"The Capitol Police made more arrests on each of the first three days of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in September, 2018, than they did yesterday."
Dana Rubinstein
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Dana Rubinstein
@danarubinstein
Reporter at The New York Times. Drop me a line here: [email protected]. You can also find me here: bsky.app/profile/danaru…
New York, NY
Joined November 2009
- Queens Republican district leader arrested for taking part in U.S. Capitol siege: feds
- "I'm Gandhi-like. I think like Gandhi. I act like Gandhi. I want to be like Gandhi." - @NYCMayor, at his flag-raising for India (his 44th)
- "He called the Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, who is Black, 'a gap-toothed wildebeest' and referred to former President Barack Obama as a 'Muslim savage.'"Exclusive: A top NYPD official was accused of posting racist comments online. And not just any official: He runs the office combating workplace harassment. By @WRashbaum @alanfeuer nyti.ms/2GA7h9a
- Amid a spike in Covid cases in NYC, @nycmayor today announced "the lifting of the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for New York City public school proms."
- Inbox: Yang has filed to open a campaign account for mayor, which will enable him to raise money — and spend it
- "More recently, in December, Mr. Cruz had attacked a Democrat, Mayor Stephen Adler of Austin, for taking a trip to Cabo while telling constituents to 'stay home' during the pandemic." nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/…
- It has been 58 days since NYC saw a pedestrian fatality -- the longest time without one since since the city began tracking in 1983, per testimony of DOT Commish Polly Trottenberg just now
- As of today, 75 percent of all adults in NYC have received at least one dose of the vaccine, de Blasio announces today.
- On NY1 this morning, the mayor is again refusing to say precisely how many protestors he believed to be "outside agitators." Is it half the protestors? It is a quarter? @patkiernan asks. "Pat, I don't think that matters," @NYCMayor says.
- Columbia University, which has a $14B endowment, gives the neighboring Morningside Park... "about $2,500 a year in contributions"
- "the Veterans Administration plans to offer counseling to Afghanistan vets who will experience the trauma of losing their Afghan comrades to beheading by the Taliban."
