This story is insane. Zuckerberg pushed so hard for realistic AI chatbots that they started sexualizing conversations with children. WSJ tested accounts. /1

A mob of Hasidic men attacked a Crown Heights woman they mistook for an anti-Israel protester. In her first interview, she recounts the "sheer terror" of the moment and tepid response from officials. “It doesn’t seem like anyone in power really cares.” apnews.com/article/itamar…

Irish woman living legally in US for decades detained after visiting her father in Ireland irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025…

dropping all my other conspiracy theories for this. lock in

After ICE agents raid the wrong Oklahoma location (the immigrants they were looking had already moved), they still force minor girls outside in their underwear, raid the home, and take the family’s money and electronics. kfor.com/news/local/wer…

In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ says an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.

New: Andrew Cuomo is demanding that a state trooper suing him for sex harassment pay back $8.6M in taxpayer-funded legal fees used so far for his defense. He claims her allegations were part of a conspiracy in the NY State Police against him. via Peter Senzamici nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-…

Score one for the Aussies

NEWS: Law firms that made deals with Trump worried about losing clients if they didn't. But it looks like there is risk in the opposite direction: A major client, Microsoft, has pulled business from a firm that made a deal and gave it to a fighting firm nytimes.com/2025/05/01/bus…

NEW: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong are leaving their roles, per 2 people familiar The Guardian story TK

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign has reported 50 intermediaries helping him raise money — but only after @NYSFocus pulled back the curtain.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Texas, appointed by Donald Trump, will allow those targeted by the Alien Enemies Act in South Texas to proceed with a class action against the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Attendance is sparse at Bayside High School for Mayor Eric Adams’s executive budget announcement, which is on location for the first exec budget I’ve ever covered. The mayor is calling it “best budget ever” but that doesn’t seem to be based in facts or reality

Sparse attendance for “Best Budget Ever” announcement with people being asked to move up to fill front rows, seemingly for the cameras

Oh no: The mayor says he sees himself in one of the children on stage, because as a kid he was mischievous and always had to sit in the front row. That kid just left the stage seemingly in tears

Great piece on a psychotic snark subreddit about a young woman on TikTok with cancer (the Redditors were trying to prove that she didn't have cancer) One of the most obsessed critics on Reddit criticizing the young cancer patient is a 53-year-old woman. nytimes.com/2025/05/01/nyr…

Since winning in 2022, John Fetterman has lost his closest advisers, including three of his top spokespeople, his legislative director, and his chief of staff. Former and current staffers paint a picture of an erratic senator who has become almost impossible to work for, and

Bobby accomplished much in his life. He didn't have to take on the West Side Rag in his later years, his feet could have been kicked up. But he did. For the love of his community. For the love of his wife. And local news in NYC was much better for it. I will miss him dearly.

My full unedited interview with Andrew Cuomo has just dropped. More to come.