NYCforYourself

Reporting from New York City.

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[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

To give you a little more information about my perspective on this, I have an NYC press card myself. I use it to report on current events in New York. I do very straight reporting, with the goal of transparently showing people current events so they can get an accurate idea of what is actually going on. I also interview people to find out what their perspectives are. (You can see the kind of reporting I do on my YouTube channel, @nycforyourself.)

I am the opposite of a viewpoint journalist. That makes people like these three murder supporters a royal pain for me, because there are so many provocateurs and ideologues out there doing independent journalism that people often assume that's what I'm doing. It makes doing straight reporting and having open conversations with people more difficult. I'm not saying there are no problems with what they're doing--I experience the problems personally.

However, I consider it more of a problem to ask the government to be the arbiter of which viewpoints journalists must hold and express to be considered "press" and therefore have press access to public events and press conferences.

[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

Why do I see so many politicians and even journalists responding to this by asking @NYCMayor to limit press access and none responding to the ideas these young women expressed?

Is it easier to sacrifice press freedom and just tell them to shut up than to confront the fact that political violence is increasingly popular among young people, and to present an argument against it?

[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

@ericadamsfornyc I am one of the independent reporters who vocally opposed your press credential rule change proposal (links below), and I believe @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani made the correct decision in withdrawing it.

Your proposal would have made it impossible for many independent journalists to receive a press card and, ultimately, allowed the government to decide who would be considered a legitimate journalist.

That would have been an unacceptable infringement upon press freedom. It also would have done nothing to dampen the growing enthusiasm on the left for political violence.

To address the current popularity of political violence on the left, political and media leaders in the Democratic Party and on the left need to straightforwardly acknowledge it and make a forceful argument against it to their side of the political spectrum.

Journalists, for their part, should keep in mind that one of the reasons we have freedom of the press is to work out our problems through civil discussion and debate instead of violence. Reporters should not use their role to advocate violence of any kind, and direct threats of violence are not protected speech.

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@cafecitobreak @LittleAfricaUS @JasonBNicholas @AndrewKolvet @C_Sommerfeldt @BuckSexton @EricLDaugh @molcranenewman @chayesmatthew @SusanBEdelman

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

BREAKING: Barricades clashes continue between anti Israel protesters and the NYPD during the march from Park East Synagogue "Land Sale" event.

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

@NYCMayor spoke at a May Day rally in Washington Square Park today.

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

FULL LIVESTREAM: May Day March - New York City https://t.co/NbqWzKEEJj via @YouTube

[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

Freedom of speech is essential.

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

"New York Is Just Way Too Expensive": New Yorkers Talk Cost of Living, Socialism at "Tax the Rich" Rally with Bernie Sanders in the Bronx

I asked New Yorkers who went to the "Tax the Rich" rally why they came out.

https://t.co/dKQ0puZYUc via @YouTube

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

"Our Democracy Is Not Safe": NYC "No Kings" Protesters Talk About Why They're in the Street

I asked "No Kings" marchers in NYC why they were protesting.
https://t.co/bk9UM5Hd7Q via @YouTube

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

Senator @BernieSanders Speaks at @nycDSA "Tax the Rich" Rally at @LehmanCollege in the Bronx
https://t.co/3olzn6hNIs via @YouTube

[NYCforYourself @nycforyourself]

New York City No Kings March
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[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: Massive delays at JFK Airport in NYC, crowds report waiting for hours in TSA lines

Video by Diego Luzuriaga | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

BREAKING: Massive TSA LINES at LGA LaGuardia Airport in Queens Stretch to Parking Lot - NYC

Video by Dakota Santiago | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

As @GeorgeGarvey37 points out, the appeals court overturned the landmark decision in Garvey v. NYC not on its substance but on a technicality.

The workers in this case WAITED FOR YEARS for a decision that affects the labor rights of all workers, only to have the decision in their favor brushed aside without any real consideration.
@progressiveact
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[Firsthand Media @NOYKreport]

BREAKING: GARVEY V. NYC OVERTURNED ON APPEAL

In a decision handed down by New York's Second Department today, the appellate court reversed a lower court's 2022 decision in Garvey v. New York City that found the City's imposition of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on municipal workers arbitrary and capricious and unconstitutional under New York State law.

The lawsuit was filed by 16 DSNY sanitation workers who were fired by the City for declining to take a COVID-19 vaccine. The court ordered them back to work under the 2022 decision, but the City filed its appeal and none of them were reinstated.
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[Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene]

LIVE: “March for Iran’s Freedom” Demonstration in New York City https://t.co/t0gdBFfnxD

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: "USA! USA!" chants during "Make Iran Great Again" March from UN through Manhattan in New York City

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: “We Proclaim Our Support for Islamic Republic” speaker announced as crowds chant “Shame Shame USA” at Times Square protest billed as a “Quds Rally,” where demonstrators also held portraits of Ayatollah and waved a Hezbollah flag as counterprotesters gathered nearby.

Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: "We Support Hezbollah Here, we support Hamas here" chants at Al-Quds March through Manhattan that started in Times Square NYC

Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Susan Edelman @SusanBEdelman]

Before Allyson Friedman spoke, Upper West Side Superintendent Reginald Higgins quoted Carter Woodson, the father of Black History, who said, “When you can control a man’s thinking, you do not have to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one out for himself. The benefit of his education makes it necessary.”
Higgins added, "These are probably very important words for what I feel and what I think about what’s happening in the black community right now."
He seemed to imply that some Black parents and students are content with the "back door" when it comes to education.