NEW: Inside the courtroom where Donald Trump was forced to listen to Stormy Daniels testify w/Jake Offenhartz and Jenn Peltz apnews.com/article/trump-…

Link here: npr.org/2024/05/06/124…

I'll be on NPR's Morning Edition in 10 minutes to talk about Mayor Eric Adams's 'outside agitator' narrative and this story specifically. Tune in! apnews.com/article/columb…

BREAKING: Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel apnews.com/article/israel…

Another NYPD sizzle reel, another unsubstantiated claim that a “mastermind” is organizing student-led protest encampments.

The proof, according to NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry:

“Look at the water. This is very, very organized. We got water, we supplies here - cups, coolers.”

Dean of Columbia University’s journalism school, jelani cobb, says that the press was kept away from Hamilton Hall after the police raid so that the NYPD could finish shooting its sizzle reel.

Meanwhile at 100 Centre Street, a witness in the Trump trial offers a window into how the public messaging sausage gets made. Liveblog here: apnews.com/live/trump-tri…

When student protesters took over Hamilton Hall in 1968, they occupied the building for a full week before police were eventually able to enter 'through underground tunnels,' the Spectator reported at the time. exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/…

Protesters take over Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in escalation of anti-war demonstrations apnews.com/article/israel…

Just to be clear, NYC's deputy mayor for communications, who receives a $250,000 taxpayer funded salary, is intentionally conflating unrelated public statements with Eric Adams' baseless claim that an outside agitator is funding the Columbia student encampment

Spent the day off from the Trump trial talking to Columbia students about the months of planning that went into their encampment and the “ridiculous” narrative about outside agitators floated by Mayor Adams, Kaz Daughtry and others apnews.com/article/inside…

I can’t describe how surreal it is to learn this news while waiting for Donald Trump to walk into the courtroom and sit down in the exact spot Harvey Weinstein was when he was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisio…

Have spent the last few days listening to WKCR-FM NY and really think they’ve unlocked the ideal local news format: smart live updates from a tense scene, followed immediately by Ella Fitzgerald