Read our statement on the immoral and illegal bombing of Iran. These attacks by the US and Israel are catastrophic – they will profoundly undermine any attempt at diplomacy and peacebuilding. We pray for an end to the violence, a cessation of the bombing, and for an embrace of nonviolent solutions.
“President Trump has launched a war that offers opportunities to the Middle East and threatens constitutional freedom at home,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.
Traditional NY Times genre: Oh, those crazy tabloids! Does NYT also notice all the local news and sports the tabs have that they don't? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
Catholic bishops respond to Trump's "immoral" move to end birthright citizenship, which they say violates not only the Constitution but longstanding Western tradition. Worth reading.
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Newsday is doing some good coverage of immigration enforcement on Long Island. Good to see.
When I was a reporter in federal court in Manhattan in the 1980s, it was routine to sift through all the papers filed, both new lawsuits and motions.
Federal judge in WVa: "This Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing" for a detained immigrant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
Looks like we have to read WaPo to get local NY news and NYTimes to get local Washington news. Neither wants to cover its own local news anymore.
Fed judge in Louisiana orders ICE to release 72-yr-old Cuban man who has Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and 3 others. He was jailed for six months. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Thank you for your attention to this matter, @geoffbowser.bsky.social !
A NY1 investigation? Really?
NYT lets DHS off easy in this particular story: Needed to drill down on the legality of what DHS is doing. Also, with DHS claiming adverse rulings are from "rogue" judges, some data on how many hundreds of judges ruled against it (and how few didn't). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
Pax Christi International expresses its deep concern about the new "Board of Peace," which risks masking power politics and geopolitical interests under the rhetoric of peace without addressing the structural causes of injustice and violence, among many other troubling aspects.
My article: What the Trump administration's `open defiance' of a federal court order means for many thousands of immigration detainees.
documentedny.com/2026/01/22/b...
Darn you are right, Joe.
Mayor Mamdani is not the first immigrant to be mayor of NY in more than a century, as AOC said in opening City Hall inauguration festivities. She overlooked Irtishman William O'Dwyer (1946-1950) and the Italian Vincent Impelliteri (1950-1953), who ran against two other Italian-born candidates.
There was a time when I used to teach journalism students how to use court documents, telling them that people aren't just disappeared off the streets--that there would be a public record of an arrest.
Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
My experience (before social media existed) is that it's possible to get a beat on the story the day before; enough people in the diocese know by then My guess is that in this case, once word got out initially, the formal announcement was delayed. It's good that people wanna know!
New York ranks 50th in use of hospices--something Gov. Hochul may have considered improving on before signing assisted-suicide legislation. www.commonwealmagazine.org/santiago-ram...
Latest article. #ICE routinely using a once rarely invoked regulation to keep people in jail after an #immigration judge orders their release--even though its use was ruled unconstitutional in more than 50 federal court cases. documentedny.com/2025/12/08/i...
1. At least one of the WaPo reporters who broke the story is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.
2. Hegseth appears to be railing against journalists for scrutinizing government actions, which is a core value of journalism.
3. Hegseth could, you know, grant a reporter access to these operations.
Latest article, with Tim Healy. Thanks to DocumentedNY for publishing it.
