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Dispatches from Muckraker Lab - June 1, 2026

There isn't much that is more antithetical to the notion of free speech than a person in authority using that authority to attempt to silence people who write unflattering things about them.

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The Muckraker: An Opening Statement

I bet neither of us really planned to be here right now. In January 2001, I walked into a newsroom for the first time as a real, live newspaper reporter[^1]. In December 2005, I walked out of that same newsroom, headed to law school, having witnessed the collapse of