Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026A review by The City Reporter of federal court records show Cuni participated in a number of warrantless arrests around NYC that federal judges later deemed illegal. In one of those cases, a judge ruled Cuni lied in sworn documents submitted in court. 13210
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026Read more on ICE street arrests in NYC here: projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...projects.thecity.nycICE Targeted NY Metro Latinos With 93% of Known Street ArrestsAn investigation by The City Reporter, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumente... 1267
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026While he was on the ground, the lawsuit alleges, Cuni began using a Taser on his legs. Unable to stand, officers carried his body into the van. Later he overheard the officers laughing as Cuni called him a “maldito Mexicano” or “fucking Mexican,” he said. 1356
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026Cuni was named in multiple lawsuits where immigrants said they were beaten up and shot with stun guns. One of those arrests involved a 21-year-old in The Bronx; the lawsuit alleges an agent tripped him, and he fell to the ground, breaking a tooth. 1398
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵 217387
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Here’s an interview with Navi Pillay published in a UN-focused media outlet called Pass Blue in which she describes how she ended up documenting the torture of people in South Africa’s apartheid prisons in a way that got groundbreaking legal and political recognition passblue.com/2022/09/12/b...passblue.comBorn Under Apartheid, Navi Pillay Has Climbed to Global Heights in Promoting Human-Rights Law - PassBlueBorn Under Apartheid, Navi Pillay Has Climbed to Global Heights in Promoting Human-Rights Law - PassBlue 0115
Reposted by Emily FlitterProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.orgpropublica.orgKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta... 8628451391
Reposted by Emily FlitterAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary. 1991563854
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/10/2026BREAKING NEWS: Federal officers have shot a man in New York City.buff.lyFederal Officers Shoot Man in The Bronx, NYPD SaysThe person was being conscious and being treated at a nearby hospital, police said. 26838
Reposted by Emily Flittercara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me: 141890548
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“The IHRA’s working definition of Holocaust denial & distortion was written by & for us…the standard by which the Jewish world measures every attempt to deny, minimize, or distort what was done to us. It was drawn to our own wound…So let us hold the deniers to it.” jewschool.com/when-jews-de...jewschool.comWhen Jews Deny Genocide · Jewschool“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the 021
Reposted by Emily FlitterTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.mississippitoday.orgWrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers diesAfter Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him. 17697257
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“.. There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. “We drained the available inventory.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 19441169
Reposted by Emily FlitterProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9660443457
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026".. Going forward, 'alpha from buying AI capex beneficiaries and selling white-collar consumption themes may be harder fought,' she said." @bloomberg.com #Savita www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comBofA Sees the End of ‘Easy Money’ Made From the AI-Spending TradeInvestors are likely to find it increasingly hard to make “easy money” by betting on outsized returns from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures compared with consumer-driven spending, a... 510621
Reposted by Emily FlitterBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/10/2026“How is somebody supposed to survive?” Heating bills in Maine have soared about 80%, giving Democrats an opening to unseat Susan Collins in a race crucial to control of the Senate.bloom.bgRecord $1,500 Heating Bills in Maine Upend a Key Race for Senate ControlNazi symbols, sexual assault allegations and months of internal Democratic conflict have churned through the US Senate race in Maine. But with the election four weeks away, it’s the explosion in housing costs and record-breaking heating bills that Mainers can’t stop talking about. 14719
Reposted by Emily FlitterAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042441702
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“His friend Yola Lamarre remembered Bel as her adopted little brother, and recalled how hard he worked at soccer practice and ROTC, how he wanted to be a doctor to help people and eventually to build a hospital in Haiti.” www.wyso.org/news/2026-10...wyso.orgPierre Damas Bel memorial: Haitian student 'deserves to be remembered for more than the tragedy'A memorial in Springfield honored Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian student who died by suicide after losing his TPS status and being required to wear an ankle monitor. 011
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Congratulations. Just saw the trailer for this in the theater and it looks awesome — can’t wait to see it! 000
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comICE Is Everywhere and Acting with ImpunityICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. 156346
Reposted by Emily FlitterMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pour one out for a real one. His oral history at USHMM talks about the youth movements finding places for Jews to hide and bringing them food, and becoming masters at forging Nazi documentation so pristine that the national French Resistance used them too. collections.ushmm.org/search/catal... 236684
Reposted by Emily FlitterJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comLucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south. 131707503
Reposted by Emily FlitterRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 0149
Reposted by Emily FlitterCasey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Chris Churchill looks at the legacy of the corruption indictments that rocked the Cuomo administration a decade ago. The continued wobbliness of federal anti-corruption statutes, he notes, remains a feature and not a bug of the system for the elected officials who could fix it.timesunion.comChurchill: Indictments that rocked Cuomo and Albany aged poorlyThe Supreme Court made Preet Bharara look less like a crusader for justice and more like an overzealous prosecutor. 041
Reposted by Emily FlitterElizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026SO much going on here about parenting and living in America: medical insurance, employment, grief, depression, online mobs, baseball. 0168
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy 2014490
Reposted by Emily FlitterProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596013538
Reposted by Emily FlitterAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088203854
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For the second time this week I’ll be on @kcbsradio.bsky.social at 12:30PT/3:30ET — this afternoon it’s to talk about the surprising jump in middle-income people missing rent payments. Please tune in! 012
Reposted by Emily FlitterAdam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning 461852444
Reposted by Emily FlitterYonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Politico says one of its reporters was barred from the White House after a court ruling restored access www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comPOLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring accessThe Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri... 012
Reposted by Emily Flitterderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking. 328165272143
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026> @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p... 31669296
Reposted by Emily FlitterScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comThe White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker 217469
Reposted by Emily FlitterThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.bit.lyCosta Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family saysA 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S. 25350193
Reposted by Emily FlitterDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng 12552591585
Reposted by Emily FlitterPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York. 421557248
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026".. The 30-year mortgage rate was last above 7% in late January 2025, days into Trump's second term." @reuters.com $XHB www.reuters.com/business/us-...reuters.comUS 30-year mortgage rate tops 7%, hits 2-year highThe rate on the most popular US home loan rose last week to its highest in more than two years and pierced the 7% level for the first time since the first week of President Donald Trump's term, after... 12252100
Reposted by Emily FlitterOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comStanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in adStanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement. 491371288
Reposted by Emily FlitterKaren Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WAPO EXCLUSIVE -- Sources: Architect McCrery "withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures." @Blaskey_S @jocwapo www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.com‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issuesJames McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes. 105432
Reposted by Emily FlitterTuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was led to believe that this administration was concerned about debanking? 011
Reposted by Emily FlitterEvan Weinberger @reporterev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As per usual, I'm jealous of a story Emily wrote. 031
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW: The Trump administration has been trying to squeeze undocumented people out of the banking system. There are signs that it’s working (gift link) ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Changing How Undocumented People BankIn the months since the Trump administration embarked on America’s most sweeping immigration crackdown in decades, the connections between immigrant families and lenders are coming loose, according to... 22217
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026WHY NOT RYAN DONT YOU BELIEVE THAT THE VOICE OF FATE HAS A DISTINCTIVE SOUND TO IT THAT YOU SHOULD JUST LEARN TO LOVE THE WAY EVERYONE AROUND YOU DOES BECAUSE YOU CANT CHANGE IT AND ALSO GOD WANTS IT THAT WAY? 100
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026WaPo statement: @washingtonpost.com 3063060726
Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.” www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 010
Reposted by Emily FlitterJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026As many of the articles on this point out, there's a reverse precedent here. Back in 2009, when the Obama White House sought to exclude Fox from a group of interviews with then-TARP administrator, the TV networks revolted in solidarity. This is that solidarity coming full circle. 13713
Reposted by Emily FlitterCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Empty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPs www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...miamiherald.comEmpty pews, growing needs: Haitian pastors in Miami face fallout after end of TPSAs TPS crisis continues, Haitian pastors see falling membership, loss of morale among congregants 02011
Reposted by Emily FlitterCraig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026#Florida man goes back to work at 93. Like a lot of seniors, he's facing financial fragility in retirement amid soaring housing, food, utility and medical costs. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...heraldtribune.comAt 93, this Sarasota man went back to work. Here's why. | ExclusiveStewart Ogilby, 93, of Sarasota is like millions of seniors across the country who are facing financial fragility in retirement amid raging inflation. 5187
Reposted by Emily FlitterJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026Fascinating explainer from the NYTimes today — and not just because it cites RNS (thanks!). Tucked in here is one of the most succinct assessments* of mainline Protestantism's historic US political role I've seen this cycle — an important this for folks to grasp. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/m...nytimes.comCan Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith. 43912