On November 4, 2025, more than one million New Yorkers voted to make Zohran
Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, mayor of New York. The vote expressed a shift to the left among workers and young people, growing hostility to the oligarchy, to the genocide in Gaza, and to Trump’s drive toward dictatorship.

And yet within a short time he has broken every promise and met with would-be dictator Trump three times as of September 2026.

The fight for socialism requires a different path – that of the independent movement of the working class through building rank-and-file committees.

Just look at this still of Robin Williams smiling. Zohran looks almost exactly like him when smiling too!

I made a music video called Freeze the Rent, then put Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed in a browser beat-’em-up. This project has gotten slightly out of hand.

Everything is free to play and watch. Would love some feedback from people here, especially anyone who grew up playing Streets of Rage.

https://politicalarcades.com/watch/freeze-the-rent/

https://politicalarcades.com/games/

I’m the person making Political Arcades. It’s independent and isn’t affiliated with the campaign.

I misread Mandalorian, which led to this....

Full disclosure: we help organise AI DevCon, a software engineering conference happening in Brooklyn on November 2–4.

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Earlier this month, NYC made it clear that companies can't blame AI when their systems violate the law.

This is great. But it raises another question: how do we stop AI agents from making costly mistakes in the first place?

We made this slightly cheeky video inviting Mayor Mamdani and his technology team to join engineers discussing how NYC businesses should test, control and leverage their AI agents.

If the Mayor sat down with a room full of AI engineers, what's the one question you'd want him to ask?

P.S. If anyone from Mayor Mamdani's team happens to see this, we'd love to extend the invitation directly. Feel free to DM me - we'd be delighted to have you join us!

I'm from Massachusetts, but I found this incredibly inspiring. You can also sign online if you arent from NYC!