324 - The Hufflepuff Center For Liberty

Albany Teamsters president has been a naughty boy. A local woman was entrapped by the FBI in a terrorism plot. NY mental health courts need more love. A plastics packaging bill has been killed under suspicious, romantic circumstances. Palantir co-founder is weirdly obsessed with criminalizing homelessness. And a river otter was spotted in the Bronx River!

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/albany-teamsters-head-accused-funneling-union-22396227.php

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/woman-charged-plotting-terror-attack-ny-capitol-22396206.php

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/jessica-bowie-capitol-bombing-plot-mental-health-22398534.php

https://nypost.com/2026/08/22/us-news/isis-plotter-jessica-bowie-threatened-to-blow-up-house-roommates/

https://nysfocus.com/2026/08/04/mental-health-courts-new-york

https://nysfocus.com/2026/06/11/heastie-new-york-plastics-packaging-reduction-recycling-bill-vote

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/otter-bronx-river-new-york-city

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/joe-londsdale-cicero-institute-homelessness/