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There’s a difference between government keeping public records and government creating a political target list, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani erased that distinction when his administration published a searchable database of names and addresses tied to his proposed pied-à-terre tax.
Given his repeated calls for supporters to take to the streets, this wasn’t transparency. It was reckless, self-serving doxxing. Yes, you’re damn skippy I’m linking the two together.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM: “I think the bedrocks of our city is protest.” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says New Yorkers should take to the streets when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits for the U.N. General Assembly this September.
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— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) July 26, 2026
Let’s get one thing out of the way because it’s the limp defense everyone keeps using. Yes, property records are public and have been for years, and City Hall claims publishing the property roll is required under state law. Nobody is arguing that deeds, tax records, or ownership information should suddenly become secret.
The issue is what this mayor chose to do with that information: gathering it into one searchable database that anyone can browse in seconds. One requires effort; the other practically invites people to go hunting. That’s not the same thing; it’s doxxing with the city’s seal of approval.
When Zohran Mamdani isn’t meeting with the Muslim American Society (MAS), an organization critics have linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, or cutting ribbons on government-run grocery stores, he’s apparently compiling searchable lists of people he’s spent months criticizing and making the enemy.
Mamdani has made taxing wealthy property owners one of the defining obsessions of his administration. He filmed a campaign-style video outside billionaire Ken Griffin’s Manhattan residence to promote his tax proposal.
When you spend months painting a group as the enemy and then hand the public an easy tool to identify and locate members of that group, people are right to ask whether you’ve exercised any judgment at all.
Political violence is no longer something Americans can dismiss. We’ve seen attacks on elected officials, judges, businesses, and federal buildings. We’ve watched protesters show up outside private homes. We’ve seen people convince themselves they’re not targeting a person at all, but a symbol of something they hate.
Take Luigi Mangione, for example. He’s facing state and federal trials for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder. All because Thompson supposedly represented everything wrong with the healthcare system. Whether that case ends in a conviction is irrelevant. The point is that once people stop seeing individuals and start seeing symbols, bad things follow.
Responsible public officials should grasp that basic reality. This database feels deliberately unnecessary. Even if ninety-nine percent of people never misuse it, government should be thinking about the one percent who might. Public officials have a responsibility to lower the temperature, not make it easier for the most extreme people to act on their anger.
But that’s not what Mamdani is all about. He doesn’t want to lower the temperature; he wants to ignite it.
Here’s another list Mayor Mamdani might want to spend some time looking at. It’s not a searchable database of property owners.
It’s the growing list of more than 300 family members of 9/11 victims who don’t want him attending this year’s memorial ceremony at Ground Zero.
Maybe before City Hall starts organizing lists of New Yorkers to tax, the mayor should ask why so many families of those murdered on September 11 believe he shouldn’t be standing beside them on one of the most sacred days in this city’s history.
Te 9/11 families are making a moral judgment. The property database is something colder.
Mamdani’s defenders will keep insisting the records were already public. That misses the point. Public records sitting in a file are one thing. A mayor who identifies a class of citizens as the enemy, and let’s be clear, that is exactly what he’s done, then hands the public a searchable list of their names and homes is something else entirely.
This is doxxing with the full power of City Hall behind it. I hope New Yorkers are happy with their decision to elect a communist mayor. The database is not a bug in his approach. It’s the feature.
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bill says: The people that elected this grifting charlatan for the allure of “free stuff” have cooked themselves, like the proverbial frog in the pot of water with increasing temperature. Of course they don’t know history, don’t read, just want the promise of something for nothing. Idiots have gotten what they salivated” for; the Shangri”lie”. Socialism has been and will always be the death of millions. Greed is a great selling point for the lazy, the perpetual victim etc. Pathetic.
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