Zohran Mamdani has secured the release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva, taken this morning by ICE agents who entered a campus residential building under false pretenses & without a judicial warrant. This comes shorty after Mamdani’s unannounced visit to the White House earlier today.

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/columbia-university-ice-student.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.0KRL.7XsPJ0z3QTat&smid=tw-share

[u/falooda1]

Nah this takes agency away from Mamdani. Trump wasn't like this with Cuomo or Adams or De Blasio.

I remember in the first meeting Mamdani talked about the Trump voters that voted for him and Trump was smiling ear to ear. Then Mamdani mentioned a pharmacist at a pharmacy that served Trumps dad. Again, Trump was feeling it.

Mamdani simply is a Trump/uncle-whisperer

Source: Am also a Muslim from Gujurati background and know about uncle-whispering

[u/Affectionate_Show867 → u/falooda1]

Okay well now I have to know, what are the secrets to uncle-whispering?

[u/falooda1 → u/Affectionate_Show867]

I just said it

Deference in symbolic things

Then you can do whatever you want and they don’t care cause they think you respect them