Bill de Blasio
Contributor at Freelance
Former Mayor of New York City. Love my beautiful family and my amazing city! Proud Brooklynite. Fighting for working people and our democracy. (he/him)
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2 months ago |
nydailynews.com | Eric Adams |Bill de Blasio |Mitchell H. Katz
On this day, exactly five years ago, we lost the first New Yorker to COVID-19. In the days and weeks that followed, the city went into lockdown, as schools and all non-essential businesses closed for what we thought — at the time — would be a few days, possibly a few weeks. We recall the eerily silent streets, sirens wailing in the night, Zoom classrooms, and our health care heroes working tirelessly.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
brookings.edu | Bill de Blasio
Over the past two decades, the United States has battled an unprecedented opioid crisis, with synthetic opioids like fentanyl driving overdose deaths to devastating levels. In 2021 alone, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. After years of grim statistics, overdose rates started declining in 2024. Is the U.S. finally turning a corner on the opioid crisis? How have U.S. domestic and external drug policies evolved?
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Feb 17, 2024 |
msnbc.com | Bill de Blasio
New Yorkers are no stranger to Donald Trump’s legal problems. Starting decades ago, knowledgeable residents of the Big Apple witnessed the Trump family cheat and rig the system for their own benefit. So what’s truly interesting about Friday's New York civil fraud decision is that Trump and his co-defendants are finally being held financially accountable — to the tune of over $350 million. This massive judgment highlights the extent of Trump and the Trump Organization’s white-collar malfeasance.
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Feb 5, 2024 |
msnbc.com | Bill de Blasio
But this problem is bigger than New York. One state government purposely penalizing the people of other states is un-American. So much for “e pluribus unum.”As I’ve reflected on the twin challenges of migration and border security, I’ve tried to remember three basic things:• Those fleeing oppression and violence are just like so many Americans’ ancestors. We need to treat them with the decency we would want for our own families if they were in the same situation.
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Charlie Rangel epitomized New York. He was our constant energy, our street smarts, our boundless hope that somehow things could be made better. That unmistakable voice, that knowing smile, that positive life force are things we will never forget.
Charles Bernard Rangel, the former congressman from Harlem, and the last remaining founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at age 94, according to his family. Read more here: https://t.co/9ZvaV0kkjW https://t.co/zH4IlTyvOn
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Two beautiful young people, Sarah and Yaron, who believed in peace and wanted to create a better world: that is whose lives were robbed by this assassin. Anti-Semitism haunts this Earth, as it has for 2000 years. We must unite to end this hatred once and for all.
Absolutely nothing justifies the murder of innocents. I am devastated by the killing of two people outside an @AJCGlobal event here in Washington. Our prayers are with the victims, families, and loved ones of all impacted. As we await more details, we must be clear that hatred
