Smile: Municipal Grin
"There are smiles that make us happy,
There are smiles that make us blue..."
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# Mayor Mamdani Makes a Child Care Announcement with Chancellor Samuels
Never let it be said that #MayorMamdani is unwilling to share the spotlight...today, with _**New York's Cutest**_ , announcer ng a new RFI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Altodsq6q2o
# What do Democratic Socialist victories mean for NJ?
In our effort to #UnderstandMamdani, now that he has been elected #MayorMamdani, we will be expanding the scope of what we publish here.
New Jersey is not New York...as residents of either state will be happy to confirm. So the success of […]
# American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
Heather Cox Richardson, whose **Letters From An American** helped establish **Substack**, here interviews #ZohranMamdani on questions of democracy, populism, progressivism and practical politics.
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# No Contract? No Coffee!
#ZohranMamdani, soon to be #MayorMamdani, supports strtiking Starbucks workers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXnfID1Lw0c
# Getting the Team Together
Transition is underway!
If you liked the campaign you should pay atterntion to the hard part...
Get ready...
Get set...
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Tweet: Ross Barkan @RossBarkan Trump endorsed Mamdani before Schumer did. 4:36 PM Nov 21, 2025
I've yet to fully absorb, let alone analyze, last Friday's meeting between #ZohranMamdani and Donald Trump...
but I did want to note this ironic, telling post by Ross Barkan shortly after it concluded.
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# Trump SWOONS Over Zohran in Surreal Oval Office Presser
I'm thinking that Andrew Cuomo is spinning in his political grave.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFLqxZF9OQ
# Exit Stage Left: On Movements, Mayors, and the Musical Logic of Insurgent Politics
> if the movement cannot release its electeds into autonomy, the entire strategy collapses into a kind of ideological helicopter parenting.
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# #ZohranMamdani’s Reported Plan For ‘Arabic Numerals’ In School Trolls Rightwing
As a Jewish New Yorker with some concern for the future of this city and (since they are intertwined) of this nation may I simply say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zujUUI0WEvk
Oy, gevalt!
Given the […]
# Why Focusing on the Democrats Misses a Meaningful Lesson From Mamdani’s Win
This video was posted shortly after #MamdaniForMayorNYC's _primary_ win...so the fact that I'm linking to it now that #ZohranMamdani is preparing to take office as Democratic #MayorMamdani can be taken to be something […]
# Establishment Democrats Tried to Derail Katie Wilson’s Campaign—and Failed
> When Mamdani carried New York, the media asked if he was the new face of the Democratic Party. The same question is asked here in Washington State. The Democrats are going to need to a big tent to beat back fascism […]
# Can Chi Ossé beat Hakeem Jeffries?
> Already, Mamdani and Ossé, erstwhile allies, have reportedly fallen out. Mamdani, days away from entering City Hall, is unsettled by the prospect of being tangled up in an ugly, high-profile brawl that lacks upside for his state-sponsored agenda. The […]
# Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
> “The challenge is how to reconcile cultural identity with political belonging, and a common past with a shared future,” Mamdani writes. “Not all who share a common past necessarily share a […]
# Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things)
> While Khan is already being tagged a socialist, and was seen during her tenure as specifically hostile to big American business, her policies are deeply capitalist. She wants more competition, not less, and to see […]
# Excellence over mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to food
> Though many people don’t know it, there’s always been a strong tradition of socialist perfectionism, from nineteenth-century writers like John Ruskin and William Morris to Bloomsbury Bolsheviks like Virginia Woolf and John Maynard […]
# Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say
_Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices_
> Experts say New York mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani’s selection of Lina Khan, the former Federal […]
# #ZohranMamdani’s Internationalism Is Not an Afterthought
_How Mamdani can make municipal solidarity more than a slogan._
> With a more considered approach to the NYC Office of International Affairs—and a proper plan of action to govern it—Mamdani can turn the page on the corruption of the […]
# If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
> Because Mamdani’s campaign is now the test case for progressive governance, how he manages the NYPD will have enormous consequences for left organizing across the country. But ultimately, what happens will be less down to […]
# Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Revolution — A Response
_**New Republic** reads Mamdani’s moral politics as mostly religious. I suggest the real story is a synthesis: Islamic ethics + democratic socialism + a relational, schmoozal political practice that goes well beyond “grassroots.”_
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# Mamdani skips Veterans Day parade to serve food to Bronx veterans
> "I wanted to insure that on Veterns Day I actually got the time to sit down with veterans and hear from them."
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Yes, New York will soon be under new management. But #ZohranMamdani is just the start
_Lina Khan outraged corporates and conservatives as head of the Federal Trade Commission. Expect more of the same now she’s with the mayor-elect’s transition team_
> Mamdani has a mandate from New Yorkers […]
# Against Mamdani’s Wishes, Gen Z Councilman Plans to Challenge Jeffries
_Chi Ossé, a New York City councilman, has told allies he is preparing to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader of the House._
> Mr. Mamdani has privately tried to discourage his ideological […]
# From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor
> Mamdani’s sweeping victory proves the political promise of democracy. And if he governs as he campaigned—as a courageous and deeply principled, yet always results-oriented, champion of economic justice and social uplift—he will prove, as La Guardia […]
How could #ZohranMamdani pay for his bold agenda for New York?
_A look at the realities the mayor-elect will face to pay for his progressive policies – and whose support he needs_
> “The dramatic way of putting it is New York City can’t raise dog licensing fees without state legislature […]
# #ZohranMamdani’s writer on crafting a historic victory speech: ‘In New York, inspiration is everywhere’
> Mamdani and Gerson wanted New Yorkers to come away from the victory speech feeling as if they would also have an important part to play in the new administration, and that no suggestion […]
# #ZohranMamdani, New York City and the promise to revive social democracy in America.
> New York is a city in which it is not absurd to say that a large slice of the middle class share everyday interests and experiences with the 56 percent of the population who are either on low-incomes or in […]
# Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
> Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: _Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?_ It’s a storied gambit […]
# Lights, Camera, Election: #ZohranMamdani's Bollywood-Inspired Path to NYC Mayor
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# The Mamdani moment: In conversation with political theorist Prof. Corey Robin
* #ZohranMamdani’s election as New York City’s Mayor is more than a local story. His victory has drawn global attention, bringing the American left into focus once again. In this interview with The Hindu […]