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New York City Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | January 7, 2026 | No Comments

If it is your misfortune to live in New York City, my advice is leave now, in the kind of haste with which Lot fled Sodom. As I said after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, New Yorkers have forgotten how bad it could be, and Mamdani’s tenure at Gracie Mansion is likely to be worse even than the David Dinkins era. Mamdani’s appointment of Cea Weaver as Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants is an omen of doom for the city. Who is Cea Weaver? Her mother was the co-founder of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership at the University of Rochester. It is scarcely an exaggeration to call Cea Weaver a Communist:

An affiliate of the US Communist Party has been playing an outsized role in the debate over “good cause” eviction currently roiling state budget negotiations.
Housing Justice For All, an advocacy organization at the heart of the fight and with deep ties to far-left lawmakers like Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is an “active partner” of the New York Young Communist League. . . .
Cea Weaver, a campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, has spent years publicly advocating unabashed Marxism on her personal Twitter account.
“Elect more Communists,” she posted in a tweet from December 2017. “Seize private property,” she added in June 2018.
“Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” Weaver wrote in August 2019. . . .
Housing Justice For All for all began in 2017 and has been in cahoots with the state Communist party since at least 2018, social media postings show. . . .
The group has developed years-long financial ties with far-left billionaire financier George Soros.
Housing Justice For All is a statewide campaign of the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, which in turn is “fiscally sponsored” by the nonprofit VOCAL-NY.
That nonprofit has received eight grants worth more than $1.1 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2021, according to its website.
At least one $100,000 cash infusion went directly to Housing Justice For All, according to the grant description.
Despite their openly Communist ties, Weaver and Housing Justice for All have made deep inroads among the city’s most powerful progressives.

That New York Post article is from April 2023. Mamdani has now made Weaver the de facto Housing Commissar of New York City. She openly advocates for the abolition of private property:

In a 2021 op-ed, she argued the state can “further de-commodify housing and land” by cancelling rents and shuttering eviction courts.
“And, as landlords exit the market, using state action to acquire properties and leverage disinvestment to convert thousands of homes into publicly and democratically controlled land/housing,” she wrote in the New Labor Forum.

As omens of doom go, this is the raven croaking “Nevermore.”

Get out now, and don’t look back.



 

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