NJ POL Bloomfield About $425K in COVID relief remains unspent years later, and $450K is committed to the Roxy site with no timeline. The Finance Department has had no permanent director since June 2025.
My candidate for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #lookingdown is this gorgeous juvenile common buzzard, at Watlington Hill in early September. One of its parents was nearby, supervising, whilst it checked me out from above. 🦅😍 #birds#birdphotography
Yesterday I joined faith leaders, congregants, and community organizers from Metro IAF, whose decades of grassroots organizing have helped make the priorities of working New Yorkers a political reality.
We’re expanding our discretionary grant pilot program to speed up funding for nonprofits that serve New Yorkers. Now, 800 nonprofit partners are on track to receive funding within 30 days — cutting months of red tape so they can spend less time on paperwork and more time serving our communities.
MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025 bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. fortune.com/article/mack...
Federal agents searched the Washington, D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Monday morning. The warrant was approved by the Department of Justice and is part of an "ongoing federal investigation."
Brilliant RED Warbler songbird 13cm
lives exclusively in the mountain ranges across Mexico
feeds mainly small insects and arthropods
female builds builds nest
she alone incubates 16 days,
male RETURNS the chicks are 3 days old.
They both feed chicks 11 days, and 3 more weeks after fledging.
The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.
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We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)
another reason it's good we didn't run Janet Mills: she is bizarrely terrible on indigenous issues and is the reason Jackson and the legislature were unsuccessful in advancing tribal sovereignty under state law
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera).
Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
I am angry tonight.
Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.