Student protesters about to begin a press conference at Columbia now.

Quite a queue of outside news media lined up outside Columbia waiting to be unleashed on the protesters inside at 2pm.

Some of you may still be at the stage where you think police accountability is an important issue, and the mayor loves that for you. hellgatenyc.com/adams-presser-…

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Eric Adams gave building owners an extra TWO YEARS to comply with the city's climate emissions law.

Now it's becoming clear that the actual long-game was to buy the Council enough time to pass legislation to gut the law entirely.

Via Erin Durkin

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Breaking:

Dozens of Google employees began occupying NYC and Sunnyvale offices today in protest of the company’s $1.2 billion dollar Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government
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Almost two dozen councilmembers are backing a bill that climate activists say is 'a really cynical collection of huge loopholes written by the real estate lobby to gut Local Law 97.'

Erin Durkin reports:
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Tenants went to Albany for more protections this session.

Instead, they're seeing a provision of 2019 reforms get rolled back, and their signature proposal completely trampled.

How badly are tenants getting screwed by Albany's impending budget deal?

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Incredible that NYC still doesn't have the power to lower its speed limits because legislators are quietly working to block the bill—including, per one Hell Gate *subscribe today!* source, a key sponsor. hellgatenyc.com/ny-state-assem…

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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” interc.pt/3UhuSyh by jeremy scahill, Ryan Grim interc.pt/3UhuSyh

Tenant protections are fine, but there should be some reasonable, common-sense exceptions: hellgatenyc.com/good-cause-evi…

Unfortunately this piece is pretty worthless because this laughable tossed-off graf is the totality of his suggestions for *how to replace the money paywalls provide* which is the only interesting thing to discuss.

The Intercept will have been a good website. semafor.com/article/04/14/…

Free idea: As the Trump trial circus gets underway, I invite any journalists wondering why they’re in a crowded scrum generating multiply redundant coverage to just step into a different courtroom and report on the non-celebrity criminal legal apparatus: hellgatenyc.com/just-another-d…

In case you missed it very late on Friday, as the NYPD and the mayor doubtless intended you to: hellgatenyc.com/shame-upon-new…