The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the New York City press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history”

Luigi Mangione is set to present a very creative defense at his state homicide trial. In his decision published this morning, Judge Carro suppressed a loaded magazine from evidence but not the 3D-printed pistol. The alleged manifesto is in, while cell phone and Faraday bag are out.

News: Once again, a Manhattan jury has said it cannot reach a unanimous decision about whether Harvey Weinstein is guilty of raping Jessica Mann. The panel began deliberating Wednesday morning. This comes in the retrial after another jury was deadlocked on the charge last year

Cork: University President John O'Halloran, said he had just returned from the US where he said colleagues from Harvard were "in tears" about the impact on their universities.

Desperately need this fashionable midi skirt emblazoned with Cillian Murphy’s face

Something special about collectively engaging in mindfulness with a courtroom full of people when a witness is instructed to wait until the sirens pass

I’m always seeing injured pigeons in distress. What can I do to help them? Will 311 send a guy?

New end times get rich quick scheme

We’ve been training for this perp walk our whole careers… The stone-faced SantaCon leader Stefan Pildes leaves the SDNY after his release on a $300K bond, refusing to say whether he fears he’ll get coal for Christmas or will feature on Santa’s naughty list.

Federal prosecutors in New York have accused SantaCon founder Stefan Pildes of being a conman who “stole Christmas from tens of thousands of victims” and deprived local charities of more than $1M. He could face up to 20 yrs if convicted of wire fraud. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

There are actually three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes and TurboTax shaking me down in the eleventh hour after I swore I’d learn how to file them at the library

I was gonna repost something extremely bleak but guess what, you’re getting these adorable flowers instead, enjoy!!

I will be so ready to write off a bad day in this godforsaken city when I turn a corner and see something like this… oh, nyc…

Only 👏 use 👏 “BREAKING” 👏 if 👏 you’re 👏 a 👏 reporter 👏 actually 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 news 👏 yourself.

In addition to banishing on-topic only, we must abolish “statements” that are just tweets by electeds cosplaying as BREAKING news reporters, breaking nothing but my resolve

The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a final administrative removal order against Mahmoud Khalil. His lawyers, who anticipated this, said it didn’t impact the status quo, they’ll appeal to the 5th Circuit, & that he cannot be detained while his habeas case is pending.

Trump also timed dramatic exits during Robbie Kaplan’s closing at one of E Jean Carroll’s trials and when Cohen testified in the fraud case

At Luigi Mangione's hearing this AM, the feds indicated they were eager to show their evidence to people who think he's a hero “Your honor need only look out the window to see the people who follow this defendant and believe that what he did was right,” AUSA Dominic Gentile said

I am smoking my last cigarette. There can be no going back. I’ve heard it all before but will accept any tips from former Serious smokers who kicked it.

Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight Red sky in morn, shepherd’s warn Red sky over 26 Federal Plaza?

An NYPD officer got a DAT for pulling a gun on another cop at 1PP yesterday www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/n...

Rep. Dan Goldman has this morning requested a full accounting from ICE and DHS of everyone arrested and targeted for deportation in immigration courts, following the revelation that ICE provided the DOJ with false info to justify the practice www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/n...

ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's office—which is withdrawing briefs that relied on bad info and has told a judge he will need to revisit past orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shoutout to my truly tough-as-nails grandmother, Lily Newman (née Brew), born 100 years ago in Kilrush, County Clare. She got a letter as Gaeilge and a check from President Connolly, but was most pleased with her banoffee birthday cake.

A Harlem man died Sunday waiting to be arraigned on a low-level charge for allegedly stealing incense from CVS. Vincent Thoms “spent his final moments languishing in a jail cell,” Legal Aid said in a statement calling on city leaders to meaningfully address in-custody NYPD deaths.

An NYPD inspector under criminal investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a subordinate remains on the job with a gun and authority over his accuser, 1+ years after facing accusations, per new filings requesting that he be disarmed and demoted www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/20/n...

I didn’t realize spring had a precise start time. It begins in 7 minutes!

The MTA filed suit today in the Court of Federal Claims, demanding the ~ $60 million in congressionally-promised funds for the Second Avenue Subway that the Trump administration has withheld since October. w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/17/m...

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know which bracket private equity’s destruction of local journalism falls into

It’s coming…

“When you put it all together, you can’t help but think Superman would have been laid off by Alden. Clark Kent would not have been offered a buyout or a pension even after all those years of dedicated service to the good fight in local news.” open.substack.com/pub/charless...

More from the sky

Made hanging my head out the window and risking severe electrocution, not with AI

Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander have just been found GUILTY on all counts in Manhattan in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever brought by the Justice Department. Tal and Oren were once among the US's highest paid real estate agents. They could face decades in prison.

The teens accused of bringing explosives to a protest outside Gracie Mansion have been charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, use of a WMD, and related offenses in an unsealed complaint. Emir Balat, 18, is about to appear for his presentment in the SDNY.

Mahmoud Khalil has filed a brief before the Board of Immigration Appeals, challenging orders by an executive-branch judge his team says were rushed, procedurally irregular, inaccurate, and disregarded the Trump admin's retaliation for 1A-protected activity www.nyclu.org/uploads/2025...

The young man arrested for throwing a snowball at cops was just arraigned on OGA and harassment charges in Manhattan. DA Bragg’s office said the cop suffered “redness, tenderness, and pain to the eye,” but they can’t yet prove this snowball thrower caused it, so will keep probing

Accidentally left my bike locked up on a quiet street downtown last night and someone put a rotten banana in the basket, but it wasn’t stolen. Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre speaking about then-Prince Andrew outside Manhattan federal court in August 2019, after the case against Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed. “I won’t stop fighting. I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice…He knows what he’s done”

The removal of the Pride flag at Stonewall “was no careless mistake,” but the latest attack by the Trump admin on the LGBT community, a new SDNY suit alleges “The government has not removed other historical flags at other national monuments, most notably Confederate flags”

Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee with senior status

“…when it gets to Election Day, we’ve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country…”

20+ hrs after the Trump admin was supposed to disburse $200M withheld from the Hudson River tunnel project, “there is no sign of a wire transfer of any money,” the NJ and NY AGs say in a new filing, requesting an emergency status conference this afternoon storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Paul Engelmayer, at an ongoing hearing, has given the Trump administration four weeks to process and produce the OLC memo detailing the legal rationale for lethal military strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean and related docs.

Justin Baldoni is the latest victim of my tendency to experience momentary face blindness in the SDNY cafeteria, a warm smile to someone I briefly registered as a colleague turning to ice

Brad Lander is headed to trial on May 11, charged with a federal violation alleging he obstructed the “usual use” of a foyer at 26 Federal Plaza, Judge Ricardo just ruled. Gov slated to share DHS audio recordings w his attys next week, fighting more substantive discovery demands

Would someone, please, for the love of God, rescue The Daily News from this strip mining hedge fund. Please.

Almost 1,000 workers have been laid off as a result of the withheld funding Trump “floated” restoring in exchange for renaming Penn Station and Dulles after him

NYT: Trump weighing building more nuclear bombs and restarting long dormant underground testing.

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”