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just a devastating dispatch from @nysfocus.com about the acceleration of kids having to argue for asylum alone, without an attorney, and then most of them getting deported nysfocus.com/2026/07/31/t...
NY Lawyers Fear Trump Blitz Will Speed Up Child DeportationsThe Trump administration is accelerating asylum proceedings as legal aid funding expires, leaving immigrant children less time to prepare.nysfocus.com
Despite a landmark $45 million dollar settlement with the New York attorney general, residents of a notorious nursing home chain have continued to suffer abuse and neglect. My investigation: nysfocus.com/2026/07/29/n...
Nursing Home Chain Violates $45M Settlement With New YorkNew York Focus found multiple violations of the attorney general’s settlement with Centers Health Care, including staffing failures and resident harm.nysfocus.com
Just gutting: “In fact, when faced with aggressive enforcement, a common response by nursing homes is to threaten to close, and leave their patients with nowhere to go, multiple experts told New York Focus.”
New York FocusIn 2024, a New York nursing home chain agreed to pay $45M, increase staff, and hire independent monitors in a landmark settlement with the state. New York Focus has uncovered multiple violations since the settlement, as residents continued to suffer.
After @nysfocus.com reported on the plan for a Western NY school district to bring an AI-programmed teaching assistant into classrooms, the pilot was put on pause. How the robot handle a student's questions and conflicts? @melissamanno.bsky.social interviewed Sally:
I Interviewed Realbotix’s AI Teaching Assistant. Here’s What Happened.A New York school district is weighing whether to use an AI teaching assistant this fall. We interviewed "Sally" to see how it would interact with…nysfocus.comImagine trying to work while this is happening nysfocus.com/2026/07/27/i...
As the troubled home care company PPL prepared to take over New York's $11 billion state funded home care program, it got detailed lobbying and comms help from major healthcare union 1199SEIU, according to meeting records I obtained: nysfocus.com/2026/07/16/n...
Union and Home Care Company Worked Closely Together, Records ShowHealth care union 1199SEIU collaborated with a troubled home care company, Public Partnerships LLC, on messaging, political strategy, and lobbying.nysfocus.comreally interesting robots in classrooms story from @melissamanno.bsky.social @nysfocus.com
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot TeacherPlans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.nysfocus.com
New York’s Prisons Are Stuck in Their Brutal Past, Independent Review Finds @nysfocus.com nysfocus.com/2026/07/13/n...
New York’s Prison System Can’t Keep Track of Its Own ViolenceAn independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.nysfocus.com"Nearly all of those interviewed for the report acknowledged that groups of “goon squads” would beat up incarcerated people they viewed as difficult." @chrisgelardi.bsky.social @nysfocus.com
New York’s Prison System Can’t Keep Track of Its Own ViolenceAn independent review found violence, weak oversight, outdated training, and dysfunction across New York’s prison system.nysfocus.com