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Jun 3 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
New: Mamdani's commitment to back Rep. Adriano Espaillat for reelection was at first so ironclad they shook hands on it last summer, Rep. Nydia Velázquez tells me.

Mamdani broke his promise last week by endorsing Espaillat's democratic socialist opponent. politico.com/news/2026/06/0…
In light of his flip flop, Velázquez, a disenchanted Mamdani backer, says she won't take his word on anything, whether on policy or politics.

"I will say I want it in writing,” she said, a sign he's losing trust with at least some key government partners. politico.com/news/2026/06/0…
Meantime, tweets keep surfacing from Espaillat opponent Darializa Avila Chevalier:

In a 2022 post we obtained, she accused *the DSA* of "anti Palestinian racism."

Then, in late 2025, DSA leaders voiced reservations about backing her, per audio we got. politico.com/news/2026/06/0…

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Dec 3, 2024
Mayor Adams confirms he has spoken with Tom Homan, Trump's incoming "border czar," and that he plans to meet with him soon to talk about immigration issues.
Adams laments "cancel culture" when asked whether he's going to work with the Trump administration on deportation efforts.

"Cancel me because I'm going to protect the people of this city," he says.
Adams pulls out a copy of the New York Times and reads from an article saying Biden and Trump agree that the Biden Justice Department "has been politicized."

"If it's in the New York Times it has to be true," says Adams, who's being prosecuted by the DOJ on corruption charges.
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May 1, 2024
On MSNBC, Mayor Adams says the NYPD "had to do something" at Columbia University last night because of "outside agitators."

"We had to really move in for the safety of those children," he says.
NYPD DCPI head Tarik Shepphard, who's on the hit with Adams, is asked what's known about these "outside agitators."

Shepphard doesn't say much in response, but Adams earlier noted that the wife of a convicted terrorist was among those arrested. He does not name this person.
Adams is asked how many of the roughly 50 people arrested inside Hamilton Hall were "outside agitators."

"We are sorting through that now," he says. He adds: "These are our children and we can't allow them to be radicalized."

Still no word on who exactly these agitators are.
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Apr 26, 2024
NEW: Hassan Naveed, director of Mayor Adams’ hate crimes prevention unit, was fired from his post last week without being given a reason for his dismissal — and says he's planning to take legal action claiming he was discriminated against for being Muslim. nydailynews.com/2024/04/26/nyc…
"I've never had this level of disrespect of being sidelined like this,” Naveed told me, noting he was just 6 months away from becoming eligible for a municipal pension when he was fired. "I've done everything right in my career and then this happens.” nydailynews.com/2024/04/26/nyc…
The order to fire Hassan came from "higher up" in the administration, sources say.

Hassan's office is overseen by Deputy Mayor Phil Banks, who's behind a separate effort to oust the chair of the city police oversight board, we first reported this week.
nydailynews.com/2024/04/26/nyc…
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Feb 28, 2023
Introducing @NYCMayor at a New York Public Library interfaith breakfast, his chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin says "in government, many times, it is said that one has to separate church from state."

"We have an administration that doesn't believe in that," she says.
She also says Adams "is definitely one of the chosen."
Adams says Lewis-Martin is “so right” about the fact that church should not be separated from state.

“Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies,” he says.
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Dec 27, 2022
.@NYCMayor confirms he vacationed in the U.S. Virgin Islands during last week’s storm.

He says he went there to reflect on his late mother, and slams the media coverage about his trip as “really alarming.”
To be clear: No one, to my knowledge, has suggested the mayor doesn’t deserve a few days of vacation. Adams’ trip became a flashpoint because his office refused to disclose his whereabouts — as the city was in the middle of a dire weather emergency.
“I deserved those two days, and my fellow New Yorkers believe I deserved those two days,” Adams says, as people start applauding in the room (I’m not there, but I presume staffers are the ones applauding).
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Feb 3, 2022
Speaking at NYPD's 1PP headquarters, Biden says Officers Jason Rivera & Wilbert Mora were personifications of "the who and what law enforcement ought to be."

“Their loss for the city is also a loss for the nation," he says, adding he has spoken with the Rivera & Mora families.
"We're not about defunding. We're about funding and providing the additional services you need," Biden says in what's presumably music to @NYCMayor's ears.
Adams calls gun violence a "domestic terror that is pervasive in the city and country."

“We need, as I stated, a 9/11-type response," he says.
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