigration enforcement in/near churches. Now the groups want ICE held in contempt. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Religious groups ask judge to consider contempt over undercover ICE operation
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The thing here, and with everything, is if Democrats regain control and try to start fixing the tornado that Trump has brought with him, Republicans will point at the carnage and say “look how bad things are, look what the Dems did.” And it’ll probably work. Again.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 13/08/2026
We covered this case in @autonomynews.co last summer. Get on our email list to stay in the know
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The Plot to Effectively Ban Abortion Nationwide Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Lawmakers and activists are working to shutter clinics and restrict access to abortion pills. The end result would be catastrophic.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: Alabama's Governor has signed another death warrant for Jeffery Lee, whose execution was blocked last month when a federal court held that the state's nitrogen hypoxia protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. The state is now moving to execution Lee with lethal injection.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Totally inappropriate framing considering the seriousness of the allegations. Just disgusting sensationalism for clicks
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every subway fire is an opportunity to point out that the new 15 second hold on opening emergency exits is going to kill someone eventually
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: Alabama's Governor has signed another death warrant for Jeffery Lee, whose execution was blocked last month when a federal court held that the state's nitrogen hypoxia protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. The state is now moving to execution Lee with lethal injection.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
come ON www.notus.org/democrats/de...
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The DNC Lost Nearly $29,000 to an Email Scammer Posing as Ken Martin
The Democratic National Committee caught the error, but only recovered a portion of the funds, an official said.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: In June, a federal judge issued an unprecedented ruling, finding that AL's nitrogen execution protocol violated the 8th Amendment. Men on death row are now in legal limbo, as AL pushes to conduct lethal injection executions of men who opted to die by nitrogen www.law360.com/articles/250...
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Ala. Ruling Leaves Executions In Uncharted Waters - Law360
Last month, a federal district judge ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, an unprecedented decision that upended the state's death penalty process. N...
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I went to Bronx today to talk to the attorneys and staff from the Bronx Defenders, who are on strike for the second year in a row over contract disagreements "I think management has been incredibly dishonest" Alesia Paz, a legal advocate and union delegate told me www.law360.com/pulse/modern...
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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx - Law360 Pulse
More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: In June, a federal judge issued an unprecedented ruling, finding that AL's nitrogen execution protocol violated the 8th Amendment. Men on death row are now in legal limbo, as AL pushes to conduct lethal injection executions of men who opted to die by nitrogen www.law360.com/articles/250...
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Ala. Ruling Leaves Executions In Uncharted Waters - Law360
Last month, a federal district judge ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, an unprecedented decision that upended the state's death penalty process. N...
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
oh my god just don’t go to the authoritarian dinner you giant babies
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
”would you check for me if he read my emails” We are doing a confirmation hearing for the AG but Senator Kennedy is one suck of a hard candy away from turning into a bedridden grandparent from Charlie and the chocolate factory
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This doesn’t feel relevant? A warrant is not a death sentence. The point is ICE is conducting extrajudicial killings.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bro shut the fuck up
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Dan Moritz-Rabson @dmoritzrabson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
schrodinger’s mitch mcconnell?
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