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Jack Newsham
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News: The Pentagon has sent out its revised rules to reporters who wish to have building access. The new rules say that even soliciting tips on social media is grounds for losing badge access, per a copy I've obtained. More in tonight's edition of @status.news. Subscribe: www.status.news/subscribe
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Good @nickgarber.bsky.social catch: 32BJ, Hotel Trades Council and the Carpenters are coming out *against* the housing reform amendments on the City Charter -- x.com/nick_garber/...
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Union lawyer, union organizer, union president
University general counsel, university trustee, university president
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Fellow New Yorkers (and all those who are New York-curious), recommended follow:
Woah!!! Thanks to all our followers! Crazy to think we’re so close to reaching 50,000!!

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...What? Are the horse carriage drivers unionized? #NYC
Among the alleged defamatory lies: claiming that an office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower was in less than “excellent” condition when producers visited it… in 2003.
Trump says he’s brought a $15 billion defamation and libel suit against the New York Times.

He says the suit is being filed in Florida and calls the Times “one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country.”
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I’ve noticed similar tools cropping up in ProQuest and JSTOR lately - I promise if I’m determined enough to track down vintage theses from the 70s and 80s, I also have sufficient motivation to also read and interpret them myself!
Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.
I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics.

Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.
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Heard of ”The Clock” (2010) by Christian Marclay? It’s cool.
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SCOOP: A few years ago, Merrick Garland invited a group of judges to DOJ where they got a warning: Sealed court filings were vulnerable to hackers.

But the courts were slow to harden their systems. Then, this summer, they were hacked again.

Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
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That was hilarious. In fairness, while they were still sitting at the table, he revised his estimate downwards to 10.

And she only got 10 yards on her fourth throw!
Imagine being an adult who can read, clicking a button that says "help me read"
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National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments.

Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.

One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
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This is why there's never been a popular show called Law & Order: Appeals Unit.
As I’ve always said, I’m delighted to have coffee with law students and aspiring appellate lawyers. The one request I always turn down, which I sometimes get, is “shadowing.”

This would consist of sitting in my office staring at me rub my head at the screen.
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
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Tian Li was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg along with six others for their alleged roles in an alleged wide-ranging bribery scandal involving Adams’ decades-old top lieutenant, Ingrid Lewis-Martin.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/22/t...
A Prolific Adams Fundraiser Now Faces an Indictment
Within a year of working with Winnie Greco on the mayor’s 2021 campaign, Tian Ji Li allegedly traded favors with Adams’ top aide
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Is the severance for ex-Messenger folks still in hoc while Jimmy Finkelstein’s throwing fundraisers in Southampton? www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Cuomo’s seeking a Trump bump
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“The Bronx is learning” took me a second
I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
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Great interview in the Wall Street Journal with @alonlevy.bsky.social about their plan to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor at one-tenth of Amtrak’s cost. Very clear explanation of the major concepts. Free gift link here: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
How to Get to Near High-Speed Rail—on the Cheap
A transit expert says travel times on the Northeast Corridor could be significantly reduced with simple fixes like smarter scheduling and stopping patterns.
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Every protest group makes this same complaint. I’ve heard it from people mad I didn’t cover March for Life.