Liberal New Yorkers were so excited about their new Mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Oh sure, he told them that he was a straight-up, unapologetic Democratic Socialist, but they didn't really pay attention to what he called himself. All they heard was "free stuff." Free healthcare, free childcare, free bus rides, government-run grocery stores, and rent freezing. It would be a veritable liberal utopia. Well, the election is over, and now that Mamdani is safely ensconced in his own rent-free living quarters in Gracie Mansion, he is ripping the mask off.
“We’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.”
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 5, 2026
In resurfaced videos, Cea Weaver, a cabinet member of mayor Mamdani’s admin, says it is her goal to end private property ownership & that whites will deal with the impact.pic.twitter.com/ZfXLSblzyU
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Zohran Mamdani's picks to run certain agencies and city departments have been interesting to say the least. He appointed a woman who has praised a convicted cop-killer for his transitional committee for youth and education. My RedState colleagues, Becca Lower and Sister Toldjah, respectively, have reported on Mamdani's first openly gay Fire Chief, a woman who has no experience fighting fires, and the latest, attorney Ramzi Kassem, who defended an al-Qaeda terrorist. But if you thought it was hard finding housing in the Big Apple before, well... buckle up, especially if you are white.
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Cea Weaver is Mamdani's newly appointed Tenant Advocate. In several 2018 social media posts, she "advocated" to "seize private property," and had this to say about homeownership, which is only something all Americans strive to achieve: “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.” Weaver had deleted the X account, but it has resurfaced thanks to those who know how to find them. In 2017, she urged New Yorkers to "Elect more communists."
Weaver is also no fan of the police. In 2020, after the death of George Floyd, she posted, “The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity." She was the campaign coordinator for Housing Justice for All, and lobbied the Democratic majority in the New York Legislature to shore up rent stabilization laws. She was also an advisor to Mamdani's mayoral campaign and, surprise, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
According to the New York Post, Mamdani’s tenant advocate Cea Weaver, said that home ownership is a “weapon of white supremacy.”
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 5, 2026
She sounds amazing. I don’t know what could possibly go wrong here. Everyone is going to embrace communism. pic.twitter.com/PX9yxAwHbm
While Mamdani and Weaver are not fans of the police, property owners are rapidly becoming no fans of Mamdani and Weaver. One property owner called Mamdani and Weaver "misguided." Humberto Lopes is the founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance. He said of Mamdani's and Weaver's rent-stabilization policies:
“Without landlords how [to] do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes]. You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?"
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No matter how many fellow socialists Zohran Mamdani appoints to his staff, both New York renters and landlords are about to get a healthy dose of that socialism. Mamdani wants to freeze rent on roughly one million rent-regulated apartments. However, such a move would need approval from the Rent Guidelines Board. Then there is one of Mamdani's first executive orders: the creation of "Rental Ripoff" hearings that will require hearings in all five boroughs within his first 100 days in office. In the first preview of oppressive, overarching city government, the EO requires Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the Department of Buildings, the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to conduct the hearings in coordination with the new Office of Mass Engagement. All that's left is the Ministry of Truth. But no worries, there are plenty more young, inexperienced leftists who worked on Mamdani's mayoral campaign, where Cea Weaver came from.
In case New Yorkers still don't know it yet, they are barreling toward the "find out" part.
A few months ago, I dug into Cea Weaver's Twitter history because she was Mamdani's housing advisor.
— Michelle Tandler (@michelletandler) January 5, 2026
I had a hunch she might get a position on his team.
Well, she did, and she deleted her X account, accordingly.
However, I took some screenshots. Let's dig in. pic.twitter.com/sYMz3wF97w
Editor's Note: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover of New York City has begun.
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