.Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s commanding lead shows what happens when a candidate runs on real working class issues—surging wealth inequality, housing inaffordability, & cuts to social programs. He surged bc he takes seriously the level of stress everyday people are under every single day.

Sure, but if he threw Palestine under the bus as he tried to sell his economic message he would have never mobilized the volunteers he needed to sell his vision to voters. You CAN NOT run as a progressive change maker and tactility support a genocide. Cc: 2028 hopefuls

NEW from me & @EvelynQuartz: Zohran Kwame Mamdani won a clear mandate - but the Democratic political/media elite is already trying to downplay it & pretend it was just vibes rather than a demand for policy change. The battle for the future has just begun. levernews.com/zohran-mamdani…

🗣️ Being unhoused is not a crime. But since the Supreme Court’s 2024 Grants Pass ruling, 260+ cities passed laws criminalizing it. From encampment bans to quality of life offenses, those found violating these laws face #FinesAndFees that make securing housing even harder. 🧵

NEW: Zohran Mamdani's multi-racial coalition toppled Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday. He won three of five boroughs, the renter class, & "middle income" residents; doing best overall with younger & less frequent voters. My take on Mamdani's Mandate: michaellange.nyc/p/the-zohran-c…

Just a reminder for everyone that has memory-holed it — but 54% of Democrats favored and just 24% opposed the idea of defunding the police & shifting that budget toward civilian agencies back in 2021. Not a radical position. Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Here's the ugly reality of the ‘big beautiful bill’: Millions of people will be kicked off Medicaid. This will dramatically increase incarceration rates and make communities less safe. Expanding Medicaid ➡️ fewer arrests.

Hot Take: the number of establishment Democrats who are not endorsing Zohran is inconsequential to the general election, but will have consequences when THEY run for re-election.

Municipal socialists have to take on the police. If they can't do that then they can't govern. That is a pragmatic issue not an idealistic one.

The Affordable Housing Trust Fund was gutted in the new NJ budget. This is a reckless, fiscally short-sighted move — penny-wise but pound-foolish. Our state policymakers must do better.

To understand how Zohran Kwame Mamdani won the mayoral primary by a full 12 points last month, it helps to understand how tenants like Ferdousi Begum and Parveg Hasan decided to go on the offensive against real estate. My first for The New York Review of Books, learned so much! nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary. Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest. Malcolm Harris Paul E Williams Daniel Denvir

“What should have been a straightforward vaccination turned into a Kafkaesque runaround—one that portends the chaos to come. The result will be… more transmission, more cases, more long Covid, hospitalizations, and deaths.” My latest for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/196742…

A reminder: framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to divert attention from its *actual* causes—skyrocketing rents, poverty wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.

Appreciate this discussion. Drives home how zoning reform is *necessary but not sufficient* to fix the housing crisis. Even if Abundance types use it as a Trojan horse, it's still needed—just woefully insufficient w/out much stronger tenant protections & public sector investment.

Tremendous work by tenant organizers in Passaic to strengthen rent control and protect residents from skyrocketing rents & displacement. Big thanks to @maketheroadnj for organizing this effort — and to Mayor Mayor Hector Lora and the Passaic City Council for standing with their community.

Good to see the Eviction Right to Counsel Act re-introduced in Congress. This bill would help guarantee a lawyer for tenants facing eviction — because when people have representation, they’re much more likely to stay in their homes. Learn more: booker.senate.gov/news/press/boo…

for Defector, i talked to the team behind Zohran Kwame Mamdani's campaign videos no, there's no "filter" on the videos; yes, Nirvanna the Band the Show and Tim & Eric are big influences defector.com/selling-zohran