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Border Czar Tom Homan Faces Protests in His Hometown After Detaining Local Family

by Noah Hurowitz, The Intercept

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Tom Homan is taking heat in Sackets Harbor, New York, after ICE agents detained a mom and her three children in a raid.

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses

by Eric Umansky, ProPublica

March 11, 2025

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Outside the courthouse where eric adams arraignment was taking place

In the fall of 2022, the New York Police Department began posting videos online to promote one of its latest initiatives: the Community Response Team, an elite unit formed under the city’s new mayor, Eric Adams.

Columbia bent over backward to appease right-wing, pro-Israel attacks — and Trump still cut federal funding

by Natasha Lennard

March 8, 2025

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Columbia university campus protest against the war in gaza

Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza. In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampment even began, the university banned its…

New York doctor ordered to stop providing abortion pills to Texans

by Eleanor Klibanoff

February 14, 2025

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Mifepristone pill package and patient information

The ruling is the opening salvo in a likely lengthy battle between Texas’ abortion bans and New York’s “shield” protections for providers.

New York isn’t Ready to Fight More Wildfires

by Nathan Porceng

December 1, 2024

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New York could see more frequent and destructive wildfires, but the state doesn’t have enough forest rangers and firefighters to respond to the growing threat.

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What ‘America is For Americans Only’ Really Means

by Jean Guerrero

November 2, 2024

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Comic book style cartoon of donald trump with a villain and the american flag

“America is for Americans, and Americans only,” said Stephen Miller, the former president’s senior adviser, at a Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27.

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Fighting Obdurate Hate: Exonerated Five Sue Little Man With Big Mouth

by Abby Zimet

October 23, 2024

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With more righteous reason than most, the five men of color of the Exonerated Five have filed a defamation suit against Trump for still lying about their 1989 conviction.