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emily lipstein

@emilylip.bsky.social

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urban mildlife // engagement editor @nyc.streetsblog.org // co-host @rabbith0lepod.bsky.social // formerly social @ motherboard, gizmodo // she/her

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: I'm hiring! Apply to work on @nyc.streetsblog.org's award-winning social video team by 10/24 😎🆒📲 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

StreetsblogNYC Social Video Editor job description

Title: Streetsblog Social Video Producer Location: New York, NY Salary: $75,000-$80,000 annual salary plus benefits Date Posted: October 3, 2025 Application Due: October 24, 2025 Interviews w...

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 4d

really proud of the paper i came up at

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 5d

Apply for the Social Video Producer job at the link below by October 24!

emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: I'm hiring! Apply to work on @nyc.streetsblog.org's award-winning social video team by 10/24 😎🆒📲 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

StreetsblogNYC Social Video Editor job description

Title: Streetsblog Social Video Producer Location: New York, NY Salary: $75,000-$80,000 annual salary plus benefits Date Posted: October 3, 2025 Application Due: October 24, 2025 Interviews w...

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · 5d

Inject this energy into my veins

"I imagine this bill would make me very popular with City workers who drive into work every day from Rockland, Nassau, and Suffolk," Restler told Hell Gate sarcastically. "Fortunately, they're not my constituents."

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 5d

true... but new england!!!

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 5d

truly nothing more vital than local news in this media hellscape and @nyc.streetsblog.org is leading the charge. huge benefits include benefits as well as working for (and with) the one and only @emilylip.bsky.social (mets fan, cyclist, and overall dope ass human)

emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: I'm hiring! Apply to work on @nyc.streetsblog.org's award-winning social video team by 10/24 😎🆒📲 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

StreetsblogNYC Social Video Editor job description

Title: Streetsblog Social Video Producer Location: New York, NY Salary: $75,000-$80,000 annual salary plus benefits Date Posted: October 3, 2025 Application Due: October 24, 2025 Interviews w...

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Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social · 5d

Streetsblog continues to expand! Now the biggest NYC-devoted newsroom in town needs a social video producer. Check it out and share: www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...

JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Social Video Producer

JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 5d

NEWS: I'm hiring! Apply to work on @nyc.streetsblog.org's award-winning social video team by 10/24 😎🆒📲 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

StreetsblogNYC Social Video Editor job description

Title: Streetsblog Social Video Producer Location: New York, NY Salary: $75,000-$80,000 annual salary plus benefits Date Posted: October 3, 2025 Application Due: October 24, 2025 Interviews w...

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Boba Cyclist 정 @bobacyclist.bsky.social · 9d

There is no semblance of traffic safety in New York City. Here is a ride share driver casually, nonchalantly watching home improvement TikTok on his phone that’s conveniently mounted on the dash while driving through Manhattan traffic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 10d

Staffcast! @hackattackimer.bsky.social and I are joined by @davecolon.bsky.social & @emilylip.bsky.social to talk about getting run over, sexualized mascots, taking the train with Sean Manaea, Cuomo's Charger, NYC Flickr, and more!

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66 - Basebalkanization with Emily Lipstein and Dave Colon

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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StreetsPAC @streetspac.org · 18d

On the same day that the Adams administration implemented a 15-mph speed limit for e-bikes, these poor people were crushed by someone driving around the city with a novelty license plate. NYC needs real leadership, not asinine scapegoating and demagoguery.
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German tourist, 50, killed after reversing minivan pins her against truck in Midtown Manhattan

A German tourist was killed when she was struck by a reversing driver in Midtown Manhattan right outside the flagship branch of the New York Public Library Wednesday afternoon, police said.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 25d

If you are engaged in a left-of-center attempting at "playing down" climate change, you are condemning yourself and your children and billions of people to unimaginable manmade and avoidable disasters.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 27d

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · Sep 12

...sigh

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Sep 12

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · Sep 12

I know painting sidewalks and bike lanes get them done quickly and cheaply. But at some point I'd like to see the city actually rebuild the streets with real sidewalks and protected bike lanes made of concrete and asphalt.

NYC sidewalks used to be wider. We cut them back for cars.

Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · Sep 12

The DOT is planning to install "Super Sidewalks" along the busiest parts of the Canal Street corridor east of Broadway, along with a new westbound bike lane to join the existing eastbound lane on Grand Street.

DOT Canal Street Plan Adds Pedestrian Space, Bike Route, But Next Mayor Must Think Bigger - Streetsblog New York City

The changes are a good start, but Canal Street deserves a radical transformation.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Sep 12

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him:

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Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk

An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast stat...

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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · Sep 12

This was a delightful video

emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · Sep 12

rode the 7 train with my friends @davecolon.bsky.social and sean manaea www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmT8...

Riding the 7 Train to Citi Field with Mets Pitcher Sean Manaea | How I Get Around

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · Sep 12

rode the 7 train with my friends @davecolon.bsky.social and sean manaea www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmT8...

Riding the 7 Train to Citi Field with Mets Pitcher Sean Manaea | How I Get Around

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Dave @pauldebenedetto.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dave took the subway with Sean Manaea. “He’s just like us.” -me

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SEE IT: Mets Pitcher Sean Manaea Is Just Another Guy On The Subway - Streetsblog New York City

As the beloved Amazin's open a crucial homestead, we took a subway ride to Citi Field with a man on whose arm depends everything. The ride, at least, was no big deal for this veteran commuter.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 11

1. Oklahoma Central University has shut down a student play about Shakespeare performers performing in drag, which was extremely common in his plays.

The college asserts that the play could be illegal.

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Oklahoma Student Play About Shakespearean Theatre Shut Down Over Gender Laws

For students, the show must go on.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 11

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Sep 11

What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · Sep 11

it's that day, so it's time to share this piece that i co-wrote this with gita a few years back.

it's a look at the interesting and often incomprehensible way that young people process trauma in real time www.vice.com/en/article/h...

How 9/11 Became Fan Fiction Canon

We have spent 20 years trying to process the events of 9/11 and its fallout. For some, that meant trying to figure out how Buffy Summers would have reacted.

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · Sep 10

i had a classmate who had a rice cooker specifically for getting flesh off of bone for processing roadkill. but to be fair, we were ecology/evolution majors and he was a freak even by uchicago standards lol.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 10

RFK, Jr.'s ears just perked up

Cornell students found skinning bear carcass in campus residence hall - The Ithaca Voice

Update (Sept. 9): The Department of Environmental Conservation provided a comment for this story after publication. It has been added. ITHACA, N.Y. — Sometimes you eat the bear, as the […]

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · Sep 9

i do what i can 💅