Mamdani and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week (and It’s Only Wednesday)
By the time the week was over, Zohran Mamdani's rent control scheme was a shambles, his signature pied-à-terre tax was on judicial hold, and Florida was mocking him as its "Economic Developer of the Year" on a Times Square digital billboard. “The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work,” an NYPD spokesperson said early Tuesday.And would they even be allowed to bring their guns? As far as I know, NYPD jurisdiction doesn't extend as far as Damascus.
- ▪By the time the week was over, Zohran Mamdani's rent control scheme was a shambles, his signature pied-à-terre tax was on judicial hold, and Florida was mocking him as its "Economic Developer of the Year" on a Times Square digital billboard
- ▪“The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work,” an NYPD spokesperson said early Tuesday.And would they even be allowed to bring their guns?
- ▪As far as I know, NYPD jurisdiction doesn't extend as far as Damascus.
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Mamdani and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week (and It’s Only Wednesday) Stephen Green | 12:50 PM on August 12, 2026 AP Photo/Ryan Murphy It started so innocently, as these things do, with New York City's young socialist mayor demanding nonsensical NYPD coverage for his activist wife's ego-trip to Syria and Lebanon later this month. By the time the week was over, Zohran Mamdani's rent control scheme was a shambles, his signature pied-à-terre tax was on judicial hold, and Florida was mocking him as its "Economic Developer of the Year" on a Times Square digital billboard.
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