# American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
Heather Cox Richardson, whose **Letters From An American** helped establish **Substack**, here interviews #ZohranMamdani on questions of democracy, populism, progressivism and practical politics.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L4PoVBL4
# American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
Heather Cox Richardson, whose **Letters From An American** helped establish **Substack**, here interviews #ZohranMamdani on questions of democracy, populism, progressivism and practical politics.
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L4PoVBL4
Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square?
This Substack post by Ross Barkan is available in full only to paid subscribers. Still, the few paragraphs that are readable by all are enough to give you an idea of where it is going: #ZohranMamdani is having an impact even among the culturati.
#MayorMamdani may very well end up having an impact well beyond the narrowly political, may help precipitate a broader culural shift of perspective.
Mamdani and the media: From slugfest to lovefest
France 24 English takes a look at how mainstream American media have treated #ZohranMamdani
Since he has so decisively been elected #MayorMamdani we can expect that they will learn some lessons, make some adjustments...but it is probably too much to expect that they will learn the right lessons, make the appropriate adjustments.
They will only gradually, perhaps only retrospectively, learn to #UnderstandMamdani
No Contract? No Coffee!
#ZohranMamdani, soon to be #MayorMamdani, supports strtiking Starbucks workers.
Getting the Team Together
Transition is underway!
If you liked the campaign you should pay atterntion to the hard part...
Get ready...
Get set...
Many local candidates build campaigns on messaging and fundraising, but some recent successes grow from deeper involvement in community life. A “communitarium”—a community-owned, open-source civic commons—can help residents work together long before elections. It strengthens trust, aligns means with values, and gives political life a place to exist between campaigns.
#TheCommunitariumProject
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#UnderstandMamdani
Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square?
This Substack post by Ross Barkan is available in full only to paid subscribers. Still, the few paragraphs that are readable by all are enough to give you an idea of where it is going: #ZohranMamdani is having an impact even among the culturati.
#MayorMamdani may very well end up having an impact well beyond the narrowly political, may help precipitate a broader culural shift of perspective.
Mamdani and the media: From slugfest to lovefest
France 24 English takes a look at how mainstream American media have treated #ZohranMamdani
Since he has so decisively been elected #MayorMamdani we can expect that they will learn some lessons, make some adjustments...but it is probably too much to expect that they will learn the right lessons, make the appropriate adjustments.
They will only gradually, perhaps only retrospectively, learn to #UnderstandMamdani
Mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani Announces Transition Committee Appointments to Advance His Affordability Agenda
The Mayor-elect appointed more than 400 New Yorkers to 17 Transition Committees, who together will provide critical personnel and policy insights to the incoming administration
Committees to focus on NYC’s most urgent challenges — including housing prices, rising childcare costs, and transportation access — as well as emergency preparedness and economic development
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
https://mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc/public-schedule-for-mayor-elect-4765742?e=df6a57b923
No Contract? No Coffee!
#ZohranMamdani, soon to be #MayorMamdani, supports strtiking Starbucks workers.
Getting the Team Together
Transition is underway!
If you liked the campaign you should pay atterntion to the hard part...
Get ready...
Get set...
I've yet to fully absorb, let alone analyze, last Friday's meeting between #ZohranMamdani and Donald Trump...
but I did want to note this ironic, telling post by Ross Barkan shortly after it concluded.
Mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani Announces Transition Committee Appointments to Advance His Affordability Agenda
The Mayor-elect appointed more than 400 New Yorkers to 17 Transition Committees, who together will provide critical personnel and policy insights to the incoming administration
Committees to focus on NYC’s most urgent challenges — including housing prices, rising childcare costs, and transportation access — as well as emergency preparedness and economic development
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
https://mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc/public-schedule-for-mayor-elect-4765742?e=df6a57b923
I've yet to fully absorb, let alone analyze, last Friday's meeting between #ZohranMamdani and Donald Trump...
but I did want to note this ironic, telling post by Ross Barkan shortly after it concluded.
Trump SWOONS Over Zohran in Surreal Oval Office Presser
I'm thinking that Andrew Cuomo is spinning in his political grave.
Trump's praise for Mamdani upends Republican talking points, explodes heads across political spectrum
Republicans and pro-Trump media outlets were gravely disappointed by the lack of fireworks at Friday’s Oval Office meeting between New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and Queens native Donald Trump, who had attacked the democratic socialist as a “100% Communist lunatic,” before showering him with praise at the meeting Mamdani requested.
Exit Stage Left: On Movements, Mayors, and the Musical Logic of Insurgent Politics
if the movement cannot release its electeds into autonomy, the entire strategy collapses into a kind of ideological helicopter parenting.
Trump says he ‘absolutely’ would live in Mamdani’s New York during unexpectedly cordial first meeting – US politics live
I'm pretty sure Andrew Cuomo is spinning in his political grave!
'Pretty sure Zohran just charmed Donald Trump into agreeing that he’s a fascist'
A close ally of New York’s mayor-elect, the city comptroller Brad Lander, responded to the Donald Trump telling Zohran Mamdani that it is fine to call him a fascist by posting on social media: “Pretty sure Zohran just charmed Donald Trump into agreeing that he’s a fascist.”
Trump SWOONS Over Zohran in Surreal Oval Office Presser
I'm thinking that Andrew Cuomo is spinning in his political grave.