New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named educator and YouTube star Ms. Rachel to his inauguration committee on Wednesday, elevating the children’s content creator and frequent lightning rod for conservative backlash into a high-profile role ahead of his Jan. 1, 2026, swearing-in.

Mamdani’s transition team said the committee will help plan and host a free public inauguration block party, billed as a citywide celebration that reflects the coalition behind his election. The group includes artists, labor leaders, organizers, business figures, and several campaign field leads who worked on Mamdani’s run.

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        ABC 7 New York? Granted they updated the title not to include Miss Rachel by name, but does every headline need to be engagement bait? Especially when the alternative is fascist news?

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          No mention of Miss Rachel. Not a catchy headline whatsoever. Likely on purpose.

          NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces Inaugural Committee ahead of swearing-in block party

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            Likely on purpose.

            Likely because they’re a local news station with reasonable journalistic integrity who expect that their readership wants to gasp read news. This attitude to me is depressing and completely ethically bankrupt – that a fascist news piece with a hyper-clickable headline is better than one that just discusses the news undramatically as it is.

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              A catchy headline is mandatory for news to get views. The headline of WashingtonExaminer isn’t a lie either. In fact it shows what people would likely be most interested in.

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          Archive is not bad but I have to upload a custom thumbnail and other instances which aren’t .ml often have problems viewing that thumbnail.

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        I’m not sure this sub has a rule that post titles must match article titles. There aren’t any rules posted in the sidebar, so it’s kind of just at the whims of the sole mod.

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      There aren’t enough lemmy users for our clicks to matter. Less than $1 worth of clicks

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    Are they gonna make her wear the hat and start coddling Jewish people too? Or does only the mayor do that?