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After last night's impressive win, I think he deserves his own thread as I am sure he will be making a lot of news duing the next four years. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-city-election-results-9.6966833 New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, calls out Trump in victory speech Voter turnout was highest the city has seen in decades The Associated Press · Posted: Nov 04, 2025 6:42 PM PST | Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old democratic socialist, who promised to transform city government to restore power to the working class and fight back against a hostile Trump administration. In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises. With his commanding win, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1. “The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this,” Mamdani declared to a roaring crowd at his victory party. He cast his win as a boon for blue-collar workers struggling to get by. “New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change,” he said, vowing to ”wake up each morning with a singular purpose: To make this city better for you than it was the day before.” He also addressed U.S. President Donald Trump head on. “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he said, adding that, “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.” Trump appeared to acknowledge Mamdani’s challenges, posting ”…AND SO IT BEGINS!” on his Truth Social site. A commanding win More than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the contest, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections. With roughly 90 per cent of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo. [...]

The thread title is incorrect, Dana Williamson is Newsom's ex-Chief Of Staff, not his current one. From the OP: "Williamson, who left the Governor’s Office at the end of 2024"

Context is everything.

Maybe just a coincidence but I'd like to believe Mamdani's election had something to do with this. From NYT (link to subsciber content) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/nyregion/new-york-city-queens-rezoning.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251112&instance_id=166302&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=125207237&segment_id=210476&user_id=14502a7228c5a9b835a15627514bfe28 City Council Approves Plan That Could Bring 14,700 Homes to Queens The New York plan would open up 54 blocks of Long Island City, which are mostly warehouses and parking lots, to housing. The New York City Council unanimously approved a rezoning on Wednesday that could transform an industrial stretch of Queens into thousands of apartments — private development aimed at addressing the city’s affordable housing crisis. The vote comes a little over a week after the mayoral election, in which housing was a top issue for voters and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory on a platform of affordability. Under the plan, developers could build nearly 15,000 apartments within 54 blocks of Long Island City that are currently filled with warehouses and parking lots. Seven years ago, left-leaning politicians opposed a plan that would have given incentives to Amazon to build a headquarters in the same neighborhood. The new plan, with its focus on housing and community amenities instead of huge public subsidies for a wealthy company like Amazon, has earned the support of the local councilwoman, Julie Won, and other politicians who did not want the headquarters. The proposal includes nearly hundreds of millions of dollars for parks, public housing, schools, sewers and more. About 30 percent of the housing must be affordable to people of lower or moderate incomes. “We are fully aware that New York City is in an affordable housing crisis and a housing crisis at large,” Ms. Won said on Wednesday. “Long Island City — we will continue to be a leader in the production of new housing.” Mr. Mamdani, whose assembly district includes parts of the rezoning area, said in a statement on Wednesday that the plan was a “victory for Long Island City residents.” [...]

As someone told me years ago, Christie wears on you after awhile. Her books have too many characters and are slow moving, which is true of many British writers. Her novels are also very formulistic in that there is intentional misdirection to the point that the murderer is always one you don't suspect and that you have dismissed because they lacked either motive, means or opportunity.

He isn't or rather wasn't IMO. I found his books to be really hit or miss and the reason for that is he didn't use an outline and literally made it up as he went along and wrote each chapter not knowing himself what would happen next or how it was going to end (and many of the books read like it). A quote from Leonard on his approach: "To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about" I read Killshot and IIRC it was one of the few of his that I liked.

With Trump appearing to send the US economy over a cliff with his tariffs, it seems not a question of if, but when there will be a recession. In this thread we can discuss the events leading up to this and the consequences once it hits. Hope I am wrong on this but I kinda doubt it. https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1909984660974690757 JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says on Fox Business the U.S. economy is likely headed for a recession as a result of Trump’s tariffs.

That is straight out of their playbook.

I figured as much, when a link is not provided there is usually a reason.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1988603965190139955 BREAKING: House Democrats just released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims — among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. https://tinyurl.com/5yj3dfpx In a separate email with author Michael Wolff in 2019, Epstein stated explicitly that Donald Trump, "knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop."

Geez, Tim you are really nit-picking here. Yes, Eddie Van Halen and were brother Alex were born in Amsterdam. However, the Van Halen family moved to Pasadena, California in 1962 when Eddie was 7 and his brother Alex was 9.years old. I don't think a couple of kids who came to this country under the age of 10 can be classified as "Dutch musicians" lol.

Link?

Lodi wasn't that popular a CCR song, not a Top 50 hit (and was the B-side of Bad Moon Rising) Proud Mary has been played to death, which might explain how some feel about it.

So the Top 5 all have to be in the same genre of rock or popular music? I thought this was just supposed to be a list of people's Top 5 favorite American bands or artists.

Any proof that they are liberals? Did they have signs on them that said "I'm a liberal"?

Yes, we are all sure this is a legitimate story.

Thought he had a thread dedicated to him, but all I could find was one on a DOJ report he submitted with his prosecution efforts. Anyway...since he is on Trump's enemies target list, he is still in the news.

Hate to limit it to just 5... In no particular order: CCR The Eagles The Beach Boys Van Halen Nirvana

I'm not sure I agree either. But here is his take (video segment and text at link) https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell-claims-trump-allies-caved-on-shutdown-and-brought-epstein-files-back-to-life/ MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Claims Trump Allies ‘Caved’ on Shutdown — And Brought Epstein Files ‘Back to Life! MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell claimed on Monday that it was President Donald Trump and his allies who “caved” to end the government shutdown — and in the process brought the so-called Epstein Files “back to life.” Democrats and their allies are livid over a deal that a small group of Democratic senators made with Republicans in order to end the government shutdown. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Angus King (I-ME), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Sen. Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) voted to advance a bill that would reopen the government in exchange for some job protections and a promise to hold a vote on Obamacare subsidies in December. On Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell argued that it was Trump and 271 GOP members of Congress who were “forced” to change their positions by the five Democrats who moved to make the compromise. He also noted with relish that the end of the shutdown opens the way for Democrats to press Trump and his administration on issues related to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Fake news story. He had no tour dates scheduled in NYC next year to cancel. https://www.newsweek.com/kid-rock-tour-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-11027824 Did Kid Rock Cancel NY Shows Over Mamdani Win? What We Know A viral rumor is circulating online that the musician Kid Rock has canceled shows in New York following the election of Zohran Mamdani. Newsweek has contacted a representative for Kid Rock outside of regular working hours via email for comment. What To Know Kid Rock did not cancel any shows in New York over Mamdani, and claims that he did are false. X has labelled the claims a “viral hoax” in a summary of aggregated posts related to the claim on their site. Kid Rock’s website currently lists one tour date, which has now passed and was on November 8 in Arizona. He does not have further concerts listed on his website or social media, and it does not appear that he had a New York show to cancel. The rumor circulated widely on X. One post, from the account @TheRealThemlaJ1 read “Almost a dozen tickets had to be refunded,” which included a screenshot of an image purporting to be a ‘breaking news’ story about Kid Rock canceling tour dates. That post was viewed over a million times on X, and the account is described in its bio as a “parody,” and the reference to a dozen tickets being refunded is clearly a joke, poking fun at Kid Rock.