The Aporia · Craig McCarthy

2026-09-04 · New York Post

Gatekeeper behind Mamdani’s secret influencer army is scion of PR empire — but bashes ‘legacy press’ in defense of shadowy chats

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influencer army is led by the scion of a public relations empire — who obliviously defended her shady Signal chats by slamming the “legacy press” and its wealthy owners Friday. assertive

2026-09-04 · New York Post

NYC broke record-keeping rules with Mamdani’s secret influencer Signal chat, mayor’s top attorney seemingly admits

🔮 City Hall officials broke state record-keeping rules with a secret Signal chat filled with pro-Zohran Mamdani influencers, the mayor’s top attorney seemingly admitted Friday. assertive

2026-09-14 · New York Post

Blakeman slams botched NYC enclave map, says historical immigrants ‘left behind’

🔮 Speaking on Arthur Avenue, Blakeman said Italian, Irish, Polish, Jewish and German communities are “being left behind” by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani — who sparked controversy by leaving the city’s two Little Italy neighborhoods off an immigrant enclave map released over the summer. assertive

2026-09-16 · New York Post

DSA snubs union workers for $20K renovation of its NYC HQ — and labor group is not happy

🔮 A review of permits filed with the city revealed that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s comrades in the New York City branch of the DSA failed to hire any union workers to do any of the upgrades on their new digs on Bedford Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn’s “commie corridor.” assertive

2026-09-17 · New York Post

Mamdani brags about repairing 200K potholes — but he’s still behind his hero Bill de Blasio

🔮 Smiley socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani proudly bragged Thursday about fixing the 200,000th pothole this year on the city’s streets — but his self-congratulatory victory lap didn’t even stack up to his hero Bill de Blasio’s record. assertive

2026-09-18 · New York Post

Israeli UN ambassador criticizes Mamdani as too ‘clever’ for his own good: ‘You cannot set the fire, then say this’

🔮 Israel’s UN ambassador Friday slammed socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for fanning the flames of anti-Israel sentiment before next week’s General Assembly meeting — only to now act as if he never did. assertive

2026-09-21 · New York Post

Mamdani pitches Trump on major NYC project — and admits housing development has ‘significant way to go’

🔮 “So maybe they have a shot at doing it,” he added, marking the first time Trump has addressed the plan after Mamdani pitched him on the project earlier this year. assertive

2026-09-22 · New York Post

Mamdani again calls for Israel’s Netanyahu to be arrested when he comes to NY this week: ‘A war criminal’

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes and accused him of visiting a “genocide” on Palestinians just days before the leader is to speak at the UN General Assembly. assertive

2026-09-23 · New York Post

Mamdani bans NYPD from responding to 311 calls on homeless encampments

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani is barring New York’s Finest from responding to any 311 complaints about the Big Apple’s homeless encampment mess, putting the entire burden on an understaffed and overworked Department of Social Services, sources close to the issue told The Post. assertive

2026-09-28 · New York Post

Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded troll farm plots new smear campaign against NY CEOs

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inner circle is plotting a string of coordinated smears on top New York CEOs, deploying the hard-left Hizzoner’s 200-strong “influencer army” to bash Big Apple business leaders and drum up support for his tax-and-spend agenda, The Post has learned. assertive

2026-09-30 · New York Post

Mamdani finally gets federal security clearance week after Gracie Mansion bro summit with Trump

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally received federal security clearance, he said Wednesday — just a week after his chummy get together with President Trump at Gracie Mansion. assertive

2026-10-01 · New York Post

Trump to campaign with Blakeman in upstate NY: sources

🔮 The commander-in-chief will appear with the Nassau County executive in Syracuse for an event on Oct. 9, according to a source briefed on the visit. assertive

2026-10-02 · New York Post

Hundreds of messages between Mamdani and NYC’s Rent Guidelines Board released in ‘rent freeze’ legal challenge

🔮 Hundreds of texts and emails between top officials in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration and the city’s Rent Guidelines Board were released as part of a lawsuit alleging unlawful collusion between the independent body and City Hall. mixed

2026-10-05 · New York Post

Mamdani’s $30M plan to fight antisemitism includes increased funds for anti-Israel group

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $30 million plan to fight antisemitism in the Big Apple boosts funding for non-profit organizations that have zero ties to the Jewish community — including a rabid anti-Israel group. assertive

2026-10-05 · New York Post

AI execs grilled by NYC pols on dangers of tech that ‘could end in human extinction’

🔮 “From my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” said Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, who warned last month that AI could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. assertive

2026-10-06 · New York Post

Israeli consulate invites Mamdani to watch Oct. 7 documentary to school mayor on horrors of massacre

🔮 An Israeli diplomat has invited Mayor Zohran Mamdani to watch a nearly hour-long documentary about the Oct. 7 terror attacks — hoping the horrors from the footage filmed by Hamas themselves will “convey the reality of what happened.” assertive

2026-10-08 · New York Post

NYS lawmaker pitches bill to give sex assault victims tuition reimbursement in wake of ‘Cornell 7’ case

🔮 A new state bill would require colleges to reimburse tuition to sexual assault victims – after a report that Cornell denied a refund to the student at the center of the “Cornell 7” gang rape scandal. assertive

2026-10-13 · New York Post

Mamdani recycles former mayor’s footage to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day

🔮 The Mamdani administration recycled old footage from a prior mayor’s staff to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day — while skipping any mention of Italian-American New Yorkers or his hated Columbus Day. assertive

2026-10-13 · New York Post

Blakeman blasts Hochul for sanctuary policies after NYC ICE shooting during contentious gov debate

🔮 “He’d be fine if ICE agents shoot into cars, shoot guns into vehicles, not knowing who’s inside and could have killed a five-year-old child,” she said. assertive

2026-10-14 · New York Post

Comptroller Mark Levine not reinvesting NYC’s pension funds in Israel bonds — in stunning campaign pledge reversal

🔮 Levine told The New York Times he made the decision solely on financial grounds, but critics suspected he was caving to Israel-bashers in the Democratic party, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani. assertive

2026-10-14 · New York Post

Mamdani’s team ‘pissed’ over Darializa Avila Chevalier’s calls for Tisch to be canned: ‘Direct undermining of Mamdani’

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies are publicly breaking with him over his handpicked police commissioner — and Hizzoner is livid that the socialist House candidate he went out on a limb to endorse is leading the charge. assertive

2026-10-15 · New York Post

Mamdani plans to ask NYC garage owners to block ICE usage in guilt-tripping letter: sources

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to ask private New York City garage and parking lot owners to block ICE agents from using their property, The Post has learned. assertive

2026-10-16 · New York Post

NYC Council Speaker Menin drags reps from Elon Musk’s SpaceX for ‘sexualized’ images created with Grok

🔮 “So, how is it that, within seconds, I could find a sexualized image of myself using Grok?” assertive

2026-10-19 · New York Post

Mamdani’s DSA ally Chi Ossé has worst attendance of any NYC Council member

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America crony Chi Ossé has the worst attendance record of any member of the City Council, records show. assertive

2026-10-20 · New York Post

Chronically absent DSA crony Chi Ossé skips out on NYC Council work to head upstate

🔮 Chi Ossé, a Democratic Socialists of American chum of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, ditched government hearings on Monday and Tuesday to instead travel multiple hours outside of his Brooklyn district to head to Rochester and Syracuse. assertive

2026-10-22 · New York Post

Mamdani has signed 1 law in 10 months — because his ‘obsessed’ staff is focused on ‘becoming a content farm’

🔮 Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law in 10 months since taking office — leaving critics to wonder if the millennial mayor is more interested in social media stardom than his daily government duties. assertive

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