#understandmamdani — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #understandmamdani, aggregated by home.social.
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A people’s guide to the ‘Commie Corridor’ of Brooklyn and Queens - Gothamist
The “Commie Corridor” may be a particular stretch of Brooklyn and Queens, but most of what this article describes isn’t peculiar to New York. High rents, younger people getting priced out, frustration with both parties, workplaces and neighborhood hangouts becoming political meeting places, people finding one another and realizing they can act together—versions of this are happening all over the country.
The Corridor may have had especially good conditions for it to catch fire, and DSA was already there to help organize it. But the fuel is everywhere. We are beginning to see other places producing their own versions of this emerging poltical culture—some of them yielding victories as surprising as were those in New York.
https://gothamist.com/news/a-peoples-guide-to-the-commie-corridor-of-brooklyn-and-queens
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Zohran Mamdani Turns Parking Lot Into HOUSING!
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The Bully Classroom: What Zohran Mamdani May Be Teaching New York About Democratic Socialism
(How a democratic socialist mayor may be using government not only to deliver benefits, but to help New Yorkers become participants in democratic power)
American electoral politics encourages people to think of themselves as consumers choosing among competing packages of benefits.
Mamdani’s language about democracy beyond the ballot box points toward another possibility.
Government, in this conception, becomes not merely the institution that acts on behalf of people but part of the infrastructure through which people become capable of acting together. A democratic-socialist administration would therefore be judged not only by what it delivers but by whether the people it governs acquire greater capacity to participate consequentially in their common life.
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New Yorkers SUMMON Zohran Mamdani In Hilarious New Trend!
For a generation who grew up steeped in the spells of Harry Potter perhaps it was inevitable that the name #ZohranMamdani would become an incantation, a magical invocation of the reparative, restorative and community-building powers of #DemocraticSocialism
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The Mamdani Coalition Goes National
From "Freeze The Rent" in Greenpoint, to "Medicare for All" in Grand Rapids
The Mamdani Coalition: A coherence of Democratic
voters that is taking the party establishment by storm.Every large metro in America has an untapped electorate — of millennials priced out of homeownership, of families struggling to find affordable childcare, of young people disillusioned by the economy — that is increasingly drifting to the left.
Now, this coalition has re-drawn the political map: first in urban and metro areas, where the Democratic base is young and diverse; then in suburbs and exurbs (commuter corridors), among older Gen-X voters who are higher-income and better-educated
https://www.michaellange.nyc/p/the-mamdani-coalition-goes-national
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Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One
Mamdani’s idea to only discount a “core basket” of products is also odd, since it leaves the door open for price gouging on noncore products. Operators will want to make higher margins on noncore items and create a two-tiered pricing model that has the potential to stigmatize value-conscious shoppers. The fastest-growing grocers in the United States are deep discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Walmart, and are known unequivocally for low prices across the store.
Despite its shortcomings, Mamdani’s public grocery sector plan is among the most compelling innovations in a food supply that is increasingly consolidated, expensive, corrupt, and lately, downright dangerous. And it aims to do one thing that much of the grocery sector, especially Mamdani’s critics, have lost the script for really well: to make good food affordable to all.
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://jacobin.com/2026/07/zohran-mamdani-nyc-public-grocery-plan
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‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
> Kelly, the owner of Nourish Cafe in Jamaica, Queens, was a longtime fan of former mayor Eric Adams, the centrist Democrat who left office plagued by scandals. She now considers herself a fan of Mamdani.
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> “I don’t really care about those labels nowadays,” Kelly said, when asked about Mamdani being a socialist. “I like that he stands for making sure nobody seems to feel marginalized, like we’re all in this together, we all win together.
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> “If that’s what socialism is,” she added, “I’m all for it!”#MayorMamdami
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/zohran-mamdani-small-business-policies
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
"Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City. Nor is any other war criminal at large. While we cannot end the genocide on our own we can decide whether our silence will become another weapon."
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Dem Establishment FREAKS As DSA Threatens 2028 Takeover
Breaking Points Interviews Michael Lange about the implications of his latest Substack post analyzing the demographic realities of the recent triumphs of DSA in NY politics.
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Mayor Mamdani Announces Handshake Agreement on Fiscal Year 2027 Budget
"I have been reminded of the words of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek: 'If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.' If these past months have shown us anything, it is that socialists not only understand economics, [they understand] just as well as the capitalists who came before,"
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.youtube.com/live/47Mo1KdhTrI?si=MbPP6NR7BnsYIdQM&t=84
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"What is the Democratic party, if not its voters?"
Zohran Mamdani's Gives PERFECT Counter To Establishment Attacks!
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Democratic socialists are winning in US cities with message of getting stuff done
> socialists are winning Democratic primaries because of a perception that the system is not working, said Corbin Trent, a former campaign aide to Bernie Sanders.
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> Many establishment Democratic candidates had essentially argued “hey, things are mostly good – we gotta tweak some edges, but this is the greatest country ever, you know. And then they got beat by the guy who said that this was a shithole,” said Trent. “And they didn’t get it. And interestingly, they still don’t get it. They still don’t understand that actually people are not thrilled with this society, they’re not thrilled with this economy, they’re not thrilled with this democracy, they’re not thrilled with this foreign policy. Go figure.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/democratic-socialist-mayor-mamdani-wilson
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From cheap transport to football geekery: how Zohran Mamdani won the World Cup
The New York City mayor has made his mark on the tournament to cap an extraordinary run of sporting success over the last few months
"It isn’t just that Mamdani is everywhere and emotionally engaged in all aspects of the World Cup: at the games, posting weather warnings, commenting knowledgeably on outcomes. It is his adeptness at using the event to underline political messages, without seeming awkward. It is a reminder of former British prime minister Harold Wilson’s line about 1966: “Have you ever noticed how England only ever win the World Cup under Labour governments?” All politicians make hay when the World Cup sun shines but Mamdani is so much more skilled than most."
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/26/zohran-mamdani-world-cup-new-york-mayor
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Mamdani and the DSA Just Sent a Seismic Message: The Revolution Is Here to Stay
A stunning trio of congressional victories proved that the political earthquake the mayor and his allies ushered in was no fluke.
"Mamdani and DSA, of course, are not popular everywhere. There are working-class and poor neighborhoods that the democratic socialists have not organized. There are moderate, wealthier neighborhoods that will resist DSA indefinitely. Regardless, Democratic incumbents across the city must be on alert going forward. They will have to speak to DSA issues; they cannot ignore what’s pulsing below. The Israel hawks will be chased from the Democratic Party. This is inevitable."
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nyc-primary-results-analysis-mamdani-dsa/
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A year ago, right after #ZohranMamdani won the Democratic primary, I posted the following...which seems to me to hold up very well (except, maybe, the prose style).
Looking at #MayorMamdani's early tenure I think the claims I make in this post are borne out.
"Zohran Mamdani as DSA in the Flesh: Disindividuated Politics, Foundational Justice, and the Power of Sincerity"
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‘I Would Use Every Tool To…’: Zohran Mamdani Sends Blunt Message To Trump In Fiery Address In NYC
#MayorMamdani delivered an extraordinary speech last night, at a rally in support of Clair Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Brad Lander.
He connected these local elections to a a radically new vision of national Democratic politics.
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When I look at what Zohran Mamdani is doing as mayor, I’m jealous of New Yorkers | Arwa Mahdawi
> I don’t want to put mayor Mamdani on a pedestal. He’s obviously not perfect, but you’ve got to admit he provides a glimmer of hope among all the gloom. He didn’t water down his morals to get elected, speaking openly about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He didn’t try to find some focus-group-approved centrist ground to campaign from, but stood for an ambitious affordability platform.
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> And instead of abandoning all his promises the moment he got into power (hello, Keir Starmer!), Mamdani genuinely appears to be trying to deliver on them. For the past four-and-a-half months, he has been busy. -
Work in Progress: How we're tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson)
#MayorMamdani introduces an unexpected aspect of his approach to urban governance: #ScaffoldSocialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohRn36CWhs
(and for those of you unfamiliar with John Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilson_%28filmmaker%29?wprov=sfla1 )
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Smile: Municipal Grin
"There are smiles that make us happy,
There are smiles that make us blue..." -
I Ran The Military's Grocery Stores. Our Prices Are 25% Cheaper.
What #MayorMamdani Can Learn From The US Military
The question is not Can the government run grocery stores?. They do. The question is Who's going to make this happen and who's going to stand in their way?
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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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When we evaluate a new mayor, we are usually taught to separate “style” from “substance,” and to treat visibility, symbolism, and public presence as distractions from the real work of governing. That distinction feels natural—but it is also historically specific, and it may no longer describe how political legitimacy actually forms in a society marked by institutional distrust, media saturation, and social fragmentation.
One way to read the article below is as a familiar early-tenure assessment: is #ZohranMamdani still performing like a candidate, or has he begun governing “for real”? But there is another way to read it—one that does not assume that governing happens only behind closed doors, or that public presence is merely theatrical. From this perspective, visibility, explanation, and embodied action are not substitutes for governance; they are among the conditions that make governance intelligible and credible in the first place.
Mamdani’s early actions—showing up at tenant buildings, explaining the budget directly to the public, appearing in moments of crisis rather than delegating them entirely—can be read not as campaign leftovers, but as an attempt to close the widening gap between political authority and lived experience. In a political culture where institutions often feel distant, opaque, or unresponsive, governing “in public” may be less a performance than a way of rebuilding trust through shared orientation and presence.
The article that follows can still be read critically, and it raises real questions about budgets, appointments, and limits of executive power. But it may also be read as documenting a deeper tension: between an older model of politics that treats legitimacy as something institutions possess and dispense, and an emerging model that treats legitimacy as something that must be continually enacted, explained, and sustained in full view of the people it claims to serve.
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Opinion: Millionaires must pay their fair share to ensure NYC’s affordability
By John Liu and Phara Souffrant Forrest
the Fair Share Act, legislation we introduced... would authorize New York City to enact a modest 2% surcharge on incomes over $1 million.
It’s entirely fair and appropriate to ask the highest income earners, who just received a permanent 2.6% tax cut courtesy of President Donald Trump, to help generate the revenue needed to strengthen our economy and not leave working New Yorkers behind. This is, quite literally, a matter of fairness and fiscal responsibility.
As it stands, raising taxes on NYC millionaires must happen at the state level.
Governor Kathy Hochul doesn't want to raise taxes on millionaires. Fair enough. But the state legislature should authorize NYC to do so. #MayorMamdani has given them ample warning.
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Democratic Socialism as Public Action
Municipal Politics as Praxis
Over the past year, many of us supported Zohran Mamdani because we believed he represented more than a set of policy positions. He seemed to be pointing toward a different way of doing politics—one grounded in participation, visibility, moral clarity, and a refusal to accept the quiet shrinking of public life as inevitable. Now that he is mayor, the question has necessarily changed. The campaign is over. The work of governing has begun. What does democratic socialism look like in practice, once slogans give way to decisions, institutions, and constraints?
That is why this article is worth reading carefully. Not because it praises Mamdani, and not because it claims everything is going smoothly, but because it treats his first weeks in office as a serious political experiment—one with real stakes, real resistance, and real limits. It asks what it means for socialism to become legible as governance, rather than remaining a posture of opposition or a set of ideals waiting for perfect conditions.
One of the most important themes running through the piece is the distinction between policies that merely deliver benefits and politics that actively reshape how people understand their relationship to government and to one another. There is a difference between public goods that are quietly administered and public goods that are openly claimed, explained, and defended as collective achievements. The article suggests—rightly, I think—that socialism succeeds or fails not only on outcomes, but on whether it makes public power visible, accountable, and shared, rather than hidden behind technocratic language or market logic.
The essay also pushes back against two familiar temptations on the left. One is the belief that compromise automatically equals betrayal. The other is the idea that working through institutions is inherently corrupting. What Mamdani’s early moves illustrate is something more demanding: governing as an ongoing process of judgment, direction, and repair. Not purity, but coherence. Not spectacle, but capacity. Not withdrawal from conflict, but a willingness to name what is at stake and act accordingly.
If you are interested in how socialism might be pursued in a way that is serious about power, administration, and democratic legitimacy—without losing its moral imagination—this article repays attention. It does not offer a blueprint. What it offers instead is a way of seeing what is unfolding, and of asking better questions about what must come next.
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Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket as N.Y.C. Nurses’ Strike Enters 2nd Week
Here’s what to know about the walkout by about 15,000 New York nurses. On Tuesday, Mayor #ZohranMamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders lent their support.
Mr. Mamdani framed the strike as part of his administration’s focus on affordability. For nurses, the walkout is about making sure “that this is a city you don’t just work in but a city that you can also live in.”
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#UnderstandMamdanihttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/nyregion/what-to-know-nyc-nurses-strike.html
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#ZohranMamdani Has Quickly Gotten Down to Business
If Mamdani succeeds, he will do more than improve working-class New Yorkers’ circumstances. He will lay to rest the axiomatic American belief that efficiency and innovation belong to the private sector and the governments most deferential to it.
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#MayorMamdanihttps://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-executive-orders-housing-childcare
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Mamdani’s first 10 days: getting things done despite right’s dystopian fantasies
The New York mayor’s popular moves on rent and free childcare defied rightwing predictions of a far-left hellscape
#ZohranMamdani has eschewed turning the city into the forewarned dystopian nightmare in favor of making progress on campaign promises like housing and rent, while also conducting minor municipal repairs.
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#UnderstandMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/zohran-mamdani-new-york-10-days
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Governor Hochul Joins the Mamdanissance
The governor backs the mayor on child care
On Thursday afternoon Governor Hochul hitched her political future to Mamdani's, announcing that she was fully embracing the mayor's universal child care program. Phase one: $1.7 billion in proposed new funding, including $500 million for the first two years of Mamdani's plan to provide day care for two-year-olds, another $100 million to patch up 3-K enrollment in New York City, and hundreds of millions more to make universal pre-K a reality across the entire state by 2028, all of which would need to be approved as part of the state's budget process.
"This is the day that everything changes," Hochul told the crowd at the Flatbush YMCA, while standing next to the mayor. "Back in November, fresh off the election, we sat down—we had many conversations leading up to this. But we started talking about how we make this vision become reality, no longer a dream. I told him that whatever the City was ready to deliver, I would be his partner 100 percent of the way."
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RUN ZOHRAN RUN!: Inside #ZohranMamdani’s Sensational Campaign to Become New York City’s First Socialist Mayor
by THEODORE HAMM
OR Books
Grounded in firsthand knowledge of an insurgent campaign, Run Zohran Run! charts the unexpected rise of Zohran Mamdani and his victory in New York City’s 2025 Mayoral Democratic primary.
Mamdani’s straightforward platform—a rent freeze, free buses, universal childcare, and city-run grocery stores—cut through the noise of mainstream politics and resonated with working-class voters struggling in an increasingly unaffordable city.
A 33 year-old immigrant who openly identifies as a democratic socialist, Mamdani drew in Muslim and South Asian voters historically sidelined in city politics. His robust support for Palestinian rights upended traditional politics in New York City, where even the most liberal elected officials refuse to criticize Israel.
The campaign faced relentless institutional resistance—attacks from the New York Times, the New York Post, and vitriol from disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo and former mayor Michael Bloomberg—but it also demonstrated how Left campaigns can be won.
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#ZohranMamdani’s First New Media Press Conference as Mayor
#MayorMamdani, whose campaign relied so centrally on new media and content creators, holds his first press conference for members of the new media community. He has been answering the questions of mainstream media at sites around New York, where he has been making a flurry of announcements since his inauguration.
This was the first press conference devoted to the media channels by which many of his volunteers and supporters got much of their news about him.