The City is so so good

Highest turnout since 1977 was David Dinkins vs. Rudy Giuliani, which hit 1.9m in both 1989 and 1993.

not to fact check a meme but women def like the art car

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Hasid stakeout in park slope this year is like nothing I’ve ever seen just saw two hasids on 7th Ave walking after a lady and non consensually blowing a shofar at her

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

honestly this does make me crave chips

I love the Wayne's World-meets-CNN energy of the Hell Gate live stream hellgatenyc.com/primary-live...

In Midtown, where one of Andrew Cuomo's staffers is holding a parking spot for him in front of the polling site he's soon expected to vote at. Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

“You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking to see a judicial warrant” —Brad Lander just now as he is being handcuffed by ICE.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

This should be huge news Trans troops fired from the military given a dishonorable discharge code that’d prevent them from getting future gov jobs “JDK”— a discharge code labelling someone a liability to national security @erininthemorning.com story www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...

Cuomo billboard truck driving around Flatbush today “Don’t rank Cuomo!” a guy called from his window on Lenox and Rogers

BREAKING: Mamdani and Lander will cross-endorse. The partnership, which is being announced one day before early voting begins, would effectively turn Mamdani and Lander into something of a joint entry. They hope that one of them will eventually accumulate many of the other’s votes as a result.

"I live here, I live here, I live here," the woman cried after being shot point blank while trying to get back into her apartment. LA right now. The jacarandas in bloom. She had approached the cops with her arms raised, walking slowly, her keys in her hand.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"

Dude hitched multiple rides on a big garbage truck between San Francisco and a compost facility in the Central Valley because he liked eating buffet-style

NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.” All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.” Full cable:

RIP Tom Robbins

Holy hell. The deputy mayor texted Mayor Bass: “Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that ‘he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.’”

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

Well there go the group chats again #changinglives

Happy weekend ICYMI this is a delight www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Remember when the biggest mayoral scandal was bdb driving to the park slope Y every day…simpler times

Welp

The Kentucky Derby favorite is a horse named Journalism and the trainer is from Altadena and the LA Times just did layoffs today. Again. Give to the journalism layoff fund if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

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Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.

Sometimes you just need some good news to lift your spirits nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/d...

BREAKING: The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products. The agency is citing reduced capacity. It has 20,000 fewer employees as a result of the DOGE cuts under Trump and Musk.

NEW: Alliance Defending Freedom is urging Trump to cut ties with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, org that helps recommend which women's preventive services to cover—including birth control. Letter cites "items that can prevent the implantation of embryos after conception"

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

Eric Adams' legacy: In 2024, cops recorded 25,386 stop-and-frisks, a 50% increase over the previous year and the highest number since 2014. Nearly nine in ten people stopped by the NYPD last year were Black or Latino. — via Surina Venkat @nysfocus.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/02/n...

VIDEO: Brad Lander used the Yiddish curse in response to Cuomo attacking him on antisemitism, Israel: "A beyzer gzar zol er af dir kumen" — (May an evil decree come upon him) "For the non-Yiddish speakers, that roughly tranlsates into: get the fuck outta here.”

Literal definition of shonda fir die goyim

"You have to put more pressure on the media to come and do coverage here in Gaza; we need foreign journalists to come and join us, to speak about our suffering, to spread this reality. I want them to come here and just report what they see." www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Breaking news: A federal judge just ordered the reinstatement of Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, whom Trump fired to eliminate the board’s quorum. Trump’s firing was ‘unlawful’ and therefore ‘null and void’

Just bought a loosie manilla envelope from behind the counter at the drugstore 50 cents This is the greatest city in the world

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

As of 2ish months ago NY taxpayers had spent $28M on private lawyers for Cuomo - including $16M on ongoing sexual harassment lawsuits. nypost.com/2024/12/08/u...

BREAKING prospect park turtles are back If anyone knows a 5 year old, can you ask them where the turtles go in winter?

Death cult newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak. It is the first measles death in the US since 2015. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

I want us all to have a fabric flowerpot to curl up in

"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

To: NYC From: Mayor Adams