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In a national first for this wave of Gaza divestment protests, *faculty* at the New School have just erected an encampment on campus, taking up the demands for divestment of their students who were suspended and arrested last week. Our story to come shortly.
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Christopher Kelly Burwell, a long-time resident of the block, is charging $50 bucks per reporter for his video of the Feds carrying boxes out of the apartment.
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Today, almost 200 NYT contributors published an open letter condemning the paper's coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender.nonconforming people. Read our Q&A with one of the organizers, the critic Jo Livingstone, to learn more.
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Arrests at City College as police attempt to clear sidewalk in front of college gates.
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The art of the deal: The NYPD spent $150 million to catch farebeaters who cost the MTA $104,000. The massive increase in overtime spending coincided with just a two percent decrease in serious crime.
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BREAKING: A large group of protestors with Jewish Voices for Peace are chanting “ceasefire now” and have taken over the platform of the Statue of Liberty, dropping banners.
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Mass arrests at City College right now, around 100 protesters stuck between two lines of police in front of the campus
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Your subway commute may look a lot more pro-Palestine this morning, thanks to a group of guerrilla artists. @adlankj was on the scene: .
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Serious crimes committed in our subway system have plummeted by 63 percent since 1997.
Gov. Hochul on Morning Joe calls the deployment of National Guard and State Police is part of a “psychological” reinforcement for New Yorkers to feel safer.
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As Citi Bike turns 10, we have an idea: Every New York City resident should get an annual Citi Bike membership for zero dollars, and Citibank should pay for it.
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Folks, we've updated the Table of Success. More updates to come.
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Last week, the NY Post claimed in a cover story that hotels were kicking out veterans to make room for migrants. Outrage ensued. But according to a new investigation from @MidHudsonNews, that Post report was bogus, and no veterans were kicked out.
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Protests continue outside of City College a mile uptown from Columbia. The gates are locked and protesters have barricaded then against another NYPD incursion onto campus. CUNY has given students until tomorrow morning to leave campus.
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"He essentially called us petulant children. But he's harming our city & that's why we're protesting him.". We spoke w/ the president of CUNY Law's graduating class, about why they chose to turn their backs & boo a commencement speaker—Mayor Eric Adams.
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And the award for best Halloween costume goes to.
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New York City's air was, suddenly, the dirtiest in the world. But delivery cyclist Eli Rosado told us that customers weren't tipping him any better.
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NYPD is storming the City College campus
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Tomorrow, the city council will introduce a bill that would require NYC to come up with a plan "establishing and maintaining a public bathroom network," and create 4,200 new public toilets by 2035. A Porcelain New York exclusive:.
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NYPD is preparing to storm the City College campus
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Student protesters arrested at Columbia last week are facing misdemeanor trespassing charges. Students arrested the same night at City College are facing felony burglary charges that carry as much as seven years in prison. Why the difference?
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We're proud to announce that we've received a $75K grant from craig newmark philanthropies (@craignewmark). This will help expand our coverage of technology in New York—think 5G towers, cybersecurity, crypto scams, and how technology has changed our lives for better—and worse.
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New Body Cam Footage Shows NYPD Started Confrontation With Migrants in Times Square.
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Make no mistake—according to the MTA itself, Kathy Hochul just defunded the agency, and you're going to have to ride older, broken-down trains with century-old signals for the foreseeable future. Happy Monday!.
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NYC librarians are bracing for $33 million in cuts over the next 1.5 years. "New Yorkers need the services we provide," one said. "How many spaces like [ours] are left anywhere?".
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The Adams administration paid a contractor to use artificial intelligence to simulate the mayor speaking Yiddish, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. Through a Freedom of Information request, we are able to bring you the resulting audio:.
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BREAKING: . Eric Adams 2025 campaign has just been denied millions in matching funds. "The Board has determined that there is reason to believe the Adams campaign has engaged in conduct detrimental to the matching funds program in violation of law," said the head of the CFB.
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The NYPD issued a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's social media account information—messages, videos, metadata, ISP, credit card, everything. Told they'd have to explain the subpoena in court, the department withdrew it instead. What's going on?
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If you are a student who has been asked to submit one of these reflection papers and you feel particularly good about what you've written, Hell Gate would like to talk to you about publishing it.
NYU Administrators are imposing “Orwellian” penalties on arrested students, requiring them to write “Reflection Papers” and “Integrity” modules, according to @NYUFJPalestine
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"Maybe we cried too much last year" about retail theft, Walgreens executive says.
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First NY basketball championship since 1973! Hell Gate salutes the Liberty!!!!.
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A proudly Palestinian restaurant thrives in NYC, as Ayat opens its first Manhattan location during a deeply fearful time. We checked in on opening night in the East Village.
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Reporters are paying up, using cash and CashApp.Hell Gate offered Burwell a Hell Gate hat in exchange for the video, street value $200, but he declined.
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NYPD emerging from City College with arrested students.
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Late on a Friday, right before a major holiday, Eric Adams dropped his legally-obligated "Mayor's Management Report," which gives a snapshot of how the city is doing. And in Eric Adams first full year in control, the city is doing so, so much worse.
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Bus operators reportedly refused to drive MTA buses commandeered by the NYPD to transport protesters arrested at Tuesday's @jvpliveNY action—and at least one cop who ended up behind the wheel seemed to be learning on the go. @estherxlwang reports:
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Hell Gate is on the scene at the protest of Amazon union members at the distribution center in Maspeth. Just moments ago, NYPD officers pulled an Amazon worker out of his car after he stood up out of his seat and attempted to join the strike.
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1) The NYPD took this dog into custody because his owner was arrested for filming the police. 2) Filming the police is a legal right. 3) Nevertheless, Harvey’s owner is one of 2,746 humans who've been arrested filming the NYPD in the last 2 years alone.
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There is an influencer-fueled tween riot unfolding in Union Square right now and Hell Gate is on the scene.
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Chat logs leaked to the Washington Post show that a group of billionaires seeking to crush the Columbia student protests with a police raid met with Mayor Adams a few days before he did just that.
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The NYPD’s Escalating Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protests Falls 'Outside the Bounds of the Constitution'.
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NEW: . A frontline account, minute by minute, from two journalists inside Columbia, during the NYPD’s ‘dystopian’ nighttime raid on Columbia student protesters.
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NYPD: Oh yeah, did we forget to say we fired a gun at Columbia?.
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Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday?
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CUNY students have pushed back an attempt by campus police and the NYPD to enter the City College encampment
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"This Hell Gate reporter witnessed one student pleading with three Strategic Security Corp guards to let her enter campus to take her last final. The security officers told her that her ID had expired, as a look of desperation swept across her face.".
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As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment.
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Like many New Yorkers, incarcerated people are eager to see the rare total eclipse on April 8. Instead, DOCCS has ordered a total lockdown for all state prisons before, during, and after the eclipse. @rebeccakmccray reports: .
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"To suggest that there is no relationship between the way that we are using language at the newspaper to discuss people's lives, people who are also being debated in court, is to really be willfully ignorant of what it is that we do as journalists.".
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NYPD RAIDS CITY COLLEGE, VIOLENTLY ARRESTS STUDENTS, THEN HOISTS AMERICAN FLAG . Our dispatch from City College, as the NYPD raided NYC's flagship public university.
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We asked for communications between Mayor Eric Adams and the owner of Zero Bond, the private nightclub he hangs out in. For more than a year, the Mayor's Office has stalled. Now we're suing for the documents.
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A 132-page book filled with pictures of the NYPD looking at their phones at work is a perfect artifact of the Adams administration.
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BREAKING: After a four-year organizing effort, New York is actually achieving a vital part of the Green New Deal and will start building publicly-owned renewable energy.
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Eric Adams announced Wednesday evening that he has "put in place a potential way to distribute masks," and is taking the air quality crisis very seriously. Then he zoomed off to hang with Robert De Niro.
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In August, workers at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Downtown Brooklyn filed a petition to unionize. On Wednesday, their counterparts at the company's Lower Manhattan location joined them. Why all the union activity? In one word: Barbenheimer.
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After Queens Night Market officials tore down the "Free Palestine" signs displayed by a vendor last year, the owner decided not to return. She spoke with @Scoboco about her decision—and gave him some recs on where to eat instead. His latest $20 Dinner:.
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Leadership at VICE announced it would be laying off hundreds of employees and ending its website. "These people managed to pay themselves outrageous bonuses while tanking the company, and I hope they get perpetual diarrhea," one staffer told Hell Gate.
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I’m a diabetic,” Rodney sobs. “I just need a piece of paper.”. “Now you’re going to jail,” the officer replies. @macfathom reports:
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Yesterday @NYCMayor said that children "start off with their day picking up cannabis laced with fentanyl to sit inside a classroom where we want them to learn.". But is fentanyl-laced marijuana even a thing?. No, according to a toxicologist we spoke with:.
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On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.
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Hell Gate. in print? . That's right! Hell Gate's first-ever foray into ink is a guide to voting in the June 25th primary, brought to you by @BrooklynBrewery . You can snag a (free) guide to voting over the coming weeks at the BK Brewery Tasting Room & bookstores across NYC. 📷
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FIRST IN HELL GATE: . Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has had an extremely good fundraising haul. He's netted $642,339 in donations, putting him in position to get an additional $2.4 million in public matching funds.
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Here on Lincoln Place, where the FBI raided Mayor Adams’s campaign bundler’s home this morning, local reporters are huddled on the sidewalk bidding on a neighbor’s video of the raid.
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The delivery worker likened being outside to "being in a burning building and just inhaling all that smoke.". "I just get a headache if I don't wear my mask," Rosado said, revealing his makeshift N95: a folded-up paper towel tucked inside his balaclava.
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One of @NYCMayor's favorite sayings is, "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.". The mayor's haters are easy to spot. But who are the people sitting at Adams's table? . Welcome to the Eric Adams Table of Success:.
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Last night, the group @wawog_now and others blocked delivery trucks from entering or leaving the New York Times's printing plant in Queens, in protest of the paper's coverage of Israel's war in Gaza. @macfathom was there:
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At the scene of the Amazon strike:. The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.
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Keechant Sewell was doing the job Eric Adams and his buddies wanted all along—and when she tried to hold a high-ranking NYPD officer responsible (by docking a few vacation days), she got shown the door.
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Just before 5 p.m. on Friday, the hour when craven officials the world over drop news they want to see buried, the NYPD announced that the officers who killed Kawaski Trawick will face no consequences at all for the killing.
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It's tough to see where just acting like a cop (killing Black men) and actually being a cop (where you get to kill Black men) gets you treated any differently.
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The NYPD is taking people straight to Rikers without any appearance before a court, according to a new lawsuit, which calls the practice "nothing short of an extrajudicial campaign of terror and kidnapping.".
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Fight us, we said it: The Elizabeth Street Garden is a perverse cause to champion. Plus all the NYC news links you need to start your day, in this summer Friday's Morning Spew:
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One year ago this week, Hell Gate put up a paywall and started selling subscriptions. We jumped into the icy waters of the 21st century news business. Would people pay for worker-owned, local journalism?. 12 months later, we're happy to report: Yes.
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Profiles in Cowardice: Governor Hochul Executes Craven 11th-Hour Flip-Flop on Congestion Pricing.
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In 1968, Columbia University occupied campus buildings to protest the Vietnam War. In 1985, they forced their university to divest from apartheid South Africa. Today, they've set up camp in support of Gaza.
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State Whose Drivers Cannot Pump Their Own Gas Sues to Stop New York’s Congestion Pricing Plan.
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Unfortunately for New Yorkers, one of the most important cooling measures at the city's disposal, its 79 outdoor pools, full of chilly, refreshing water for the people's enjoyment, remain closed until June 27. A new City Council bill aims to change that.
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>@NYCMayor: "Being placed in Rikers means that you are a bad person.". But Erick Tavira ended up on Rikers after he was arrested at a hospital, trying to seek help for his mental illness. Tavira later became the 17th person to die in NYC Jails in 2022.
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With NYC paying $13 million to settle another lawsuit over NYPD violence during the 2020 protests, most of the evidence collected will likely never see the light of day. These videos are the exception:
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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE for mapping and explaining the various connections and machinations of the Eric Adams City Hall. @HellGateNY (ToS update, last month) vs. @NYMag (today, LATE). Trust the living, breathing document that is THE TABLE OF SUCCESS instead.
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"Dr. King called upon us to be just and to be fair, and to not judge people. And that has not been afforded to an individual named judge Hector LaSalle," @GovKathyHochul told a Sunset Park congregation on Sunday. Read the full transcript here:.
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Hell Gate is proud to announce that we've received a $10,000 grant from @craignewmark philanthropies. This grant will help us continue to grow during our launch year as a worker-owned news outlet committed to news coverage that's trenchant, irreverent, and useful to our readers.
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We all know of the loosie cigarette—but what about the loosie tampon? . @noyinzoe makes the case for an idea whose time has come: .
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How does Mayor Eric Adams react to an interviewer who persistently calls him to account for his nonsense? . Not well! .
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We're so happy the larger world is getting to know the NYPD's Kaz Daughtry and John Chell, who are hot on the case of a global conspiracy. You can read all about them over at Hell Gate's Table of Success.
Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)
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A trip to D.C., canceled White House meetings, a hasty return to NYC, revelations of an FBI raid on a campaign fundraiser's house, and then a possible connection to Turkish financial crimes. its been a DAY for Eric Adams. And we're here to tie it all together.
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One Easy Trick to Brandish a Gun at a Protest, Get Away With It, and Keep Your City Council Job.
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🚨 NEW COLUMN ALERT 🚨. Welcome to New York's Finest, @k80way's roundup of bad behavior by New York cops—arrests, firings, settlements, disciplinary board rulings, and anything else involving cops in New York City and the rest of the state.
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99 cents again!. While the owner said the cost of things like rent hasn't gone down, he felt that $1.50 wasn't sustainable for the neighborhood, especially because a lot of the people his pizza place feeds don't have much more to their name than a dollar.
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How does a “reclusive” kid from Canarsie end up juggling drum and bass and club breakdowns for a crowd of goths and dreadheads dancing off a heatwave? We asked @dazegxd1k .
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At the @nycDSA office on the Lower East Side, a half-dozen or so masked volunteers sat at folding tables, staring at laptops and calling restaurants in the area to see if their workers wanted masks or other kinds of PPE.
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Perp walks are designed to humiliate—but the mayor and the NYPD literally couldn't have made Mangione look better if they tried. What's up with that???.
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The NYPD told Hell Gate yesterday that it skipped a City Council oversight hearing because a court-ordered "gag order" prevents the department from discussing its controversial Strategic Response Group unit. But. there is no gag order:
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A new lawsuit filed yesterday against New York City and several NYPD officers alleges that the police department systematically turns a blind eye to police officers who commit perjury or lie to investigators.
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New York City is flooding and the mayor, who had a heads up for days, is nowhere to be found. A roundup of this morning's ongoing flooding, amidst yet another NYC emergency management SNAFU.
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When Vincenza Ann Filingeri Checkle, or Virginia, passed away in February at the age of 97 at her home on Seventh Street, an old part of Brooklyn passed away with her. Virginia's neighbor @cole_louison wrote about her life and the times she lived in: .
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"I, like other long COVID patients, feel abandoned by our leaders. Public officials have, on top of sweeping all the people still dying from COVID under the rug, all but ignored the toll of long-term illness as they rush to turn the page on the pandemic".
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An Open Letter to @AoDespair, Who Tweeted NYC Is 'On the Make' Because He Got a $50 Speeding Ticket.
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