Sorry I tanked our subscriber base by being too bitingly funny.
06.03.2026 22:38
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Sorry I tanked our subscriber base by being too bitingly funny.
fucking cackling
The way I see it, @hellgatenyc.com's core product has always been *innovation*.
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We at @hellgatenyc.com have a different take on this:
Properly implemented, A.I.—running on a wetware network made from ethically sourced bonobo brainstems—can serve to buttress and streamline local journalism.
More on how we're leaning into the future here:
hellgatenyc.com/the-future-o...
I condemn in the strongest terms the most recent instance of hateful bullshit from the guy I keep appearing with whose whole thing has always been hateful bullshit.
Here's a full write-up on the judge tossing out Columbia's unprecedentedly harsh disciplinary actions against students accused of occupying Hamilton Hall in 2024:
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A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
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The lesson of the Great Snowball Freakout of 2026 is that Mamdani's efforts to appease and engage the power centers inclined to hammer him on public safety are doomed, because they're going to hammer him anyway, even for something as goofy as a snowball fight.
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This van I just saw with decals on the rear of the US flag, the thin blue line, and the words “America runs on Dunkin.”
Complex political sub-identities bubbling up all around.
[Serious voice] We need to make some sensible, precision adjustments to NY's Raise the Age Law so that the little rascals who threw snowballs at cops yesterday can get taught some respect at Marcy Correctional Facility with terrorism enhancements on their sentences.
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This is an extremely charming account of someone who did not grow up sledding taking the opportunity of today's blizzard to go sledding with kids in New York City.
Tomorrow I am gonna lend @jessyedwards.bsky.social my copy of Ethan Frome.
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As long as there has been a @hellgatenyc.com, there have been people asking us for a Hell Gate T-shirt. This year, we are giving the people what they want.
Shirts are available to Hell Gate Believer-level subscribers. And right now, those subscriptions are on sale:
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The NY attorney general and state prison agency are doing everything they can to avoid legal accountability for decades of chronic sexual abuse in NY prisons.
In one case, they claimed the alleged rapist didn't exist. But @chrisgelardi.bsky.social found him—easily.
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The Queens DA is throwing the book at the young man shot and still hospitalized by police after they responded to his family's call for an ambulance.
Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local NYC journalism, and get your open-streets-in-crisis news nearly a week before NYMag gets around to covering it!
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Some have complained that story I've been writing about involving Brooklyn Dems power broker Frank Seddio and an alleged recurring escrow-theft scam is kind of tangled and hard to understand.
But as this chart in today's story makes clear, it's simple really:
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Humming a mournful "Midnight at the Oasis" to myself.
Crazy how @wnyc.org reporters did such amazing work they won a duPont award and the organization can't bear to name the people who actually did the work in the press release.
nypublicradio.org/2026/01/29/w...
A chart showing the vehicle search rate from Q1 2022 to Q3 2025, in which the search rate for Black motorists stopped by police is nearly 10 times that of white motorists, and the rate for Latino motorists is six times that of white motorists.
A big lawsuit filed today accuses the NYPD of a racist and unconstitutional regime of vehicle stops and searches disproportionately targeting people of color. The stops frequently lack probable cause and more than 96 percent don't result in a gun arrest.
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Do you enjoy media production? Radical politics? Times of upheaval?
What if I told you that on February 13, a bunch of smart people and also myself are going to be discussing MEDIA PRODUCTION AND RADICAL POLITICS IN A TIME OF UPHEAVAL?
Roll through!
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More signage at this rally in NYC in response to the latest ICE killing:
Demonstrators are filing out of Union Square and into the street now, filling 14th Street and heading west.
More signs in Union Square:
Some of the signs at this rally in the cold in Union Square this afternoon:
At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.”
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
I used to live a block from where they just murdered that man. The people of Minneapolis have been rising to the occasion, beautifully and at great personal risk, for weeks now. If the rest of us can't, in this moment, do the same, I don't know what further obscenity will stir us from this path.
