Mayor Adams hosts livestream with right-wing personality known for antisemitism

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It's Monday in New York City, where New Yorkers not on the streaming site parti.com might have missed Mayor Eric Adams' Saturday night livestream with Sneako, a right-wing internet personality who's been kicked off YouTube and Twitch for making comments including, "Down with the yahud [Jews]."

Also present for the stream — which took place on the porch of Gracie Mansion from about 10:30 to midnight — was Adams' son, the rapper Jordan Coleman, and Amber Rose, a TV personality who spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Between puffs of Sneako's personal brand of cigars, Adams plugged FBI Director Kash Patel's book, criticized the Democratic Party's "cover-up" of former President Joe Biden's declining health, and recommended cryptocurrency as a great way to send money out of the country.

Here's a full recap of their late-night chat.

And here's what else is happening:

• Thousands of demonstrators took to New York City's rainy streets on Saturday for the "No Kings" protest against the Trump administration's policies.
  • Following the demonstration, Mayor Adams called for a statewide ban on face coverings at protests, arguing that current law doesn’t go far enough to deter disorderly conduct.
• Early voting for the June citywide primary kicked off on Saturday, with turnout nearly twice as high as the first day of early voting in the 2021 mayoral primary.
  • The early voting period continues until June 22 — here's our complete guide to the primaries, along with a refresher on how ranked-choice voting works.
• New York state lawmakers want to impose new safety requirements for the world’s most advanced AI models — but federal lawmakers are threatening to usurp the new rules before they’re ever implemented.
• President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” could eliminate the tax credits that New Jersey homeowners who use solar energy rely on to keep monthly prices low.
• New York City is supposed to offer to store individuals' belongings for 90 days after a homeless encampment sweep, but the Adams administration said it stored people’s things just 13 times between January and the end of May this year — during which several hundred sweeps could have occurred.
• Mayor Adams said he's turning a protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue back into an unprotected bike lane after fielding criticism from Williamsburg's Hasidic community about kids getting hit by cyclists.
• The head of the United Federation of Teachers said New York City educators are divided between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo in this year's mayoral primary, making it impossible for the union to endorse anyone.
• Happy belated Father's Day to the peregrine falcon dads who've been caring for their recently hatched chicks nesting atop the George Washington and Bayonne bridges.

• People really committed to their looks at the High Line Pigeon Pageant.
• Zohran Mamdani, fresh off his cross-endorsement with Brad Lander, is also cross-endorsing with Michael Blake in this month's ranked-choice mayoral primary.
• "Most people in my group are partially, if not fully, filming themselves while running": Equinox has been holding influencer-friendly group workouts inside the Vessel.
• Apparently attendance was low and there weren't enough garbage cans at Trump's military parade on Saturday.
• Attendance was not low at the Starbucks barista championships in Las Vegas earlier this month.
• Al Pacino met with the new pope.
• This Athenian craftsman made classic Greek sandals for Jackie O, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bob Saget and many other celebrities.
• Oh boy.