Fun fact, at $5 Billion, NYC's annual migrant spending would be the 9th largest city budget in the United States. No, not city budget item or line or department, but the 9th largest entire American municipal budget.

Great interview between Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads) & New Rochelle Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert on the economic growth taking place in New Rochelle. We face a growing housing crisis in the region, but New Rochelle is showing how community-focused development can work. ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

In #PuertoRico the insurgent movement's candidate for Gov Juan Dalmau held a meeting w/ over 60 social media influencers from the island to discuss the upcoming election. These non-traditional, innovative strategies will break the bipartisan stranglehold. Let's go! #LaAlianzaVa

Feds' raids into homes of Mayor Adams’ inner circle leaves City Hall in limbo buff.ly/3zh4JrG

Top NYPD officials say it's "misinformation" to call investigative work by federal authorities a "raid" and Chief Chell says it's "members of our department," declining to mention it's the police commissioner. The lower third is more honest:

Wonder what was really going on at Con Sofrito in the Bronx? 🤔

The New York Post ripping into "the increasingly fascist press office of the NYPD" and its "thin-skinned propagandists who spend their days lashing out at reporters" and things are entirely off the rails. nypost.com/2024/09/06/opi…

The New York Post — The New York Post — references the “increasingly fascist press office of the NYPD.” nypost.com/2024/09/06/opi…

The mayor insists that he regularly reminds his appointees to “follow the law.” It never seems to occur to Hizzoner that it might be better to hire aides who don’t need a daily reminder not to commit crimes. My take in ⁦New York Magazine⁩ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Day two of the Post Editorial Board is going hard on NYPD. "It is not them we are criticizing. It’s the small number of brass who have decided that a free press is the enemy. And you know who usually thinks that? The people that have something to hide." nypost.com/2024/09/06/opi…

EXLCU! Police Commissioner Edward Caban’s twin brother — a former cop with a checkered past — is being eyed by the feds over his alleged work as a “fixer” for swanky restaurants and nightclubs in Manhattan, sources said Friday. nypost.com/2024/09/06/us-…

Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads) New York Magazine Well said. When I saw his quote in NYT that he tells his staff to “follow the law” each day, I thought…Wow! What does that say about your Administration?

“The mayor, as he often does, insists that he regularly reminds his appointees to “follow the law.” It never seems to occur to Hizzoner that it might be better to hire aides who don’t need a daily reminder not to commit crimes.” ⁦Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads)⁩ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

nobody, but especially not the people making the laws, should need to be reminded to follow the law

You weren’t imagining it—the fix was in! Among the five major newspapers, nearly ten times as many articles focused on Joe Biden’s age as on Donald Trump’s. (1 of 3)

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My preliminary analysis of what appears to be a corruption scandal involving Top NYPD Officials Mayor Eric Adams Eric Adams dismantled the multi-agency nightlife enforcement task force in December of 2023. A move that many of us raised questions about that were never answered. To my

Unsurprisingly, Dr. Naomi Wolf is wrong: Martin Luther King, Jr., was never convicted of a felony.

“The mayor, as he often does, insists that he regularly reminds his appointees to “follow the law.” It never seems to occur to Hizzoner that it might be better to hire aides who don’t need a daily reminder not to commit crimes.” Via ⁦Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads)⁩ —> nymag.com/intelligencer/…