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NEW: The NYPD may lower its college credit requirement to recruit more cops. You currently need at least 60 credits with a 2.0 GPA or 2 years in the military. From Tony Destefano newsday.com/news/new-york/…

4 NYPD officers shot and killed a 79-year-old man outside a Queens precinct tonight after he pointed a gun at an officer, police say. It’s the second NYPD shooting in less than 12 hours.

Nassau County allocated $20 million of taxpayer money last year to outsource legal work to private firms — more than triple what it spent before the arrival of County Executive Bruce Blakeman. buff.ly/3D5jxLY

Under Bruce Blakeman, Nassau has tripled its spending on private lawyers. While neighboring Suffolk County spends $3 million/year, Nassau spends $20 million — doling out contracts to white-shoe firms that work for Trump and donate to Blakeman newsday.com/long-island/po…

Bruce Blakeman launched his campaign for re-election to Nassau County Executive in a packed hall complete with smoke machine

Iranian New Year (aka the 1st day of spring) is almost here 🌸

You could soon face a $1,000 fine or 1 year in prison for standing too close to Nassau police newsday.com/long-island/po…

A tour company called New York Helicopter owned and ran the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson this afternoon, its CEO confirmed to Newsday. “I’m devastated … But you have to remember: It’s a machine. Sometimes machines break,” CEO Michael Roth said.

In awe of my girl Clara-Sophia Daly whose investigation sent a gymnastics coach to jail after parents complained to Florida police for *more than a decade* that he was sexually abusing girls as young as 4. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

Matthew Bruderman out as NUMC chair County Executive Bruce Blakeman appointed Bruderman to chair the NUMC board in 2022.via ⁦Bahar Ostadan⁩ newsday.com/long-island/po…

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Parent company of Nassau Med reports $1.4 BILLION deficit. Story from ⁦Bahar Ostadan⁩ ⁦Newsday⁩ newsday.com/long-island/po…

it finally happened

NEW: Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents as he sought to escort a migrant out of an immigration courthouse in Manhattan. nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyr…

The pool of Nassau County employees making $300G+ has *doubled* in the last year. In part because correction officers nearing retirement made hundreds of thousands in overtime newsday.com/long-island/po…

This is a bruising defeat for a candidate mounting a comeback. But it’s equally as embarrassing for all the people who called for his resignation and endorsed Cuomo’s mayoral run.

Bruce Blakeman calls Mamdani “an anti-Semite” and “anti-American.” Asked why, he raised Mamdani’s comment about having Netanyahu arrested, said it’s anti-Semitic to single out Israel from “other countries that really have human rights issues” like Venezuela, Russia, North Korea

Nassau police haven’t made any immigration arrests, per Blakeman. ICE trained 10 designated Nassau detectives but has not yet deputized them