#mandani — Public Fediverse posts
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If you want the deets on #mandani is playing so rich New Yorkers pay. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXuzKGghJfX/?igsh=OTdndWpwdjJ4MWs2
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Here in #Texas, to the Republicans and the billionaires whose power they entrench, the prospect of the Lone Star State being swept up in a similarly insurgent candidacy still sounds like its own far-fetched fantasy.
But what of our cities? https://www.texasobserver.org/let-a-hundred-mamdanis-bloom/
#Dallas #Houston #Austin #politics #USpol #news #NYC #Mandani #socialism #Democrats
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"Throughout 2025, more than 17.1 million posts circulated across multiple platforms about Mamdani, a significant share of which amplified vicious disinformation and hate speech against him. Despite this onslaught, Mamdani—a Ugandan-born, Indian American Muslim—will become the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian American mayor.
Zohran Mamdani is the son of renowned academic Mahmood Mamdani and acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, both of Indian origin. His father comes from a Gujarati Muslim background, while his mother is of Hindu descent, giving Mamdani a multicultural and interfaith heritage. His candidacy, defined by progressive policy commitments and steadfast advocacy for marginalized communities, has become a focal point for anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and anti-South Asian animus in the United States and beyond.
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From his primary victory in June 2025, through the end of October 2025, Equality Labs manually monitored and analyzed 500 social media posts that explicitly targeted Zohran Mamdani. This monitoring was conducted by a team of social media monitoring experts on hate speech and dis/misinformation. In parallel, we conducted a large-scale, year-long analysis across major platforms to assess the broader scope and dynamics of the hate he has been receiving.Our mixed-methods approach combined qualitative coding of harassment narratives with quantitative trend analysis to identify dominant frames, trace amplification networks, and distinguish organic discourse from coordinated disinformation and hate
speech. This dual lens allowed us to map the trajectory of attacks over time, evaluate platform enforcement gaps, and surface recommendations for community safety, rapid response, and policy accountability."https://www.equalitylabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/11-6-25_Mamdani-REPORT.docx_compressed.pdf
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yup
not voting is passive acceptance of #fascism
#thirdparty voting divides the #left vote and is thus indirect support of fascism
(europeans: will you please try to understand how fucked up the #USA voting system is and please shut the fuck up about third party?)
thus we must take over the #democrats
it is the only way
AND SHOW THE FUCK UP AND #VOTE IN THE #PRIMARIES #PRIMARIES2026 TO GET THE CANDIDATES YOU WANT YOU LAZY WHINY FUCKS
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yup
not voting is passive acceptance of #fascism
#thirdparty voting divides the #left vote and is thus indirect support of fascism
(europeans: will you please try to understand how fucked up the #USA voting system is and please shut the fuck up about third party?)
thus we must take over the #democrats
it is the only way
AND SHOW THE FUCK UP AND #VOTE IN THE #PRIMARIES #PRIMARIES2026 TO GET THE CANDIDATES YOU WANT YOU LAZY WHINY FUCKS
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yup
not voting is passive acceptance of #fascism
#thirdparty voting divides the #left vote and is thus indirect support of fascism
(europeans: will you please try to understand how fucked up the #USA voting system is and please shut the fuck up about third party?)
thus we must take over the #democrats
it is the only way
AND SHOW THE FUCK UP AND #VOTE IN THE #PRIMARIES #PRIMARIES2026 TO GET THE CANDIDATES YOU WANT YOU LAZY WHINY FUCKS
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yup
not voting is passive acceptance of #fascism
#thirdparty voting divides the #left vote and is thus indirect support of fascism
(europeans: will you please try to understand how fucked up the #USA voting system is and please shut the fuck up about third party?)
thus we must take over the #democrats
it is the only way
AND SHOW THE FUCK UP AND #VOTE IN THE #PRIMARIES #PRIMARIES2026 TO GET THE CANDIDATES YOU WANT YOU LAZY WHINY FUCKS
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This would be that 'Affordability' thing the Paedo keeps fixating on, as if just mentioning it and being seen with an "Affordability Guy" aka "a Socialist" will turn those ratings around.
For he is a narcissist, let's not forget that one.#Trump #Mandani #ZohranMamdani #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Affordability #CostOfLiving #Socialism
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"If you read back the transcript of the speech, you will see that the nice things were in there too. The words of unity and gratitude and optimism. Yet what stood out were the words of power, of the willingness to fight, of revolution. Not the moments when Zohran Mamdani smiled, but the longer moments when he wore a grim expression of determination, the look of a boxer in the corner about to bite down on the mouthpiece and wade into war.
Once it was over you walked outside and saw that it wasn’t over at all. Directly outside the doors of The Paramount, behind metal police barriers, was a crowd of — Hundreds? Thousands? — of New Yorkers who didn’t have tickets to get into the event yet came and stood on the sidewalks of Flatbush Avenue just to be close to the place where the thing was happening. There they all huddled, like Broadway fans waiting for the stars to emerge after a show, smiling and raising fists and being there, so they could say that they were. So they could feel like part of the launch of a new city. It was one of those crackling center-of-the-universe moments. You could feel certain right then that you were at the single most important place in New York City, and, by extension, the world.
Then I stepped down into the Dekalb Avenue subway station and got on a Q train full of drowsy and silent people getting off the night shift. People who did not know or care about the spectacle happening just above their heads. The irony of Mamdani’s fame is that all of it will only be worthwhile if it can be used on behalf of all the people on that train — the people farthest away from the party. I hope his eyes will stay locked on that horizon. It’s nice to believe that good things will happen."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york-city-victory
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"Most of the money was poured into three main super PACs, both pro-Cuomo and anti-Mamdani. Fix the City, the PAC supporting Cuomo’s bid since the primary, spent millions on television ads for the former mayor and against Mamdani. Anti-Mamdani PACs Defend NYC—started by former advisor to President Donald Trump, Jason Meister—and For Our City, have also taken in giant sums from billionaire donors like former mayor Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
During his campaign, Mamdani often remarked on the huge amounts of money being spent to defeat him.
“They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,” he said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
https://time.com/7331119/zohran-mamdani-billionaires-ackman-bloomberg/
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I never knew a cartoon could make me feel like crying ... Is it the relief of feeling a smidgeon of optimism?
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In the end, it wasn't even necessary to wait for the country to enter a recession for Americans to change their voting preferences to the Democratic Party...
"Several high-profile state and local elections on Tuesday marked the first major litmus test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term—and Democrats won big. From gubernatorial races to mayoral elections, Democrats swept their Republican opponents by campaigning on an anti-Trump platform.
The results were stark. In the first round of elections since Trump took office in January, Democrats won nearly all seats up for grabs. Most notably, Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani swept the New York City mayoral vote, becoming the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor. His win delivers a major setback for Trump, who personally endorsed Mamdani’s main rival, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, and had threatened to cut off federal funding to New York City if Mamdani won.
Among Democrats’ other major wins, Mikie Sherrill was elected governor of New Jersey, Abigail Spanberger won the race for governor of Virginia, and Pennsylvania voted to retain three liberal state Supreme Court justices. Even races further down the ballot turned blue. In Virginia, 13 seats in the state House of Delegates flipped in favor of Democrats, while Democratic candidates Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones were elected lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively. Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Pittsburgh all elected Democratic mayors. And Democrats ousted two Republicans in a statewide election for the Georgia Public Service Commission."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/us-elections-democrats-mamdani-trump-cuomo/
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Well #Cuomo is done politically. He is the past. The big question is what is a winning strategy going forward.
There is no single strategy, but #Bernie, #AOC, and now #Mandani have shown an alternative path.
Would that have worked for #Spanberger in #VA? I’ll leave others to opine, but her politics are more #centrist and maybe that is a better fit in the Commonwealth
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"In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots. We will vote for our next mayor. But more than that, we will make a very simple choice.
A choice between democracy and oligarchy. A choice between a city you can afford or more of the same. A choice between a mayor who works for those straining to afford groceries or those straining to buy an election. A choice between the hope of a brighter future and a broken past.
For years, in the words of Dr Martin Luther King, we have been asked to wait for a more convenient season. We have been told that change is not yet quite possible, that it’s not yet our turn, that it will come soon enough.
We’ve been told to wait as our friends and neighbors have moved away. Told to wait as our city has only grown harder to afford. Told to wait as a good life has drifted out of reach.
My friends, we are not afforded the luxury of waiting. Because too often to wait is to trust those who delivered us to this point.
We can demand a government that makes our lives better. We can tell billionaires that this city doesn’t just belong to them. We can tell Donald Trump he cannot buy this election. And we can tell Andrew Cuomo that New York City is not for sale.
So on the evening of November 4, when the world learns that we have won again, they will know our answer to the question, we choose the future. Because for all those who say our time is coming, my friends, our time is now."
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mamdani-mayor-nyc-campaign-speech
#USA #NY #NYC #NewYorkCity #Mandani #Democrats #DemocraticParty
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Loved this. #satire #PoliticalSatire #USpol #Mandani #democrats
> …instead of giving a mouse a cookie, we should give him the ability to qualify for one chocolate chip, provided he completes a three-year apprenticeship program in an underserved neighborhood, and as long as his income doesn’t exceed $50,000 a year.
> If he wins, what will that mean for the average, boring [Democrats] who pride themselves on receiving all their beliefs from polls and the crypto industry?
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-26-why-winning-is-bad-for-democrats/
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"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.
Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.
The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.
The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure
#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure
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"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.
Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.
The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.
The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure
#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure
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"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.
Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.
The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.
The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure
#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure
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"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.
Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.
The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.
The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure
#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure
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"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.
Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.
The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.
The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure
#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure
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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City's Democratic Mayoral Primary
https://www.improvethenews.org/story/2025/socialist-mamdani-wins-nyc-democratic-primary-over-cuomo
#nyc #democrats #mayor #mandani
