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Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 155 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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155
articles indexed
34
in the last 30 days
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median per day
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languages
254 min
median crawl lag
08.06 → 26.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 69 days. The busiest hour is 18:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

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The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=mikethunderphillips.substack.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 155 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

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Languages

The site identifies itself under Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews, Riptide Investigations — separate editions publishing under one domain.

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish156100.6%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Judge Strikes Down Redistricting Ballot Question, Stays Ruling Pending Supreme Court Appeal
2026-08-26 17:45 UTC · Michael Phillips
Anne Arundel County judge finds legislature bound by its own certification deadlines and faults the ballot question’s clarifying language
Maryland’s Voter Rolls Are Shifting: Democrats Shrink as Unaffiliated Voters Surge
2026-08-26 06:54 UTC · Michael Phillips
Since the 2022 election, Maryland Democrats have lost more than 41,000 active registrations while unaffiliated voters have grown by more than 150,000.
While Van Hollen Kicks the Tires in New Hampshire, Who Is Minding Maryland?
2026-08-25 22:05 UTC · Michael Phillips
Sen. Chris Van Hollen sat across from Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” this past Sunday and told her flatly that he has been to New Hampshire. He said he was invited to
The Song She Wouldn't Sell
2026-08-25 21:32 UTC · Michael Phillips
What It Cost Dolly Parton to Say No to Elvis’s Manager Dolly Parton died today at 80. Most of what’s being written right now is about her music, her warmth, her decades a
What the Supreme Court Actually Ruled on Mail Voting
2026-08-25 07:40 UTC · Michael Phillips
Maryland Democrats called it election rigging. The order itself was about standing and timing, not the merits. Maryland’s top Democrats wasted no time reacting to Monday’
Baltimore Ranks Second-Worst Real Estate Market in the Country, New Study Finds
2026-08-24 21:25 UTC · Michael Phillips
BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore’s housing market landed near the bottom of a new national ranking this week. Out of 300 U.S. cities studied, the city came in 299th, trailing n
A Federal Court Just Admitted the Piedmont "Emergency" Might Be Fake. It Let PSEG Bulldoze Your Land Anyway.
2026-08-24 06:31 UTC · Michael Phillips
Part of The New Land Wars series Charlotte Hetterick runs an organic farm in Carroll County. Under the current route for the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, the fi
China Is Building Humanoid Robots. America Is Fighting Over the Data Centers That Power AI.
2026-08-23 18:43 UTC · Michael Phillips
China is moving humanoid robots out of laboratories and toward larger-scale production.
USPS Finalizes New Mail-Ballot Tracking Rules — Now Voting Groups Want a Judge to Stop Them Again
2026-08-23 06:09 UTC · Michael Phillips
The U.S. Postal Service has finalized a major new rule for mail-in and absentee ballots used in federal general, special, and runoff elections, setting up an increasingly
The Maryland Nonprofit Behind the Lawsuit That Just Knocked Out Trump’s 75-Country Visa Suspension
2026-08-22 21:18 UTC · Michael Phillips
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge has struck down one of the Trump administration’s broadest immigration restrictions of 2026. But there is a Maryland angle
The Vacancy Behind the Anchor Desk
2026-08-22 06:54 UTC · Michael Phillips
Three industries. One earnings call logic. A national look at how AI is being used to justify job cuts in newsrooms, streaming platforms, and freelance writing — and what
While the WNBA Fights Over Sophie Cunningham, Maryland Quietly Stays the Course
2026-08-21 21:17 UTC · Michael Phillips
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has spent the back half of the WNBA season as the face of a fight that has nothing to do with basketball.
The New Kingmakers: Crypto, AI and Betting Money Are Reshaping the 2026 Midterms
2026-08-21 00:07 UTC · Michael Phillips
For years, Americans were told to worry about Wall Street, Big Oil, and pharmaceutical companies buying influence in Washington.
Maryland Has 240 Bridges Rated "Structurally Deficient." None of Them Was the Key Bridge.
2026-08-20 23:21 UTC · Michael Phillips
Federal data shows the state’s bridge network is in better shape than the national average.
Three Governors, One Script: Texas, Maryland and Pennsylvania Are All Suddenly Cracking Down on Data Centers
2026-08-20 18:00 UTC · Michael Phillips
A Republican in Texas beat two Democratic governors to the punch on data center restrictions.
So, a Rabid Maryland Beaver Is Coming at You. Now What?
2026-08-20 08:41 UTC · Michael Phillips
Maryland has had several recent beaver attacks, including rabies-positive animals.
Marylanders Need Nearly $108,000 to Live Comfortably, New Study Finds. Families Need Almost $258,000.
2026-08-19 23:20 UTC · Michael Phillips
A single adult in Maryland now needs an annual pre-tax income of $107,910 to live comfortably, and a family of four needs $257,837, according to a new nationwide study fr
Moore Says Families Shouldn't Go Into Debt for Back-to-School. His Own Tax Holiday Doesn't Cover the Supply List.
2026-08-18 19:56 UTC · Michael Phillips
Gov. Wes Moore used his personal X account Monday to tell Maryland families that back-to-school season shouldn’t push them further into debt. The timing is awkward. The s

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Metadata quality

How well Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

100%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
0%
articles with sections
307 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 254 min at the median, 563 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 155 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Michael Phillips | Riptide / MDBayNews publish per day?

2 on a median day, measured across 69 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.