NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.
I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.
what is the transfer penalty for public transit rides?
if anybody knows a teen boy who works out can you please ask him why they're all dressing like steve jobs in the weight room these days
"...the risk in this kind of sexual scandal is to lose sight of the nature of the acts in question, which I call the "derealization of evil," meaning a lack of consideration for the suffering and trauma of the victims. We no longer perceive evil as it is."
something i'd like to see in the next season of "strip law" is a throwaway joke about isaac chotiner. i feel like the audience would really appreciate that
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
Weβll let the childrenβs words speak for themselves. π§΅
NEW: You now have free unlimited access to @nytimes.com online at all NYPL branches, with no library card or login required. Just connect your device to library WiFi or use one of their computers. Includes news, games, cooking, The Athletic, Wirecutter etc.
One more reason to love our libraries!
In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram
Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I wrote about Minneapolis.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Yes! The truth is the truth; it is not, in fact, sensitive to the positions people take on it.
Arnold Palmer: get me a refreshing drink Bartender: try this, its lemonade and iced tea Palmer: Mm..its good..I just invented it
Who can ever forget this banger. We lost a real one.
i think you mean @symonedsanders.bsky.social
The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.
sometimes you question whether your kids are listening to you at all and then other times you catch your three-year-old muttering to herself "these are really chic" while putting on her new shiny little mary janes
settled down intending to crack open a novel tonight but there are simply too many takes to fav
10 emergency declarations
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33 executive orders
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Hundreds of actions
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I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
New: I wrote about the shortage of men in the child care industryβand what it would take to change that.
I was glad to spend time with some of the talented men who have chosen this career path, despite the stigma and bias they sometimes face
vox.com/child-care/4...
banks and atms are not functional either, so to get the physical cash to use at the markets, gazans have to pay 50 percent commissions on the black market
with aid increasingly difficult and dangerous to obtain, some basic items are available to buy in gaza, but at unfathomably expensive prices. a bag of flour that cost $10 before the war is $300 now; a pack of diapers that would cost $5 in the u.s. is $150 in gaza. (gift link)
Reuters reported the "ward is silent as hungry children are too exhausted to cry," and a doctor said of a baby who did not gain a gram in three months, "there is a total loss of muscles. It's only skin on top of bones."
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
βThere is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,β said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. βI am speaking to you as a health official, but I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Bar graph showing the change in percentage of calls answered after FEMA laid off contractors on July 5th (over 99% on July 5, about 36% on July 6 and 16% of calls answered on July 7)
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that werenβt extended.
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
