Mamdani Darling Had Burner Account Flooded With Communist Fan Fiction

The Democratic socialist darling poised to represent New York’s 13th Congressional District reportedly had a since-deleted Twitter account that read like communist fan fiction.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, according to a new report from CNN, kept a Twitter account under the name “Darializabonet.” The bio under the name in 2020 read, “how communist of you,” and the entire account was apparently deleted in 2022.

The contents of the now-deleted account included complaints about the lack of available Marxist literature — particularly works by revolutionaries like Vladimir Lenin — and a recommendation that Karl Marx’s “Capital” was a “must-read.” She also retweeted a post from another communist account complaining that bookstores did not feature “The Complete Works of J. V. Stalin” in displays about books that had been “banned.”

The account also quoted convicted cop killer and Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur, who escaped from prison and fled to Cuba to avoid a life sentence, on the idea that people should read communist revolutionaries of color — “Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel [Castro]” — before Lenin or Marx. The revolutionaries could not be ignored, she said, because of their contributions to the cause — but she disliked elevating them above their non-white counterparts.

Other posts she either commented on or retweeted shared similarly favorable views of communism and socialism — including one retweet of a post complaining that Americans objected to communism over seemingly trivial things like the number of available soup varieties at a grocery store.

“I just cannot get over the fact that the universe has foisted upon us the perfect illustration of literally every failing of capitalism and people are still like we can’t be communists cuz there won’t be enough types of soup,” the post she retweeted read.

Avila Chevalier, backed by New York City’s new Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, defeated incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat to win the Democratic primary — and because she’s unlikely to face any real challenge from Republicans, Avila Chevalier’s victory in November is all but certain.

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher sounded the alarm on Avila Chevalier before additional details from the account came to light, saying during his Friday broadcast that she was “patient zero” if the “Woke Mind Virus” had such a thing.

Bill Maher on Democratic Socialist Daraliza Avila Chevalier:

“There is a woke mind virus and I think we found patient zero” pic.twitter.com/YkaK2Mozqv

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) June 28, 2026

“There’s one candidate, she will be a congresswoman from New York’s 13th District, who the New York Times asked her if someone murders someone randomly, should they go to jail? Couldn’t get her to say yes to that,” he said. “She says, ‘No more police ever, at all, ever.’ She says our veterans are war criminals. She said f*ck Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s a rapist. So there is a Woke Mind Virus, and I think we found patient zero.”