@smerelman.bsky.social
Criminal justice editor, New York Times metro desk
If there are any more Republicans on group chats featuring Nazi themes, you might as well just turn over the archives to @politico.com now, because it seems like the publication will get them eventually…
21.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I would bite someone directly in the face in this scenario. As if they were a ripe peach.
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“The taller the building,” he said, “the longer the shadow.”
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Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
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20.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Front page of The New York Times dated Sunday, October 19, 2025. The main feature dominates the upper half of the page: a large grid of dozens of headshots and gray silhouettes representing individuals tied to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. Each image has a caption underneath, and some silhouettes are blank to indicate unknown or missing figures. A bold headline above the grid explains that many Syrians lost loved ones or were imprisoned, and that key suspects disappeared. A sub-heading on the bottom of the grid reads “THE VANISHING ACT,” introducing an investigative article about the whereabouts and crimes of Assad’s enforcers. To the right of the main grid are two text columns. The upper column is a news analysis piece about former President Donald Trump and a government shutdown, while the lower column is a political article about Democrats’ strategies for stopping Trump, noting campaign maneuvers in various states. The newspaper’s title masthead “The New York Times” appears across the top, with date, volume number, and price ($6.00) above. A small weather summary is printed in the top right corner. A classic Times banner—“All the News That’s Fit to Print”—sits in the top left. The overall layout features the central visual grid, surrounded by headline columns and typical newspaper framing.
Our reporting project on Assad's top enforcers is on today's frontpage. Gift link: nyti.ms/48uCtkN
19.10.2025 23:12 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1
Dog is very annoyed about its idiotic haircut. Nevertheless it was immortalized in 1580 by Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg. Today is his day.
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An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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How George Santos got out of prison:
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Scenes of massive crowds from across the country as millions of Americans took to the streets of their cities and communities to protest Trump's presidency in "No Kings" demonstrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
18.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 1454 🔁 224 💬 39 📌 6
George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. New York politicians and some voters greeted the news with a mix of anger and frustration.
18.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 224 🔁 63 💬 68 📌 23
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
A federal prosecutor who resisted President Trump’s demands to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, was fired along with her deputy on Friday evening, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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NEW: Federal agents arrested two Venezuelan men outside a migrant shelter in Times Square.
DHS said the men were in the country illegally and belonged to Tren de Aragua.
The partner of one of the men denied any gang ties.
W/ @oliviabensimon.bsky.social:
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