Eric Adams Campaign Is All That and a Bag of Chips - The Thursday AM Quickie 8/21/25

Hurricane Erin makes its closest pass to landfall in the US today, so if you're on the East Coast, maybe don't go swimming in the ocean. - Corey

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8/21: Emma is hosting solo; the guests will be Elizabeth Pancotti of Groundwork Collaborative, discuss Eight Ways Trump Is Making the Back-to-School Season More Expensive; and Graham Platner, a military veteran, oyster farmer, and local planning board chair who is running for US Senate in Maine to defeat Susan Collins.

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Today you'll read about how Donald Trump's Justice Department is intimidating trans youth and their doctors, how ICE plans to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on custom gold detailing for agency SUVs, and how Brazil's bumbling former tyrant Jair Bolsonaro misspelled the name of Argentina's president in a secret asylum application last year.

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Eric Adams Confidant Claims Bribery Is Part of Her Culture, Asks Reporters Not to Put Her in the Newspaper

Let's take a look at the lighter side of the political rot that runs from the pinnacle of American power in the White House to the very foundations of local democracy. Case in point: A reelection event for the hapless New York City Mayor-Cop Eric Adams in Harlem took a greasy turn yesterday when The City's beat reporter Katie Honan spotted longtime Adams adviser Winnie Greco.