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Editor @thedailybeast/columnist @NYDailyNews/host @faqnyc (from @NYUMcSilver & @brickhousecoop). DMs open, RTs ≠. Newsletter https://t.co/ItXlluvO8L
Aug 3, 2021 4 tweets 5 min read
Cuomo's counter-report throws a LOT of mud at @LindseyBoylan i(and trying to get some on @NewYorkStateAG in the process) in the hopes that something sticks before concluding that “Ms. Boylan’s agenda and motivations are obvious.” @LindseyBoylan @NewYorkStateAG Ugh—with @_char_bennett_ the Cuomo Report insists that he's very sorry she feels that way, but she just continually misunderstood his very fine and even fatherly intentions governor.ny.gov/sites/default/…
Aug 3, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
“Ha ha, they changed the
minimum from 3 years to 2. Just for you.” "When asked about his involvement in Trooper #1’s transfer, the Governor recited several times that he 'was on constant alert to recruit more women, Blacks, and Asians to the state police detail.'"
Aug 3, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨 "The investigation has concluded that Gov Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and New York state law" "The Executive Chamber’s culture—one filled with fear and intimidation, while at the same time normalizing the Governor’s frequent flirtations and gender-based comments—contribute to the conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist." ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…
Jul 14, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Lyn Cheney smacking away Jim Jordan's hand on Jan. 6 as he tries to protect the "ladies" from the Capitol Building invaders, and telling him "Get away from me. You fucking did this." thedailybeast.com/whodunit-trump… Romney explaining last September that Trump talking about a "rigged" election was just "something he’s going to say to himself and a few other people will believe him and he’ll therefore be comfortable at Mar-a Lago with himself and with his ego" thedailybeast.com/whodunit-trump…
Jan 25, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
“He won that election,” said Rudy. “You want to disbar me? I think I’m going to move to disbar you.” nytimes.com/2021/01/24/nyr… Along with the false accusation that Dominion had stolen the election "technologically," Giuliani told his podcast listeners to use the promo code "Rudy" to get protection from "cyberthieves" stealing their home titles for just $596. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
Aug 23, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
Quick thread on the deep hole New York is in, and our political class' collective failure to acknowledge it, from my @nydailynews column today nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-br… @NYDailyNews While Cuomo’s writing a book about New York’s “victory” over the coronavirus, taking just a single moment of silence for each of New York’s 32,451 COVID deaths so far would stretch over nine hours.
Mar 26, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
I had a sobering talk with @MarkLevineNYC, the @NYCCouncil health chair who warned early on about what was coming and who’s now sheltering at home with a presumed coronavirus infection. Threading some of his key points here, and hear the full interview at faq.nyc/2020/03/26/unl… The focus on the number of positive tests is becoming a distraction. The real battlefield now is hospitals. Hospitalizations, intensive care, and fatalities —those are the numbers we need to watch, and it appears they are all growing rapidly.
Mar 21, 2020 7 tweets 5 min read
So my dear friends @adamklevy & @AlexBrookLynn went to the marriage bureau this morning and found a note taped to the door. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-mar… They were at the marriage bureau when de Blasio announced it was closed (an hour after it was supposed to open). So they went to criminal court in search of a judge, but were told they could only enter was if they were turning themselves in on outstanding warrants. No such luck.
Mar 8, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
This is fine, 1919 edition WHISKEY IS NOT
PREVENTIVE OF
"SPANISH FLU"
Aug 11, 2019 11 tweets 4 min read
Clip check on the Metropolitan Correctional Center, starting with its opening in 1975: Central AC and cells with strengthened plastic windows instead of bars. 1976: Four guards indicted for delivering food, booze and drugs to mobsters and other prisoners in exchange for cash, coke and sex.
Jan 20, 2019 13 tweets 9 min read
1990, and the names of Donald Trump ("It's a bummer when panhandlers win") and Barack Obama ("A first for Harvard") appear on the same newspaper page for the first time—with a story on Hulk Hogan between them. "It would be a matchup of the superheroes," said King.
Dec 1, 2018 5 tweets 5 min read
Michael Cohen's also been talking with @NewYorkStateAG about a few things, according to his sentencing submission @NewYorkStateAG And Michael Cohen's been talking about Trump's taxes, too, it looks like