Bill de Blasio

In his "one-on-one stidown" last night with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, The Nightly Show's Larry Wilmore asked about the mayor's relations with police, and they had -- wonder of wonders! -- a genuinely sensible conversation about race.by KenFor his first Nightly Show "one-on-one," Larry Wilmore sat down last night with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. (The mayor is becoming something of a TV "presence." As the NYT's Michael M.

-- cover by Bruce McCall: "Moving Day" [Click to enlarge]"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."-- Sun-tzu"There's no goniff like a left-wing goniff."-- Calvin Trillin repertory kibbitzer Harold the Committedby KenSince this is a New York story, I thought it would be a good time to present the February 2 New Yorker cover commemorating the magazine's historic decamping from Times Square to Manhattan's nether regions and the new World Trade Center tower.

"We'd love to come, but the weathermongers have paralyzed us with fear."

NYPD Commissioner Bratton (right) is in a pickle: He needs both to support and be supported by both Mayor de Blasio (left) and the NYPD."If the [NYC cops] are trying to send a message by not working, whatever they decide that message is, perhaps they should save taxpayers some money and just go on strike."-- Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, in hercolumn "

Do the police serve the city or are they a law unto themselves? This is an issue of concern throughout the country but it has come into crisp focus in New York.

Over the past few days we talked about the corrupting nature of the culture of policing-- from the perspective of victims and from the perspective of good apple police officers who were sickened by the entire filthy enterprise.

Accumulation by Dispossession, Dispossession by Criminalization

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for a moratorium on demonstrations against police brutality in the wake of the killing of two NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40.
De Blasio’s statement must be understood by protesters and black people nationwide as a further attempt by the political establishment to delegitimize and thus finally nip this still budding national movement.

Update: LPC strikes de-calendaring from Tuesday's calendar (see below)Built to last? Sure, but it didn't. Now you saw it; then in November 1963 you didn't.

Every time I see some clueless DIY pundit say something about the "Elizabeth Warren-Bill De Blasio wing of the Democratic Party," it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Bill De Blasio? He has a record, which is why Blue America never endorsed him and why DWT never had any editorial comment on him beyond him being better than the even worse character that EMILY's List ran, Christine Quinn.