Piper French
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reporting @boltsmag, other work in @nybooks @nymag @readlux @thedrift_mag etc. en/es/fr
Scoop: SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan is meeting w/ Secretary Hegseth at the Pentagon today, a source w/ knowledge tells @MSNOWNews The meeting, @ Hegseth's request, comes as USS Nimitz aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean this week amid heightened tensions w/ Cuba
thinking about the time i was at a Wendy & Lucy Q&A and Kelly Reichardt called winning the Palme Dog “the stupidest day of my life”
A San Francisco woman went out drinking with a group of cop friends. She blacked out and woke up in a hotel room naked and drugged with four cops. The rape kit tested positive for all of their DNA but the D.A refuses to bring any charges. thebanner.com/community/crim…
The Sameer Project kitchen decreased our daily distributions from 3,000 sandwiches to 1,500 due to lack of funds.
if you, an nypd officer, feel comfortable enough while on patrol to eat an ice cream cone, then i question the need for you to be out on the street in bed stuy, given that you clearly don't think you will need to be doing your job any time soon. i could not believe this shit
In July, an ICE agent told Orgullosa Pitillo: self-deport or risk losing your children. She knew it wasn’t an empty threat: in 2018 Orgullosa was one of 1000s of parents separated from their kids at the border. Now, Trump is coming for these families again. I reported for @nymag:
Councilmember @OsseChi was arrested a bit ago while attending a protest against an eviction in Bedstuy. NYPD officers can be seen tackling him to the ground in this video posted on Instagram:
The woman whose home Chi is defending is Carmela Charrington, who has been in Rikers for 6 days now for for fighting the theft of her family's home. "Our community is pretty much gone," she told me last month. Said people need to be asking: "How did it happen? Who did it?"
