DE BLASIO’S GONNA DE BLASIO: De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force.

As Charles said earlier, New York is getting it good and hard.

In other de Blasio news: De Blasio threatened to close churches and synagogues permanently, but gives Muslims 500,000 meals for Ramadan.

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy disagrees with the above take on de Blasio’s Ramadan meal program: “I read with interest about this program, but isn’t it part of a general program that distributes free meals, including normal meals for people who have no religious dietary preferences, kosher meals for those who prefer kosher, and halal meals for those who prefer halal?  See  https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/us/new-york-halal-meals-ramadan-trnd/index.html and https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals?  Is there any indication that Muslim are being given more meals than Jews and Christians?  The plan is to distribute 25 million free meals in April and May, apparently, so it’s not that odd that 2% of those would be halal, no?  (Muslims make up an estimated 9% of New York’s population, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/nyregion/muslim-community-patrol-brooklyn.html, though presumably not all prefer halal.)”