“Pennsylvania Republicans announced Wednesday plans to impeach and potentially remove from office Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a national leader among progressive prosecutors who was overwhelmingly re-elected last year,” NBC News reports.

“Krasner is not accused of committing a crime. Nor do his critics allege corruption. Instead, they accuse him of dereliction of duty for what they say is a failure to adequately enforce criminal laws, leading to rising crime rates and declining quality of life for Philadelphians.”

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) suddenly has brown hair, the New York Post reports.

“The longtime water superintendent for a small town in Vermont has resigned in protest after local officials ordered him to restore the town’s water to the state’s standard for fluoride levels—which he had been secretly and unilaterally lowering for years due to his own personal anti-fluoride beliefs,” Ars Technica reports.

“And his righteous, five-page resignation letter offered yet another bombshell in the small-town water scandal that has made national headlines in recent weeks. He asserted that he had been surreptitiously lowering the town’s fluoride levels for much longer than previously known—for over a decade rather than the nearly four years officials had previously disclosed.”

“Three days after the release of a secretly recorded conversation in which she made racist remarks and disparaged the child of a colleague, the former president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from elected office on Wednesday,” the New York Times reports.

“The announcement by Nury Martinez followed a deluge of outrage from all corners of the city, culminating in two City Council meetings packed with protesters who demanded the Democratic official step down.”

“Nury Martinez said Tuesday she would take a leave of absence from the Los Angeles City Council, two days after a surreptitious recording surfaced on which she is heard making racist remarks and denigrating colleagues,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez stepped down from her powerful position Monday morning, a day after incendiary leaked audio showed she and two other council members made racist remarks, the Los Angeles Times reports.

It appears that she will remain on the 15-member legislative body.

“We have a brand, New York has a brand. When people see it, means something. Kansas doesn’t have a brand, but New York has a brand.”

— New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), quoted by the New York Times.

New York Times: “With her death, the 322nd of the year, the number of homicides in Philadelphia was on track toward becoming the highest in police records, passing the bleak milestone set just last year. So far in 2022, more than 1,400 people in the city have been shot, hundreds of them fatally, a higher toll than in the much larger cities of New York or Los Angeles.”

“Alarms have sounded about gun violence across the country over the past two years, but Philadelphia is one of the few major American cities where it truly is as bad as it has ever been.”

“Mayor Eric Adams and a top deputy have outfitted offices in a highly secure tower near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, availing themselves of a private hideout with sweeping skyline views that’s both minutes and worlds away from the bustle of City Hall,” Politico reports.

“The yet-unreported workspace is the latest example of the fledgling mayor fiercely guarding his privacy as he acclimates to one of the most public political jobs in America.”

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN he’s lost faith in Texas leaders investigating how law enforcement responded to the shooting at his town’s elementary school that killed 19 children and two adults.

Said McLaughlin: “I’m not confident… I think it’s a cover-up.”

“Toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should all be concerned about.”

— Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D), quoted by Fox News yesterday.

“Fuck Clarence Thomas.”

— Lightfoot, quoted by the Chicago Sun Times last week.

Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo has resigned his separate position on the Uvalde city council in the wake of the school massacre in his city, the Uvalde Leader-News reports.