Congratulations to @NYCMayor Eric Adams and @DOEChancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos. This is a major achievement for NYC’s children. via @NYTimes.

Then in 2014, after 3 yrs, when @BilldeBlasio finally tried to get a new program, Cuomo said it was too late to change 3 sentences in the budget to allow it. @BlackLisa and I went to Albany & she convinced the R’s under Dean Skelos to do it. True story 2/2

.⁦@andrewcuomo⁩ invoking an unhoused family to criticize ⁦@ZohranKMamdani⁩ living in a rent stabilized apt reminds me of the time in 2011 that Cuomo defunded the Advantage program, leading to a 30%+ spike in mostly family homelessness. 1/

+@davidyassky @edgarsantana.

This is the new TikTok grid feature/harmony filter! You're about to see me do a lot more acapella!. My attempt at “When you wish upon a star”

Amendment: I also got responses and enagagement from @JesseCampoamor in the Gov’s office during this time.

Correction of typo: as stated in the prior post, the Gov’s shutdown went into effect on 3/22, not 4/22.

.@tomaspueyo.

and it wasn’t until a critical mass of elected and civic leaders began pushing that he did so on 3/20, as confirmed by @jdavidgoodman in this @nytimes piece from 4/8/20

have been saved if the Gov had acted earlier. But I imagine I wasn’t the only one trying to warn him of the massive potential for loss of life in those critical days, when every minute mattered. What I saw was an unwillingness by the Gov to act until much too late,.

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On 4/14 just about 3 weeks after the shutdown went into effect on 4/22. I never got a reply from the Governor to this message or any of the other messages I sent to other than from two members of his team, Edgar Santana and David Yassky. It’s hard to say how many lives could 8/.

the average time from infection to death in the early days of COVID was approx. 3 weeks. This chart shows the deaths in NYC in March and April 2020. As you can see the daily number of COVID deaths in NYC rose to over 600 in the second week of April, and began to decrease 7/

and say he didn’t have the authority. It wasn’t until Friday 3/20 that Cuomo changed his mind and then waited until Sunday evening 3/22 for the shutdown to go into effect, 10 days after I wrote to his top deputy saying we had 24-48 hrs. For context, 6/.

w @coreyinnyc @donnellymjd and @celinegounder, the urgency only increased. I continued to hound the Mayor & Gov privately & publicly to shut down NYC, & on Tuesday 3/17/20, @billdeblasio did that. @andrewcuomo’s immediate reaction was to mock the Mayor 5/.

I also sent the same email to @billdeblasio. I got a call from @billdeblasio the next morning around 7am. He told me I sounded like I was hyperventilating (I probably was) but we agreed to keep talking & we did. No reply from the Gov. Over the next few days, talking many times 4/.

this absolutely staggering and chilling piece by @tomaspuyeo I sent the screenshotted email attach to the first post to the highest person in NYS govt I had an email for, and I knew this person had minute-to-minute constant direct access to the Gov. 3/.

I was getting increasingly convinced and alarmed that Covid19 was the big deadly pandemic we had all feared and I started calling for NYC to be shut down on 3/14/20. At 2am on Thursday 3/12/20, after I read 2/.

I’ve held my tongue on this for 5 yrs, but I figure now is as good a time as any to speak up since @andrewcuomo is on the general election ballot as an Independent in Nov. against the Dem nominee (full disclosure I’m a Dem). In the first 2 weeks of March 2020, 1/

RT @WFPChief: We can’t airdrop our way out of an unfolding famine. Not in Gaza. 500,000 people are starving TODAY. The only way to get foo….

I hope that @GLFOP remembers this disrespect next time @tedcruz is up for reelection.

I continue to be haunted by Bret Stephens’s words in the @nytimes Opinion pages this week. At this moment when we are seeing man-made famine causing more death, Mr. Stephens chose to minimize the tens of thousands of civilian deaths in a rhetorical game.