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Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
"...despots over the ages devised a lopsided way of funding science that punished blue-sky thinkers and promoted gadget makers..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
This isn't just happening at Main Justice. It's happening at U.S. attorneys' offices, too. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
The NYC Campaign Finance Board's investigation into Eric Adams' fundraising shenanigans goes deeper than previously understood. “The board has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony to 17 individuals and has begun to receive documents and take depositions.” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
EJ Dickson, welcome to Danger Room.
Tata was granted a temporary restraining order against Tripp shortly after he was confirmed. He alleges she harassed him and threatened to tank his nomination by exposing the affair publicly unless he paid her $25k. “He’s cooked,” she allegedly wrote to his wife. www.thecut.com/article/astr...
EXCLUSIVE: Court docs appear to show that married Trump DoD appointee Anthony Tata had a 'casual sexual relationship as well as a professional relationship' with astrology influencer Amy Tripp, aka Starheal, investing in her company, Starheal LLC, for 5 percent equity. www.thecut.com/article/astr...
Alexis Wilkins, the country singer and FBI director's girlfriend, is suing Kyle Seraphin, the former FBI agent and Bureau whistleblower. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... via @seamushughes.bsky.social and @courtwatch.bsky.social
I'm not the right guy, but I can pass things along. DM me.
IIRC first feature I helped edit at @rollingstone.com was the second piece in this series. Excited for Seth -- and to see what HBO does with it. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
The relationship between humans and horses goes back 4,700 years. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
New inspector general report finds CBP detention facilities were holding people for far longer than the 72 hours allowed. And this was back in late 2024, during the end of the Biden administration. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
NEW: AG Pam Bondi is meeting with NYPD leadership today in New York City, at a particularly tense time www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
You don't want to read too much into a single quarter's results but... thoroughbred racehorse deaths are up by nearly 50% over the same.period in 2024. horseracingintegrityandsafetyauthorityhisa.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkxjyi...
Nine reporters on this NYT deep-dive into how the Chinese government is influencing New York City's politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...
BTW, West Virginia is the only state left that still has legalized dog racing. www.grey2kusa.org/about/states...
They're not just running racehorses to death in West Virginia. They're running racehorses to death — and then dumping their bodies in a landfill. horseracingwrongs.org/2025/08/24/s...
Claiming that *Greenwich Village* is a “lawless drug den” is fucking insane, even for the Post.
Exclusive: Ghislaine Maxwell was honored at a prestigious Clinton event years after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/p...
Interesting framing here by the Post. 1. Mamdani didn't say this; the DSA's 2021 platform did. 2. The quote isn't from Mamdani; it's from Curtis Sliwa. nypost.com/2025/08/24/u...
SCOOP: Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown Could include at least a few thousand National Guard members, likely deployed against the desires of state and local officials www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Ali, where are you seeing that? Last I heard, it was the equivalent of a ten-minute mile, maybe less.
At one point in 1990: NYC was clocking a cabbie murder a week
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"I get thousands of dollars in cash from my friends all the time" seems to me to be a non-ideal defense strategy for a top city official.
Is it throughout Miami-Dade? Or just like, Brickell and South Beach or whatever?
Yep, you've got a couple of different companies operating there -- at least.
(a) This video is completely bonkers. (b) Do you think Rupert Murdoch's New York Post will continue to back Eric Adams for re-election? nypost.com/2025/08/22/u...
This is still a long way off, but... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/w...
Whoever leaked that Malik Beasley was under investigation cost him a lot of money, seemingly unjustly. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Big day for big tunes. New Lila Ike album out today 🇯🇲🌺🇯🇲🦁 open.spotify.com/album/2xD9AC...
A press release put out by Bragg's office, however, did say that "uncharged individuals named or referenced in the indictments are not targets of the continued ongoing investigation." The mayor is named and referenced in Lewis-Martin's new indictments.
After he first indicted Ingrid Lewis-Martin in late 2024, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg went out of his way to say Mayor Adams wasn't a target of any investigations by his office. Bragg didn't say anything like that today after indicting Lewis-Martin on a new set of bribery charges.
“Mr. Mui … told The Times that reporters received red envelopes from Adams supporters at last month’s events as a “form of appreciation” to cover transportation expenses and to “subsidize” their salaries. Mr. Tin “had to” give the reporters cash, he said; “otherwise they don’t write their stories.””
"In July, New York Times reporters witnessed other Adams supporters handing out red envelopes with cash at three separate campaign events." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
Breaking news in this follow to The City’s potato chip scoop. “New York Times reporters witnessed supporters of Mayor Eric Adams handing out cash-filled envelopes. Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
this person will be voting for the “EndAntiSemitism” party in the mayoral election
The @hellgatenyc.com effect? This place is MOBBED
One of 10,000 reasons why @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it ... When they make mistakes, they own up to 'em quickly and transparently, and then move ahead. Imagine if the rest of the media acted this way.
Welcome to New York City. It has been 0️⃣ days since a former top municipal official was indicted for karaoke-related bribery schemes. It has been 1️⃣ day since a former municipal official tried to pull off a potato-chip-related bribery scheme.
Right. Either way: Greco definitely knew better.
I think more to the point, she was a senior City Hall employee making almost $200,000 a year until recently and went through NYC gov ethics training.
Oops! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Indictment is out against Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Eric Adams' former chief advisor, and associates, w/multiple threads here @thecity.nyc has been covering. One co-defendant, Tian Ji Li, headed Adams' 2021 Flushing, Queens, campaign office with Winnie Greco, she of the bag-of-chips cash.
Ingrid Lewis-Martin's defense is that she was simply "a fixer," helping people with city bureaucracy. The alleged bribes are *relatively* minor, which is why Bragg's office is seeking lower level felony charges. More: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Thirteen seconds of fame
Winnie Greco has lived in New York City for a quarter-century or more. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
We don't say this enough around here: God bless @thecity.nyc
Re-upping this story for no particular reason at all, no sir bob www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.
Completely insane story about Winnie Greco, a longtime aide to Mayor Adams, trying to give @katiehonan.bsky.social a bag of chips stuffed with cash today. Adams has let Greco help his reelection effort even though he's aware the feds have been investigating her. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
The failed payoff — was of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion potato chips — was made by Winnie Greco, an Adams ally who resigned last year from her job as the mayor’s liaison to the Asian community after she was targeted in multiple investigations.
A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
So you're saying it's inedible
Vanity Fair has a new profile of Waymo CEO Tekedra Mawakana, positioning her as a kind of anti-Elon, and yours truly gets quoted along the way. Worth a read, if you think all "self-driving cars" are the same, and all leading to the same place (they're not). www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
NEW: The Department of Defense has asked its civilian employees if they want to work for ICE: www.404media.co/pentagon-ask...
So there is a crime being committed: a bagel is being served outside of New York City.
That's a legit concern.
*that
Fun piece from @jaymichaelson.bsky.social about how the nightmare year of 2025 has turned him into a horror movie fan. open.substack.com/pub/jaymicha...
That's exactly right. What's humdrum in San Fran is going to be a complete shock to NYC.
It feels like we're hurtling towards something at 1,000 MPH without much consideration about what's going to happen on impact.
כן, חבר
how could eric adams abandon the 'stop antisemitism' line, after historic moments like this?
The data shows that -- at absolute worst -- these self-driving cars are about as dangerous as Ubers.
Mawakana had all kinds of thoughtful answers on the societal and technical questions surrounding autonomous vehicles. But when I asked her and other Waymo executives about the job losses that would come with self-driving trucks, delivery vans and taxis ... they really didn't have much of a response.
I agree. And driverless trucks are only going to further than trend. It's something discussed at some length in the piece.
Many thanks to @niedermeyer.online, who has thought more deeply on the rise of autonomous vehicles than just about anyone. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
A few months ago, I met the co-CEO of Waymo, the driverless taxi company. She was strategic, deliberate, and safety-obsessed. In many ways, she was everything Elon Musk wasn't. So I profiled her for @vanityfair.com. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
Todd Shapiro, Mayor Adams' campaign rep, says Adams will "pursue legal options" against the NYC Board of Elections' decision that he has to soon pick one ballot line for November's election. BUT he also indicates Adams will pick "Safe&Affordable" - not "EndAntiSemitism" - if it comes to it.
This has been rumored for a while, but not the breadth of it. Bad, bad news for the mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...
A Russian state-sponsored espionage group has been compromising network devices worldwide for over a decade, exploiting a seven-year-old vulnerability (!!!!!) to steal sensitive data and establish persistent access to organizations across multiple sectors, cyberscoop.com/russian-stat...
Relatedly I think journalism could maybe use stronger professional style norms around not anthropomorphizing the computer systems we report on/reference in our writing.
New: Eric Adams is unwilling to settle his sexual assault suit, even after a lawyer for his accuser said their side is open to settlement talks. Adams has “no interest,” a city lawyer said today. More 🫵
New: A cryptocurrency industry-backed super PAC that’s boosting Mayor Adams’ reelection run has failed to disclose its spending to New York City campaign finance regulators for weeks, potentially opening it up to fines. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/18/c...
I got audio of what Andrew Cuomo at one of his Hamptons fundraisers. And he's counting on Trump and top Republicans to encourage New Yorkers to vote for him - and not Adams or Sliwa - to stop Zohran Mamdani. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
I've been experimenting with the premium versions of Claude and ChatGPT for research. I wouldn't recommend either at this point -- though the new OpenAI model pointed me to some interesting facts I may not have found on my own. Maybe. www.cjr.org/analysis/i-t...
After Martin began investigating New York AG Letitia James, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign. He followed this up by showing up outside her Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat and posing for pictures for @nypost.com
Back on their bullshit www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Big scoop by my colleague @jccoltin.bsky.social and a good reminder to sign up to get New York Playbook in your inbox — it’s free! www.politico.com/newsletters/...
WOW. Cuomo comes out and says it: He's counting on Trump to rescue his campaign. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
SCOOP: Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe as part of a deal to obtain US guarantees for its security after a peace settlement with Russia, according to a document seen by @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/8dad...
Greenblatt also has indicated that synagogues that don't whole-heartedly support the Israeli government aren't authentically Jewish. See this comment to the Times...
Greenblatt has been making versions of this argument for months. After the primary, he demanded that Mamdani “meet mainstream Jewish people in a mainstream synagogue.” But Mamdani had visited one of New York’s oldest, largest synagogues a couple of weeks before. It was his 2nd visit of the year.
"the first known ICE arrest of a New York City child under the age of 18 during the second Trump administration" www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...
Selling one's likeness for a mere $500 and having it talk about its sexual preferences while hawking fiber supplements is like a sad plot device that I would expect from a good science fiction novel. But it's real, via @sapna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...
Such protests "only add fuel to the antisemitism that is already raging," this influencer claims. "Israelis demonizing Israeli leadership only gives our haters more ammunition to demonize Israel -- and then demonize the Jews."
"Pro-Israel" influencers are now turning on Israelis, for protesting against Netanyahu. www.instagram.com/reel/DNgBT-K...
The dc occupation is not about stopping crime, it’s about intimating journalists, judges, and legislators. We need to call things as we see them. Peace isn’t war. Up isn’t down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCQh...
Hunh. Interesting choice. Because when the network started, the "MS" stood for "Microsoft."
This was our spot! An enduring argument in our crew: Was it .25 beers and $1 hot dogs, or the other way around?