Follow The Money
On August 1, with no press conference, Mamdani's DHS renewed the no-bid Hotel Association contract through 2029. Ceiling: $1.86 billion. It feeds one association of nearly 300 hotels and nobody else.
DSA
On Fox News Sunday, DSA co-chair Megan Romer confirmed her group's platform to abolish the Senate, ICE, prisons, and borders. It was not a gaffe. She was reading the official program that installed Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani
Three Mamdani-backed candidates just swept their primaries. The last two years gave us a body count of attacks on Jews carried out by men who never met him but spoke his movement's language. Then the DSA wrote down, on paper, exactly what comes next.
NYC Politics
"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
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.
NYC Politics
The Mamdani administration awarded $200 million in city shelter contracts to BHRAGS Home Care two months after its leaders were federally indicted for bribery and embezzlement. The city calls it rehabilitation. The documents call it something else.
Hate Marches
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.