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A New Jersey Mystery: Who Dumped Hundreds of Pounds of Pasta, and Why?

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How does the speculation in here not include you-know-what? There's an entire episode about carting companies dumping garbage as part of a turf war!

nytimes.com

The police and public works employees responded after “15 wheelbarrow loads” of pasta were dumped in mounds along a creek in Old Bridge, N.J.

Same goes for

and my tipline remains open 💅

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Anna Merlan

@annamerlan

May 2

I'm getting a lot of texts so let me just do this real quick: a company (reportedly) considering bankruptcy does not mean it ceases to exist. Motherboard continues operating as normal and you can keep sending me tips. Some of us have been through this before, unfortunately, lol

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Apr 23

RJ and Russ both having a hell of a week of narrative reversal

It Started with a Big Lie. It Ended with a Whimper — and a Payout.

Apr 19

How the Media Trial of the Century Ended Before It Even Began politi.co/3LclPdF wrote about a man named Bruce in my Wilmington swan song

@POLITICOMag

politico.com

A Fox-hungry crowd craved courtroom drama only to taste disappointment with a last-minute settlement.

Apr 18

Settlement just announced in Dominion/Fox case. Lots of disappointed reporters in here right now.

The key question at the Fox News defamation trial: Literally, what were they thinking?

Apr 18

I’m calling it the Watergate of First Amendment cases. My curtain-raiser from Wilmington for

@politico

politico.com

The blockbuster trial starting Tuesday may come down to a subjective inquiry into what Fox executives believed.

Apr 17

Russ hitting those free throws is basically redemption in and of itself tbh

Apr 16

Obligatory spotted in Wilmington item

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Laura Bassett

@LEBassett

Apr 10

Emergency room doctors had sent Anya Cook home due to the state's 15-week abortion ban. A nurse gave her antibiotics and promised to pray for her.

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Jezebel

@Jezebel

Apr 10

Florida Woman Denied Abortion Miscarried in Hair Salon Bathroom, Lost Half Her Blood dlvr.it/SmH8Ms

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Sam Stein

@samstein

Apr 6

this is set to go live TOMORROW twitter.com/samstein/statu…

Have long coveted an opportunity to shamelessly tweet a still from this movie, so here's roughly the vibe I'm cultivating, albeit a touch less self-righteous (and definitely weirder and more Harpers-y):

Has been a blast watching

@HellGateNY

own this story (which may seem impossible with such absurd saturation coverage but they have!).

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@HellGateNY

Apr 4

It's almost 7am. We're still outside court. Well-heeled reporters are taking the places of people who waited for them on line. But they didn’t know the journey of the night, the coldest before dawn, the depths of desperation as you search for meaning. hellgatenyc.com/breaking-hell-

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Apr 1

Journalist blue check discourse long ago surpassed the “if you didn’t care you wouldn’t be talking about it” phase and reached “seek help immediately” imo

Apr 1

Josh Hart is so fucking awesome I just can’t

Mar 31

This Cavs team is so fun. Unfortunately, they must be destroyed.

Revealed: DeSantis privately called for Google to be 'broken up'

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

Mar 21

In previously unreported comments made in 2021, DeSantis said technology companies like Google “should be broken up” by the U.S. government. “They’re just too big, they have too much power." Excellent!

rawstory.com

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has frequently railed against “Big Tech.” He has accused Google, Facebook and Twitter of silencing conservative voices.But in private, DeSantis has gone even further.In...

Mar 18

Was gonna say am I the only one who felt like that was a finals game? Jalen Brunson is king

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Ben Mathis-Lilley

@BenMathisLilley

Mar 18

Knicks have to be considered title favorites at this point

Mar 17

For Christ's sake, first Edwin Diaz and now this.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

Mar 17

With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica. My dad said it best: "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”

Mar 10

Knicks Kings Twitter is earnest and wonderful

Mar 10

Wild to recall that (wildly underrated) Sabonis was on the same team as MVP Russ.

Mar 2

Signing Jalen Brunson proving to easily be the most significant development in New York cultural life since Eric Adams was elected.

Feb 10

The driver who called the cops on attorney Adam White for fixing his obscured license plate is the leader of a local Shomrim group

EXCLU: Driver Who Sicced NYPD on Lawyer Adam White For ‘Criminal Mischief’ on Defaced Plate is...

The driver who called police on attorney Adam White after he fixed the obscured license plate on a Chevy SUV in November is cozy with law enforcement, Streetsblog has learned.

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The

has no plans to redesign its portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — despite pleas from pols and locals desperate to use the opportunity of a forthcoming redesign of the city’s portion to scrap the entirety of the antiquated highway

The State Has ‘No Plans’ to Redesign the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

State DOT has “no plans” to “redesign the state-owned portion of the BQE,” spokesman Joseph Morrissey confirmed in an email to Streetsblog last week.

Feb 9

Bahahaha

If the Main Abortion Pill Is Banned This Week, Providers Are Prepared to Go Off-Label

Excellent piece by

outlining the extensive research and experience with a misoprostol-only regimen and providers' plans for offering the option in the event of a nationwide ban on mifepristone.

Eight abortion providers told Jezebel they're planning to offer misoprostol-only abortions if a federal judge blocks mifepristone nationwide.

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Dana Rubinstein

@danarubinstein

Jan 31

Adams Administration Has Delayed Commercial Waste Reform That’s Required by Law

EXCLUSIVE: Adams Administration Has Delayed Commercial Waste Reform That’s Required by Law

A law requiring an overhaul of the rogue private carting industry has been thwarted by the Adams administration — and the person who has spearheaded the program left the Department of Sanitation se…

Jan 27

The city has delayed the Commercial Waste Zone program that's required by law — and the person who led the program since its inception left

@NYCSanitation

months ago in “frustration” with how new DSNY Commissioner Jessica Tisch has deprioritized the effort

EXCLUSIVE: Adams Administration Has Delayed Commercial Waste Reform That’s Required by Law

Exclusive and rather disturbing, from

@alemzs

Florida Sheriff’s ‘Fugitive’ Game Show Just Blew Up in His Face

Wayne Ivey loves to have fun on his police Facebook page. But a new lawsuit says at least one of the people he put on blast was not an actual fugitive.

Jan 26

Just gut-wrenching stuff here from

@GrenchPAN

Friends Mourn ‘Damn Near’ Perfect Man After Memphis Police Custody Death

One of Tyre Nichols’ friends said he was even considering becoming a cop himself before his death earlier this month.

Jan 15

Colorful and exclu inside look at how anti-abortion extremists are scheming—IRL and online—to obstruct abortion medication, from

@SofiaResnick

The Inside Story of Bumbling Extremists’ Sad Crusade Against Abortion Pills

They used to blockade abortion clinics. Now they try to find the elusive headquarters of a pill company—and are targeting pharmacies next.

Jan 12

The city had an opportunity to make all of 9th St. safer way back in the early 2000s after 2 boys were killed by a trucker on their way home from school, and again in 2018 after two more kids, and an unborn baby, were killed by a driver, but it didn’t.

SAFETY LAST: DOT Under Fire to Finish Ninth Street Redesign after Sixth Fatality in 18 Years

The city is once again under fire for a death on a roadway that it failed to redesign for safety.

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The wrong direction for America

Swear this was a halfway normal-looking wrap when I left home this morning.

Dec 13, 2022

Private buildings including

@FordhamNYC

are banning e-bikes anywhere on their premises in the wake of deadly fires associated with faulty lithium-ion batteries

UP IN SMOKE? Private Buildings Step Up E-Bike Bans in Wake of Fires

Private buildings and institutions are banning e-mobility devices amid growing fears over fires attributed to faulty lithium-ion batteries that have killed six people this year and left many more w…

Nov 19, 2022

Blake.

is backing down from a controversial policy proposal to ban e-bikes on its property

EXCLUSIVE: NYCHA Backs Down From Banning E-Bikes on its Property

This controversy has been extinguished.

New from

: Georgia prosecutor admits to knowing the cop who left the door open before a mentally ill Black woman fell to her death from a moving police car. He also happens to believe the cop did not commit a crime.