Eric Adams adds another Quinn Emanuel lawyer to his team: Bill Burck, who helped with the Kavanaugh nomination, serves on the Fox board, and has represented Don McGahn, Steve Bannon, and Reince Priebus storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Willem de Kooning, Asheville, 1948. The title of the painting references de Kooning's time teaching at Black Mountain College, the influential mid-20th-century experimental arts school located near the town of Asheville, North Carolina www.phillipscollection.org/collection/a...
The presumption of innocence entitles Eric Adams to a fair and speedy trial and a release on his own reconnaissance (assuming his passport is held so he doesn’t run off to Türkiye). It does not entitle him to operate in any position of public trust, let alone one he’s on trial for exploiting.
The Rev. Al Sharpton today: “The governor should not be pressured into removing Eric Adams from being the mayor." "We're going to see where the evidence is. ... Do not change the process and the precedent. Let due process take its course.”
The national civil rights figure told his congregation Saturday that the mayor should be afforded due process.
Painful irony w/Helene's colossal damage in Asheville: the city recently placed #3 on a list of US cities most likely to experience "climate migration". Asheville summers are cool by Southeastern standards, and annual avg precip (~36") is low for the region. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Migration due to climate change may land Asheville a lot of new residents in coming years according to a sustainable real estate expert.
I've seen 'natural disaster' written unironically on here several hundred times over the last few days, and people I love you, but we have to move on from that term. The field already has for very good reasons.
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Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
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This perfectly captures the through-line from Baldwin to Coates
Nobody understands how the marital privilege works
I can never remember if it's wedding first, then indictment, or the other way around
Earlier this month, Wright’s elegant West 143rd Street home in Harlem was raided, and her phone was seized.