It will all end in flames
New York City—where takeout is a food group and ovens are for storing clothes—may soon get into the grocery business. If he wins the general election this November, Zohran Mamdani, the new Democratic nominee for mayor, has said he will build a network of municipally owned, affordable grocery stores, one in each of the city’s five boroughs. According to Mamdani, the city could help pay for the...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comOn Tuesday morning, a reporter asked Donald Trump for his reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. “I think I’m gonna have a lot of fun watching him, because he has to come right to this building to get his money,” the president replied, pointing at the White House. The Republican added that people shouldn’t “worry,” because he’d help thwart Mamdani’s...
Continue Reading on https://www.msnbc.com/Politics / New Yorkers Aren’t Afraid of a Democratic Socialist Mayor Andrew Cuomo’s allies spent a fortune shouting that Zohran Mamdani is a socialist. Result? A Mamdani landslide in the Democratic primary. Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March on June 29, 2025. (Noam Galai / Getty Images) Fifty-six percent of New Yorkers supported a democratic socialist for the...
Continue Reading on https://www.thenation.com/Can various righties please quit raging about how Zohran Mamdani is a closet Islamist? There’s no shortage of real reasons to oppose his campaign for mayor: His resume is tissue-thin, he plays footsy with rabid Jew-haters, and his economic plans would destroy our city’s prosperity. But that’s because he subscribes to an elitist, campus-cultured socialism — not because he’s a Muslim, let...
Continue Reading on https://nypost.com/opinion/I was rummaging through some boxes of books the other day and stumbled across an antique pamphlet I’d forgotten I own, the theme of which bears directly on our cultural and political moment, and indeed our survival as a nation. It’s about what makes an American. Entitled I Am An American: What Every Citizen Should Know, it’s the kind of patriotic pamphlet that was common in this country prior...
Continue Reading on http://thefederalist.com/Top Democrats are reportedly in "absolute panic and fear" after Zohran Mamdani's upset win in the New York City mayoral primary, torn between endorsing a candidate many privately call "toxic" and risking primary challenges from his energized socialist base if they stay silent. Congressional Democrats are "afraid" that Mamdani's supporters will recruit challengers against incumbents, a source...
Continue Reading on http://freebeacon.com/Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Let’s start with the proposition that you should not have to know who Andy Ogles is. It often seems like Andy Ogles doesn’t know who he really is, either. The second-term Republican congressman is a Middle Tennessee George Santos whose partial fabrication of his biography is...
Continue Reading on https://www.motherjones.com/In 2002, The New Yorker’s John Lahr visited Morningside Heights to write a Profile of the filmmaker Mira Nair, and took notice of her nine-year-old child: “Nair’s talkative doe-eyed son, Zohran, who exudes the charm of the well-loved, is known by dozens of coinages, including Z, Zoru, Fadoose, and Nonstop Mamdani.” The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. Sometimes...
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