The Evidence Record
- Maine 10 M.R.S. §1500-LL — Automated license plate recognition systems in parking facilities
Government Record · 2025
Maine Legislature
Maine's 2025 law extending its plate reader ban to publicly accessible parking lots.
- Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Make America Healthy Again Commission
The assessment discusses prescribing, withdrawal, antipsychotic adverse effects, and stimulant-associated height loss. Its broad causal wording should be read alongside the underlying study designs, including the…
- Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy: Recommendations of the MAHA Commission to President Donald J. Trump (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Make America Healthy Again Commission
The strategy proposed a working group to evaluate prescribing patterns for SSRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and other drugs. These were planned evaluations, not completed findings.
- Making America Safe Again: DOJ to Award $300 Million for Model Cities Dedicated to Restoring Law and Order
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Justice Department, June 2026: nearly $300 million for two to four "Model Cities," with license plate readers, real-time crime centers, AI and drones listed as…
- Man who admitted to destroying Flock cameras in New Mexico back in court
News Report · 2026
KRQE
KRQE, October 2026: the New Mexico man faces ten charges with a pretrial hearing in April 2027.
- Many cameras. Little focus. Blurry results.
News Report · 2024
Chicago Tribune / Illinois Answers Project
Chicago Tribune and Illinois Answers Project, September 2024: Chicago police have roughly 4,400 core cameras plus permitted access to about 35,000 more owned by the CTA,…
- MARAUDER: A Compact Torus Plasma Flow Switch
Peer-Reviewed Study
Robert E. Peterkin Jr.; James H. Degnan; Norman F. Roderick; Carl R. Sovinec; Peter J. Turchi
Air Force research paper on MARAUDER, a program to fire rings of magnetized plasma at very high speed. Research, not a fielded weapon.
- Mary Schapiro, GFANZ Biography
Document · 2026
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
Verifies Schapiro’s post-SEC roles at Bloomberg and GFANZ. It does not support the assertion that she joined BlackRock as a managing director.
- Massachusetts v. Microsoft (D.C. Cir. 2004)
Court Filing · 2004
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Federal appeals court, June 2004: rejected the holdout states' appeal and upheld the Microsoft settlement as in the public interest, ending the case.
- Matt Taibbi: Written Testimony on the Twitter Files (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Matt Taibbi
Journalist Matt Taibbi, March 2023: written testimony to a House subcommittee saying the Twitter Files showed platforms built formal systems for taking moderation requests from the…
- Maui Fire Department and ATF: Lahaina Fire Cause (2024)
Government Record · 2024
Maui Fire Department and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Maui Fire Department and ATF, October 2024: the Lahaina fire was one accidental fire, started when broken power lines were re-energized, then rekindled from hidden embers…
- Max More: The Overhuman in the Transhuman (2010)
Document · 2010
Max More
Max More confirms that Nietzsche's ideas influenced his own early transhumanist thinking, while noting where he departs from Nietzsche.
- Max More: Transhumanism, Towards a Futurist Philosophy, EXTROPY #6 (1990)
Document · 1990
Max More
Max More's 1990 essay that launched modern transhumanism quotes Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "I teach you the overman. Man is something that is to be overcome."
- May 1998 NACHGR Meeting Summary
Government Record · 1998
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research / NHGRI
The 1998 genome council meeting urged every high-throughput sequencing project to release data immediately, with assemblies posted to a public database within 24 hours.
- Mayor Durkan Executive Order on the Capitol Hill Protest Zone (July 1, 2020)
Government Record · 2020
Seattle Police Department, City of Seattle
Seattle Police Department record of the mayor's executive order declaring the CHOP/CHAZ occupation an unlawful assembly, and of the police operation that cleared the zone around…
- Mayor Lightfoot Orders Immediate Closure of Lakefront, Adjacent Parks, 606 and Riverwalk
Government Record · 2020
Office of Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
The official announcement ties citations up to $500 to enforcement of the new closure order, with warnings first and citations if individuals did not adhere. It…
- McDonnell v. United States, 579 U.S. 550
Court Filing · 2016
Supreme Court of the United States
The unanimous Court vacated and remanded because the official-act instructions were overbroad. Bribery remained prosecutable; DOJ later declined retrial, but that release was not opened here.
- McNally v. United States, 483 U.S. 350
Court Filing · 1987
Supreme Court of the United States
McNally limited the existing mail-fraud statute to property rights. Congress subsequently enacted §1346.
- Measles, mumps, rubella vaccination and autism: a nationwide cohort study (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Hviid A, Stellfeld M, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M
Danish nationwide cohort of 657,461 children born 1999-2010 followed to Aug 31, 2013; 6,517 autism cases. Fully adjusted hazard ratio for autism after MMR vaccination: 0.93…
- Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
Elzayn, Smith, Hertz, Ramesh, Fisher, Ho, and Goldin
The study estimates a substantial racial audit disparity, driven principally by differing audit rates among EITC claimants. Race was modeled through partial identification rather than directly…
- Measuring the Cost-Effectiveness of New Technologies in Policing: The Case of Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Journal of Experimental Criminology
Peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Experimental Criminology (2025) finding the evidence on plate reader effectiveness equivocal, and warning that efficiency is not proof of effectiveness.
- Mechanical Licensing Collective v. Spotify: Court Docket
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York / CourtListener
Court docket in the songwriters' royalty case against Spotify: the first version was dismissed, but an amended case continued, with discovery running through 2026.
- Media and Young Minds
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Council on Communications and Media, American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2016 policy on media for children under 5: it reviews the possible benefits and the health concerns, and says the research…
- Medicaid Program: Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children and Youth (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The final rule, effective October 13, 2026, prohibits federal Medicaid payment for covered procedures under 18 and federal CHIP payment under 19, with a limited transition…