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The NYC Landlords Most Worried About Zohran Mamdani Odd Lots · Episode

Great to go on Odd Lots w @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social to talk about how the real estate industry should chill out about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and figure out how best to position themselves to benefit from Zohran’s vision for the city open.spotify.com/episode/1u51...

Incredible new @chiosse.bsky.social video with @ilanaglazer.com on how New York became so unaffordable

Yale from New Haven says: “This is insanely low, racist, and desperate. Glad to see they’ve just decided to be a tabloid. It sounds like he clarified it well enough with writing in “Ugandan.” Truly insane (and just unacceptable) that this was framed like this. Or reported at all! Who cares!” Jennifer from Oregon says: “Please, please do not do hit pieces on this man who is one of the few sources of hope that most of us have in this country. Just stop.”

PD from Brooklyn says: “This really does not feel newsworthy, when you see he made his best effort to clarify the check-box identity markers he was offered.” Paul from Ohio says: “I’m a middle-aged white dude from the midwest. Not a socialist or communist, and never heard of Mr. Mamdani prior to this mayoral race. But I have to say that the coverage of this guy, including by these reporters, seems biased against him. Who cares what boxes he checked on a college application for a college to which he did not even get admitted? It tells us some things about some people. But none of them are Mr. Mamdani.”

Taylor from New York says: “The media is desperately looking for anything they can use to smear this man. Adams and Cuomo have well-documented scandals that have landed them in legal trouble. How about we focus on the real corruption in this city”

Ed the Rabbit from Baltimore says: “So you got a hot tip from a eugenicist and gave him anonymity in order to "out" an Asian person who was born in Africa as a person who checked some boxes on a form and thereby claimed to be "Asian" and "African American" before he officially became American, in an attempt to gain admission to a University his mother already worked at—and failed. This is not your finest hour.” Robin from Greenpoint says: “Yep. More qualities about Zohran that I identify with. More nuances I see reflected in more New Yorkers.”

Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani

Cops love to do the "if [left of center politician] becomes mayor, we're all gonna resign!" thing and then not resign when it happens www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-mayo...

Picture of a man with a grey handlebar mustache and sunglasses on an e-trike. The review reads: Disabled Veteran And His Wife!! We Love Riding Our Trikes! We bought one for my husband (disabled Veteran) so I could get him out of the house as he can't walk but maybe 100 steps. We don't do much together because of that. Out neighbor got his dad to buy a trike so they could do more together. He showed it to us and we immediately bought one for Hubby. He loved it so I got one as well, so we can ride together!!! OMG!! It only took me 35 years to find something we could do together!!! WE LOVE OUR TRIKES BABY!!! We kid about "we got TRIKES" and we're "GOIN RIDIEN!!" I love my husband and am Sooo happy to ride with him!!! We are building up to ride around presque Isle!

Photo of an old man on an e-trike with the most amazing smile on his face. The photo has the text "Ramblin' Ralph" on it. The review reads: Great Ride For A Senior. I'm 91 years old, 92 next month. My trike lets me exercise my heart, lungs, and legs while having fun. You should see the looks I get from my neighbors when I ride by. Never planned to live this long, don't know how to act but me and my trike have fun every day.

A photo of an old man with a goatee on an e-trike next to his granddaughter on a pink bike. The review reads: I'm going to be 74 next month and have always wanted one. I took it out of box and put everything that needed done myself, except changing the seat out. My friend that is 82 loves it too. So easy to ride.

Photo of a woman on an e-trike on a nature trail by a lake. The review reads: My wife loves her trike, happiest I've ever seen her and we've been together for 44 years. She wants to ride constantly. We visited Niagara Falls and Niagara on the Lake and rode up there and we are going to Hilton Head in 10 days and taking them there. I have an xp3. LectricEbikes support has been outstanding and the bikes are trouble free.

If you ever want feel-good tears, go read the reviews of electric tricycles.

There are so many great stories and photos of people regaining mobility, reconnecting with their spouse/friends/family, and just having fun.

sometimes i wonder if the point of the MBA is to produce class consciousness for management, and how much that conflicts with the task consciousness management is supposed to be responsible for

In one video, what appear to be heavily armed American security contractors at one of the sites in Gaza discuss how to disperse Palestinians nearby. One is heard saying he has arranged for a “show of force” by Israeli tanks. “I don’t want this to be too aggressive,” he adds, “because this is calming down.” At that moment, bursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots. “Whoo! Whoo!” one contractor yelps. “I think you hit one,” one says. Then comes a shout: “Hell, yeah, boy!”

American contractors are murdering Palestinians at ‘aid’ sites and they are treating it like a fucking game.

“I think you hit one.”

“Hell, yeah, boy!”

Monstrous.

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“And ultimately, what I fear,” Mamdani said, “is that if this is what Donald Trump and his administration feel comfortable about saying about the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, imagine what they feel comfortable saying and doing about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

I can’t believe it and yet here’s the proof.

A tweet from Kathy Hochul that reads “I don't care if you're the President of the United States, if you threaten to unlawfully go after one of our neighbors, you're picking a fight with 20 million New Yorkers — starting with me.” Quote tweeting a video of Trump threatening to arrest Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani

has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?

Schumer and Jeffries should condemn this and demand an apology from the President - or they should resign, or be primaried.

this was a complete rout

The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.

Fucks around with bizarre and alienating podcast, then wakes up and after years of half-measures rams this through. Very strange man.

Amazon has almost as many robots as humans working in its facilities, and it’s now handling almost 4,000 packages per employee per year, up from around 175 a decade ago www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-...

aoc & 1h ••• nycplanning What was the date? It was just like legalizing housing in the heart of Manhattan My dream date. Cute. And he knows that. nyplanning a new bombshell (neighborhood plan) has entered the villa...

lfg AOC just endorsed the midtown south rezoning that would legalize thousands of homes in the middle of Manhattan

sign up here to testify in support of more housing tomorrow forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

“The groups” is a derisive term used by the groups who control the Democratic Party to describe groups other than their groups.

what the fuck

A Wave of Asian Votes Helped Propel Zohran Mamdani’s Trailblazing Win New Yorkers who felt heard by a politician for the first time, including people who aren’t citizens and couldn’t vote, found ways to register their support and spread the word.

NEW: A Wave of Asian Votes Helped Propel Zohran Mamdani’s Trailblazing Win
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‘Anybody That Says They’re Leaving Ain’t Leaving’ Is the real-estate industry’s tantrum over Mamdani a big bluff?

“Anybody that’s says they are leaving New York ain’t fucking leaving.” a real estate broker for the ultra-wealthy told Curbed. “They react in the moment out of opinions, but nobody leaves New York.” www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

[Fiscal Policy Institute press release, 6/28/25] Key Findings 70 of New York’s 156 hospitals get over 25 percent of their net patient revenue from Medicaid or government appropriations; these hospitals are at risk of closure in the case of severe Medicaid cuts. 94 of New York’s 156 hospitals would see profits eroded entirely with just a 10 percent cut to Medicaid revenue (and assuming no change to services rendered). 8 hospitals at risk of closure — the most of any district in the state — are in New York’s 23rd district, represented by Republican Representative Nicholas Langworthy. Another 7 at-risk hospitals are in Republican Representative Elise Stefanik’s district, both of whom voted in favor of the cuts to Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 22 hospitals at risk of closure are in Republican-represented congressional districts.

Fiscal Policy Institute estimates that almost *half* of NY hospitals could be at risk of closing if Congress goes ahead with Medicaid cuts fiscalpolicy.org/new-york-hos...

Democrats too often create a villain-less politics, and it’s a reason why many people don’t trust them.

Why can't @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com please just miss once www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that: She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters There are many others being held where she is being held.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

Mamdani is like a honey trap for Democratic officials who need to get primaried out of a job

Can’t really articulate how furious it makes me to see gentile politicians wield fake charges of antisemitism against Mamdani. It’s not just the plain Islamophobia, it’s the fact that they’re needlessly stoking tensions in a way that puts Jewish New Yorkers at GREATER risk.