Eric Adams made comments about his own experiences of “stop and frisk” search policies versus his own proposed policies as a candidate for police reform. The audio and video illustrate Adams explaining his philosophy on policing.

Refers to Paperboy’s campaign headquarters and “love gallery” in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a mutual aid and healing space model for future “love centers” that Paperboy proposes to build and replicate at other sites in the coming years.

The consensus “progressive” mayoral candidate Maya Wiley (endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among other politicians and civic leaders) was involved with implementing wi-fi in public housing under the Bill DeBlasio administration, one among many reasons housing has become a central issue in the campaign. Another candidate, Shaun Donovan, was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration.

The New York Health Act (state-based Medicare for All, essentially) had the support of both legislative houses this year but was not brought to a floor vote by the Democratic leadership of the Assembly.

Rhythm and meter resemble “let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table” from T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” a poem about consumer anxiety and apocalypse

Could refer to Lincoln Memorial inscriptions. Encryption is one of the key motifs of all Longstreth songs, e.g. the “About to Die” “tablet of values.”

Like antifreeze, sickly sweet thick tears of teratogenic (cancer-causing) polymers – simultaneously natural and synthetic, sincere vs. insincere

Compare to “Time Birthed Spilled Blood” and “Drilling Profitably” on The Getty Address