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I know a lot of people have moved on from masking and COVID entirely but the implications of mask bans spreading should be raising alarm bells for everyone and it’s terrifying that more people aren’t paying attention or saying anything.

“But she said she was under the impression that Mr. Biden was responsible because it happened during his presidency, and she believed his age prevented him from closely tracking such events.” nytimes.com/2024/05/15/ups…

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How Hamas spied on Palestinians nytimes.com/2024/05/13/wor…

Greetings from Rome where Mayor Eric Adams Eric Adams is visiting to speak at a conference and meet Pope Francis. One of his first stops is the site of the Metro construction stop at the Colosseum.

Local school board in Virginia - cradle of slavery - votes to resurrect Confederate school names. bbc.com/news/world-us-…

On the subway watching a nyc teenager use Chat GPT to finish his homework on his way to school. TGIF!

NYC rents are rising 7 times faster than wages, report finds

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NEW: DOI has launched a probe into NYPD officials' social media use as well as NYPD's response to pro-Palestine campus protests, a spokeswoman confirms.

The probe comes in response to requests from City Council Speaker Adams and Legal Aid.

Story coming via New York Daily News

Plenty of New Yorkers don’t know Zellnor Myrie’s name. Here’s how he’s introducing himself:

'Myrie’s chance at success will depend on whether he can capture that same insurgent energy from his first state Senate campaign and expand it citywide.'

Our analysis of Zellnor, Adams and more, with Sally Goldenberg:
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State Sen. Zellnor Myrie likely to run for NYC mayor against Eric Adams nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyr…

This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

The NYPD greatly restricted press access during their sweeps of Columbia and CCNY last night. But police apparently brought their own film crew into Hamilton Hall, where they even filmed on-site interviews with top brass, all overlaid with dramatic music

The decision for @wckitchen to restart feeding in Gaza is both the hardest and the simplest one we could make.

Hard, because only a month has passed since seven of our WCK colleagues were killed in an IDF attack. These humanitarian heroes risked everything to feed people they…

Thousands of students and others are engaged in mass demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, over the war in Gaza on campuses across the country. To understand them, the public cannot depend on the police narrative alone. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/2…

In New York City, there is not a single public library left that is open 7 days a week anymore.
 
When it comes to our City budget, we cannot be penny-wise and pound-foolish by cutting critical programs that people rely on.

Everyday New Yorkers will bear the brunt of these cuts

“If the university cannot tolerate the heat, it cannot serve its primary mission.” nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opi…