Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faced vehement opposition when he travelled to a small Wisconsin town to try to convince residents to accept the construction of a data center on Saturday, new reporting reveals. New York’s Hell Gate reported that Adams gave a talk in the town of Wisconsin Rapids, situated in the central part of the state, as part of his new job as a “pitchman” for real…

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    4 hours ago

    wake me up when the boos are bullets

    Seriously there is no reforming the billionaire class. Humanity’s survival depends on us realizing that before they destroy the climate and kill all life on earth.

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      While I do not object to calling a Black New York power broker a carpetbagger like a lot of people do, I do think that the “spits” crosses a line given the history of what spitting in front of a Black man represented during the Jim Crow era, especially as a lot of those racist signifiers are back on the rise again

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    Even for a dimwitted politician that seems like a boneheaded move.

    And even bigger question is what idiot hired him to do that?