Also, I think OP would have some legal recourse in that the MIT license didn't accompany the code in the copycat Medium post -- doesn't MIT require that you at least include the license in any modified or redistributed code?
Yep[1] (emphasis mine):
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> Copyright (c) 2015 Max Woolf
https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-bigquery/blob/master/LIC...
So in this case, the MIT license would actually require attribution.