From the NYT editorial board to CNN panels, Zohran Mamdani is hearing unsolicited advice––and veiled threats––from US corporate media.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Layoffs in 2025 second-highest since 2009 in potential sign of looming recession
“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism
“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Mamdani’s home district ERUPTS after electoral victory announced
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez captures the moment Mamdani’s victory was announced in his home district of Astoria, Queens.
Posted inWorking People
Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.
Posted inInequality Watch
Mainstream media tried to scare Mamdami voters with socialism—it didn’t work!
TRNN was on the ground in New York City on election day speaking to voters.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Tupac Amaru II’s Indigenous uprising against colonial Spain
On November 4, 1780, Indigenous Incan leader Tupac Amaru II led a months-long uprising against Spanish rule. It would inspire thousands more to rise up across South America. This is episode 75 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
NYC taxi drivers remember that Mamdani didn’t forget them
“We were out there 45 days under the snow, under the rain… we [said], ‘We are going on hunger strike, because we want our life back. Zohran Mamdani was with us.’”
Posted inRattling the Bars
Why more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis
“In 2024 alone, 277 people died in Alabama prisons” Dakarai Larriett, US Senate candidate in Alabama, says. “Building mega-prisons, naming one after governor Kay Ivy, is not the solution.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
NYC Voters want real change. They hope the next mayor can deliver it.
Before voting ends in the New York City mayoral race, TRNN is on the ground talking to voters about who they voted for and why. One theme has emerged: New Yorkers want real change, and they want it now.
