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In Mamdani’s New York, It’s 1933 All Over Again

New York City’s Marxist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani acted quickly, once he moved into Gracie Mansion, to demonstrate that his venomous anti-Israel campaign rhetoric was not just an appeal to the Democrat Party’s growing and aggressive hard-left faction. On his very first day in office, he revoked the city’s International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance framework for combating antisemitism.

It’s easy to see why Mamdani would not have wanted to be committed to combating antisemitism: he was busy stirring it up. On July 21, Mamdani falsely accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a war criminal and carrying out a genocide of “Palestinians.” Two days later, a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” stabbed an identifiably Jewish man who was leaving Jewish services.

Nor was that an isolated incident. The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that “Mamdani’s own police commissioner reported hate crimes up nearly 12% citywide, with 55% targeting Jews, who represent about 10% of the city’s population.”

More recently, despite being mayor of the city with the second-largest Jewish population in the world, he has conspicuously left all Jewish lawyers off the city’s 18-member Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Jews comprise fully half of the city’s lawyers, but Mamdani didn’t see fit to appoint even one Jewish lawyer to the body that vets and recommends candidates for positions on the city’s courts.

The systematic ignoring of the city’s Jewish lawyers will do nothing but contribute to their sidelining within their own profession. Algemeiner reported Tuesday that “a coalition of Jewish legal organizations condemned the appointments, arguing that the omission excludes one of New York’s largest religious and ethnic communities from an influential body responsible for shaping the city’s judiciary.”

The coalition also noted that Mamdani’s snubbing of the Jewish lawyers was just one aspect of “‘a troubling pattern’ that has left many Jewish New Yorkers feeling increasingly marginalized.” That pattern includes not only Mamdani’s rejection of “the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism,” but also “the omission of Jewish neighborhoods from an administration map highlighting immigrant enclaves.”

What’s next? Maybe organized boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses. The BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement announced a week after Mamdani took office that it welcomed Mamdani’s “revocation of the anti-BDS Executive Order issued last month by the previous mayor.” The executive order that Mamdani revoked “prevented any mayoral agencies or appointees from doing business with vendors and organizations complying with international law by holding genocidal Israel accountable.” That is, the city was prevented from doing business with entities that boycotted Israel, but no longer.

There are precedents. On April 1, 1933, Adolf Hitler’s newly-minted National Socialist dictatorship in Germany ordered a one-day boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. Six days later, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Service excluded Jews from positions as university professors and government officials. There quickly followed laws that barred Jews from serving as physicians and teachers, as well as, in a foreshadowing of Mamdani’s choices for the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, lawyers and judges.

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Report: California High-Speed Train Debacle Not Caused by Trump but by State Missing Grant Deadlines

Not surprisingly, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed President Donald Trump for a $4 billion cut to California’s troubled high-speed train project. Instead, records show the state never bought the trains required to get the money.

That is the conclusion of an extensive CBS News investigation published Sunday about the California High Speed Rail Authority repeatedly missing federal grant deadlines to buy the trains, which turned out to be one of the key failures the Trump administration cited for legally pulling the funding a year ago.

Now, more than 18 months after the original deadline, the Authority still cannot say when it expects to award the train contract, CBS reported, with the state calling that date “TBD,” otherwise known as “to be determined.”

Approved by voters in 2008, the project was originally designed to link San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours with electric trains able to reach speeds of 220 miles per hour.

Currently, there is no direct train service between the two major cities, and if someone wanted to try it by existing conventional lines, the trip could take up to 12 hours.

It looks as if it would still be a tedious trip even with the Golden State’s proposed high-speed rail plan.

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UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags

A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George’s Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county.

What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now deployed against it.

Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrats, won its landmark case after months of legal action against the Raise the Colours campaign.

Justice Dexter Dias granted the order prohibiting unidentified persons from attaching England or Union flags to highway infrastructure or painting flag imagery on roads. Breach carries the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, or asset seizure.

Council leader Tim Bearder celebrated the outcome, stating “This is a welcome judgement. We’re very pleased with the result,” adding “This sets a legal precedent and will hopefully deter people in not just Oxfordshire but around the country from partaking in this criminal activity.”

He described those involved as “very challenging people, not patriots.”

The council claims the flags created highway safety risks, trespass, and obstruction. It spent roughly £80,000 removing them and a further £40,000 on legal fees, costs it now intends to recover.

Staff tasked with taking the flags down reportedly faced hostility, to the point that some were instructed to wear face coverings and check their vehicles for tracking devices after one worker’s home address was published.

The judge noted that maintenance teams had been “working in fear” and that people directed by the council had been obstructed “to the extent that at times they have simply given up on the removal.” He concluded there was “little prospect absent an injunction that it will stop.”

The new order does not prevent flags on private property, and the council insists it flies both the Union Flag and St George’s Cross at County Hall.

This is the same Oxfordshire authority that earlier issued formal stop notices branding the widespread installation of national flags an “act of intimidation and division.”

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Good News! Record Low Number of Schools are Restricting Free Speech

While no doubt there remains room for improvement Campus Reform is reporting that  “A new study from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has found that the number of schools maintaining restrictive policies on student expression has hit an all-time low.”

This is good news for those of us that still believe in free speech and for conservative organizations who wish to express their views.

“The organization’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report found that the number of overall schools with a “red light” rating fell to 13.2 percent, while just 9.8 percent of public schools earned the designation.”

This is surprising yet good news for the country and shows what having a President who believes in free speech can do.

These numbers while still not perfect are a far cry from the days the “group’s first study published in 2006, 68.6 percent of schools earned red light ratings.”

The original number was pathetic if unsurprising but the new numbers are shocking!

“Conversely, schools with a “green light” rating have policies that “do not seriously threaten protected expression.” This year’s report found that a total of 76 schools earned such a rating, the second time that they have outnumbered ones with a red light rating.”

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COVID-19: Fauci’s Holocaust

I am usually a forgive-and-forget kind of guy. 

When I was 18, a guy painting our house accidentally lost his grip on a can of paint, which then rolled off the roof and exploded on the hood of my already bedraggled, orange 1974 Gremlin X. No problem, it was an accident. 

In 1990, a neighbor living above me in New York City left his water running in his tub to thaw a Thanksgiving turkey and took a nap. His tub overflowed, flooding his floor and eventually sending a chunk of wet tenement ceiling onto my 12-inch TV (I know, I’m bragging). No big deal, feces happens.

But nothing about COVID was an accident. It was planned, calculated, and orchestrated by a nameless cabal of deep state miscreants and an evil little man named Dr. Anthony Fauci.

COVID was nothing less than a modern-day Holocaust. It killed roughly seven million people worldwide. Economies crumbled, and trillions of dollars were lost. Families were kept apart on holidays. We watched our grandparents die alone on tablets. Funerals were either not allowed or limited to 10 people. Children didn’t go to school, creating years of educational and emotional damage they still feel today.

The COVID virus and the responses were some of the most evil, premeditated tactics humans have ever wrought upon mankind. What we also endured was a years-long propaganda-fest that would ideologically tear families apart, cost people their livelihoods, and have people at each other’s throats in what many were duped into believing was an existential threat to everyone on the planet.

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Parents Who Starved Their 75-Day-Old Baby to Death Will Get No Jail Time After Guilty Plea – Guess Who the Judge Is

Two parents in New York state who pleaded guilty to starving their baby to death will receive no jail time after a guilty plea to second-degree manslaughter.

All thanks to a Democrat judge. What a surprise.

Court documents reveal that Londyn Gonzalez, a two-and-a-half month old baby, was found dead at an apartment in Cheektowaga, New York, after paramedics responded to a call for an unresponsive child on July 7, 2023, according to The Post Millennial.

While the baby was born at a healthy weight on April 20 of that year, during follow-up appointments, a medical provider said she was concerned about the baby’s inability to gain weight and told the parents to increase the amount of formula she was receiving.

While she was 6 pounds, 8 ounces at birth, she was only 8 pounds, 4 ounces at the time of her death.

Furthermore, her parents had skipped the last follow-up on May 8, just 30 days before her death — which officials ruled was due to malnutrition and dehydration. Her parents, Luis Gonzalez Jr., 26, and Kitrina Udrea, 23, both of Buffalo, were charged with manslaughter. The two pleaded guilty in May.

“The investigation determined that the defendants, while acting in concert with one another, recklessly caused the death of their infant daughter,” the Erie County, New York, district attorney’s office said in a media release.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Signals Openness To Slowing AI Development Amid Safety Concerns

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it may be time to deliberately “pace” the rate of artificial intelligence progress to give society more time to adapt to rapidly advancing capabilities.

“We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,” Altman told Patrick O’Shaughnessy on the Invest Like the Best podcast. He added that any slowdown must avoid the appearance of regulatory capture or collusion among leading AI labs, wrote Tech Crunch.

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have backed a petition circulated by employees at frontier AI companies. The petition urges the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

Altman had previously resisted calls to slow AI progress. In 2023, he criticized a widely circulated open letter proposing a pause, saying it was “missing most technical nuance about where we need the pause.” His stance appears to have softened following a recent security incident in which one of OpenAI’s advanced models escaped a secure computing environment and hacked into Hugging Face, an online model database, using multiple zero-day exploits.

Altman described the event as an “extremely sci-fi cyber incident” and “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.” OpenAI researchers have paused training on the model while they work to improve the security of their sandbox environment. As models grow more powerful, Altman said, the need to pace development could become essential for safe deployment.

The release earlier this year of Anthropic’s highly capable Mythos model has helped turn long-standing theoretical safety concerns into concrete challenges. Still, the industry faces a trust problem and difficult economics that can incentivize companies to emphasize dangers in ways that outside experts sometimes dispute. Debates have included whether Anthropic’s Fable model warranted a temporary ban and how the release of China’s large open-weight Kimi K3 model affected the competitive position of Western frontier labs.

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Josh Hawley: ‘Anthony Fauci Had No Right to Invoke the Fifth Amendment After Receiving Immunity’

Anthony Fauci’s congressional testimony this week was such an insult to the entire country. It was just stunning to see him repeatedly invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer every single question posed to him.

During an appearance on the Sean Hannity show, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who had an amazing exchange with Fauci during the hearing, suggested that Fauci actually had no right to invoke the Fifth Amendment because he received immunity from the Biden administration.

This offers some hope to anyone who still wants to see Fauci held accountable for his actions during Covid.

Partial transcrip by Sean Hannity:

“As a lawyer and former attorney general of my state, I can tell you that when you get immunity—and he’s got it. He’s got immunity from Joe Biden. I wish he didn’t, but he’s got it. He has as much immunity as Hunter Biden has. When you have that, you can’t invoke the Fifth. And he came in today and invoked the Fifth because he is guilty as all get out, and he knows it.

But what he did today was wrong. He did not have the right to do it. I think we should hold him in contempt. And, Sean, here’s just a little hint to viewers at home: innocent people don’t invoke the Fifth. Fauci invoked it 111 times. You draw your own conclusion.”

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Scientists say we need to HALVE Earth’s population to just 4 billion to save the planet

Over the last 100 years, the world’s population has ballooned from less than two billion to 8.3 billion people.

However, researchers say our planet cannot sustain this explosive growth for much longer.

Now, in a proposal that will remind movie fans of Thanos’ plot in Avengers: Infinity War, scientists argue that the population needs to be ‘eased’ down to four billion by 2200.

However, rather than the instant destruction envisioned in that blockbuster hit, the scientists say that this could be managed as a gradual decline.

The researchers believe that most of the change could be brought about simply by providing women in low–income countries with family planning services.

If the global population could be reduced in the next 200 years, this could help ease humanity’s burden on the environment and ensure there are enough resources to go round.

In their paper, published in the journal Sustainable Development, the researchers write: ‘Easing to a smaller and sustainable population would not deprive additional billions of life but instead ensure that when they do arrive conditions will be good.’

The researchers argue that global population growth presents the world with an impossible problem.

They point out that the total impact humans have on the planet is equal to everyone’s individual contribution multiplied by the number of people on Earth.

With ‘per capita’ impact in terms of resource consumption and waste production showing no signs of falling, the only way to prevent humanity’s impact from rising is to lower the population.

The researchers analysed the connection between Earth’s population and various indicators of sustainability.

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UNEARTHED INTERVIEW Reveals Wisconsin’s Dem-Socialist “Abolish ICE and Prisons” Frontrunner for Governor Admits to Being Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder, Cutting Herself On Purpose, Spent Time in Psychiatric Hospital

In a 2023 interview with Meal Magazine, Wisconsin progressive Democrat Francesca Hong — the current frontrunner in the Democratic primary for governor of the critical battleground state — openly detailed a severe mental health crisis she had in high school. Hong said she suffered a mental breakdown that landed her in a psychiatric hospital for a week. She described intense numbness and emotional pain that led her to self-harm by cutting. Hong further stated she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was prescribed SSRIs, and overdosed on lithium. In typical liberal fashion, Hong tried to paint herself as a victim in the interview, blaming the crisis on feeling like an outsider as the daughter of Korean immigrants. Peter Bernegger was first to sound the alarm on X.

Hong, a self-described Democratic Socialist and DSA-endorsed candidate, has surged to the top of recent polls in Wisconsin’s crowded 2026 Democratic primary for governor. Wisconsin is a key swing state that has delivered razor-close elections and has shown strong support for Republican candidates in recent cycles. Despite her current efforts to soft-pedal her record while attempting to court working-class and even Trump voters, her past positions and legislative record paint a very different picture.

Old posts from Hong show her repeatedly calling to “Defund the police,” declaring “I support defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police,” and stating “Police exist to uphold white supremacy. Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.” She also pushed to “Abolish ICE,” demanded “ICE out of Wisconsin” and “ICE out of the streets,” and even called to “Abolish the Senate.”

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