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- Maiden Lane LLC (New York Fed)
Government Record · 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The New York Fed's page on Maiden Lane LLC, the company created in 2008 to hold Bear Stearns assets. The Fed lent it about $28.82 billion.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- MedPage Today: NIH Finds Coercion in Havana Syndrome Study (2024)
News Report · 2024
MedPage Today reporting on NIH statements and participant allegations
MedPage Today, 2024: an internal NIH review found some Havana Syndrome study participants were coerced into joining, and NIH halted the study. NIH said its conclusions…
- Meet Flock, the $8 billion startup facing growing backlash against surveillance capitalism
News Report · 2026
Catherina Gioino
Fortune's August 2026 profile of Flock. The company told Fortune it raised $500 million at an $8.3 billion valuation in 2026, about $1.2 billion in total.…
- Memo from Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon on Duke Ellington’s Soviet Tour (1971)
Government Record · 1971
William P. Rogers / U.S. Department of State
Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon, 1971: Duke Ellington's Soviet tour under the State Department's program was "an unqualified communications success."
- Memorandum: Partnership Among Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement to Address Threats Against School Personnel
Government Record · 2021
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
Garland addressed harassment, intimidation, and threats; he did not label all parents domestic terrorists. NSBA’s separate letter said certain acts could amount to domestic terrorism and…
- Merck & Co. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Merck & Co., Inc.
Merck's latest Form 10-K reports Gardasil/Gardasil 9 revenue of $5,233 million in 2025, down 39% from $8,583 million in 2024 and $8,886 million in 2023.
- Meta: Ending Trump Facebook and Instagram Suspension (2023)
Corporate Filing · 2023
Meta
Meta, January 2023: restored Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts with guardrails, saying the risk had sufficiently receded. A July 12, 2024 update ended the extra penalties…
- Meta: More Speech and Fewer Mistakes (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Meta
Meta, January 2025: ended third-party fact-checking in the U.S. and moved to Community Notes, saying the program too often became a tool to censor. A May…
- Meta: Types of Content We Demote (2026)
Corporate Filing
Meta
Meta: its transparency page says it reduces Feed distribution of content it considers problematic, low quality or borderline, including some content that does not break its…