I am so proud of this! <3

When junk fee regs forced Ticketmaster to stop charging add'l fees at checkout, emails show the company charged fans higher fees elsewhere so it wouldn't lose money. "It just shows that all of these fees are kind of made up," said a former FTC regulator. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

Walz told me that when he spoke to Trump on the phone the president compared the immigration operations in Minneapolis to the military mission he ordered in Venezuela. www.ms.now/news/walz-sa...

wapo posted a job opening on its opinion desk as its newsroom is spiraling over expected cuts

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

my fav part of the melania movie lore is brett ratner apparently threw discarded orange peels and chewed up gum at ppl on set and 2/3 of production staff asked to remain uncredited. opens fri! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

pheww my heart is still beating after reading this www.thecut.com/article/me-t...

A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them. "We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...

release the footage omg www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/n...

great story by @rosalindadams.bsky.social — well worth your time to read

She grew award-winning strains and was poised for a legal cannabis license. Instead, a massive police and FDNY raid — triggered by her vindictive ex-DEA uncle — left “the Godmother” facing felony charges. @rosalindadams.bsky.social deep dive into the family saga. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

This Brooklyn woman got caught in New York's extremely messy legal cannabis industry launch and saw her family wrecked because of it. A wild read from @rosalindadams.bsky.social.

Who doesn’t love some good old-fashioned family drama? Well, here’s some for ya — and it’s good stuff, as they say in the trade. From @rosalindadams.bsky.social in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

NYSNA has now announced it is endorsing Zohran Mamdani for mayor, right on the heels of 32BJ and HTC. That's three major unions now lining up behind that had not backed Mamdani in the primary (NYSNA did not endorse, and 32BJ/HTC backed Cuomo)

New: 32 BJ, the powerful union that endorsed Cuomo for mayor, is now out on record backing Zohran Mamdani in November's election. I'm being told HTC is expected to follow suit, too. We first reported yesterday this was likely: www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/26/m...

Charlotte Bennett, an ex-Cuomo aide who prev sued the gov, advocated for legislation to protect ppl from retaliatory defamation suits calling them “financially devastating, emotionally traumatizing.” (Cuomo’s filed 2 notices of defamation claims against her) www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/c...

“There are no more wars for him to fight. It’s over. The book is closed on the Cuomo dynasty.” — Karen Hinton told @rosalindadams.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/c...

Cuomo’s attacked James fiercely the past 4 yrs as part of his defense in his sexual harassment suits. He’s called the AG office report biased and filed an ethics complaint. Zohran’s win is no doubt personal for James, too www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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the ugly, no good, horrible truth behind brooklyn's queer icon sherita: www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...

I talked to a researcher who studies social isolation about this in 2023. Friendships, unlike AI, aren't built on "instant gratification": What happens when people "try to create real intimacy with a real person ... who can’t be manipulated in the same way?” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

truly remarkable how much of our reporting is now showing up in this probe. so proud of my colleagues! the CFB "has asked Adams’ election lawyer for voluminous records about a host of fundraising activities connected to 11 individuals, eight of whom were first exposed by THE CITY"

Mayor Eric Adams is petitioning to run on an “EndAntiSemitism” ballot line — a choice that highlights one of his few remaining areas of unbridled political support, and attempts to undermine Andrew Cuomo. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Protesters stormed the stage as former governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at the Black Agenda forum in Brooklyn tonight. It might be one reason why he’s running a Rose Garden strategy: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

Harvard University is suing the Trump administration. Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:

“It’s total chaos,” he said, with clients calling up unsure of how to access the program’s services. “We don’t know what’s going to happen.” Barasch told @katiehonan.bsky.social that one man called asking, “Will the government keep paying for my chemo?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/21/9...

finally, a place to cry

🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent

This is a concise overview of how American research universities became so heavily reliant on federal government funding and how that relationship has been mutually beneficial. A great book on this subject focused on Oceanography is @naomioreskes.bsky.social's Science on a Mission.

Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...

i read the first part of this hed and thought it was gonna be a story about kilmar/ el salvador and then

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

finally, some humanity

FEMA: Here's money to feed migrants. Also FEMA: Actually, we're taking those away because you fed migrants and they could be "illegal" so maybe you're breaking the law. In the meantime, a food pantry scrambles to meet the needs of hungry New Yorkers. www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/17/t...

ok well i feel a bit sick now

"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

“It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts swept up an American citizen, and it happened to be aided by local authorities in Florida.” newrepublic.com/post/194119/...

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

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“The moral awakening occurred as planned. It just didn’t make a difference. What they hadn’t counted on was the utter lack of real democracy in the West” a devastating piece of reporting by @benehrenreich.bsky.social