Emily Flitter
@emilyflitter.bsky.social
Bloomberg News reporter writing about inequality in finance, housing and corporate America. Author: THE WHITE WALL, ‘22. Bird-noticer, Floridian, Rangers hockey fan forever.
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After report Hegseth ordered second strike, top House Armed Services R and D stmt. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
After report Hegseth ordered second strike, top House Armed Services R and D stmt. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
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NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/29/n...
NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation
Dozens of masked federal agents were staging inside a parking lot when a spontaneous group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the federal agents to leave the ar...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/29/n...
Reporters: Data centers may end up being the new oil refineries. If there’s an outage and you want to know what’s up, call the fire department.
“.. another warning about vulnerabilities in the digital economy .. when a widely used service .. hits even an apparently mundane technical problem.”
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November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reporters: Data centers may end up being the new oil refineries. If there’s an outage and you want to know what’s up, call the fire department.
Tori Amos
Jesus Lizard
Beastie Boys
Iggy Pop
Michelle Shocked
Jesus Lizard
Beastie Boys
Iggy Pop
Michelle Shocked
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Tori Amos
Jesus Lizard
Beastie Boys
Iggy Pop
Michelle Shocked
Jesus Lizard
Beastie Boys
Iggy Pop
Michelle Shocked
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“Heavy snow accumulation is expected downwind of Lake Erie…”
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Heavy snow accumulation is expected downwind of Lake Erie…”
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
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—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
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What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Zohran Mamdani named five rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers to his 400-member transition team, including Rabbi Jason Klein, Rabbi Ellen Lippman, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Rabbi Abby Stein, Rabbi Rachel Timoner.
Rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers join Mamdani’s 400-member mayoral transition committees
Several of the rabbis stumped for Mamdani or brokered appearances for him in Jewish communities.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Zohran Mamdani named five rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers to his 400-member transition team, including Rabbi Jason Klein, Rabbi Ellen Lippman, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Rabbi Abby Stein, Rabbi Rachel Timoner.
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
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NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
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I would find it hard to fall asleep if I had a loaded gun with the safety off in my pocket, but that’s just me.
A 28-year-old Omaha man told police that his 5-year-old son's accidental gunshot wound occurred after a gun slipped from his pocket while he was napping.
Gun that injured 5-year-old Omaha boy had fallen from sleeping father's pocket
A 28-year-old Omaha man told police that his 5-year-old son's accidental gunshot wound occurred after a gun slipped from his pocket while he was napping.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I would find it hard to fall asleep if I had a loaded gun with the safety off in my pocket, but that’s just me.
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In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Every school that responded to Trump's compact either rejected it outright or said they were open to future discussions. No university accepted it. Texas just outright didn't respond
MIT: ❌
Penn: ❌
Virginia: ❌
Dartmouth: ❌
Brown: ❌
USC: ❌
Vanderbilt: 🫤
Arizona: 🫤
Texas: 🫥
MIT: ❌
Penn: ❌
Virginia: ❌
Dartmouth: ❌
Brown: ❌
USC: ❌
Vanderbilt: 🫤
Arizona: 🫤
Texas: 🫥
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Every school that responded to Trump's compact either rejected it outright or said they were open to future discussions. No university accepted it. Texas just outright didn't respond
MIT: ❌
Penn: ❌
Virginia: ❌
Dartmouth: ❌
Brown: ❌
USC: ❌
Vanderbilt: 🫤
Arizona: 🫤
Texas: 🫥
MIT: ❌
Penn: ❌
Virginia: ❌
Dartmouth: ❌
Brown: ❌
USC: ❌
Vanderbilt: 🫤
Arizona: 🫤
Texas: 🫥
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So the University of Texas at Austin neither signed Trump's higher-ed compact nor rejected it. The deadline passed and UT just did not respond: www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/u...
UT-Austin still silent on Trump compact as deadline passes
Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
www.texastribune.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
So the University of Texas at Austin neither signed Trump's higher-ed compact nor rejected it. The deadline passed and UT just did not respond: www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/u...
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NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
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And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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'When we talk about press freedom, we are really talking about your freedom. Reporters ask questions, photographers take pictures, and video journalists record history on your behalf to ensure that you are informed'
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OpEd: Executive Editor Julie Pace on why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
'When we talk about press freedom, we are really talking about your freedom. Reporters ask questions, photographers take pictures, and video journalists record history on your behalf to ensure that you are informed'
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Anthony Scaramucci is no Warren Buffet, but he’s selling life advice to young men he worries are entering adulthood unable to handle adversity. The lessons, derived, he says, from his own mistakes, go for $49. Details in this @bloomberg.com story by Saijel Kishan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scaramucci Turns Bruising Setbacks Into $49 Life Lessons
With a new video course aimed at Gen Z professionals, the Wall Street investor tries on the role of career guru.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Anthony Scaramucci is no Warren Buffet, but he’s selling life advice to young men he worries are entering adulthood unable to handle adversity. The lessons, derived, he says, from his own mistakes, go for $49. Details in this @bloomberg.com story by Saijel Kishan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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".. Why pick on Blue Owl? .. it is the smallest of the big seven listed alternative private managers. That could make it easier for short bets against the stock to be effective."
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Blue Owl Is the Sum of All Investor Fears
Blue Owl Capital Inc. is caught in a trifecta of market worries about private credit, artificial intelligence and the flightiness of wealthy individuals who’ve been the new growth hope for alternative...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
".. Why pick on Blue Owl? .. it is the smallest of the big seven listed alternative private managers. That could make it easier for short bets against the stock to be effective."
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What a time to be alive
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What a time to be alive