Ted Hamm

Author of Meet Mayor Mamdani (April 2026) & Run Zohran Run! (2025).

I cover NYC politics and criminal justice for @TheIndypendent, etc.

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

Below is a sampling from Meet Mayor Mamdani, which picks up where Run Zohran Run! ended, in mid-summer 2025.

Featuring cameos from Karl Rove, Muhammad Ali and...Jerry Quarry.
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[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

John Fetterman seems to genuinely think that the reason no one likes him is because he refuses to wear a suit.

It's not the hoodie, dude. It's because you've become a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican party.

[𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐚 🕸️ O⅃O (𝟐𝟐-𝟐) @Tosen_Kaname_]

You know how we do! 😂❤️ 💙🧡
#harlem #nbafinals #tboharlem

[WhatIsNewYork @whatisny]

Knicks Game 2 celebrations can literally be heard from NJ #whatisnewyork

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Ex-Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan addresses Mayor Zohran Mamdani:
“We survived Amalek, we survived Hamas, we defeated Iran, we overcame Pharaoh — we will overcome Zohran Mamdani as well.”

His comments came at an event at Park East Synagogue on the day of the Israel Parade:

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Very clear double standard at play with Platner reporting because he is anti-zionist and anti-oligarch. For example, Newsom dated a 19 year old when he was 39 and slept with his best friend’s wife but for some reason this isn’t the subject of breathless exposes. Reporters aren’t banging down the door of all Newsom’s ex’s to dig for more dirt. It’s not considered potentially disqualifying or really considered at all.

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

AIPAC says what?

[Adriano Espaillat @EspaillatNY]

Her lack of accountability, refusal to apologize shows that she doesn't respect voters enough to explain why she held those convictions and how she supposedly “evolved”… from four years ago.

Be honest with voters!

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

Pressing questions:

-Will there be a watch party outside MSG for Swift-Kelce nuptials?

-How many thousands of cops will be on-duty?

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

The most shocking part of this story is that the NYT had a former AIPAC Activist of the Year (Katie Glueck) write a piece devoted to detailing unsubstantiated claims from a professional Republican activist (Lyndsey Fifield) on how a left Democratic Senate candidate who has promised to take on Israel (Platner) was a lousy boyfriend and sold it as a legit journalistic scoop.

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

Story is a "gift to the Platner campaign," eh?

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[Ben Feuerherd @benfeuerherd]

More NYPD officers are coming the Bronx. Some residents and early Mamdani supporters are skeptical —> https://t.co/F3hT1BGik2

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

Four candidates to replace Nadler are "all unwilling to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide."

Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp? 🙄

https://t.co/JQEnRrWYDF

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

To correct the record: Rep. Espaillat did not reach out to me or my family when I was detained or during the months that followed. He only contacted my team nearly a year later, after Darializa publicly challenged him. As I've said before, it's unfortunate that he chose to prioritize AIPAC's interests over those of the people living in his own district.

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

New from me:

Ethical clouds continue to hover over "Democratic wise man" Patrick Gaspard, a former "agent of the city." 🤪

Link below.

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

https://t.co/qwLkFQ82Q2

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

New from me:

Ethical clouds continue to hover over "Democratic wise man" Patrick Gaspard, a former "agent of the city." 🤪

Link below.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Prior to tonight, the most recent time that the Knicks led in an NBA Finals was after they had taken a 3-2 lead over Houston in the 1994 Finals.

The same night as the O.J. Simpson chase

One of the most surreal, dramatic scenes in live broadcast television history

June 17, 1994

[Henry Rosoff @HenryRosoff]

Feels like NYPD is trying to revise history now that it's again allowing outdoor viewing parties.

Statement today:
"There was no 'ban' before for the outdoor watch parties at MSG. City Hall approved a permit."

Below is my email exchange May 25th...

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

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[Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @HellGateNY]

Brooklyn Democratic Party powerbroker Frank Seddio finally took the witness stand Tuesday in a sanctions hearing related to his handling of a case involving $2 million in missing escrow money.

It did not go great.

https://t.co/fGF2HBQUcH

[Ted Hamm @HammerDaily]

Plaintiff's attorney says: It’s incredibly uncommon for live testimony to be permitted in these types of suits against city decisions, particularly those regarding FOIA determinations. 🍿

[amNYLaw @amNYlaw]

Judge orders NYC officials to testify about why City Hall initially said records on Lower Manhattan air quality after 9/11 didn’t exist https://t.co/v9HVYZ06ik

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.

He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in