The Mamdani experiment- day 1

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Thought it might be fun to track some of the policy changes, new laws, and executive orders issued by the first true "Democratic Socialist" to a major US political position. 

Obviously the successes, or failures, of his policies will take many months and/or years to be truly understood.

Day 1 the most controversial executive order he rescinded was antisemitic protections, which he campaigned against- so I guess he kept his word so far.

Israel's response-

"  Comments from the Israeli government were more pointed. (Mamdani has expressed his desire to arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the basis of an International Criminal Court warrant.)

“On his very first day as New York City Mayor Mamdani shows his true face: He scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel,” Israel’s foreign ministry said in a post. “This isn’t leadership. It’s antisemitic gasoline on an open fire.”

His term should be an interesting experiment, I for one am happy I am not one of the NYC residents who have to live with those decisions. But they voted for it, so time will tell who made the right decisions.

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Collectivism over individualism has worked so well in so many places. 

 

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The worlds elite have wanted immigration and diversity spread thruout the globe - Canada, England, America, you name it. "Immigrants enhance our culture" is the narrative thats being crammed down throats - and you wouldnt want to be a racist would you? Why are they so opposed to a brown skinned gentlemen becoming mayor of NYC? Why doesnt a man from a "diverse" background like Mamdani have the full support of Israel, Johnathon Greenblatt, The George Soros Foundation, Barack Obama, and the office of Gavin Newsom? Why? 

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So, there really is such a thing as …A Communist DEI Muslim in a Hi-Dollar Suit. 🤣

“We will replace the Frigidity of Rugged Individualism with the Warmth of Collectivism.” 

Unfuckingbelievable..

Except that I just watched it happen.

“Democratic Socialists”…Bwaaaaaahaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa

You Really Can Not Make This Shit Up! 💩

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One thing for sure were all watching this stuff go down...

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Wake up people.

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Mamdani was elected under the same pretense as Trump:  the electorate was fed up with the establishment.  Though their policies vary greatly, the underlying resentment was the same. 

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Mamdani was elected under the same pretense as Trump:  the electorate was fed up with the establishment.  Though their policies vary greatly, the underlying resentment was...

Mamdani was elected under the same pretense as Trump:  the electorate was fed up with the establishment.  Though their policies vary greatly, the underlying resentment was the same. 

The experimental freedom of democracy is its greatest strength.

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Well, I'm too old to kick their asses anymore, but my powder remains dry.

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Well, I'm too old to kick their asses anymore, but my powder remains dry.

Don’t even need to go there.

These pronoun disintegrating trans-swim-team failing fucks are showing the world jus’ how fucked up and insane they are.

Thank God.

You Can Not Make This Shit Up!💩

I’d like to take this time…having jus’ got home from my kick-off “2026 RTR Mustang Race Team Meeting” and then the live morning meetings from The Dakar…followed by goin’ out to Tacos & Margaritas with my beautiful Viking Wife…well…I’d like to take this time to acknowledge and say,”Hey, Girl!” to my Angry Lil’ Hateful Thumbs Club! 🤣

I’m still enjoying the free real estate and wanted to reaffirm your angry existence…in the shadows of Nowhereland. So,”Hey, Girl!”🏳️‍🌈

🤣💪🏼🇺🇸 

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I do not understand why we are allowing communism and socialism to get a foothold in the US while we fight communism and socialism around the world. 

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The big cities will be more and more like this going forward.  NYC has always been Gotham... It's only going to get worse.

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I do not understand why we are allowing communism and socialism to get a foothold in the US while we fight communism and socialism around the...

I do not understand why we are allowing communism and socialism to get a foothold in the US while we fight communism and socialism around the world. 

Your fellow citizens voted for it in NYC. 😎

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I do not understand why we are allowing communism and socialism to get a foothold in the US while we fight communism and socialism around the...

I do not understand why we are allowing communism and socialism to get a foothold in the US while we fight communism and socialism around the world. 

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Your fellow citizens voted for it in NYC. 😎

Exactly. Plus we’re fighting international adversaries who happen to be socialists, not socialism itself. 

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1/3/2026 10:22am Edited Date/Time 1/3/2026 10:27am

We should be rounding up and shipping out Muslims, not Mexicans. Coming here via the red carpet we've laid out for them to try and make a better life for themselves and their families I can deal with. Coming here to force you're fucked up archaic backward ass ideals on us ? Yeah fuck you gtfo, 

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Eventually, every socialist runs up against the great nemesis that they can never defeat:  Mathematics. 

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Actually, I am really enjoying this. New York city voted for him let them enjoy his reign. I would expect things to deteriorate to at least the level of ruin that David Dinkins left for Giuliani to clean up, which he did. New York city voted for a communist, this will be fun to watch. This is further destruction of the Democrat party which is also a lot of fun to watch. I actually couldn't care less for what happens to that shithole, New York city.

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Actually, I am really enjoying this. New York city voted for him let them enjoy his reign. I would expect things to deteriorate to at least...

Actually, I am really enjoying this. New York city voted for him let them enjoy his reign. I would expect things to deteriorate to at least the level of ruin that David Dinkins left for Giuliani to clean up, which he did. New York city voted for a communist, this will be fun to watch. This is further destruction of the Democrat party which is also a lot of fun to watch. I actually couldn't care less for what happens to that shithole, New York city.

Weird ending statement

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Eventually, every socialist runs up against the great nemesis that they can never defeat:  Mathematics. 

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It is terrifying that Mamdani is even in American politics. Fifteen years ago his radicalism would have him laughed out before the primary. 

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Mamdani BITCHING ABOUT MADURO ARREST…and he implied violations of international law…he took the time to call the president on the matter…yup. 

Sounds like CRITICAL NYC BUSINESS , to me! 🤣

And ya wonder why they call ya,”Bitch”.

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It is terrifying that Mamdani is even in American politics. Fifteen years ago his radicalism would have him laughed out before the primary. 

In NYC no less. What in the actual fuck.... 

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This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive Orders first. 

Executive Order #1 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-01
It keeps in place all the executive orders from before September 26, 2024, that were still active at the end of 2025. But it revokes everything issued between September 26, 2024 and December 31, 2025 aside from emergency stuff. This is notable bc 9/26/24 is when Ex-mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges. 

Executive Order #2 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-02
Basically sets an organization chart for NYC's executive branch. There are five Deputy Mayors, each overseeing different areas of city government, plus a Chief of Staff, Chief Counsel, and Director of Communications. They all report directly to the Mayor.

-The First Deputy Mayor is basically the second-in-command and they oversee big stuff like the police department, public schools, the budget office, and corrections. If the Mamdani can't do hsi job for some reason, this person steps in.
-The Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning handles everything related to housing, buildings, city planning, and landmarks.
-The Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice focuses on jobs, small businesses, worker protections, immigrant affairs, cultural organizations, and economic development.
-The Deputy Mayor for Operations manages the nuts-and-bolts city services: sanitation, transportation, parks, fire department, environmental protection, and technology.
-The Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services oversees hospitals, social services, homeless services, child welfare, aging, and mental health.

Interestingly, it also formally establishes an office to Combat Antisemitism, an Office for Pro Bono Legal Assistance to help people find free legal help, and continues some existing offices like the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (which handles city contracts and procurement).

Executive Order #3 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-03
Revives and strengthens a tenant protection office that had been neglected. Apparetly there was an Office to Protect Tenants that was created in 2019 but the EO notes state that it was "defunded and deprioritized" so this EO is addressing that. It specificaly calls out bad landlords for things like hazardous code violations, slow repairs, unlawful fees, and price gouging. It's also of note that he refers to renters as economic drivers which I found interesting. 

Executive Order #4 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-04
Works on the housing crisis by looking at surplus land that the city already owns. NYC has a very low vacancy rate so almost nothing is available which drives up rent and makes finding housing hard. Mamdani is creating a task force (LIFT or Land Inventory Fast Track) to figure out which city-owned properties could be used to build housing. LIFT will reach out to a bunch of agencies as well as libraries, education, hospitals, and state development to see what excess land they have. They have a target of identifying at least 25k new housing units worth of sites by 7/1/2026. THere are also guardrails that prevent them from disrupting city services so they can't bulldoze a fire station or something. 

Executive Order #5 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-05
Creates another task force called SPEED (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development). From what I gather, this one is different from LIFT because it instead looks at how slow and complicated it is to get affordable housing built and tries to find solutions to common bottlenecks throughout different phases of housing production. They have within 100 days to give initial recommendations to the Mayor. 

Executive Order #6 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-06
Establishes how Mayor Mamdani picks judges for various courts. The basic idea is that he doesn't pick judges on his own, but instead has a 19-member advisory committee vets candidates and then he chooses from those recommendations. It also has a transparency and ethics clarification that they must publish info & data about the process. 

Executive Order #7 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-07
Has to do with connecting New Yorkers with their government more. It argues that civic engagement in NYC currently favors peolpe with the most time and resources because of the long meetings, confusing paperwork, etc and the feedback that gets collected doesn't usually shape policy. So the EO is creating OME (Office of Mass Engagement) to consolidate and improve the city's public engagement efforts. This will replace Community Affairs Unit and absorb the Office of Civic Engagement. This Office will run campaigns to get New Yorkers involved, create more accessible ways for feedback to happen, reach out to communities that haven't historically participated in government, and then work to integrate the feedback into policy. 

Executive Order #8 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-08
Builds on EO #3 above by launching public hearings, ie "Rental Ripoff" hearings across the city to document bad landlord behavior. At least one in each borough within the next 100 days. Tenants, tenant organizations, advocates, legal service providers, and even landlords and property managers can come testify about illegal, ab usive, or deceptive practices in the rental market. After the hearings (within 90 days) they have to submit a report with a plan of action to address the problems. The plan must use existing enforcement powers, improve code inforcement, and leveerage consumer protection tools. The report will be made public. This is basically a listening tour with teeth from what I gather. 

Executive Order #9 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-09
Targets surprise fees that get added to checkout after you've already decided to buy something (service/processing/convenience/etc). The EO calls this "junk fee pricing" and argues that it's misleading and hurts honest businesses that price things clearly. It creates a Junk Fee Task Force to coordinate rulemaking, enforcement, city contracting standards, and public education across agencies. The Dpt of Consumer and Worker Protection is directed to consider new rules to combat hidden fees under its existing authority and to recommend any new legislation that might be needed, as well as take enforcement actions against business using deceptive junk fee pricing. 

Executive Order #10 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-10
Pretty similar to EO #9 but instead of junk fees, it has to do with companies that make it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions by using deceptive enrollment practices (hidden renewel terms, misrepresented pricing, etc) or by adding a bunch of hoops to jump through to cancel things. 

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This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive...

This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive Orders first. 

Executive Order #1 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-01
It keeps in place all the executive orders from before September 26, 2024, that were still active at the end of 2025. But it revokes everything issued between September 26, 2024 and December 31, 2025 aside from emergency stuff. This is notable bc 9/26/24 is when Ex-mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges. 

Executive Order #2 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-02
Basically sets an organization chart for NYC's executive branch. There are five Deputy Mayors, each overseeing different areas of city government, plus a Chief of Staff, Chief Counsel, and Director of Communications. They all report directly to the Mayor.

-The First Deputy Mayor is basically the second-in-command and they oversee big stuff like the police department, public schools, the budget office, and corrections. If the Mamdani can't do hsi job for some reason, this person steps in.
-The Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning handles everything related to housing, buildings, city planning, and landmarks.
-The Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice focuses on jobs, small businesses, worker protections, immigrant affairs, cultural organizations, and economic development.
-The Deputy Mayor for Operations manages the nuts-and-bolts city services: sanitation, transportation, parks, fire department, environmental protection, and technology.
-The Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services oversees hospitals, social services, homeless services, child welfare, aging, and mental health.

Interestingly, it also formally establishes an office to Combat Antisemitism, an Office for Pro Bono Legal Assistance to help people find free legal help, and continues some existing offices like the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (which handles city contracts and procurement).

Executive Order #3 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-03
Revives and strengthens a tenant protection office that had been neglected. Apparetly there was an Office to Protect Tenants that was created in 2019 but the EO notes state that it was "defunded and deprioritized" so this EO is addressing that. It specificaly calls out bad landlords for things like hazardous code violations, slow repairs, unlawful fees, and price gouging. It's also of note that he refers to renters as economic drivers which I found interesting. 

Executive Order #4 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-04
Works on the housing crisis by looking at surplus land that the city already owns. NYC has a very low vacancy rate so almost nothing is available which drives up rent and makes finding housing hard. Mamdani is creating a task force (LIFT or Land Inventory Fast Track) to figure out which city-owned properties could be used to build housing. LIFT will reach out to a bunch of agencies as well as libraries, education, hospitals, and state development to see what excess land they have. They have a target of identifying at least 25k new housing units worth of sites by 7/1/2026. THere are also guardrails that prevent them from disrupting city services so they can't bulldoze a fire station or something. 

Executive Order #5 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-05
Creates another task force called SPEED (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development). From what I gather, this one is different from LIFT because it instead looks at how slow and complicated it is to get affordable housing built and tries to find solutions to common bottlenecks throughout different phases of housing production. They have within 100 days to give initial recommendations to the Mayor. 

Executive Order #6 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-06
Establishes how Mayor Mamdani picks judges for various courts. The basic idea is that he doesn't pick judges on his own, but instead has a 19-member advisory committee vets candidates and then he chooses from those recommendations. It also has a transparency and ethics clarification that they must publish info & data about the process. 

Executive Order #7 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-07
Has to do with connecting New Yorkers with their government more. It argues that civic engagement in NYC currently favors peolpe with the most time and resources because of the long meetings, confusing paperwork, etc and the feedback that gets collected doesn't usually shape policy. So the EO is creating OME (Office of Mass Engagement) to consolidate and improve the city's public engagement efforts. This will replace Community Affairs Unit and absorb the Office of Civic Engagement. This Office will run campaigns to get New Yorkers involved, create more accessible ways for feedback to happen, reach out to communities that haven't historically participated in government, and then work to integrate the feedback into policy. 

Executive Order #8 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-08
Builds on EO #3 above by launching public hearings, ie "Rental Ripoff" hearings across the city to document bad landlord behavior. At least one in each borough within the next 100 days. Tenants, tenant organizations, advocates, legal service providers, and even landlords and property managers can come testify about illegal, ab usive, or deceptive practices in the rental market. After the hearings (within 90 days) they have to submit a report with a plan of action to address the problems. The plan must use existing enforcement powers, improve code inforcement, and leveerage consumer protection tools. The report will be made public. This is basically a listening tour with teeth from what I gather. 

Executive Order #9 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-09
Targets surprise fees that get added to checkout after you've already decided to buy something (service/processing/convenience/etc). The EO calls this "junk fee pricing" and argues that it's misleading and hurts honest businesses that price things clearly. It creates a Junk Fee Task Force to coordinate rulemaking, enforcement, city contracting standards, and public education across agencies. The Dpt of Consumer and Worker Protection is directed to consider new rules to combat hidden fees under its existing authority and to recommend any new legislation that might be needed, as well as take enforcement actions against business using deceptive junk fee pricing. 

Executive Order #10 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-10
Pretty similar to EO #9 but instead of junk fees, it has to do with companies that make it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions by using deceptive enrollment practices (hidden renewel terms, misrepresented pricing, etc) or by adding a bunch of hoops to jump through to cancel things. 

Thanks for the breakdowns. Housing/tenant reform, civic engagement, junk fees, judicial checks and balances. All of which seem fairly reasonable so far, no?

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This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive...

This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive Orders first. 

Executive Order #1 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-01
It keeps in place all the executive orders from before September 26, 2024, that were still active at the end of 2025. But it revokes everything issued between September 26, 2024 and December 31, 2025 aside from emergency stuff. This is notable bc 9/26/24 is when Ex-mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges. 

Executive Order #2 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-02
Basically sets an organization chart for NYC's executive branch. There are five Deputy Mayors, each overseeing different areas of city government, plus a Chief of Staff, Chief Counsel, and Director of Communications. They all report directly to the Mayor.

-The First Deputy Mayor is basically the second-in-command and they oversee big stuff like the police department, public schools, the budget office, and corrections. If the Mamdani can't do hsi job for some reason, this person steps in.
-The Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning handles everything related to housing, buildings, city planning, and landmarks.
-The Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice focuses on jobs, small businesses, worker protections, immigrant affairs, cultural organizations, and economic development.
-The Deputy Mayor for Operations manages the nuts-and-bolts city services: sanitation, transportation, parks, fire department, environmental protection, and technology.
-The Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services oversees hospitals, social services, homeless services, child welfare, aging, and mental health.

Interestingly, it also formally establishes an office to Combat Antisemitism, an Office for Pro Bono Legal Assistance to help people find free legal help, and continues some existing offices like the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (which handles city contracts and procurement).

Executive Order #3 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-03
Revives and strengthens a tenant protection office that had been neglected. Apparetly there was an Office to Protect Tenants that was created in 2019 but the EO notes state that it was "defunded and deprioritized" so this EO is addressing that. It specificaly calls out bad landlords for things like hazardous code violations, slow repairs, unlawful fees, and price gouging. It's also of note that he refers to renters as economic drivers which I found interesting. 

Executive Order #4 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-04
Works on the housing crisis by looking at surplus land that the city already owns. NYC has a very low vacancy rate so almost nothing is available which drives up rent and makes finding housing hard. Mamdani is creating a task force (LIFT or Land Inventory Fast Track) to figure out which city-owned properties could be used to build housing. LIFT will reach out to a bunch of agencies as well as libraries, education, hospitals, and state development to see what excess land they have. They have a target of identifying at least 25k new housing units worth of sites by 7/1/2026. THere are also guardrails that prevent them from disrupting city services so they can't bulldoze a fire station or something. 

Executive Order #5 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-05
Creates another task force called SPEED (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development). From what I gather, this one is different from LIFT because it instead looks at how slow and complicated it is to get affordable housing built and tries to find solutions to common bottlenecks throughout different phases of housing production. They have within 100 days to give initial recommendations to the Mayor. 

Executive Order #6 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-06
Establishes how Mayor Mamdani picks judges for various courts. The basic idea is that he doesn't pick judges on his own, but instead has a 19-member advisory committee vets candidates and then he chooses from those recommendations. It also has a transparency and ethics clarification that they must publish info & data about the process. 

Executive Order #7 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-07
Has to do with connecting New Yorkers with their government more. It argues that civic engagement in NYC currently favors peolpe with the most time and resources because of the long meetings, confusing paperwork, etc and the feedback that gets collected doesn't usually shape policy. So the EO is creating OME (Office of Mass Engagement) to consolidate and improve the city's public engagement efforts. This will replace Community Affairs Unit and absorb the Office of Civic Engagement. This Office will run campaigns to get New Yorkers involved, create more accessible ways for feedback to happen, reach out to communities that haven't historically participated in government, and then work to integrate the feedback into policy. 

Executive Order #8 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-08
Builds on EO #3 above by launching public hearings, ie "Rental Ripoff" hearings across the city to document bad landlord behavior. At least one in each borough within the next 100 days. Tenants, tenant organizations, advocates, legal service providers, and even landlords and property managers can come testify about illegal, ab usive, or deceptive practices in the rental market. After the hearings (within 90 days) they have to submit a report with a plan of action to address the problems. The plan must use existing enforcement powers, improve code inforcement, and leveerage consumer protection tools. The report will be made public. This is basically a listening tour with teeth from what I gather. 

Executive Order #9 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-09
Targets surprise fees that get added to checkout after you've already decided to buy something (service/processing/convenience/etc). The EO calls this "junk fee pricing" and argues that it's misleading and hurts honest businesses that price things clearly. It creates a Junk Fee Task Force to coordinate rulemaking, enforcement, city contracting standards, and public education across agencies. The Dpt of Consumer and Worker Protection is directed to consider new rules to combat hidden fees under its existing authority and to recommend any new legislation that might be needed, as well as take enforcement actions against business using deceptive junk fee pricing. 

Executive Order #10 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-10
Pretty similar to EO #9 but instead of junk fees, it has to do with companies that make it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions by using deceptive enrollment practices (hidden renewel terms, misrepresented pricing, etc) or by adding a bunch of hoops to jump through to cancel things. 

SKlein wrote:

Thanks for the breakdowns. Housing/tenant reform, civic engagement, junk fees, judicial checks and balances. All of which seem fairly reasonable so far, no?

Go listen to what Cea Weaver has to say. She's some housing official who works for Mandami.

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This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive...

This thread made me curious and I have some free time so I figured I'd look into what he's been up to. I'm just doing Executive Orders first. 

Executive Order #1 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-01
It keeps in place all the executive orders from before September 26, 2024, that were still active at the end of 2025. But it revokes everything issued between September 26, 2024 and December 31, 2025 aside from emergency stuff. This is notable bc 9/26/24 is when Ex-mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges. 

Executive Order #2 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-02
Basically sets an organization chart for NYC's executive branch. There are five Deputy Mayors, each overseeing different areas of city government, plus a Chief of Staff, Chief Counsel, and Director of Communications. They all report directly to the Mayor.

-The First Deputy Mayor is basically the second-in-command and they oversee big stuff like the police department, public schools, the budget office, and corrections. If the Mamdani can't do hsi job for some reason, this person steps in.
-The Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning handles everything related to housing, buildings, city planning, and landmarks.
-The Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice focuses on jobs, small businesses, worker protections, immigrant affairs, cultural organizations, and economic development.
-The Deputy Mayor for Operations manages the nuts-and-bolts city services: sanitation, transportation, parks, fire department, environmental protection, and technology.
-The Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services oversees hospitals, social services, homeless services, child welfare, aging, and mental health.

Interestingly, it also formally establishes an office to Combat Antisemitism, an Office for Pro Bono Legal Assistance to help people find free legal help, and continues some existing offices like the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (which handles city contracts and procurement).

Executive Order #3 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-03
Revives and strengthens a tenant protection office that had been neglected. Apparetly there was an Office to Protect Tenants that was created in 2019 but the EO notes state that it was "defunded and deprioritized" so this EO is addressing that. It specificaly calls out bad landlords for things like hazardous code violations, slow repairs, unlawful fees, and price gouging. It's also of note that he refers to renters as economic drivers which I found interesting. 

Executive Order #4 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-04
Works on the housing crisis by looking at surplus land that the city already owns. NYC has a very low vacancy rate so almost nothing is available which drives up rent and makes finding housing hard. Mamdani is creating a task force (LIFT or Land Inventory Fast Track) to figure out which city-owned properties could be used to build housing. LIFT will reach out to a bunch of agencies as well as libraries, education, hospitals, and state development to see what excess land they have. They have a target of identifying at least 25k new housing units worth of sites by 7/1/2026. THere are also guardrails that prevent them from disrupting city services so they can't bulldoze a fire station or something. 

Executive Order #5 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-05
Creates another task force called SPEED (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development). From what I gather, this one is different from LIFT because it instead looks at how slow and complicated it is to get affordable housing built and tries to find solutions to common bottlenecks throughout different phases of housing production. They have within 100 days to give initial recommendations to the Mayor. 

Executive Order #6 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-06
Establishes how Mayor Mamdani picks judges for various courts. The basic idea is that he doesn't pick judges on his own, but instead has a 19-member advisory committee vets candidates and then he chooses from those recommendations. It also has a transparency and ethics clarification that they must publish info & data about the process. 

Executive Order #7 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-07
Has to do with connecting New Yorkers with their government more. It argues that civic engagement in NYC currently favors peolpe with the most time and resources because of the long meetings, confusing paperwork, etc and the feedback that gets collected doesn't usually shape policy. So the EO is creating OME (Office of Mass Engagement) to consolidate and improve the city's public engagement efforts. This will replace Community Affairs Unit and absorb the Office of Civic Engagement. This Office will run campaigns to get New Yorkers involved, create more accessible ways for feedback to happen, reach out to communities that haven't historically participated in government, and then work to integrate the feedback into policy. 

Executive Order #8 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-08
Builds on EO #3 above by launching public hearings, ie "Rental Ripoff" hearings across the city to document bad landlord behavior. At least one in each borough within the next 100 days. Tenants, tenant organizations, advocates, legal service providers, and even landlords and property managers can come testify about illegal, ab usive, or deceptive practices in the rental market. After the hearings (within 90 days) they have to submit a report with a plan of action to address the problems. The plan must use existing enforcement powers, improve code inforcement, and leveerage consumer protection tools. The report will be made public. This is basically a listening tour with teeth from what I gather. 

Executive Order #9 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-09
Targets surprise fees that get added to checkout after you've already decided to buy something (service/processing/convenience/etc). The EO calls this "junk fee pricing" and argues that it's misleading and hurts honest businesses that price things clearly. It creates a Junk Fee Task Force to coordinate rulemaking, enforcement, city contracting standards, and public education across agencies. The Dpt of Consumer and Worker Protection is directed to consider new rules to combat hidden fees under its existing authority and to recommend any new legislation that might be needed, as well as take enforcement actions against business using deceptive junk fee pricing. 

Executive Order #10 >> https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-10
Pretty similar to EO #9 but instead of junk fees, it has to do with companies that make it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions by using deceptive enrollment practices (hidden renewel terms, misrepresented pricing, etc) or by adding a bunch of hoops to jump through to cancel things. 

SKlein wrote:

Thanks for the breakdowns. Housing/tenant reform, civic engagement, junk fees, judicial checks and balances. All of which seem fairly reasonable so far, no?

SEEMEFIRST wrote:

Go listen to what Cea Weaver has to say. She's some housing official who works for Mandami.

The gist:

Fuck the individual homeowner, especially the white ones. Going forward, housing will be for “the collective”.

Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist wannabes.

Can’t wait to see where this goes. Bring it on. Step in the Ring, you communist fucks! As G-n-R sang:

Printing lies, starting controversy, you want to antagonize me?
Antagonize me, motherfucker, get in the ring, motherfucker and I'll kick your bitchy little ass, punk.”

This is gonna be fun.

🇺🇸💪🏼😘

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SEEMEFIRST wrote:

Go listen to what Cea Weaver has to say. She's some housing official who works for Mandami.

As someone who splits time between two homes, and owns 3 rentals, I never knew I had 5 new weapons added to my arsenal. 

(According to her)

Not exactly concealed carry friendly.

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1/7/2026 11:02am Edited Date/Time 1/7/2026 11:02am

Mamdani says that South Africa is model for New York. That should work out nicely.

edited for spelling

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