#understandmamdani — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #understandmamdani, aggregated by home.social.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdani
#EmbodiedPolitics
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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.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdani
#EmbodiedPolitics
#ReinventingSocialism -
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.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdani
#EmbodiedPolitics
#ReinventingSocialism -
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.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdani
#EmbodiedPolitics
#ReinventingSocialism -
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.”
#MayorMamdani
#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.
#UnderstandMamdani
#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.
#MayorMamdani
#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. -
#ZohranMamdani Has More Jewish Support Than You Think
Mamdani, similar to his progressive predecessors, enters office with powerful opposition. Jewish Democrats, split between Mamdani and Cuomo in both the Democratic primary and general election, will remain a crucial bellwether for the mayor, as he embarks on the left’s most ambitious executive project in generations. Once upon a time, the coalition that came together against Mamdani—the ultra-wealthy, pro-Israel forces, ideological moderates, older working-class Democrats, and Republicans—would have easily carried the political day in New York City. Now, as a new day dawns, they have been reduced to a loud minority.
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#ZohranMamdani: “I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”
Full text of #MayorMamdani's Inauguration Day speech
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/zohran-mamdani-inauguration-address
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"We're not supposed to like our mayor": NYC organisers celebrate Mamdani inauguration
New Yorkers are experiencing their new mayor differently. He seems to fall into a new category, bespeaking an unfamiliar, more inclusive and participatory way of conducting municipal politics.
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Mamdani's First Executive Order As Mayor
Emma Fitzsimmons, NYT:
Mamdani announced two other executive orders in a press release: the first revokes prior executive orders issued after former Mayor Eric Adams’s indictment in September 2024 and reissues orders that Mamdani supports; the second sets the structure of his administration, including five deputy mayors.
Emma Goldberg, NYT:
Mamdani, explaining why he decided to revoke executive orders issued since Adams’s indictment in September 2024, says: “That was a date that marked a moment when many New Yorkers decided politics held nothing for them.”
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The Moral Imagination of Mamdani
[#ZohranMamdani] doesn’t see socialism and government as the last stop before penury and poverty, as a way of catching people who would otherwise fall, as a safety net. He sees it as a launching pad, as a way of doing great things, all of us, together, cooperatively, and when necessary, through confrontation.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdanihttps://coreyrobin.com/2026/01/01/the-moral-imagination-of-mamdani/
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The Inauguration of Zohran Mamdani | Speeches, Block Party & More
In below-freezing weather, New York City turned out in force to witness and joyously celebrate the swearing-in of several officials (Public Advocate Jumaane Willians, Comptroller Mark Levine and, of course, #ZohranMamdani). There was music, poetry and confetti. There were speeches. It was a municipal love-in.
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Will Zohran Mamdani Be "Mayor for the Masses"? Democratic Socialists Have High Hopes for New Admin
New York City is preparing to welcome Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, into office as mayor. Ahead of the highly anticipated inauguration, we sit down with NYC-DSA's co-chair Grace Mausser to discuss the goals of the incoming administration and next steps for the volunteer-powered campaign apparatus that helped propel Mamdani to City Hall. "Just getting a mayor into office, while impressive and very exciting, is not enough," says Mausser. "The reason we rallied behind Zohran is because he is committed to building our project."
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Revisiting Election Night
Before the victory speech and celebrations on November 4, there were hours of anxious waiting as we watched the numbers come in. Here's a glimpse of it all, stress and joy alike. Thank you to every New Yorker who believed in this fight for working people. I am so proud to be sworn in as your Mayor tomorrow.
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THE MAYOR IS LISTENING
On December 14th, I sat across from 142 New Yorkers as they shared their concerns, their dreams, the leadership they long for from City Hall.
Our campaign was built around listening to the people of New York, and we will govern in the same way. Tomorrow, we get to work.
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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 two members of Democratic Socialists of Americain Jersey City -- at the same political moment in which #ZohranMamdani secured his spectacular (and only recently predictable) win -- is an indication that something larger is going on in the politics of the region...maybe even in the politics of the nation.
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# 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.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
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Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.
#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
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Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.
#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#UnderstandMamdani -
Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.
#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#UnderstandMamdani -
Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.
#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
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Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square?
This Substack post by Ross Barkan is available in full only to paid subscribers. Still, the few paragraphs that are readable by all are enough to give you an idea of where it is going: #ZohranMamdani is having an impact even among the culturati.
#MayorMamdani may very well end up having an impact well beyond the narrowly political, may help precipitate a broader culural shift of perspective.
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Mamdani and the media: From slugfest to lovefest
France 24 English takes a look at how mainstream American media have treated #ZohranMamdani
Since he has so decisively been elected #MayorMamdani we can expect that they will learn some lessons, make some adjustments...but it is probably too much to expect that they will learn the right lessons, make the appropriate adjustments.
They will only gradually, perhaps only retrospectively, learn to #UnderstandMamdani
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No Contract? No Coffee!
#ZohranMamdani, soon to be #MayorMamdani, supports strtiking Starbucks workers.
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Getting the Team Together
Transition is underway!
If you liked the campaign you should pay atterntion to the hard part...
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Mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani Announces Transition Committee Appointments to Advance His Affordability Agenda
The Mayor-elect appointed more than 400 New Yorkers to 17 Transition Committees, who together will provide critical personnel and policy insights to the incoming administration
Committees to focus on NYC’s most urgent challenges — including housing prices, rising childcare costs, and transportation access — as well as emergency preparedness and economic development
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdanihttps://mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc/public-schedule-for-mayor-elect-4765742?e=df6a57b923
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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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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 of a provocation -- especially in light of recent news about his meetings and appointments.
But I think it is more important than ever that we understand what Stoermer is saying here as we try to #UnderstandMamdani and his wider political significance. -
This City Belongs to You.
On January 1st I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City...and that is because of you!
You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension we can usher in a new era of leadership.
New York, this power: it's yours. This city belongs to you.
Thank you!#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMadani
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Trump voters for Mamdani and a new left coalition: the biggest surprises from New York’s election
An interview with Michael Lange
He built the coalition that the left always wanted to build: it’s multiracial, it’s young, it’s renters and it’s people squeezed by affordability. He improved considerably with Black and Hispanic voters, working- and middle-class voters, compared to the primary. Plus he further maximized his base of liberal progressives, young leftists, and Muslims and south Asians. He couldn’t have won without making those significant inroads.
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Turnout was significantly higher than I had expected. I thought we might go over 2 million, but it’s closer to 2.3 million – that is a lot of darn voters. There was a decent anti-Mamdani block, who were motivated, but the Mamdani base was also motivated, and that was enough to win.
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every city in America can have their own commie corridor. Urban places are the epicenters of leftwing power in America – because they’re young, people rent and they are places where people are crushed by the inequalities we face.#MayorMamdani
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#UnderstandMamdani
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Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive”
Jacobin magazine has published the full text of #MamdaniForMayorNYC's acceptance speech:
...while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.
This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.
Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
#UnderstandMamdani
#MayorMamdani
#ZohranMamdanihttps://jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-election-victory-speech
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We may be heading for a new era in New York City!
Buckle up, New Yorkers!
Look out, World!
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdani
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I'm guessing these figures don't reflect a sudden upsurge in Cuomo's (or Sliwa's) popularity...
but we'll know soon enough!#MayorMamdani
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#ZohranMamdani
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Trump THREATENS NYC Voters Over Zohran
We have had months, now, to observe how difficult (one could say bewildering) a time the most established, most traditional members of the Democratic party have had in responding to the phenomenon of #MamdaniForMayorNYC
Now that he shows every sign of becoming #MayorMamdani it is becoming increasingly evident that the Republican party (and, especially, Donald Trump) fails even more spectacularly to #UnderstandMamdani
Sing along with me, everyone:
"How do you solve a problem like #ZohranMamdani?" -
Back on Fordham Road
One year ago, when nobody knew who #ZohranMamdani was, he wernt to Fordham Road in the Bronx to talk to people about who they voted for and their reasons for voting (or not voting).
Recently, he returned...and this video, with then-and-now footage, illustrates what a difference a year can make. -
Will Zohran Pull This Off For Working Class New Yorkers?
For the deet-oriented, this in-the-weeds discussion of traditional Democratic posturing, New York State politics, demographics, Democratic Socialists of America, etc... between Francesca Fiorentini (aforementioned bitchuationist) and Hell Gate reporter Christopher Robbins is worth viewing (or, you know, listerning to)
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