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Jun 23, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
.@CurtisSliwa is sharing his greatest-hits talking points after winning Republican primary: promising to ride subway and support cops, bashing Thrive, etc. “There’s no doubt I’m a tough guy,” he mentions. He also promises to ban killing of animals at shelters. Might well win him some support among hardcore animal rights activists?
Jun 23, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Breaking: I’m hearing @AndrewYang is going to concede. Just got to podium.
Jun 22, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
.@AndrewYang trying to meet an onslaught of evening commuters at Broadway Junction. Some end-of-race reflections during brief press gaggle afterwards. Asked about low voter turnout:
Jun 22, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
.@mayawiley in Harlem, apparently trying to preserve her voice while meeting voters. She was more vociferous during a press gaggle just now. Declined to say who she’s ranking behind her, though.
Jun 21, 2021 17 tweets 9 min read
If all goes according to plan today, I'll catch @KGforNYC as she meets voters at 10:30, @AndrewYang's 11:15 rally, @ericadamsfornyc's 1:30 rally and @mayawiley's 5:45 rally. Might also cover a joint Garcia/Yang event in evening. Will share updates here. It's the most wonderful time of the year...
Jun 21, 2021 15 tweets 4 min read
Just now, @JohnBerman was pressing @ericadamsfornyc a bit on Adams's criticism of @AndrewYang/@KGforNYC joining forces. Why did that bother you? “It was on June 19, Juneteenth … As you have all of the African-American, Hispanic candidates in the race—what message are you sending during this time?”
May 31, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
From NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism and Intelligence John Miller: about "one in seven" of 786 arrests made since May 28 were of people from out of state. Before the protests, "organizers of certain anarchist groups" raised bail money and recruited medics "in anticipation of violence," Miller says.
Mar 12, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
Councilmen Brad Lander and Ritchie Torres wrote Mayor de Blasio today urging him to take a host of aggressive #coronavirus measures: "Suspend classes at public schools, while keeping schools open for emergency childcare for essential workers and vulnerable families... "Order the NYPD to stop making low level arrests for violations and misdemeanors, in order to prevent the spread of the virus through our jails, courts, and precincts...
Mar 12, 2020 19 tweets 3 min read
Mayor de Blasio talking #coronavirus on Trevor Noah's show just now: "You know Franklin Roosevelt, the famous quote, ‘We have nothing but [sic] fear, but fear itself?’ There is an element of this that is fear that’s been generated beyond the facts, beyond the reality." "When you really look at coronavirus, it’s serious—we have to make a lot of adjustments to address it—but I worry that it’s becoming sort of the cause for making a bunch of decisions that actually alter all the rest of our life, including in some very bad ways. Let me give you...