Flipboard<p>Remember when Nate Silver tipped New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a future U.S. president? How’s that going for you, Nate? </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@nybooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nybooks</span></a></span> takes a look at Adams’ hubris, the scandal that will likely come to define him, and how his mayoralty has “come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term — from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.” [Story may be paywalled]</p><p><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/04/17/the-president-of-brooklyn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nybooks.com/online/2025/04/17/</span><span class="invisible">the-president-of-brooklyn/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EricAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EricAdams</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p><p>7/15</p>