New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted the blockbuster Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger as a direct threat to jobs and consumers — this as WBD shareholders overwhelmingly approved the tie-up on Thursday. “This merger is bad for New Yorkers three times over,” Mamdani wrote Thursday morning on X as shareholders prepared to vote on the deal. “Thousands of jobs at risk here in the city. Streaming bills going up as competition disappears. And two of America’s most powerful media companies