Paul Moses

Geoff Bowser, my son-in-law, has done some very telling research on the propaganda art the US DOL has been posting on X.

Will the Next Mayor Freeze Rent? That Could Be Up to Eric Adams The Rent Guidelines Board is readying a hike as high as 4.75% — and could favor landlords well into the next mayor’s term despite many candidates’ call for no increase.

With the NY Post is reporting that Eric Adams will pack the Rent Guidelines Board on his way out the door to deny Mamdani the ability to dictate a promised rent freeze, please note that my colleague @smaldo.bsky.social called this back in May.

What Do the New Pentagon Press Reporting Rules Say? The new rules codify strict limitations on access and raise the prospect of punishment for requesting information on matters of public interest.

As I read the the Pentagon press policy, it asserts that reporters lack the legal right to probe the government's secrets. It's twisted into an act of criminal solicitation. Chilling stuff. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Indian Magazine Apologizes for Featuring Charlie Kirk with Mother Teresa- UCA News 'The Examiner,' a Catholic weekly from India's Bombay archdiocese, has issued an apology to its readers. The apology comes after backlash for featuring the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on its...

www.ucanews.com/news/indian-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

"We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women." #CardinalMcElroy #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey

If the president is going to be prosecutor-in-chief, shouldn't he have to follow federal court rules governing acceptable pretrial publicity? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey

I think the Comey case will be dismissed for selective prosecution. It's rare but my hunch, based on observing various selective prosecution motions while a reporter in federal court, is that this one would be likely to succeed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Comey Indicted After Pressure From President

Looks like the rare case that will be dismissed for selective prosecution.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife Duwayne Baugh is his wife’s prime caregiver as she battles a rare and aggressive cancer. But a years-old gun charge has the legal permanent resident in ICE detention, facing deportation to a country h...

“As I write, my head is pounding from the cancer that is eating my skull. I am in extreme pain and have been for quite some time. Duwayne is all I have."

Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/d...

United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Jeffrey Stuart Falk, Defendant-appellant, 479 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1973) United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Jeffrey Stuart Falk, Defendant-appellant, 479 F.2d 616 (7th Cir. 1973) case opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Jeffrey Stuart Falk, a Vietnam war-era conscientious objector, was one of the few to beat a federal criminal charge by arguing selective prosecution. But we may be seeing a lot more rulings like this if the DOJ follows Trump's orders. law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Interviewed a man ICE was able to keep in jail--despite a judge's orders to release him--under a federal reg so dubious that in the last 6 weeks alone, federal district judges have ruled 11 times that ICE had violated the Constitution through it.

Related Cos. is offering a job to Mayor Eric Adams to get him out of the mayoral race? I can't help noting the enormous tax breaks that company is getting from the city. www.thecity.nyc/2023/12/19/t...

Wealthy N.Y. Developers Call Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

The leader of this effort is an executive at Hudson Yards, which is heavily subsidized by the city and looking to expand. Anyone know what the candidates' views are on the expansion of Hudson Yards?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Can't the governor of Louisiana call out the National Guard? He needs Trump to do that?

I don't see Sliwa in some government job, either. His job is being Curtis Sliwa, not assistant commissioner for whatever.

Trump may not get the result he expects from these judges.

COVID-19

You would think that the NYS Health Dept. would have updated info on its website about getting a COVID vaccination without having to go to New Jersey. But no. coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home

Top NYPD Traffic Chief Probed for Alleged Hit-and-Run, Cover-Up Franklin Sepulveda is accused of sideswiping a car then telling a subordinate to lie — and the case is now under Internal Affairs review.

A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up, THE CITY has learned.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...

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Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack

“Once Israeli leaders realized that they would face no consequences for killing Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists, is it surprising they would conclude that they could get away with killing many more Palestinian journalists in Gaza?” — my latest @theguardian.com

Trump & the Grand Theater of the World Trump has shown us—painfully, unmistakably—that politics can become a total work of art.

It's hard to say anything original about Donald Trump at this point, but the Vatican official Antonio Spadaro, S.J. comes up with some interesting observations in this @commonweal.bsky.social piece. www.commonwealmagazine.org/donald-trump...

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Thanks.

Errors of Omission Paul Moses reports on a significant hole in a House Judiciary Committee report accusing the Biden FBI of targeting an SSPX priest.

My latest piece for @commonweal.bsky.social: The crucial detail Rep. Jim Jordan leaves out in his crusade to persuade Catholics that the FBI is out to get them. Conservative media like EWTN and National Review do the same. www.commonwealmagazine.org/moses-fbi-ss...

Well this is insane

Errors of Omission Paul Moses reports on a significant hole in a House Judiciary Committee report accusing the Biden FBI of targeting an SSPX priest.

'Errors of Omission': A House committee report ignores the reason an SSPX priest was investigated.

New reporting from @paulbmoses.bsky.social:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/moses-fbi-ss...

Opinion | Trump Is Discovering the Downside of a Justice Department With No Credibility

Daniel Richman is right: AG Bondi is squandering DOJ credibility with judges, normally a big asset for prosecutors. Saw it when I covered Rudy Giuliani in the 1980s--but it took about 6 years. AG Bondi has managed to do much worse damage in 6 months. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

Board of Elections Certified Dead People’s Votes, Says It Had No Choice Just 16 votes gave a Brooklyn Council primary win to MAGA candidate George Sarantopolos over Brooklyn GOP chair Richie Barsamian, even as evidence of fraudulent ballots mounts.

The city Board of Elections certified the results of a tightly contested Brooklyn Republican City Council primary Tuesday — and maintains that it had no choice but to count the ballots cast in the names of multiple dead people.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/b...

Inside the Manhattan Court Where ICE Fights to Keep Immigrants Locked Up The Varick Street immigration court detention docket, reserved for the highest-risk cases, includes many people with scant or nonexistent records of criminal conduct, sent to far-flung jails with litt...

"Detention by any means": I observed immigration court hearings for months to see what evidence ICE actually had to detain people.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/i...

More to the point: House Republicans, who have long advocated for religious freedom as a foundational cause, are currently probing entire religious denominations.

The reason: the lawmakers argue that by aiding migrants, faith groups "signal(ed)" to migrants that "they could expect such assistance."