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Dec. 26, 2024
PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
Mar. 4, 2025
BEHIND THE BARRELS: HOW A MESS HALL BRAWL SPARKED THE WILDCAT STRIKE BY NYS PRISON GUARDS
A MENTALLY-ILL PRISONER WITH A HISTORY OF ATTACKING POLICE APPEARS TO HAVE CATALYZED GUARDS' CONCERN WITH THE HALT ACT
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SHORT HISTORY OF NY'S ANTI-MASK LAW, APPROVED BY JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR
NEW YORK’S MASK LAW WASN'T ABOUT THE KKK, IT WAS ABOUT SUPPRESSING AN INSURGENCY BY ENSLAVED TENANT FARMERS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

LETTER TO ACTIVISTS WHO SOAKED THE HOMES OF BROOKLYN MUSEUM BIGS WITH FAKE BLOOD
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE "REVOLUTIONARY" COMMUNIQUE IN AMERICA.

'BACK INTO THE '70s’: NYC SUBWAY CZAR WARNS OF TRANSIT APOCALYPSE
'WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE' TO MAKE 'SURE THAT THE SYSTEM DOES NOT NOT FALL APART,’ MTA PREZ SAYS.

THE COMING CIVIL WAR BETWEEN DEMS OVER CONGESTION PRICING, UGLY COURT ROOM BRAWL LOOMS
LEGAL FIGHT WOULD DRAWN IN ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES, LIKELY BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TOO. TRANSIT 'SUMMER OF HELL' COULD BECOME YEARS.

WHO HAD THE BEST CONGESTION PRICING CRISIS GRAPHIC?
COLLECTION OF CONGESTION PRICING CRISIS POLITICAL CARTOONS

UPDATED: CAPTURED! ADIRONDACK BORDER MANHUNT FOR THREE ARMED FUGITIVES
AREA FAMOUS FOR 2015 CLINTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ESCAPE

UPDATED: CONGESTION TOLLING AIN'T DEAD YET—CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR NOW
LEGISLATURE REJECTS GOV. KATHY HOCHUL ‘S LAST-MINUTE BID TO KILL CONGESTION PRICING. VOWS TO DO IT ANYWAY.

NEW YORK TOWN SUED FOR FLYING ISRAELI FLAG
A GROUP OF ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS IS SUING THE TOWN OF RAMAPO FOR FLYING ISRAEL'S NATIONAL FLAG FROM ITS TOWN HALL

NY’S INSPECTOR GENERAL STOPPED PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS: WHY?
LETTERS STATING THE FINDINGS OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO MISCONDUCT AND CRIMES BY STATE OFFICIALS WERE KEPT SECRET UNTIL 2022 WHEN GOV. HOCHUL'S INSPECTOR GENERAL BEGAN RELEASING THEM. WHY DID THEY STOP?

JAIL CELL OR WHITE HOUSE: WHAT COMES NEXT FOR DONALD TRUMP?
AN ANCIENT LEGAL PROCEDURE CALLED HABEAS CORPUS COULD KEEP TRUMP OUT OF PRISON, BUT REPUBLICANS GUTTED IT IN 1996. WILL THEY RESTORE IT?

DON'T TELL STATEN ISLAND JOE DONALD TRUMP WON'T GO TO JAIL FOR FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS
THE FORMER PAROLE OFFICER SERVED A YEAR ON RIKERS ISLAND FOR FALSIFYING PAROLEES' RECORDS

THE RULE OF LENITY: WHY ALL OF TRUMP'S CONVICTIONS WILL BE DISMISSED
ALL DEFENDANTS MUST HAVE 'FAIR NOTICE' OF ALLEGED CRIMES, THE MIX OF LAWS DONALD TRUMP WAS CONVICTED OF DIDN'T PROVIDE IT.

7 ISRAELI COPS CHARGED FOR BRANDING STAR OF DAVID ON FACE OF PALESTINIAN MAN
ARWAH SHEIKH ALI, RESIDENT OF OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, ALLEGES ISRAELI POLICE BRANDED HIM WITH A STAR OF DAVID IN 2023.

9 MOHAWK ARRESTED ATTEMPTING TO RECLAIM ISLAND, POWER DAM FROM NY
MOHAWK NATION ALLEGEDLY "LEASED" BARNHART ISLAND IN 1796, NY TOOK IT IN THE 1820s, 9 MOHAWK TRIED TO TAKE IT BACK IN 2024.

WATCH THE NYPD’S SPOKESMAN ASSAULT, ARREST A PEACEFUL PROTESTER—FOR FILMING HIM ASSAULT ANOTHER PROTESTER
TARIK SHEPPARD ORDERED OTHER NYPD OFFICERS TO ARREST ERNESTO LOPEZ FOR FILMING SHEPPARD ASSAULTING A PEACEFUL BLM PROTESTER IN 2020.

READ THE AFFIDAVIT, MET THE MAN, CHARGING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTESTERS WITH CRIMES
THE AFFIDAVIT WAS SIGNED BY CASWELL "CAS" HOLLOWAY IV, COLUMBIA’S OPERATIONS CHIEF. AS MAYOR MIKE BLOOMBERG’S OPERATIONS CHIEF IN 2011, HOLLOWAY EVICTED OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTERS FROM ZUCCOTTI PARK

NEW YORK IS GIVING AWAY ROBOT CATS FOR FREE
OFFICE FOR THE AGING STARTED "ANIMATRONIC PET INITIATIVE" IN 2018

COMPLETE LIST AND PROFILES OF ALL PROTESTERS ARRESTED INSIDE HAMILTON HALL AT COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY
WHAT POLICE AND PUBLIC RECORDS SAY ABOUT THE 46 PEOPLE ARRESTED INSIDE HAMILTON HALL AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, WHICH THE PROTESTERS RENAMED “HIND’S HALL.”
MONTH INTO WORLD-WIDE WAVE OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS, HERE'S WHERE WE STAND
NEWS ANALYSIS: PROTESTS, STARTED BY STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HAVE GROWN IN SPITE OF POLICE REPRESSION. WHAT COMES NEXT?

LEADER OF AMERICA’S OLDEST ZIONIST GROUP IN HIS OWN WORDS UNCENSORED
MORT KLEIN OF THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA SAYS HE REGRETS USING PHRASE 'FILTHY ARAB,' ACCUSES PRES. JOE BIDEN OF FUNDING TERRORISM. KEY TO PEACE IS ‘REFORMATION OF ISLAM,’ HE SAYS EGYPT’S LEADER TOLD HIM IN SECRET PALACE MEET.