Julian Roberts-Grmela

reporter covering New York

[Daily News Union @NYDNUnion]

This looks like an endorsement, but its not -- the wood of the Daily News should not be for sale!

Our staff was mortified to wake up to a front page covered by a deceptive political ad for two days straight.

Shame on Heath Freeman and Alden for selling our good name for a buck.

[Holly Pretsky @hollypret]

Here's what DCPI said in response to this:

[Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes]

New: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school. https://t.co/3Kijcpmi8r

[J. Dale Shoemaker @JDale_Shoemaker]

Breaking: Nurul Shah Alam — a Rohingya refugee abandoned by Border Patrol last week — has been confirmed dead by Buffalo police.

Nearly blind, he'd been left at a coffee shop Thurs. evening by agents agents 5 miles from his home. He'd been missing since.
https://t.co/J9iafL9N1w

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

Valdez said running for congress as a DSA candidate is an “opportunity to show that there is a really wide constituency for the program that we've been championing for a long time, one that make uplifts working people, that fights for affordability, that fights for labor”

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

In an interview today, Valdez said “no” when I asked if she’d continue the campaign without a DSA endorsement:
“I run with our movement, or I don’t run at all.”
She said “not yet” when asked about an endorsement from Mamdani but said “we’re having lots of conversations.”

[Claire Valdez @claireforny]

I’m a union organizer, Assemblymember, and democratic socialist running for Congress in NY-07.

I came to politics through low-wage jobs and the labor movement. That’s the perspective I’ll bring to Washington to take on oligarchy, fascism, and war—and win for working people.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Video of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis

[Henry Rosoff @HenryRosoff]

🚨NEWS:
@ZohranKMamdani has appeared to flip his view on Mayoral Control.
Saying he will seek to reform the parent engagement process as opposed to scrap it all together.

"Though I have held concerns about Mayoral Control, parents need to know where the buck stops: with me."

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

A 55-year-old man wearing “MAGA for Mamdani” gear said he voted for Trump twice but now he’s “making a switch” and voting for Mamdani.

“This’ll be the first time I'm voting for a Democrat,” he said. “I like his policies.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 BREAKING: The Sirius-Haifa — carrying Drop Site editor Alex Colston — has been boarded by Israeli military, according to Novara Media and Middle East Eye. Contact with Colston has been lost; as part of security protocols, he and other participants were instructed to throw their phones overboard before interception.

Novara’s Charlotte England reports both the lead ship Alma and the Sirius have now been boarded. The flotilla is just 69 nautical miles from Gaza, with most boats still pressing forward.

She says the ship Adara is being targeted with a liquid spray, blinding lights, and shouts can be heard onboard from nearby soldiers. Participants believe boarding is imminent.

GSF organizers confirm “vessels have been boarded by military personnel.” They are “actively working to confirm the safety and status of all participants on board.”

🎥 “The Ship Sirius: A day in the life,” a video report from Alex Colston (@enoughformethx), with footage from Enzo Pianetti. September 7, 2025.

[Molly Crane-Newman @molcranenewman]

Footage taken by @Steffikeith this morning of ICE agents shoving photographers on assignment at 26 Federal Plaza. One journalist has been hospitalized.

[Wes Parnell @ParnellWesley]

Turkish Photojournalist Vural Elibol with Anadolu Agency was thrown to the ground by ICE agents conducting a detention in federal court. Mr Elibol was unable to move, having to be placed on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital.

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

“You’re not welcome to the mosque.”
“You represent Netanyahu.”
Disgruntled mosque members shout over Cuomo while he speaks at a mosque in Queens

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

“Shame on you.”
“You’re not welcome here.”
Members shout down Cuomo at his mosque campaign stop in Queens

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

“Shame on you.”
“You’re not welcome here.”
Members shout down Cuomo at his mosque campaign stop in Queens

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @AP. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.

https://t.co/dOPfQPfqj1

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF

Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

[Julian Roberts-Grmela @GrmelaJulian]

Elected officials Claire Valdez and Tiffany Caban said “stop starving Gaza” after getting arrested at a pro-Palestine protest in the lobby of Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand’s offices. Valdez said “any politician who’s not doing something about it is failing New Yorkers”

[Daily News Union @NYDNUnion]

WE FIXED IT: Obviously our successful rally had an effect on @NYDailyNews management, who felt compelled to “write” an op-ed. Unfortunately it’s full of mischaracterizations and missing key facts. As journalists we couldn’t let that slide, so we got out our red pens…

[Chris Sommerfeldt is on vacation @C_Sommerfeldt]

JUST IN:

"Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.