TaraMurf

Mom boss of two little NYC girls and one grumpy Brussels griffon

[Virginia Maloney @vmmaloney]

At the Committee on Children and Youth FY27 Executive Budget Hearing, I questioned the proposed changes to after-school programming, including the impact on Manhattan Youth programs that serve families across our district.

After-school programs provide safe spaces for young people, support working parents, and offer opportunities for enrichment, learning, and community. As budget negotiations continue, I will keep advocating for the resources our children and families rely on.

[Keith Harper @keith_harper]

.@NYCMayorsOffice gutting afterschool programs across NYC schools (even Title 1). No principals, parents, or students asked for this. No public input. Result will be mass layoffs & chaos as untested vendors take over. This what you really want @NYCMayor?

https://t.co/lvKFBBsRlt

[Hamza @HowidyHamza]

I waited for the noise around Zohran Mamdani, the online shouting match that swung between defaming him and glorifying him, to quiet down a little before weighing in.

Mamdani built his brand on grievance: the persecuted Muslim immigrant standing up to the big, bad West. But scratch the surface, and the story falls apart.

To begin with, Mamdani is an Aga Khani Ismaili — a small sect that follows a living Imam and whose interpretations of the Quran most Sunnis and Shias consider heretical. That’s what makes his rise so ironic: a man from a sect rejected by mainstream Islam has become the West’s go-to “Muslim voice,” the self-appointed representative of a faith that doesn’t even recognize him. Though he describes himself as a Twelver.

During his campaign, Mamdani leaned hard on identity politics. Outside a Bronx mosque, he invoked “the memory of my aunt,” who supposedly stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she feared for her safety in a hijab. Except it wasn’t true.

Records show Mamdani has three aunts, two Hindu, and one Muslim who lived in Tanzania between 2000 and 2003. She never wore a hijab and wasn’t in New York before, during, or after 9/11.

There’s a clear pattern: Mamdani weaponizes the language of oppression, Islamophobia, colonialism, white supremacy, to build power, then turns it into a tool of moral absolutism once he’s there.

Ironically, he also pulled 32% of New York’s Jewish vote (compared to Republican Curtis Sliwa’s 5%). The real danger isn’t his faith or even accusations of antisemitism, it’s his ideology. A socialist revolutionary in activist clothing, a far-left ideologue wrapped in the myth of persecution.

Mamdani’s rhetoric carries echoes of old Ba’athist language, that intoxicating blend of nationalism, socialism, and moral authoritarianism that once ruled the Arab world. If the Ba’athists were still around, they’d be applauding. Saddam would be smiling in hell.

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

Dear Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani), I’m officially inviting you to Israel, to see what the only thriving democracy in the Middle East actually looks like.

WARNING: Exposure to facts may cause your worldview and talking points to dramatically shift. 🇮🇱😉

[Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo]

A Zohran Halloween Special 😱💀 (ft. Sliwa)

[TaraMurf @tarafmurph]

@indyfor45th47th 1000000x yes

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A vote for @CurtisSliwa is a vote @ZohranKMamdani. @CurtisSliwa, it is time for you to leave the race.

We are grateful for all you have done for New York City and your advocacy, but the facts on the ground are clear. @andrewcuomo can beat @ZohranKMamdani in a one-on-one election if you drop out of the race.

Every day you wait to leave the race reduces the probability of stopping Mamdani. I know you don't want to hand the City to him.

Please step aside now.

[Maria Danzilo @Maria4Dist6]

I listened to Mamdani’s press conference today, with his DSA comrades Lander and Gonzalez-Rojas . It was awful. He is awful.

He is obsessed with spending our tax dollars to provide free legal advice to people who are not in the country lawfully . He said it over and over again as if coming into the country illegally and breaking the law, is an entitlement to free legal advice, and this is NY’s most pressing problem. Not fixing public housing, not repairing schools or the incredibly low and embarrassing and totally unacceptable achievement levels in our public school, or the mental health crisis. Nope. None of that matters.

New York spent billions housing people who crossed the border illegally in luxury hotel rooms for several years. They received massive help from the taxpayers for years. Meanwhile, many people made hundreds of millions of dollars on services and rent from this scam. Lander did NOTHING about it because his wife was the chief lobbyist for the service providers. The scams are now being uncovered and investigated.

Not a word from Mamdani about any of this, of course. Just free lawyers!

He has no real policies or plans, just free lawyers!

His attacks on our @NYCMayor was truly despicable. Hateful rhetoric is totally not acceptable.

When you listen to him, he is worse than my words can capture. He is just wrong for NYC, and wrong for this moment when we need leaders to be realistic, pragmatic, and most of all unifiers. He is everything but that. An unhinged communist dictator in training. Really, really bad.

Time is running out.

Vote @andrewcuomo . He is a good and competent manager who will lead us well.

vote for anyone else is a vote for Mamdani.

@OneCityRisingNY @SoupandtheCity @stick_dynamite @TheJewishAlly @AllieRyanNYC @JCAndersonNYC

[TaraMurf @tarafmurph]

@TheTexxan @KatrinaPierson Who do you think is protecting your precious Texas from getting nuked by Iran? Wake up!

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

5 years after the fact @Google is reinstating people banned during covid. And yes they were pressured to ban these accounts by the Biden administration.

But sure @jimmykimmel having 4 days off is the most egregious free speech violation the country has ever seen.

[Joshua Washington @JoshWashIBSI]

“Oh you’re Black? That’s amazing. Welcome to my concert. I see you as a human. I treat you as a human. See how virtuous I am? I don’t think you should be murdered. Amazing, yeah? I’m so kind. But I also have to say one thing. I need to say a big welcome to the KKK members in the crowd. You know… just to balance things out.”

-Basically Chris Martin, but with Jews

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

The worst thing about the Mamdani phenomenon is recognizing that if someone found a recent video of him telling someone, "I hate Jews and I wish Hitler had killed more of them" it would make at most a negligible difference in support among his base. 1/

[Jean @queens_parents]

Sounds like Elmo will endorse Zohran Mamdani, amirite?

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Elmo announces his candidacy for Mayor of New York City.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

It would appear as though Elmo has been selected as Columbia University's next President.

[TaraMurf @tarafmurph]

@karenvaites Hypocrisy at its finest.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I despair at the death of any child in war. But let me ask YOU a question: what would YOU consider a ‘proportional’ response to 3000 Hamas terrorists committing one of the worst single day massacres of modern times on Israel’s people, including murdering and kidnapping children?

[Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft]

Today, @nyuniversity Gallatin Student Chair (and LGBTQIA+ member) Logan Rozos took advantage of his platform at the Graduation Ceremony to “condemn the genocide and atrocities in Gaza” (without mentioning Hamas or the hostages, of course).

I’m an @NYUAlumni and this is despicable.

What a great way to isolate Jewish students at their graduation.

[ForAmerica @ForAmerica]

Collect the full squad — logic not included.

[TaraMurf @tarafmurph]

@icnnyc That's my girl! 🤩🤩🤩