Steven Moity
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Freelance reporter and News Assistant @nytimes | Alumn @nyu | steven.moity@nytimes.com | (he/him/his)
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Tomorrow's frontpage
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Tomorrow's frontpage
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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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New York has paused its 34th Street busway project, after the Trump admin threatened to withhold unnamed federal transit funds. It's the latest in a long list of federal interventions on local transit matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
New York Halts Manhattan Bus Lane Plan Following White House Threats
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
New York has paused its 34th Street busway project, after the Trump admin threatened to withhold unnamed federal transit funds. It's the latest in a long list of federal interventions on local transit matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
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Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.
nyti.ms
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
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Emily Damari, who spent 471 days in captivity in Gaza, has become a symbol of resilience and a voice for the release of all remaining Israeli hostages. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, a photographer, has met more than 100 survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, and followed Damari’s journey. nyti.ms/3KCQaEi
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Emily Damari, who spent 471 days in captivity in Gaza, has become a symbol of resilience and a voice for the release of all remaining Israeli hostages. Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, a photographer, has met more than 100 survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, and followed Damari’s journey. nyti.ms/3KCQaEi
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New: WH says it has put about $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New York City on hold "to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles." Russ Vought, the budget director, specifically cited the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.
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BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
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The Israeli military has destroyed block after block of Gaza City as part of a new ground offensive in what was once the territory’s largest urban center. Though much of the city is still standing, satellite images show Israeli forces are flattening whole areas. nyti.ms/3WbpxZw
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Israeli military has destroyed block after block of Gaza City as part of a new ground offensive in what was once the territory’s largest urban center. Though much of the city is still standing, satellite images show Israeli forces are flattening whole areas. nyti.ms/3WbpxZw
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An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP
September 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP
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September 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"The federal Department of Transportation has withdrawn funds from several discretionary grants aimed at improving safety for people for walk and bike."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b...
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b...
Breaking: US DOT Pulls Grants For Projects That Aren't Focused on Cars — Streetsblog USA
The Trump administration bias for "vehicular travel" — and the burning of fossil fuels that it requires — rears its ugly head again.
usa.streetsblog.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"The federal Department of Transportation has withdrawn funds from several discretionary grants aimed at improving safety for people for walk and bike."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b...
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b...
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, Andrew Cuomo said the situation in Gaza had become “horrific,” called for an immediate end to the war and gently distanced himself from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. nyti.ms/48eRgzO
September 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, Andrew Cuomo said the situation in Gaza had become “horrific,” called for an immediate end to the war and gently distanced himself from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. nyti.ms/48eRgzO
UG Solutions (UGS), the firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
By Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen
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By Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen
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September 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
UG Solutions (UGS), the firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
By Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen
Thread (1/9)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
By Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen
Thread (1/9)
“Equating a call for Palestinian freedom with violent white supremacy is not only wholly inaccurate but profoundly offensive,” per a statement by several student groups.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“Equating a call for Palestinian freedom with violent white supremacy is not only wholly inaccurate but profoundly offensive,” per a statement by several student groups.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
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EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
![“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.”
At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact:
From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]>
To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re:
I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eeitvtxcbjt3vmljqfmwzahz/bafkreidw4qmdfvf3j7jmvtgppacjdnk4ffdvzipnd4sgxqx7kpkwirqmaq@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
FREE to read
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...