NEW: ICE has explored whether to use a Coast Guard base on Staten Island for detainees, visiting last week. Unclear if ICE will proceed, but search for beds comes amid talks of wider crackdown in New York. W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

The Trump administration has explored whether to use a Coast Guard facility on Staten Island to hold detained immigrants, a move that could expand the federal government’s detention capacity in New York as it seeks to escalate immigration roundups in the city. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...

In 2021, Trump commuted the 24-year sentence of Ponzi schemer Eliyahu Weinstein. In 2023, Weinstein was charged with a new fraud. On Friday, he was sentenced to 37 years by a judge who chastised him for squandered his 2nd chance, & called him "a predator that has stolen investors’ life savings."

“the relationship was always more complicated than it looked publicly”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/nyregion/mamdani-lander-dan-goldman.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"I could care less" about the ticket prices -- Adams on Mamdani's efforts to get FIFA to offer more attainable ticket prices (www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...). "Ticket prices are expensive everywhere."

Here's a story about the family whose 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed yesterday by federal agents. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

A felon freed by Trump in his first term is sentenced again, this time to 27 months after a judge found that he sexually assaulted a nanny, swung an IV pole at a nurse and dodged tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

NEW: New York has been quietly preparing for a potential Trump deployment of troops & agents to NYC. Hochul, business, activists mobilized - meeting, discussing lawsuits, talking to LA/Chicago. + New details on Canal Street raid. W/ @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...

That federal immigration raid on Canal Street last month was supposed to have been a lot larger. It's also a harbinger of what might come. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...

Representative Elise Stefanik, an upstate New York Republican and a leading ally of President Trump, is preparing to announce as early as Friday that she will run for governor next year, according to three people briefed on her plans. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/n...

Mamdani's performance among various demographic groups: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Now comes the hard part. Or what Bill Bratton called, “the agony of governing" New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

"When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"His campaign aides say Mr. Mamdani should not be held as a mayor to the positions he espoused as a legislator." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/n...

"'He lives for political power,'” Frank Seddio, a former Brooklyn Democratic chairman who has known Mr. Cuomo since the 1970s, said after the two campaigned together in southeast Brooklyn last week. This was a compliment." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken. n.pr/4qBqlF7

BREAKING: The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. to 7,500 and they will be mostly white South Africans.

👀 NYPA moving forward with nuclear: The Power Authority issued solicitations this morning for (1) communities interested in hosting a new nuke plant, and (2) developers interested in partnering on building one. Both due on Dec. 11

“Watch yourself when you say things like that in public or if you want to be taken seriously.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”

NEWS: Mike Bloomberg is back off the sidelines, suggesting he may see some movement in the NYC mayor's race. He just gave $1.5 million to Fix the City, the pro-Cuomo, anti-Mamdani super PAC. W/ Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

"Mr. Catsimatidis 'didn't think Andrew would be objective enough,' recalled David A. Paterson, Mr. Cuomo’s predecessor as governor and another WABC host. 'He would use the mic to go after people that he felt slandered him.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

During his year-and-a-half as executive director, he “experienced repeated discrimination on the basis of his Muslim religion and his South Asian ethnicity,” according to a lawsuit Mr. Naveed filed late Tuesday against Mr. Adams and New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/n...

A 38-year-old man who has been protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program for the past 12 years was detained by ICE earlier this month, with the agency citing his social media posts as the reason for terminating his DACA status. https://cnn.it/48RlYiY

Fashioning himself a 21st-century Cassandra, Mr. Cuomo has unspooled a grim prophecy for a city that seems poised to elect as its mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist half his age. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/n...

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Mamdani Plans to Keep Tisch as Police Commissioner if Elected, by Nick Fandos: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...

Now, nothing less than “his political career” hangs in the balance www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...

“The defiant posture has made him one of the most prominent Republicans in America to openly flout President Trump” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

“The taller the building,” he said, “the longer the shadow.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

The president, on his Truth Social account, posts an AI video portraying him as 'King Trump' piloting a fighter jet which drops shit on 'No Kings' demonstrators. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean: • 8 Navy warships • 10 stealth fighters • About 10,000 troops • New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico The goal, officials say privately, is to oust Maduro from power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Cuomo concedes it'll be "very, very hard mathmatecially" for him to win on Nov. 4 if Sliwa stays in the race. He says local GOP "bosses" are keeping Sliwa in the race because Mayor Mamdani would be a good foil for Trump and national Republicans.

On Alba TV, host Klodiana Zylo says there are "rumors" Mayor Adams could become the next US ambassador to Albania (haven't seen this reported anywhere). Adams, who went on an NYC taxpayer-funded trip to Albania this month, doesn't rule it out: "I'm not leaving any doors closed."

"Their vertebrae poke like the teeth of a comb through the translucent skin of their backs." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

“Among those affected by the gas were 13 Chicago Police Department officers” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, said. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“Dr. Paige’s husband, a chef, can support the family. But the sudden loss of her work, especially as Ebola rages on, has plunged her into a deep depression, she said. To keep busy, she volunteers at an animal shelter and takes long walks…But she feels, she said, as if she were “walking through mud.”

How Zohran Mamdani Came to Embrace the Palestinian Cause www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... by Nick Fandos

"The Hole" is becoming the first place in the five boroughs where the New York City government will offer to buy flood-prone homes from homeowners — proactively, instead of in response to a disaster.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

"The clever, caring toddler, who loved playing football and whose cheerful chirps of 'Mama' and 'Baba' once filled their shelter, could barely move." apnews.com/article/myan...

The Salvadoran journalist was arrested in June while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta. Those charges were dropped, his lawyers said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

Jane Fonda and hundreds of members of the entertainment industry have revived the Committee for the First Amendment, a free-expression group that was originally formed by Hollywood stars including her father, Henry Fonda, during the McCarthy era.

Eye-opening data visualization and story: Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived, by Ruth Talbot and @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social