A Daily Reid: The Hip Hop Disney Prince of New York

Elected Republicans and Democrats alike fear Zohran Mamdani ... but not enough people are asking why

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants Donald Trump to use his nifty new SCOTUS-granted absolute powers to denaturalize New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, on the basis of …. checks notes … rap lyrics.

In a letter published Thursday afternoon, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) cited lyrics from a rap song Mamdani made in 2021. In the song, Mamdani references the “Holy Land Five” — members of the Muslim charity organization the Holy Land Foundation. The five men were convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas. The families of the convicted, as well as some human rights groups, have questioned the ruling and called for the release of the men.

Ogles argued that Mamdani’s reference to the Holy Land Five could be grounds for his denaturalization, saying:

According to public reports, including a June 21, 2025 New York Post article, Mr. Mamdani expressed open solidarity with individuals convicted of terrorism-related offenses prior to becoming a U.S. citizen.’ Specifically, he rapped: “Free the Holy Land Five / My guys.” The Holy Land Foundation was convicted in 2008 for providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Publicly praising the Foundation’s convicted leadership as “my guys” raises serious concerns about whether Mr. Mamdani held affiliations or sympathies he failed to disclose during the naturalization process.

While I understand that some may raise First Amendment concerns about taking legal action based on expressive conduct, such as rap lyrics, speech alone does not preclude accountability where it reasonably suggests underlying conduct relevant to eligibility for naturalization. If an individual publicly glorifies a group convicted of financing terrorism, it is entirely appropriate for federal authorities to inquire whether that individual engaged in non-public forms of support—such as organizational affiliation, fundraising, or advocacy—that would have required disclosure on Form N-400 or during a naturalization interview.

First of all, Mamdani became a citizen at 7 years old. Not sure what “affiliations or sympathies” Mr. Ogles would have had him disclose at that time. And as for “dangerous affiliations,” perhaps our Trump-worshipping crypto-fascist congressman is unaware that at one point, Zohran, who is the son of the Harvard-educated filmmaker who made Mississippi Masala (starring Denzel Washington) … rapped for a literal Disney soundtrack.

Rather difficult to square Young Cardamom (or Mr. Cardamom, as he apparently upgraded his hip hop name to), in his wallpaper shirt, spitting lyrics about spicy food and romance, with the monster Andy Ogles sees in his fever dreams. In fact, Andy … is Mister Cardamom in the room with you right now???

The movie, “Queen of Katwe” came out in 2016 …. the same year that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to become the cartoon president of the United States. Here’s the IMDB summary of the film:

Queen of Katwe is a heartwarming biographical sports drama film released in 2016, directed by Mira Nair, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It stars Madina Nalwanga as Phiona Mutesi, a young girl from the slums of Katwe, Uganda, who becomes a chess prodigy, and David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong'o as her coach Robert Katende and mother Harriet Mutesi, respectively.

The story is based on the real-life experiences of Phiona Mutesi, who learned to play chess at a youth program run by Katende in Katwe. Despite the many obstacles of poverty and gender discrimination stacked against her, Phiona rises up to become one of the best chess players in Uganda and even represent her country at international competitions.

Clearly a tale maga would despise. Too many Blacks. And how dare they try to “DEI” the regal game of chess!

Young Cardamom’s rap career dates back to nearly a decade before his mama got him the Disney hookup. And per Rolling Stone, he has long touched on politics (as in my opinion, good hip hop should):

…Mamdani rapped publicly for the first time when he was running for vice president as a junior at the Bronx High School of Science. In 2015, he officially adopted the music moniker Young Cardamom and partnered with lifelong friend Abdul Bar Hussein (rapper HAB) on “Kanda (Chap Chap),” a blippy anthem to Ugandan-style chapati on which Cardamom drops the one-of-a-kind woo, “I like you so much I want to buy you a cow.”

In 2016, they released a six-song EP entitled Sidda Mukyaalo, which showed hints of the political acuity that now shapes Mamdani’s populist, affordability-focused mayoral platform. That year, in an interview with OkayAfrica, Cardamom revealed that the album title is the Lugandan translation for “no going back to the village.” He told the outlet, “I can’t go back to the village because, as an Asian Ugandan, I simply do not have any village. The city is all I have.” (Mamdani is the son of Ugandan-Indian scholar Mahmood Mandani and Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair.) Throughout Sidda Mukyaalo, the duo raps in six different languages while delving into their experiences as Ugandans.

On “Askari,” the two trade multilingual bars over sinister, EDM-reminiscent horns. Cardamom said the song “play[s] with post-colonial societies’ lasting obsession with and valuing of whiteness.” On the track, he depicts a security guard opening a gate for a white man, but being less inviting to people of color. “When it’s a black friend or family member, it always takes a bit longer [for security to open the door],” Cardamom said, reflecting on his real-life experiences.

A year later, Cardamom and HAB collaborated on “#1 Spice,” created for the soundtrack of the Disney film Queen of Katwe (Mamdani served as music supervisor). The movie was directed by Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair. In October 2016, he talked to South African radio station Kaya 959 about his contribution to the film, joking that “nepotism and hard work goes a long way.” “#1 Spice” is another playful song, with HAB rapping, “Bring the flavor to the fish, bring the flavor to the rice/Who’s the number-one spice?” Cardamom takes over the second verse, rhyming in a mesh of languages in a video which stars him and HAB flirting and dancing around with Queen of Katwe star Lupita Nyong’o.

So as an old school hip hop head, I’m just going to go ahead and approve of the aforementioned Nani, especially the boss-ass grannie portrayed in the video, by cookbook author and actress Madhur Jaffrey:

So we’re denaturalizing that, but keeping Kid Rock? Nah.

It’s clear that both Republicans and Democrats are shook by Mamdani, with Donald Trump, Eric Adams, and even Democrats throwing the cartoon kitchen sink at him:

And here’s House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries refusing to endorse him unless he does the dance…

Speaking with Jeffries about the NYC race, and its implications nationwide for Democrats, Karl introduced the subject by saying, “You mentioned the diversity of your district, including a lot of Jewish constituents. Mamdani has made comments that some have said veer towards anti-Semitism.”

“His initial statement after October 7th, he criticized the Israeli government but didn’t criticize Hamas. He defended the use of the word globalize — or the phrase “globalize intifada”. And he even said that the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu should be arrested — or he would if he were mayor, he would arrest Netanyahu if he visited New York City,” Karl summarized. “Do these things concern you?”

Jeffries replied that the slogan in question, heard often at anti-Israel protests, “is not an acceptable phrasing.”

“He’s going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward,” Jeffries said of Mamdani, whom he did not endorse ahead of the vote, seemingly suggesting that the candidate’s many answers on the subject to date have been inadequate.

Jeffries continued, adding that, “With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in anti-Semitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development.”

And then there’s New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who flat out defamed Mamdani during a radio interview, prompting protests against her.

Let me start by reminding all of the overheated Dems that the mayor of New York has no role in U.S. foreign policy. Demanding, over and over again, that a candidate for that job take an active position on foreign policy, when he’s actually running on making the city more affordable for ordinary people, is an interesting flex. And yet, here we are. The only thing the media, mainstream and podcast alike, seems interested in pressing Mamdani on, is whether he will denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and by doing so ensure Jewish New Yorkers — not all of whom support Israeli policies — that he will be sufficiently solicitous of a foreign country, Israel, as mayor.

This strikes me as an astounding demand; as if reflexively backing Netanyahu as he expands the genocidal bombing and starving of Palestinians in Gaza and continues to look the other way as Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem are brutalized, driven off their farms and homes, or shot and killed by settlers or the IDF, is what will make Jewish Americans, safer. Just writing that down is crazy-making, in that the protests that are ensnaring Jewish innocents in the U.S. are a direct result of Netanyahu’s horrific actions … not the protesters’. And no, people should not blame individual Jewish Americans for the actions of a foreign government, any more than they should target Americans abroad because this country is led by the likes of Donald Trump, or random Muslims for the cruelties of Hamas or al-Qaida, but human nature man … it works in ugly and mysterious ways. We can rightly condemn antisemitic (and Islamophobic) attacks for what they are — vile and out of order — without rendering pro-Palestinian protests themselves, unacceptable (or even illegal.)

And yet, in that strange, American logic, Mamdani is being lectured, hectored, and even threatened, by people on the Democratic and Republican side alike, to try to bully him into denouncing a phrase — “globalize the intifada” — that is sometimes used by pro-Palestinian protesters online or on college campuses; as if another unsung job of the New York mayor is to police speech, maga style. This as Trump is threatening to cut off federal funding to New York city if he is elected mayor.

… while Democratic Party leaders fall silent, and demand that he do the denouncing.

What is ‘intifada?’

Well since the media cannot get past this, let’s go ahead and answer the question. What is the “intifada?” And is it antisemitic? Per the very neutral Brittanica:

intifada, either of two popular uprisings of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of those territories and creating an independent Palestinian state. The first intifada began in December 1987 and ended in September 1993 with the signing of the first Oslo Accords, which provided a framework for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. The second intifada, sometimes called the Al-Aqsa intifada, began in September 2000. Although no single event signaled its end, most analysts agree that it had run its course by late 2005. The two uprisings resulted in the death of more than 5,000 Palestinians and some 1,400 Israelis.

And what caused the uprising, which is the closest thing to an english translation of the word “intifada?” The cause was land theft. More from Brittanica:

The proximate causes of the first intifada were intensified Israeli land expropriation and settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the electoral victory of the right-wing Likud party in 1977; increasing Israeli repression in response to heightened Palestinian protests following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; the emergence of a new cadre of local Palestinian activists who challenged the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a process aided by Israel’s stepped-up attempts to curb political activism and break the PLO’s ties to the occupied territories in the early 1980s; and, in reaction to the invasion of Lebanon, the emergence of a strong peace camp on the Israeli side, which many Palestinians thought provided a basis for change in Israeli policy.

With motivation, means, and perceived opportunity in place, only a precipitant was required to start an uprising. This occurred in December 1987 when an Israeli vehicle struck two vans carrying Palestinian workers, killing four of them, an event that was perceived by Palestinians as an act of revenge for the death by stabbing of an Israeli in Gaza a few days earlier.

Most of the Palestinian rioting took place during the intifada’s first year, after which the Palestinians shifted from throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli targets to attacking them with rifles, hand grenades, and explosives. The shift occurred mainly because of the severity of Israeli military and police reprisals, which intensified after Palestinian attacks became more violent. According to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, nearly 2,000 deaths due to violence occurred during the first intifada; the ratio of Palestinian to Israeli deaths was slightly more than 3 to 1.

Pragmatism crystallized alongside the violence, however. In 1988 the PLO accepted American conditions for opening a U.S.-Palestinian dialogue: rejection of terrorism, recognition of Israel’s right to exist, and acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 (which called upon Arab states to accept Israel’s right “to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries”) and 338 (which called for the implementation of Resolution 242 “in all its parts”). With the intifada proving to be politically and economically damaging to Israel, a new Israeli government was elected in 1992 with a mandate to negotiate for peace. In the following year secret talks between Israel and the PLO under the auspices of the Norwegian government resulted in the Oslo Accords, a series of agreements signed in 1993–95. The accords reiterated the PLO’s 1988 commitments, and Israel recognized the PLO as the Palestinian people’s legitimate representative, agreed to withdraw in stages from areas of the West Bank and Gaza, and allowed the creation of a Palestinian Authority to govern those areas. Outstanding matters in achieving a two-state solution were to be settled over the next five years.

So to reiterate: the first intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the continuing seizure of Palestinian farms and homes by extremist, Jewish settlers. It wasn’t some vicious putsch against people because they were Jewish. The human rights advocacy group AJC, the American Jewish Committee, has created its own definition that somehow leaves that bit out, instead redefining “intifada,” Chris Rufo / Critical Race Theory style, to mean “aggressive resistance against Israel and those who support Israel,” without adding any of the context you can get from a simple Google search of what the Intifadas were about. AJC adds this ominous line to its online definition: “The most prominent expressions of intifada have been through violence so this phrase is often understood by those saying and hearing it as encouraging violence against Israelis, Jews, and institutions supporting Israel. While the intent of the person saying this phrase may be different, the impact on the Jewish community remains the same.” And in their further description, they again leave out the critical question of what Palestinians were protesting about:

The First Intifada was marked by a period of widespread Palestinian protests, civil disobedience, and acts of violence and terrorism against Israelis.

The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a period of intense conflict and Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule that began in late September 2000 and continued until 2005. It was characterized by widespread protests, demonstrations, and suicide bombings, resulting in a high number of casualties on both sides, with close to 1,000 Israelis killed or injured by Palestinian terror attacks, including suicide bombings in civilian areas and passenger bus bombings.

That seems really incomplete.

Now, let’s go to UNRWA, the much-vilified United Nations organization designed to provide Palestinians with education, aid and international support (and whose facilities routinely get bombed to smithereens, sometimes with civilians inside them) by the IDF. Here is their definition:

The First Intifada:

A spontaneous popular uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, after more than 20 years of military occupation, begins. Now known as the first intifada, it is marked by demonstrations, boycotts, tax resistance, strikes and largely unarmed protests; the response is severe and harsh. UNRWA establishes an emergency fund to coordinate its response; in 1990, this is merged with a similar fund for Lebanon, operating since 1982, to form the Extraordinary Measures for Lebanon and the Occupied Territories (EMLOT).

As the situation in the occupied territories deteriorated in the late 1980s, frustrations among young Palestinians, with not just Israeli settler attacks and land expropriation, but also the corruption, failures and ineffectiveness of their own leaders, led to the rise of a militant alternative to the PLO (which later changed its name to Fatah) … namely, Hamas.

More from Brittanica:

Just as the PLO turned to pragmatism, however, a new organization, Hamas, headed in the opposite direction, articulating a vision of an Islamic state in all of historical Palestine. Hamas rejected the Oslo Accords and, in a move to scuttle peace talks, initiated a series of suicide attacks against Israeli targets.

Meanwhile, Israel continued to build settlements in the occupied territories, and the Palestinians imported arms and built up their security forces, in violation of the terms of the Oslo Accords. As a result, talks broke down in 2000 in a wave of frustration and mutual recrimination. Shortly afterward, Likud’s prime ministerial candidate, Ariel Sharon, visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as an assertion of Israel’s sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. Rioting broke out, Israeli police responded with lethal force, and unrest quickly spread throughout the occupied territories. The second intifada had begun.

Just so you know, the word “Hamas” is an acronym… Here is how the group is described by the Council on Foreign Relations:

Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (“Islamic Resistance Movement”), was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood after dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo. Beginning in the late 1960s, Yassin preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza, both of which Israel occupied following the 1967 Six-Day War.

And we know how it went from there:

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades. It violently rejects the existence of Israel, which it claims is occupying Palestine. In October 2023, Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages. In response, Israel declared a war aimed at eradicating the group. The conflict has killed more than forty-thousand people as of October 2024, according to Palestinian officials in Gaza.

Dozens of countries, including the United States, have designated Hamas a terrorist organization over the years, though some apply this label only to its military wing. The United States has pledged billions of dollars in new military aid since the Israel-Hamas war began and remains Israel’s top weapons supplier.

Hamas’s most important ally in the region is Iran, but it has also received significant financial and political support from Turkey. Qatar hosts the Hamas political office and also provides it with financial resources, though with the knowledge and cooperation of the Israeli government. Hamas is meanwhile one component of Iran’s so-called axis of resistance, a regional network of anti-Israel partners that includes Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis, and various militias in Iraq and Syria. Given these connections, many security experts fear that the Israel-Hamas war could engulf the region in a wider conflict.

Hamas’s rival party, Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority and rules in the West Bank, has formally renounced violence, though it has not always upheld that vow in times of high Israeli-Palestinian tensions. The split in Palestinian leadership and Hamas’s unwavering hostility toward Israel diminished prospects for stability in Gaza ahead of the ongoing war, which has only cast the territory into further despair.

But let’s return to the end of the first Intifada … which coincided with the Oslo peace process, during the Bill Clinton administration. You know who opposed peace, as vehemently as Hamas did? Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing Likud party (whose slogan is literally “from the river to the sea…”)

The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable… therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. —Likud Party Platform, 1977

“Judea and Samaria” is an eschatological way of describing the civic, U.N. recognized place called the (occupied) West Bank. Meanwhile, the far right Israeli opposition to a two-state solution culminated in the assassination of the Israeli counterpart in the Oslo process: Yitzhak Rabin … an assassination which Rabin’s widow blamed on … Bibi Netanyahu. Take eight minutes to watch this piece from PBS Frontline:

And here’s Bibi in a secret recording many years ago, bragging about how he helped foil the Oslo peace process.

And apparently for Netanyahu and his Likud party, and the even further right factions in Israel that they ally with, one way to ensure that no peace process like Oslo, which could result in a Palestinian state, would ever be revived … was supporting the rise of … Hamas…

In short, much like the Americans, during the Carter administration, aided and promoted the rise and military training of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan (who later morphed into al-Qaida) to serve as a proxy force agains the godless communists of the U.S.S.R., the Israelis fostered the creation of HAMAS, as a way to permanently prevent Palestinians from achieving their aspiration of a state of their own.

And it is the denial of that state’s existence, and the continued pillaging of Palestinian land — taking their farms, bombing their homes, hospitals, schools, churches and mosques, and starving their children to death — that is causing Palestinians to continue to resist. And I know that there are American Christians in particular, who deeply desire that they stop resisting, and cede all of their land to the people Christians believe are “chosen” to have it (in order to bring about the Apocalypse).

But that is not human nature. Human nature clings to that deed that’s been in the family for over a hundred years, and to that old olive tree that their grandfather planted. Human nature resists using only the designated “Arab roads” and not being able to lay eyes on family members in Gaza, either because of the checkpoints or because they are dead. Human nature resists being told that the people who just flew in from New Jersey or Warsaw are claiming a 2,000 year old title to your home or your farm, so you better just move out and hand it over, because God said so; and also they have guns and the IDF backing them so if you don’t go, you and your children might get shot. Human nature resists religious extremism, colonialism and apartheid. Every time.

And so, despite what a handful of billionaires keep paying U.S. politicians and media to tell you (or else); for the vast majority of pro-Palestine activists that I personally have interacted with, which includes a large number of Jewish Americans, the resistance or uprising … the “intifada,” is not at all about hating Jewish people. It’s about hating land theft, apartheid, and the eternal denial of Palestine’s right to exist, by extremist, fascist warmongers like Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the antithesis of everything the true Jewish and Christian faiths espouse.

Globalizing that resistance looks like Irish barristers joining South Africa to argue against the genocide in Gaza and the apartheid in the West Bank.

Globalizing that resistance means boycotting goods made in the occupied territories and companies that do business with the Israeli state, or calling for institutions to divest from investments in the current Israeli government as was done quite effectively with apartheid-era South Africa; something activists on those college campuses have routinely called for.

Globalizing that resistance looks like world leaders walking out on Bibi Netanyahu nine months ago when he addressed the U.N. as an already adjudicated war criminal, whose arrest is called for, along with those of his top ministers and the since-IDF-assassinated leadership of Hamas, should they travel to a signatory nation. So when Mamdani says he would arrest him, he is stating that unlike Eric Adams and the rest of the U.S. state and national leadership, he would follow international law.

Quoting the United Nations website:

Judges on the ICC said there were reasonable grounds that the three men bore “criminal responsibility” for the alleged crimes committed “from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024” – the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest – the Court said in a press release.

“With regard to the crimes, the [Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I] found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Netanyahu…and Mr. Gallant…bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts,” said the ICC.

The arrest warrants followed the ICC’s rejection of Israel’s challenges to the Court’s jurisdiction.

None of these things imply or even seem to imply or call for violence.

I cannot claim to speak for everyone or even anyone who uses the phrase “globalize the intifada,” since I am not a member of the campus and other protest groups, nor have I used the phrase myself. But I can look up what the “intifada” was and why it happened, as any decent journalist should do, and I am acquainted with enough Palestinians to understand that their resistance, which they do indeed hope to globalize, is against the ongoing theft of their families’ villages, farms, and lives in the occupied territories. Their families are dying; some starving to death, and others being bombed into the hereafter, sometimes by the dozens. They have a right to protest that. And those who empathize with, and protest with them are not, in any instance I have ever encountered as someone who has interviewed scores of these protesters, had anything to do with hating Jewish people. In fact, many of those who have spoken most passionately with me about their advocacy for ending the land theft and the bombing and the sniper shots and the starvation have been Jewish themselves.

Claiming that these passionate protesters intend anything other than resisting the aggressively militaristic, expansionist policies of the current leadership of the STATE of Israel … not Jewish people writ large (more of whom live outside Israel than inside it) … strikes me as slanderous, and a clear attempt at silencing dissent.

People are allowed to disagree with the policies of any state, including Israel, or even to despise those actions, and those leaders. Israel is not a people. It is a nation; with elected leaders and official policies that we must be allowed to critique. It is not the Israel of the Bible, for Gods sakes. Asserting that it is, would be as absurd as referring to Iraq and Iran as Mesopotamia. Netanyahu uses that conflation to manipulate right wing U.S. Christians like Ted Cruz, because he knows they’ll fall for it every time, in part because like Ted, most of these so-called Christians* couldn’t find a relevant Bible verse if Jesus alighted from heaven and personally asked them to do so.

That said, I honestly cannot explain this:

I got nothing…

Stop hating dissent

Bottom line: the fact that I oppose the rulers and policies of Equatorial Guinea doesn’t make me a hater of Africans. And hating … really loathing, if I’m being honest, maga and its fascistic leader and policies doesn’t mean I hate Americans, Republicans, white folks, or fat orange people. It simply means that I detest maga as a movement, the same way maga detests me, liberals, socialists, Democrats, wokeism, all Black people who won’t kiss Trump’s ass, and non-white immigrants. The same should go for Israel, whose right wing leaders cannot be allowed to claim to speak for every Jewish soul on earth, or even to care about them — given that Bibi and his far right klan have clearly long since abandoned their hostages to their fate beneath those U.S. supplied bombs, even as the families cry out in vain for help.

Fear of a brown planet

And this fear of Zohran Mamdani, and the demands that he denounce pro-Palestine activists, should tell you everything you need to know about both the Republican right, and the Democratic mushy middle. Neither of them can see past their reflexive and almost robotic support for this one foreign government, to pay attention to what Mamdani is actually running for office to do: namely to make it so ordinary people can afford to live in America’s real-life Gotham City without going broke. Or maybe even just afford to buy food and ride a bus. Maybe someone in the press should ask him a question or two about that, or about how he might protect fellow immigrants from the fascists currently running Washington. You know … stuff a mayor would have to deal with.

Peter Beinart: your witness:

In case you missed it, check out my Primary Day interview with Zohran Mamdani:

We’re working to get him back on The Joy Reid Show, because he did promise to deliver some bars. And the world needs this!

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