Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

Comptroller Brad Lander has been released after he and 10 other electeds were detained while observing immigration proceedings at 26 Fed. Am told all are expected to be released promptly. More Tk.

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Killer story from @grahamrayman.bsky.social, @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social and @mollycranenewman.bsky.social today -- the boyfriend of a top Adams administration was hauled out of his and his girlfriend's apartment by ICE last month and has been detained since. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/15/b...

Maurene Comey has sued the White House, the DOJ, and others, alleging her firing from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office this summer, days after she’d been assigned to take the lead on a major public corruption case, was based on who her father is and her perceived political beliefs

Nadine Menendez is bawling her eyes out to Judge Stein before he imposes sentence, talking about men who abused her. Of Bob: “He was one of the most powerful men in the most powerful country on earth and there was no way he’d lead me astray or lead me to do anything illegal, or so I thought.”

The Second Circuit has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s first defamation case, finding the damages awarded by a jury were “reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case.” ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

OOO in my mother’s kitchen in Ireland trying to retrace Rudy Giuliani’s footsteps on a highway in New Hampshire, as you do

Spoke with Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, who said the former mayor is expected to remain hospitalized for a couple more days. He described last night’s collision as a freak accident that occurred after Giuliani intervened in a DV incident. “It’s just wrong place, wrong time.”

@mollycranenewman.bsky.social The count is now four bicycles and one moped abandoned outside 26 Federal Plaza. 🙁

First day back after being battered by Covid: four new indictments against Ingrid Lewis Martin; 1st Dept throws out civil fraud judgment in Trump fraud case; Winnie Greco gave Katie Honan cash hidden in a bag of potato chips. Ok, cool, great

Woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a train and just tested positive for Covid. We are still in a pandemic 😵‍💫

Judge Reyes: You're making the argument that the President can basically run the entire police department based on language that doesn't even allow the President to talk to the police department. He has to go through the mayor. He has to issue the order through the mayor of DC.

Brooklyn real estate magnate Erden Arkan was just sentenced to 1 year of probation for funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign. His attorney angered Judge Ho after making a stink about prosecutors pursuing him and letting the mayor off the hook.

I will just say as a person who practices in this district, judge Kaplan is not someone who I would want enforcing a TRO against me.

In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time. Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office just said they’re ready to proceed with their third prosecution of Harvey Weinstein, asking for a trial date in early January.

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls

Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mohamed Bahi, a former aide to Eric Adams, just pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing bogus donations to Adams’s 2021 campaign for mayor Bahi said he knew donors would be reimbursed, that Adams’s campaign would use the cash to seek matching funds, “and that it was wrong”

There was a teleconference hearing this morning in the suit against DHS regarding conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, but the press and public were shut out due to “audio issues,” and we have no idea what happened. The courts have had at least 5 years to figure out remote hearings and have not.

NEWS: Manhattan Judge Paul Engelmayer has DENIED the Justice Department’s motion to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.

The moon over Brooklyn honest to god just hit my eye like a big pizza pie

It’s a spectacularly beautiful day in nyc, even from the dentist’s chair

Lawyers representing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s victims—several of whom “have already died by suicide, drug overdose, or under tragic circumstances tied directly to the trauma”—tell Judge Berman the women “are, at best, an afterthought” to the Trump administration

Won’t somebody please think of the B matter

The Trump administration has sued NYC, seeking to end its sanctuary city status t.co/YCeeZP3hJ9

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

The @thenyic.bsky.social has obtained footage from a holding cell/bathroom inside 26 Federal Plaza, where some detainees have spent weeks without access to showers, beds, medication, and other necessities. ICE has claimed there is no detention center.

"Without intervention, the remaining journalists in Gaza will die... Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, says of sanctuary cities, “we’re gonna flood the zone” at a press conference at 1WTC regarding the off-duty CBP agent shot over the weekend. He’s criticizing media coverage about ICE targeting innocent migrants. dhs.gov/live

Solidarity with the reporters, editors and photographers of the @nydnunion.bsky.social as they rallied for a fair contract and in support of my friend @cndelarosa.bsky.social's Council resolution demanding that Alden Global Capital negotiate a fair contract now.

(And in the interest of equal time, Curtis Sliwa, Republican mayoral candidate, came out to the rally today — photo by @mollycranenewman.bsky.social )

NEWS: Judge Subramanian DENIES Diddy's request for bail. He will remain at the MDC until sentencing.

There is a party atmosphere outside federal court in downtown Manhattan with one man having baby oil poured over his body post Diddy verdict.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been convicted on two Mann Act counts and acquitted on the top counts of RICO conspiracy and sex trafficking, which carried a potential life sentence.

New: In an apparent first, a federal judge has ruled that he and his colleagues are public officials who must establish "actual malice" to sue individuals for defamation, as he dismissed a lawsuit by Judge Frederic Block concerning a feud at a Florida condo. www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

The jury has reached a verdict against Sean “Diddy” Combs on everything but the first sex trafficking count. Combs looks shell-shocked and was dabbing his eyes a few minutes ago. This all happened as the sky outside started darkening and we heard several claps of thunder.

Closing out the case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, AUSA Christy Slavik has laid out how he preyed on “moldable” young women, love-bombed them with affection, and slowly chipped away at their self-esteem and grasp on reality to sexually objectify and exploit www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/26/s...

E. Jean Carroll is still receiving death threats daily based on Donald Trump’s defamatory lies, her attorney Robbie Kaplan just told the 2nd Circuit. “Truly graphic and horrifying” threats—“rape and killing by every means known to man,” including “disemboweling,” Kaplan said.

Asked if the Trump admin will comply with Judge Farbiarz’s order to release Mahmoud Khalil, a DHS spokeswoman says, “An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide if Mr. Khalil should be released or detained.”

Judge Farbiarz says a magistrate judge must set bail conditions and determine they’ve been met before Mahmoud Khalil’s release order goes into effect. The judge adds there is “no basis” to make him submit to electronic monitoring or immediately post bond.

A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday said he would order Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil released on bail more than three months into his detention, w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/20/n...

“After more than three months we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Mahmoud is on his way home to me and Deen, who never should have been separated from his father,” says Dr. Noor Abdalla, Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, in reaction to a judge granting his request for bail

BREAKING: At a hearing moments ago, NJ District Judge Farbiarz has ordered Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.

Whether Brad Lander will face charges is still unconfirmed, but a federal court source tells me preparations are underway for him to *potentially* appear before a judge in the SDNY later today

Mahmoud Khalil's attys ask Farbiarz to rule on bail now that the Trump admin is detaining him solely on allegations he failed to fill out forms correctly They say the posture shift and refusal to move Khalil close to family "underscore the retaliatory and punitive nature of his continued detention"

It’s cool when your head is about to explode from multitasking and Kanye West spontaneously shows up at your workplace