🚨 NYPD looking like it's getting ready to storm CCNY campus

NYPD is arresting Columbia student protesters and bussing them away after school officials calling police in

In the building where I'm currently blocked in by police, they won't let me out despite showing many of them my NYPD press pass, students chant as more are lead away in zip ties who'd been blocking 'Hinds Hall'

Update after I asked CMSGov and their FOIA contractor about this 🤔

SCOOP: Lawyers inside & outside the Biden admin are urging the WH to halt military aid to Israel, arguing they aren't complying with US & intl law

The letter comes ahead of the WHs deadline certifying Israel's use of US-supplied weapons adhere to US & IHL politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Cheap shot highlight tape in one series is nasty work

Me: huh, this FOIA cost estimate seems pretty high

CMSGov: if you don’t pay the $415 cost estimate **we just told you about**—we will send your name to a debt collector + charge a 6% fee.

Premature Palestinian baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

LAPD marching towards USC

What do you call it when cops start doing this to journalists?

Melo, Starks and Sprewell going crazy for the Knicks game-winner!

Reporters were blocked from covering the arrests and protests on Columbia campus… this was blocks from Pulitzer Hall

Mr. Mayor, we’re getting another call from the Turkish embassy

NYPD officials orchestrated smear campaign of police critic using confidential details of her rape, lawsuit alleges thecity.nyc/2024/04/08/nyp… via Yoav Gonen Gwynne Hogan

As your eyes turn back to earth today, here's a Crown Heights ballad I've been working on for a while.

It's got rent laws, supply debates, empty apartments, the fall of Signature Bank, and, most importantly, the women at the center, refusing to move: citylimits.org/2024/04/09/sta…

this is the fastest merch turnaround I've ever seen in my life

Heard there was an earthquake, reached out to know your safe. This is the second time I felt the ground beneath me shake since you left. Hope your little brother is doing well with karate class

(I rarely say this, but) BREAKING: The 6 incarcerated men who sued the NY Dept of Corrections will now be allowed to watch Monday's solar eclipse. But for now, the rest of the incarcerated population is out of luck. I followed up for Hell Gate *subscribe today!* hellgatenyc.com/incarcerated-n…

NEW: StudentsFirstNY is dropping a 7-figure ad buy to push state lawmakers to extend mayoral control. The charter group -and its wealthy backers- are aligned w/ Mayor Eric Adams and at odds w/ UFT, which wants to weaken mayoral control. By Madina Touré:

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

Former NYPD deputy inspector and friend of Eric Adams, Dwanye Montgomery, was sentenced this AM for his role in a straw donor scheme to boost Adams’ 2021 campaign for mayor—laid out below—receiving the agreed upon term of 200 hours community service, 42 of which he’s completed.