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Add another instance of punishment from the @realDonaldTrump White House to punish journalists for doing their job. This comes six months into the administration. cnn.com/2025/07/21/med…

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FBI agents assigned earlier this year to review investigative files in the criminal case against notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to “flag” any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump, Sen. Richard Durbin said Friday. cnbc.com/2025/07/18/tru…

Is it conceivable that asking a judge to release grand jury testimony in the Epstein case a way of transferring the responsibility to the judge, allowing the Trump WH to wash their hands of any of this and punting to the judge? nytimes.com/live/2025/07/1…

.@NassauExec is running circles around Democratic challenger Seth Koslow for the Nassau County Executive race. Koslow is pulling in more donors. @candiceferrette with the story via @Newsday. newsday.com/long-island/po…

.@BrodskyRobert w. a fantastic on-the-ground piece outlining the consequences of suspending the TPS program: a shortage of nursing home workers. One official says the move by the White House "will worsen the existing shortages of health care personnel" newsday.com/news/health/im…

💰The case involving red-light camera ticket fees in Nassau County is in the stages of being appealed, per county officials. A lower court found the *$400M* collected was illegal. Nassau disagrees. @BaharOstadan has the story for @Newsday. newsday.com/long-island/po…

Flooding today at the 28th Street Station (1 train) in Manhattan.

The amount of errors in this one case at Rikers screams of the need for greater scrutiny. See why @CorrectionNYC stood there. nytimes.com/video/nyregion…

.@NassauExec went around the legislature to give his political ally work as an advisor. He's allowed to do this, but at least one good government group is saying hold up. Payton Guion and @BaharOstadan have the story for @Newsday. newsday.com/long-island/po…

*NEW*: @NassauExec signed an executive order allowing Nassau police to wear face masks during specific investigations. The practice mirrors what the nation is seeing ICE agents doing when effecting arrests. @JohnAsbury has the story. newsday.com/long-island/po…

Nassau County's upgraded partnership with ICE has resulted in more than 1400 immigrants sent to an East Meadow jail in the last 5 months. Last year that number was zero. @BaharOstadan has the details via @Newsday. newsday.com/long-island/po…

Jesus Christ, the gall we're seeing from public officials and their attitude towards the media is disgraceful.

Lopez Garcia "didn't even have a ticket," he said. "We do the same thing every single week. We work, we go to college, we go to church. That's it. That's our life." newsday.com/long-island/su…

Just in: Trump is NOT a fan of ranked-choice voting.

.@AP doing its best to hold White House accountable. This line: "Pressed in a subsequent question about phasing out FEMA, @PressSec said she'd already answered the question — *even though she hadn't.*" startribune.com/the-latest-cam…

.@candiceferrette looks back at how the now fired CEO of Long Island's public safety net hospital -- known for its patronage tendencies -- went from general counsel to the top, only to fall from grace. Via @Newsday newsday.com/long-island/po…

The Senate version of Trump's budget bill is nearly 900 pages! What's in it? A team of @Newsday looked through it so you didn't have to. newsday.com/long-island/po…

Saw this headline a mile away @nypost.

I noticed that allies of Trump tend to employ the same tactics he uses that blue the line of whether someone is indeed the “worst ever.” The hyperbolic approach — admittedly, effective — is now the tried and true strategy in today’s political environment. See below.