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cloudythescribbler

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1. This article exposes the worst stuff I've heard about Eric Adams' mayoralty
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 02:28 AM
Jan 2022

note: cross-posted to both threads


The title of the article seems misleadingly innocuous, but when you read the whole article the picture of what is happening in the prison system is just HORRENDOUS

I have been rooting for Adams for many reasons -- he seems to bring an approach that could just possibly bring key needed reforms to NYC where elite liberals like De Blasio have only had very limited success. (Maya Wiley for all her anti-Blasio rhetoric seems quite similar to how De Blasio was seen 8 years ago)

Much of the carping about Adams (like referring to low-skill jobs -- which is as Braverman has analyzed brilliantly, a reality and a huge class conflict issue) seems gratuitous or formalistic, but this stuff about the prison system is huge, and I don't see any positive way at all to spin it

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