#understandmamdani — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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"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
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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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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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#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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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.
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#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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"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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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.
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#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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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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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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We may be heading for a new era in New York City!
Buckle up, New Yorkers!
Look out, World!
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New York City DSA leaders break down Mamdani's platform
Mainstream media are just catching up to the fact that DSA is a BIG reason #ZohranMamdani has done as well as he has.
So now they are suddenly beginning to be interested in understanding how it works, how it is organized, and what it stands for. -
#ZohranMamdani And The Divided Democratic Party | Let It Rip
A worthwhile panel discussion (including Claire Valdez and Eon Tyrell Huntley) discussing, first, the #MamdaniForMayorNYC campaign in relation to the politics of Black New York; then #NYCDSA's relation to those politics.
"Where's your approach to racial equity? It cannot just be about the almighty dollar because it wasn't money that was stringing us up from trees."
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A User's Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists
"this book is an invaluable tool for navigating the complex terrain of DSA – and an open invitation to the vital debates on how we can lay the foundations to win a socialist future."
[Published last month, includes articles addressing #MamdaniForMayorNYC ]
#NYCDSA
#DSA
#UnderstandMamdaniHardcover: https://payhip.com/b/2cv7u
Ebook: https://payhip.com/b/EqAxM
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Why I Joined the DSA
From Albany insider to card-carrying socialist, former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan , now a whistleblower, reflects on her political journey
Mamdani, his campaign, and the broad coalition of support will be written about for years to come. Among the most important forces behind this historic upset is the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Andrew Cuomo is Collaborating with Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr1DQm4NAY
#ZohranMamdani reacts to the news (rerported in the article linked to in this previous post: https://social.coop/@baslow/114984069903112432 )
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Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race
The possibility that the president will seek to intercede could inject an element of unpredictability into an already fractious contest.
Trump still owns substantial property in New York and he has said publicly that he is concerned about Mr. Mamdani’s socialist-influenced politics.
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Can Democratic socialists get Zohran Mamdani across the finish line?
Mayoral candidate’s ties to NYC’s democratic socialists may have aided his primary win – but can the group overcome critique from Democrats?
"Clearly there is something in the air that is shifting, because open socialists are running for office and winning, showing that our ideas are good, workable things that people actually need."
#NYCDSA
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#UnderstandMamdani
#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/democratic-socialists-zohran-mamdani-mayor-nyc
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Mamdani Victory Could Represent Expansion of the Left’s Influence
While business leaders are anxious over the prospect of Zohran Mamdani in City Hall, the Democratic Socialists of America are contemplating how they would wield power and influence policy.
[Gift link]#NYCDSA
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/mamdani-socialists-dsa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.1oIL.JNq6S7LUKUgd&smid=em-share -
To the Field First, Comrades!
"What makes these declarations of spontaneous inception so remarkable is not merely that they are wrong, but that they get it entirely backwards. While Mamdani’s ascent may have bypassed the traditional Democratic Party machinery, his campaign didn’t achieve this through individual genius, but through a decade of methodical collective effort."
#NYCDSA
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#MamdaniForMayorNYC
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mamdani-democratic-socialists-campaign-new-york-city-dsa