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.”

Toñita ♥️

Just cursed the lord in response to an arctic gust of wind in perfect harmony with another guy walking past me

News: Judge Vargas has stopped the Trump administration from freezing federal funds for construction of the Hudson River tunnel. Earlier today, she heard workers would otherwise be fired this weekend, abandoning “literally a massive hole in the earth” indefinitely ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

The “public” court hearing in Luigi Mangione’s case this morning was mainly held off record at the bench. COs shouted down a reporter who put her hand up to complain close to 30 minutes in.

News: Judge Carro has scheduled Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial for JUNE 8. He says if the DOJ appeals the recent ruling dismissing the death penalty charge in his federal case, he’ll push it back to Sept. 8.

Buried below a lot of preamble, Jay Clayton tells Judge Engelmayer that 9K+ docs removed from the Epstein files after victims complained about being exposed were subject to protective orders in Maxwell’s case. Engelmayer modified the orders on the condition that the women’s privacy be protected.

Re moving hush-money to federal court, Judge Hellerstein says Trump sought "two bites at the apple" by first bringing the SCOTUS immunity decision to state court, missed the window to raise it at fed. Trump atty Jeff Wall said “any sensible litigant” would. “Not so,” Hellerstein said. “Not so.”

BREAKING -- New York and New Jersey both jointly sued the Trump administration tonight over the regime's refusal to restore funds for the Gateway Project's Hudson River Tunnel. The tunnel is expected to run out of money Friday if the funds stay frozen. Story TK w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social

Judge Berman has called off tomorrow’s conference on the Epstein files after victims’ lawyers said the DOJ was receptive to their complaints about the disastrous redactions process and will address deficiencies “expeditiously”

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton tells the judges on Epstein and Maxwell's cases that AUSAs “worked all hours” over the weekend to remove “thousands of documents and media that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human error”

“Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation,” @vicbekiempis.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The tension between feeling at once grateful and grossed out by a subway seat warmed up by the last passenger

In a statement, lawyers for Luigi Mangione say the Manhattan DA’s request to try him in July before the DOJ presents its case to a jury is “unrealistic,” and that they’ll need the rest of the year to prepare for his federal trial, which could include a death penalty phase.

Update on the Epstein files, sorta: US Attorney Jay Clayton tells Judges Berman & Engelmayer that SDNY expects to finish the job, “including publication to the Epstein Library website, in the near term” “The Department is not able to provide a specific date at this time…”

News: Judge Paul Engelmayer has DENIED the motion by Reps Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to participate in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case and says he doesn’t have the authority to supervise the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Lawyers for Reps Khanna and Massie renew their push to seek a special master to oversee further disclosures of the Epstein files, saying the government “cannot be relied upon to act with disinterest” and “do what is best for the survivors.” “It has its own conflicting interests.”

An analysis of my inbox found Michael Cohen showed no signs of being coerced into cooperating against Trump in NY, as he now claims. His main concern was getting all the credit. “I brought the whole mishegas, the whole bullshit to the surface,” as he said in 2021 www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/19/m...

The refugees arrested through this program are in the country legally. They entered as refugees, having been fully screened and vetted and on a path to a green card already. Now the Trump admin is detaining an unknown number; USCIS says they may be targeting as many as 5,600 people.