Pearson is so funny too because he technically works for the city’s Economic Development Corporation but no one has even ever pretended like he did anything there or had a relevant role other than Adams’ roaming enforcer
The feds are investigating whether bribes were paid for NYPD promotions and transfers, per NYPost. The day of NYC mayor Eric Adams's indictment, FBI agents raided a downtown Manhattan office building where two top mayoral advisers, Phil Banks and Tim Pearson, both former cops, work.
The feds were “looking for records,” sources said, signing into the visitors log at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday for the records section of the 16th floor of 375 Pearl St.
All very fair context that we’ll explore upon the glorious return of BORDER/LINES. Rhetorically, the victory has been almost absolute. Policy, more mixed
"All this gluttony for 'content' is laid atop a genuine want, a need, to be informed, to think critically, to connect with others, to know more—practically a biological, evolutionary need." In @flaminghydra.com@felipedlh.bsky.social surveys journalism's woes and finds reason to keep trying:
by Felipe De La Hoz It’s nearly three weeks into the semester, and I’m no longer overwhelmed by that sense of full-body tingling apprehension I got the first time I found myself before the attentive ...
please just make it stop. have we not suffered enough
Well, there it is. As I have long argue and as my colleague @dceiver.bsky.social recently wrote, Trump’s (and Stephen Miller’s) most lasting and absolute victory is on immigration, where they’ve not only won but won conclusively by no contest
Her visit to Arizona will be Harris’ first trip to the southern border as the Democratic nominee,
My latest: New polling shows that roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Joe Biden's star antitrust enforcer. www.wired.com/story/ftc-ch...
New polling shows roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Lina Khan.
Seeing folks toss around the idea of the City Council removing Adams, but there's no impeachment-style provision in the City Charter. The only similar thing is a so-called inability committee, which would feature five members, including a deputy mayor Adams himself could pick. It's not happening
What’s Ruben Diaz Sr. up to these days
Adams is going to flee on one of his robot dogs
Good thing it was only years of cartoonish skull-measuring racism! Imagine if she’d said one (1) thing in support of pro-Palestinian student protesters
After years of a disciplinary procedure, the lightning-rod law professor accused of “incessant racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic actions and statements” is now being punished. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3BpeuER
After years of a disciplinary procedure, the lightning-rod law professor accused of “incessant racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic actions and statements” is now being punished.