I had a beautiful drive admiring the fall foliage of New York state today, until the treacherous rain severely limited my visibility. I felt this must be an epic journey when I passed through "hero's tunnel" in Connecticut. All for local news.

bills are due soon. colin breaks down why the cost of your energy bills are going up again.

Hey everyone, this is @colinreports.bsky.social, New York Focus’s climate and environment reporter. I’m taking over our account for a minute to talk about something on a lot of people’s minds: energy bills. 🧵

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“It makes for a safer county to allow ICE to use our jail cells,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a vocal Trump ally, said. From @juliarock.bsky.social and Isabelle Taft's reporting this week on the NY county jails that joined the Trump administration’s immigration detention network.

A 42-year-old man died in ICE custody yesterday on Long Island, in Nassau County, where Bruce Blakeman gave ICE 50 local jail cells to hold detainees. The man's name and cause of death not released yet. He was found not breathing, police said. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

NEW: Eleven state legislators were arrested at a Manhattan federal building while protesting ICE and state inaction to protect immigrants. "Where is our governor?" said Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes. nysfocus.com/2025/09/19/l...

NEW: More than a million New York households are behind on their energy bills, and record numbers had their electricity or gas shut off this spring. My look at how NY is tipping into an energy affordability crisis — and why it’s only set to get worse.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

NEW: This spring, several New York county jails quietly joined joined the Trump administration’s immigration detention network. So far this year, they've held almost six times as many ICE detainees as they did all of last year. nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/i...

Born to chill and eat bananas forced to have the mailchimp app on my phone

Conviction integrity units were meant to fix a broken system. Our ongoing investigation with @columbiajournalism.bsky.social reveals that in many cases, they’ve reinforced it. nysfocus.com/wrongful-con...

In at least 17 cases from 2013 to 2023, responding police officers did not take basic steps to confirm if their fellow officers had driven drunk, despite significant indications they had, an investigation by The New York Times and New York Focus found. nysfocus.com/2025/09/09/n...

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Governor Hochul endorses Zohran Mamdani for mayor She writes an oped in the NYT to announce it, increasing the pressure on Schumer and Jeffries: “I am confident that he has the courage, urgency and optimism New York City needs to lead it through the challenges of this moment.”

Across New York State, police officers have driven drunk. And sometimes, they avoided criminal punishment. An investigation with @nytimes.com.

"Bovino, who is typically dressed in tactical gear, led the latest deportation effort in Los Angeles that has led to more than 5,000 arrests. Citing two anonymous sources, CBS News on Tuesday reported Bovino is in the Chicago area."

what is a MUST eat mexican food place in sunset park?

As a teen in the Hudson Valley, Anthony DiPippo was convicted of a high-profile rape and murder that he swore he didn’t commit. He spent the next 17 years fighting those convictions. His became one of the few cases reinvestigated by the Attorney General’s conviction review bureau.

I know there's a lot of news today, but in my neck of the woods, this is BIG news. Cook County hasn't had a new chief judge since Sept. 11, 2001 (yes, really). The chief judge might be the most consequential local public official you've probably never heard of. @mdoukmas.bsky.social with the story.

heard a white woman say her husband’s name is “Pay-Dro”

NEW: Some police officers in New York State drove drunk. They crashed their official vehicles and hit other motorists. They arrived at work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation by The New York Times and New York Focus found.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

the modern chicago police department was created by nativists to enforce law & order on immigrants living in the city’s rapidly growing working-class neighborhoods. wealthy politicians and their allies in the media painted immigrants as criminals and drunks. they argued for police to enforce order.

Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

NEW: This summer, ICE was quietly granted access to sensitive Medicaid enrollment information as part of the agency’s efforts to root out “the location of aliens.” Advocates say they’re seeing a chilling effect, with immigrants delaying or avoiding health care to protect themselves.

This is so upsetting

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

ICE wants more detention space and it’s faster to re-open old facilities to hold immigrants than to build new ones. Enter: ZOMBIE PRISONS www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/29/m...

"dating" "audience metrics" "living alone" none of my ancestors encountered these concepts

someone on tiktok was telling a horrible story and it was like “he unalived his two children before unaliving himself. with a pew pew.” Just so dumb.

It’s Labor Day weekend

A Bronx charitable organization failed to spend nearly $400,000 it raised for fire victims and has faced internal turmoil, with multiple board members resigning. None of these things stopped New York lawmakers from directing new grants towards the foundation. nysfocus.com/2025/08/28/b...

NEW: More than a dozen, mostly Long Island-based business interests have joined National Grid in backing a controversial pipeline championed by President Donald Trump. Some letters have "template" in the filename, "[INSERT PARTY]" in the comments, and traces of National Grid's lobbying firm.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Speaking as a Chinese person, in the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of bribery.

coming back to NY with work to do and I keep saying things like “home is where the laundry is” and “home is where the bargaining is”

I-90 just east of downtown Cleveland. Brought to you by Catholic Sisters of Northeastern Ohio.

important to be a little annoying when you visit home so people don’t miss you too much when you’re gone

everyday they invent something new to produce in every color

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different. How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

I saw a distant relative who I haven’t seen in years and who is my age and his memory of me is that I yelled at him when we were kids for being mean to his sister. Sounds right lol

[trying to let it go, but I can’t let it go] IT’S NOT RENT CONTROL a tiny, tiny sliver of NYC’s housing stock is rent controlled, an old an nearly obsolete policy. Mamdani has said many times it’s rent stabilization, which is quite common (1M apts) and different. Cuomo should know this imho!

A judge has paused construction on 'Alligator Alcatraz.' Our own @yessfun.com reported on the dangers of the facility to people and the environment: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...

omw!

what an interesting day to have worked for news orgs covering NY and TX politics

just what ... no one asked for nypost.com/2025/08/04/m...