A powerful storm swept across the Northeast on Saturday, killing at least one person and knocking out power to about 100,000 customers.
Leighton Brown, a 56-year-old New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) employee, was killed in Brooklyn when a tree fell on him during the storm, NYCHA said.
“My thoughts are with his entire family as they deal with this unimaginable loss,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2104050364878066102">said</a>. “May he rest in peace, and may his service to our city never be forgotten.”
In a separate incident, fire officials said four people were hospitalized with minor injuries after a tree fell on them near a Sheepshead Bay playground. The city&#8217;s Parks Department said it had received more than 900 reports of damaged or fallen trees since Friday afternoon, though it cautioned that some may be duplicates.
New Jersey was particularly hard hit, with floodwaters swamping streets in coastal communities. Videos from the region showed people kayaking through flooded roads.
Brian Kelly, mayor of the small shore borough of Sea Bright, warned that water could reach six feet on some streets and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/storms/norester-storm-flooding-rcna599961">compared</a> the expected flooding to Hurricane Irene, which devastated the region in 2011.
“We do have probably one or two flooding events a year, sometimes more, sometimes less, but I think this one will be closer to an Irene-scale flooding event,” Kelly said. “I hope I’m wrong, but that’s my gut feeling.”
State and local officials had urged residents to prepare for dangerous conditions, with New York Governor Kathy Hochul<a href="https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/2103557628118835707"> declaring</a> a state of emergency for Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York City, and Westchester County. “We’re expecting dangerous coastal flooding, strong winds and potential power outages through the weekend,” Hochul <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/storms/norester-storm-flooding-rcna599961">said</a>. She also issued a blunt warning: “Anyone who goes in or near the water this weekend is literally gambling with their life.”
Mamdani urged New Yorkers to avoid travel, warning that the city would still feel the storm’s effects even as the heaviest rain passed offshore. “The storm is expected to pass offshore, keeping the heaviest rain east of New York City. But we should still prepare for gusty winds, rain, and some high-tide flooding beginning today, peaking Friday, and potentially continuing through Sunday,” he<a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2102943735193432497"> said</a> ahead of the storm.
In New Jersey, Governor Mikie Sherrill<a href="https://x.com/GovSherrillNJ/status/2103904061862940903"> warned</a> Saturday that a temporary break in the weather did not mean the danger had passed. “We may see a lull in some conditions today, but this storm is not over. We’re closely watching tonight’s high tide, so please stay vigilant and continue to follow local guidance.” The storm is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/27/nyregion/noreaster-storm-rain-nyc-boston">expected</a> to linger through Monday, prolonging the threat of flooding along the Northeast coast.

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Powerful Northeast Storm Kills At Least One, Knocks Out Power For 100,000

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My parents chose the best for me.
They chose to send me, a black boy, to a competitive, majority-white and Asian private school. I was challenged with rigorous homework, test routines, and expansive extracurriculars in athletics and the arts. Through my parents’ striving, I got the chance to learn, grow, and succeed – it’s unfathomable that someone would not want this for their child.
Yet the New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones chose almost the worst path for her daughter, as she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html">writes</a> in her essay, “In Fighting For Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?”
Hannah-Jones enrolled her daughter in underperforming, majority-black schools in Brooklyn to prove a political point: her daughter needed to be in the vanguard fighting against the “new segregation.” Activists argue that private and charter schools, which use admittance tests to filter for merit, perpetuate that “segregation” by funneling resources away from bad schools.
In the piece, Hannah-Jones explains her zealous fight for “integration,” which required sending her daughter to some of the worst public schools in New York City. When allowed to transfer to a high-performing school, the child, now a teenager, realized she had significant knowledge gaps compared to most of her white and Asian peers. This challenged Hannah-Jones’s entire worldview and led her to question her parenting ability.
Yet the essay misses the point by ascribing individual failure to the collective, and maintains that systemic inequality is to blame for the underperformance of NYC public schools. “Segregation” continues if there are disparities in educational outcomes: We live in a “system so devastatingly unequal that it puts at odds trying to be a good person with trying to be a good parent.”
Even if we accept Hannah-Jones&#8217;s interpretation of “equity” as a net positive for society, this abstraction has to stop at her child. Reading the author’s ideological self-indulgence at the expense of her child is like watching a sociopath pick the wings off of a fly. When the logical application of equity and community leads a mother to hamstring her daughter’s future, I have to call into question her character.
I believe a parent should do everything possible to make life better for their child. It’s natural to care, in this order, for yourself, your family, and your neighbors. Family life, achievement, and excellence matter more than an overly broad interpretation of community that blames “the system” for an individual’s problems.
My grandfather fled the Jim Crow South for New York to build a better life for himself and my father. He created a successful construction business and raised my father in a stable household, which in turn allowed my father to strive for a better life. Having achieved success, my father raised my siblings and me in Las Vegas, attempting to get us away from the racism he saw on the East Coast. Through generations, my family consistently chose to leave poverty, mediocrity, and apathy behind in favor of personal responsibility, achievement, and excellence.
So, why does Nikole Hannah-Jones’s opinion matter? Because too many well-meaning, usually white, liberals think the solution to racial disparity in educational outcomes is to legislate everyone’s kids, talented or not, rich or not, into underperforming neighborhood schools. Najya, the writer’s daughter, disagrees. “Putting me in this school didn’t change anything. I was not trying to be in this type of environment,” she argues.
No child should be forced to study at an underperforming school, and I’m glad New York’s state government made the right choice this year.
In May 2026, Gov. Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/a-large-democratic-led-state-says-yes-to-trumps-school-choice-program/2026/05">chose</a> to opt New York into the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48724">federal tax credit scholarship program</a>, where individual taxpayers can claim up to $1,700 in federal tax credit for donations to nonprofits that grant scholarships to K-12 students. Eligible families will be those making under 300% of the Area Median Gross Income – for a <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/area-median-income.page">New York City</a> household of three, that amounts to under $458,100.
Starting January 1, 2027, most families living in New York will be eligible for school vouchers to send their children to top-rated private schools, or they can use the funds for tutoring, technology, uniforms, and other needs at any schools they prefer.
Hannah-Jones would see all students suffer in the name of equality, while this new policy aims to uplift students of all backgrounds to the same high standard.
However, the fight is not over. Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-gifted-talented-kindergarten-d3480515?pos=1&amp;page=1">ending gifted and talented programs</a> in NYC public schools, part of his fight for education “equity.” In the meantime, families across New York and America should take advantage of the new federal tax credit scholarship program.
To those who agree with Nikole Hannah-Jones and the mayor: black people are not victims, and we are not a collective that bends to the whims and wishes of teachers’ unions and public-school administrators. We need to choose excellence, as my family did, and give every kid the chance to learn, grow, and become victors.
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Alexander Norton III is the Dissident Project Program Manager at Young Voices, a nonprofit talent agency for classical liberal writers, commentators, and creators.

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Every September, New York City is overrun by Climate Week. That’s when self-appointed elites — professional activists, fearmongering politicians, woke corporate executives, and billionaire foundations — gather to demand more expensive ways to remake America’s energy system and lecture ordinary Americans about sacrifice. 

New Yorkers know about sacrifice. They’re struggling with some of the nation’s highest electricity prices. In May, New York’s residential electricity rate was <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/us-news/new-yorkers-pay-3rd-highest-electricity-costs-in-us-trailing-only-hawaii-and-california/">29.93 cents per kilowatt-hour</a>, third-highest in the country and 62% above the national average. Ordinary New Yorkers get stuck with the bill, not that green politicians would know or care.
During this summer’s heat wave, only <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/over-half-of-nyc-residents-say-electric-bills-are-shockingly-high-as-heatwave-scorches-city-poll/">47% of city residents said they could comfortably afford to run air conditioning</a>. More than half limited its use to avoid high electric bills or didn’t have air conditioning at all.
Yet New York’s Climate Week will feature the people pushing renewable mandates, fossil-fuel restrictions, electrification schemes, and carbon-pricing plans that drive up the cost of power, transportation, heating, food, and just about everything else Americans buy.
Now, with the midterm elections approaching, Democrats have suddenly discovered “affordability.” They speak sympathetically about families squeezed by grocery bills, rent, insurance, and utility costs. Then they gather to applaud policies expressly intended to raise energy prices.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a featured Climate Week speaker, has said American families face higher insurance premiums, higher electricity bills, and higher grocery bills. This is rich coming from the Senator who fiercely advocates carbon pricing. Whitehouse has argued there is no “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/time-to-wake-up-295-cop29-and-the-global-economic-consequences-of-climate-change/">pathway to climate safety without a price on carbon</a>.” Whitehouse even quoted economist William Nordhaus approvingly. Carbon pricing, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/time-to-wake-up-the-costs-dont-lie/">he said</a>, creates “market prices” that “raise the price of goods and services that are carbon intensive.”
So much for the affordability message. In truth, the climate grifters would rather make energy expensive than abandon their climate fantasies.
New York shows exactly where this leads. Its officials caved to green activists and shuttered the Indian Point nuclear plant in phases between 2020 and 2021. By 2022, the price of power had shot up a staggering <a href="https://freopp.org/whitepapers/autopsy-of-a-perfect-policy-failure-the-closure-of-indian-point/">83.77%, to $45.39 per megawatt-hour</a>.
Facing reelection and soaring electricity prices, New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul has suddenly discovered nuclear power. She now says New York needs more of it and is pursuing what would be the state’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/us-news/ny-to-get-first-new-nuclear-power-plant-since-1988/">first new nuclear facility since 1988</a>.
Fine. Nuclear power is real electricity, available around the clock, regardless of wind speeds and sunshine. But Hochul’s turn to nuclear rings hollow while she <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/despite-trump-push-new-york-opposes-reopening-indian-point-nuclear-power-plant-2026-03-10/">opposes reopening Indian Point</a>.
Indian Point wasn’t the only self-inflicted wound by state officials. They spent years blocking additional natural-gas pipeline capacity to appease environmental extremists.
The bill is now coming due. Con Edison customers in New York City and Westchester face cumulative <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/new-yorkers-get-zapped-with-10-4-con-edison-rate-hike-over-3-years/">increases</a> of 10.4% on electricity bills and 15.8% on gas bills through 2028. For a typical city home, that means roughly $615 more per year for gas and electricity by 2028. New York politicians didn’t have to make electricity unaffordable before admitting the state needs nuclear power.
Albany’s “solution” is to take more money from ratepayers, then call it “relief” when it hands some of it back. The state has committed <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/us-news/new-york-announces-date-for-up-to-200-electricity-bill-rebate-checks/">$1 billion</a> for electricity-bill rebates and expanded a program offering some households up to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/us-news/hochul-touts-up-to-500-discounts-for-ny-utility-bills-as-blakeman-blasts-savings-as-peanuts/">$500 a year</a> in utility assistance. Maybe that buys a family a little breathing room. But only for a while. What it does not do is lower the cost of energy. But it does provide political cover for the damage wreaked by Albany’s own energy policies.
Climate Week’s green elites will applaud the policies that produced this mess. They will demand more mandates, more subsidies, more restrictions, and higher energy prices.
Working families are left to pay for it.
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Steve Milloy is a senior fellow at the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute and former Trump EPA transition team member.

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will spend the final weeks before the midterms building credibility with New York Democrats, a move that could help her lay the groundwork for a U.S. Senate run in 2028. 
Ocasio-Cortez plans to dish out $300,000 to Democrats throughout the state and plans to travel “across the state to boost turnout in many different areas.” The funds will go toward a group run by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul to conduct voter organization activities, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-donation-midterms.html">reported</a>. 
“This investment is really not just about throwing money around and putting points on the board,” she told The Times. “This is actually about transforming the way Democrats go about building a coalition.”
Ocasio-Cortez stipulated that half of the money will be designated toward Spanish-speaking voters. In addition to the spending, Ocasio-Cortez will travel to Buffalo, Syracuse, and Ithaca in support of Democrat candidates. 
“I’m more than happy to go wherever I’m needed,” she said. 
The New York representative&#8217;s efforts to back the state party could signal an effort to strengthen ties with statewide Democrats ahead of a 2028 Senate run. It has long been <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/19/aoc-2028-democrats-president-senate">reported</a> that she has been considering challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) when his current term ends. 
In the past, Ocasio-Cortez has openly criticized party leadership in New York. After Democrat losses in 2022, she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/nyregion/aoc-democrats-ny.html">said</a> that the party was “based on big money and old-school, calcified machine-style politics that creates a very anemic voting base that is disengaged and disenfranchised.”
This election cycle, she sees races across New York as paramount to “whether we have a majority or not in the House of Representatives.”
Races across New York could determine the next party to control the House as Republicans face political headwinds across the country. Both parties are pouring resources into defending their current seats and targeting potential flips. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) faces a competitive challenge from Democrat Cait Conley while Republicans are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-make-play-for-house-seat-democrats-cant-afford-to-lose">attempting</a> to pick up a seat in Long Island. 
Ocasio-Cortez said she would be considering her next path after the midterms as she has also been floated as a possible 2028 presidential contender. 
“I’ve been pretty open about the fact that I’m going to be weighing this decision, but I’m going to be weighing it after the midterm elections,” she said.

The 25th Anniversary Of The September 11th Attacks

AOC Hints At Possible 2028 Run, But Not For President

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First, a few questions: Are you a single white woman in America in 2026? Is the only correct take on Lindsay Clancy the one you have adopted after scouring TikTok like the world’s greatest true-crime detective? Do you own one or more items of “Hot Girls For Zohran” flair?
Then this message is for you: This pumpkin spice season, don’t miss out on the must-have accessory of the season — your new jihad-adjacent boyfriend. He’s intense, he’s problematic, and his opinions on 9/11 are sure to anger all the relatives you hate the most over the holidays.
Kathy Hochul showed the way when she rocked that hijab in exchange for a group of very important Muslim men having to suffer the rare experience of listening to a woman talk. It’s a natural progression – you go from hashtagging for Gaza to embracing this inventive new idea called socialism to realizing that sure, Luigi murdered a guy, but have you noticed he’s hot?
The speediest path to Karen-izing Islam in the West is personalizing the narrative, and you have the power to do it. And trust me, the internal satisfaction of this accessory boyfriend will be immense. It comes when you post your orchard-infused Uggs-resurgence Instagram story about taking him apple picking for the first time. (For the record, you’ll be doing all the picking). It comes when you tell your mother no, it’s not that you don’t like Leinenkugel’s anymore; it’s just that it’s haram. It comes when your uncle storms out of Thanksgiving muttering about Ann Coulter (who?) and turning the Middle East into a “sheet of glass,” whatever that means. Probably something racist. Come on. It’s twenty-five years after 9/11, and it’s time people just grow up and let it go.
The best part about this move isn’t just that you’re trendsetting; it’s the emotional rush of getting ahead of where everything is going and gaining the moral authority to pass judgment on all of it. Let the weirdo right-wingers eat each other on X arguing about the cost of burritos and welfare for tradwives and the Latin Mass. You’re staking out ground that will infuse the next iteration of America’s human resources departments as part of a new protected class. And what’s the personal cost for you? Some hijab-prompted dermatitis? Big deal, your hair was shedding from the SSRIs anyway.
Some of your best friends will judge you, but that’s how you know this is so right. Someone posted a beautiful quote you saw the other day – it was from a French author; you haven’t read the book, but it’s a good summary: “the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.” Don’t you have the right to be happy? They’re just jealous they don’t have a man who believes in anything beyond prediction markets and Patagonia.
So this decorative gourd season, don’t just run things back with all the tired old tropes you embraced the past few years. Head up to a rally in Michigan. Be the first in your friend group to get that new must-have accessory. Sure, sometimes he can seem a little bossy. But what’s the worst that can happen?

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The Hottest Pumpkin Spice Accessory Is Your New Jihadi Boyfriend

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In a bizarre joint <a href="https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2089768108898541784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advertisement</a> for Liquid Death and Garage Beer, Super Bowl champ Jason Kelce calls on viewers to send their urine to data centers.
&#8220;AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,&#8221; he claims, and so &#8220;we want your pee to cool these data centers.&#8221; Liquid Death&#8217;s vice president of creative <a href="https://www.marketingdive.com/news/liquid-death-and-garage-beer-take-on-ai-data-centers-with-pee/827879/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that the sentiment is &#8220;literally the one thing that unites all Americans right now, across the spectrum.&#8221;
As a web developer, most of what I build runs on Amazon Web Services, which means data centers in Northern Virginia and Ohio. Every request that reaches our servers lands in one of those buildings. So does almost everything else people use without thinking about it, from email and banking to every app on a phone.
But I find myself increasingly alone in my position. Public opposition to artificial intelligence and the infrastructure needed to support it has crescendoed in recent months, and politicians are following suit. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/GovernorShapiro/status/2089780762815992002" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an order</a> &#8220;implementing the strictest standards in the nation for AI data centers,&#8221; while New York Governor Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers.
Nor is this attitude limited to the Left. Florida Congressman Byron Donalds is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaNx2ecy62j/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running ads</a> as part of his gubernatorial campaign promising to protect families from data centers that &#8220;jack up utility rates and make everything else more expensive.&#8221;
The trouble with this backlash is that the evidence doesn&#8217;t support it.
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Anti-data center arguments rest on three fears: that data-center buildouts are raising electricity bills for the Average Joe, that the infrastructure is consuming all of the drinking water and drying up rivers, and that the adoption of AI will ravage the job market. Under scrutiny, none of those hold up.
Consider the claim, voiced on both the Left and the Right, that data-center construction is raising everyone&#8217;s electricity bills. It’s true that rates are rising. But Manhattan Institute scholars Shawn Regan and Ken Girardin have <a href="https://cityjournal.substack.com/p/data-centers-arent-raising-your-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown</a> that the real driver is regulation, since the sharpest increases came in states whose policies made producing and delivering electricity <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/energy-electricity-prices-utilities-government-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more expensive</a>.
Data centers aren&#8217;t the culprit. In fact, a <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.19777" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white paper</a> by researchers at the <a href="https://www.epri.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electric Power Research Institute</a> and <a href="https://watershed.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watershed</a> found the reverse. From 2015 to 2024, per-unit electricity costs fell as demand rose. Accounting for where developers choose to build, the authors estimate the average American lives in a state where data-center capacity grew 160% since 2019, leaving residential rates roughly 6% lower than they otherwise would be.
This is economies of scale at work. Transmission and distribution are natural monopolies carrying enormous fixed costs, spread across everything the system sells. A large, steady load absorbs a substantial share of them, and everyone&#8217;s average rate falls.
The water panic is just as unfounded. Data centers draw around 450 million gallons of water a day, <a href="https://www.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&amp;club_id=859275&amp;item_id=130961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Florida Water &amp; Pollution Control Operators Association. That&#8217;s roughly 0.3 to 0.4 percent of national water withdrawals. Golf course irrigation, meanwhile, uses an estimated <a href="https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2 billion gallons of water a day</a>.
As for jobs, technological innovation has historically created jobs in the long run while displacing them in the short term. In the early 1800s, handloom weavers smashed the new power looms. Wages cratered and many were displaced. Then textile manufacturing became Britain&#8217;s largest industry, employing more people than the cottage system ever had. Computing created more jobs than the typing pools it eliminated.
De-industrialist populism has set American innovation back before, with nuclear power in the late 1970s and 1980s and then with fracking. Both panics restricted the construction these energy sources required, and both set back environmentalism itself. Nuclear is <a href="https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among the cleanest sources</a> of energy there is, and natural gas has <a href="https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/fracking-can-play-an-important-role-in-lowering-energy-costs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowered</a> utility bills while displacing coal.
Ironically, a majority of Americans now say they <a href="https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2089817513614004502" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would prefer</a> a nuclear plant near their homes to a data center.
These neo-Luddites won&#8217;t lower a single utility bill, won&#8217;t return a gallon of water and won&#8217;t save a job. They&#8217;ll move the construction, the tax base and the computing to whoever will take them. Right now that&#8217;s China. Compute is the input to everything AI does, and a country that stops building it ends up renting it from one that didn&#8217;t, on terms set by a government that answers to nobody here. These decisions compound, because a moratorium relocates a buildout permanently and the supply chain and expertise follow the construction.
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Matias Ahrensdorf is a web developer at the Manhattan Institute.

Demonstrators Against Data Centers On National Day Of Protest

AI Nihilism Won’t Save The Water Or Create Jobs. But It Will Empower China.

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An Iranian dissident unleashed a blistering broadside at New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday, blasting the Democratic leader for “cosplaying” in a hijab to pander for votes while women in her homeland are tortured and killed over the exact same headscarf.
The fiery backlash erupted after Hochul donned religious headwear during a Friday visit to a mosque, which drew fire from President Donald Trump.
“Kathy Hochul, considered the Worst Governor in the Country, in a recent picture working hard to get the Arab Vote, even though they can’t stand her!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117197726086943631">wrote</a>. “Congestion Pricing in Manhattan is hurting her with everybody, but especially the people for whom she wears the hijab. The whole thing is CRAZY!”
Hochul clapped back on X, trying to claim the high road.
“I was a guest in a Muslim house of worship and showed respect for the people who welcomed me,” the governor wrote. “I’ll never apologize for treating people of any faith with dignity, no matter how Islamophobic you and your enablers are.”
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I was a guest in a Muslim house of worship and showed respect for the people who welcomed me.
That used to be standard in this country before you came along.
I’ll never apologize for treating people of any faith with dignity, no matter how Islamophobic you and your enablers… <a href="https://t.co/WMMBfnPVj4">https://t.co/WMMBfnPVj4</a>
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That’s when a former Iranian refugee who escaped Tehran’s brutal theocracy in 2019 stepped in to torpedo the governor&#8217;s self-righteous posturing.
“Miss Governor, Women in Iran and across Muslim communities get beaten and murdered for refusing the hijab,” Sana Ebrahimi Ledene shot back on X. “I was kicked out of school, multiple times, for ‘improper hijab.’ That was my life.”
“So am I an Islamophobe for saying ‘f*ck you’ when you cosplay as a champion of women’s rights while wrapping yourself in the same symbol that was used to police, punish, and erase me and millions of women around the world just to court Muslim votes? No. I’m not,” she raged. “F*CK YOU.”
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Miss Governor,
Women in Iran and across Muslim communities get beaten and murdered for refusing the hijab. I was kicked out of school, multiple times, for &quot;improper hijab.&quot; That was my life.
So am I an Islamophobe for saying &quot;fuck you&quot; when you cosplay as a champion of women’s… <a href="https://t.co/YXog8OPqEO">https://t.co/YXog8OPqEO</a>
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The explosive response highlights the deadly reality Iranian women face every day under Tehran’s blood-soaked regime.
In June 2026, a court in Qom <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iranian-regime-whips-female-singer-for-youtube-concert-as-mullahs-execute-protesters">sentenced</a> 28-year-old Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes, a travel ban, and a ban on performing because she livestreamed a concert from a historic site without wearing a hijab. Eight of her crew members were also convicted for “offending public decency.”
Ahmadi&#8217;s brutal sentence came alongside a terrifying state-sponsored killing spree, with at least 22 political prisoners executed over a six-week span. Dissident Masih Alinejad ripped into the violence, declaring, “A woman’s voice scared them more than any superpower ever could. This is not a normal government. This is apartheid against women.”
The regime’s infamous violence burst onto the global stage in September 2022 following the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody after being snatched by morality police for an &#8220;improper&#8221; hijab.
Her death sparked a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-revolution-now-iran-regime-murdering-scores-of-protesters-reports-say">full-blown revolution</a> across Iran. Braving tear gas, batons, and live rounds from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, young women tore off their hijabs and burned them in the streets, chanting “Woman, life, freedom” as blood ran through university grounds.
Yet while courageous women in Iran risk their lives to tear the headscarf off, New York&#8217;s governor is happily wrapping herself in one to win over the Muslim political bloc.

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From Billie Eilish at the Grammy Awards to Code Pink activists in the Halls of Congress, “ICE OUT NOW” has been the slogan du jour for lefties parroting the party talking point for the last year and a half since Donald Trump took office and decided to actually enforce the laws of our land passed by Congress. The Left has treated that chant like a moral commandment.
Never mind the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement is simply enforcing the rule of law. What’s richer is that the reason ICE is surging in these jurisdictions in the first place is because of Democrats’ “sanctuary” policies.
Take a look at New York, where the Trump administration has just surged immigration enforcement officers under Operation Rotten Apple. The Department of Homeland Security says that in the past month alone it has arrested 2,100 illegal aliens with criminal records in Gotham — ranging from killers and child predators to kidnappers and narcotics smugglers.
So where were New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul?
Busy creating the problem. Their policies are the very reason ICE has needed a large presence in New York at all.
In states like Florida, you’ll find a smaller presence of ICE law enforcement. Why? Because most jurisdictions in Florida not only cooperate with ICE, but they will honor detainers. That means if a local cop picks someone up who is here illegally, they call ICE, and they can coordinate transfer after the alien has served their time. That means fewer criminals on the loose and less need for a federal surge of ICE officers.
New York politicians did the opposite. One of Zohran Mamdani’s first acts as mayor was to sign an executive order reinforcing sanctuary policies and choking off any New York City law enforcement from working with ICE to apprehend and keep illegal aliens in custody. Mr. Mamdani went a step further by signing a law that banned ICE from operating at any of New York’s 19 correctional facilities. Then he wondered why federal agents showed up in force.
How absurd.
A reasonable person would assume New York’s leaders would be thrilled that over 2,000 criminals were removed from their communities, right?
Not this mayor. Yesterday, Mamdani accused ICE of “terrorizing immigrants” and “criminalizing the very act of being an immigrant.”
That only works if you hide the rap sheets. He is hoping we will collectively forget these people also broke our nation’s immigration laws.
He also said that if someone committed serious crimes, the city “would be in contact with the federal administration” about it. He must not have bothered to look at the criminal records of those arrested and taken off his streets.
Among the criminals ICE arrested as part of Operation Rotten Apple is Bogdan Detrovich Gren, a Ukrainian national in the U.S. illegally with convictions for murder, kidnapping, abduction resulting in death, among other crimes.
Also taken into custody were Palvinder Singh, an illegal migrant from India who was convicted of rape in Germany, and Carlos Mendez-Acosta, a Venezuelan migrant convicted of rape, according to the feds.
Andreas Bernal Chiquito is an illegal migrant from Colombia who has past arrests for sexual conduct against a child and injuring a child under age 17.
The Department of Homeland Security says the call from New York officials about those with “serious crimes” never came.
What Hochul and Mamdani did do was take $7.25 million in taxpayer dollars and announce they would pay the legal expenses for unaccompanied minors.
And that’s the tell. They will stage the press conference. They will pay the lawyers. They will chant “ICE out now” as if immigration enforcement is not as old as our country itself. What they will not do is honor a detainer, hold a convicted rapist in jail, or admit that sanctuary policy put those men back on the street.
Elections have consequences. Nowhere is that clearer than immigration. Democrat politicians spent years daring Washington to enforce the law. Trump did. Now they want the law enforcement gone — and the criminals left behind.
If Mamdani and Hochul want fewer ICE officers in New York, there is a simple solution: stop releasing the criminals ICE is trying to remove.
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Tricia McLaughlin served as the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. Follow her on X: @TriciaOhio

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Progressives are once again peddling their novel, ingenious, groundbreaking idea: the wealth tax. Taxing wealthy individuals based on their net worth. Love it.
Except, of course, it isn&#8217;t novel, ingenious, or groundbreaking. It&#8217;s moronic, and it&#8217;s been tried and failed over and over again for centuries.
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Those with less have been trying to steal from those with more for as long as governments have existed, and the inane ideas of the far-left are just the newest variation of this. Angie Nixon, a socialist running for U.S. Senate in Florida, wants a &#8220;federal asset registry&#8221; to impose a 5% annual wealth tax on everything you own, starting with billionaires. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is pushing a 7–8% annual wealth tax on the rich. California&#8217;s Billionaire Tax Act proposes a 5% tax on billionaires&#8217; net worth. And the decrepit Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have been screaming about a wealth tax longer than I&#8217;ve been alive. No doubt they&#8217;ll keep screeching this song from the grave.
Set aside the morally abhorrent implications of this; the idea, after all, is stealing from those who have prospered so that government can manhandle their property as they please under the false pretenses of “EQUALITY.” The economics are just as damning.
Let’s look at a few examples.
In 1662, the Crown, under Charles II, was short of cash, so Parliament came up with the bright idea to tax hearths and chimneys. Two shillings a year for each one, on the theory that rich people had more of them. It failed. Homeowners simply bricked up their fireplaces before the &#8220;chimney-man&#8221; could count them. And the result? Less heat, brutal winters, worse indoor smoke, and more house fires.
In 1696, under King William III, the window tax was introduced. The idea was that opulent folk tend to have more windows; ergo, charge them a pretty penny for the sunlight. Englishmen boarded up their windows to dodge it, which produced stuffy ventilation, spread disease, and resulted in vitamin D deficiencies that stunted growth in entire generations. You might be a short king because a man with a ledger taxed heaven&#8217;s rays.
In the 1990s, Congress slapped a 10% tax on new boats over $100,000 to “soak the rich.” Turns out the middle and lower classes were the only ones in the splash zone, because the boat boys just stopped ordering new boats, bought used ones, or bought abroad. Booyah. Some 19,000 boatbuilding jobs were lost, yards ran dry, and the tax raised almost nothing. Progressivism once again, looking regressive in hindsight.
Bernie Sanders was alive for pretty much all of this history, so why does he continue to push a wealth tax that resembles these failed schemes?
Potentially because he has never held a real job a single day in his very long life, so he has legitimately no concept of how money works because he’s leeched off the ass of public society for his entire career and pays the mortgage on his three homes with our taxpayer dollars. Or, more simply, because envy is the engine that drives him.
The 5% annual billionaire tax he’s proposing stems directly from his coveting of what the ultra-rich have created for themselves. But even if the government completely liquidated and confiscated 100% of every U.S. billionaire&#8217;s assets, it would barely fund the government for a single year. America’s billionaires hold a combined net worth of about $8.42 trillion, while the U.S. government spends about $7.4 trillion annually. So the reality is that seizing every single penny from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and every other U.S. Billionaire Bob would only keep the federal government running for maybe 12 months. Bring in the middle class!
The octogenarian’s billionaire tax would quickly creep onto the rest of us, just like the federal income tax did. It was first permanently established in 1913, sold to the public as a tax only on the ultra-wealthy, featuring a top tax rate of just 7% on the highest earners. A century later, the middle class — whom the Democratic Party has long ceased working for — bears a continuous, heavy share of that tax burden, handing over almost one-third of their income every year.
This is my very long way of saying that he should delete his X account, shut up, and retire.
Newsom’s similar wealth tax has dozens of California tech billionaires making plans to <a href="https://x.com/RichSementa/status/2094763335413543314">exit</a> the state, presumably taking their companies, careers, and cash troughs with them. The ones who stay can simply move money out of equities and into real estate, which happens to be exempt. But less money flowing through the stock and bond markets leads to less innovation, less progress, and an overall dampening of societal and economic growth. Those mRNA cancer vaccines set to reach markets as soon as next year? Well, those aren’t possible without an overabundance of capital willing to absorb years of trial and error. I’m not saying the Left is prolonging cancer, but I’m not not saying it.
On the Eastern side of the country, New Yorkers aren’t boarding up their chimneys yet, but they are building stubbier buildings. Their hijab-donning, Handmaid&#8217;s Tale-loving feminist governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a program that mandates developers pay construction workers a ridiculously <a href="https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-international/2025/11/13/7EQXDXXZ3VENPBQSZK6NGJYDGM/">high</a> wage if they are working on a building that has 100 or more units. Hence why developers are capping their blueprints at exactly 99 floors to dodge the wage hike. Fewer skyscrapers, less efficient use of space, fewer apartments, less happy New Yorkers.
New York’s terror-sympathizing, joker-looking, smarmball mayor (as we call him) is trying his own version of this stupidity, in trying to tax both second homes over $1 million and more broadly “the rich,” though his 9.5% city-wide property tax hike failed already due to reality hitting everyone in the face.
The pied-à-terre tax is in effect, and the surcharge doesn’t just apply to the global elite&#8217;s second penthouse. It applies to condos and co-ops valued at more than $1 million, and family homes valued at more than $4 million. Any unit without a full-time resident gets hit, which is precisely the pool of owners that pencil out new construction in the first place. Kill the demand at the top of the tower and the tower never breaks ground. It’s quite apparent that his degree in Africana studies did not adequately prepare him for the inner workings of Economics 101.
The rich are already being taxed. The top 10% of earners in this country already pay over 70% of the federal income tax revenue, and the bottom 50% pay just 3.3%. Even they don’t have enough money to pay for the unending supply of free promises and wishful thinking being spouted off by the Left ad nauseam. Their harebrained money-grabbing schemes will fall squarely on the shoulders of the working class, who will have gained nothing and lost their freedoms and their private property in the bargain.
The alternative is taking a chainsaw to regulations, slashing taxes, and driving economic growth and innovation, which will lead to unbounded prosperity and a rising economic tide for everyone.
Tax Elon Musk into oblivion and you get less investment in self-driving cars, satellite internet for people who&#8217;ve never had it, and research into restoring sight to the blind. Tax Larry Page and Sergey Brin dry and you get a dumber phone: worse search, worse Maps, no cheap Android for half the planet. Tax Jensen Huang until Nvidia can&#8217;t fund R&amp;D, and you get fewer chips like the ones training the cancer models that could save grandma&#8217;s life.
The jealousy of the socialists is going to rupture the genius, innovation, and groundbreaking success our trailblazers see every day that benefit the entire world.
It would behoove us not to listen to them and send a few of them packing to the nursing home.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly conducted raids across New York dubbed &#8220;Operation Rotten Apple&#8221; that yielded the arrests of more than 2,100 illegal immigrant criminals.
Among those arrested were murderers, kidnappers, rapists, robbers, burglars, child predators, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals released onto the streets by sanctuary authorities, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced during a press conference on Tuesday. The raids took place between July 27 and August 29 and targeted more than 13,000 criminal illegal immigrants who were released from local jails despite having ICE detainers lodged against them.
&#8220;Operation Rotten Apple was an operation we decided to take on because you have a very liberal slash socialist mayor here in New York City that instead of working with law enforcement tries to cut NYPD&#8217;s budget by $22 million and refuses to work with federal law enforcement. You have a governor that refuses to work with us,&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;These are your rapists, your murderers, your child predators, these are gangbangers, these are terrorists. 13,000 individuals that the state of New York had locked up and we said &#8216;Hey, they&#8217;re in this country illegally,&#8217; &#8230; We targeted those 13,000. That&#8217;s where we got those 2,100 and we&#8217;re not done, we&#8217;re still moving forward,&#8221; Mullin said.
During Tuesday&#8217;s announcement, Mullin took swipes at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for adopting the sanctuary policies that forced ICE to take to the streets.
&#8220;These individuals should&#8217;ve never been on our streets, but while the radical left sanctuary states protect illegals, underneath Trump&#8217;s administration and the Department of Homeland Security, ICE officers &#8230; are out there every day protecting Americans. Let&#8217;s not forget earlier this summer when the mayor of New York City, the socialist Mamdani, said he believes that ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and they do nothing to serve to protect the interests of the public safety,&#8221; Mullin said.
&#8220;You want to tell me that these individuals here that was arrested off your streets mayor, that&#8217;s in the interest of public safety,&#8221; Mullin said, adding that Mamdani is &#8220;extremely out of touch&#8221; when it comes to public safety and the wants of the American people.
He went on to criticize Hochul for recently <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-governor-hochul-announces-local-cops-local-crimes-provision-banning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning</a> local police from entering into agreements to work with ICE.
&#8220;Recently, your liberal governor of the great state of New York &#8230; got behind a podium that read &#8216;Keeping New Yorkers Safe.&#8217; At the same time, she&#8217;s announcing that she&#8217;s ending 287g agreements and banned individuals in New York from working with us,&#8221; Mullin said.
Mullin listed several of the criminal illegal immigrants ICE nabbed during the operation, which included an Indian man wanted in Germany for rape who was released into the country during the Biden administration. ICE also arrested a Ukrainian murderer, a Colombian national arrested for sexually assaulting a child, and a Dominican heroin trafficker.
Ken Genalo, field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City, called the operation &#8220;deliberate,&#8221; &#8220;precise,&#8221; and &#8220;effective.&#8221;
&#8220;These are not the people New York&#8217;s sanctuary policies should be protecting from federal immigration enforcement,&#8221; Genalo said.
The officers who took part in the raids faced harassment from outside agitators as they worked to arrest the illegal immigrant targets, Genalo said, adding that his agents remain undeterred.
&#8220;While our officers were removing public safety threats from the New York streets, they were also being harassed, threatened, targeted, and terrorized,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And when elected officials excuse, minimize, or even celebrate the behavior as they did in this case, they place a target on the back of the officers who are doing their jobs. ICE officers will not be intimidated by political rhetoric, sanctuary policies, or street-level threats.&#8221;

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We are approaching 25 years after 9/11, and New York is now led by people who would have sided with the terrorists.
The mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, thinks the real victims of 9/11 were his auntie, who had to experience “evil American Islamophobia,” and also millions of Muslims globally, who are the true victims of American foreign policy.
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, is a suicidally empathetic white lady who dons a hijab in honor of Islam.
This is apparently New York&#8217;s electorate now: radical Muslims and the leftists who support them.
It&#8217;s amazing to think that an entire generation of humans was not born when 9/11 happened. In the forgetfulness of the tragedy, people tend to imbibe from the well of stupidity and suicidal ideation.
Case in point: Kathy Hochul.
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Over the weekend, she brought dance back to New York City with Kevin Bacon. She has been tasked with removing regulations in New York that apparently banned dancing, and she brought Kevin Bacon along to explain how. After he chortled, “Let’s dance,” he began to dance while Hochul explained, “We couldn&#8217;t afford the rights to the original Footloose music, so whatever.”
They couldn&#8217;t afford the rights to the original Footloose music because New York is essentially bankrupt.
Why do I bring up Kathy Hochul and dancing? Because Kathy Hochul has posed as a hardcore feminist. She&#8217;s standing for the ladies. She&#8217;s standing against the patriarchy that would strip women of their rights.
You may recall that she gave a speech in Albany in 2021 in which she talked about how we need to get abortion bans off of women&#8217;s bodies. Women&#8217;s bodies needed to be free. This can&#8217;t be &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale.&#8221;
She said, “I just got in from Seneca Falls. Why did I go to Seneca Falls? Well, first of all, their rally was before yours. Okay, so that&#8217;s nothing personal here. I went there because I needed to channel the spirit of those brave, audacious women who, 173 years ago, demanded the rights to control their own bodies. They were tired of being the property of men. They stood up, they fought. And many of them did not live long enough to see the rights that they believed in and fought for in Seneca Falls at that gathering. But we are all beneficiaries of that because they had courage and stood up.”
Why is this relevant? Because Hochul was attending a mosque on Friday and decided to show up wearing a hijab.
There are many religious places all over planet Earth where women cover their hair out of respect. That is not the same thing as full-on putting on the garb.
We&#8217;ve talked about this before because a bunch of Democratic politicians have been doing this. AOC did this. She full-on donned the hijab. That is different from Nancy Pelosi when she visited Syria, putting a scarf over her hair, or women who decide to cover their hair when they go into Saint Peter&#8217;s Basilica, or to the Western Wall.
When you decide to full-on don the garb that, in the vast majority of planet Earth, is mandatory for Muslim women and whose rejection is punishable by law, you are making a statement.
There&#8217;s a reason the hijab is banned in France. Hijab, globally speaking, is typically a form of compulsion on women.
The fact that the governor of New York is not just covering her hair out of respect but full-on donning the garb says something. It is taking a position now espoused by an enormous percentage of Democratic governance and leadership.
And that position is that they are going to submit to the rules.
This is different from somebody putting a doily on their head when they go into a Catholic Mass or somebody going to a synagogue and putting on a yarmulke.
(By the way, I&#8217;m just telling all politicians: as an Orthodox Jew, you don&#8217;t have to put on a yarmulke to walk into a synagogue. The only people who ask you to do that are Reform Jews, who typically don&#8217;t wear a yarmulke in the first place. People like me who wear it full time would not ask you to do so.)
What’s happening here is all part and parcel of a willingness on the Left to not only gloss over Islam, but also to submit to it and to start repeating all the talking points of it.
This has become not just a New York issue; it is a globalized issue. Canada&#8217;s CBC News, for example, initially decided to cover 9/11 by not calling it a terrorist attack. After significant backlash, CBC attempted to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/29/media/cbc-releases-policy-change-after-controversy-about-refusing-to-refer-to-9-11-as-terrorist-attacks/">backtrack</a> from the controversy.
This is what the West has done to itself: decide that it is guilty and that the West deserves what happened to it. People have to be imported en masse because the West is guilty.
Nate Friedman, the video journalist, went to New York and the East Village – a heavily Muslim part of New York City. Things got awkward because it turns out that streets have been taken over by Islamic prayer, and some of those people are leaving bikes in the streets without getting parking tickets. Apparently, some police officers in the traffic department there barely speak English and are essentially allowing people to get away with violations of the law.
Friedman asked one of the Muslim men in this area about sharia law. The key to the clip was not the Muslim man who wants sharia law in New York City; the key was the white lady who yelled at Nate Friedman for asking the question as she walked by.
Eighty-four percent of women aged 18-29 in New York City voted for Zohran Mamdani — 84%.
They released videos from the night of Mamdani’s victory, cheering sharia law, which none of them would want to abide by. Sharia law is not in favor of literally anything these women want to do.
We&#8217;ve seen shades of this in other countries. In 1979, a bunch of feminists protested against the Shah and ended up bringing Ayatollah Khomeini onto themselves.
Why are American women — in blue areas in particular — buying into all of this? 
 First, many of these women have been taught that tolerance is the greatest virtue, perhaps the only virtue. If you are ”intolerant” by noticing cultural differences and pointing out that Islam on a global scale is a repressive force, “That is a form of intolerance, so go f*** yourself.”
Second, they’ve been taught that their civilization is uniquely intolerant, which means sexist and terrible and evil and horrible. They will protest the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in Handmaid&#8217;s Tale outfits.
 Yet they will don the uniform of female repression across planet Earth in New York City in order to fight American intolerance. Why?
They&#8217;re using politics as a substitute for family and community, which is why they&#8217;re voting the way that they are. It provides a sense of communal solidarity. The great irony of young leftist feminists shouting for sharia law is astonishing.
This is how you end up with a New York City that is being dominated by people who believe that America is inherently evil and terrible, with people who sympathize with the ideological belief system of the people who murdered 3,000 people on 9/11.
I&#8217;m saying that advisedly, because Mamdani literally does. On September 11, 2023, not 20 years ago, but only three years ago, he tweeted, “Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11. 22 years later, the death hasn&#8217;t stopped. We mourn our neighbors who died that day, the hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed, the unknown, millions injured and displaced in their memory. In their memory, we work toward a better world.”
Did you know that 3,000 New Yorkers died spontaneously? They were simply walking around in the streets and BAM! They all had heart attacks. They spontaneously combusted. In the words of Ilhan Omar, “Some people did something.”
These people can&#8217;t acknowledge what radical Islam did, and can’t acknowledge what terrorism did. It wasn&#8217;t terrorism; the real tragedy, according to Mamdani, was the hundreds of thousands of Muslims victimized by America.
Notice what Mamdani was doing in that tweet. 1) He&#8217;s pretending that people spontaneously combusted. There was no Islamic terror attack on 9/11; it was all in our imagination. 2) The real tragedy was not the 3,000 people murdered. It was the hundreds of thousands and millions of people who were harmed by the United States. The United States is the bad guy.
This is what he truly believes. And this piece of dreck is the mayor of New York City.
Always and forever for these people, the West is responsible for the sins of Islam. The West brings it upon itself. 
This is the prevailing view among people like Abdul El-Sayed, Hasan Piker, Mamdani, and a Democratic Party that has decided it must fellow-travel with these people and agree with them.
Meanwhile, the West continues to import these people.
Their goal is to use the West&#8217;s freedoms against itself.

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New York’s self-proclaimed feminist governor, Kathy Hochul, set off a social media firestorm after strapping on a black hijab to address a crowd at an Islamic center last Friday.
Video showed Hochul in a hijab while addressing Muslim religious and community leaders in New York as the nation prepares for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks carried out by radical Muslims.
The pandering didn’t go unnoticed. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) blasted the Democratic governor, exposing the Left’s favorite cultural wedge issue.
“Democrats: ‘Sexist Republicans are turning America into the Handmaid’s Tale!’ Also Democrats:” Gill posted on X, attaching the photo of Hochul decked out in her headscarf.
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Critics were quick to point out that this wasn&#8217;t Hochul&#8217;s first time donning the headscarf. She previously wore one at the July 2025 funeral for slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam. As RedState <a href="https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/08/30/ny-gov-hochul-ditches-feminist-routine-to-don-hijab-for-muslim-men-n2206254">noted</a>, female Democratic leaders including former Secretary of State and first lady <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20091030-clinton-hits-out-pakistani-government-over-al-qaeda">Hillary Clinton</a>, former Speaker of the House <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/04/04/pelosi-visits-syria-mosque-brushes-off-bush-criticism/">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA), Rep. <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byfn4yrggg">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY), and Minnesota Lt. Gov. <a href="https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/minnesota-lt-gov-flanagan-draws-right-wing-backlash-after-wearing-hijab-in-solidarity-with-somali-community/">Peggy Flanagan</a> have all put on hijabs to appeal to Muslim voters.
Democrats have obsessively weaponized Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel &#8220;The Handmaid’s Tale&#8221; to attack conservatives. For years, Democrats and their media cheerleaders have pushed the narrative that conservative policies will turn America into the fictional, totalitarian &#8220;Republic of Gilead.&#8221;
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) dramatically claimed in 2024 that &#8220;we&#8217;re living in the Handmaid&#8217;s Tale – in the state of Arizona.&#8221;
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“We’re living in the Handmaid’s Tale &#8211; in the state of Arizona &#8211; in 2024. 
This is no longer a book of fiction by Margaret Atwood… set in the Republic of Gilead… where women are powerless and ruled by men.”
— my high school AP English teacher, Sen. @ChristinePMarsh. <a href="https://t.co/V8aV02bX9x">https://t.co/V8aV02bX9x</a>
&mdash; Yassamin Ansari (@yassaminansari) <a href="https://x.com/yassaminansari/status/1778299744349295094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) explicitly validated the smear during a national TV interview, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/09/01/elizabeth-warren-not-hyperbolic-to-compare-texas-abortion-law-to-the-handmaids-tale">agreeing</a> that fears of a GOP-led &#8220;Gilead&#8221; were &#8220;not hyperbolic.&#8221;
Nobody loves the analogy more than former MSNBC host Joy Reid, who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-the-handmaids-tale-gilead-abortion.amp">routinely</a> brands red states like Texas as &#8220;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; territory and rants about &#8220;the Republicans of Gilead.&#8221; Over on &#8220;The View,&#8221; Sunny Hostin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservatives-roast-views-hostin-calling-republican-women-roaches-fired-immediately">publicly shamed</a> Republican women, sneering: &#8220;Do they want to live in Gilead?&#8221;
Left-wing groups like <a href="https://www.democratsabroad.org/341101/similarities_of_project_2024_and_the_handmaid_s_tale">Democrats Abroad</a> have published entire presentations directly comparing GOP platform initiatives and Project 2025 to Atwood&#8217;s novel. Leftist protesters frequently march in crimson robes and white bonnets, while liberal pundits routinely <a href="https://www.comicsands.com/katie-britt-sotu-handmaids-tale">slap</a> the &#8220;Handmaid&#8221; label on conservative women like Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).
Democrats will relentlessly smear conservatives as oppressive &#8220;Gilead&#8221; bosses for supporting pro-life values, yet turn around and eagerly drape themselves in religious coverings without a second thought.

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