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Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential

The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...

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“It’s so cold, it keeps the bad people out.”

-Prince, on Minneapolis.

Good folks out there working hard to get the bad people out, too.

2 months ago 57 8 1 1
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Best NYC day

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A great passage from a great novel.

The Oppermanns, 1933.

5 months ago 49 15 1 4

Who will remove the peaceful-looking, unquestionably dead rat from the sidewalk near my house? Asking for anyone but me.

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At a Park Slope pharmacy, an elderly woman came in, asked for a Covid booster. “I can give it to you,” the pharmacist said, “but without a prescription, it’ll be $200.”

The woman nodded, and walked out.

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Cardboard box propped up on a curb along the sidewalk that says FREE PLUMS and TAKE ME!

Cardboard box propped up on a curb along the sidewalk that says FREE PLUMS and TAKE ME!

William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:

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@errollouis.bsky.social for mayor

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‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’

They've been working on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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Every cardinal should have a Korn T.

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“we’re spending an enormous amount of time preparing for a staffing catastrophe.”

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My daughter’s favorite class. Thank you, @adapalmer.bsky.social!

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De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference ...

theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

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NEW INVESTIGATION from me:

There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams

How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor

www.propublica.org/article/eric...

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The End of Poetry Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and 'tis o...

“I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, / enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high / water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease, / I am asking you to touch me.” — Ada Limón

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Trump fired the country’s top general because the general made a four-minute video about being a Black man in America.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.

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More of this, please.

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