“Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, they say, he is single-mindedly focused on his top priorities,” making people sick and killing undesirables.
Excellent 🧵 but: DeBlasio tried to reign in the NYPD, and for his trouble his family was stalked/harassed, and he backed off. I don’t know enough about NYC politics to say that the cops are impossible to control (seems like Bass had the same problem in LA), but I don know how much a mayor can do (1)
Lincoln Smash
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- it may require other city and state pols to have his back.
Also, Obama WAS pushed from the left, but he relied on dipshits like Axelrod and Rahm to push back (remember the “professional left” comment?). I do think that Mamdani is less inclined to listen to centrist advisors, but I don’t know (2)
i really, truly, find this offensive
Maine: Vote for the Nazi. It’s important.
(So glad I don’t live there, but you made your bed, so lie in it, and pull the lever for the asshole.)