Joshua Needelman

“The thing I miss most is the people.” I spoke to Fernando Mejia, a popular bagel shop manager on Long Island who was pulled from his car by ICE agents in June. Mejia is now back in El Salvador after five months in detention camps. He does not have a criminal record.

“It’s scary, but we’re going to continue to do it, and trust that we won’t get shot and killed." I profiled a group of anti-ICE activists on Long Island, who rush to the scene when they hear the masked agents are in town. They are spooked by Minneapolis, but undeterred.

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“The thing I miss most is the people.” I spoke to Fernando Mejia, a popular bagel shop manager on Long Island who was pulled from his car by ICE agents in June. Mejia is now back in El Salvador after five months in detention camps. He does not have a criminal record.

"Satchidananda used to always laughingly say that yoga institutes were asylums, and we were all the inmates. People would go 'Ha ha ha! That's so funny Swamiji. But it was true." What happens when your guru is named an abuser? My latest @DefectorMedia. #coral_thread" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">defector.com/what-the-guru-…

"He took advantage of many of his female students' innocence and adoration and continually mimicked the life of a celibate monk while living differently." Swami Satchidananda was a spirituality rock star in the 70s and 80s. Then he was named an abuser: defector.com/what-the-guru-…

What the guru left behind: defector.com/what-the-guru-…

Swami Satchidananda, the "Woodstock guru," was a spirituality rock star in the second half of the 20th century. Twenty years after his death, the community he left behind is grappling with accusations of sexual assault against him: defector.com/what-the-guru-…

Defector's investigation casts a light on one yoga community—but almost surely not the only yoga community— that, all these years following #MeToo, still struggles with a basic question: What do you do when your guru is named as an abuser? defector.com/what-the-guru-…

MIKAL BRIDGES STEAL TO SEAL GAME 1 FOR THE KNICKS!! 20-POINT COMEBACK COMPLETE ✅

A renovation of Bow Tie Cinemas of Port Washington uncovered history that had been hiding for decades. A cool read by @JoshNeedelman for @Newsday newsday.com/long-island/to…

@Kofie We’re not a good team

Down 7 is crazy

@Kofie Among the worst Manias I can recall

@JoshNeedelman nooooooo

Fine I’ll get into wrestling

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North Hempstead is the lone town on Long Island without a cat shelter, leaving activists to care for the area's stray cat population. One woman feeds cats behinds a Roslyn shopping center twice a day. She named them Precious and Rascal. newsday.com/long-island/to…

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