Mamdani chooses an actual felon for public safety post

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has chosen a formerly incarcerated rapper to serve on his City Hall transition team as he prepares to take office in New York City Jan. 1, according to reports. The controversial selection comes as Mamdani, who won November's election on a progressive platform, assembles his transition team. Mamdani's appointment of Mysonne Linen, 49, was announced in a Nov. 26 Instagram post from Until Freedom, a New York City"based social-justice organization, where Linen is a leader.

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New York is truly fu$c$ed...

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-09 03:27 AM | Reply

You support Trump and he's an actual felon so what is your beef??

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-09 04:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

From the headline: Mamdani appointed Trump to the post?

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 05:38 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

You support Trump and he's an actual felon so what is your beef??

No he's not. You progressives made up those charges just for Trump.

#4 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-09 07:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies and liable for sexual abuse, Boaz.
Offenses that evidently bother you not a whit.
That's why when folks say you've dropped off into a cult they're absoeffenlutely correct.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 08:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

No he's not. You progressives made up those charges just for Trump.
#4 | Posted by boaz at 2025-12-09 07:54 AM | Reply

Yes he is. 34 times a felon.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-09 09:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I can practically envision Boaz pulling a Donnie Demento act, rolling around on the floor, weeping, blubbering, "No, it's not, no it's not."

Funny, because the object of Boaz's too deep affection is in fact a thirty-four times convicted criminal.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 09:42 AM | Reply

DJT has to been convicted of multiple Felony counts of financial fraud, sexual abuse, and defamation by Juries.

Why is Major B(s) lying about the this?

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 09:44 AM | Reply

Because he's a lying lair for Trump?

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 09:50 AM | Reply

Apparently because he's in a Cult and believes all the lies he is told.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 09:53 AM | Reply

ok, lets pretend that someone who doesn't support Trump posted this...

Can we discuss if this seems like a bad decision or not for NY? Or is it off limits since a D did it Laura?

#11 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 10:10 AM | Reply

Can we discuss if this seems like a bad decision or not for NY? Or is it off limits since a D did it Laura?

#11 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Ok. Why is it a bad decision? I have no idea how he qualifies. I have no idea of his abilities. I have no idea whether he deserves a second chance.

Do you?

You were willing to give a convicted felon a chance to be President of the United States. How did that work out?

Now that I think about it.

Bad idea.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-09 10:36 AM | Reply

Should we also pretend that Fox News didn't write this?

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 10:37 AM | Reply

Perhaps we should also pretend that people never change, even after 25 years of proving that they have?

"The Bronx-born rapper, who was once signed to Def Jam Recordings, served seven years in prison after his 1999 conviction for two armed robberies. He has since become a social justice activist, co-founding of the organization Until Freedom, which combats racial injustice."

www.newsweek.com

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 10:40 AM | Reply

"The 49-year-old was a rising rap star in the late 1990s when a Bronx jury found him guilty of being part of a group that robbed two cab drivers - on June 8, 1997, and March 31, 1998, according to the New York Daily News reporting at the time"

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"Linen has always insisted he was innocent, arguing that he had no reason to take part in the robberies because he was making money in music, as his breakthrough as a solo artist had taken place that summer.

While he was cleared of assault, he was found guilty of three counts of robbery, weapons possession and possession of stolen property, according to the New York Daily News.

He was sentenced to seven to fourteen years and paroled in July 2006, after serving seven years, the New York Post reported, citing the Department of Correction and Community Renewal. Newsweek has contacted the New York City Department of Correction, via email outside of normal working hours, for comment.

Since his release, Linen has become community activist, eventually co-founding Until Freedom.

Linen's post-prison story also includes writing children's books and continuing music projects."

from the above link

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 10:47 AM | Reply

Can we discuss if this seems like a bad decision or not for NY?
#11 | Posted by kwrx25

Does this mean we're not discussing the felony conviction anymore?

Mysonne NY General
@Mysonne

Nov 15, 2021
A judge gave me 2-4 for a gun I never had and they never found and no one was ever shot, but A judge dismissed a weapons charge for A white boy who killed people with a AR15.. F.O.H #Amerikkka
x.com

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 10:56 AM | Reply

Two centuries ago, France hired a super-successful crook to lead their first criminal investigative agency, the Surete Nationale.

Link: en.wikipedia.org

And here is someone in the US who was once in trouble with the law but still made a small name for himself: i.ebayimg.com

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 10:59 AM | Reply

New York is truly fu$c$ed...

#1 | Posted by boaz

Cool, now do Trump and the United States, dumbf*&^.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-09 11:16 AM | Reply

No he's not. You progressives made up those charges just for Trump.
#4 | Posted by boaz

Go stick your head in a wood chipper you brainless dumbs*&^.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-09 11:16 AM | Reply

You progressives made up those charges just for Trump.
#4 | Posted by boaz

Always the victim.
That's our Boaz!

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 11:30 AM | Reply

#12 I didn't say if it was good or bad... I was just hoping to keep the discussion from going down the Trump discussion drain, and seem to be failing.

#21 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 11:44 AM | Reply

"#12 I didn't say if it was good or bad"

Okay well maybe if you said that, it would kick off the discussion.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 11:45 AM | Reply

-I was just hoping to keep the discussion from going down the Trump discussion drain,

nobody can defend this and that's fine because it's not anybody's job to do so....so the Trump whataboutisms are unnecessary.

Yet there they are.....

Stories like this will be a constant distraction for everyone moving forward.

If all you have is Boaz is a hypocrite and Trump is a crook.....well.....then it's not going to be very interesting.

#23 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 11:51 AM | Reply

I don't know anything about this guy
Other than Republicans hate him.

So that probably means he's a good choice.
Or it could just mean he's black.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 11:57 AM | Reply

"Go stick your head in a wood chipper"

LOL

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 11:59 AM | Reply

New York is truly fu$c$ed...

#1 | Posted by boaz

You tricked everyone into deflecting to Trump's criminality.

When this comment should have been the only thing they addressed.

Be honest....you thought New York was truly fu$c$ed anyway going back decades.

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 12:01 PM | Reply

"When this comment should have been the only thing they addressed."

Boaz's comment was not presented with any sort of reasoning as to how or why this is bad for NYC. Aside from the guy being a convicted felon, which is quite obviously not bad when it's the President, in Boaz's mind.

"Black Man Bad!" is the Republican version of "Orange Man Bad!" Did you really want us to dig into that?

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 12:06 PM | Reply

I don't know anything about this guy
Other than Republicans hate him.
So that probably means he's a good choice.
Or it could just mean he's black.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 11:57 AM | Reply | Flag: Airtight Logic

"Oh, Republicans and trolls hate that guy? That's good enough for me! Vote for him PDQ!"

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 12:08 PM | Reply

" #12 I didn't say if it was good or bad... I was just hoping to keep the discussion from going down the Trump discussion drain, and seem to be failing.

#21 | POSTED BY KWRX25 AT 2025-12-09 11:44 AM | FLAG: "

Are you new here? EVERY thread that is remotely critical of a Democrat or left-leaning issue immediately gets deflected to Trump. These people are incapable of talking about anything else.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-09 12:12 PM | Reply

Is the accepted deflection going to be (other than Trump) is that since he's black, we can't criticize his violent felony conviction?

His criminal record is fair game. Get over it.

#30 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 12:20 PM | Reply

I was there a couple of times in 2013-2014 and almost all of the customs/immigration people at de Gaulle were Arabs.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-09 12:29 PM | Reply

Are you new here? EVERY thread that is remotely critical of a Democrat or left-leaning issue immediately gets deflected to Trump. These people are incapable of talking about anything else.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-09 12:12 PM | Reply

Until you clean up your house first you don't have a right to criticize someone else's. Just sayin

#32 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-09 12:33 PM | Reply

EVERY thread that is remotely critical of a Democrat or left-leaning issue immediately gets deflected to Trump

Posted by BellRinger

Are you referring to the fact that some people elected a convicted felon to be President of the United States?

Just trying to make sure.

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-09 12:36 PM | Reply

"deflected to Trump"

For obvious reasons.
Republican 34x Felon: GOOD
Democrat 1x Felon: BAD

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 12:44 PM | Reply

These people are incapable of talking about anything else.

What's that saying about noticing the splinter in another person's eye while ignoring the plank in your own?

You fools are acting so predictably stupid a 2000 year old book of Bronze Age goat herder myths calls you out.

#35 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-09 12:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"his violent felony conviction"

Violent.
He was convicted of armed robbery; he was tried but not convicted for assault.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 12:51 PM | Reply

" You fools are acting so predictably stupid a 2000 year old book of Bronze Age goat herder myths calls you out.

#35 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-12-09 12:47 PM | REPLY"

That's a creative way of saying "bible". So you get a pat on the head.

#37 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-09 12:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

His criminal record is fair game. Get over it.

#30 | Posted by eberly

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 01:01 PM | Reply

@#15 ... Since his release, Linen has become community activist, eventually co-founding Until Freedom.

Linen's post-prison story also includes writing children's books and continuing music projects." ...

He served his time for what he was convicted of doing, it's not like he was pardoned and allowed to leave imprisonment early.

And after he completed his sentence he has shown that he learned his lesson.

#39 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 01:23 PM | Reply

"Until you clean up your house first you don't have a right to criticize someone else's"

The team sport mentality is what helps keep politics in the US in a downward spiral. The Dems don't have a house and the Rep don't have a house, it's all our one house. We are supposed to be self reflecting and calling out -------- regardless of who is originating it. We'd be doing a lot better as a country if we all could do this. Instead though I'm sure we will keep running out worse and worse trash as candidates in a race to the bottom because we are too busy whatabouting what the other 'team' is doing.

#40 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 03:14 PM | Reply

Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 03:14 PM | Reply

Point well taken. Touche.

#41 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-12-09 03:16 PM | Reply

"The team sport mentality is what helps keep politics in the US in a downward spiral."

I'm sure, in your feeble mind, both parties are guilty of that.
Meanwhile, those of us who don't take our teeth out before bedtime know that only party is out there wearing T-Shirts that say things like "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat."
thehill.com

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 03:22 PM | Reply

America certainly is divided into two camps: Them at the top and Us at the bottom.

Guess who is winning?

#43 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 03:29 PM | Reply

Moral standards are decaying.

Trump is more a symptom than cause.

It all started when Bill Clinton was not removed from office for lying under oath.

Partisan blindness to Moral Turpitide has many Fathers.

The Dems let Clinton Walk.

Then Bush lied us into a war that killed hundreds thousands of innocent people. He was Reelected.

Now we have Trump, Felon 34 times over,Liar, Bigot, Murderer.

What's next?

#44 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 03:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oh I forgot.

CONVICTED RAPIST.

Got Reelected.

This is some kind of Exceptional place let me tell ya.

Moral Sewer.

Israel is about the only place that makes it look good by comparison.

CHOSEN....

#45 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 03:43 PM | Reply

Much respect Laura!

#46 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 03:46 PM | Reply

Snoofy, which political candidate called a good portion of the country deplorables?

Pretty sure at this point most of the Left hates the right and vice versa pretty equally.

#47 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 03:50 PM | Reply

"Snoofy, which political candidate called a good portion of the country deplorables?"

That was Hillary Clinton. And she was right. Take a look around. The Deplorables are wearing ICE uniforms.

You don't think Welfare Queens are deplorables? How about Illegal Immigrants?

How about Trans people, and people who think Trans people should be able to use whichever bathroom they please? That's Deplorable to millions of Americans, right?

#48 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 03:57 PM | Reply

Pretty sure at this point most of the Left hates the right and vice versa pretty equally.
#47 | Posted by kwrx25

Fact is, only one party is sending people to camps.
You spend too much time wallowing in your own stupid feelings.

Maybe someday facts will matter to you more than your feelings.
But I don't think that day will ever come for you.
You don't know how.

#49 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 03:59 PM | Reply

"called a good portion of the country deplorables?"

Sticks and Stones may break your bones, but words weren't supposed to hurt you, you stupid little prancing ------.
What happened to you? You're a broken man. You know that, right?

#50 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 04:00 PM | Reply

The strongest advocates of protecting pedophiles and not releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files:

#51 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 04:08 PM | Reply

"which political candidate called a good portion of the country deplorables?"

The one that lost.

#52 | Posted by eberly at 2025-12-09 04:13 PM | Reply

The one that was a woman.

www.youtube.com

Michelle Obama, 30 secs

#53 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-09 04:16 PM | Reply

" you stupid little prancing ------ "

Wow, Aren't you an LGBTQ ally? I'm sure they'd love you using a slur for them as an intended insult to someone?

Is the accusation of being gay supposed to offend me? Do you view it as a bad or lesser than thing?

I guess I hit a nerve with all the whataboutism ON BOTH SIDES being bad for the country

#54 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-09 04:24 PM | Reply

"Is the accusation of being gay supposed to offend me?"

I dunno. Have you grown up since 2016, when Hillary Clinton calling you Deplorable offended you?

#55 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 04:32 PM | Reply

Too Much Partisan Protection of Criminals.

Both parties do it. Both parties have normalized it.

The Republicans are worse.

They follow the pied piper right into the Maelstrom and never even look up as they get sucked in.

The Dems just tut tut and call their guys crimes "Trivial" or "political posturing" by the Republicans.

Rule of Law HAS TO APPLY TO EVERYONE EQUALLY.

The Alternative is Fascism or Lawlessness at every level.

We give our leaders too much benefit of the Doubt.

If they ---- up, LOCK EM' UP.

Without Fear or Favor.

This will never happen.

The Rot is too Deep.

#56 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 04:49 PM | Reply

Americans were ready for a female POTUS in 2016.

Hillary Clinton won 65,853,514 ballots (48.2% of the popular vote) to Dummkopf Trumpf's 62,984,828 ballots (46.1% of the popular vote).

In 2016, the anachronistic Electoral College undid the Vox Populi and ushered in Trumpf's first Reign of Terror.

#57 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 04:55 PM | Reply

If a few Former Presidents spent some time in the Pokey it would improve our Nation immensely.

Giving them the Deference and Immunity of Kings is why we are losing our Republic to Criminals and Usurpers of the people's perogative.

Clinton,BUSH2,Trump,all are Criminals.

All got away with everything.

The US Presidentcy is Too Powerful.

Too Unaccountable.

It's not going to get better until they are Cut Down to Size.

The Law,and Congress must reassert their true Authority.

This means making hard decisions, taking Responsibility and Zealously asserting their political Powers under the Constitution.

All a Pipe Dream.

Our Experiment in Self Government is Failing.

Too many people WANT A Dictatorship.

Its Pathetic Actually.

#58 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 05:02 PM | Reply

"Americans were ready for a female POTUS in 2016."

Valid point.

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 05:02 PM | Reply

you stupid little prancing ------.

#50 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-12-09 04:00 PM | FLAG:

The tolerant left in all its hypocrisy. Tell us again who gets the promotions in the military, Snoofy.

#60 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-09 06:31 PM | Reply

Fag privilege?

Get the Fuck Outta here with that Crap.

Moron.

#61 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 07:12 PM | Reply