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Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio.

"Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work"

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

aren't VFX people historically some of the most exploited and underpaid people in the modern film industry

Ugh shoutout to Jupiter day, we LOVE Jupiter day

Ngl it's one of the best visual novels i've ever played, the writing has such a strong sense of place. also hi oomf ily

It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media

An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!

Zohran at a podium on a sidewalk. Behind him are Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Councilmember Lincoln Restler and State Senator Kristen Gonzalez. Members of the Greenpoint community hold signs with the names of people who were killed on McGuinness Blvd.

Assemblymember Emily Gallagher speaks at the podium, on the front of which is a sign that says “Make McGuinness Safe.”

Councilmember Lincoln Restler speaks at the podium.

This morning we gathered on McGuinness Blvd.

After a beloved Greenpoint teacher was killed in a crash, the local community thought they had won a transformative redesign of this dangerous road — then the work was halted by City Hall corruption.

As Mayor, I’ll finish the job.

Every journalist in the West should hang their head in shame. You let this happen to Palestinian journalists, because you don't consider them humans, let alone colleagues. Remember when you rocked #JeSuisCharlie hashtags & avatars for weeks because 12 people were killed you did consider colleagues?

just finished a 7 week training to be a teacher........... this year has really felt like my foot is on the gas and the brake at the same time cuz wdym 😵‍💫

With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

India Walton's Advice for Zohran Mamdani "I think that for him, the race 'til November needs to be staying on message—we can't start to water it down because we think it's going to attract a more moderate Democrat."

The last time a DSA-backed upstart overthrew an establishment Democrat in a NY mayoral primary, what happened next wasn't pretty. India Walton has some hard-won advice for Zohran Mamdani about what to expect, and how to handle it:

hellgatenyc.com/india-walton...

Good morning NYC! Everyone get out and vote and encourage everyone around you to NOT RANK CUOMO

Damn right!!!

Progressive Group: 50,000 New People Have Signed Up To Run For Office Since Nov.

More than 50,000 new people have signed up to run for office since Trump's election in November, an unprecedented spike in young Democrats interested in seeking public office for the first time, says the progressive group Run for Something. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Yeah lol and when Mamdani gets the democratic primary Cuomo's probably still gonna run.... as an independent
It's 99.9% probably gonna be Mamdani v Cuomo until November

This is why I keep journaling. When this is all over, whether we're all here or not, my journal will live on as memory of these times. Primary sources matter. Books matter. Creativity matters.

I hate Jeffries so much. Like, to a degree I didn’t think possible. More than pelosi

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan The Democratic mayoral frontrunner's "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

ICYMI when we broke the story in April, but Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to come up with his housing plan.

(Earlier in his career, he was the HUD secretary)

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

the energy is so great, i have high hopes. knock on wood ofc but ive never felt anything like it before.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Khalil is now leading a march up alongside his supporters up Amsterdam Avenue and towards Columbia.

Right now in Morningside Heights: Mahmoud Khalil is speaking to his supporters after being released from ICE detention on Friday.