Fixed Points

The Office of Mayor of New York City is arguably the hottest topic of political conversation since mid-December. A young, charismatic man, with looks to make at least half the LGBTQA+ community swoon, had risen in a matter of three months from New York Assemblyman from the 36th District, to Mayor of New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani made City history as both the first Muslim, and first Socialist-Democrat, to be elected to the Office. His victory was helped in no small part by previous Mayor Eric Adams’ departure under a cloud of Federal indictments for various corruption crimes. Nearest contender Andrew Cuomo had his own legacy of sexual misconduct, forcing his resignation from the New York Governorship. Progressivism appeals to base emotion, resulting in base behaviour. Second Rule of Management: People Work To Expectations.

Those expectations on the Left are non-existent. Expectations are anticipation of promised results; and come with accountability. There is no accountability in Collectivism, because no one is in charge, and nobody is at fault. Self is subject to State. The State is Mother, the State is Father. Personal responsibility for individual good is shifted to the Collective. The Collective, in turn, shifts the ‘accountability’ of the group back to the individual: telling them they are not ‘good’ Socialists because they don’t sacrifice enough. The Struggle must continue. Without individual responsibility, it’s difficult to produce results, and ‘expectations’ are reduced to promises, with no anticipation of results.

The folks who vote for The Collective, do not really expect results. They do expect that the people they elect will make the Tribal noises and identity codes. Without accountability, it’s all that matters. Which brings us to the post subject (Greek Chorus: “Finally!”). Cea (born Celia; assigned Female at birth; also current identity) Weaver was named the Administration’s Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, effective 1 January 2026. What does the Office do? The pull quote offered by Google AI:

” . . .works to strengthen tenant rights, combat landlord harassment, improve housing conditions, and enforce anti-harassment policies through interagency coordination, policy development, and direct engagement with tenants and advocates. ‘

How, exactly, will those aspirations be achieved? I would lay a large bet that no one in NYC government has any idea. They likely do have a direction, but the intangible metrics make resource effectiveness difficult to measure. Like, impossible: not an accident. And, no link to, or description of, the Office, or really any other, on the official NYC Government site. You get search engine results. No bios, or other information on the people in the various Departments. Plenty of direction on how to remit money to the City, though.

Ms. Weaver achieved her position through a (short) lifetime of activism. If a job is defined as activity that generates profit, whether for the individual, or organization, then Celia’s resumé is sorely lacking. This Champion of the Working Class attended Bryn Mawr ($88,000/year 2026), and later the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service ($30,000/year 2026). In current dollars, that’s about $400k in education. I have spent significantly less than a year’s Bryn Mawr tuition on my entire education to date, spanning several degrees. Ms. Weaver did spend her time on useful pursuits, earning a BA in Growth and Structure of Cities, and an MA in Urban Planning. These are valuable areas of expertise in an urban environment. Is it worth 400 large to acquire? Hmmm. Those jobs tend to concentrate in Government, an entity not know for great pay, but fantastic benefits. You can get the same education for under 100-grand if you attend public schools, which would leave enough, in much of the country, to buy a house, a nice car, and maybe a boat. Already, Ms Weaver’s financial acumen comes into question.

Her entire working career appears to have been spent in various forms of rabble-rousing, with a focus on tenant issues. Whatever floats your boat, but if that boat-floating includes public expressions self-hatred and unforced guilt, then maybe keep those to yourself. Not in this world of no boundaries and no expectation of privacy. Unless, you are caught out. The Internet is forever, as a number of GenY’rs are noticing. The World is noticing that the education that generation received, has given them a false narrative on Reality.

That formative-year indoctrination consisted in large part of valuing style over substance; herd virtue-signalling over thought. What people think about you, is more important than self-definition. The values of the group define yours. Which is to say, they are highly mutable; depending on the whim of the few, or maybe the one. Without fixed values, there can be no morality. It is, a world without sin. Humans however, innately desire direction. We have an ingrained desire to believe in and serve something greater than our individual selves. Lacking that, it is very easy to live a self-contradictory life, and rationalize any internal conflicts as external forces of Evil.

Which is what Cea Weaver, Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, has done since at least college. Some of her virtue signalling social posts back to 2017 have been unburied, and my, they are quite the revelation on The Revolution. Also a revelation is outgoing NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and as noted, outgoing under something of a cloud. Mr. Adams, though, is my favorite-person-this-week, based on his retort to some of Director Weaver’s X’s. Other’s, hard-core Democrats all, have similar responses. Where available, I’ll include the response’s to select social posts:

“If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property ITS OVER.” (2017)

“Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle. You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that “white supremacy.” That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.” – Eric Adams

“Private property, including, and kind of, ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as “wealth building” public policy (2019, emphasis in original)

“Things like homeownership is white supremacy – I think that’s just ridiculous and, to be quite frank, I think it would surprise a lot of my Black, Latino and Caribbean-American constituents who have struggled their entire lives to buy a piece of New York and are raising middle-class families in my community to find out that they’re participating in white supremacy by doing so” – Assemblyman Kalman Yeger

“for centuries, we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good” and that in the future we will transition to treating it as a collective good under a model of ‘shared equity.’ It will mean that families, especially white families, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.” (original undated)

Please click on the Kalman Yeger link and watch his thorough response.

Y asi. Ms. Weaver’s parents paid for her very pricey education, own a $1.4M home in Nashville, TN, and her father is a landlord. She does indeed live in historically-Black Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where the influx of White people and their money have halved the Black population the past 15 years. It is reported that a 3-bedroom apt goes for $4000/month, which for New York, isn’t bad. I’d say that the real-dollars price was very likely lower in 2010. I, and many others, would say that Cea is part of the problem.

“There is no such thing as a ‘good’ gentrifier” (2018)

Something I Did Not Know

Beverly Sills was from Crown Heights. My Mom was a Beverly Sills fan, and I heard a lot of her work on 12″ vinyl. We were stationed at West Point when she was in her prime, and my parents made several trips to The City to hear her. Sorry, kids. We did get to the Met enough, but I’m sure Dame Sills’ tickets were spendy on an Army officer’s salary with a wife and five kids.

That’s Funny

The first response to Eric Adam’s response to the Weaver X:

“Bro spitting facts now that he is out of office.”

Ivan Christopher

NFL Playoffs 2026

Over time, I have become a more casual football fan. I will watch games, but won’t make time for one. And as an American, I can’t escape the National Football League. I am not so indifferent to the sport that I can’t recognize a classic football game as it happens. The playoff wild-card game between the Green Bay Packers, and the Chicago Bears on 10 January was such a game. There are rivalries, and then there is Packers – Bears.

The rivalry is intensified by the relatively short 200-mile distance between the cities. This is similar to the Portland – Seattle separation, making them also natural antagonists. Because it’s only a 3-hour drive (faster than flying) between Chicago and Green Bay, both teams travel exceptionally well. Depending on the team’s respective fortunes, a home game can feel away. There is a lot of history, there.

On this particular evening at Soldier Field, the Packers manhandled Chicago. For the first half; with a score of 21 – 3 at the break. The second half was a different ballgame. Green Bay scored another touchdown, but Chicago scored four, for a final of 31 – 27, giving Da’ Bears their first playoff win in 15 years. Chicago fans will be re-watching this game for some time; Green Bay fans will probably burn the tape.