So many revealing anecdotes in this terrific @SallyGold assessment of the De Blasio mayoralty - great reporting and a great read politico.com/states/new-yor…
This one about his attempt to educate AOC on Israel was new to me
And this one about his response to the George Floyd protests
This background attribution is a hall of famer: "citing years of therapy over dealing with de Blasio in declining to speak on the record"
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One year ago today, Mike Fanone, a plainclothes narcotics officer with the DC Metropolitan Police Department, reported to work and answered the call to the Capitol. 🧵
What happened next is well known by now: a Trump-voting redneck cop was beaten nearly to death by rioters brandishing Blue Lives Matter flags and calling him a traitor.
Fanone didn't have to be there—he voluntarily deployed, wearing his 10-year-old uniform for the first time. He received arguably the most severe non-lethal injuries of any officer that day. But it was what he did next that made him extraordinary.