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Just DAYS Before Ayanna Pressley Was Sworn In, Her Husband Quit a $92K Job to Launch a “Consulting Firm” — Family Net Worth Skyrockets to $8 MILLION

Another day, another socialist millionaire in Congress.

It turns out Ilhan Omar isn’t the only member of the far-left “Squad” getting rich while denouncing capitalism. New reports reveal that Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has seen her family’s net worth explode since entering the swamp in 2018.

According to a bombshell report from Fox News, highlighted by Kayleigh McEnany and David Asman, the “anti-capitalist” Squad member has gone from a negative net worth when she was elected to holding assets worth up to $8 MILLION today.

Back in 2018, when Pressley first ran for Congress, her financial disclosures showed a negative net worth of around -$12,500 to modest figures, with limited assets.

Fast-forward to her 2024 disclosures (filed in 2025), and the picture is dramatically different: Pressley now reports assets valued between $1 million and $8 million, including a luxurious Martha’s Vineyard rental property worth up to $5 million and multiple Boston rental properties valued up to $1 million each.

In 2019, she only reported one Boston property. How does a congressional salary of $174,000 account for this massive windfall?

A key piece of the puzzle points directly to her husband, Conan Harris.

Just three days before Pressley was sworn into Congress in January 2019, Harris resigned from his $92,500-a-year position as a senior public safety adviser in then-Mayor Martin Walsh’s Boston City Hall administration.

He immediately launched his own consulting firm, Conan Harris & Associates.

Ethics experts raised red flags at the time, warning that the timing could create the appearance of profiting off Pressley’s rising political profile.

Harris, a convicted felon who served 10 years in prison for drug trafficking before turning his life around, cited the need for “professional flexibility” to support his wife’s career.

Yet his income reportedly tripled and more, reaching up to $350,000 by 2021 and even higher in subsequent years through consulting gigs with nonprofits, businesses, and organizations tied to government initiatives.

Pressley’s disclosures show the couple pulling in significant rental income, up to $350,000 in one recent year from property sales and rents, including from that posh Martha’s Vineyard home purchased in 2023.

While Pressley postures as a champion of the working class and demands rent relief for tenants, she’s quietly become a major landlord reaping capitalist profits.

David Asman ripped into the hypocrisy on Fox News.

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Socialist NYC mayor’s mansion looks spotless while trash bags and filthy mounds of snow pile up on streets

New Yorkers are in disbelief as heaps of trash and filthy snow clutter the city’s streets while the grounds of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $100 million mansion remain spotless. 

More than a week has passed since historic Winter Storm Fern brought more than a foot of snow to some NYC neighborhoods. 

But the Big Apple is still grappling with the aftermath – and fed-up residents have been forced to trek through slush and avoid smelly trash piles lining the roads. 

Massive mounds of plowed snow have been adding to the mess, as it has been too cold for them to melt and there are no signs of temperatures heating up anytime soon.

Meanwhile, the Gracie Mansion in the Upper East Side is in pristine shape.   

Mamdani and his artist wife Rama Duwaji have resided at the historic home in Carl Schurz Park, which is funded by a combination of private donations and NYC tax dollars, since January 12. 

Pictures of the sweeping property from Monday show an almost snow-free pavement, with small white heaps mixed with dirt neatly scooped out of the way. 

This is a stark contrast from what much of the rest of the city looks like. 

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Millionaire Stephen Colbert Asks Millionaire Bernie Sanders ‘Why Is Socialism Cool Again’

CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert welcomed self-professed socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders onto his show and asked the aging leftist “why is socialism cool again?”

The gushing Colbert invited Sanders on for his 19th visit to the late-night show and the pair guffawed while Sanders talked about how terrible the United States is.

Colbert, whose show has been cancelled and will go off the air in May, went straight to the claim that “socialism is cool.”

“Why is socialism cool again, Bernie?” Colbert asked, to which Sanders replied that it is because America is a terrible place to live.

“I think people are looking at this country today and they’re seeing incredible greed. And they’re seeing that in the richest country in the history of the world, so few have so much, and so many have so little,” the multi-millionaire Senator exclaimed.

“There is, you know, Steve, I get around the country,” he continued, “I just did a virtual program at Zoom with some workers in nursing homes. They’re working 80 hours a week taking care of their patients. You have people working crazy hours for horribly low wages, people can’t afford housing.”

“When I was a kid, the American dream was you are, at some point, going to be able to own your own house,” said the socialist politician who owns three multimillion-dollar homes. “Young people today no longer believe that is possible. In fact, many of the young have a lower standard of living than their parents.”

“So, I think the young people are looking out there and they’re saying ‘Why?’ With all this technology, with all of this wealth, why are we not doing better for ordinary Americans than we are?” he exclaimed.

“And what the Democrats are lacking now is a vision for the future and that gets back to a corrupt campaign finance system, the unwillingness to take on the greed of big money interests. And that is, I think, what young people perceive,” concluded the 84-year-old who has never had a real job in his life.

During another segment of the show, Sanders praised recently sworn in communist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for “taking on the establishment” and yet still winning his race.

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Mamdani’s Rich Kid Commie Tenant Advocate Starts Crying When Asked About Millionaire Parents

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly installed tenant advocate, Cea Weaver – a limousine liberal (socialist), popped out of her apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Wednesday (a historically black neighborhood until people like Weaver priced out longtime residents) – only to start crying and run back inside when reporters asked her about her mother’s $1.6 million home in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Weaver came under fire on Monday after resurfaced tweets on her now-deleted X account called for the government to “seize private property,” and called home ownership a “weapon of white supremacy.”

In December, she pushed to “Elect more communists” while a street in Harlem was being renamed after former communist Rep. Vito Marchantonio of Manhattan. 

And in May of 2020 she slammed law enforcement following the death of George Floyd, writing “The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity.” 

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IDIOTS: Zohran Mamdani Supporters Chant ‘Tax the Rich’ as Bernie ‘Three Houses’ Sanders Speaks

As Bernie Sanders was speaking at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration on Thursday, a number of people in the crowd broke into a chant of ‘tax the rich.’

The stupidity on display here is appalling. Do these people really believe that their lives will improve if the government forcefully takes more money away from other people? Do they think the New York City government is going to take money from others and give it to them? Do they honestly believe that if ‘the rich’ are forced to pay more in taxes, it is going to fund programs that will benefit them?

This is the politics of envy, plain and simple.

The New York Post reports:

‘Tax the rich’ chant breaks out as Bernie Sanders swears in NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

A raucous chant of “tax the rich” broke out as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the wealthy and called out “hatred and divisiveness” before swearing in fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor.

“At a time in our country’s history when we are seeing too much hatred, too much divisiveness and too much injustice, thank you for electing Zohran Mamdani as your mayor,” Sanders said outside City Hall.

He then argued that Mamdani’s socialist agenda, including free buses and taxing the rich was not “radical,” sparking the chant.

After Sanders administered the ceremonial oath of office to Mamdani, the new mayor addressed the crowd, saying he planned to govern “expansively and audaciously.”

For too long, he argued, New York belonged to the “wealthy and well connected,” but no longer, Mamdani vowed.

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‘Eat the Rich’ Activist Married to $34M Mets Star Joins NYC Socialist Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s Inaugural Committee

Katia Reguero Lindor, wife of New York Mets superstar shortstop Francisco Lindor, has been named to the inaugural committee of incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Lindor, a vocal social justice advocate who has publicly railed against the wealthy elite, is married to an athlete pulling in a staggering $34.1 million annual salary.

Elite hypocrisy like this is often seen in far-left circles, where champagne socialists preach equality while enjoying the fruits of capitalism.

Katia Lindor, a classically trained violinist and host of “The Unaparent Podcast,” describes herself as a “breastfeeding + home birth + social justice advocate.” She has used her platform to push progressive causes, including sharp criticisms of the rich.

In a November Instagram post during the mayoral election, she declared, “Your enemies aren’t the immigrants — they’re the one-percenters hoarding the wealth while leaving you without basic needs.”

She further emphasized that supporting politicians like Mamdani, who fight for immigrants, artists, workers, and “everyone who deserves a dignified life,” isn’t against her interests, “even if I’m in a different economic position.”

This rhetoric echoes the “Eat the Rich” mantra popular among anti-capitalist activists, including The Squad, yet it comes from someone whose household wealth is firmly in the top 1%.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Net Worth Jumped from $51K to $30 Million in One Year

Democrat “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has denied being worth millions of dollars, but her latest financial disclosure tells a different story.

In February, she said people were falsely claiming she was worth millions, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday.

However, the Beacon’s article shows her net worth in the multimillion range. The outlet, citing a financial disclosure report, continued:

Omar reported in her latest financial disclosure that she and her husband, former political consultant Tim Mynett, accumulated a net worth at the end of 2024 ranging from at least $6 million to $30 million. Their wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Mynett’s ownership stake in his two companies that, together, were worth no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023. The exact value of Omar’s personal fortune at the end of 2024 is unclear — lawmakers disclose the value of their holdings and debts in ranges. Still, the figures in Omar’s latest disclosures show that her and her husband’s net worth skyrocketed by at least 3,500 percent in just one year.

The Democrat’s surge in wealth is due to Mynett’s two businesses which are a winery and a venture capital firm, per the New York Post.

In February, Omar claimed that conservatives were unfairly targeting her over her finances, the outlet said.

“Since getting elected, there has been a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign claiming all sorts of wild things, including the ridiculous claim I am worth millions of dollars, which is categorically false,” she stated, adding, “I am a working mom with student loan debt. Unlike some of my colleagues — and similar to most Americans — I am not a millionaire and am raising a family while maintaining a residence in both Minneapolis and DC, which are among the most expensive housing markets in the country.”

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AOC splashed $50K on Puerto Rican getaways while denouncing gentrification on the island

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent about $50,000 on ritzy Puerto Rico getaways, even as she decried gentrification on her family’s home island.

The New York congresswoman splashed the five-figure sum in the third quarter of this year, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

Ocasio-Cortez’s largest splurge came on June 24 when her principal campaign committee dropped $16,725 on a ‘venue rental’ at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico.

The 19,000-seat stadium is where the Democrat lawmaker filmed herself enjoying global artist Bad Bunny‘s concert in August.

That same summer, Ocasio-Cortez had railed against greedy millionaires’ influence on Puerto Rico.

‘Puerto Rico is an island for working people,’ she wrote on her Facebook account in July. ‘We won’t be pushed out just so vulture capitalists can cash in.’

In a video, Ocasio-Cortez added in Spanish: ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale.’

The Democrat congresswoman’s second-largest expense was a $9,440 expenditure on September 29 at San Juan’s Hotel Palacio Provincial.

The upscale ‘adults only’ hotel has 43 rooms and suites, and is touted as being located in an early 19th century historic building. Rooms start at $269 and suites start at $439 per night.

Ocasio-Cortez also spent $1,507 on August 29 and $680 on July 28 at the Puerto Rico hotel, her campaign filings showed.

The New York lawmaker’s lodging tabs also featured a $3,861 outlay at the Hotel El Convento on August 25.

On that same day, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign doled out $6,987 on another venue rental at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico.

About two weeks earlier, she had attended a Bad Bunny concert at the arena as part of the Puerto Rican singer’s residency.

On August 12, Ocasio-Cortez uploaded a video of herself at the show on Instagram singing along with Democratic Rep. Nydia Velázquez, of New York. It was not known whether her expenditures were related to the concerts.

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NYC Council is Considering a Massive Pay Bump For Mamdani Before He Even Takes Office

Socialism has always enriched the political class at the expense of the people. One might even say that it does so by design.

Normally, however, the socialists at least try to make their plunder less obvious.

According to the New York Post, Democratic Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani of New York City will receive a gargantuan pay raise if the City Council has its way.

A new bill, introduced on Tuesday by Councilwoman Nantasha Williams of Queens, and unsurprisingly co-sponsored by 32 Council members, would increase Mamdani’s salary from $258,750 to $300,500 before the new mayor has established a single state-run grocery store or purged a single enemy of the revolution.

In fairness, Mamdani might prefer not to have the political headache.

After all, as the son of two Harvard-educated parents, he enjoys plenty of privilege already. He hardly needs the extra $40,000-plus annually.

Worse yet, the bill would give hefty sixteen-percent raises to members of the City Council. Others, too, including the city comptroller, public advocate, and borough presidents, would enjoy sixteen-percent increases from their already six-figure salaries.

City councillors have not seen a pay raise since 2016.

Of course, in the real world, people who do lousy jobs tend not to receive raises. Here in the private sector, we certainly cannot increase our own salaries by a simple vote.

Moreover, as Democratic state Assemblyman and former council member Kalman Yeger noted, the current council members tried to bring the bill to a speedy vote this month so as to spare the incoming mayor a potentially difficult veto decision. But they ran into a problem when they remembered that the law prohibits them from voting themselves a raise during a lame-duck period after an election.

“The only thing is I think they are worried that the mayor-elect won’t do it,” Yeger said. “They are afraid if they pass it in January and he’d have to veto. How does the mayor-elect justify it, saying the working man can’t afford milk? He can’t sign off to give them a $20,000 raise.”

In short, Mamdani will have to decide whether to further enrich himself and his cronies or to preserve his pro-worker facade.

Like all socialists, of course, he will eventually do the former. But, for appearances’ sake, he might choose to wait.

Meanwhile, on the social media platform X, users predicted that the mayor-elect would follow the historical pattern.

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Elizabeth Warren Gets DRAGGED on Twitter/X Over Billionaire-Bashing Post With Zohran Mamdani

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts recently posted a photo of herself with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in which she bashes billionaires and says ‘tax the rich.’

This is hilarious on multiple levels. Elizabeth Warren is a multi-millionaire. Zohran Mamdani’s parents are multi-millionaires. Also, Elizabeth Warren has been photographed with billionaire Alex Soros, son of George Soros.

The most important thing to remember here, is that whenever something happens in the United States that excites the progressive left, you will find Elizabeth Warren standing in front of it, claiming it as her own, desperate to associate herself with it.

She has ZERO interest in being a mere U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She sees herself as a national figure.

On a side note, does she own another outfit? Every time you see her, she is wearing this same get-up and the only thing that changes is the pastel color of her blazer. It’s like a uniform.

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