Ivan Pereira
@ivanper4.bsky.social
Journalist, explorer, swimmer, baseball, comics, & pop culture nerd, and dad. Currently ABC News Digital. RTs & follows ≠ endorsements.
BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.
“This court is granting you voluntary departure...I wish you all the best.” Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/31/u...
Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys
Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.
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Reporter: When I visited Victor Marx, Colorado's Republican candidate for Governor, his team offered to perform a demon-hunting prayer on me. I declined.
GETTING A LIFT: Lawsuit over MTA's insufficient elevator upkeep settled nearly a decade after being filed 🛗 ⬆️ ♿️ 🛗 Transit chief hopes for "little bit less litigation" after latest federal case is put to bed. 🛗 ⬆️ ♿️ 🛗 NEW STORY in @thecityreporter.nyc www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/29/w...
MTA Settles With Disability Advocates as Subway Elevators Improve
The settlement requires the MTA to more clearly alert the public when subway elevators are out of service.
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Twitter's having a fun one as some folks, including a blue check whose bio suggests he would already know this, realize how much city property data is public, including tax bills.
update the athlete has been found safe in Illinois, per Rice University. "Alqaq contacted the Rice University Police Department this morning after seeing news reports that he had been reported missing."
Ivan Pereira@ivanper4.bsky.social · last wk.In an interview with Popular Information, Galante acknowledged that there was no actual list of family members who had signed the petition. “We don’t have a list,” Galante said. (1)
The truth about the viral 9/11 petition targeting Mamdani
“We don’t have a list”
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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…
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The U.S. has broken its own measles record for the second year in a row. And it's only July. Check ABC News' map to identify your risk-level based on your zip code: abcnews.com/Health/new-m...
New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP code
For the first time, a map allows people to type in their ZIP code and determine the risk of measles in their area based on vaccination coverage.
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Judge Arun Subramanian said he would quash the subpoenas if the Department of Justice refused to withdraw them. "It's a matter of basic compliance with the law," Judge Subramanian said.
DOJ agrees to withdraw subpoenas for New York Times journalists
Lawyers with the DOJ have agreed to unilaterally withdraw a series of subpoenas that sought to compel New York Times journalists to testify about their sources.
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"My mom will never bake me another cake … she was supposed to bake my wedding cake," Colin Hortman said in his victim impact statement, according to KSTP. "They would have been the best grandparents -- they will never meet my children," he added.
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Survivors, families address Vance Boelter as he's sentenced to life
Vance Boelter was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years after pleading guilty.
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A Staten Island Supreme Court judge has ruled that Mayor Mamdani acted lawfully in killing Eric Adams' zombie-like Charter Revision Commission, rejecting Randy Mastro's claim that the state law enabling the disbandment was unconstitutional. Full ruling: iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
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"'We will not be able to afford to fight against the system.' On that point, Bhalindar had to agree. The best strategy, Ramandeep said, was media attention. They could present their findings and let the public decide."
Sam Fortier@sam4tr.bsky.social · 2w agoWas a national civics competition for high-school kids ... Rigged? Biased? Botched? I followed one family through Trump's patriotic contest and found a remarkable story about our age of suspicion. For @notus.com: www.notus.org/national/ame...
Some state officials indicated they're not relying on reassurances from the White House. via @orenoppenheim.bsky.social
State officials preparing if the federal government tries interfering with how they run elections
State leaders from both parties told ABC News they are making preparations in case the federal government tries to interfere with how they run elections in November.
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But throughout the 22-minute speech, the president did not provide specific evidence that the election outcome -- or any votes -- were altered in the 2020 election, despite his repeated claims that the election was "stolen" or "rigged."
Key takeaways from Trump's elections speech
President Donald Trump announced he has declassified a slew of documents he claims reveal vulnerabilities in America's elections systems and election fraud.
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fwiw here is a link to download the north carolina voter file. congratulations you have now apparently done election espionage! www.ncsbe.gov/results-data...
Voter Registration Data | NCSBE
Access various types of North Carolina voter registration data.
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Inevitably, the aggressive and unnatural color grading popularized by contemporary cinema is now showing up in real life in the atmosphere of New York City.
The NTSB said at the time of the collision, "the driver had engaged Tesla's Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), Full Self Driving (FSD) (Supervised)." But data shows that before the crash, Butler "manually overrode FSD (Supervised) by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%," the NTSB noted.
Driver in deadly Tesla crash pressed accelerator to 100% before hitting house: NTSB
The driver in a deadly Tesla crash in Texas pressed the accelerator to 100% before the crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Air quality has reached unhealthy levels in parts of NYC due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Poor air quality affects everyone, but some people are more sensitive to it than others, including people with heart or lung conditions, older adults, pregnant New Yorkers, and infants and children.
Air Quality Guidance: Fire, Smoke, and High Ozone - NYC Health
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Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever
Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.
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