Mara Gay
@maragay.bsky.social
American. Journalist. New York Times Opinion writer and MSNBC political analyst.
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This @maragay.bsky.social piece is a terrific companion, arguing that the politics of a dignified life for all can work for Democrats everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | What Started as Affordability Politics Has Become Something Deeper
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November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This @maragay.bsky.social piece is a terrific companion, arguing that the politics of a dignified life for all can work for Democrats everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
The instinct to treat Mamdani as a local phenomenon ignores the reality of the Americans behind his win.
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | Don’t Overlook the Coalition Mamdani Built
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The instinct to treat Mamdani as a local phenomenon ignores the reality of the Americans behind his win.
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
He won Black, Hispanic, middle, and working class voters. A similar coalition elected Obama.This is the heart of the Democratic coalition, not its fringe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
“…crucial to Mr. Mamdani’s success was a group of voters with the six-figure salaries and college degrees that were supposed to insulate them from feeling economically precarious.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n... @elizashapiro.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie
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November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“…crucial to Mr. Mamdani’s success was a group of voters with the six-figure salaries and college degrees that were supposed to insulate them from feeling economically precarious.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n... @elizashapiro.bsky.social
Mamdani announces transition team:
All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani
All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Mamdani announces transition team:
All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani
All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani
The way my taxi driver stepped on it just now when I told him he was taking me to see Mamdani in Queens
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The way my taxi driver stepped on it just now when I told him he was taking me to see Mamdani in Queens
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... @emmagoldberg.bsky.social
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... @emmagoldberg.bsky.social
“Hope is alive,” Zohran Mamdani tells supporters in his victory speech in Brooklyn. “Hope over tyranny.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“Hope is alive,” Zohran Mamdani tells supporters in his victory speech in Brooklyn. “Hope over tyranny.”
One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled.
“I changed my mind,” he said.
“I changed my mind,” he said.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
One week ago the owner of my local bodega told me he didn’t do politics. Tonight he was wearing a NYC “I voted” sticker, saw me and smiled.
“I changed my mind,” he said.
“I changed my mind,” he said.
A pro-Cuomo flier outside a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Just straight paternalism.
November 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A pro-Cuomo flier outside a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Just straight paternalism.
What city does Cuomo think he’s running to represent?
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What city does Cuomo think he’s running to represent?
“It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
My momma bestie is my auntie
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie
"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family
"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie
"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family
"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
A friend reports that he was turned away this morning at a poll site at 212 Tompkins Ave. in Bed-Stuy because the site had no power.
…so it begins
…so it begins
October 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A friend reports that he was turned away this morning at a poll site at 212 Tompkins Ave. in Bed-Stuy because the site had no power.
…so it begins
…so it begins
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
The racist Cuomo ad whipping up fears about Mamdani comes one month after a man was charged for telling the candidate to go back to Uganda before someone shoots him in the head.
Important context.
queensda.org/texas-man-ch...
Important context.
queensda.org/texas-man-ch...
TEXAS MAN CHARGED WITH MAKING TERRORISTIC THREATS AS A HATE CRIME AGAINST NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND MAYORAL CANDIDATE - OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUEENS COUNTY
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jeremy Fistel was indicted by a grand jury on September 4 and arraigned today on charges of making a terroristic threat as a hate crime and related...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The racist Cuomo ad whipping up fears about Mamdani comes one month after a man was charged for telling the candidate to go back to Uganda before someone shoots him in the head.
Important context.
queensda.org/texas-man-ch...
Important context.
queensda.org/texas-man-ch...
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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ICE will not have fun in New York City.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
ICE vs. NYC
The feds will not have a good time here.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ICE will not have fun in New York City.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
The pressing question is what Mamdani would do to make housing affordable for the millions who don’t live in rent-stabilized apartments www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | The Debate Had a Lot of Housing Talk, but the Next Mayor Needs Bigger Ideas
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October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The pressing question is what Mamdani would do to make housing affordable for the millions who don’t live in rent-stabilized apartments www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
“It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.”
@nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
@nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
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October 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.”
@nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
@nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
“You’re familiar” with the idea that a law has to be followed after it’s passed? Errol Louis to Andrew Cuomo.
NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.
NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.
Cuomo wants to build new jails on Rikers Island. Good to know.
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“You’re familiar” with the idea that a law has to be followed after it’s passed? Errol Louis to Andrew Cuomo.
NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.
NYC passed a law to close Rikers in 2019.
Cuomo wants to build new jails on Rikers Island. Good to know.
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Cuomo wants to build new jails on Rikers Island. Good to know.
Genuinely curious about how Mamdani came to the conclusion that the key to fixing the city’s schools is to end mayoral control
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Genuinely curious about how Mamdani came to the conclusion that the key to fixing the city’s schools is to end mayoral control