Former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour went out of her way to get a pardon for fashion designer John Galliano following an antisemitic rant that should have seen him shunned from the industry forever.
Wintour, who is a trustee for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, met with Jewish leaders in an attempt to justify making Galliano the 2027 honoree of the Met Gala next spring. She put in an extraordinary amount of effort to clear the designer’s name, which has led to questions of whether the same effort would be put forth for someone who had used racist or “anti-transgender” slurs.
Galliano rose to fame as the head designer for Dior from 1996 until 2011. That came crashing down following the release of a video of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUKGqhlRXH0#ddg-play">rant</a>, showing Galliano hurl antisemitic slurs at customers in a Paris cafe. During the tirade, he praised Hitler and told other cafe patrons that their ancestors should have been gassed.
At the time, he blamed drug and alcohol addictions for his outburst. He was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14833259">fired from Dior</a> and fined, and his image was ruined.
Last week, however, The New York Times published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/style/met-gala-costume-institute-john-galliano.html">report</a> stating that Wintour, Galliano, and Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Met’s Costume Institute, have been meeting with “influential rabbis and Jewish leaders” over the past year. Their goal was “to get their thoughts on the potential issues with next year’s planned fashion extravaganza — a show dedicated to Galliano’s work — and perhaps their blessing for it.”
Per the Times, the Jewish leaders have decided to accept Galliano’s apology and give their approval to have him be the 2027 Met Gala honoree. 
“The fear clearly was the show could be met with a lot of resistance — not just skepticism, but a feeling of it’s wrong,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in North America, said. Rabbi Jacobs said Galliano’s overall demeanor is part of what convinced him. 
“The word I come back to is ‘sincerity,’” he said. “[Galliano] was open. He looked right at us and spoke in a clear way, not as if he had memorized talking points.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a comment to the Times: “We believe John Galliano has genuinely worked through the issues that led to his antisemitic outburst years ago in Paris, and we have long since accepted his apology. His efforts to repair the damage his words caused and to learn from that incident should be applauded.”
Even if Wintour is trying to push negative press and reinstate Galliano to his former glory, not everyone is on board. The Times just published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/opinion/met-gala-galliano-antisemitism.html">op-ed</a> by Dana Thomas, author of the book “Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.” She argued that choosing Galliano as the honoree was a “very bad mistake.”
“The Met is attempting to tackle questions regarding cultural memory, accountability, rehabilitation and reputation. In the process, it is asserting the ability of powerful cultural institutions to decide when achievements of talent outweigh failures of morality,” she wrote. 
Thomas noted that the drunken tirade was not a one-time event, and said Galliano was known for saying terrible things for the entirety of his career.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made a consequential choice about who should bear the risks on New York’s streets.
<a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/03/mayor-mamdani-announces-end-to-criminal-enforcement-for-minor-tr">Since March 27</a>, the NYPD has stopped issuing criminal-court summonses to cyclists and e-bike riders for low-level traffic offenses. Under the policy begun by former Mayor Eric Adams, a rider who ran a red light, ignored a stop sign, traveled against traffic, or disobeyed a traffic-control device could be ordered to appear in Criminal Court. Under Mamdani, riders once again receive ordinary Traffic Violations Bureau tickets.
That may sound like a technical change in paperwork. It is not.
The civil-ticket system has leverage over motorists because drivers have licenses, registrations, and plates. Their violations follow them. They can receive points, lose their licenses, and be identified as repeat offenders.
Legal e-bikes <a href="https://dmv.ny.gov/registration/electric-scooters-and-bicycles-and-other-unregistered-vehicles">carry none</a> of those identifiers. A rider may receive a fine, but there is no plate attached to the vehicle and often no operating license to suspend. Mamdani therefore eliminated the city’s strongest available consequence without first creating an equally credible system of identification and escalating penalties.
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He did so while New York was confronting growing micromobility risks. And he justified the decision primarily by emphasizing the burden enforcement places on riders rather than the safety and freedom of everyone sharing the streets.
That is the problem — and the larger lesson. Progressive officials increasingly treat enforcement itself as the central injustice. The interests of pedestrians, parents, seniors, responsible cyclists, and law-abiding drivers become secondary. Mamdani’s e-bike rollback is that governing instinct in miniature: consequences disappear today; the promised alternative arrives sometime tomorrow.
The timing could hardly be worse. <a href="https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/deaths-two-wheeled-devices-increase-in-nyc/">By April 19</a>, 13 people had died in crashes involving motorized two-wheelers, up from seven over the same period last year — an 86% increase. <a href="https://home4.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/traffic-statistics/ts-en-us-Citywide.pdf">By July 26</a>, the toll had reached 39, compared with 24 a year earlier — a 63% increase.
Those figures require care. They include riders killed in crashes, not simply pedestrians killed by riders, and they combine e-bikes with scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, and off-road devices.
They also do not prove that Mamdani caused this year’s increase, but they can certainly make it worse. Much of the early rise preceded or closely followed his policy. But they show that New York already had a visible safety problem when Mamdani chose to weaken deterrence.
The legal nuance matters, too. A traffic infraction <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/155">is not a crime</a> under New York law. A criminal-court summons routes the case through the Criminal Court, requires an appearance, and can result in a warrant if the recipient skips court. What he removed was the court-backed consequence the NYPD had been using for dangerous everyday violations.
Mamdani thinks that is equal treatment. Drivers usually receive civil tickets for comparable violations, he argues, so cyclists and delivery workers should receive the same.
But equal treatment requires equal accountability. Giving two people identical pieces of paper is not equality when one ticket is backed by a license, registration, plate, and driving record while the other is not.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the old civil-ticket system <a href="https://citymeetings.nyc/meetings/new-york-city-council/2025-05-29-1000-am-committee-on-public-safety/chapter/commissioner-tisch-explains-e-bike-enforcement-policy/">“virtually meaningless”</a> for precisely that reason. Mamdani did not close the accountability gap. He changed the ticket&#8217;s color and declared the systems equal.
The latest data demand vigilance, not hysteria. Through July 26, <a href="https://home4.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/traffic-statistics/ts-en-us-Citywide.pdf">reported</a> e-bike rider injuries were up about 31% year over year, from 438 to 572. E-bike fatalities rose from six to nine. Stand-up scooter and motorcycle deaths also increased, while moped deaths declined. Overall traffic deaths were flat, and pedestrian deaths were down.
A <a href="https://nyulangone.org/news/e-bike-and-scooter-crashes-are-leading-more-brain-injuries">2026 study</a> examined 914 bicycle- and scooter-injury patients. Roughly one-third suffered traumatic brain injuries, more than two-thirds were admitted, and about 30% required intensive care.
New York does not need indiscriminate punishment. It needs order: civil penalties for first-time minor offenses, reliable rider and vehicle identification, escalating consequences for repeat violations, targeted court enforcement for dangerous or chronic conduct, and aggressive seizures of illegal high-speed devices.
That enforcement should be paired with protected infrastructure, platform accountability, worker training, safeguards against discriminatory stops, and public data that separates e-bikes from mopeds, motorcycles, and scooters.
Compassion for delivery workers and traffic enforcement are not competing values. Compassion without accountability is indulgence — and ordinary New Yorkers absorb the cost.
Public safety is not an ideological inconvenience. It is the first duty of city government. Mamdani should start treating it that way.
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Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.

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New York City&#8217;s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has dismissed the entire advisory board of the Mayor’s Fund, removing a roster of business executives who helped raise private money for city projects.
The Mayor&#8217;s Fund to Advance New York City is a nonprofit that pulls in private-sector donations to support city initiatives. Mamdani became the first mayor in at least three administrations to dissolve the board of advisers in its entirety, saying that he planned to rebuild from the ground up.
&#8220;I commend you for your dedication and the benefit you have brought to our City as you conclude your tenure on the Mayor’s Fund Board of Advisors,&#8221; Mamdani&#8217;s letter, obtained by <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/mamdani-dismisses-business-leaders-advising-nyc-s-mayor-s-fund?taid=6a7119f2fbc22200010262af&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Bloomberg News</a>, read in part.
The list of prominent business leaders ousted from their roles, as <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/04/us-news/socialist-mamdani-launches-new-war-on-nyc-business-leaders-kicking-them-off-mayors-fund-that-backs-city-programs/">reported</a> by The New York Post, includes Richard Born, owner of BD Hotels; Jeffrey Gural, chairman of GFP Real Estate; Alex Katz, senior managing director at Blackstone Inc.; Edward Skyler, Citigroup Inc.’s head of enterprise services and public affairs; and James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
Economics professor Isabella Weber praised the move, saying it reduced the influence of business interests over city government.
&#8220;One of the beautiful things about Mamdani’s renewal of NYC government is that it shows how deeply business interests are usually baked into state capacity,&#8221; Weber wrote. &#8220;Why should private equity, banks and real estate interests advise a mayor on what to spend?&#8221;
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One of the beautiful things about Mamdani’s renewal of NYC government is that it shows how deeply business interests are usually baked into state capacity. 
Why should private equity, banks and real estate interests advise a mayor on what to spend? <a href="https://t.co/Mnr75JlglY">pic.twitter.com/Mnr75JlglY</a>
— Isabella M Weber (@IsabellaMWeber) <a href="https://x.com/IsabellaMWeber/status/2084575037240054001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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But Bloomberg Philanthropies head James Anderson countered that the advisory board&#8217;s role was to drum up charitable donations, not to decide how those donations were spent.
&#8220;This is a mischaracterization,&#8221; Anderson wrote. &#8220;The Mayor&#8217;s Fund is designed to bring philanthropic resources to public priorities. Its advisory board has historically helped mobilize those resources — not determine public spending. Remaking the board is the mayor&#8217;s prerogative.&#8221;
&#8220;Treating public-private collaboration as evidence of capture may be red meat for the base, but it&#8217;s a poor theory of urban governance,&#8221; he added.
Mamdani is expected to fill the positions for his new board later this year. Mamdani senior advisor Dora Pekec told The New York Post that the administration is &#8220;reimagining how philanthropy can augment, but not replace, public dollars and public goods, and we are eager to share more about our new board of advisors later this year.&#8221;

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A lead actor who stepped down from his principal role in a Broadway show earlier this week has now apologized for comments he made criticizing the transgender movement.
Producers for the Broadway show &#8220;Hadestown&#8221; announced on Sunday that Geno Segers would no longer be stepping into the lead role as “Hades” in the popular show on September 1.
“The producers of ‘Hadestown’ and Geno Segers have mutually agreed that Mr. Segers will no longer join the Broadway production. Additional casting will be announced shortly,” the statement said. While the production heads gave no specific reason at the time, the move coincided with resurfaced comments Segers made about trans people and pronoun use going viral online.
Clips of Segers&#8217; comments were shared by the industry publication OnStage Blog, as The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/arts/hadestown-geno-segers-transgender-departs.html">reported</a>, and originated on Segers’ YouTube page.
One clip shows Segers saying, “I’m not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people. That’s a little bit foul.”
“I don’t see transgender people becoming oppressed or being oppressed,” he continued.
The actor also railed against preferred pronouns, saying, “If you asked me what my preferred pronouns are and it’s not obvious to you that I’m a he/him, that I’m good with he/him, surely you don’t need any help. I’m not wearing a dress.”
As so many have done before, Segers has now issued a groveling apology for holding non-approved opinions about transgenderism.
“I wish to extend my most sincere apologies to everyone impacted by my words,” Segers wrote in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbl74QpCBTT/">statement</a>. “While I never intended to inflict harm, I recognize that the impact of my statements is what matters most.”
“I am fully committed to listening, educating myself, and elevating my standards. I will work tirelessly to earn the opportunity to make things right.”
Segers went on to apologize to everyone involved in “Hadestown,” writing that he was sorry “for the stress my actions have brought to this production.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I accept full responsibility for my words and acknowledge the necessity of immediate accountability.&#8221;
The actor concluded his statement by saying, “I extend my wholehearted support to the cast, crew, and my replacement. I wish you all tremendous success during your run. I have complete confidence that each of you will be phenomenal.”

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A far-left activist group supporting accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is urging supporters to pursue a controversial legal strategy ahead of his upcoming murder trial: jury nullification.
The December 4 Legal Committee, named after the day prosecutors say Mangione fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been <a href="https://x.com/d4legalcomm?lang=en">coordinating</a> fundraisers, raising roughly $1.5 million for Mangione&#8217;s legal defense while organizing protests and promoting jury nullification in the weeks leading up to trial. 
Jury nullification occurs when jurors vote to acquit a defendant despite believing the prosecution proved the defendant violated the law, because they believe a conviction would produce an unjust result. Although juries have the power to nullify, judges do not instruct jurors on the practice, and attorneys are generally prohibited from encouraging it in court. 
The tactic has surfaced at several points throughout American history, including in some cases involving slavery and prosecutions of Vietnam War draft dodgers.
The Fifth Amendment <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/">prevents</a> criminals from being subjected to double jeopardy, or being convicted twice for the same crime. The Amendment enshrines jury nullification by preventing prosecutors from receiving a retrial
Jury nullification has been used in the antebellum Civil War North to free slaves that were trying to be taken back to the South, and also by juries in the 70s who decided to acquit young Americans from dodging the Vietnam draft.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/us-news/luigi-mangione-could-walk-free-and-a-radical-organization-is-pushing-for-it/">reported</a> that two activists were arrested after distributing jury nullification pamphlets outside a Denver courthouse, although the Colorado Supreme Court later ruled in their favor.
New York criminal defense attorney Kenneth Belkin warned that efforts to promote jury nullification risk politicizing the justice system. 
“You don’t want prosecutions based on politics. You don’t want juries acting based on politics. You want them pursuing the truth,” Belkin <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/luigi-mangione-not-guilty-acquit-c9rnsq9xw">told</a> The Times.
Belkin said finding an impartial jury in New York City could prove difficult given Mangione&#8217;s support among some left-wing activists. 
“You have a juror pool in New York City that is particularly politically inflamed. It’s a very partisan city, and I think Luigi Mangione has a lot of support in New York City, despite the fact that he’s accused of an egregious murder,” Belkin said.  
“I think that’s concerning because if you have a large amount of people that are supporting a [suspected] murderer’s political stance in committing a murder, that raises a real possibility that you could get some jurors on that jury that may not convict, no matter what the evidence says.”
Sonali Chakravarti, a professor of government at Wesleyan University, said jury nullification gives “a jury to have true freedom to render the outcome that they think is the most just under the circumstances.” 
But she cautioned that “taken to an extreme, nullification would completely cause a breakdown of the legal system.”
Mangione is charged with fatally shooting Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December 2024 in what prosecutors say was a politically motivated killing. The case has attracted an unusual following, with supporters portraying Mangione as a symbol of frustration with the U.S. healthcare system.
His trial is scheduled to begin on September 8.

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New York City has fallen.
It’s similar to “The Dark Knight Rises,” when the villain Bane decides to take over and destroy Gotham City by unleashing a gigantic class war.
Now imagine that Bane doesn&#8217;t wear a mask, but instead a smarmy smile, has the adoration of the entire legacy media, and also sympathizes with radical Islamists in their hatred for the United States.
That’s Zohran Mamdani.
It is certainly not unprecedented in human history that when people take positions of power, they seek to unleash the proletariat against the bourgeois. It’s quite common.
That’s what Zohran Mamdani did on Monday in the most obvious and disgusting way.
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The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/us-news/mamdani-names-all-nyc-property-owners-who-could-be-hit-with-new-pied-a-terre-tax/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has published a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state’s new pied-à-terre tax, effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers. The city’s Department of Finance uploaded the comprehensive list — which purports to cover all unoccupied, non-primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of $1 million — including the full names and addresses of every property owner. &#8230; Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and Hochul initially sold it to the public. 
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Why is it your business which person owes taxes? As long as they are abiding by the law and paying the tax that they owe, why should you know their name and address?
There&#8217;s only one reason to dox people this way — releasing people&#8217;s names and addresses and saying, &#8220;These are the Richie Riches.&#8221; 
You wish to unleash the proletariat on the bourgeoisie. You are increasing danger to actual human beings for political gain.
That is what Mamdani is doing. It turns out that he&#8217;s also bad at it, because he also is targeting a bunch of people who are living in their apartments. Remember, pied-à-terre is supposed to be a second home tax. Instead, he listed a bunch of people who live in their homes.
This is an intimidation tactic. Mamdani’s goal is to force people to leave. This is revolution. The idea is you are not protected if you are in New York. In fact, they are going to put out your name and address. If you are famous and rich and you own a place, you either have to pay for additional security — an unofficial tax just to keep your home safe — or sell it and go.
That is not going to alleviate the housing problem. All of the communist &#8220;solutions&#8221; that are being proposed by Mamdani are not about actual solutions. They&#8217;re about destroying the system from within.
That’s because if you force all these people to sell, it leads to a decline in home prices. That decline sounds good at the beginning, but it turns out that when you have rent control and heavy building regulation, no one is going to build a home ever again because if the only way that anyone could make a profit was to build a new home but you&#8217;re forcing the market down, what you are doing is removing all incentive for development. No one is going to build new houses or new apartment buildings in New York.
I know many, many, many investors at this point who are pulling their money from New York City as we speak. We&#8217;re also talking about a massive decline in tax revenues. The people who bought those places and are already paying property tax in New York City are not taking advantage of New York City&#8217;s services because they&#8217;re not there full-time. They are already tax-positive for New York City.
But none of this is the real point, which is that class resentment is literal class warfare. That is the goal. It is the first step. It is about unleashing a population against the rich. It is about eating the rich. That&#8217;s all it is.
This is nothing new. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in &#8220;The Communist Manifesto&#8221;: 
<blockquote>Revolution cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of bourgeois production, by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.</blockquote>
In other words, make things unworkable. Jam the system, and when you jam the system, you create more ire and more anger and more of a movement. And eventually that turns into full-scale property seizures or mobilizing the population against one another.
That is the goal. You&#8217;ve seen this in every communist country; all of them. In 1929, Stalin was unleashing the proletariat against the so-called kulaks, the private homeowners and landowners. Mao in 1934 gave a speech in which he said, “If we only mobilize the people to carry on the war and do nothing else, can we succeed in defeating the enemy? Of course not. If we want to win, we must do a great deal more. We must lead the peasants’ struggle for land and distribute the land to them.”
It is the same logic always and forever. It starts off with populist talk, then turns into the complete violation of private property, its seizure, and violence.
In the United States, we have a right to property ownership. We have a Constitution. We do have laws on the books — at least for now.
Mamdani is using pure intimidation. It&#8217;s why, a few months back, he posted a video pointing to Ken Griffin&#8217;s apartment in New York City in an attempt to intimidate him.
That&#8217;s the only reason you do these things: to mobilize one group of people against those who are wealthier than they are.
It&#8217;s disgusting. It is vile. He&#8217;s not saying he&#8217;s going to make your life better. He&#8217;s pledging to make the rich guy&#8217;s life worse. That’s supposed to be what you rally around. It is full-scale destructive.
It is Bane. Understand that for Zohran Mamdani, the Bane mask isn&#8217;t the face mask Tom Hardy wore. The face mask is the smile.
Because underneath that smarmy smile, underneath that plastered-on grin, is the most vile anti-American person you can imagine.
And he’s running New York City.

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Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool, just held an &#8220;emergency press conference&#8221; explaining why New York City’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t wanted at the 9/11 25th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony.
The millionaire social media mogul took to X Monday night to list several reasons why Mamdani should be excluded from the ceremony, emphasizing that the socialist mayor has not &#8220;hid who he is.&#8221;
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Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don’t want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?
He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11
He endorsed Claire Valdez who also said America deserved 9/11
He… <a href="https://t.co/EH1vQMysWb">https://t.co/EH1vQMysWb</a>
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/2081922743230984620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11,&#8221; Portnoy began.
Portnoy is correct. In 2019, on a Twitch livestream, Piker said, &#8220;America deserved 9/11, dude. F*ck it, I&#8217;m saying it,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We totally brought it upon ourselves … We did, we f*cking did.&#8221;
Portnoy then pointed out that Mamdani endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier, who co-founded a group at Columbia University whose <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/anti-israel-columbia-students-call-for-total-eradication-of-western-civilization-divest-palestine-hamas-bangladesh-protests-demonstrations">mission</a> included this statement: &#8220;We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.&#8221;
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The Massachusetts native also pointed out that back in 2013 Mamdani sympathized with the Boston Marathon bombers who killed three and injured more than 250 people on April 15, 2013.
Five days after that terrorist attack, Mamdani defended one of the bombers in a <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/325639432000655361?s=20">post</a> that read, &#8220;The implications of not mirandizing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.&#8221;
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood Mamdani, justified suicide bombing three years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil in his 2004 book titled &#8220;Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror.&#8221;
The elder Mamdani said that &#8220;we need to recognize the suicide bomber, first and foremost, as a category of soldier.&#8221;
Portnoy continued with nearly a dozen more reasons why he believes 9/11 families don’t want to see Mamdani on the 25th anniversary of arguably the worst day of their lives.
Making a name for himself in sports, Portnoy hasn’t shied away from political issues over the last few years. He spoke out against Mamdani during his mayoral campaign, and is still baffled at how someone who has repeatedly refused to denounce anti-America rhetoric can be in charge of the country’s most-populated city.
&#8220;How the hell did we get here in the 1st place?&#8221; Portnoy asked Monday.
Critics of Mamdani, including Portnoy, haven’t forgotten his previous statements and endorsements, which are mentioned at length in <a href="https://www.change.org/p/please-sign-to-support-honoring-the-memory-of-those-lost-on-september-11th-with-dignity?recruiter=1421960844&amp;recruited_by_id=0999a100-7bbb-11f1-8944-997c0a94f6b3&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&amp;utm_medium=copylink&amp;share_id=kbk5YJfjfS">a petition</a> initiated by 9/11 widower Giovanni Galante.
Galante&#8217;s petition has more than 25,000 signatures and counting in support of keeping Mamdani away from the ceremony meant to honor and remember the lives lost to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
&#8220;We felt that having Mamdani there would show a disrespect to our family members because of the people he supports,&#8221; Galante told CBS New York.
&#8220;Mr. Mamdani’s own father, whom he has acknowledged as having shaped his views, penned a book shortly after 9/11 in which he argued that suicide bombers should be &#8216;understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism,'&#8221; Galante wrote. &#8220;He also argued that there was a moral equivalence between the United States and al-Qaeda.&#8221;
It’s a question Dave Portnoy and 25,000-plus people are asking as Mamdani defends his right to attend the ceremony.

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Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani came under fire Monday after making another promise for his controversial plan for city-run grocery stores, with critics, business leaders, and economists savaging the $70 million taxpayer-funded scheme as an illiterate economic disaster that will drive neighborhood bodegas into bankruptcy.
The backlash came swift and furious just hours after Mamdani took to the stage to proudly pitch a network of five government-owned supermarkets promising a mandatory 30% discount on &#8220;essential staples&#8221; like meat, produce, cheese, and milk. Brandishing a plantain and hawking a QR code like a late-night pitchman, Mamdani insisted government price controls are the only fix for soaring food prices and corporate &#8220;surveillance pricing.&#8221;
&#8220;No exceptions, no gimmicks,&#8221; Mamdani declared, promising that the city would freeze prices for a core basket of goods month after month.
Outrage over the socialist plan exploded online and across the business community, with experts warning that basic arithmetic is about to crush Big Apple taxpayers.
“This is LITERALLY how you destroy an economy,” <a href="https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/2081820994709418130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2081820994709418130%7Ctwgr%5E361a17a27a55b8e554811ba777e98433f97d7344%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1144953action%3Dedit">warned</a> venture capitalist Shaun Maguire. He cautioned that driving private grocers out of business with government-subsidized stores is the classic blueprint for supply-chain breakdowns and bare shelves. &#8220;This is the story of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Now coming to NYC!&#8221;
CNBC anchor Sara Eisen <a href="https://x.com/saraeisen/status/2081814896065536137?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">added</a>, &#8220;Socialist economics. Grocery stores operate with 1-2% profit margins already so taxpayers will have to subsidize 30% discounts on groceries. It also threatens to shut down local markets and bodegas (and reduce access to food), because they have to compete with the city stores, while also paying commercial rent and earning profits.&#8221;
Hedge fund co-founder Vuk Vukovic <a href="https://x.com/wolf_vukovic/status/2081885930185482314?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">wrote</a>, &#8220;If a grocery store wants to sell food 30% cheaper, one of only four things *must* be true: 1) Its suppliers are accepting 30% lower prices. 2) Its workers are accepting 30% lower wages. 3) Taxpayers are covering the difference through subsidies. 4) The store is operating at a loss, and will soon be out of business.&#8221;
&#8220;Something that people have a very hard time understanding is that prices don&#8217;t disappear. They allocate scarce resources. You can move costs around, hide them, or delay them, but you can&#8217;t make them vanish,&#8221; Vukovic added. &#8220;Having said that, let them do this experiment. They will destroy small grocers and produce food shortages.&#8221;
With grocery stores historically surviving on razor-thin margins of 1% to 3%, analysts pointed out that dropping prices by 30% doesn&#8217;t magically create savings — it just forces taxpayers to pick up the tab for the massive losses.
Joseph Hernandez, a Republican candidate for New York State Comptroller, dismantled Mamdani’s math. With each proposed store estimated to pull in $5.4 million in annual sales, a 30% discount creates a staggering $1.5 million yearly loss per store.
&#8220;Total cost to taxpayers, year one: about $78 million and then a permanent tax year after that, forever,&#8221; Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/hernandezforny/status/2081794071098708019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2081794071098708019%7Ctwgr%5E8c52e082b71167bd3f07507240c38b5e7d3fd836%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1144953action%3Dedit">said</a>. &#8220;And then you compete with private bodegas, small businesses paying full rent and taxes, run on the same razor-thin margins &#8230; This isn’t affordability. It’s a tax hike disguised as a discount and a private business killer.&#8221;
A government-run grocery experiment in Kansas City lost nearly $900,000 in 2024 alone while leaving shelves completely bare.

Economists Lose Their Minds Over Mamdani Supermarkets: ‘LITERALLY How You Destroy An Economy’

New York City&#8217;s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani doxxed a wide swath of his own constituents — just days after a terrorist attack — by publishing a searchable database of properties impacted by his new &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; tax.
The database, uploaded by the New York City Department of Finance, includes the addresses and names of property owners of homes valued at over one million dollars that the city has determined are not being used as primary residences.
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The city published a list of all properties &#8212; and the names of the owners &#8212; that *could be* subject to the new pied a terre tax in a very easy to search Excel sheet: <a href="https://t.co/d3iAikgERk">https://t.co/d3iAikgERk</a> <a href="https://t.co/cRjMmprBob">https://t.co/cRjMmprBob</a>
— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) <a href="https://x.com/bern_hogan/status/2080781054328062230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani touted his plan to implement the &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; — or &#8220;second home&#8221; tax — in an X post a week earlier, essentially taunting wealthy New Yorkers as he warned them, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got mail.&#8221;
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If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you&#8217;ve got mail.
Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon.
The best…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2080381372510724286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The piece of mail he referenced was the city&#8217;s assessment identifying the property as subject to the new tax — aimed specifically at the wealthy — along with a form to be filled out by the property owners if they met the stipulated qualifications for exemption from the tax.
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New: <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> admin is now sending out letters to homeowners who *may* be subject to “pied a terre” tax — &amp; updated the city’s website including a form for owners/primary residents to contest the tax if they meet exemption qualifications —&gt;<a href="https://t.co/C8zyZupXKa">https://t.co/C8zyZupXKa</a> <a href="https://t.co/aYWqLFh4rZ">pic.twitter.com/aYWqLFh4rZ</a>
— Bernadette Hogan (@bern_hogan) <a href="https://x.com/bern_hogan/status/2080287876021948655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani teased the coming wealth tax with a video — in which he vowed to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/escape-from-new-york-mamdanis-cash-cows-already-seeking-greener-pastures">tax the rich</a>&#8221; while standing outside a home owned by billionaire hedge fund manager <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-news/billionaire-ken-griffin-scales-back-nyc-jobs-in-response-to-mamdanis-tax-the-rich-antics-sparking-fears-wealthy-exodus-has-begun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Griffin</a>, majority owner of Citadel LLC.
Mamdani stood in front of Griffin’s Midtown penthouse to tout his plan for a “pied à terre” tax — which would slap additional taxes on second homes valued at over five million dollars — and as The Daily Wire previously reported, Griffin made it clear that he did not appreciate the gesture.
“We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor’s poor decision here with respect to his posting of that video,” Griffin said, calling Mamdani’s video “creepy.”
Indeed, Mamdani&#8217;s move to doxx some of his wealthiest constituents comes just days after an anti-ICE extremist allegedly firebombed 26 Federal Plaza. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-terrorist-meldown-over-ice-is-an-extension-of-mamdanis-mentality">suspect</a> reportedly used a makeshift incendiary device to carry out the attack.

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New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled perhaps one of his loftiest promises yet on Monday, vowing that his grocery stores will be 30% cheaper than competitors and will sell apple slices that stop toddler tantrums. 
“The savings will last for the entire month. That means no weekly fluctuations or sticker shock at the checkout line — not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the parents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay,” he said. 
Mamdani <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-unveils-30--discount---including-all-produce--all-">said</a> the stores will have a “core set of goods which will include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese, milk, and bread.” The stores will set prices at the beginning of each month and will not change until the next month. The markets will not sell hot food to avoid competing with local bodegas. 
“Mamdani’s policies — from state run groceries to government-provided babysitting for parents’ night out — perfectly demonstrate how much Leftists want the government to co-parent your kids. Ironically, Mamdani’s obsession with the City parenting your children stems from his own childlessness — and we parents will stick to our own apple slices, thanks,&#8221; Daily Wire host Isabel Brown said.
The first of the five grocery stores, one in each borough of New York City, will open by the end of 2027 in Hunts Point in the Bronx at the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Facility. Mamdani has committed that the other four will be open by the end of his term as mayor. Mamdani predicts that New Yorkers will save $90 a month, which could translate to $1,000 per year. Another store will open in 2029 at La Marqueta in East Harlem, where former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia placed a public retail market 90 years ago. 
The city will own or lease the land at each of the grocery stores and will pay for needed construction or renovations, but a third-party operator will be in charge of running the store. Mamdani’s administration is requesting proposals from third-party operations to run the grocery stores that the mayor says have “no plans to turn a profit.” 
Mamdani has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdani-quotes-ronald-reagan-as-he-rolls-out-socialist-campaign-promise?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zohran+Mamdani+Quotes+Ronald+Reagan+As+He+Rolls+Out+Socialist+Campaign+Promise">argued</a> that the city-owned grocery stores are meant to serve as a proof of concept for a larger government role in providing essential services. While announcing the second location, he pushed back on President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s famous line that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, &#8220;I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; Instead, Mamdani said the more frightening words are: &#8220;I worked all day and can&#8217;t feed my family.&#8221;
Critics cite failures of government-run grocery stores in places like Venezuela, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/29/452636462/the-nightmare-of-grocery-shopping-in-venezuela">where</a> stores suffered chronic shortages, empty shelves, spoiled food, and logistical breakdowns.

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Happy Friday, folks.
Let’s check in on our favorite socialist mayor’s city. Shall we?
In the span of 24 hours, the terror sympathizing, Ugandan native took to X to proclaim that if landlords stepped out of line he&#8217;d seize their property, that his &#8220;talk with the people&#8221; (more like Hugo Chávez&#8217;s rambling Aló, Presidente) is dropping soon, that anyone sitting on a second home worth over five million dollars in New York City should expect a little love letter in the mail about their new pied-a-terre tax, and that HE HAS BEEN BRIEFED on the terror attack on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were stabbed with a screwdriver by a Muslim screaming &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221;
Be careful subscribing to his social media pages. You might get whiplash. Or have a heart attack.
But of course all of this comes as a shock to no one. This is a man who ran for office promising to come for pesky landlords’ buildings and squeeze every last penny from New York&#8217;s most successful residents. He is, by his own design, a communist cosplayer whose favorite new hobby is announcing “he has been briefed.”
The only shocking thing about a shocking week is that we&#8217;ve all stopped being shocked.
He <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLNFpFhBaP/?hl=en">spent</a> time at a a mosque earlier this year that has documented ties to an Iranian-government front, where the imam sang about &#8220;the killing of the infidels by your sword.&#8221; (Infidels, for those keeping score at home, means anyone who isn&#8217;t Muslim. So, most of his subjects.) He says, often and loudly, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, and that he&#8217;ll use his vast and terrifying mayoral power to have him arrested for &#8220;genocidal actions.&#8221; (He has no such power, and appears equally unclear on what &#8220;genocide&#8221; means.) This week he posted a moody little video branding the Jewish state as evil incarnate and urging New Yorkers to use &#8220;every tool they have&#8221; against it. He also declined to condemn the call to &#8220;globalize the intifada,&#8221; a rallying cry for violence against Jews and Israelis.
So no, my jaw did not hit the floor when a man took his wisdom to heart and stabbed a man on his way to synagogue.
Jewish New Yorkers are furious, and rightly frightened. City leaders used a press conference to accuse the mayor of &#8220;fanning the flames of hatred and division.&#8221; Which is exactly what he&#8217;s done. Even Hedge Hero Bill Ackman suggested the mayor take a little field trip to the Holocaust Museum, presumably so someone can finally explain to him what the word he keeps butchering actually means.
The <a href="https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2080641750058639606/video/1">NYPD</a> has had it with the smarmball, too. Their relationship soured the moment the internet unearthed a video of Mamdani claiming the department&#8217;s boots are &#8220;laced by the IDF,&#8221; and they&#8217;ve been in full breakup mode ever since. President of the New York City Police Benevolent Association Patrick Hendry warned that the mayor&#8217;s rhetoric is pushing things too far: &#8220;When the mayor of the city is actively calling for demonstrations, violent agitators will assume they have permission to cause as much havoc as possible.&#8221; NYPD Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro put it more bluntly, saying Mamdani &#8220;acts like he&#8217;s leading a protest movement instead of running the largest city in America.&#8221;
Yep. And boy has havoc ensued. Because for the Left, violent protest is encouraged, excused, and practically canonized, so long as it&#8217;s done in the name of the almighty omnicause.
And Zohran, ever the multitasker, tries to hold every banner at once. He&#8217;s pro-trans, throwing pride parties at Town Hall and announcing a $15 million investment in gender-mutilative care (one imagines the imam was thrilled). He&#8217;s pro-&#8220;underprivileged,&#8221; except his rent freeze is quietly crushing the immigrants and working-class renters he claims to champion, who are now staring down record-high payments. He&#8217;s pro-Palestine, a cause whose governing authority executes gay people for the crime of existing, and he&#8217;s decidedly anti-America, a country he insists is starving its children while oligarchs run wild.
He’s doing cartwheels around these ideologies. It’s exhausting to try and follow.
But that&#8217;s who he is, and how he clawed his way to the top. A theater kid turned failed rapper who talked his way into Gracie Mansion and started acting like a warm and fuzzy dictator instead of what he actually is: the overseer of a five-borough sanitation budget.
None of his promises have landed. Bus fares are more expensive. Rents are up, not down; the city isn’t safer, it’s louder. But he will keep pretending to fix these problems after being duly “briefed.”
He’s a walking contradiction in a suit and keffiyeh.
Twenty-five years after this country buried nearly 3,000 people killed in the name of the very rhetoric Mamdani can’t bring himself to condemn, New York elected a mayor who sat through a call to kill the infidels and called it a privilege to be there. History does not usually repeat itself so quickly, or so loudly, but here we are. Ahlan.
Happy Friday, indeed.

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