Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, is battling pneumonia complicated by ash exposure from the 9/11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.
Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman, who announced on Sunday that &#8220;America&#8217;s Mayor&#8221; had been hospitalized and was in &#8220;critical but stable condition,&#8221; explained the situation in more detail in a statement posted Monday morning via X.
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Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia. On September 11th, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease.
This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly…
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&#8220;Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia,&#8221; Goodman posted — and then explained how such a diagnosis could be far more dangerous to someone whose respiratory system was already compromised due to exposure to the dust and ash that blanketed New York in the aftermath of the 2001 Islamic terror attacks. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City at the time, earned the nickname &#8220;America&#8217;s Mayor&#8221; as he shepherded the city through the weeks that followed the attacks.
&#8220;On September 11th, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition.&#8221;
The good news, Goodman added, was that Giuliani had stabilized somewhat and was able to breathe without medical intervention.
&#8220;He is now breathing on his own, with his family and primary medical provider at his side,&#8221; Goodman said. &#8220;Mayor Giuliani is the ultimate fighter — as he has demonstrated throughout his life — and he is winning this battle. His family deeply appreciates the outpouring of love and support. The mayor believes in the power of prayer, and we are feeling that strength today. He remains in critical but stable condition. Please keep the prayers coming.&#8221;
When the news broke on Sunday that Giuliani had been hospitalized, President Donald Trump was quick to send out a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116513195579187634">statement</a> on behalf of his longtime friend and ally: &#8220;Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition. What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!&#8221;

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As Giuliani Battles For His Life, His Illness Is Complicated By Heroic Actions On 9/11

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in critical condition at a Florida hospital, his spokesman said Sunday evening — and President Donald Trump was quick to wish his friend and longtime ally well.
The spokesman, Ted Goodman, said that the former mayor and staunch ally of the president &#8220;remains in critical but stable condition.&#8221;
&#8220;Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/TedCGoodman/status/2051070892529066120?s=20">the statement said.</a> &#8220;Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he&#8217;s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak.  We do ask that you join us in prayer for America&#8217;s Mayor Rudy Giuliani.&#8221;
A patient in <a href="https://www.alfredhealth.org.au/images/resources/media-centre/Patient-conditions.pdf">&#8220;critical but stable condition&#8221;</a> means that their condition is life-threatening but has vital signs within normal limits.
It is unclear what sent Mr. Giuliani, 81, to the hospital.
President Trump issued a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116513195579187634">statement</a> via Truth Social immediately upon learning that his friend and longtime ally was in the hospital, saying, &#8220;Our fabulous Rudy Giuliani, a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR, has been hospitalized, and is in critical condition. What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING! They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!&#8221;
Giuliani, nicknamed &#8220;America&#8217;s Mayor&#8221; in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, was hospitalized recently following a car accident but had reportedly recovered.
This is a developing story. Stay with The Daily Wire for updates.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized In Critical Condition

A video from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office shows a man and a woman from the Office of Mass Engagement asking people to testify at the rent guideline board hearings. The man, named “Mohammed,” wears a keffiyeh, which is popularly seen as fealty to the Palestinian Arab cause.
The video shows them knocking at the door of a home and Mamdani answering, saying, “Tell me more.”
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New York, let&#39;s get organized.
In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made.
We can do better. 
If we want a city that works for tenants and landlords alike, we need New Yorkers… <a href="https://t.co/M6qBtebnu7">pic.twitter.com/M6qBtebnu7</a>
&mdash; Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/2049580664672936402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2026</a></blockquote>
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🚨In this overedited video, Zohran Mamdani is trying to scam NY’ers into thinking that if a random keffiyeh wearing Mohamed randomly knocks on your door, it’s okay. Except it’s not, it’s extremely alarming. Let’s not a normalize a txxrorist scarf. <a href="https://t.co/96tf0O9OAX">pic.twitter.com/96tf0O9OAX</a>
&mdash; Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManhattanMingle/status/2049658079151550643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Of course, Mamdani is the same guy who in 2023 celebrated the “first annual Keffiyeh Cup in Astoria Park—an all-day soccer tournament fundraiser for @UNRWA , one of the leading providers of emergency relief for Palestinians in Gaza.”
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Last weekend, we held the first annual Keffiyeh Cup in Astoria Park—an all-day soccer tournament fundraiser for <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a>, one of the leading providers of emergency relief for Palestinians in Gaza.
A 🧵. <a href="https://t.co/eJPIyjKEnN">pic.twitter.com/eJPIyjKEnN</a>
&mdash; Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1734006009763389874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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UN Watch has <a href="https://unwatch.org/new-refuting-unrwa-facts-versus-claims/">noted</a> of UNRWA:
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In April 2025, the Israeli government <a href="https://govextra.gov.il/media/d21mw2f3/the-connection-between-unrwa-and-hamas-280425.pdf">revealed</a> that more than 1,400 UNRWA Gaza employees — approximately 12% of its workforce — were members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The finding was based on verified Israeli intelligence obtained during military operations in Gaza, some of which was declassified and made publicly available online. The released documents included Hamas’s own personnel records: internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files.
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UN Watch also published “<a href="https://unwatch.org/the-unholy-alliance-unrwa-hamas-and-islamic-jihad/">The Unholy Alliance: UNRWA, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad</a>,” a compendium of how the terrorist groups influenced UNRWA.
Mamdani’s elevation of the keffiyeh makes perfect sense considering that last month, he celebrated terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil. Mamdani proudly took to social media to announce that he welcomed Khalil, an anti-Israel activist, to Gracie Mansion to break the Ramadan fast. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-activist-detained-by-ice-led-activities-aligned-to-hamas-trumps-dhs-says">announced</a> last year.
Mamdani’s hatred of Israel has gone so far as <a href="https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1982974662175752646%7Ctwgr%5Eccfb9e91ab6dbdfea709b53afc8e52f4287663cd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D992113action%3Dedit">saying,</a> “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it&#8217;s been laced by the IDF.”
Within hours of taking office, Mamdani signed an <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/content/dam/nycgov/mayors-office/downloads/pdf/executive-orders/2026/eo1-prior-executive-orders.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">executive order</a> revoking all mayoral directives issued after September 26, 2024. This action effectively axed several key protections for the Jewish community and measures aimed at strengthening ties with Israel:
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<li>IHRA Definition: He scrapped the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism">definition of antisemitism</a>, a tool used by more than 30 countries to identify anti-Jewish hate, particularly when it targets Israel&#8217;s right to exist.</li>
<li>Anti-BDS Measures: He <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/zohran-mamdani-nyc-antisemitism/2026/01/02/id/1240493/">lifted</a> Executive Order 60, which barred city entities from boycotting or divesting from Israel.</li>
<li>Safety Buffers: He revoked directives aimed at creating protest-free zones around houses of worship, a move previously intended to protect synagogues from targeted demonstrations.</li>
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Mamdani’s early actions align with a political history defined by intense opposition to Israel. As a student, he founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and as a state legislator, he sponsored the &#8220;Not on Our Dime&#8221; Act, which sought to strip New York charities that provide aid to Israeli causes of their tax-exempt status.

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Mask-Off Mayor: Mamdani Pushes Pro-Palestinian Imagery In New NYC Ad

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Well, that didn’t take long.
Just months after ascending to the mayoralty on a platform promising a socialist utopia, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has discovered a minor flaw in his master plan: math.
On Tuesday, the man who spent his campaign effectively declaring war on the concept of success stood before the cameras to announce that the Big Apple is facing a budget crisis of &#8220;historic magnitude.&#8221; Looking at a deficit larger than any seen since the Great Recession, Mamdani — who apparently believes money grows on trees as long as those trees are planted in Central Park West — is now begging Albany for a bailout.
&#8220;We cannot close this deficit with savings alone,&#8221; Mamdani lamented, sounding less like a revolutionary and more like a college student who just realized their parents cut off the credit card. &#8220;We need new revenue.&#8221;
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WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM UPDATE: Mayor Zohran Mamdani declares a &quot;budget crisis,&quot; asks for a bailout from the state government, and pushes back his deadline for completing the city budget at least 10 days:
&quot;We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue, and… <a href="https://t.co/KR0FD5YqbE">pic.twitter.com/KR0FD5YqbE</a>
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Of course he does. But where, exactly, does the &#8220;People’s Mayor&#8221; expect that revenue to come from?
Back in June 2025, when asked by NBC’s Kristen Welker if billionaires have a &#8220;right to exist,&#8221; Mamdani didn’t stutter: &#8220;I don’t think that we should have billionaires,&#8221; he declared, citing the &#8220;inequality&#8221; of it all. He followed that up recently with a TikTok-style stunt, filming a &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; video in front of Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse, the most expensive home in America.
It was a $6 billion mistake.
Forty-eight hours after Mamdani’s performance, Citadel — the firm Griffin already moved to Miami because of this exact brand of fiscal insanity in Chicago — <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ken-griffin-is-mightily-pissed-off-with-zohran-mamdani.html#:~:text=In%20a%20Tax%20Day–themed,full%2Dtime%20in%20the%20city.">sent a memo</a> that should make every New Yorker shudder. The firm signaled it might kill its massive redevelopment at 350 Park Avenue. We’re talking about a 62-story skyscraper, 6,000 construction jobs, and 15,000 permanent positions.
Keep in mind, Citadel employees have already poured $2.3 billion in taxes into New York’s coffers over the last five years. But in Mamdani’s world, those people aren’t &#8220;carrying their fair share.&#8221;
Now, with the golden goose currently looking at real estate in Palm Beach, Mamdani is crying &#8220;crisis&#8221; and demanding a &#8220;structural reset.&#8221; Translation: He’s run out of other people’s money and is desperate for a state-funded life raft to save him from the consequences of his own rhetoric.
Florida real estate developers are likely sending Mamdani thank-you notes. By treating the city’s largest taxpayers like villains in a comic book, Mamdani hasn’t achieved &#8220;equality&#8221; — he’s achieved an exodus. New York is learning the hard way that when you tell the people who pay the bills that they shouldn&#8217;t exist, they eventually take the hint and the bills go unpaid.
But don’t worry, New Yorkers. At least you have the &#8220;meaningful savings&#8221; Mamdani promised — right before he asked for a deadline extension because he can’t make the numbers work.
Welcome to the Socialist Paradise.
Watch your step on the way out.

Socialist Buffoon: Mamdani Begs For Money, Cites ‘Budget Crisis’ After Attacking The Rich

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has signaled he might nix his company’s $6 billion Midtown construction project over tax policy.
Citadel’s Chief Operating Officer Gerald Beeson slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent “Tax the Rich” video in which the mayor promoted a new tax policy, invoking Griffin as an example.
“It is shameful that he used Ken’s name as the example of those who supposedly aren’t carrying their fair share of the burdens associated with New York City’s often costly and wasteful spending,” said Gerald Beeson. “In doing so, the mayor has once again manifested the ignorance and disdain of the elite political class towards those who have been consistently committed to building one of the greatest cities in the world.”
If the company moves forward with the construction project, it is expected to create 6,000 high-paying jobs and support 15,000 permanent jobs in Midtown Manhattan, but a recent email to employees hinted it may be halted.
“The project—if we move forward—will entail more than $6 billion dollars of spending,” the email read.
Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman also weighed in, arguing that Griffin contributes significantly to the city without placing demands on its resources.
“Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave them vacant for much of the year are not a burden on NYC schools, services, or other resources, while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important sectors of our economy,” Ackman said. “They also often support NYC nonprofits with donations.”
Ackman concluded with a warning, saying the mayor’s policies “will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help.”
Mamdani ran his campaign on taking wealth from the rich and redistributing it in the form of city services like free buses and free childcare.
Figuring out how to pay for these policies has led to challenges for Mamdani, as his authority to levy taxes ends at New York City’s property tax — though the mayor constantly lobbies New York Governor Kathy Hochul to raise taxes.
The pied-à-terre tax that Mamdani claimed would apply to properties like Griffin’s $238 million penthouse is an example of how the mayor is exploiting new revenue sources. The new tax will apply to homes in New York City valued over $5 million. It is expected to raise $500 million, which will allegedly help address the $5.4 billion deficit the city is currently facing.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Interview

68 Seconds And Taxpayers Are Out $6 Billion?

Bill Ackman

Economy

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Grinning hell-spawn and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced his new socialist plan to destroy first New York, then the country, then the world, by way of taking revenge on God for casting him out of heaven and hurling him into the bottomless pit of eternal flames, where he was immediately elected Mayor of New York.
Mamdani’s new socialist plan of destruction was celebrated by his supporters with a tasteful human sacrifice, followed by an orgiastic dance around the golden statue of a goat, while Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, set a Jewish effigy on fire and called on the dark forces of the underworld to trod the nation of Israel and its people into dust. When Mr. Effigy complained to the mayor that he did not like being set on fire and, frankly, felt Rama Duwaji was being kind of antisemitic, Mr. Mamdani replied that his wife was a “private person,” and therefore could not be condemned for the bubbling blood-drenched froth that issued from her mouth when she went into ecstasies at the thought of millions of Jews being crushed to dust.
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Mayor and also Satan’s glove puppet Mamdani’s plan begins with spending $30 million in taxpayer money to build a government grocery store in Harlem, where taxpayer subsidies will bring down the price of its food, allowing the store to drive local minority-owned grocery stores out of business so that the owners will be impoverished, then homeless. The price of the store, the food subsidies and new homeless shelters will be raised by taxing billionaires who will immediately exit the city en masse, reducing New York’s tax income to minus four dollars so that the government grocery shelves will be empty, and the impoverished people of Harlem will be forced to eat first cats, then rats, then cockroaches, then one another in what the mayor of New York and Prince of Lies warmly hailed as a “traditional socialist meal.”
Mamdani pledged the escaping billionaires would be hunted down by winged creatures of no recognizable description, after which a wall would be built around the city to keep them from trying to escape once again from the warm embrace of collectivism.
After that, the Malignant Spirit and Mayor said he would continue to devise new methods to fund his plans to destroy the globe with new taxes on earwax, daydreams, and friendly greetings, levied on any wealthy or upper middle class or middle class or starving former Harlem grocery owner who lives in New York or once lived in New York or once watched a movie that took place in New York or knew somebody who had. The exact value of the taxable items would be determined by a committee of bureaucrats selected for their ability to never have worked a day in their lives or otherwise created even a single dollar of wealth. These bureaucrats would be paid millions for their service, the salaries to be raised by taxing the benign invisible spirits who hover protectively over the cradles of newborn babes.
Many Republicans predicted that the socialist plan would destroy every hint of prosperity in the city, as anyone but a living tarpit of wickedness would know. But Mayor and living Tarpit of Wickedness Mamdani said he was unconcerned, because New York Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two to one, and some 66% of Democrats look favorably on socialism, these being the same 66% of Democrats who look favorably on assassinating their political opponents, tearing the limbs off unborn babies then selling their remaining body parts, and repeatedly harassing total strangers to make them atone for the sins of white people, which include colonialism, the Grand Ole Opry Christmas Special, and the manufacture of electrical plants, which they invented, to power the manufacture of all the medicines and devices they invented to make possible modern life, which they also invented.
The smiling King of Demons and New York Mayor said he would continue to unveil his socialist plans until God apologized for hurling him into hell and agreed that from now on he would be called God instead and would be allowed to dine on the souls of his constituents until they were damned forever or re-elected him mayor of New York, whichever came last.
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Inside Mamdani’s Hellish Plan To Destroy NYC

Andrew Klavan

Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at One Police Plaza and acknowledged that anti-Jewish hate crimes comprise more than half of all hate crimes in his city, even though Jews are only about 10% of the population. Yet when asked what message he wanted to send, he offered nothing more than a platitude about everyone belonging and everyone being cherished.
That gap between data and response is not merely political. It may become legal, and could become deadly.
Mamdani has staked his public safety reputation on precision policing, a data-driven strategy that deploys resources where the numbers point. It is a sensible approach, and the overall crime figures reflect it. But precision policing has a logical corollary: if the data shows one community absorbing 55% of hate crimes – more than five times their share of the population — a generic response is not neutral. When a strategy is explicitly driven by data about where crime is concentrated and who is being victimized, a deliberate decision to not respond with equivalent precision begins to look less like oversight and more like selective indifference. Mamdani’s approach presents three overlapping legal problems for the city.
The first is Equal Protection. Although the government may exercise discretion in enforcing the law, it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment when a motivating factor in its failure to protect people from crime is invidious discrimination against a protected group, such as Jews or Israelis.
Mamdani’s public record already evinces a pattern and practice of such discrimination.
From the first days of his administration, Mamdani made a series of choices all pointing in the same direction: reduced protection for Jews and Israelis against rising antisemitic hate crimes. Mamdani deleted official statements about protecting Jewish New Yorkers, rescinded the city’s IHRA-based antisemitism order, and folded the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes into a broader Office of Community Safety. He also offers a constant drumbeat of anti-Israel propaganda, complete with false claims of genocide, apartheid, and racism, having the purpose and effect of fomenting hatred against both Jews and Israelis.
The Mayor insists that antisemitism be viewed in tandem with a purportedly equivalent threat to Muslims, his favored religious constituency, while touting a 140% rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes. But that is a false equivalence, reflecting deliberate indifference to the magnitude of the peril faced by Jews in New York. In the first quarter of 2026, Muslims were the targets of 12 (8.4%) confirmed hate crimes, representing an estimated 10% share of the population of New York City. The share of hate crimes did increase for Muslims, but from only five incidents in the first quarter of 2025. In all of 2025, according to the NYPD, Jews in New York were the victims of 324 hate crimes — over six per week — constituting 57.6% of the total, while 26 hate crimes targeted Muslims, 4.6% of the total. To insist that these are equivalent threats bespeaks sectarian bias not fairness.
The second problem for the city is municipal liability for that discriminatory failure to protect under Monell v. Department of Social Services. Under the Monell doctrine, a city can be sued directly when a constitutional violation flows from an official policy or custom. Monell cases are usually slow to build, because a pattern and practice of deliberate indifference usually takes a while to develop. Mamdani is an exception. He is constructing a record against the city, in public, in real time. Every statement minimizing antisemitism, every decision to dilute targeted protections, every press conference where he recites the numbers and then changes the subject, is a tile in the Monell mosaic. The evidentiary foundation for a Monell claim against the city is being delivered from the Mayor&#8217;s podium.
The third looming implication for the city is federal liability. Under 34 U.S.C. §12601, the Department of Justice has authority to investigate and sue local law enforcement agencies for engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives persons of constitutional rights. This statute has been used for decades to go after cities that over-police minority communities. There is no legal reason it cannot work in the opposite direction, against a city that systematically under-protects one. The federal government could also withdraw funding from the city for law enforcement programs (or even more broadly), or seek refunds of prior grants, on the grounds that the city is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which applies to all federal grant recipients.
A formal complaint to the DOJ Civil Rights Division, grounded in the NYPD&#8217;s published hate crime data, calling for an investigation into New York City&#8217;s response to antisemitic hate crimes, would be unprecedented. It would also be legally sound. The data and public course of conduct by Mamdani are more than enough to suggest the sort of pattern and practice that warrants the federal scrutiny of an in-depth DOJ investigation.
Of course, the NYPD does not ignore these crimes entirely. Commissioner Tisch, to her credit, has often spoken about the issue. But when the policymaker at the top repeatedly signals that anti-Jewish targeting will be met with indifference and abstraction rather than attention and action or raises “concerns” about even modest efforts to stop protesters from besieging Jewish worshippers, or announces that if he cannot get the Commissioner to agree to dismantle the Strategic Response Group he will simply overrule her, that travels down the chain of command to impact how scenes are policed, and how cases are classified, investigated, prioritized, and deterred.
Nor must the legal record wait until the worst facts arrive. Thankfully, where plaintiffs can show a cognizable threat of ongoing unequal treatment, declaratory and injunctive remedies may be available before irreparable harm is inflicted. If we build the record now, there is still time for a course correction before even more crimes occur.
Mayor Mamdani said the numbers tell an indisputable story. He is right. The story they tell is that Jewish New Yorkers are the most targeted minority in the city he governs, that hate crimes are a rising threat, and that his response has been at best, generic, and at worst, corrosively hostile.
Equal protection means something. Monell means something. Federal authority over civil rights means something. The law does not wait for a mayor to get around to caring, and neither should we.
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Dr. Mark Goldfeder is the CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center and a professor at Touro Law School.
Alan Scheiner is Senior Litigation Counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center.

New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes An Announcement In Brooklyn

The Numbers Tell One Story. The Mayor’s Response Tells Another

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antisemitism

Democratic Socialism

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New York Police Department (NYPD)

On Monday, the New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)—which enforces housing laws on private landlords—released a video that was a photo-op for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani accompanied inspectors as they toured a private apartment building. The resulting video—a textbook photo-op—captured the mayor and inspectors pointing out minor infractions like faulty window balances and flower pots on fire escapes. While Mamdani framed the event as a victory for &#8220;accountability,&#8221; critics see it as a calculated distraction from the catastrophic state of the city’s own housing empire and a precursor to a massive, taxpayer-funded spending spree.
Mamdani’s rhetoric was unmistakable. Urging residents to flood the 311 system, he promised to &#8220;hold landlords accountable&#8221; for every broken plaster patch.
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What does an HPD inspection look like?<a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZohranKMamdani</a> stepped in for a day and identified six violations now being issued to the landlord.
If you see unsafe conditions, call 311. We’ll inspect and hold owners accountable. <a href="https://t.co/FhaqHKBnrn">pic.twitter.com/FhaqHKBnrn</a>
&mdash; NYC Housing (@NYCHousing) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCHousing/status/2046360618068742252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This aggressive posture toward the private sector is a cornerstone of the Mamdani administration, which has effectively declared war on private property through its &#8220;Rental Ripoff&#8221; hearing series. Led by Director of Tenant Protection Cea Weaver—who has infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marxism-in-the-metropolis-nycs-new-tenant-czar-has-targeted-white-homeowners-private-property?utm_source=chatgpt.com">labeled</a> homeownership a &#8220;tool of white supremacy&#8221;—the administration appears less interested in urban planning and more focused on what some describe as &#8220;Soviet-style collectivism.&#8221;
The irony of Mamdani’s crusade against &#8220;private slumlords&#8221; is the staggering state of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). While the mayor hunts for missing window guards in private buildings, NYCHA—the city’s own public housing system—was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-nyc-govt-employees-arrested-by-feds-most-single-day-bribery-arrests-in-doj-history?utm_source=chatgpt.com">buckling</a> under a $78 billion repair backlog as late as 2024. Residents there aren&#8217;t just dealing with flower pots on fire escapes; they face chronic infestations, lead paint, and broken elevators.
Mamdani’s attitude with NYCHA is one of &#8220;throwing money at the problem&#8221; while ignoring the rot within. In 2024, federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/nyregion/nyc-public-housing-corruption.html">charged</a> 70 NYCHA employees in a massive bribery and extortion scheme—the largest single-day bribery takedown in Department of Justice history. These officials allegedly took $2 million in kickbacks for maintenance contracts.
Rather than addressing this &#8220;culture of corruption,&#8221; Mamdani has consistently framed NYCHA&#8217;s failure as a mere lack of &#8220;public investment,&#8221; ignoring that the agency collected a record-low 65% of charged rent in 2022.
Landlords, particularly those managing rent-stabilized buildings, warn that Mamdani’s policies are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of decay. With financing costs skyrocketing and rental revenue frozen by city mandates, major providers like the Pinnacle Group have already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-weeks-of-one-sided-open-mic-complaints-mamdani-eyes-housing-power-grab">forced into bankruptcy</a>.
The message to New Yorkers is clear: the administration intends to squeeze the private market until it breaks, then step in with &#8220;collective&#8221; solutions funded by a city budget already facing a $12.6 billion gap.
While Mamdani &#8220;imagines&#8221; a better city for the cameras, the reality for many remains piles of rat-infested trash and a public housing system that remains the city&#8217;s most negligent landlord.

NYC Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address On His First 100 Days In Office

Mamdani’s Soviet-Style Photo-Op Targets Landlords While NYC’s Public Housing Empire Crumbles

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The Democratic Socialists of America’s online base spent the weekend in full meltdown mode after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was seen singing &#8220;The Wheels on the Bus&#8221; alongside former President Barack Obama, a development that, for a movement obsessed with ideological purity, landed somewhere between betrayal and heresy.
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Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ at a childcare center in the Bronx. <a href="https://t.co/mdra2jCsJa">pic.twitter.com/mdra2jCsJa</a>
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The backlash was immediate and, in typical fashion, unfiltered.
“If Mamdani invited genocidal war criminal Netanyahu to read stories to preschoolers the American left would be up in arms,” <a href="https://x.com/sovietwithsazon/status/2045602189427544193">one post</a> read. “But of course this war criminal … still gets an inexplicable pass.” Another user <a href="https://x.com/OGBlackRedGuard/status/2045608398431854949">fumed</a>: “Why is a DSA member casually hanging out with the double tap drone king who isn’t even president anymore.”
Others went further, accusing Obama of sabotaging the Left outright. “Barack Obama literally made phone calls and got personally involved to kill the Bernie Sanders campaign,” one user <a href="https://x.com/SocialistMMA/status/2045827974243451254">wrote</a>, as Mamdani supporters were accused of “rehabilitating his image.” The tone across the board was less disappointment than revolt. “Zohran dragged you mfs to the right,” the post declared flatly.
The irony is hard to miss. Mamdani, who just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-cant-make-socialism-happen-so-how-does-he-respond?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mamdani+Can%E2%80%99t+Make+Socialism+Happen.+So+How+Does+He+Respond%3F">reaffirmed</a> that he believes in Democratic socialism “even more than I did the day before,” is now being cast as insufficiently radical by the very coalition that helped elevate him.
But the composition of that coalition helps explain the dynamic. Despite the rhetoric of revolution and working-class solidarity, the DSA’s own internal data paint a different picture. <a href="https://x.com/StatisticUrban/status/2046366821079826589">A majority</a> of its members sit squarely in the professional-managerial class: 10% identify as academics, 13% as white-collar professionals, 9% as tech workers, with additional shares in nonprofits and the public sector. Altogether, roughly 54% hold what would broadly be considered credentialed and insulated jobs.
Another 23% are either students or unemployed.
The demographic breakdown is just as revealing. The organization is 85% white, with single-digit representation across Hispanic, Asian, and black members. For a movement that frequently frames itself as a vehicle for marginalized voices, its base remains overwhelmingly homogeneous.
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I was curious as to the exact numbers on the DSA, and here they are. <a href="https://t.co/9t9IcWM7yf">https://t.co/9t9IcWM7yf</a> <a href="https://t.co/VYfkGzNDAL">pic.twitter.com/VYfkGzNDAL</a>
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) <a href="https://twitter.com/StatisticUrban/status/2046350556441309491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2026</a></blockquote>
The gap between self-image and reality is where the Mamdani-Obama backlash starts to make more sense. What presents itself as ideological rigor often functions like cultural signaling, where proximity to perceived impurity becomes grounds for denunciation. 
For a movement that claims to prioritize material outcomes, the reaction suggests something else is at play — a politics driven as much by identity and posture as by policy — and when even one of their own can’t pass the test, it raises questions about whether that pure standard is attainable at all.

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‘Double Tap Drone King’: Socialists Crash Out After Mamdani Meets With ‘War Criminal’ Obama

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New York City has paid almost $100 million to rent empty preschool classrooms, according to a shocking new report.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/us-news/empty-nyc-preschools-cost-taxpayers-nearly-100m-in-rent-alone/">reported</a> Monday that the city has paid $99.3 million over the last five years for rent and utilities on 28 buildings for preschool classrooms acquired through part of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “universal” preschool push. The spending on the empty classrooms has both former officials and NYC residents upset about the Big Apple’s latest use of taxpayer dollars.
“I don’t think it’s corruption. It’s incompetence,” a former city Department of Education official told the Post.
The official added that despite “such a significant need for pre-K seats,” many of the classrooms were empty because they were made available in areas without verifying demand. Meanwhile, other parts of the city have long wait lists for preschool seats.
The Post reported that de Blasio’s push for the“3-K For All” program, which provides full-day early childhood education for 3-year-olds, led to a mad dash for renting buildings that have yet to be used.
De Blasio blamed the empty classrooms on his successor, former Mayor Eric Adams, saying that “during my administration, we never had a problem filling Pre-K and 3-K seats because we did lots of parent-friendly outreach.”
“Sadly, the Adams administration ended those efforts and took a step backwards on early childhood education,” he told the Post.
For his part, Adams said that he “inherited a system with thousands of empty early childhood seats,” and he focused on “stabilizing providers and increasing enrollment, rather than simply expanding capacity.”
Seven of the vacant sites are expected to be opened up in the fall by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“New York City is continuing to invest in and strengthen early care and learning across the city, including expanding access to 3-K and improving access to Pre-K programs for families,&#8221; the New York Department of Education told The Daily Wire. &#8220;NYC Public Schools, in partnership with City Hall, is opening new Pre-K Centers and activating additional early childhood sites in communities where families need more access to programs closer to home.”
One of the empty sites is at Union Turnpike in Queens and has cost the city $10.8 million, according to the report.
“They realized [afterward that] it wasn’t a good location. … If they didn’t think the need was there, why did they pick the site in the first place?” the former Education Department official said.
Nearby business owner Larry Mottola told the Post that it was troubling that the government would waste money on unused buildings.
“They had beautiful classrooms, a stainless steel kitchen [and] there’s a beautiful playground around back,” he said. “It’s bothersome, [that] they would waste that kind of money for four years.”
Another parent said that it was frustrating that the government selected sites where there was no demand.
“It feels like a real misstep that we’re not even utilizing the space that’s being paid for,” said Jessica Setton. &#8220;De Blasio had good intention, terrible execution.&#8221;

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‘Free’ Daycare? See What A $100M Taxpayer Bill Got Instead

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Yesterday, Tax Day, was the greatest American holiday — according to the Democratic Party.
You might think of Tax Day as something annoying and awful, that day when you slip a check in the mail that represents a gigantic chunk of your yearly earnings so the federal government can then spend all that money on a bunch of useless horse crap.
But that&#8217;s where you&#8217;re wrong, according to Democrats. For them, Tax Day is a magnificent delight, a day of festivities for all. We should look forward to it every year because taxes are incredible. 
As Joe Biden used to say, they are a sign of “patriotism,” of “social solidarity.”
Or, in reality, sticking it to the people who earn money in the United States.
There&#8217;s something even better for Democrats spending all of that magical money on awful nonsense. In fact, that&#8217;s the best part: It&#8217;s not your money. It was never your money. It was always their money.
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They let you control some of it. But the rest of it, they take from you, and then they burn it, just to show you that your economic freedom belongs to them.
The purpose of taxes, according to Democrats, is not a more prosperous society or the obliteration of poverty. The purpose of taxes is quite simple: to punish success.
Of course, they always deny that they believe the more successful you are, the more you ought to be punished.
One of the most seminal political debates I&#8217;ve ever covered was the 2008 Democratic debate involving then-Senator Barack Obama, whose <a href="https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-obama-to-increase-capital-gains-tax-because-of-fairness/4830724">answer to a certain question</a> would in any normal world have disqualified him for the presidency.
The question was this: Would you increase the capital gains tax rate even if it resulted in less tax revenue for the government to spend?
Barack Obama said, “What I&#8217;ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”
You understand? The purpose is “fairness.” That&#8217;s the purpose of taxes: fairness, not prosperity. It is not more government revenue to use for useful things. It is to punish people. It is “fairness.”
No Democrat has ever been able to answer this question: What exactly represents a fair tax rate? When is it fair enough?
If the normal person were to pay a 40% tax rate, and Richie Rich were to pay a 90% tax rate, would that be fair? If, in fact, everyone were to pay a 100% tax rate, would that be fair? No Democrat can ever explain what the ideal fair tax rate is, because “fair” is a fungible term.
“Fair” doesn&#8217;t mean anything. “Fair” is in the eye of the beholder.
The real key is that you are punishing and reveling in punishing the rich people. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about.
That’s why the Democratic Party on Tax Day put out a tweet saying, “Tax the rich.” Not “help the poor,” “tax the rich.”
That&#8217;s all they care about: taxing the rich.
The way you know that it&#8217;s working is because you&#8217;re making the rich poorer. This is why Zohran Mamdani, the communist mayor of New York, was sitting on a stage yesterday with a gigantic backdrop reading “Tax the Rich,” <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/transcript-_mayor-mamdani-holds-tax-day-forum-with-economists-ga">while speaking</a> about how well all of this is working. 
He stated:
<blockquote>And so, for all of the discussion of the imagined exodus that would take place were we to tax the wealthiest New Yorkers by the appropriate amount, I say “imagined” because before I was a mayor, I was a state legislator, and I was part of an effort to increase taxes on millionaires at that time. We were told the same thing then. And what we find now is that we have more millionaires today than we did at that time, even after having passed that tax. </blockquote>
The reason you have more millionaires in the city is because of economic growth, period.
Mamdani, on Tax Day, decided it was time to announce the new pied-à-terre tax. The pied-à-terre tax is a tax on any home that is someone’s second home, a home that they don&#8217;t live in most of the year, that is worth more than $5 million.
The sick glee with which he announces taxes has nothing to do with helping people. It has everything to do with punishing people.
That is the glee. This is your smiling Jacobin. If you had a guillotine nearby and he had the capacity to use it, he most certainly would.
He cut an ad — which should creep the living hell out of you if you have half a brain — talking about how excited he is to tax people.
Remember, most people think of Tax Day as a miserable day because you&#8217;re giving a bunch of money that you earned to a bunch of people who did not earn that money, just so they can spend it on random crap.
But according to Mamdani, it&#8217;s the best day because he — as a useless person for his entire adult life who got elected mayor of New York  — finally gets to do the thing he wants to do: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k">Bring the rich low</a>.
He said: 
<blockquote>Today we&#8217;re taxing. I&#8217;m thrilled to announce a pied à terre tax, the first in New York&#8217;s history. This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full time in the city. Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million. This pied à terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don&#8217;t actually live here. 
But even so, they&#8217;re able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world. And most of the time these units are sitting empty since, again, they don&#8217;t actually live here. This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working new owners. Now it&#8217;s coming to an end. This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.</blockquote>
I have a question. What is unfair about Ken Griffin spending a bajillion dollars for an apartment and then not spending time in the apartment? Do we really think that Mamdani would be fine with Ken Griffin if he lived in that apartment? Beyond that, doxing Ken Griffin&#8217;s apartment is a terrible thing for the mayor of New York City to do.
You notice they use the “Succession” music underneath, because all people who are rich are just like the people in “Succession.”
Except they&#8217;re not. I know a lot of rich people. Some are like the people in “Succession,” and many are not. I also know a lot of people who are not rich, and some of them are terrible, and some of them are wonderful.
The idea that virtue inherently correlates with the level of wealth is nuts, but it is what undergirds the level of hatred that Democrats have for people who earn.
All of this ignores that many people who are wealthy today were not so yesterday. I once had very little money in my bank account.
But that&#8217;s the beautiful thing about America, and it&#8217;s pretty incredible.
Yet according to Democrats, that&#8217;s a bad thing; it would be better if nobody had their money in their bank account.
Zohran Mamdani believes that people who earn more in a capitalist society are worse human beings.
And it is a nearly-universal idea among top-tier Democrats.

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Tax Day — A Feast Of Envy For Democrats

Ben Shapiro

Billionaire

Opinion

Wealth Tax

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, has now decided that the time has come: At long last, he&#8217;s going to put into action his Soviet plan for a government-run grocery store.
Are you excited about government-run grocery stores?
It&#8217;s going to be just great, because if there&#8217;s one thing that we have to fight off in America, it is starvation.
I know you&#8217;re thinking right now that we actually have a massive obesity problem in the United States. You&#8217;d be right.
But according to Mamdani, the biggest problem in America is that people cannot afford food, and the best way to make food affordable is for the government to open grocery stores.
This has never been tried anywhere.
Except for Cuba, the USSR, and most communist countries.
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That led, of course, to the very famous photos of Soviet leadership walking into American supermarkets and being astonished by the selection of products. Capitalism makes things better, cheaper, and more plentiful, which is how they become better and cheaper.
Mamdani explained: “This store will be open in 2029. The reason that we&#8217;re announcing it first is because unlike other stores, this will be built from the ground up. We are talking about a vacant lot that is about one or two blocks over there that is currently lying vacant. It is city-owned. We&#8217;re going to build it from the ground up.”
Just wow.
By the way, how much is it going to cost to build this grocery store from the ground up? According to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/nyregion/mamdani-city-owned-grocery-store-la-marqueta.html">New York Times</a>, $30 million.
$30 million.
I have a question. Do you think that when Publix builds a new store, it costs them $30 million?
Nope.
If the city subsidizes particular food products at a cheaper rate, either people will want to buy those food products or they will not. If they like eggs, for example, there will be a run on eggs, and then a shortage.
That&#8217;s what will happen, because when you subsidize the price of a product, it spurs more demand, and you will end up with a shortage — and longer lines.
Duh.
It is amazing how no one has ever read a book or even watched an old documentary.
Mamdani says he wants the new grocery store to offer discounts on basic groceries and to provide quality jobs. The city will waive rent and real estate taxes for the store.
If you really wanted to lower food prices, you could do that for all the grocery stores in New York. That would lower some prices.
But you know what else you could do? You could get rid of all of the regulations surrounding the grocery stores in New York, which make it very difficult to run and operate a business.
It&#8217;s hilarious that the minute the Democrats want to lower prices, they give a specific cut-out that gets rid of all of the government red tape, but just for their friends, like the government-run grocery store.
Meanwhile, Congressman Ro Khanna, the West Coast version of Zohran Mamdani, wants free everything. He called for free health care and free college.
There&#8217;s no such thing as free. There&#8217;s just stuff paid for by someone else.
“The moment has finally come for national health insurance,” Khanna declared. “Why? Because people now realize you cannot have health care linked to your job. Not at a time where your job may change or where you may lose your job. We need Medicare for all. That&#8217;s a better system with better outcomes, where health care is guaranteed to every single person from the day they are born. For our young people, where a short career opportunity is not limited by your family&#8217;s wealth, we need free college and free trade schools.” 
Free everything. How could that go wrong?
Maybe we can heavily subsidize everybody going to college. That won&#8217;t raise the price of — oh, it turns out that that radically raised the price of college.
Perhaps we could have more government subsidization of health care. That won&#8217;t raise the price of health care.
Whoops. That raises the price because it increases the base that people are willing to pay and are able to pay.
It doesn&#8217;t matter what the effect is.
The only thing that matters to the Democrats is that it feels good when they say the word “free” over and over and over again.

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