Nov 5, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor elect, built his campaign on simple ideas. Freeze the rent. Free buses. City-run grocery stores. You know, free stuff. It was a powerful message for the 1,036,051 voters who handed him his victory on Tuesday, buoyed by the insane price of life in the Big Apple.
But can Mamdani actually do what he’s promised? Time and again, he’s been asked about the practical challenges inherent in his proposals — and time and again, he’s brushed them off. A closer look at his proposals makes it clear: they are sometimes illegal, sometimes unlikely, and almost all a bad idea.
What are those big ideas? Well, there’s…
nyc's rikers island prison complex is set to close in 2027 with no replacement, meaning a future mayor mamdani will be in a position to enact his abolitionist agenda by default
pirate wires #151 // parasitic radical leftists and california healthcare unions (but I repeat myself) are working on a wealth tax that would end the concept of private property
mayor wu is running a 100-year-old political playbook, choking housing development and fueling crime to please her base at the expense of the city's future