The faculty of my school is about to meet with her this morning, and this empyty, pious speechifying doesn't bode well. 'Minouche Shafik: universities must engage in serious soul searching on protests'
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Personal news: after nearly 11 years, my run at The Intercept is through. Having spent more than a quarter of my life at the organization, I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t rough.

Still, I feel enormously lucky to have had this opportunity.

On the bathroom beat for Hell Gate *subscribe today!*: Lincoln Center Has a Great Public Bathroom—Why Aren’t There More Like It? hellgatenyc.com/porcelain-new-…

Since it’s FOIL Friday, a short thread on the outlandish redactions the mayor’ office made to my request for his 100-day plan. The stuff highlighted in orange was unredacted only after I filed an appeal. And it’s the most innocuous stuff

Great historical details in this story about the time NYPD Captain Eric Adams got punished for talking out of his ass on TV, an episode that might shed some light on why the mayor lets his cops make wild public statements: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-eric-adam…

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Some of the best protest coverage I've seen hellgatenyc.com/omar-neptune-d…

'I have a lot of faith in people, young people. They're highly organized and serious, not just about what their movement is doing, but they got Neptune back—they figured the whole thing out, how to reunite a guy and his dog.'

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Timeline of NYC college campus encampments -- little more than 12 hours have passed without an active occupation since April 17. Only one, a faculty-led sit-in that began today at The New School, remains

New: Winnie Greco, a senior adviser to Mayor Adams who went on paid sick leave after her Bronx homes were raided by the FBI in February, has returned to work at City Hall. nydailynews.com/2024/05/08/ada…

A New York real estate developer — and “distant cousin” to Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane — was charged with felony assault after police said he hit a woman with his car during a pro-Palestinian demonstration led by students. apnews.com/article/columb…

NEW: DOI opens investigation into social media use by top NYPD officials. “In light of the requests, DOI has begun an investigation of the relevant social media use and exchanges, as well as applicable city policies,” DOI spokeswoman Diane Struzzi said.

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Columbia A&S faculty just resolved to put a motion of no confidence in Presidential leadership to the vote. This is in addition to investigation. A weaker motion calling for an investigate-first strategy was defeated by more than 2:1. Voting in coming week.

Lurking in a corner as the New School occupiers discuss whether to respond to a NYTimes inquiry. 'Absolutely not. I hold them partly responsible for all of this.'

I talked with New School faculty shortly before they launched their own protest encampment taking up the demands for which their students were arrested Friday, that the school to divest from the war on Gaza: hellgatenyc.com/faculty-occupy…

NEW: DOI has launched a probe into NYPD officials' social media use as well as NYPD's response to pro-Palestine campus protests, a spokeswoman confirms.

The probe comes in response to requests from City Council Speaker Adams and Legal Aid.

Story coming via New York Daily News

In a national first for this wave of Gaza divestment protests, *faculty* at the New School have just erected an encampment on campus, taking up the demands for divestment of their students who were suspended and arrested last week. Our story to come shortly.

#NYPD knocking down and arresting credentialed journalist Olga Fedorova in New York, NY on May 8, 2024.

For everyone who is performatively perplexed about what student protesters want, this interview with a University of Chicago student offers a pretty good answer: instagram.com/reel/C6rPip8xm…

'I think we are the kindest and the gentlest and the most loving police department on the globe,' Mayor Eric Adams, May 7, 2024