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New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

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"Several recruits had to wait til morning to practice murdering and maiming Black people. Reached for comment, a POA spokesperson declared, 'F-cking n-ggers.'"

Good god y’all tip your biases so obviously sometimes it’s not even funny Always the conservatives who get all the benefit of the doubt and kid’s gloves language, while those on the left are grilled over every little detail

This would be pathetic but its funny because youre attempted smear job just makes him cooler. Don't get me wrong though you're still sub human scum, the load your mother should have swallowed. No one loves you and no one will ever come remotely close tonrespecting you.

You can tell this is bullshit because the harshest word they could use to describe the effect is "scrambling," despite them using maximalist language in every other anti-left article when possible

I’m outraged! I demand you spend all of your time on this story! Focus in on only this! Don’t even think about anything else! Stay on target! You’ve surely got him this time! There’s no way he can recover from this bombshell reporting!

‘The mayor occasionally plays pick up ball at the NYPD gym’ written with the tone of someone that thinks they’ve found something scandal-shaped. You guys really do have nothing and it shows

Yup, the oppo on Mamdani has been an utter fucking embarrassment to everybody trying to smear him. When you've got THIS much ill-will focused on you and the worst(best?) they can come up with is "he occasionally plays Basketball in the NYPD gym at 10pm" it speaks VOLUMES for your character.

Test here for Tisch. Mamdani stuck his neck out to keep her on. If she can't even discipline her academy goons to quit complaining to journalists about after hours hoops, what good is she to the administration?

I'm sure the NYPD's crucial 10pm training operations are an absolute shambles, and they're not just throwing a hissy fit over Mamdani doing something that would get a Republican mayor puff pieces and glowing praise.

Chris, how's it feel to be writing NY Post tabloid slop to try to smear and neg a popular mayor, carrying out a popular mandate? It's somehow even more ridiculous, dressed up in bland, sober reporting.

This is what one should expect form arch zionist Axel Springer's operation, whose CEO last year accepted a medal of honor from the genocidal Israeli gov't, and this year honored pro-evil, pro-nazi and anti democratic MAGA consigliere Peter Thiel. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

thewrap.comBusiness Insider, Politico Staffers Protest Over Peter Thiel AwardMore than 120 Business Insider and Politico journalists are protesting Axel Springer’s decision to honor billionaire Peter Thiel.

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Opposition really has nothing to attack him on. The Knicks won in June and the story says he’s shown up since then maybe a half dozen times. So all this whining by the police union is that Mamdani has someone call ahead for 10PM-11PM pick-up basketball game every 3 weeks or so? Oh the humanity!

Politico framing this as a problem. MAGA owners of this outlet are crap. Politico- ever been to New York? We love basketball, find all kinds of places & times to play it. And watch it. Rabid Knick & Nets fans. Police are scrambling to do their jobs poorly. Give me a break.

Gee, wake me when he's a dangerous narcissist, liar, a felon, a rapist, a racist, orange, fat and defrauding the US taxpayer of billions. Until then, kindly fuck off.

As if the NYPD would provide kneepads or other PPE to the people they expect to be kneeling in front of them. -or- You can pick up your required NYPD-branded kneepads at the NYPD merch store.

This is it? This is the scandal? Pickup games are hurting operations at the police academy? This is a continuing issue and the concern has likely not been raised with the Mayor, because it's likely he would have been more than accomodating, but they needed a scandal.

Oh man! Not some operations! Anyway how's about those Epstein files the president is implicated in a million times and yall seem to have forgotten?

Next Mamdani and friends should challenge the NYPD to a pick up game in the police gym to support one of the NYPD’s favorite charities… Win or lose, he wins…