Dana Rubinstein

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

“Trust that has been earned over generations has been lost in weeks.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Curtis Sliwa Wants to Be Mayor. He’s Taking Off His Beret to Prove It.

“On hot summer days, the wool can create its own small heat dome,” by Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/n...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Pets are being abandoned, surrendered amid Trump’s immigration crackdown The heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions.

Animal welfare groups across the U.S. say they’re fielding a surge of calls about pets left behind when their owners are detained, deported or self-deport in fear — straining a system already burdened by overcrowding, staff shortages, and falling adoptions.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Rewriting history: Smithsonian removes Trump, the only president impeached twice, from its exhibit about impeachment. "Only three presidents have seriously faced removal," the exhibit now says referring to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton @janaykingsberry.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781

"Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/n...

In Delhi and New York, Hindu Right Wing Lines Up Against Mamdani

"In India, attacks on Mr. Mamdani blare from pro-Modi news outlets across millions of TVs and smartphones. In the US, Indian American groups, some with direct ties to Mr. Modi... are taking a more subtle approach — raising money for Mr. Mamdani’s opponents" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, New Documents Show

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

An annex to the Durham special counsel report was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Epstein files

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“Public Appeal used an outside auditor to vet around 15K signatures it collected for Adams [and] encouraged campaign officials—including Adams’ close confidant and former City Hall adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin—to do the same with the ballot petitions other companies were collecting…they refused.”

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

“Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.” gothamist.com/news/forged-...

Mayor Adams vetoes law to decriminalize street vending; City Council may override Mayor Adams vetoed an effort to decriminalize street vendors in the city The legislation passed last month would mean street vendors would no longer face charges or jail time [ more › ]

Mayor Adams vetoes law to decriminalize street vending; City Council may override https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-vetoes-law-to-decriminalize-street-vending-city-council-may-override

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

"One detainee was beaten unconscious. Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Every Vote Counts in Brooklyn. Even Those Cast by Dead People.

"She had last voted 17 years ago, in the 2008 presidential primaries. She was 94 then, and would be 112 today, had it not been for her death in 2013." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...

‘Anybody but Mamdani’: 5 Groups Emerge to Raise Millions in Attack Funds

“The poll, which has not been previously reported, showed that more than 60 percent of New York voters view the mayor negatively, and more than 50 percent view Mr. Cuomo negatively, according to two people briefed on the survey.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/n...

‘Anybody but Mamdani’: 5 Groups Emerge to Raise Millions in Attack Funds

In the blood sport of New York City real estate, where comity can be hard to come by, the developers of some of the city’s most prized parcels appeared to be in agreement about one thing when they met in private this week. Zohran Mamdani had to be taken down. w/ Nick Fandos

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

How much will it cost US taxpayers to retrofit the "free" Air Force One donated by Qatar? The Trump administration won't say. But attention is focused on a mysterious $934 million transfer from a Pentagon account. @sangernyt.bsky.social Eric Schmitt www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.

Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling the government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of the courtroom. Jordan Salama reports on an asylum seeker’s experience.

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Musk and Trump have often talked about the lawfare against them, but here's what happens when they use their influence and/or money to go after their opponents.

Media Matters is edging closer to the brink after years of legal battles and it's not getting easier: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country is now underway. With its territory projected to be submerged by 2050 due to rising sea levels, Tuvalu has begun relocating its population to Australia via a new climate visa program.

"The kids hurried home. The next practice, only one showed up."

The Trump administration has sued NYC, seeking to end its sanctuary city status t.co/YCeeZP3hJ9

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

"Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign An investigation by THE CITY uncovered Adams donors who insist they didn't donate, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don't live where they claimed to.

“If you had said something like $210, I would’ve said, ‘OK, maybe!’ But $2,100? He’s really — he really has very little money. I don’t think he even makes $2,100 a month.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

"We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew that at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S....

The truth of all their stories—one by one—will begin to be told."

Astonishing reporting from my colleagues:
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The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

"When they asked for a lawyer, he said, guards told them: 'That word doesn’t exist here.'" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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