Inner City Press

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Matthew Russell Lee for/as Inner City Press covers SDNY, UN Gate, banks & IMF. books http://tinyurl.com/bdhp2j5u http://patreon.com/MatthewRussellLee

Just asking: was figure at end with UN SG candidate Ivonne A-Baki, coy about support from @USUN, a board member of Ghislaine Maxwell's Terramar Foundation, which held press conferences in the UN Press Briefing Room? Crowdsourcing as banned: www.youtube.com/live/w8EIKLO...

Stakeout on Next UNSG, Inner City Press is banned but live!

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 4w ago

UN CENSORSHIP CIRCUS: Six Candidates for 90 Minutes but One Question About Press Access that Nobody Asked at UN #NextSG Town Hall by Corporate Bloomberg - book: www.amazon.com/United-Natio... Inner City Press July 23-24, 2026 story: innercitypress.com/ungate1nexts...

UN Q&A WITHOUT PRESS: Eighth Candidate for UN Sec-Gen Ivonne A-Baki Fields Boilerplate Questions in UNGA, Human Rights without Lame Duck Imposing Volker Turk, Snarks at Fat Cats as Press Still Banned by Old SG Guterres- story innercitypress.com/ungate4nexts...

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 4w ago

UN CENSORSHIP CIRCUS: Six Candidates for 90 Minutes but One Question About Press Access that Nobody Asked at UN #NextSG Town Hall by Corporate Bloomberg - book: www.amazon.com/United-Natio... Inner City Press July 23-24, 2026 story: innercitypress.com/ungate1nexts...

UN circus: New SG candidate Ivonne A-Baki just told UNGA her supporter (staffer?) is a 22-year-old from Georgetown University- & the White House? Where's USUN Mike Waltz, letting old SG Antonio Guterres ban Inner City Press from re-entering the UN to report? innercitypress.com/usun1pressun...

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · yesterday

THE MORE THE MERRIER? 8th Candidate for #NextUNSG Is Ivonne A-Baki of Ecuador (But Nominated by Tonga) As Inner City Press Still Banned by Old SG @AntonioGuterres. @MBachelet out? No answers from @UN_Spokesperson or @UNMediaLiaison- story: innercitypress.com/ungate2nexts...

From Inside Sealed Courtroom: DOJ has belatedly made available transcripts of the undercover recordings played only in the courtroom they sealed with an 11th hour request that Inner City Press opposed. Here, the cooperator Healy was prescient about paranoia

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 2d ago

SEALING THE COURTROOM, DOJ STYLE: As Prosecutors File 11th Hour Notice to Close Courtroom for Criminal Trial, Inner City Press Today Opposes, and Cites Office's Withholding of Exhibits and Transcripts in Case Earlier this Year - Story: innercitypress.com/sdny185abram...

UN LIVING IN THE PAST: In Q&A with Olara Ottunu that Inner City Press is banned from entering to cover, Peru emphasizes that Ottunu was involved in the election of compromise UNSG candidate Perez de Cuellar in 1981. That was 45 years ago. #UNdying

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · yesterday

THE MORE THE MERRIER? 8th Candidate for #NextUNSG Is Ivonne A-Baki of Ecuador (But Nominated by Tonga) As Inner City Press Still Banned by Old SG @AntonioGuterres. @MBachelet out? No answers from @UN_Spokesperson or @UNMediaLiaison- story: innercitypress.com/ungate2nexts...

UN World Impunity Redux: Now Sierra Leone UN Mission nuisance / hazard case continues - Inner City Press has covered it from the beginning, no answer from @UN_Spokesperson, SL or @USUN- New Yorkers subjected to rats from UN diplomats. Will live skeet, thread below

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OK - now birthright citizenship case Casa v. Trump in District of Maryland Judge Broadman: Does the US oppose a permanent injunction? AUSA: We want to stay any obligation to respond to amended complaint. Plaintiffs lawyer: We are concerned about the new order 1/x

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OK - after Inner City Press (& AUSA) oral argument, Inner City Press is in alt courtroom 443 with an audio feed and laptop. The exhibits and transcripts are to be uploaded to USAfx (that is to be in a separate Order). After a glitch, will live skeet, thread below

Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 2d ago

SEALING THE COURTROOM, DOJ STYLE: As Prosecutors File 11th Hour Notice to Close Courtroom for Criminal Trial, Inner City Press Today Opposes, and Cites Office's Withholding of Exhibits and Transcripts in Case Earlier this Year - Story: innercitypress.com/sdny185abram...

On Luigi Mangione, NY Justice Carro this afternoon after Mangione pled guilty in Federal court and has Dec 18 sentencing there signed an order that next NY date is Dec 10. Why before the Federal sentencing? And will there be an overflow courtroom with video?

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Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 6d ago

OK - now US v Luigi Mangione proceeding - Inner City Press while pushing for wider access to NYS trial this morning wrote on double jeopardy here: matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/luigi-extr... after book: www.amazon.com/Luigi-Mangio... and will live skeet, thread below

OK - now at 100 Centre Street sentencing for attempted robbery in the 3d degree- but he has pick up two new cases since guilty plea. Judge: I am going to increase monitoring to 5 years. Defense said: Rikers is a sewer hotel, reading is fundamental. Thank you judge

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