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An error of fact is corrected on the page where it appeared, with a dated note stating what changed. The correction lives on the page, in the open, not in a drawer. We do not rewrite quietly and hope nobody kept a copy. The archive's authority rests on being checkable, and a checkable archive shows its repairs.

This is practice, not promise. The record already carries them. DENIED holds a correction dated 2026-07-08. WITHOUT A WORD FOR IT holds one from the same date, naming four claims that failed the check, including two quoted phrases that appear in neither document they were attributed to. The notes stand on the pages. That is the standard doing its work.

The ledger

Every correction this archive has made, newest first. The full note stays on the page where the error ran; this is the index. 119 corrections, across 48 files.

  1. The word is "tax sale" The alert said Diana Nesbitt lost her home; she paid off the debt, close to $11,000. It also stated the Cook County phase-out, the rules outside Cook County, a payment plan and the surplus fund larger than the law and the Treasurer state them. Published 2026-07-18.
  2. The word is "community engagement" The alert said failing to work does not end coverage, set the federal 30-day window against Missouri's 35 days when they are the same window, and said the clock starts in January for everyone when Missouri checks it at each person's six-month coverage review. Published 2026-08-24.
  3. The word is "automatically enrolled" The alert said Pay As You Earn and Income Contingent Repayment no longer end in forgiveness, which a federal court order contradicts, and stated as a finding a claim about who the automatic placement hits hardest that no cited study measures. Published 2026-09-01.
  4. ACTION PLAN The excerpt called Russell City a town with a blues circuit; the 2024 history does not use the word. It calls Russell City a mecca for blues music and a lucrative stop for world-renowned blues musicians, and names its significant contribution to the blues scene. The excerpt now says blues scene. Published 2026-07-12.
  5. ACTION PLAN A line-by-line re-read found lines that said more than the record does: that the plan carries no money (it names a pilot allocation and recommends a fund); that Russell City was not a slum (a grand jury declared it one); that it had a business district (no source names one); that the word was built to bury a carnival and a stage (no source says so); and an October 1 note that said a line quoted the apology resolution when it quotes a 2026 letter. Each is corrected, and more lines are narrowed to their sources. Published 2026-07-12.
  6. BORROWED A full re-read against the order found lines that said more than the court did, among them that every party knew the rule, that the clearance department was staffed and standing at a major label, that clearance was already standard, that the order did not decide infringement, and that questions were never put to the court. Each now says only what the order says. Published 2026-08-07.
  7. PROMISED Five lines here and one on the Word of the Week page said the judge or the court counted the undisbursed loan subsidy funds; the order takes the disbursement figure from the parties' submissions and derives the remainder from it. All six now attribute the figures. Published 2026-09-09.
  8. PROMISED A line-by-line re-read found lines that said more than the record does: that the government offered a promise in place of performance and called the repair finished, that the motion was unopposed (three organizations opposed it), that the tracts were excluded, that the parties walked past a provision the judge then quoted back to them, and that the United States sat in every seat of the mechanism. Each now says only what the filings and the order say, and more lines are narrowed to their sources. Published 2026-09-09.
  9. SUBSIDIZED The docket said two other 1912 frames by A. P. Bedou carry the status "Rights status not evaluated." The Library of Congress holds at least three. The docket now says at least three. Published 2026-09-22.
  10. ABANDONED The docket item quoted Fla. Stat. § 704.08 with 'SHALL HAVE' in capitals, twice; the statute prints 'shall have' in ordinary type, and the casefile's note on added emphasis covers bold, not capitals. The words were exact; both quotations now read as the statute does. Published 2026-07-26.
  11. ABANDONED The 1927 Tampa survey's typescript reads 'oldeat'; the casefile printed 'oldest' inside quotation marks, twice. Both quotations now read as typed, marked [sic]. A cited title, Jodi Koste's, now carries its hyphen. Published 2026-07-26.
  12. ABANDONED The study survives in two copies that list different numbers of chairmen. The casefile first said fourteen, as the State Archives copy has it; the October 1 correction changed that to thirteen, as the Tampa library copy has it, without saying the copies differ. The sentence now gives both counts and names each copy. The docket also named two of the three organizations the title page names; it now names all three. Published 2026-07-26.
  13. CLEARANCE The docket quoted the plot plan's title block with a hyphen joining each pair of streets. The plan joins them with a hand-drawn mark, not a hyphen; the docket now quotes only the lettered words. Published 2026-04-03.
  14. DENIED The image description quoted the caption written into the negative in ordinary case; the negative letters it in capitals, with a small 'st'. It now reads as lettered. Published 2026-02-28.
  15. REFUSE Two quotations did not read as their sources print them: the Council's report sets 'dying while black' in quotation marks, which the docket dropped, and Jodi Koste's title is 'Nineteenth-Century,' with a hyphen. Both now read as printed. Published 2026-07-26.
  16. REFUSE The docket gave the Code's section heading as 'Violation of sepulture.' The printed heading runs on: 'Violation of sepulture; cruelty to animals; profanity, &c.' The docket now quotes it in full. Published 2026-07-26.
  17. RESTORED A quotation from the plaintiffs' statement of August 7, 2026 lowercased 'School Board's'; the statement capitalizes it. The quotation now reads as the statement does. Published 2026-08-20.
  18. OUTSIDER WITHIN Two quotations in the casefile did not read as their sources print them: WLOX's line about the phone opens 'This led Christine,' not 'which led Christine,' and CNN quotes the sheriff's 'weird accident' without the 'a.' Both now read as printed. Published 2026-07-29.
  19. BORROWED The essay sent readers to "the findings at star page 185"; the first finding begins on star page 184 and runs onto 185. It now reads star pages 184 and 185. Published 2026-08-07.
  20. COURTESY The close said the fee "is still thirty-five dollars"; the rule found that most very large financial institutions charged $35, as of December 2024. It also said "the law still calls it a favor"; the exception is a regulation, and that sentence is cut. Published 2026-07-26.
  21. Money's A Loan Before It's A Thing The first-person passage said "The whole thing works like a Ponzi scheme" and "the taxpayer always pays it"; neither cited source supports either. The first is cut and the second now reads "the taxpayer pays it." Nothing was added. Published 2026-05-21.
  22. POSTPONED A sentence still put "displacement without a single act of legal violence" on both cases, Atlanta included, after the October 17 correction cut the BeltLine causal claim. The clause is cut. Published 2026-07-04.
  23. ROBESON The casefile stated "Recordings were erased. Newsreel footage was destroyed." as fact, though both sentences rest on one secondary source. The sentence now attributes it to the Zinn Education Project. Published 2026-06-24.
  24. Without a Word for It Two sentences set after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 said the maps "stopped being drawn" and the grades "stopped being filed," which read as if they ended then; the maps are the 1930s maps the essay itself dates. Both are cut. Published 2026-06-03.
  25. ABANDONED Two passages in the section on the statute said more than the record supports: the ground said to have been paved and a map redrawn, and how the 1980 statute would have read. Both are narrowed to what the Task Force report and the statute say. Published 2026-07-26.
  26. ACTION PLAN The section on the pattern opened by saying the descendants never needed the mechanism explained to them; no source records what descendants knew. The sentence is cut. Published 2026-07-12.
  27. BARRIER The casefile said the children asked the school to stop pretending their language did not exist, and called the barrier the institution's refusal to know what it was hearing. The court described the request as one for appropriate action to teach the children to read standard English, found no evidence that any teacher intentionally caused psychological barriers to learning, and found the barrier came from a failure to take the home language into account. Both sentences now follow the opinion. Published 2026-08-02.
  28. BORROWED Two sentences said an industry knew the clearance rule and kept it badly; the court's findings concern named defendants, one of whom had a clearance department. Both now say defendants. Published 2026-08-07.
  29. CLEARANCE Section 07 said the documented story of U.S. 71 is not about transportation and is about removal. Its one source, a KCUR article, states a result, the destruction of 2,000 homes and the displacement of thousands of Black residents, and no purpose, and it gives transportation reasons for the road. The sentence now says the story includes removal. Published 2026-04-03.
  30. CONSENTED The closing box called the ruling "The newer method" in the line of suppression the essay says it is not part of. Published 2026-09-22.
  31. COURTESY The casefile cited page 106768 for the sentence naming who pays; it prints on page 106773. It said Black households pay the overdraft fee at nearly twice the white rate; the rule's footnote measures households that reported overdrafting. It said most large banks still charge $35; the rule says most very large financial institutions did, as of December 2024. It called the exception a hole in the statute; it is a Board regulation, and the rule says the 1969 issuance gave no rationale. Published 2026-07-26.
  32. DIGITAL USER ACCOUNT The turn and the hook line said Black and Hispanic women chose the product that says what you owe; the Fed found they prefer it for convenience and a fixed number of payments. Published 2026-07-26.
  33. Ellora Derenoncourt and Her Co-Authors Built the Line The paragraph on the published data said the series let the next argument start "from evidence instead of feeling," as if there had been no evidence before; the September 29 correction found the gap had been measured in pieces. Published 2026-07-17.
  34. Money's A Loan Before It's A Thing The essay said the Federal Reserve gets bailed out and that taxpayer money is disguised as a loan; neither cited source says either, and the Fed absorbs losses by pausing remittances to the Treasury. Published 2026-05-21.
  35. NAMING MACHINE The summary box quoted the title of Executive Order 14253 in sentence case; the order capitalizes each principal word. The Word of the Week entry called 'American' in 'To American History' a possessive; it is an adjective.
  36. ORIGIN OF THE SEARCH TERMS A quotation of the title of USDN's urban-forestry grant lowercased words that the court's August 14, 2025 opinion capitalizes.
  37. POSTPONED This casefile said its first section was "the notice, quoted" when it paraphrases and reasons from the notice; called the page the instrument that makes accountability "impossible"; called a pending HUD proposal "a harm that is happening now" with an "eviction clock"; called the BeltLine's Eastside Trail "the documented mechanism" of displacement with a 75-to-90-percent figure no source supports and counted census tracts as neighborhoods; mislabeled "this happened" as the present perfect; and dated the May 12 notice "this month" in a July essay. Published 2026-07-04.
  38. PROMISED A sentence put a federal map line around Newark's Black and Hispanic neighborhoods; no cited source shows that line. It now names the HOLC maps and the FHA 1938 manual and no more. Published 2026-09-09.
  39. RECARVED Section 04's heading and closing line still said in the file's own voice what the October 1 correction gave to the dissent in the excerpt: that the mechanism is gone. Published 2026-07-02.
  40. REDLINE The hook line still stated the map's effect on lending as settled, and the closing section said the map taught the country to read Black neighborhoods as suspect and that decades of red ink trained everybody to believe the block was failing. No source measures either. The hook line is rewritten, the sentence is cut, and the phrase now says the block had been graded red. Published 2026-04-04.
  41. RESTORED The essay said Ashby-Lee Elementary's 1974 naming was the same reflex as 1959, the county writing its answer over the door when the federal government pressed the schools open. The court's phrase gives a sequence, and its finding of a purpose of racial discrimination is for Stonewall Jackson in 1959. For 1974 the court records a historian's testimony about the naming, which the passage now quotes and attributes to him. Published 2026-08-20.
  42. OUTSIDER WITHIN A quotation from Elmore Wonsley ran together two sentences that WLOX's report separates with an attribution.
  43. OUTSIDER WITHIN A sentence said every version of a conversation lands on one rule, on the strength of one self-published essay; it now says only what that essay says. Published 2026-07-29.
  44. UNNECESSARY The closing box said Hialeah met the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye with a zoning meeting. The Court and the casefile's own body say the city council held an emergency public session; the opinion uses zoning for the Church's own approvals and the ordinances' terms, never for that session. The box now says so. Published 2026-07-23.
  45. What Was Buried, Not Broken In the author's own passage, "That organized a revolution" restated the claim the October 2 correction cut as unsupported. It is cut. Published 2026-05-29.
  46. Without a Word for It The loss of legal vocabulary was stated wider than the one credit rule it rests on; a sentence tied the rule to the blocks the 1930s maps circled with no source; "half a dozen others" was an uncounted tally; and a quotation from the Bureau dropped the words "with ECOA". Published 2026-06-03.
  47. The word is "tax sale" The alert said Velma Lewis inherited her two-flat in 1961; Injustice Watch says her mother bought it in 1961 and Lewis inherited it in 2008. The alert also left out that she bought it back in 2023. Published 2026-07-18.
  48. The word is "canceled" The alert said the county distrusted the assessment and had put that in writing, stated a 2019 lawsuit's allegation as fact, and said the delayed sale had a date; the order leaves it to be set. Published 2026-09-08.
  49. The word is "program integrity" The signal's "on or after that date" read as August 31, the announcement date; the department's cutoff is October 1. Published 2026-09-15.
  50. The Sovereign Publishing Manifesto This document said the running site needs two workflows. A third, a weekly job for A Dozen Rifts, was added on September 23, 2026, hours after the sentence was written, and the document now says three.
  51. The word is "restoration" The phrase "all but 11 felonies" was credited to Empower Missouri's 2026 session recap, which does not use it. It comes from a Ballotpedia News summary of August 18, 2026. Published 2026-08-27.
  52. The word is "de minimis" A quotation from the final rule dropped the rule's own quotation marks around "socially disadvantaged." Published 2026-09-09.
  53. Without a Word for It Two rulemakings the essay describes as live are not open for comment (the Regulation B window closed before publication); a dated update names the standing sentences.
  54. The word is "consistency" The alert kept pointing readers to a comment window that closed at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on October 9. Published 2026-09-29.
  55. The word is "community engagement" The alert printed the federal 30-day response window as Missouri's; Missouri's FAQ says 35 calendar days. Three other claims had aged: the mailing it called going out right now had ended, Missouri's number of months was since published, and state pages it reported as redirecting now load. Published 2026-08-24.
  56. BLIGHT Four fixes named: the 2026-09-18 entry gave a false reason (the cited WashU article does give "more than 5,000 structures"); the body now quotes PBS NewsHour and names the Design Agendas catalogue as the 2026-09-18 entry's own text said; the "blighted" designation is re-sourced to St. Louis Public Radio (2021), since the city record says "454-acre slum" and not blight; the neighborhood's race, credited to "the record," is re-sourced to St. Louis Public Radio and the catalogue, since the city record names no race. Published 2026-05-17.
  57. CLEARANCE The casefile opened on an imagined scene told as if it happened: a backhoe, a condemnation notice taped to a jazz club, neon from the night before. No record this casefile holds describes that morning. The scene is cut, and the opening now rests on two records for one parcel on Macomb Street, a City of Detroit plot plan and a photograph from the city's real-estate files. A sentence placing Billie Holiday onstage in Paradise Valley and the sentence that called the passage no myth are cut; no source this casefile holds supports either. Published 2026-04-03.
  58. BLIGHT A sentence stated the HOLC maps' effect on lending as settled ("Money followed the map. So did neglect."), a claim this archive's REDLINE corrected on 2026-09-30: economists dispute it. It now quotes both studies. Published 2026-05-17.
  59. CLEARANCE Section 03 opened on an imagined downtown meeting told as if it happened, and read the memo's "well-planned" as proof that meetings and signatures came while families still lived there; no source this casefile holds says either. Both are cut, the memo's own words on the plan's timing are quoted instead, and the memo is no longer called a planning memo. Published 2026-04-03.
  60. ROBESON The casefile said the State Department "suspended" Robeson's passport in 1950 and that no source gave the day. A record from about 1951 by the committee formed to restore it gives July 28 (agents demanded it) and August 4 (the department announced it had cancelled it). The sentence now quotes that record. Published 2026-06-24.
  61. THE COUNTED CROWD One sentence still said the missing chain's tests were "registered in writing before they ran"; the 2026-10-01 correction had found only the strike test's design time-stamped, and the first test's design attested only in its notes. The claim is cut. Published 2026-08-06.
  62. ABANDONED The closing box said REFUSE is a word an institution wrote into its own regulations. The 1856 regulation says offal; refuse matter is in the faculty's earlier minutes. The box now says minutes. Published 2026-07-26.
  63. REFUSE The subtitle said the 1856 rule used the word refuse and was obeyed; the rule says offal, the earlier minutes say refuse matter, and no source says it was obeyed. The casefile also put refuse in the regulations, named the sink as the 1994 well, said the law was never enforced, called the Family Representative Council the descendants, turned the Council's "may never" into "will never," stated the infirmary as a supply line, gave Mayo's debt to the school, asserted a policy no record shows, stated the Council's conditional as fact, and read the not-knowing as the institution's design. Published 2026-07-26.
  64. RESTORED The closing box said SUBSTANTIAL AND EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE traces a court's finish line that carries a slope. That casefile's correction found the decree's improvement branch has outcome measures and can be failed, and that the decree sets a clock for either branch. The box now describes what the casefile sets side by side. Published 2026-08-20.
  65. SUBSIDIZED The casefile quoted a scanner's error ("Resan") as the Journal's printed "Regan." It said Montgomery's motion failed and was his one recorded motion; the Convention adopted a no-debate referral rule the same day, and the Journal prints a railroad-tax memorial he presented. It made the 1975 nomination say the grant followed from the railroad's belief about the climate, left out the nomination's own credit to the railroad, said the two railroads disagreed, and called the nomination's named preparer an arm of the government. It said the town painted the wall at its own expense, which no source shows, claimed nobody puts the railroad's reasoning on a plaque, and named a book no catalog confirms. It left out that Montgomery was the railroad's commissioned land agent, and it set the caption and the nomination against each other more evenly than they stand; the argument is narrowed to what the records show. Published 2026-09-22.
  66. SUBSTANTIAL AND EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE The casefile said nobody had to argue that Cleveland complied, that the improvement branch could not be failed, that the standard hands the word to the party being watched, that Brown II gave the pace to the districts, and that one man reading the paperwork was the only reason the decree held. The parties argued compliance on the first branch. The second branch has outcome measures and a clock, and the judge found the record short. The court, not the City, reads the word. Brown II remanded to the district courts. The ruling rests on several grounds. It also left out the court's commendation of the City's progress, attributed the motion to fatigue, and presented the next challenge as hypothetical; the Justice Department filed its notice of appeal on July 7, before publication. Published 2026-07-13.
  67. What Was Buried, Not Broken Read again against the primaries. The hook and excerpt still said what the July correction took back. The Jamaica clause was misread a second time: it punishes a claim to supernatural power, with the objects as evidence, not possession. The Haiti decree was quoted without "sacrifices of cattle or fowl." The Hialeah judgment was unanimous; the holding on the ordinances' object was joined by five justices, and the section on the council's statements by two. It said none of the four held a hearing; two provided a forum or a tribunal. The argument treated four instruments as one technique, and left out the lower courts that upheld Hialeah's ordinances and the limits of Haitian enforcement. Smaller fixes below. Published 2026-05-29; first corrected 2026-07-14.
  68. ABANDONED Seven more errors named: two photograph captions not in the study's words; the study's count called total and its method misdescribed; an unsourced story of who bought Zion's ground; a county planner's point stated as the state's act and as a universal; 2021 facts stated as present; a preamble clause quoted without its qualifier; and the study's chairmen, pages and burial grounds misdescribed. Published 2026-07-26.
  69. ABANDONED A docket item quoted the 1998 preamble's dignity clause without its economic-constraints qualifier. The item now quotes the whole clause. Published 2026-07-26.
  70. ACTION PLAN Eight errors named: the 1968 land sale said to have made the county money when the history counts it a $400,000 loss; the Hayward vote dated a day late; the Update saying no application window had been published; the 2025 fund credited wholly to the county and called the county's first appropriation; a business-district claim no source makes; the history called the descendants' own; the hearings said to follow the agency; and the subtitle saying the Board accepted the apology it gave. Published 2026-07-12.
  71. ORIGIN OF THE SEARCH TERMS Twelve errors named: the forty-nine grants presented as picked, when the letters went to every grant in the program but the one a court had protected; the August 2025 ruling said to have found the keyword-search mechanism unlawful, when it found five terminations unexplained and the record too thin to rule on any broader policy; its conclusion quoted cut short; the program called always race-neutral, when the statute's own term, as the court reads it, is defined by racial or ethnic prejudice; a demographic list no source gives; the stay motion dated a day late and described as no defense on the merits; the discovery record left at July 14 when it had moved by July 28, with nothing said of the search terms a May 2026 opinion describes; a procedural order counted among rulings that put money back; the 2025 injunction on one grant overstated; the Pigford lineage and the Pigford claims overstated; an earlier statement presented as current; and two universals no source supports. Published 2026-07-29.
  72. PREDICTIVE Errors named in ten entries: the proxy question called the Commission's own, when the FTC read Section 215 as requiring it; the alternative models said to have left the racial gap untouched, when the discounted model cut the share of African Americans in the bottom tenth from 27% to 14%; a measured rise in predicted risk stated as a rise in what Black drivers are charged; a group average stated as what happens to the reader; "nobody can" explain the link, when the report tested one explanation; the report's lead finding left out and denied by the hook; a number said to have "nothing to do with your driving"; a notice duty stated wider than the statute; unsourced claims about how the practice is defended; and the sculpture called marble. Published 2026-07-22.
  73. RECARVED Six errors named: five misreports of what the Court, the Senate Report, the Tennessee petition, the dissent and an executive order say, and one set of statements given without a source. Smaller changes include a wrong session number and a Greenwood date already past when it published. Published 2026-07-02.
  74. ROBESON The casefile called the Black Bottom a noun from another city; it is this neighborhood's own name. It placed the school inside Penn's campus and Robeson's house beside the clearance, and said he died at home. It said the university, not the state, did the clearing, and that the 1959 consortium was the 2026 actor. It reported the lawmakers' letter's $120 million claim as a Board act. It described the passport and the hearing as a vote and stated the closure as done. It quoted the HUAC record with a comma the record does not print and put words in quotation marks that no source carries. Its argument outran its record and is narrowed to what the file supports. Published 2026-06-24.
  75. THE CONCESSION The casefile credited a commenter's words to the Bureau, called the rule's argument purely textual, dated the effects test to 1976 and gave it fifty years, gave New Jersey's adoption date as its effective date, said the Fair Housing Act overlap was only the mortgage, and called an anonymous commenter an industry lawyer. Published 2026-08-02.
  76. THE COUNTED CROWD Errors named in fifteen entries: Turchin's record described as long calm between three peaks, when his paper describes two peaceful periods bracketing a nineteenth-century instability wave; Nat Turner's rising placed in the calm, when Turchin puts the 1830s in a spurt of violence; Turchin's count given as 1,602, when his paper counts 1,590; the pull quote attributed to Randolph alone; the Exodus figures set against each other; every instance said to be verified against records that include the Library of Congress; the chain said never to stop; one reviewer's summary of Turchin's book presented as the reviewers' term; the lynching record read as crowds doing the institution's work, a coding the database does not have; EJI's counts misadded and called a count of people; Garvey's biographers cited without a source; a decade and a half of discipline no anchor gives; the 2020 superlative stated without its "at that time"; the 1860 to 1879 window called Reconstruction while mixing two codings; and an argument that claimed more than its test shows. Published 2026-08-06.
  77. TRANSFER STATION Errors named in thirteen entries: "nobody has offered a survey" and "nobody has looked," while Hampton's preservation commission told the council on August 11 that it had done a visual perimeter survey and that radar had been scheduled; Georgia Power's willingness, relayed by the city manager, stated as the company's own offer to replace the fence; "no boundary drawn" and a response that was only a fence; "the only party asking" and "neither does anyone else"; "no more protected"; the most recent reporting misdated; the advocates' view of a fence called unsettled although a source states it; a sentence on the founders' status that contradicted the essay's own opening; the discovery dated to mid-July; an unsourced "usually"; a WSB-TV line quoted without "many of"; Microsoft said to have gone looking for land; and two Moseley universals. Published 2026-09-22.
  78. OUTSIDER WITHIN Nine errors named: Otis Byrd's family said never to have accepted the finding, when one relative said they had and his sister doubted it; the Ocean Springs protest dated a day late; a funeral called a burial; the Tindell broadcast dated a day late; Quawan Charles's case described as leaning toward accident when the sheriff said it was treated as a homicide from the start; Lennon Lacy's mother said never to have accepted the finding, on 2014 words that predate the 2016 closure; Kendrick Johnson's case said to be ruled an accident from the start; Delta State called predominantly white; and an unsourced claim about what most Black and white families know. Published 2026-07-29.
  79. The word is "program integrity" The alert kept telling households to apply before October 1 to stay under the old policy after that date had passed. Published 2026-09-15.
  80. The word is "automatically enrolled" The alert said Nelnet told borrowers to expect notices between July 2026 and March 2027, a window already revised when the alert published. Published 2026-09-01.
  81. CLANDESTINE The casefile said the objection 'never called the paper false' and called the lodge's paper good, without telling the reader that the warrant itself, as Grimshaw reprints it, required Hall to see that the brethren had been 'regularly made Masons.' It also stated two universals no source supports: that Eliot was 'the one man' who wrote the excuse down, and that the question was 'only ever asked' of the Black lodge. Published 2026-09-19.
  82. CLEARANCE The casefile set the 1939 clearance language two decades ahead of the demolition, though condemnation began in 1946; presented Area D-43, an immigrant neighborhood west of downtown, as if it were Black Bottom; carried a document in the house record format that no source supports; credited 7,897 displaced to "Detroit records" when the figure comes from a city memo paragraph footnoted to a newspaper; credited the 1939 map to the federal government alone; and carried a publication date of February 8, 2025, which the site's own record does not support. Published 2026-04-03.
  83. COMPROMISE The excerpt placed Booker T. Washington's 1895 speech on a Tuskegee stage; it was given in Atlanta. The casefile also said three outlets independently reported the letter as going to parents; two of the four outlets that said so credit and echo the first, and one is an op-ed. Published 2026-07-29.
  84. CONSENTED This casefile said the officers cannot be made to pay and that the remedy does not survive; the Court held only that RLUIPA gives Landor no damages claim against the officers, and its footnote 4 notes a state-law claim may be available. It also put Justice Jackson's bracketed wording in Justice Sotomayor's mouth, gave a five-month sentence no opinion states, and said no law in the case forbade anything when a department grooming policy did. Published 2026-09-22.
  85. DENIED The casefile carried a publication date of February 1, 2025, which the site's own record does not support. Published 2026-02-28.
  86. DESIGNATED The casefile said the Central Avenue culture existed only because Black residents could live nowhere else, which two of its sources contradict; described Aminah Muhammad's welcome as a request; credited the freeways with scattering the Central Avenue culture and the ground with 'blighted' and 'right-of-way' labels no source carries; described a district boundary and a shared map no one has published; and said the Alameda County plan 'carries nothing' when a separate redress fund holds money. Published 2026-07-15.
  87. NAMING MACHINE The casefile placed the slavery panels in 'the building where the founders wrote all men are created equal'; the Third Circuit places them at the President's House site. It said the executive order removed materials the order never names, called a reported order to remove the Scourged Back photograph a removal and left out Interior's denial, characterized Woodson's founding argument without a source, and carried three unsourced claims. Published 2026-05-19.
  88. POSTPONED This casefile quoted the phrase "compliance review", which neither White House letter contains; said the grand jury material could not be postponed, when the notice says it was proposed for postponement and the Act gives the Board a route through the Attorney General; gave the 2044 horizon as a quarter-century away; misdated the pages' receipt; claimed a statutory bar on destruction the Act does not contain; and called the Archivist independent. Published 2026-07-04.
  89. REDLINE The casefile said Kansas City named roads after men who helped plan the removal; the one freeway named for a person carries the name of its leading opponent. It said the surveyors did not say Black; the HOLC form had a line headed Negro. It said the judgment came before the decline; the cards record decline and neglect already under way. It stated the map's effect on lending as settled; economists still dispute it. The casefile also carried a publication date of February 15, 2025, which the site's own record does not support. Published 2026-04-04.
  90. UNSEARCHABLE This casefile quoted Dorothy Porter from a secondary rendering that differed from her printed words, with punctuation this casefile changed, and said Dewey could file Black writers only under two numbers. Her oral history says many libraries put Black authors' books under one of them, 325, and that she adapted Dewey by subject. Published 2026-09-03.
  91. Ellora Derenoncourt and Her Co-Authors Built the Line This profile credited one economist with a four-author paper and said the wealth gap had been measured almost nowhere before it. The paper has four authors and names a large literature on the contemporary gap and earlier work on the South built from state-level tax records; what it added was a continuous national series. Published 2026-07-17.
  92. The word is "consistency" The word section called HUD's siting paragraph its rule on where federally funded housing goes, and said it forbids a site chosen on purpose without the grounds the rule names. Published 2026-09-29.
  93. The word is "automatically enrolled" The alert kept describing the September 29 deadline in the future tense after it arrived. Published 2026-09-01.
  94. The word is "intact" The alert still said which map governs November 3 was being decided in federal court, three days after the Supreme Court stayed the 8th Circuit's order. Published 2026-09-21.
  95. POSTPONED This casefile called the two cold cases homicides and killings; the Federal Register notice says incidents, and the statute does not require a death. It also left out a pending bill to extend the Board's term. Published 2026-07-04.
  96. REDLINE The D-24 area description was dated 1937. The record is dated 1939. Published 2025-02-15.
  97. ABANDONED Eight errors named: a 1915 map annotation misread as benches, a claim that Zion sat on a map or register in 1951, and six more; one vote claim narrowed. Published 2026-07-26.
  98. The Sovereign Publishing Manifesto This document claimed four total dependencies and four things that can break. Four is the true count of runtime npm dependencies, and the docket item said so, but the prose dropped the qualifier and counted the whole deployed system as four. It is not four. The site also runs on a host, a repository, two GitHub workflows, a search index, twelve registered forms, and a third-party analytics script that loads on every page except the three Hooded Robin episodes. The count of things that can break was never four. Found by reading what a built page actually loads rather than what package.json lists. The first draft of this correction was itself wrong in three places, and the receipt gate caught all three before it shipped.
  99. The Sovereign Publishing Manifesto This edition said four pieces of software the whole thing depends on. Four is the build. The running site also needs a host, a repository, two workflows, a search index, the forms readers type into, and an analytics script, and this edition now says so and points to the full edition rather than repeating the list, because a list kept in two places is a list that goes wrong in one of them. The foundation edition carried the same defect and was corrected the same night.
  100. The word is "intact" A verification note claimed no source the scout read carried the Court's 30-day clause. St. Louis Public Radio's September 3 report quotes it. Published 2026-09-21.
  101. The word is "intact" A verification note quoted St. Louis Public Radio as saying the 2022 map would remain permanent. The article contains no such sentence. Published 2026-09-21.
  102. BLIGHT A demolition count read "more than 5,000 structures," a figure no cited source gives. It now reads 5,600 housing units, 800 businesses and 40 churches, as PBS NewsHour reports it. Published 2026-05-17.
  103. RECARVED This essay docketed the Tennessee redistricting suit as awaiting its first hearing. A three-judge panel had dismissed it with prejudice on May 26, 2026, five weeks before this file published. Published 2026-07-02.
  104. ACTION PLAN This essay said the Reparations Commission would continue its work. The same vote sunset it and set up a standing committee. This essay also counted 43 recommendations where the plan carries 44. Published 2026-07-12.
  105. CLEARANCE A quotation was credited to Detroit's "planning documents" and said to describe Black Bottom's destruction. It comes from one 2023 City of Detroit memo about the removal of people from Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Published 2025-02-08.
  106. RESTORED The essay did not report that the school board had voted to appeal, a vote covered by the press six days before it published. The appeal is now named. Published 2026-08-20.
  107. NAMING MACHINE This essay described the Independence Hall restoration order as standing after the Third Circuit vacated it on June 18, 2026.
  108. The word is "de minimis" The alert kept telling applicants their file "converts on the tenth" after September 10 had passed. Published 2026-09-09.
  109. The Out-Caste Doctrine Docket note dropped: the claim that the raw 1936 pamphlet scan of Annihilation of Caste differs from the Columbia edition by an article had been checked against an archive.org item dated 1936 that is in fact the 2014 Navayana annotated edition. The epigraph is verbatim against the Columbia edition the essay cites; the pamphlet claim is unverified and is withdrawn until a 1936 printing is read. Ten cited works, including the Douglass epigraph, had no source record and now do.
  110. The Out-Caste Doctrine Public edition revised after the editorial chain: the July compression had removed every first-person We from a doctrine about self-naming, opened on the thesis instead of the scene, and cut the section that grounds the doctrine's own title word. Restored, with the foundation as the only source.
  111. The Sovereign Publishing Manifesto Editorial chain, seven stages, run on the published text (WR-DOCTRINE-CHAIN-GATES-RULED-2026-09-03). Mechanics landed: the series field read Sovereign Stack, the name of an unshipped product line, and now reads Civic Heresy Series like its sibling; the opener lost its rally word. Logged, not changed in this text: two claims made in voice, the twenty-thousand-dollar shop figure and the number-one-cultural-export line, are marked as voice in the one-sitting public edition and stay as written here; the full line-edit and voice-fidelity findings (chain reports of 2026-09-02) are recorded and frozen against this foundation by ruling.
  112. The Sovereign Publishing Manifesto This document claimed ten typed content collections. The stack has thirteen; the count had not moved as the archive grew.
  113. NAMING MACHINE Second pass, after a further check against the primaries.
  114. REDLINE Factual corrections against the HOLC record.
  115. What Was Buried, Not Broken Checked line by line against the four primary documents. Five things were wrong, including the Hialeah ordinances dated to 1993 when they were enacted in 1987.
  116. NAMING MACHINE First pass of factual corrections.
  117. DENIED Three errors named: a Red Cross figure that carried a qualifier belonging to a different number, and two more. Published 2025-02-01.
  118. THE CONCESSION This house docketed the proceeding wrong on 2026-06-03. Four factual errors corrected.
  119. Without a Word for It Four claims failed the check, including two quoted phrases that appear in neither document they were attributed to.

What counts as an error

Wrong numbers. Wrong dates. A misattributed document. A quotation that does not match the primary source. An image presented as showing something the frame does not show. A claim that outran what its documents support. Any of these, brought to us with the record in hand, changes the page.

What does not

Interpretation, argument, and emphasis are not errors of fact. The essays argue, and the arguments are marked as arguments. If you dispute a reading, bring documents. The docket answers to documents.

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NEW UNASKED RECOGNIZED CONSENTED SUBSIDIZED TRANSFER STATION CLANDESTINE PROMISED UNSEARCHABLE RESTORED BORROWED THE COUNTED CROWD BARRIER THE CONCESSION COMPROMISE ORIGIN OF THE SEARCH TERMS OUTSIDER WITHIN ABANDONED COURTESY DIGITAL USER ACCOUNT REFUSE UNNECESSARY PREDICTIVE Ellora Derenoncourt and Her Co-Authors Built the Line DESIGNATED SUBSTANTIAL AND EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE ACTION PLAN POSTPONED RECARVED ROBESON Without a Word for It What Was Buried, Not Broken Money's A Loan Before It's A Thing NAMING MACHINE BLIGHT REDLINE CLEARANCE DENIED