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Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Agenda Runs Into a Brick Wall of Reality as He’s Grilled by NY Lawmakers in Albany

New York City’s new democratic socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani was grilled by state lawmakers in Albany this week over plans to fund his agenda by taxing the rich.

This is the difference between campaigning and governing. Many, if not all, of Mamdani’s ideas sound great on paper to leftists. Implementing them in real life is a different thing, entirely.

Some of the people who questioned him are undoubtedly wondering why he can’t even seem to be able to get the snow removed or pick up the city’s trash.

WRGB News reports:

“Honeymoon is over” Zohran Mamdani grilled by lawmakers as he proposes to “tax the rich”

Mamdani is asking for a 2 percent raise in personal income taxes to the top one percent of New York City residents, arguing someone making $1 million can afford $20,000 in more taxes, and that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would deliver federal tax cuts to more than make up for that sum.

Lawmakers then had the opportunity to question Mamdani’s proposals on all of the above. Lawmakers from other cities shared concerns that if New York City received more money, they would receive less. Many asked about his proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy, and the impact it could have not just on New York City, but the rest of the State as well. Others questioned Mamdani’s actions in addressing antisemitism.

“Once the honeymoon is over, which I think you’ve just felt, you may well prefer three minutes to 10,” State Senator John Liu, Chairman of New York City Education Committee ( D ), told Mamdani at one point. “Speaking of which, you know, it’s mid-February, so I will respectfully say that the time for blaming past Mayors and Governors is passed. We need to hear the details of your plan. And it’s good to hear your revenue proposals.”

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Scathing report reveals Antifa-linked org passing out material to K-12 students: ‘Political revolution’

A newly unearthed training guidebook from the far-left activist group Sunrise Movement calls on both college and K-12 students to engage in monthly disruptions and “mass non-cooperation” as part of a coordinated effort to spark a “political revolution” across the United States.

The 25-page document, obtained by Defending Education, focuses on mobilizing youth against what it describes as a “regime” and a “system captured by billionaires,” urges students to walk out of classrooms and boycott businesses in an attempt to prove that the country cannot function without their cooperation.

“We’re not going to get there overnight, and we’re not here to get back to the status quo,” the guidebook says. “We’re here to win a political revolution. This is your guide to start winning at your school right now.”

Pushing back against ICE is a major theme in the document that appears to have been spread to students in Minnesota and across the country and has made that central pillar of its recent advocacy, framing the agency as an “occupying army” and a “personal gestapo” for the Trump administration. 

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The Dark Question That Looms Over New York After Mamdani’s Failed Winter Storm Response

Don’t get Vickie Paladino started on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Republican councilwoman appeared on Katie Pavlich Tonight yesterday and took the man behind the barn over the disastrous snow removal operation following last month’s winter storm. It’s getting to the point where even Mamdani’s supporters are yelling outside Gracie Mansion. Besides mountains of snow and ice, there are piles of trash everywhere. It’s what you’d expect from a mayor who hasn’t run anything, doesn’t know anything, and, as a result, can’t do anything related to this job.

Paladino rightly called Mamdani a “media whore” who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Let the city workers, who have more experience than the mayor on many fronts, do their jobs. This winter storm was bad, but not unprecedented—the city has had some serious weather events. I hated Bill de Blasio, but even he was able to clear the roads and get this kind of work done.

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While Homeless New Yorkers Freeze, the NYT Wants Us to Know This About Mayor Mamdani

It must be nice to be a Democrat. Having that magical (D) after your name means you can say and do the most vile things, and govern with gross incompetence, and the media will run interference for you. Just look at how Vogue gushed over Gavin Newsom, completely ignoring how the guy has driven California into the ground.

In New York, not only are the streets piled with mountains of rat-infested garbage, but at least 18 homeless people have now died because of the cold.

The New York Post reports that the latest victim of Mamdani’s policies is an 86-year-old man named Charles Williams, who was found on a Bronx street Saturday. All Mamdani had to say about it was, “Each loss of life is a tragedy. We will continue to hold their families in our thoughts.”

As one X user pointed out, the media would be singing a different tune if someone else were living in Gracie Mansion right now.

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Daughter of Republican Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Jeff Johnson Found Stabbed to Death in Her Home

Law enforcement believes her death was a botched murder-suicide, carried out by her husband, Dylan Michael Tobler, 23.

St. Cloud Police Department officers responded to a medical emergency call around 8:20 p.m. at the couple’s locked apartment.

When they arrived, officers discovered Hallie Tobler dead from multiple stab wounds.

Dylan Tobler was also found inside with life-threatening stab wounds, which investigators determined were self-inflicted. He was transported to St. Cloud Hospital, where he remains in stable condition and in police custody.

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Labor Dept Orders Lawyers: Cut Ties with ‘Radical’ ABA Activist Group

On Monday, the Department of Labor’s Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry told staff to stop engaging with the American Bar Association (ABA) in their official capacities.

Berry noted in an email to Fox News Digital that the organization “engages in liberal activism and that any federal participation would only boost its influence.”

Per Fox News:

Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry wrote in an email that the hundreds of attorneys at the Department of Labor are not to use taxpayer funds to participate in any ABA events or use their government job titles at them, according to a copy of the email reviewed by Fox News Digital.

“The ABA is strategically equivocal about its ideological stance,” Berry wrote. “Equivocal in that the ABA holds itself out as non-ideological at certain times, but takes decidedly radical ideological positions at others.”

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“There is genuine benefit to our attorneys engaging with the employer bar in ABA programs, but the benefit genuinely feeds the problem too: Our participation in ‘neutral’ ABA events contributes to institutional stature the ABA leverages to advance radical goals as if they were ‘neutral,’” Berry wrote. “No more.”

ABA, a voluntary professional organization for lawyers that describes itself as nonpartisan, is supposed to focus on advancing the “rule of law, professional standards, and access to justice.”

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Pesticide Industry Infiltrates MAHA to Derail Reforms

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House as the best chance to deliver his long-promised health revolution.

In the final weeks of the race, the former environmental attorney urged voters to back Trump in order to advance a reform agenda aimed at eliminating harmful substances from America’s agriculture and food supply, particularly the herbicides and insecticides sprayed on most fruits and vegetables.

“Don’t you want healthy children, and don’t you want the chemicals out of our food, and don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption?” Kennedy thundered at an October 2024 rally in Glendale, Arizona. Moments later, Trump promised to empower his ally to investigate the “toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food.”

“We’re going to ban the worst agricultural chemicals” and “remove conflicts of interest” from top farm and food safety agencies, Kennedy pledged days later.

Those promises have since fallen by the wayside.

The administration has reapproved the cancer-causing weedkiller dicamba, deleted references to pesticides from its “Make America Healthy Again” action plan, and delayed enforcement of limits on so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water. There has been no meaningful action on controversial pesticides Kennedy previously warned about, including neonicotinoid insecticides and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup—which he once called “one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic.”

Meanwhile, representatives of pesticide and chemical companies have flooded into key regulatory roles. Former lobbyists Douglas Troutman, Nancy Beck, Lynn Ann Dekleva, Scott Hutchins, Kelsey Barnes and Kyle Kunkler now occupy senior positions overseeing agriculture and environmental policy.

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Communist LA Council Member Launches Mayoral Challenge Against Deranged Karen Bass

Over the weekend, Los Angeles City Council Member Nithya Raman launched what may be the most revealing mayoral campaign in the country. A member of both the Democrat Party and the Democrat Socialists of America, Raman is now running for mayor in 2026, positioning herself as the “accountable” alternative to Mayor Karen Bass. 

In reality, her candidacy exposes a deeper truth: the Democrat Party is no longer drifting toward socialism—it has embraced it.

Raman’s announcement was wrapped in familiar Democrat rhetoric—talk of accountability, urgency, affordability, and compassion. She positioned herself as ideologically aligned with Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who won the New York City mayoral race. Beneath the polished language, however, was a worldview that has failed everywhere it has been tried.

Raman is not just a progressive Democrat; she is an open socialist, part of an organization that explicitly advocates for government control over housing, energy, and large segments of the economy.

Democrats often insist that “democratic socialism” is different from socialism, and socialism is different from communism. History tells a different story. 

Every communist state in the world began as a socialist project. The Soviet Union. Mao’s China. Castro’s Cuba. Venezuela. Each promised fairness, equity, and government “accountability.” 

Each delivered shortages, corruption, repression, and economic collapse. The labels changed. The outcomes did not.

Raman’s own remarks highlight the contradiction. She criticizes City Hall for fiscal mismanagement while supporting the same tax-and-spend ideology that created Los Angeles’ budget crisis in the first place. 

She acknowledges that voters approved higher taxes for homelessness and housing, yet admits the city has failed to deliver results. That failure is the inevitable product of socialist governance—high spending, low accountability, and no consequences for failure.

Los Angeles already serves as a warning sign. Streetlights can take a year to fix. Homeless encampments persist despite billions spent. Housing costs continue to soar. Public trust has collapsed. 

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Democrat is ripped to shreds for saying non-whites should ‘take over this country’ in racially-charged rant

A Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives is being called out for using racially-charged rhetoric on a podcast after the clip resurfaced on social media. 

A little over a year ago, State Representative Gene Wu was a guest on Define America with Jose Antonio Vargas, a left-wing podcast focused on immigration issues. 

On Saturday, the popular right-wing X account End Wokeness posted a clip from the podcast, in which Wu made a controversial statement about how non-white people in the US are now the majority and are in a position to ‘take over this country.’

The clip begins with Wu, who was born in China, saying, ‘I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning.’

‘Because we are the majority in this country now,’ the congressman continued. 

‘We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone, and to make things fair, but the problem is our communities are divided – they’re completely divided.’ 

The account captioned the clip: ‘Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off: “Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”‘

On Sunday, the account replied to its own viral post and wrote: ‘More condemnations from the GOP over a Lion King meme than this.’ 

That was in reference to a meme posted Thursday night on President Trump’s X account, in which the faces of former President Obama and First Lady Michelle were superimposed onto apes. 

The post was widely criticized as racist by people on both sides of the aisle, and it was deleted on Friday.  

The clip of Wu has received more than seven million views, 27,000 likes and nearly 5,000 responses in less than 24 hours. 

One of those responses was from X CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, who simply wrote: ‘Shame on him.’

The vast majority of reactions on X were also negative, and the clip going viral inspired people to post negative comments under the original podcast episode on YouTube as well. 

‘Why would you immigrate to USA to be oppressed?’ one user wrote on X.

‘Uh huh SO SICK & TIRED of this race baiting marxist CR@P,’ another user posted along with a political cartoon depicting a group of people at the border wall saying: ‘Please let us in so we can be victims of systemic racism and white supremacy!’

‘I’m still trying to figure out why Democrats are so obsessed with race,’ a third user wrote. 

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Senior Norwegian diplomat resigns after being linked to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

A senior Norwegian diplomat has resigned after an investigation was launched into her ties to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 

Mona Juul, the Scandinavian nation’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, is among several high-profile Norwegian figures swept up in the latest Epstein file release.

The senior diplomat, who played a key role in the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which led to the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s, was temporarily suspended on Monday pending an investigation into her alleged links to Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

Epstein left around £7.4million in his will to Juul’s two children with her husband, fellow diplomat and Oslo talks broker Terje Rod-Larsen, according to Norwegian media.

‘This is a correct and necessary decision. Juul’s contact with the convicted abuser Epstein has shown a serious lapse in judgement,’ foreign minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement. 

Eide said that the ministry would continue to hold talks with Juul throughout the review to determine the extent of their dealings.

‘It is important to understand the scope of the contact she, as an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has had with Epstein,’ he said.

He added that the Jordan embassy would be led by the deputy ambassador until a new envoy is appointed.

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