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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 17h

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your NYC clowning renaissance news two months before the NYTimes tumbles to it!

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 3d

You now have ***less than 24 hours*** to take advantage of Hell Gate's Biggest Year Ever, Biggest Sale Ever! 34 percent off all annual subscriptions until the end of the day. Do NOT miss it! hellgatenyc.com/membership/

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 4d

You now have ***less than 48 hours*** to take advantage of Hell Gate's Biggest Year Ever, Biggest Sale Ever! 34 percent off all annual subscriptions until the end of the day. Do NOT miss it! hellgatenyc.com/membership/

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 5d

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your NYC running boom news 23 months before NYTimes readers hear a word of it!

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 6d

Hell Gate Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 7d

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to support the team with this prodigious political foresight and contribute to their bleeding-edge visionary journalism, @hellgatenyc.com is having our biggest subscription sale of the year right now.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 7d

Fact Check: @hellgatenyc.com actually published the Table of Success *nine months before* the indictment because we have incredible news instincts and acute perspicacity.

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Part of a New York Times article that reads "After Mr. Adams was indicted, the news site Hell Gate created a guide to Mr. Adams’s inner circle, which included people who were under indictment or investigation. It was called 'The Eric Adams Table of Success.'"

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 8d

If you are interested in worker-owned journalism, or in the future of sustainable and independent journalism in these grim times, or in what it takes to build a thriving workplace without dumb bosses, you might want to read @hellgatenyc.com's latest annual report.

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Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report

As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 9d

Me and my @hellgatenyc.com hat pulling a Mike Wazowski in the background of a French TV segment on Hamburger America

Screenshot from an instagram reel by "francetvwashington" showing George Motz of Hamburger America cooking a burger for their host at the grill. My one eye and Hell Gate hat are visible poking up directly behind his head

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Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social · 8d

"Tied deeply to journalism's financial crisis is a civic and political crisis: the unwillingness or inability (or both) of large swaths of the media landscape to fulfill our industry's collective mandate in the face of pressure from an autocratic regime" @hellgatenyc.com on worker-owned news today

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 8d

This week only! In celebration of our brand-new annual report, which shows everything looking 🚀up and up🚀 in the world of Hell Gate, we are 🔪slashing🔪 the prices on our annual subs. 34% off! Our biggest sale ever! Did we mention it’s THIS WEEK ONLY! hellgatenyc.com/membership/

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 8d

Hell Gate is one of my favorite media subscriptions, and they're currently on sale. Sign up--if you care about NYC local news they're a great source to follow.

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 8d

It is very dark out there for the news business. The old business models are fucked. Outlets are bending to authoritarian pressure. Now more than ever, we need worker-owned, subscriber-funded journalism.

How's that going at @hellgatenyc.com?

Pretty well, actually!

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report

As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

hellgatenyc.com

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 8d

this helps others do it, love to see it (and to subscribe myself)

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 8d

It is very dark out there for the news business. The old business models are fucked. Outlets are bending to authoritarian pressure. Now more than ever, we need worker-owned, subscriber-funded journalism.

How's that going at @hellgatenyc.com?

Pretty well, actually!

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report

As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

hellgatenyc.com

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 8d

It is very dark out there for the news business. The old business models are fucked. Outlets are bending to authoritarian pressure. Now more than ever, we need worker-owned, subscriber-funded journalism.

How's that going at @hellgatenyc.com?

Pretty well, actually!

hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

Hell Gate 2025 Annual Report

As Hell Gate enters our fourth year, here’s how things are going. (Spoiler: Very nicely.)

hellgatenyc.com

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 9d

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

this is a very funny name for a battle of the bands

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 9d

Join us for a night of 🤘five musical acts🤘that count some of NYC’s best reporters and editors as members—Hell Gate’s In Battle, Bands. Wed, 10/8. Trans-Pecos. Doors at 7pm. $15 pre-sale, $20 at the door.

Tix here: tickets.venuepilot.com/e/hellgate-1...

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Leo @leoglickman.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you Nick Pinto for spotting this. If you don't know, this is Andrew Cuomo's long-time spokesperson reposting a post calling Mamdani a "terrorist".

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 9d

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Cuomo spox Rich Azzopardi retweeting someone's X post which reads in part "Can't let zohran the terrorist Mamdani win."

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 9d

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11d

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict.

They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning"

When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

“It makes it extremely difficult for us to deal with, as the folks that are on the other side of this fence have been, night after night, actually instigating and causing some of the ruckus that’s occurring down there,” Dobson said.

“Okay. So it’s your testimony ICE is creating the problem?” Rask asked.

“I’m saying that they’re not following best practice,” Dobson replied.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 12d

If you've been wondering what is going on at Bluestockings, well, @k80way.bsky.social has a lot to tell you:

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What Is Happening at Bluestockings?

The beloved, embattled queer leftist bookstore announced it was closing its doors on Monday. Why?

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 14d

Subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com, support worker-owned local journalism, and get your Spooky Bookstore Opening news days before right-wing corporate media publishes it with an “exclusive”tag!

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 14d

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