New: While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his cell door spraying air freshener, according to a Board of Correction report obtained by @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/25/r...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Seen on the DC metro:

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

In order to enforce the newest delivery worker minimum pay laws, DCWP needs more funding. The agency's low budget, less than 1% of city total, has left it struggling to respond to worker abuse complaints.

BDS' management statement doesn't exactly deny that they tried to bribe a union officer to decertify ALAA and set up a sham puppet union in its place.

ICYMI: Brooklyn Defenders concocted a union-busting scheme that involved offering a lighter workload to an employee in exchange for replacing the ALAA-UAW with a so-called "sham" union friendly to management's interests, according to a complaint from ALAA www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/b...

Bolsonaro guilty of plotting a military coup.

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

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EXPERT AVAILABLE: Taylor Swift <> Travis Kelce engagement news, analysis, discussion

How the sausage is made and delivered, by @clauirizarry.bsky.social.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE 🌐 new photos of the infamous potato chip bag, feat. the actual potato chips. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/w...

Asylum-seekers are avoiding formerly routine hearings for fear of being detained, as a court order takes hold discouraging mass detention inside a lower Manhattan office building.

when someone asks me how old I am

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/

Eric Adams and his associates have repeatedly been caught in outrageous, petty, and asinine acts of snack-adjacent graft. Eric Lach writes about the latest scandal, over a bag of sour-cream-and-onion chips.

Breaking Herr Silence: "Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see its chips mentioned in the press. 'While we can’t speak to the details of the story, we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.'” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

International Doctors Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running. Visa Whiplash Has Jeopardized That. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/14/b...

Trump's so-far-successful effort to strip collective bargaining rights from federal workers appears to have resulted in a decrease in the total number of unionized American workers of more than 2%.

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Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, bi-weekly roundtable w/ a rotating group of guests! This episode features @thecity.nyc's @clauirizarry.bsky.social, @laborradionet.bsky.social's @bhamharold.bsky.social, & @americanprogress.bsky.social's @davidmadland.bsky.social: poweratwork.us/power-half-h...

“Aland was a brother, son, a loving father — fantastic father. He was a smart dude and as the oldest brother I looked up to him in everything I do.” — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/s...

Let's play a game. Which US health officials said this? “I was at the bottom of my class, I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class.” A quiz:

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Thousands of staff who provide legal services to low-income people are preparing for a possible strike by the end of this week. They generally seek COLA, higher pay minimums, and reduced case load cap per attorney to combat burnout. @clauirizarry.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/p...

“No one else has a bike like mine.” 🚲 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🚲 On those flashy two-wheeled deliverista rides. Good stuff, as they say in the trade from @fractenberg.bsky.social & @clauirizarry.bsky.social. projects.thecity.nyc/delivery-wor...

Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The NYT granted anonymity to a eugenicist (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) who obtained hacked college records in order to break the news that Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, checked both the "Asian" and "Black or African American" boxes on his college application.

we did it

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

Put another way: Project 2025 let right-wing legal groups sketch out the agenda for a new GOP DOJ. Do you think "Project 2029" will hand the DOJ section to the ACLU? No. The opposite. It's about getting a Dem message disconnected from left-wing groups.

NEW: A Wave of Asian Votes Helped Propel Zohran Mamdani’s Trailblazing Win buff.ly/oxqXNkj

"The new proposal faces a raft of hurdles: There is no developer in place for two of the locations, all of the sites require changes to current zoning rules and community leaders say the city had already pledged to preserve one of the sites for a new school." gothamist.com/news/inside-...

the pigeons have escalated their hostile takeover of my window by actually climbing into my living room, window guards and all

“I know so many people voted for Trump, including my family and other people,” said Shah Rahman, 27, who said those same people are now supporting Mamdani. EXCELLENT analysis here from @brigidbergin.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/how-vot...

politics ain’t beanbag

This is now the most-read story we've ever published.

What Now? Mamdani May Face Four Candidates in November Election www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/m...

At about 20 minutes after midnight, Zohran Mamdani emerged to greet his supporters on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City. Read our full election coverage at the link in bio. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

the boe is so funny i wish it was real

Story coming from my colleague @clauirizarry.bsky.social. As she has reported, the massive retiree backlash against Medicare Advantage had made it a serious factor in the mayor's race.

A very big deal for retired NYC government workers and a win for Mayor Eric Adams as he and unions try to cut costs. @clauirizarry.bsky.social & @katiehonan.bsky.social on the Medicare Advantage decision from the state's highest court.