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STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Mamdani’s Influencer Army Targets NYC CEOs to Sell a Tax Hike

People around DSA Mayor Zohran Mamdani have been talking about a coordinated pressure campaign on the CEOs of the city’s largest employers. Sources told the New York Post the plan is a run of targeted posts meant to isolate certain business leaders while City Hall pushes a larger tax package into early fall. The September […] The post Mamdani’s Influencer Army Targets NYC CEOs to Sell a Tax Hike appeared first on StoneZone .

People around DSA Mayor Zohran Mamdani have been talking about a coordinated pressure campaign on the CEOs of the city’s largest employers. Sources told the New York Post the plan is a run of targeted posts meant to isolate certain business leaders while City Hall pushes a larger tax package into early fall. The September 28 exclusive said the “bullpen,” Mamdani’s inner circle, is preparing coordinated smears against top New York CEOs. The vehicle is his 200-strong “influencer army ,” described as a taxpayer-funded digital operation, a troll farm in all but name. The aim is to bash those executives and sell the public on his tax-and-spend agenda. Two aides were named as leading the digital side: Tascha Van Auken, 50, director…Open

What is the projected budget gap according to the Citizens Budget Commission?
The Citizens Budget Commission has projected a $13.2 billion gap by fiscal year 2028.
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What was the reaction from Jamie Dimon regarding the current political climate and high-tax environments?
Following a closed-door meeting with the mayor in May, Jamie Dimon stated he has seen mayors "fail abysmally because they can't administer themselves out of a paper bag, or ideology blinds them to practical, realistic, real-world policy." In his April shareholder letter, he noted that "individuals vote with their feet" and described an exodus of people and jobs from states with high taxes and expenses, noting JPMorgan has grown headcount in Texas while cutting jobs in New York City.
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Which specific business leaders and organizations have been identified as targets for the coordinated pressure campaign?
The campaign targets the Partnership for New York City, specifically seeking to "blindside" its leader Steve Fulop. Other names floated as targets include Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla regarding drug prices and Related Companies CEO Jeff Blau in relation to the $2 billion Hudson Yards expansion.
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What is the "influencer army" described in the article and what is its alleged purpose?
The "influencer army" is described as a 200-strong, taxpayer-funded digital operation that functions similarly to a troll farm. Its purpose is to conduct a coordinated pressure campaign involving targeted posts and smears against top New York City CEOs to isolate business leaders and sell the public on Mayor Mamdani's tax agenda.
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Who are the key figures leading the digital operations for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office according to the report?
The digital side is being led by Tascha Van Auken, age 50, who is the director of the Office of Mass Engagement and a veteran DSA organizer, and Emilia Rowland, the director of new media and cultural communications and a former DNC press secretary.
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What are the specific tax increases being proposed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as part of his tax-and-spend agenda?
Mayor Mamdani is seeking a two-percentage-point hike on incomes over $1 million and an increase in the top corporate rate from 7.25% to 11.5%. If passed, combined with existing city and state levies, the top marginal rate on the city’s wealthiest would reach 16.8%, which would be the highest in the country.
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AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - HBO's new Lucius Malfoy says private schools should be 'burnt to the ground'

Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while […] The post HBO's new Lucius Malfoy says private schools should be 'burnt to the ground' appeared first on American Almanac .

Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while promoting the second season of the Paramount+ crime drama MobLand and discussing his approach to the villainous Malfoy patriarch. The South African-born British actor, who attended the Pilgrims' School, a cathedral school in Winchester, England, on a music scholarship as a young child, described his time there as deeply damaging. He wants the entire institution abolished. Not reformed, not improved, razed. "I…Open

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NEWSCATS (MeighTimbol) - Socialist leader’s ‘guerrilla class war’ remarks ignite backlash over affordability agenda

Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 22, 2026 A newly circulated video featuring a national leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has intensified America’s already heated political divide after remarks [...]

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