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Don't miss @ngusdorf.bsky.social in conversation with Josh Wallack, who helped deliver Pre-K for All to New York--covering the de Blasio Pre-K experience, voucherization, universal provision, private providers, & the Hochul-Mamdani childcare announcement.
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Today, three of our staff members joined the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin's transition committee:
🏢 Executive Director Nathan Gusdorf on Government Operations
🏘️ Chief Economist Emily Eisner on Housing
🏥 Director of Health Policy Michael Kinnucan
on Health www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,
The Gathering Storm Over the American Dream
The Trump admin fired a civil servant over a jobs report, but the real story is bigger.
I spoke with @ngusdorf.bsky.social of @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social about how politicizing data & gutting public jobs is shaking the American Dream.
Medicaid percent cut, growing to 18% in 2034
Republicans began this process insisting that they weren’t cutting Medicaid. “We’re just telling Energy and Commerce to find savings, but it won’t be Medicaid.”
And now they’re about to pass the biggest Medicaid cut in history, at least four times the size of the current largest cut in history.
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Founders intended for presidents to have standing armies to suppress free speech, because once upon a time, kings did.
Full explanation:
Breakdown of federal cuts:
@nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social previously estimated that cuts to healthcare spending will eliminate 215,000 jobs statewide, raising the unemployment rate by 50 percent.
Yesterday the CBO released its newest estimates of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”.
$3.8 trillion in tax cuts and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts.
This will cost New York State $15.4 billion per year and 1.5 million New Yorkers will lose their health insurance.
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At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message to leaders of some of the country's biggest law firms. Brooke Cucinella told them that the hedge-fund company likes to work with law firms that aren't afraid of a fight. Cucinella, head of litigation and regulatory inquiries at the business headed by Republican megadonor Ken Griffin, made no mention of politics. But some of the lawyers in attendance took her remarks as reference to a controversy that has been roiling the legal industry. Some of the listed attendees worked for firms that had cut deals with the White House to avoid punitive executive orders by President Trump. Others were at law firms that had gone to court to fight them. Support for the law firms that didn't make deals has been growing inside the offices of corporate executives. At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with the administration or are giving-or intend to give-more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals, according to general counsels at those companies and other people familiar with those decisions.
Leaders of the firms that struck deals with the White House said they did so in part to protect their clients, who were at risk of losing their government contracts as a result of the White House's executive orders against the law firms. Not long after Latham struck a deal in April, the firm's chair, Richard Trobman, met with Morgan Stanley's chief legal officer, Eric Grossman, people familiar with the meeting said. Grossman heard him out about the firm's reasoning for striking a deal and acknowledged that companies have to do what is best for themselves. Soon after that meeting, Grossman and other Morgan Stanley lawyers communicated to law firms targeted by the White House that hadn't signed deals that they were looking to give them new business, the people familiar with the meeting said. Paul Weiss, a 1,200-lawyer firm that works on many big corporate deals, was one of the first law firms targeted by a Trump executive order. The general counsel of one major financial firm said her anxiety grew by the day when Paul Weiss didn't sue quickly after being hit with the order. When she heard the firm struck a deal with the White House, she said, she felt "physically ill."
A top legal executive at another company said she called partners at Paul Weiss before it cut its deal to reassure the firm she would remain loyal, even though doing so risked millions in government contracts. She was shocked when the firm chair Brad Karp announced a deal, she said, and her company has plans to move work away from Paul Weiss. The day after Paul Weiss struck its deal, female general counsels gathered for a conference in Washington. During a panel at the Women's General Counsel Network event, a lawyer stood up and said her company had taken steps that morning to pull its business from Paul Weiss. The lawyer received thunderous applause. About two weeks later, McDonald's told a court that star Paul Weiss lawyer Loretta Lynch was withdrawing as its attorney in a high-profile lawsuit accusing the fast-food giant of discrimination against Black-owned media companies. Lynch, who had served as attorney general under former President Barack Obama, had been involved with the case for several years. It is unusual for companies to shake up representation close to trial.
Some very interesting reporting here on Big Law going penny wise and pound foolish.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
New York State’s budget is currently being negotiated, but they’re failing to prepare for federal budget cuts.
Even worse - we’ll likely see the problem compounded with $2 billion in new tax cuts.
Op-ed with @emmurpheis.bsky.social
www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/27/a...
City of Yes is up for votes this morning in the zoning committee and Land Use committee. The council is looking for a deal that includes budget commitments from the mayor towards affordability measures (what they call “City for All”)
