“I don’t think that we should have billionaires.”

— New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, on NBC News.

New York Times: “Zohran Mamdani’s success in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world offered the starkest evidence yet that outspoken opposition to Israel and its government — and even questioning its existence as a Jewish state — is increasingly acceptable to broader swaths of the party, even in areas where pro-Israel Jews have long been a bedrock part of the Democratic coalition.”

“Marines deployed to Los Angeles temporarily detained a civilian on Friday, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump,” Reuters reports.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger disputed news media rhetoric that “the whole of Los Angeles is a war zone” as Donald Trump deploys troops around the city, Deadline reports.

Said Schwarzenegger: “I totally agree with you, by the way, Jimmy, because they make it out like it is a war zone — the whole Los Angeles — the whole city or the county. And the fact of the matter is it’s maybe like 0.001% of the area of Los Angeles has problems and there’s a protest.”

Playbook: “Having spent the weekend musing about space travel — and largely avoiding politics — Musk threw himself foursquare behind the Trump administration last night as the Los Angeles ICE protests descended into violent chaos.”

“Musk loyally reposted messages from VP JD Vance and from Trump himself, with his own interventions all American flag emojis and anti-protester messaging. It’s the latest sign that the uneasy truce between the world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful politician is holding — kind of — for now.”

“Standoffs between protesters and law-enforcement officers in downtown Los Angeles escalated Sunday night, capping a tense day in which demonstrators, police, rubber bullets and helicopters overran a neighborhood that is home to City Hall and federal buildings,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“During a third day of demonstrations opposing federal immigration operations in a city with a large immigrant population, mounted police galloped by on horses and law enforcement used tear gas to move crowds. Protesters covered the neighborhood in graffiti that said “FUCK ICE,” set at least five Waymo driverless taxis on fire, and threw rocks and water bottles at officers.”

Washington Post: “Service members began to arrive in Los Angeles early Sunday, part of the 2,000 California National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has ordered to be deployed to the city to intervene in protests against his administration’s immigration sweeps.”

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has condemned the move, which a military legal expert said was unusual because the state did not request assistance but not outside the bounds of presidential authority.”

New York Times: “It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor. The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965, she said.”

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) “sued government officials including Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, claiming that his arrest outside an immigration detention center last month was motivated by political malice,” the New York Times reports.

Paul Krugman: “MAGA and MAGA-adjacent types are very good at finding things and people to hate. They hate immigrants (unless they’re white South Africans), LGBTQ people and wokeness. They hate universities and are doing their best to destroy American science. The New York Times reports that they hate Europe. And they very much hate New York City.”

“OK, I’m not impartial on this issue. I grew up on Long Island and still think of NYC proper as ‘the city.’ I live in Manhattan now, and my experience is that if you can afford housing — which is admittedly a huge problem — it’s actually a very good life, with an incredible range of things to do either in walking distance or a short subway ride away. Not everyone wants to live this way, but nobody is saying they should. All we ask is that some Americans be allowed to have favorable views of a place that provides the advantages density and, yes, diversity can offer.”

“But that, of course, is exactly what the U.S. right refuses to accept. New York is one of the safest places in America, yet much of the country insists on seeing it as a terrifying urban hellscape.”

“For the first time since his federal corruption case was dropped, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City met with President Trump in Washington on Friday, hours before documents related to his case were released,” the New York Times reports.

“The stated purpose of the visit, according to the mayor’s office, was for Mr. Adams to ‘discuss New York City priorities,’ including its infrastructure needs. But apparently there was another item on his agenda.”

“After Mr. Adams had left, Mr. Trump quickly summarized the meeting. ‘I think he came in to thank me, frankly,’ he said without elaborating.”

“The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase,” the AP reports.

“A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was being approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX.”

NOTUS: “As the city drafts plans for furloughs, building closures and cuts to public safety services to help accommodate the $1 billion hole Congress blew in its $21 billion budget in the last government funding bill, House Republicans have more or less forgotten about the issue.”

Lancaster, CA Mayor Rex Parris (R) said he wants to “purge” his city’s homeless population and give them “all the fentanyl they want,” the New York Post reports.

He added: “They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of our rapes, and at least half of our murders. There’s nothing that we can do for these people.”

“The founder of Pirate’s Booty Snacks lost his chaotic bid for mayor of a tiny New York community after he claimed he was the village leader and had the authority to replace the entire local government,” NBC News reports.

“Elena Villafane, the incumbent mayor of Sea Cliff, defeated Robert Ehrlich, 1,064-62, on Tuesday in the village, which is about 26 miles northeast of midtown Manhattan.”

“Villafane had been running unopposed for her third two-year term when Ehrlich jumped into the fray a week ago Monday.”

“That’s when Ehrlich went to Village Hall and ‘presented a statement falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, and declaring that the entire Village staff was fired effective immediately but could reapply for their jobs,’ the village said in a statement.”

Gina LaPlaca (D), the mayor of Lumberton, New Jersey, was arrested at her home on St. Patrick’s Day after, police allege, she drove with her son in her car while under the influence of alcohol, NBC Philadelphia reports.