USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins vows "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers from Trump administration's mass deportations. She also said Medicaid recipients who will have to meet new work requirements under the GOP reconciliation package can do the work. politico.com/live-updates/2…

ICE uses Nassau jail to detain 1,400 people — many arrested in NYC — under Blakeman program newsday.com/long-island/po…

BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. wired.com/story/metadata…

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ on.ft.com/3Ua3QrL

Kyra is one of dozens of constituents my office has helped to get UI benefits this year. The single most common reason people call me is that they qualified for UI but can't get through to a human at NYS Department of Labor. Something has to change! Julia Rock nysfocus.com/2025/07/14/new…

Wow!

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to intimidate the FBI agents investigating him

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz filed legislation Monday that would revamp a temporary worker program to help ease farm labor shortages largely provoked by recent ramped-up immigration raids targeting undocumented workers. Via ⁦Berenice Garcia⁩ texastribune.org/2025/07/14/sou…

"Personally, I find it abhorrent," Gov. Hochul says of ICE agents wearing masks that help hide their identities, while declining to opine specifically on newly introduced legislation that would ban ICE from wearing masks in NY

exclusive: Instacart is vowing to sue the city unless Mayor Eric Adams vetoes the bill expanding a $21 minimum wage to grocery delivery workers, which passed the council last week. Instacart claims the bill was tied to a settlement with rival apps like Grubhub: crainsnewyork.com/politics-polic…

Mamdani drew fire from his rivals for saying he wouldn’t travel to Israel as mayor. According to poll, 60% of Democratic primary voters said they’re more likely to support a candidate who declines to visit Israel by citing need to focus on local issues. forward.com/fast-forward/7…

New from me, w/ a h/t to Annie McDonough: Real estate agent and reality TV star Eleonora Srugo has formed a PAC in support of Eric Adams. cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/…

The Washington Post reports that Andry Hernández, the gay makeup artist who entered the US legally via the CBP One app, was sexually assaulted by guards in the torture chamber, CECOT.

Interesting -- NY Dem Pat Ryan just held an event at a Hudson Valley farm that is suing the state to block the right of H2A farmworkers to unionize recordonline.com/story/news/loc…