Mamdani, Menin Poised to Let DOH ACC Abuse and Kill With Impunity
Offloading the costs of ACC malfeasance onto New Yorkers, as their forebears have done for decades. Unless ...
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It’s December 6, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop, DOH ACC Carnage Day Edition.
This week, as Dr. Morse and The Exterminators rained blood and terror upon their vulnerable charges and the New Yorkers fighting desperately and without pause to protect them, city honchos-elect Zohran Mamdani and Julie Menin ignored questions about their plans, if any, to reform the homeless pet carcass pipeline — temporarily homeless pets included, as you will see — that is Animal Care Centers of New York City, this minute pushing that needle for the Emperor Palpatines holed up and hiding out at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [sic].
No matter where you are, you’ve probably heard of Mamdani by now.
No?
How ‘bout now?
Christine Qui — sorry, flashback (even now the trauma remains fresh) — Julie Menin is already measuring the figurative drapes for her next office, that of City Council speaker. If you’ve never heard of Menin, hoo boy, she is as dyed-in-the-wool as a New York City elected can be, and then some. Community boards, City Hall gigs, quasi-governmental prestige non-profits, the whole nine. As council speaker, Menin is about as likely to initiate DOH/ACC reform as Eric Adams is to walk by a mirror without looking.
Assuming Menin is voted speaker, it won’t happen until January. Since she’s already there in her lizard elected brain, TSNY queried her this week about you-know-who. It was the same list of questions — developed with input from city advocates — we sent to Mamdani. Like the city’s next mayor, the city’s presumptive next council leader blew it off.
This might not be a bad thing.
Even after 2.5 terms as an Assembly member in Albany, Mamdani presents as a normal, possibly even tolerable, human person with normal human person morals. His most vocal detractors and the loudest fragilest snowflake to ever draw breath have acknowledged as much more than twice. Yes, Mamdani is coloring within the lines so far, exploiting cute wittle kitty cats to help himself get elected while pointedly ignoring the ugly realities those cats, and his soon-to-be constituents who care about them, are up against every day in the city he’s about to be responsible for.
More ominously, also to get elected, Mamdani accepted the endorsement of “Voters For Animal Rights,” a front for vile opportunists who play-act as “fRIeNDS oF THe AnIMAls” — FOTAs, in TSNY acronymese — coughed up by ACC accomplices to humane-wash electeds like Lynn “REFORM BOFA DEEZ!!” Schulman, City Council member and putative DOH overseer, who clearly despises city animal advocates as much or even more than the 10,000 healthy and adoptable cats and dogs incinerated on her watch. So far.
Aside from passing and not passing bills, acting as a check on the mayor and their department heads is the City Council’s raison d’être. Mamdani, firebrand Democratic socialist, and Menin, conservative career taxpayer-check casher, are making nice at this point, bonding over the A word — affordable housing, universal day care, and free buses — to the point the horse-race press is practically begging them for a taste of that sweet sweet snark that makes all the fingers go tappy-tappy click-click.
Of course, it’s early. Menin appears to be biding her time, waiting on the overnight sensation to struggle or soar. If he soars, the good vibes may last a bit. If he struggles, the knives will flash quicker than DOH’s ACC can turn a brand new “shelter” into a shit-stained death house.
When the knives eventually come out, and they will (as they should), if Mamdani is half the iconoclast he claims to be, if he doesn’t allow himself to be swallowed whole by the deep city (yes, Virginia, Deep NYC is where the Devil’s business goes down, and it is real as a donut), if he manages to maintain a shred of that normal human person with morals in there, it may provide an opening for an appeal to revisit his default stance as keeper of The Big Lie — said lie being that DOH’s ACC is not a corrupt kitten concentration camp staffed by malevolent bumbling bungling Colonel Klinks.
Yes, Virginia, Deep NYC is where the Devil’s business goes down, and it is real as a donut.
It will take some doing. For one thing, Mamdani’s City Hall is likely to be infested with operatives from the Bill de Blasio administration, which worked with the City Council (getting warm in here) to enshrine The Big Lie for generations, with a 34-year contract signed in a dank basement room, shut to other potential bidders and New Yorkers alike.
If former de Blasio minions — a club that includes Julie Menin, btw, because of course it does — hold sway, Mamdani may allow the corruption and torturing and killing to continue with impunity, never mind the crippling financial and psychological burden on DOH/ACC’s human victims, who see condemned cats and dogs with their own identities and hopes and fears disappear into Risa-brand trash bags practically 24/7/365.
The former highly-paid professional now looking at bankruptcy and eviction herself due to years of taking care of homeless cats DOH and ACC could not care less about. The retiree who spends every waking hour directing dogs around the country just to get them safely away from the city. The volunteers endlessly trying to suss out what DOH’s ACC did with this dog or that cat, where the animals are, how they are — if they are — as ACC and DOH with malice aforethought refuse to acknowledge their pleas.
These fine folk are unpaid employees of The Greatest City in the World™, and they deserve not only relief, but reparations. A city worth that title would make them whole, tout de suite.
DOH’s ACC is a rogue government agency. It must be audited by an impartial party, if one exists within New York City or state government — it very well may not — for systemic violations of state and city cruelty laws, which DOH and ACC flout every day in front of G-d and everybody, including city and state pols who are themselves complicit. Dirty lying FOTAs especially.
DOH and ACC higher-ups must be subpoenaed and compelled to testify in a public forum, under oath, concerning the treatment of animals that enter the system — committing to public record, for all time, whatever gory details those higher-ups are right now refusing to disclose to New Yorkers. This doesn’t happen for no reason.
Menin was already making noise about Mamdani subpoenas before some poll-humping aide apparently clued her in that now is probably not the time to get Trumpy on the man who just won more votes from New Yorkers than anyone since the year the US of A first put whitey on the moon.
(Thought we forgot, Jules? We don’t do forgetting around here. E-ver.)
If a criminal investigation into the actions of DOH and/or ACC officials and personnel is found to be warranted, bring it on.
That’s for starters.
Several of the dogs DOH/ACC exterminated this week reportedly had people waiting on the outside, as they had been admitted as a temporary measure until their adoptive families could secure pet-friendly-housing — another issue ignored by Mamdani and Menin. Dr. Morse and her pack of rabid hyenas gave those dogs no quarter.
Those dogs, literal family pets, had their homes taken away thanks to unaffordable rent, ham-fisted NYCHA bozos, or weak to non-existent city and state protections for renters, much less renters with pets. By a city that, as demonstrated above, swears up and down its “shelter” system is designed for emergencies exactly like these. They lie.
Reeking bullshit aside, DOH and ACC preferred exterminating those dogs to returning them to their families. They’re gone. Never to be seen, heard, petted, scritched, held, hugged, or kissed again. Just like those who had the grave misfortune to enter the city’s “shelter” system as strays.
American governance, when it functions, is of course oppositional in nature. Checks and balances and all that. When it functions.
At present, Mamdani is the wild card here. If he can be convinced to take up the cause, set the controls for the heart of the sun.
If he doesn’t, Speaker Menin best prepare for New Yorkers demanding those subpoenas she was so hot for a couple minutes ago.
In the interim, we have a news bulletin for Dr. Morse and The Exterminators.
All of them.
Please listen carefully.
The reason you think the advocates are crazy is because you lost your mind before trying to make them lose theirs. You kill kittens and puppies for money. You may have noticed this is not something normal humans do, or think should be done, by anyone, anywhere.
There is something deeply, deeply, wrong with you — all of you — via nature or nurture, that is so horrifying you take it out on innocent, defenseless animals. If cruelty laws that apply to normal humans were applied to you, as they should be, you would be at serious risk of prison or probation and being barred for life from having contact with any animals at all.
This, too, is as it should be. You don’t deserve their presence in your otherwise sorry NPC existences.
It’s not the advocates who type in all caps because you exterminate faster than they can shift.
It’s you. It has always been you.
You are broken.
Book it.
Here’s the latest New York companion animal news:
You can love companion animals or you can love watching their adoptive families terrorized by the government, but not both.
The president of the United States wants poor New Yorkers (and, by extension, their pets) to suffer and die from hunger and the state attorney general is the only New York official doing anything in response other than shake their heads and run their traps. Well-played as always, Madame Gov.
Related: State legislators released their 2026 schedule for doing as little as they can get by with to stop or relieve or correct any issue ever addressed by this publication, giving New Yorkers the finger all the while. Time for Lupardo & Hinchey to limber up them digits!
What’s next for temp Buffalo mayor and longtime ward of city taxpayers Chris Scanlon? Continuing a life of selfless public service, surely.
News 12 got an exclusive sneak peek at the DOH ACC Bronx Extermination Center, now under construction after 30 years of ACC incompetence.
Related: ASPCA — the lying, corrupt, resource-hoarding ACC of the USA — grubbed credit for not exterminating Belo once she had no promotional value, like they did Oreo. Aww.
Add Herkimer County Humane Society and Ontario County Humane Society to the list of under-funded upstate shelters and “shelters” that will only get worse because local and state electeds want it that way.
NYC DOH’s ACC isn’t the only kill pound saddling homeless companion animals with inscrutable, nonsensical names.
Horse racing in New York continues to be abusive and corrupt.
Finally: One of my favorite contemporary writers, Defector’s Albert Burneko, who manages to summon just the right word every gd time, again shows everyone how you write about dogs.
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Food recalls
The FDA announced one pet food recall this week:
Bonnihill Farms BeefiBowls Beef Recipe gently cooked frozen dog food, 16 oz. chubs [“potential foreign plastic contamination”]
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.