Maybe! If you were comfortable dealing with finances (we have an accounting team, so everything leading up to that but not actually running the books), accounts payable/receivable, and working with very distributed team, think that’s all a big plus.
Feel free to DM or public.
OK! If you've got any questions that I can try and answer about the role/what we're looking for, happy to try to answer!
Ah thank you for letting me know!
Apply now! Like, later today! If you're interested.
We need more excellent news and transparency tools. If you're building them, and your project is less than a decade old, here's a great opportunity. Unrelated, but I'd also love to connect with you! thenextchallenge.com/infrastructure
I filed a FOIA request with the George W. Bush Library for files on Elliott Abrams back in 2017. I just got an email asking if I was still interested in the request since it's been so many years.
These kinds of emails are common but I always want to respond that it's not my fault it's been so long.
I wanted to learn more about the collage artist Mary Lum, and was surprised to find her included in Grokepedia, which helpfully informs me that she was born in 1951 in St. Cloud, MN, and died in 1815 at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.
New open GitHub repo from Montana Free Press!
https://github.com/mtfreepress/major-montana-landowners
NEW: The #Framingham Police Department says it determined that two police officers violated a policy against “criminal conduct”—but the department has provided few details about the allegations and has demanded $525 for the officers’ internal affairs records.
#Massachusetts
just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN.
It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.
Email reading: Hi Michael, Saw on your website that MuckRock Foundation empowers citizens with tools for government transparency. Just like how MuckRock Foundation empowers transparency through accessible government documents, Pacific Associates empowers financial freedom by providing strategic no-interest programs to tackle high-interest debt. Basically, we can help you lower your rates to zero, cut your monthly payments by 50%, and finish your debt within 2 to 4 years. Open to seeing how it works? Respectfully, Cassandra Blakeley Business Development Pacific Associates | Irvine, CA
I now get 600 of these emails every day: "Just like how MuckRock Foundation empowers transparency through accessible government documents, Pacific Associates empowers financial freedom by providing strategic no-interest programs to tackle high-interest debt."
I now support a 1-cent-per-email tax.
On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, @juliaangwin.com's new book, is now available for pre-order! www.harpercollins.com/products/on-... www.amazon.com/dp/B0FT75P47...
It'll be inevitable. Paramount/WB is going to be carrying $80b in debt after this merger, $60b from the buyout alone.
Assume they're getting 7% interest rates (which they're not, the debt is rated junk), that's $4b in debt payments every year just for the merger.
Library of Congress Innovator in Residence graphic
Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:
The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!
Apply by 2pm ET April 10
newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
kairos is hiring a “gaming organizer” kairosfellowship.recruitee.com/o/gamer-orga...
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
It seems the President is caught in a time loop, replenishing supplies before they were used and now using them after they’ve been given away.
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Documenting U.S. planning for the Iran strike will be harder than documenting the lead-up to the Iraq War thanks to this admin's animosity to record-keeping.
Still, docs released through FOIA re Iraq provide offer a road map of what to ask for.
The best examples are from @nsarchive.bsky.social.
Blatant retaliatory detention in Key West for filming a Border Patrol agent gwenfilosa.substack.com/p/video-your...
We need more excellent news and transparency tools. If you're building them, and your project is less than a decade old, here's a great opportunity. Unrelated, but I'd also love to connect with you! thenextchallenge.com/infrastructure
MuckRock joins press freedom coalition urging court to block FTC’s use of probes to silence critics www.muckrock.com/news/archive...
MuckRock is hiring! We’re looking for an operations manager to join our transparency team. Fully remote! Full healthcare! And most importantly you get the exclusive blue staff hoodie www.muckrock.com/jobs/operati...
You heard @daralind.bsky.social right; the government is saying that they may end up pausing work permits for asylum seekers for 173 years. That is not a typo. Read her piece!
/to be fair, that is also the far end of an estimate that is very unlikely to result in that length of time. But still!
MuckRock is hiring! We’re looking for an operations manager to join our transparency team. Fully remote! Full healthcare! And most importantly you get the exclusive blue staff hoodie www.muckrock.com/jobs/operati...
As the announcement notes, start filing today to get your shot at being the 2027 winner.
Congrats to @jasonleopold.bsky.social for being the 2026 @brechnerfoi.bsky.social Freedom of Information Award! brechner.org/about/awards...
NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...
