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A senior hire in incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has abruptly resigned after a series of resurfaced social media posts revealed she had repeatedly expressed anti-white and anti-Semitic sentiments.

Catherine Almonte Da Costa, 33, had been appointed director of recruitment for the socialist mayor-elect.

The position is a key role that would have placed her in charge of screening and staffing City Hall as Mamdani prepares to take office on January 1, 2026.

But the appointment collapsed within 24 hours after civil rights groups highlighted a series of posts Da Costa made between 2011 and 2012, with additional entries stretching into 2016 and even 2020.

In one post made shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, Da Costa wrote:

“It’s important that white people feel defeated.”