The son of a man who was treated by Alex Pretti posted this video on Facebook showing the nurse give his father a final salute after he passed away. www.facebook.com/reel/1705089...

Turns out that post quoting Fetterman seems to be bullshit. Be careful who you trust. Just because someone has "journalist" in their bio doesn't mean they are one. (Also a real reporter calls themself a reporter. "Journalist" is worryingly pompous.)

What we know about Alex Pretti, ICU nurse killed by federal agent in Minneapolis

"Frank Carone, a Brooklyn Power Broker, Is Under Federal Investigation: Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are scrutinizing Mr. Carone, who served as chief of staff during Eric Adams’s first year as mayor of New York." -- www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/n...

Minnesota's gun laws permit open carrying a handgun as long as the gun owner has a valid permit.

Minneapolis Police chief said the slain unidentified victim had no criminal record save for parking tickets and was a lawful gun owner.

Why do weather apps sometimes have wild snow amounts? It's not a glitch; it's model uncertainty showing its face. I broke down what the apps are actually displaying and what the public needs to know.

Greg Chen said that the government appears to be in “open defiance” of judicial orders. “I’ve never heard of the DOJ immigration court leadership issuing an instruction to judges essentially to disregard a federal court order." documentedny.com/2026/01/22/b...

@mayor.nyc.gov explains why there are no snow days in the DOE calendar. "We are bound by state law that requires 180 days of instruction. & as previous administrations have added additional holidays to the school calendar, it leaves our school calender w/o any flexibility."

"The outrageous seizure" of @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's records "chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm." Anything less than immediate return "would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some sort of immigration law, but instead, what it is doing is terrorizing people no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, and no matter the facts of the case," @mayor.nyc.gov

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said Saturday that the president's threat came as a surprise as he said that he had a constructive talk with Vance and Rubio.

A set of recent polls have highlighted American voters' opposition to taking over Greenland -- and even greater opposition to taking it over by military force. via @emgusk.bsky.social

Did a lil round up of polls on ICE

Overall, the Insurrection Act has been used in response to 30 crises over its history, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, including by Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy to desegregate schools after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mom fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday in an alleged vehicle-ramming incident, "sparkled" and "was made of sunshine," her wife said in an emotional statement to Minnesota Public Radio.

An exchange I would have never imagined in one million years

Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows. Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness" wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

Multiple sources told ABC News that the incident is believed to be a shooting involving an ICE officer

Crime stats victory lap: Fewest shootings on record in New York, fewer shootings than Chicago or Philadelphia despite having far more people.

Now that MDC Brooklyn is back in the spotlight because of Maduro, I’m re-upping this thread I posted from Sept. 2024 detailing a string of stories I’ve written about the place. I’ve written a number of stories since, but this is a good primer for those with interest.

“They should have the capacity to shut this down."

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold added that Peters "was convicted by a jury of her peers for state crimes in a state Court. Trump has no constitutional authority to pardon her."

On NY1, Mayor Adams says he's unsure he'll attend Zohran Mamdani's inauguration: "Some people are perpetual protesters, some people will turn this ceremony into some form of protest. So I want to speak with him to determine if I'm going to attend or not." ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was supposed to appear at this daycare in Manhattan at 10:30 a.m. But he's a bit late so in the meantime reporters and photographers are helping sing Wheels on the Bus for a group of kids.

Judge Xinis said that the absence of a removal order prevents the government from removing Abrego Garcia from the U.S.

"The State Department’s decision to move away from Calibri may seem minor, but for many people with vision impairment (myself included), readability is not a small detail – it's essential," Molly Eagan, the CEO of VISIONS, a nonprofit that advocates for services to help the visually impaired, said.

Lots going on in @bradlander.bsky.social 's introduction campaign video (complete with the cgi pigeons)

my complete, map-filled, analysis of the 2025 election in New York City -How Zohran won the primary -How Zohran won the general (different story!) -How this election, beneath the surface, actually offers some of the best evidence of a developing blue wave www.expectinggoals.com/p/how-zohran...

@errollouis.bsky.social there's always next year XD

So far, leading IVF clinics still refuse to offer these tests. Doctors worry, among other things, that they’ll create unrealistic parental expectations...The ad blitz is a way to end-run such gatekeepers: If a clinic won’t agree to order the test, would-be parents can take their business elsewhere.

wow deadline.com/2025/12/matt...

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

"I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me. I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew," she said.

After John Oliver highlighted a small southern Colorado public radio station and joked about the appearance of its volunteer DJ on the season finale of "Last Week Tonight," thousands of dollars in donations poured into KRZA from around the country: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-i...

When a reporter asked Mamdani if he still considers Trump a fascist, the president stepped in with a joke before taking another question. "That's OK, you can just say, 'Yes,'" Trump said as he patted Mamdani on the back with a laugh. "It's easier. It's easier than explaining it."

Addendum: Anyone know who asked the PD headcount question without bothering to look up what the PD headcount is?

well played @thecity.nyc

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

“After devoting so much energy and so much time to help elect young leaders, I feel at ease,” she added, pointing to Mr. Mamdani’s election.

They did not identify themselves, according to the family, or show Jennifer a warrant, though it’s not clear if they had one.

In the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to NYC, Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs." via @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

NEW: An NYPD sergeant, Atickul Islam, faces federal charges he impersonated an ICE field office director and demanded a victim report with their family to an ICE location. Indictment is only one-paragraph, so details are still developing on this one. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/18/n...

"We are fighting for the children," said survivor Haley Robson, as she held up a photograph of herself as a young girl.

Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.