2026 Primaries
New York’s Red Wedding: Mamdani’s Kids, the Dying Machine, and the Gulag of Canvassing
If this is the “realignment of 2026,” it’s not the storming of the Winter Palace.
NYC Politics
The Shabbat That Wasn't
"A $5,000-a-head dinner organized by Climate Defiance brought together Linda Sarsour, Brad Lander, Tiffany Cabán, and Abby Stein. Jewish community voices say it was institutional capture dressed in religious language.
DSA
The Power of the Purse: Mamdani's Budget Chief Reports to the DSA
NYC's budget director briefed dues-paying DSA members behind closed doors on how he closed a $12B gap. The briefing isn't the scandal. The co-governance system it reveals is.
Darializa Avila Chevalier
She Organized the Columbia Encampment. He Made Her His Congressional Candidate.
Chevalier, 32, is running in NY-13 against Adriano Espaillat, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The June 23 primary covers Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx. This is not a protest candidacy
Public Safety
The Blast Radius Field Manual: How to Survive a Terror Attack in a City That Won't Help You
A bombing in Midtown. A coordinated subway attack. A truck in a crowd. When it happens, the physical danger will be immediate, the informational environment will be hostile, and the city's response will be shaped as much by ideology as by your safety. This is the guide for that moment.
Mamdani administration
THE CONFISCATION PIPELINE:
The New York Post called Mayor Mamdani's housing plan what it is: legalized theft. What the Post left unexamined is the machinery underneath. The named architect, the foreclosure math, and the receiving network waiting for transferred title.
Brad Lander
Brad Lander Walked Into a Mosque to Prove His Loyalty. The Imam Prayed for His Slaughter.
Lander recited the Quran for them in Arabic. They prayed for the killing of infidels by the Mahdi's sword. He leads Goldman 57-23. The coalition is built.
JFREJ
The JFREJ Heist: Mamdani Bought Off His Activist Base With the Antisemitism Budget
Mamdani's first executive budget delivers a 800% increase in "non-carceral" hate violence funding. JFREJ lobbied for the exact number. Now they administer the money. This is patronage with a Jewish face.
Mamdani administration
The Lanyards Are the Story: How Mamdani's City Hall Credentialed Mangione's Cheerleaders
Three Luigi Mangione fangirls stood outside court Monday wearing press credentials issued by Mayor Mamdani's City Hall. They mocked the dead CEO's children and threatened the president. The lanyards, not the slogans, are the real story.
DSA
The New York Mandani Doctrine
"The institutions have been captured. The next election is years away. And the people you are dealing with are not bluffing." The Mamdani Doctrine, from The Unredacted.
Hate Marches
Brooklyn on Fire: The Mob Comes to Midwood
A masked mob stormed a Brooklyn synagogue for the second time in a week. Teenagers were arrested defending it. The NYPD's buffer zone plan hasn't been filed. This is what governance looks like when it's losing.
DSA
The Words They Use To Confuse You
Flood the Zone: The Bannon move that progressives stole and now act as if they invented. Flood the zone with shit: nonstop press releases, TikToks, encampments, and conflicting slogans until normal people can’t keep up.