Peter Sterne
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Editor @CityAndStateNY . Previously @nysfocus @freedomofpress @politico . He/him. Tips & pitches: psterne @cityandstateny .com
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Very honored to have my reporting recognized by
@nynewspapers
.
My feature on cryptocurrency regulation won 2nd place in Environmental Reporting & my coverage with
@_rebeccaclewis
of the chief judge nomination fight won 2nd place in Courts reporting.
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So
@AOC
just sent out this email with the subject line "My tips for burnout." I assumed it was one of those thinly-veiled fundraising emails with a faux-informal subject line that tricks you into opening it, but nope. It really was just an email about dealing with burnout.
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So
@AOC
is on Instagram Live assembling furniture while speaking off the cuff about how she believes that she has a moral responsibility to fight for what's right, even if people call her an extremist. "People don't realize Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist."
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@mings_ga
"Dear Temple Student, as a result of your protected concerted activity, we are retaliating against you."
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One thing that's notable about the Gaza Solidarity Encampments is how they're *not* making a free speech argument. They are very specifically not saying "you should support our right to do this even if you disagree with us" but rather "you should support us because we're right."
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You wouldn't know it, but the settlement agreement requiring the NYPD not to violently police protests technically went into effect this week.
NYPD is making violent arrests right now. Cops seemed to have knocked one pro-Palestine protester unconscious but was more concerned with cuffing them.
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It's bad enough not to pay your interns. But this site wants to hire an unpaid MANAGING EDITOR.
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There are 2 things that people really like about
@AOC
: she has bold, uncompromising political ideas; and she tries to meet people wherever they are (Twitter, Instagram, protests, community meetings, Twitch streams) to talk to people about those ideas.
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The fact that the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" columnist thinks "confirmation by law enforcement" is the gold standard of corroboration, despite the fact that the police routinely lie, is a good illustration of a serious problem in journalism.
"This story turned out to be true, but the fact that it FELT false to me says a lot about society" -Glenn Kessler
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I support
@vv1lder
, the young journalist who conservatives are now trying to get fired from the AP because she was part of Students for Justice in Palestine in college.
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CUNY Jewish Law Students Association released a strong statement in support of the student who criticized Israel in a graduation speech: "If CUNY Law wants to show it cares for its Jewish students, it can do so by showing it cares for Fatima."
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"The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their lack of moral grounding on so many issues." Says they do everything they can to protect a paradigm that values short-term profit over everything else.
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The journalist whom Trump called on should have yielded to CNN. Don't allow him to refuse to answer Qs from certain news outlets.
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She just gave a socialist critique of late-stage extractive capitalism that values profit over people's health, and then pivoted to tightening hex screws. It's just kind of amazing.
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She's calling in every political favor and spending all her political capital on this nomination, which is opposed by half the Dems in the state Senate, many reproductive rights orgs and most unions. She's turned it into the highest-profile fight since Cuomo's resignation.
I’m in the Bronx with leaders and advocates to make clear: The Honorable Hector D. LaSalle is the best person to serve as Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. Watch live:
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One reason it’s currently so tough to find an at-home covid tests might be because in June, Abbott Labs shut down the factories that manufactured them, laid off all the workers, and even destroyed testing equipment. h/t
@NYMag
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@AOC
It's a sad state of affairs, but we're at the point where it's pretty radical for a politician's campaign to send out an email with an interesting subject line that isn't just aggravating clickbait.
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This is one of the most fun livestreams I've ever seen, certainly the most educational, and also the bravest thing I have ever seen a politician do.
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NYmag reporter says that WH official identified as a "person of interest" in Russia investigation is Jared Kushner
@NickFalacci
@ericgeller
@MiekeEoyang
It's jared Kushner have confirmed this with four people. I'm not speculating
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Now she's talking about Puerto Rico! "Say it with me: Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States." Giving the history of US-PR relations. "It went from being a colony of Spain to being a colony of the United States."
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@MolBio_Cat
@jchausow
Wouldn't it be better to just go back to the old ones? I mean, the new signs are basically an adjustment/parody of the old (very good) ones, so not sure you have to reinvent the wheel.
Forgot your mask? We’ll have some on hand, and masks will be for sale at retail locations at surrounding subway and bus stations and stops.
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Says the colonizer should not be the one to decide the colony's status. "It's not up to Congress to impose a political status on a US colony. It is up to the US citizens in that colony to pursue a process of binding self-determination."
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Throwing faculty members under the bus, suspending Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, inviting the NYPD to arrest her own students...
It seems like Columbia's president is concerned first and foremost with placating the GOP politicians who criticize her.
Genuinely one of the most disgusting documents in the history of American higher education
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Dems mocking electors for voting for Faith Spotted Eagle over Clinton b/c they don't know she was a noDAPL protest leader is peak 2016.
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"OK, it says I need a screwdriver, which is a bad sign. I don't have a screwdriver." She's polling the viewers, asking them to comment 👍 if they want her to try to build it anyway and 👎 if they want her to move on the next piece of IKEA furniture.
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The IRS isn’t investigating the fact that rich people don’t pay taxes.
They’re just investigating how someone leaked that information to the press.
The IRS has opened an investigation into apparently leaked tax documents showing that ultra-rich Americans like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and business tycoon Warren Buffett paid very little or no taxes
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The Washington Post frames this as “the political divide becoming increasingly violent” and says that both the Left and the Right have been violent. But if you look at the actual events the article references, it’s clear that’s not the case.
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Seems like the live video is over now. But if you go to her Instagram page in the app, you can re-watch it!
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Imagine being fortunate enough to own an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side and complaining about people who have been forced to flee their homes and move to a new country with nothing.
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I made a Google doc of all the journalists you should hire because Joe Ricketts laid them off:
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The idea that it's a "hit piece" to report on how thousands of employees are underpaid is a pretty good illustration of Silicon Valley's moral bankruptcy. h/t
@RMac18
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This was during Occupy Wall Street
Unbelievable. Mayor Bloomberg says Wall Streeters are "struggling to make ends meet" and shouldn't be protested.
http://t.co/4yNDblPZ
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This is amazing. Australian gov sold off locked filing cabinets without realizing that the filing cabinets contained top-secret government documents. Now Australian TV news has all the docs.
Extraordinary breach. Hundred of top-secret of documents were locked in a government filing cabinet. That cabinet was sold at an ex-government furniture sale. The cabinet was locked, so it was sold off cheap. The documents shows the inner workings of five separate governments.
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@deadeyebrakeman
Wait, it was seven hours? I thought they said they notified the Coast Guard after just an hour and a half.
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The steady drip of UFO news continues:
Previous reports:
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects
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In response to the NYT publishing Cotton's op-ed calling for military violence against protesters, Black NYT staffers are tweeting "Running this puts Black NYT staff in danger" in unison:
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A local news site tried to fact-check the claim that homeless vets were kicked out of an upstate hotel to make room for asylum-seekers. They found that the hotel has no record of the vets staying there.
Really great reporting from
@MidHudsonNews
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‘It’s on life support.’ Hochul’s chief judge pick faces existential opposition
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This is a stunning rebuke for the U.S. Attorney's Office, which argued that protesters who were part of a protest (and journalists covering the protest) should be held liable for any property destruction committed by other people at the protest
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Some people might say Abbot Labs executives are personally responsible for endangering tens of thousands of people’s lives (though they’re not legally liable for it).
But I think this is just an inevitable consequence of a for-profit healthcare system.
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NYC is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from an earthquake to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s about to open.
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It makes no political sense to do this. Waging war on Senate Democratic leadership, organized labor, and reproductive rights orgs carries astronomical political risk, while withdrawing the LaSalle nomination carries almost none. So why insist on this fight?
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@ryanryan_hi
@prisonculture
I feel bad for those poor landlords who say they’ll lose money on fixing up the apartments. Maybe the state should help them out by taking the apartments off their hands 😉
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@itslaylas
You're way too young to remember this, but conservatives used to call Columbia "University of Havana-North"
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The degree to which moderate Dems are fully embracing xenophobic GOP talking points is concerning.
When asked how Congress should address the migrant crisis, New York
@GovKathyHochul
calls for “a limit on who can come across the border.” Hochul tells
@margbrennan
many are "simply saying they need asylum and the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York."
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The police and FBI arrested a neo-Nazi terrorist whose garage was full of explosives. After he said he used the explosives for model rockets, THEY LET HIM GO. Then he got an AR-15 and tried to commit a mass shooting.
Incredible ProPublica investigation:
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@Nate_Cohn
I mean, yes. It's pretty obvious from the data that's what happened. But it is absolutely unacceptable to spend over 24 hours confirming the results and then report inaccurate results when you finally do. It's absolutely insane.
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This is great news — people of conscience are quitting the NYPD and the institution is shrinking through attrition — and I don’t think it’s fair to give de Blasio the credit. It’s the protesters who are forcing NYPD officers to reconsider their complicity.
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NEW:
@AOC
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@JamaalBowmanNY
,
@NydiaVelazquez
and other progressive elected officials sent a letter to Columbia University calling on the Ivy League school to reinstate
@ColumbiaSJP
and
@ColumbiaJVP
.
Read more
@CityAndStateNY
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A democratic socialist woman of color is probably going to defeat the 4th-highest-ranking Dem in Congress. Nice.
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The NYT just laid off its director of newsroom security — a very short-sighted and dangerous move.
If the paper's leaders don't think they need a dedicated position focused on digital security, then they are seriously underestimating the threat to their journalists & sources.
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Last year, Reality Winner gave journalists some details about Russian hacking — info supposedly so highly confidential and dangerous that she was sent to jail for 5 years.
Now the exact same info is in this criminal indictment released to the public.
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This is like when I accidentally texted my girlfriend a photo of the engagement ring a few hours before I proposed.
REUTERS: Document posted to Fulton County Georgia court detailing charges against Trump appears to be no longer publicly available.
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There are 3 possibilities with the BuzzFeed story:
- the story accurately reflects what Cohen told federal prosecutors in another office (e.g. SDNY) but not SCO
- the story has minor inconsistencies with what Cohen told SCO
- the story’s central claims are substantively wrong
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@deadeyebrakeman
At least you're not going out to parties and spreading inaccurate information about the sub.
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I think the only real explanation is personal pique. She is offended that the state Senate would dare to reject her chosen nominee and views it as a threat to her power and independence. She's so convinced she's in the right that she refuses to back down.
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Here are the results of the 2024 Dem primary in NYC, broken down by borough:
Overall, about 15% of votes cast in NYC were blank.
This builds on the excellent work
@AsInMarx
did in figuring out how to calculate blank votes.
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Many politicians, and CUNY's own board of trustees, criticized the student's graduation speech as antisemitic and even hate speech against the school's Jewish students. But it seems the school's actual Jewish students don't agree with that view.
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The 46 protesters arrested inside a Columbia University building were charged with trespassing, a Class B misdemeanor.
The 22 protesters arrested inside a City College building were charged with 3rd-degree burglary, a Class D felony.
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I don’t think Cuomo’s detractors on the Left would concede this…
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The CUNY "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at City College included students from many different CUNY schools, not just City College.
But City Hall seems to define any CUNY students who aren't enrolled at City College as "unaffiliated."
Accompanying graphic differentiates between students and non-students arrest at CCNY and Columbia, potentially misleading as previous reporting said "affiliation" with the school included faculty. The release from City Hall doesn't define what "affiliated" with the school means
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Every journalist should read
@tomscocca
's thorough and devastating critique of the New York Times' "old-fashioned newspaper crusade" against young trans people:
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Hochul just said that she believes judges need greater ability to send people to jail before trial because otherwise newspapers will write about how people accused of crimes "that shock the conscience" were not locked up.
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A second U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan says they were promised significant financial support for their campaign if they challenged Rep.
@RashidaTlaib
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Politico previously reported that
@hillharper
was offered the same deal (and Harper confirmed he turned it down).
I was offered $20 million to withdraw from the senatorial race and to run against my friend
@rashidatlaib
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Folks, that CNN explainer "What is Antifa?" was written by two interns. (Technically, it was written by an intern in 2017 and then updated by another intern this week.) That is why it's so naive.
CNN should never have assigned that piece to interns w/little oversight.
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This is very different from typical "cancel culture" campus controversies involving conservatives and centrists, where the argument is that it doesn't matter whether you agree with a controversial speaker, you just need to recognize that they deserve a platform.
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I don't think Trump necessarily wants his supporters to assault reporters. I think he just fundamentally doesn't care. He might not endorse violence against journalists & political opponents, but he doesn't have a problem with it either. So it gets normalized. That's dangerous.
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Former Trump adviser Jason Miller’s defamation suit against Chapo Trap House host
@willmenaker
has been dismissed.
New filing in Miller v. Gizmodo Media Group et al: Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim
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@mkkaishian
@queendom_fungi
MK, can you link the NPR segment so we can listen to your sister?
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@jduffyrice
I don't think there's a logic so much as inertia that breeds callous indifference. The people in power, especially the Dem leadership, literally can't conceive of doing what would be necessary to address this, because it would be too "radical" and "unrealistic."
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@mehdirhasan
@briebriejoy
It's also generated more outrage than the fact that cancer treatment is not free.
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The NYT opinion editor — who's responsible for the Cotton op-ed, Bret Stephens, and the op-ed desk's general trollishness — is widely believed to be a possible successor to editor-in-chief Dean Baquet.
The "attempted coup" is staffers rejecting his vision for the paper.
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UPDATE: The AP has reportedly fired news associate
@vv1lder
. This follows social media criticism of Wilder by the Stanford College Republicans, which was later amplified by conservative media and GOP politicians.
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If you’re an organization and you want to keep your verification, you’ll need to pay $1000 PER MONTH. I predict a lot of newsrooms will soon be un-verified.
On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here:
Organizations can sign up for
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NEW YORK TIMES
THE HUNT: Silicon Valley on a Cat's Salary
Bay Area cats Tina and Louise hope to find an affordable studio in San Jose, but have no income or savings — limiting their budget to just $1,500/month
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Gotham Government Relations president David Schwartz told
@CityAndStateNY
he was disgusted by the video of Stuart Seldowitz harassing a halal cart vendor. “By the way, I’ll represent the food vendor pro bono if he wants to bring a lawsuit,” he said.
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The Espionage Act, passed in 1917, was originally intended to be used against foreign spies who stole sensitive military information. But almost immediately, it was used to prosecute anti-war protesters. Later, it was used against whistleblowers.
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WaPo union statement on
@feliciasonmez
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There are some people outside the movement who are making the free speech defense, but the Gaza Solidarity protesters themselves keep releasing statements explaining that they don't want that.
for students who want to build encampments, please don’t make your encampments about solidarity with Columbia.
this is about solidarity with Gaza & Palestinian Liberation over anything else. Use us as an example to escalate but we should not be the focus, it’s about Palestine.
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Public defenders and criminal justice reformers often argue that sensationalist media coverage of crime drives reactionary criminal justice policy. (
@equalityAlec
and
@ScottHech
talk about it all the time!) But it's wild to hear Hochul just come out and admit it.
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Remember that AOC is part of an activist left that values mass politics. While most politicians see public support as a way to get elected and then pass good laws, I think AOC looks at it in reverse: political influence helps you build public support.
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Shame on CBS News for reporting on this in a way that actively misinforms its audience and spreads baseless fear. All this article reports is that edible THC products exist. There’s no indication that anyone wants to give these products to trick-or-treaters.
Police urge parents to check Halloween candy after THC-laced "Nerds Rope" edibles found
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The mainstream reporters now joining Breitbart as it goes "mainstream" should think about this:
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A majority of NYC residents polled now say they OPPOSE sending additional aid to Israel. Opposition is especially high among Black, Latino, young & liberal New Yorkers – the Dem base. And prominent unions are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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It's not just about being "good at social media." It's about evangelizing — being so concerned about the status quo and so dedicated to the fight for racial/economic/environmental justice that you're willing to go anywhere to talk about it.
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Also, almost all of the people on Rikers are pretrial detainees. That means they have only been accused of a crime. They have NOT been found guilty or sentenced to prison. They might be innocent! Legally speaking, they are innocent until proven guilty.
"You REALLY have to do something bad to go to Rikers," Mayor Adams said - saying you can't just release "extremely dangerous people."
One day, 68% of the 6,104 detainees were in on a violent felony. That means 32% WEREN'T, including 153 whose highest charge was a misdemeanor.
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Before being named president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik led the London School of Economics.
An LSE alum told me that when students there protested in solidarity with university maintenance workers, Shafik aggressively cracked down on the protests.
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It is absurd for the NYT to expect, let alone require, writers to adhere to these strict conflict of interest policies in every area of their life without giving them a full-time job and benefits.
Full text of “Ethics Reminder for Times Freelancers” emailed to New York Times 1099 employees today
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I like snarking on Apple, but the improvements to the Apple Watch's health features — automatically detecting falls, high/low heart rates, an ECG to detect atrial fibrillation — will likely save some people's lives. That is genuinely a good thing.
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I just want to make sure I have this right. Sean Patrick Maloney bigfooted Mondaire out of NY-17 because he thought NY-17 would be much easier to win than NY-18, right? (cc
@ryangrim
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@adamjohnsonNYC
I'm also not sure you get credit for warning someone right before the missile hits but *after it has already been fired*
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@IslamicZionist
Yeah, that's why they're making a substantive argument about the moral necessity of divestment, rather than just saying "it's OK if you disagree with us, as long as you allow us to speak."
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