Federal funds earmarked for increasing “the security and prosperity of the United States” bankrolled the work of the father of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani that would seem to do the opposite.
Columbia University’s Middle East Institute applied for the Department of Education’s “National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships” money based on its employment of professors including Mahmood Mamdani, who it called senior faculty, highlighting his recent work on “colonialism” and “native as political identity,” and his “courses on Islam, state violence, and international relations.”
The <a href="https://iris.ed.gov/downloads/applications/P015A180080/P015A180080_GrantApplication.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">application</a> said that Columbia should get taxpayer money because its international professors would shape the views of Americans who would go on to work for the United States government. It &#8220;specifically trains students for employment in positions in the government (State, Defense, Homeland Security, Intelligence agencies, and Congressional Offices),” it said.
The Middle East unit at the lavishly endowed private university asked for more than $1 million from taxpayers to fund the professors&#8217; salaries and other costs for four years under the National Resource Centers program, and $1.6 million for &#8220;institutional payments&#8221; and &#8220;subsistence allowance&#8221; for students under the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship. Between 2018 and 2024, Columbia University as a whole received nearly $12 million in grants from both programs, with nearly $4 million specifically for the Middle East program, according to data compiled by spending watchdog OpenTheBooks.
That means even as Columbia this week agreed to pay a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-retreats-as-trump-scores-historic-220m-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$200 million settlement</a> to the federal government and $20 million to Jewish employees it wronged with its culture of anti-Americanism and antisemitism, the federal government has been paying it to shape federal employees and diplomats.
When it comes to the Karl Marx-quoting prospective mayor of New York, who would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/given-three-chances-zohran-mamdani-wont-condemn-calls-to-globalize-the-intifada?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Given+Three+Chances%2C+Zohran+Mamdani+Won’t+Condemn+Calls+To+‘Globalize+The+Intifada’">not condemn</a> the phrase “globalize the intifada,” the son’s views appear to have been shaped by his father. In May 2021, Professor Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/mm1124?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: “This is not a conflict between Israel and Hamas. We are witnessing something far more meaningful, the birth of the Third Intifadah against settler-colonialism!”
Even though the United States took in the elder Mamdani after he was cast out of Uganda by a dictator and made him a wealthy university professor, Mamdani&#8217;s 2020 book, &#8220;Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities,&#8221; criticizes America as oppressive, according to an interview with <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mahmood-mamdani-nation-state-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Nation</a>. The book reaches back hundreds of years to complain of &#8220;the genocide of Native Americans by Europeans&#8221; and conversion of Muslims by Christians, and casts &#8220;the founding of the state of Israel&#8221; as an act &#8220;of extreme political violence undertaken to create ethnically homogeneous states.&#8221;
He seemed to suggest to The Nation that the cure for Hamas violence was giving in to terrorists.
&#8220;You can fill an unlimited number of jails [with] perpetrators, but it will not bring a solution to the problem unless you acknowledge that the problem is more political than criminal, and that when it comes to political conflicts and political violence, adversaries mobilize around issues,&#8221; Mamdani wrote.
In his 2004 book &#8220;Good Muslim, Bad Muslim,&#8221; he made a similar argument, writing: &#8220;Suicide bombing needs to be understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism.&#8221;
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The professor <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/mamdanis-dad-part-of-anti-israel-group-sympathetic-to-suicide-bombers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sits</a> on an advisory council whose goal is &#8220;to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza&#8221; — a position that conflicts with that of the U.S. under Democrat and Republican administrations.
Columbia University also used Professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doe-program-meant-to-boost-national-security-funds-anti-american-professors-study-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Massad</a> as a selling point for federal money. Massad called Hamas’ October 7 attack “a stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance.” According to the Middle East Forum, students said Massad “takes a categorically anti-U.S. tack at every possible opportunity,” and lists “the West’s various cultural crimes ad nauseam.”
George Washington University, located near the State Department’s headquarters, received millions of dollars in Middle East Foreign Language and Area Studies funding from the Department of Education, even as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-washington-university-antisemitism-lawsuit?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=U.S.+Diplomat+Training+Ground+Let+Antisemites+Take+Over+Its+Faculty%2C+Lawsuit+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> said it let an anti-Israel activist group operate out of its international affairs school, leading to rampant antisemitism on a campus where more than one in four students is Jewish.
Prosecutors said in 2019 that a Texas-born woman charged with spying for Iran had her radicalization “<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/18/iran-spy-george-washington-university-muslim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accelerated while she was in graduate school</a>” at George Washington University, where she earned a master’s degree in its Middle East Studies program.
Also in 2019, the first Trump administration threatened the University of North Carolina and Duke University for their use of the funds, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-demands-unc-duke-revise-joint-middle/story?id=65754681" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> that &#8220;It seems clear foreign language instruction and area studies advancing the security and economic stability of the United States have taken &#8216;a back seat&#8217; to other priorities at the Duke-UNC CMES.&#8221; But little seems to have changed sector-wide.
<a href="https://www.openthebooks.com">OpenTheBooks</a> CEO John Hart said that the Department of Education’s persistent funneling of millions of dollars for professors who cultivate anti-American sentiment, using funds intended to do the opposite, shows that the National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies program, if not the department as a whole, should be abolished.
&#8220;Professor Mamdani&#8217;s embrace of faddish, faculty lounge DEI theories on &#8216;decolonialism&#8217; illustrates why the Department of Education needs to be eliminated or dramatically downsized,&#8221; Hart said. &#8220;I support Professor Mamdani&#8217;s free speech rights, and the rights of his son to call for &#8216;seizing the means of production,&#8217; but that does not mean either are entitled to advance their radical views with taxpayer subsidies.&#8221;

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A New York man was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly constructing several improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that he intended to detonate in Manhattan. 
The Justice Department announced charges against Michael Gann, 55, of Inwood, New York, for allegedly placing at least five IEDs and shotgun shells on the rooftops of residential apartment buildings in the SoHo neighborhood and throwing one IED onto subway tracks on the Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Brooklyn to Manhattan. 
“The safety of New Yorkers is paramount,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.  “As alleged, Michael Gann built explosive devices, stored them on a rooftop in SoHo, and threw one onto the subway tracks—putting countless lives at risk.  Thanks to swift work by our law enforcement partners, no one was harmed.  That vigilance assuredly prevented a tragedy in New York.”
Gann has been charged with attempted destruction of property by explosive means, transportation of explosive devices, and unlawful possession of explosive devices. He could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted on all counts. 
According to investigators, Gann constructed the IEDs with chemicals, wires, and other materials he ordered on the internet beginning in May 2025. He was planning to combine shotgun shells with the explosive devices, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1408701/dl?inline">indictment</a> said. One of the devices contained 600 times the legal limit for explosive powder in fireworks.  
Sometime in May or June, Gann searched on the internet: “will i pass a background check,” &#8220;clorine bomb,” “black powder nearby,” “½ stick dynamite,” and other similar queries. 
On March 26, 2025, an X account identified as belonging to Gann posted: “Dear @POTUS, I’m thinking just now here in NYC that it’s too bad that the wall wasn’t built before the National Guard would have to come here for Protests and Riotation or would you just drop a bomb on this place while because they seem to be coming and coming?”
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Gann was arrested on June 5, and he allegedly lied about the location of one of the devices, according to the indictment. That was the same day investigators say he posted on Instagram: “Who wants me to go out to play like no tomorrow?
The investigation was led by the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI, which included members of the New York Police Department, the ATF, and the Nassau County Police Department. 
“Michael Gann allegedly produced multiple improvised explosive devices intended for use in Manhattan,” said FBI agent Christopher Raia.  “Due to the successful partnership of law enforcement agencies in New York, Gann was swiftly brought to justice before he could harm innocent civilians shortly after his dangerous actions became known.”

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Video has surfaced showing Zohran Mamdani, the socialist Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, calling for the &#8220;abolition of private property&#8221; during a previous campaign.
In a clip that <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/republican-party-slams-zohran-mamdanis-support-for-abolition-of-private-property/">made</a> the rounds on social media Thursday, Mamdani said, &#8220;Every single person should have housing.&#8221;
&#8220;The system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?&#8221; Mamdani said in the clip, which was from a 2020 podcast interview when he was a Democratic nominee for the New York State Assembly, a race he went on to win.
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&#8220;If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,&#8221; Mamdani said.
&#8220;People try and play, like, gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it&#8217;s like look, I care more about whether somebody has a home,&#8221; he added.
The New York state assemblyman representing parts of Queens won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the New York City mayor’s race into chaos.
Mamdani has described himself as a democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than police in crises. He wants to raise both income and corporate taxes.
In another resurfaced clip, Mamdani talked about &#8220;seizing the means of production,&#8221; a key Marxist concept.
&#8220;We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7HDuoJ0MQ">said</a> in 2021 during a live-streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.
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This is not terrible AI, it&#39;s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.
&quot;The end goal of seizing the means of production.&quot;
I can&#39;t believe this is actually happening. <a href="https://t.co/KNxQV2QCX7">pic.twitter.com/KNxQV2QCX7</a>
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&#8220;There are also other issues that we firmly believe in &#8230; whether it&#8217;s the end goal of seizing the means of production where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment,&#8221; he said.
He posted something similar on social media in 2020.
“If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production,” Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1333943646777913346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
During the Young Democratic Socialists conference, Mamdani also referenced transgender ideology.
&#8220;The ramifications of victory here is the difference between life and death for so many of our brothers, sisters, and family beyond the binary and across this borough of Queens,&#8221; Mamdani said.
Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo are both Democrats running as independents, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is running against all of them.
Mamdani is currently statistically tied with Cuomo and Sliwa, according to a HarrisX <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harrisx-nyc-poll-tight-race-emerges-in-nyc-mayoral-general-election-but-cuomo-stronger-than-adams-against-mamdani-302506087.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the poll.

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Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for New York City mayor, slammed the pockmarked political careers of his slate of Democratic opponents on Wednesday.
Sliwa, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-aint-going-nowhere-why-curtis-sliwa-thinks-hell-be-the-next-mayor-of-new-york-city">founder</a> of the Guardian Angels subway patrol, is facing socialist Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, as well as current mayor Eric Adams and former governor Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats running as independents.
&#8220;Andrew Cuomo is a creep, slapping fannies and killing grannies,&#8221; Sliwa said Wednesday on Fox News, sparking plenty of amused responses on social media.
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Sliwa: Eric Adams is damaged goods… Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies. Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa <a href="https://t.co/Vm5KvORhLr">pic.twitter.com/Vm5KvORhLr</a>
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Cuomo resigned as governor in 2021 after investigators found he had sexually harassed at least 11 women. The former governor also faced fierce criticism for forcing nursing homes to accept patients from hospitals without testing them for COVID, a policy that was blamed for many nursing home deaths, which Cuomo&#8217;s administration then undercounted by as much as 50%, the New York attorney general <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-releases-report-nursing-homes-response-covid-19">found</a>.
Sliwa also criticized the Big Apple&#8217;s current mayor.
&#8220;Eric Adams is damaged goods. Every day, a new case of corruption in the police department. They believe he&#8217;s corrupt,&#8221; Sliwa said.
Over the past two weeks, five lawsuits have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/us/eric-adams-nypd-corruption-lawsuit">cropped</a> up claiming rampant corruption within the NYPD that was allegedly supported by the Adams administration. This week, a former NYPD commissioner filed a federal lawsuit against Adams, accusing him of running the police department like a &#8220;criminal enterprise.&#8221; Several prominent officials say they were pushed out after speaking up.
&#8220;Nobody would have known who Zohran Mamdani was until Eric Adams failed as the sitting mayor,&#8221; Sliwa said.
Mamdani has called himself a Democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies like government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers who live in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than cops in crises.
Meanwhile, Sliwa wants to beef up the NYPD with 7,000 more officers, make Madison Square Garden, Columbia University, and New York University pay their fair share of property taxes, which he says will bring in $843 million for taxpayers, and repeal Adams&#8217; &#8220;City of Yes&#8221; zoning legislation, which he said is destroying residential neighborhoods in the outer boroughs.
&#8220;Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa. My favorable ratings are the highest in this election cycle,&#8221; Sliwa said.
Sliwa faces an uphill battle in the polls, but he is currently beating Adams and is statistically tied with Cuomo and Mamdani, according to one <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harrisx-nyc-poll-tight-race-emerges-in-nyc-mayoral-general-election-but-cuomo-stronger-than-adams-against-mamdani-302506087.html">poll</a> this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the HarrisX poll.

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New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani —who openly espouses socialist positions and makes statements reminiscent of Karl Marx — received harsh criticism after a video surfaced showing him saying that in the past, he had stopped working and relied on his parents’ money.
“I worked until January, and then I took time away from my job, and one of the major reasons I could do so was because I knew that if I ran out of my savings, my family would be able to support me,” he stated.
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&quot;I knew that if I ran out of my savings my family would be able to support me&quot; — Mamdani 
Must be nice! <a href="https://t.co/22CJRQwNqk">pic.twitter.com/22CJRQwNqk</a>
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Mamdani’s father is a hard-Left professor at Columbia University, and his mother is a successful filmmaker who once owned a $2 million Chelsea loft in New York City, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/real-estate/as-mamdani-targets-nycs-wealthy-in-tax-plan-spotlight-turns-to-mothers-2m-chelsea-loft/">New York Post</a>. “Mamdani attended <a title="https://www.westsiderag.com/2025/03/26/before-zohran-mamdani-made-waves-in-nycs-mayoral-race-he-was-a-kid-growing-up-on-the-uws" href="https://www.westsiderag.com/2025/03/26/before-zohran-mamdani-made-waves-in-nycs-mayoral-race-he-was-a-kid-growing-up-on-the-uws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bank Street, a prestigious Manhattan private school</a> that now costs as much as $66,000 a year for elementary school students, before graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s best public schools. Next, he studied Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, a private liberal arts school in Maine,” Forbes noted.
Mamdani’s own job history is sketchy, to put it mildly. “Mr. Mamdani’s résumé is comparatively slight,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/nyregion/mamdani-age-mayor-young.html">reported.</a> “The son of a renowned filmmaker and academic, he bounced among gigs — working on one of his mother’s movies, as a rapper, a campaign organizer, a part-time tutor and a foreclosure counselor — before winning a seat in the Assembly in 2020.”
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people&#8217;s money,’ -Margaret Thatcher,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich wrote on X.
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people&#39;s money.”
-Margaret Thatcher <a href="https://t.co/62uMphEupI">https://t.co/62uMphEupI</a>
&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1945145597972881827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The one thing my parents told me: if you aren&#8217;t working and you don&#8217;t have money, we cannot and will not support you. This guy is very comfortable with other people&#8217;s money,” New York Post columnist Kirsten Fleming echoed.
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The one thing my parents told me: if you aren&#39;t working and you don&#39;t have money, we cannot and will not support you. This guy is very comfortable with other people&#39;s money. <a href="https://t.co/COZ6anlNWH">https://t.co/COZ6anlNWH</a>
&mdash; Kirsten Fleming (@KirFlem) <a href="https://twitter.com/KirFlem/status/1945142358317670550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Classic Socialism: Once I blow through my money, I’ll take yours,” former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright wrote.
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Classic Socialism: Once I blow through my money, I’ll take yours. <a href="https://t.co/TjLlaP82HQ">https://t.co/TjLlaP82HQ</a>
&mdash; BDW (@BryanDeanWright) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1945152396331569530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“A true silver spoon socialist right here,” the X account Western Lensman commented.
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A true silver spoon socialist right here
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Mamdani has <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-campaign-andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayoral-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed building</a> a network of city-run, subsidized grocery stores and nationalizing utility companies. “The Democratic nominee estimates his agenda will cost taxpayers $10 billion annually. His solution for financing the hefty price tag is to increase taxes on big corporations and the wealthy,” Time Magazine <a href="https://time.com/7298149/nyc-socialist-zohran-mamdani-capitalism-essay/">reported.</a>
In 2021, at a meeting of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-under-fire-over-resurfaced-2021-video-endorsing-socialist-goals">stated</a> in a video, “Right now, if we&#8217;re talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we&#8217;re talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country. But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it&#8217;s BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.&#8221;
“Mamdani’s socialism nomenclature is no joke or aspiration,” billionaire Bill Ackman wrote in response. &#8220;It is the business plan of a movement that he is leading and, for now, winning.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZohranKMamdani</a> in his own words a three-minute must listen. 
Mamdani’s socialism nomenclature is no joke or aspiration. It is the business plan of a movement that he is leading and, for now, winning. 
Don’t rely on my summary. Listen to him speak his own words. <a href="https://t.co/QLeWGETkIu">https://t.co/QLeWGETkIu</a>
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1939664169730494931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney sharply criticized New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in an interview with The Daily Wire on Tuesday, as Democrats remain slow to endorse him.
The New York Republican called Mamdani a “Marxist antisemite” over his failure to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada,” widely seen as a call for violence against Jews.
Mamdani, a New York State Assemblyman who represents parts of Queens, won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the mayoral race into chaos. He is now running against incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how he&#8217;s still in office,&#8221; Tenney told The Daily Wire, reflecting on his use of &#8220;globalize the intifada.&#8221; &#8220;I mean, I don&#8217;t know how that&#8217;s not a breach of the Constitution and your oath, but that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll be discussing in the future.&#8221;
Tenney, who represents a large district along the Canadian border, warned that New York&#8217;s sanctuary policies are turning the state into a magnet for drugs and human trafficking.
&#8220;These are the kind of people that are helping, aiding and abetting the criminal cartels that are trafficking children, trafficking women,&#8221; she said of Mamdani.
“Cartels are going to go where the money is,” she said, noting that in New York City, criminals can &#8220;hide out&#8221; and &#8220;do whatever they want.&#8221;
Tenney also had harsh words for Governor Kathy Hochul, labeling her “as bad or worse than Cuomo,” and noted that powerful Democrats like Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) have remained largely silent on Mamdani so far.
&#8220;People are really concerned about this Mamdani thing,&#8221; she said of her constituents. &#8220;They&#8217;re just starting to get wind of it.&#8221;
Tenney argued that public safety will be the defining issue of the 2026 elections, noting that her constituents are worried about the lack of respect for police officers.
&#8220;The police have been essentially unable to do their job to keep our community safe. So you&#8217;re seeing this is a big issue. Security, I think, is going to be the issue of the next election, 2026,&#8221; she said.
Mamdani has proposed deploying mental health professionals in crisis situations rather than police officers and wants to create a “Department of Community Safety.”
The safety crisis is not confined to New York City either, she said.
&#8220;When you see tent cities and crime being committed in New York City, it&#8217;s happening all over the state because those laws have been statewide,&#8221; she said, &#8220;so they&#8217;re affecting everyone.&#8221;
Democrats are &#8220;siding with criminal gang members over innocent people,&#8221; Tenney added. &#8220;They&#8217;re supporting rapists and murderers and extortionists over their own citizens. I think that&#8217;s going to be a problem for the Democrats next year.&#8221;

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‘Don’t Know How He’s Still In Office’: New York Congresswoman Slams Zohran Mamdani

EXCLUSIVE: 'Don't Know How He's Still In Office:' New York Congresswoman Slams Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described Democratic socialist running for New York City mayor, quietly agreed to &#8220;discourage&#8221; people from using the phrase “globalize the intifada,” widely seen as a call to violence against Jews, in a private meeting with influential New York City business leaders on Tuesday.
The Democratic nominee made the commitment to about 150 business executives, including real estate moguls, high-powered lawyers, and several billionaires who peppered him with questions about his controversial far-Left positions, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/mamdani-clarifies-globalize-the-intifada-stance-in-meeting-with-business-elites-4bd47420?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAgX4ABmiIcIjftEYKcohHAEYs6uVzf2hKevhDcRa8zncSVJbntLB8J25MBXhQ%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6877c61b&amp;gaa_sig=7KP0e1mKuxJe_aLHmQ29ED9M2JgWFvwpatub0pdUDm4a1TDvHqAPlcgHUFaN-SaayqnUkNgb7JNfkCUO_devsQ%3D%3D">according</a> to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html">multiple</a> reports.
At the private event, Mamdani was reportedly confronted on his refusal to condemn the phrase by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who is the son of Holocaust survivors. He said he doesn&#8217;t use the phrase and told the group that many people use it to express support for Palestinian human rights.
The 33-year-old has not made any public remarks discouraging the phrase or condemning the terrorism of Hamas.
Last month, Mamdani was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-slam-zohran-mamdani-for-refusing-to-condemn-globalize-the-intifada?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Dems+Slam+Zohran+Mamdani+For+Refusing+To+Condemn+‘Globalize+The+Intifada’">pressed</a> three times to condemn “globalize the intifada” during an appearance on NBC, and each time he refused to do so but said, “it’s not language that I use.”
“But do you actually condemn it?” NBC’s Kristen Welker pressed, noting that many people hear it as a “call to violence against Jews.”
“I don’t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech,” Mamdani said.
Tuesday&#8217;s private business event was held in Rockefeller Center and hosted by the Partnership for New York City, an influential group representing banks, law firms, and corporations.
Many of the business leaders did not leave the event more comfortable with Mamdani&#8217;s ideas, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/mamdani-clarifies-globalize-the-intifada-stance-in-meeting-with-business-elites-4bd47420?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAgX4ABmiIcIjftEYKcohHAEYs6uVzf2hKevhDcRa8zncSVJbntLB8J25MBXhQ%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6877c61b&amp;gaa_sig=7KP0e1mKuxJe_aLHmQ29ED9M2JgWFvwpatub0pdUDm4a1TDvHqAPlcgHUFaN-SaayqnUkNgb7JNfkCUO_devsQ%3D%3D">reported</a>.
Some left even more unhappy.
“Today’s meeting made it clear to me that I need to do everything in my power to make sure Zohran Mamdani does not become mayor of New York City,” Jon Henes, founder and CEO of C Street Advisory Group, a communications consulting firm, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/mamdani-globalize-intafada-business-leaders.html">told</a> The New York Times.
“His complete lack of executive experience, his naïve understanding of how the world works and his rigidly ideological views, including socialism, would be dangerous for the city’s future,” Henes said.
Mamdani has proposed raising both income and corporate taxes, and spending taxpayer dollars on a multitude of services, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, and a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments.
As he heads into the general election, Mamdani is working to win support from the city&#8217;s business leaders despite their concerns. Meanwhile, his opponents see this as an opportunity to draw influential supporters away from the Democratic nominee.
The New York state assemblyman representing parts of Queens won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the New York City mayor’s race into chaos.
Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo are both running as independents, and both have been actively seeking support from the same business leaders.
The general election for mayor will be held on November 4, and Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, will face them all as the Republican candidate.

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Socialist Mamdani Tells Business Leaders He’ll ‘Discourage’ Use Of ‘Globalize The Intifada’

Mamdani Quietly Agrees To 'Discourage' Saying 'Globalize The Intifada'

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At least two people are dead after heavy rains triggered widespread flooding in the New York City area and beyond, officials confirmed on Tuesday, after more than two inches of rain fell in one hour on Monday night, the second-wettest hour ever recorded in the city.
In Plainfield, New Jersey, about 30 miles away from New York City, flooding swept away a vehicle, killing two people inside.
Subway service was delayed on multiple lines Monday night at the height of the storm, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-subway-station-flooding-service-alerts/">reported</a>. The downpour flooded multiple stations in Manhattan.
&#8220;The New York City sewer system, the storm water system, accommodates about an inch and a half to an inch and three quarters an hour,&#8221; Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told CBS News. &#8220;Last night, in that one hour, we had well over 2 inches of rain. So what happens is the system backs up into the subway.&#8221;
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The flooding left some riders stranded, while others navigated pools of water on still-functioning platforms. Subway lines restored service Monday night with delays.
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency as multiple counties were under flash flood warnings. He attributed the storm damage to climate change, saying, &#8220;We New Jersey, we America, we the globe, are getting dragged by climate,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/15/nyregion/new-york-jersey-floods">reported</a>.
Rescue crews pulled drivers from stalled cars while roads shut down. Authorities launched boats into flooded streets after a river overflowed, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-jersey-flash-flooding-rescues/">according</a> to CBS News.
Rafts, a giant truck, and a frontloader rescued people.
Conditions are expected to clear on Tuesday as the storm shifts southward.
The flooding comes after flash floods hit Texas, killing more than 130 people, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/texas-flooding-live-updates/?id=123729682">reported</a>. More than 100 people remain missing.

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A new high-speed train proposal hopes to link Los Angeles and New York City in time for the FIFA World Cup and celebrations for the United States&#8217; 250th birthday next year.
AmeriStarRail, based in Delaware, proposed the plan to Amtrak, as well as to President Donald Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Congress, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/high-speed-rail-new-york-los-angeles-2093565">according</a> to Newsweek.
The train, called the &#8220;Transcontinental Chief,&#8221; would be funded entirely by private investors, not taxpayers, and would transport both passengers and commercial trucks.
&#8220;The Transcontinental Chief will be a great opportunity for Amtrak to team up with the private sector to confront the challenges of its money-losing long-distance trains and create opportunities to usher in a profitable Golden Age of rail travel for passengers and truckers, with the ingenuity of free enterprise, as we celebrate our great nation&#8217;s 250th birthday next year,&#8221; AmeriStarRail Chief Operating Officer Scott Spencer said in a letter to Amtrak.
The train would rely on existing infrastructure from host railroads and include stops at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and the Grand Canyon. Amtrak has not yet responded to the proposal, Newsweek reported.
The plan contrasts with another high-speed train project in California, which risks losing its federal funding after failing to make progress for more than a decade, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-ready-to-pull-the-plug-on-california-high-speed-rail-boondoggle">reported</a>.
Despite receiving about $4 billion for the 800-mile project since 2010, the state has &#8220;not laid a single high-speed track,&#8221; <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-releases-report-exposing-no-viable-path">according</a> to the Trump administration.
When voters approved the project in 2008, the estimated cost was $33 billion. Now, the projected cost has swelled to $128 billion, leaving California about $100 billion short, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-21/high-speed-rail">according</a> to the Los Angeles Times.
The state is currently trying to build the first segment of the project, a 119-mile track connecting Merced to Bakersfield. The estimated completion date is 2033, but the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) says the state doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;a viable path&#8221; to finishing the first phase by the deadline.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who promoted the train when he was mayor of San Francisco, said in May that workers have begun the first phase of the project, &#8220;laying the tracks to get to where they start to lay the tracks.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a technical way of actually doing the development in phases, so real tracks are being laid, and the formal track that will be the first-in-the-nation high-speed rail track is about to take place,&#8221; Newsom said.
A California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) spokesperson told The Daily Wire in June that the agency remains &#8220;firmly committed&#8221; to the project.
In its response to the FRA, the CHSRA disputed the findings and requested that the agency withdraw the proposed termination of federal funds.
&#8220;The Authority’s work has already reshaped the Central Valley,&#8221; the CHSRA&#8217;s response said. &#8220;We have built many of the viaducts, overpasses, and underpasses on which the first 119 miles of high-speed rail track will run.&#8221;

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Curtis Sliwa Thinks He’ll Be The Next Mayor Of New York City

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis Sliwa Says He’s Your Next Mayor, New York City

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) who is unfailingly left on political issues but is also a fervent supporter of the State of Israel, admitted this week that the reason allies of hard-Left New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani want to primary him is because of his support for Israel.
The conversation stemmed from CNN’s Abby Phillip noting that Mamdani’s allies have a list of congressional representatives they want to challenge in primaries and Torres is on the list.
Torres is not the only Democrat to be pilloried by members of his party for supporting Israel; Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-fetterman-defends-israel-dems-suddenly-question-his-mental-health">targeted for the same reason</a>.
“I want to ask you this,” CNN’s Ana Navarro said. “How the hell does the first openly gay Afro-Puerto Rican congressperson from the Bronx, end up being establishment? What — what does establishment mean these days in the Democratic Party?”
“For me, the lesson learned from Mamdani&#8217;s victory is that there is no Democratic establishment,” Torres replied, alluding to Mamdani&#8217;s recent win in the Democratic Party&#8217;s primary for New York City mayor.
“What do you mean by that? What do you mean by that?” Phillip interjected.
“Are you being honest when you say you don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re targeting you?” CNN conservative political commentator Scott Jennings asked bluntly. “ You know why they&#8217;re targeting you.
“Oh, no, I&#8217;m not — I know why they&#8217;re targeting —” Torres managed.
“But you know why they&#8217;re targeting you,” Jennings persisted.
“But I don&#8217;t — I don&#8217;t care that they&#8217;re targeting me,” Torres protested.
“So, why don&#8217;t you say it?” Jennings challenged. “You know why they&#8217;re targeting you.”
“I think they&#8217;re targeting me because I&#8217;m pro-Israel,” Torres admitted.
“That&#8217;s 100 percent correct,” Jennings agreed.
“That&#8217;s the issue,” Torres finished, adding, “I am specifically targeted because of my position on Israel.”
“And by the way he&#8217;s been courageous on this issue and he&#8217;s had a backbone and he stood up to the wacko radicals in his party on this, and he deserves all the credit in the world for it,” Jennings declared. “But that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s on the list, because these people have a burning hatred for Israel. It&#8217;s one of their main pieces of their platform and that&#8217;s why they put them on the list and it&#8217;s terrible.”
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Often, my main function is to get to the heart of the matter 👇
In NYC, Mamdani’s radical, socialist, anti-Semitic supporters are trying to primary <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRitchie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRitchie</a> for one reason only: because of his courageous stance on Israel. Let’s not pretend there’s any other reason. <a href="https://t.co/M66fhAbkrf">pic.twitter.com/M66fhAbkrf</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1943166021025616070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Three months after the Hamas massacre of roughly 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023, Torres gave <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ritchie-torres-gives-impassioned-speech-denouncing-those-cheering-celebrating-october-7-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impassioned</a> response to those who had cheered and celebrated the attack.
“Like all of you, I was profoundly shaken, not only by October 7, but by its aftermath. I found it utterly horrifying to see fellow Americans openly cheering and celebrating the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” he stated at the annual Martin Luther King sermon at Central Synagogue in Manhattan.
“And for me, the aftermath of October 7 revealed the barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time in our nation’s history; a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African-Americans or the lynching of a Jewish-American like Leo Frank,” he continued.
“And so words cannot express the overwhelming outrage that I felt at the barbaric reaction to the barbarism of October 7. You know, people often ask me, ‘Why do you care so deeply? Why do you speak out so frequently and forcefully against antisemitism?’ And I simply reply, ‘You are asking the wrong question. The question is not why have I chosen to be outspoken; the question is why have others chosen to be silent amid the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust.’”
“Dr. King once said that history will record that the greatest tragedy is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but it’s the appalling silence of the good people,” Torres recalled. “Elie Wiesel once said that the opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. And what we’ve seen in the aftermath of October 7 is appalling silence and indifference and cowardice from so-called leaders in our society; from institutions that we once respected and admired. And if we as a society cannot bring ourselves to condemn the murder of innocents with moral clarity, then we must ask: What are we becoming as a society? What does that reveal about the depth of anti-Semitism in the American soul?”
“October 7 has been an awakening for the Jewish community, but it must be a reckoning for all of America,” he declared. “We must confront the deepening rot of anti-Semitism; on social media platforms, on college campuses, and elsewhere in America. We must ask ourselves: What kind of society do we wish to be? Do we wish to be a society that affirms that every life, every Jewish life, every black life, every life, has inherent dignity and value and worth? That each of us is a child of God, that each of us is an equal creation in the image of God?”
“Or do we wish to be a society that affirms that violence and terror, no matter how barbaric, can be justified and even glorified, under the guise of ‘resistance,’” he asked pointedly.
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I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.
My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope. <a href="https://t.co/stxqxzgyLi">pic.twitter.com/stxqxzgyLi</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-fetterman-defends-israel-dems-suddenly-question-his-mental-health">As Fetterman Defends Israel, Dems Suddenly Question His Mental Health</a>

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New York City landlords and real estate developers are panicking about the prospect of Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor, frantically throwing money at his opponents and threatening to leave the city altogether.
Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of the Big Apple last month in a bombshell upset that threw the election into chaos.
The self-described democratic socialist is <a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform">campaigning</a> on freezing rents for two million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments.
He has also said he has “many critiques of capitalism” and quoted Martin Luther King Jr., saying, “there must be a better distribution of wealth” in the country.
This is not music to the ears of the city’s real estate moguls, who are scrambling to make sure Mamdani does not get the chance to take the reins of the city.
One New York real estate mogul, Marc Holliday, chief executive of the real estate investment trust SL Green, hosted a cocktail fundraising event on the rooftop of one of his Manhattan office towers on Wednesday to raise money for incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent.
Tickets to the fundraiser were $2,000 a pop.
“There’s going to be a lot of these fundraisers,” Noble Black, a New York City luxury real-estate broker, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/nyc-real-estate-mayor-eric-adams-zohran-mamdani-21cf617f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAif3L_ZKsxu0MvQj8kQ49XJjqXkEazSu1RZpTQmTfFfZ1t5-3crxyQXcbwSJg%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6870240f&amp;gaa_sig=PW0xw_4vUH8iwIkCdq5AkTPxzepqsyPDMIBVRRv9ctkzdrzKrS4E2ekbUifRg8zRYL3FVuqdpLxSXeLLkscYxA%3D%3D">told</a> the Wall Street Journal.
“Everyone is talking about how much wealth is aligning against Mamdani,” Black said.
Another fundraiser for Adams was held by a real estate couple in the Hamptons over the weekend that included several New York City billionaires and real estate investors.
Several real estate power brokers are also planning additional events, according to the Journal, including one that will feature social media influencers to attract younger voters.
Meanwhile, landlords say Mamdani’s policies would be a catastrophe for them.
The rent freezing plan is “a recipe for disaster,” Kenny Burgos, head of the New York Apartment Association, one of the city’s largest trade groups, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-faces-landlord-exodus-zohran-mamdani-housing-plans-2095903">told</a> Newsweek.
Burgos noted that rents are not being hiked in rent-stabilized apartments, thereby burdening tenants in a manner similar to the “free market.”
He told the outlet that while larger landlords might be making a profit, smaller owners, such as rent-stabilized landlords, are struggling.
“This is almost a tale of two cities. And this is why the policy that Mamdani is pushing forth is so dangerous,” Burgos said. “We’re in the middle of a crisis that he will inherit, that he will accelerate, and that will destroy the housing market in New York City.”
Many wealthy landlords would likely get out of New York City if Mamdani wins, according to real estate experts.
“Landlords are facing mounting pressure — with high taxes and operating costs, it’s becoming unsustainable to hold properties without the ability to adjust rents. Many are now evaluating out-of-state investments as a safer, more profitable alternative,” Jay Batra, a real estate entrepreneur and the principal of Batra Real Estate, a full-service real estate brokerage in New York City and Miami, told Newsweek.
Besides rent freezes, Mamdani has proposed other expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free city universities, free childcare, increasing New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour, and investing $65 million in transgender drugs and surgeries.

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New York Landlords Freak Out Over Mamdani, Threaten To Leave, And Throw Money At Eric Adams

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