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Mayor Bill de Blasio was mocked on Twitter after he posted and then removed a photo that showed a woman’s t-shirted chest reflected in his sunglasses. The mayor came back in a second post soon after without the reflection that read: “The future of New York City is so bright I gotta wear shades!” But Twitter users didn’t skip a beat. Twitter user @z00mz00mer responded with a TikTok video zooming in and out of the reflection with the song ‘A Pimp Named Slickback’ in the background. He tweeted, ‘bill, why did you delete the first one? it was so pimp!’...

Tweets in article at link. Look, she was in no way totally immune from criticism regarding the city’s response to coronavirus, but at least Dr. Oxiris Barbot, New York City's now-former health commissioner, turned a corner and warned Mayor Bill de Blasio that COVID was tearing through the Big Apple rapidly and the results could be disastrous. She presented him with the data. He ignored it ’. Now, both were saying pretty much the exact same thing in February regarding outdoor activities: “live your lives, New Yorkers.” But Bill was still saying that mid-March when it was pretty clear the...

“That would be like a nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere close to getting to,” McCray noted in a TIME100 Talks discussion. McCray’s comments come after elected leaders in Minneapolis have caved to demands by Left-wing groups to disband that city’s police department in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a few bad cops last month.