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CoolerOpposide [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Guidelines Board has voted to freeze the rent for all 1-2 year leases, the first time in history

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Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Guidelines Board has voted to freeze the rent for all 1-2 year leases, the first time in history

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    Nice. He seems to be doing good for New York and New Yorkers so far?

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      He’s overwhelmingly popular, even with your average lib. He has ~70% job approval so far, which is even higher than his favorability of ~60%. Pretty impressive to have that number of people who openly say they aren’t a fan of you admit you’re doing a good job

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        Wow, I didnt realize just how popular he is as I’m not in NY and have only loosely followed, thats pretty cool to see. Thanks for explaining!

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          He’s more popular now than when he won the election, and that’s saying a lot. Regular people genuinely love the guy, despite the mainstream media doing their best to manufacture scandals.

          His biggest “scandal” so far was a snowball fight where NYPD officers claimed to have been violently assaulted, but the entire thing is on video from 100 angles and it’s just a snowball fight lol

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            I thought the biggest scandal was him facilitating land theft in occupied Palestine, and also backing zionists in numerous government positions.

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              how did he facilitate land theft? Who are the zionists?

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                Brad Lander invests NYC pensions in Elbit:

                https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/11/nyc-pension-investment-israel-defense-firm-brad-lander-dan-goldman-congress-10-district-primary/

                The land theft happened here:

                https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/6/pro-palestine-group-protests-outside-israeli-real-estate-event-in-new-york

                I like mamdani because he drives nazis up the wall, but if he isn’t ordering the NYPD into the ocean, he’s just another liberal.

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                  to be fair, Lander divested the city pension fund from israeli bonds during his time as comptroller. On his way out of office, Eric Adams actually signed an executive order that banned the city from divestment from israel (lmao). One of the first things Zohran did when he took office was overturn that executive order. Not enough yet, but you have to start somewhere.

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                  Thanks. I’m not a ny’er so I don’t pay much attention.

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