Zohran Mamdani has decided that Italians are not real New Yorkers.
Real New Yorkers are from Pakistan or from Bangladesh. There&#8217;s “Little Palestine” as well.
Little Palestine, by the way, sounds really terrible if in any way it mirrors the Palestinian areas in Israel.
Mayor Mamdani released a map showing immigrant enclaves, but they missed one called Little Italy, which, of course, is probably the most historically important enclave in New York City.
Instead, Mamdani put out a bunch of neighborhoods that he invented: “Little Pakistan,” “Little Senegal,&#8221; or “Little Yemen.”
Who’s in Little Yemen, the Houthis? Anyone want to visit?
These are not real names of neighborhoods. Of course, there’s no labeling of Jewish areas in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, or Borough Park.
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In a statement, a City Hall spokesperson said the map was not designed to highlight religious enclaves in the Big Apple. Instead, they said it highlights New York City neighborhoods with substantial foreign-born populations from regions and countries around the world.
Great job. You ignored Little Italy.
And the Italians are angry.
This is where we need to insert the clip of Tony Soprano explaining that Columbus was an American hero.
Remember, Zohran Mamdani is the guy who took a picture of himself and posted it on social media in the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020, flipping off a statue of Columbus with the caption, “Take it down.”
It turns out that the inanimate statue didn&#8217;t care.
So Columbus needs to go, but we must, must, must inform visitors to New York where Little Yemen is, where Little Pakistan and Little “Palestine” are.
Sounds awesome.
Mamdani is trying to run the city of New York as though it were its own little polity — its own country. Today, City-Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/city-journal-daily-newsletter-jul-10-2026#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20week%2C%20Ana%20Mar%C3%ADa,was%20directed%20to%20cancel%20it.">reported</a> that a top Mamdani official tried to meet with the Iranian government:
<blockquote>Earlier this week, Ana María Archila, commissioner of New York City’s Office for International Affairs, was scheduled to meet with Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani. Archila allegedly did not inform Mayor Zohran Mamdani of the meeting and was directed to cancel it.</blockquote>
The State Department instead met with Mamdani and his administration to say, “Guys, you are not allowed to do that. You don&#8217;t run your own foreign policy with regard to Iran, as much as Mamdani would like to think that he does.”
City-Journal noted:
<blockquote>On April 16, a message seen by City Journal was sent to staff within the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs asking them to prioritize diplomatic engagement in part based on whether foreign officials “are . . . in political alignment/leftist.&#8221;</blockquote>
So they wanted to engage diplomatically only with regimes that agree with them, and the first place they tried was Iran.
I can&#8217;t imagine why.
You mean that Zohran Mamdani and his priorities match the priorities of the Iranian ayatollahs?
That’s shocking. I just can&#8217;t believe it.
This is where the Democrats have gone at this point.
City Journal continued:
<blockquote>The administration’s international ambitions have not been limited to public comments. Last month, Mamdani <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-29/gustavo-petro-to-travel-to-new-york-to-meet-mayor-zohran-mamdani.html">intended</a> to meet with leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro. The meeting was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/10/mamdani-was-meet-with-colombias-leader-trump-made-sure-it-didnt-happen">called off</a> after the State Department declined to issue a visa following Petro’s attendance at a rally hosted by Mamdani in September. Archila’s international meetings include a two-day trip to Barcelona in April to participate in a <a href="https://www.pes.cor.europa.eu/event/local-progressive-mobilisation">conference</a> hosted by the Party of European Socialists.</blockquote>
Mamdani doesn’t need to be president. He thinks that New York is his flagship city, that he is going to run his own foreign policy, and he&#8217;s going to make it unlivable for people he doesn&#8217;t like.
I know there are a lot of Democrats saying, “He talks a big game, but he&#8217;s not going to be able to do anything.”
Famous last words.
Real estate investors are already fleeing the city.
They should. Because the city that Mamdani runs is not a city that is great for people who traditionally like our country.
It is utterly unsurprising that the same Mamdani who was flipping off a statue of Columbus is perfectly happy meeting with Iran.
It is all the same thing forever and always: The red-green alliance — the Marxist-Islamist alliance — is alive and kicking.
It also has that horseshoe aspect where they have the sympathy of people like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie.
Erasing Little Italy is just the start.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani highlighted thirty immigrant neighborhoods in a recent post — and caught immediate backlash because he failed to mention Little Italy. 
The famous Italian neighborhood in Lower Manhattan has been a cultural landmark since the 1880s — meaning that it was established long before many of the other neighborhoods Mamdani honored, such as Little Yemen, Little Palestine, and Little Bangladesh. 
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Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage for ignoring Little Italy: &#8216;Terrible mistake&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/dR97RS7CPz">https://t.co/dR97RS7CPz</a> <a href="https://t.co/dKvqap5K2a">pic.twitter.com/dKvqap5K2a</a>
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In addition to the fact that Little Italy has been around far longer than the other highlighted neighborhoods, it is also one of the most visited, consistently placing on top things to see in New York City travel lists. 
Also noticeably missing from the map is “Little Ireland” in Woodlawn Heights, the northernmost part of the Bronx. Mamdani’s Office of Immigrant Affairs has since removed the map, but a series of immigrant enclave illustrations remain — and Little Italy and Little Ireland are still conspicuously absent.
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The artist who drew the immigrant enclave illustrations is Celia Deming-Bernstein, whose work has also been featured in the anti-Trump, ‘No Kings’ movement. One of her recent pieces shows President Donald Trump depicted as the wolf from the fairytale &#8220;Little Red Riding Hood&#8221; and was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DXbw7THkVKE/?img_index=1">titled</a> “Predator President.” When she presented her immigrant enclave illustrations on social media, she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DXbyAcBEW1i/?img_index=1">captioned</a> her drawings, “No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land.” 
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A spokesperson for the Mayor&#8217;s Office <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/us-news/mayor-mamdanis-map-of-nyc-immigrant-neighborhoods-sparks-outrage-for-ignoring-little-italy-terrible-mistake/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter">told</a> the New York Post, &#8220;The immigrant enclave series began during the [Eric] Adams’ administration, and we are planning to add more neighborhoods in the upcoming months.&#8221;
The illustrations come with instructions on how to promote and share them. &#8220;Today, we kick off #ImmigrantHeritageWeek by paying tribute to all the ways immigrant New Yorkers are central to our city’s workforce and economy, bringing our city to life every day. #ImmigrantsPowerNewYork.&#8221;
Mamdani’s administration is not only pro-immigrant but pro-illegal immigration. In his speech for America’s 250th birthday, he highlighted immigrant struggles including the &#8220;laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry.&#8221; Mamdani’s administration has passed stronger sanctuary city policies, including an executive order that prohibits ICE from entering city property.

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Zohran Mamdani’s statement that the money came &#8220;straight from Albany&#8221; says it all.
New York City’s socialist mayor was caught on video chuckling alongside Governor Kathy Hochul, speaking about blowing taxpayer cash on his custom-made jacket. When Hochul asked, “Is this from my budget money?” Mamdani responded,  “Yes, straight out of Albany.”
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Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani laughs alongside Governor Kathy Hochul as he brags about blowing taxpayer money on his custom-made jacket.
Hochul: “Is this from my budget money?”
Mamdani: “Yes, straight out of Albany.”
These entitled grifters aren&#39;t even hiding it anymore.… <a href="https://t.co/rXd4P6MQov">pic.twitter.com/rXd4P6MQov</a>
&mdash; I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) <a href="https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/2074868097190617353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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That little comedy routine tells you everything you need to know about how the city’s first socialist executive treats taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
While the mayor plays fashion model allegedly on the public dime, he has celebrated a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moderate-governor-caves-to-mamdanis-4-billion-demands">massive $4 billion bailout</a> from Albany to plug a staggering $5.4 billion budget hole — a deficit largely manufactured by his own radical, pie-in-the-sky campaign promises. Hochul, desperate to appear moderate ahead of her upcoming reelection bid, caved to the socialist&#8217;s demands after months of gridlock.
To fund Mamdani’s progressive wonderland, Hochul scraped together billions by raiding public employee pensions, delaying smaller class sizes for city schoolchildren, and slapping a new &#8220;pied-à-terre&#8221; tax on luxury second homes. That gimmick balances today&#8217;s books on the backs of future generations.
But the real tragedy of Mamdani’s bloated $126 billion fiscal plan isn&#8217;t just the creative accounting — it’s who he left out in the cold.
The radical new budget <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-leaves-nypd-out-to-dry-as-city-council-reaches-massive-budget-deal">funnels</a> a massive $37.9 billion to the Department of Education and splashes tens of millions on immigration services designed to push back against federal enforcement. Meanwhile, the NYPD got a measly $6.6 billion. There is no funding to recruit new officers into a city police force that is already bleeding staff and facing severe burnout.
Mamdani totally surrendered to anti-police activists, completely walking back a prior campaign pledge to stabilize officer headcount. While rank-and-file cops log crushing overtime hours to keep the streets safe, the mayor is instead funding $1,000 college vouchers for kindergarteners and throwing cash at cultural institutions.
In a Tax Day video outside Ken Griffin&#8217;s penthouse, Mamdani said, &#8220;When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Today, we&#8217;re taxing the rich.&#8221;
New York City has been legally required to balance its books since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. But instead of practicing actual fiscal responsibility, Mamdani is just leaning on Albany to keep his socialist experiment afloat.
That proves once again that when progressives run out of their own money, they just come for yours.

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New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani found a new victim to champion this week: the Egyptian national soccer team.
The mayor, never one to pass up a grievance, used his own press event for a bus-speed initiative to sneak in a jab at the World Cup, repeatedly claiming the Egyptian national soccer team got cheated in its loss to Argentina.
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🚨🇦🇷 NEW: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that Egypt were “robbed” in yesterday’s World Cup game against Argentina <a href="https://t.co/bigWXCN04q">pic.twitter.com/bigWXCN04q</a>
— Politics Global (@PolitlcsGlobal) <a href="https://x.com/PolitlcsGlobal/status/2074877119708987839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The backstory: Argentina staged a stunner of a comeback Tuesday, erasing a 2-0 deficit in the final 15 minutes to beat Egypt 3-2, with Enzo Fernández heading home the winner in the 92nd minute off a Messi-orchestrated night that also saw the Argentine superstar convert a second-half equalizer. Egypt led thanks to goals from Yasser Ibrahim and Mostafa Ziko — but Ziko&#8217;s earlier goal was wiped out by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the 58th minute for a foul in the buildup.
Egypt&#8217;s manager, Hossam Hassan, set the tone postgame, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/7/8/egypt-criticises-influential-refereeing-in-argentina-world-cup-match">insisting</a> the whole match felt &#8220;influential&#8221; and complaining that a penalty claim went unchecked while Egypt&#8217;s goal got the microscope treatment.
The Egyptian Football Association has since filed a formal complaint with FIFA.
Mamdani, apparently unable to resist a good grievance narrative even when it&#8217;s 6,000 miles from Gracie Mansion, jumped on the bandwagon a day later — mixing his bus-lane victory lap with a nod to Egypt&#8217;s &#8220;injustice.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the problem: the evidence doesn&#8217;t back him up.
Multiple soccer analysts who&#8217;ve broken down the replay say the disallowed goal was correct by the letter of the law — Egyptian midfielder Marwan Attia tugged the shirt of Argentine defender Lisandro Martínez and stepped on his foot while winning the ball that launched the counterattack, making it a legitimate reviewable phase of play under VAR protocol. That&#8217;s not a phantom call — that&#8217;s a foul.
Later in the contest, with the score level at 2-2, Mohamed Salah <a href="https://www.india.com/sports/fifa-world-cup-2026-were-egypt-robbed-in-their-ro16-loss-to-argentina-var-controversies-explained-8468835/">tumbled</a> to the ground in the penalty area following a challenge from Nicolas Tagliafico. The referee opted to let play continue; VAR declined to step in, which meant Argentina could launch an attack that ended with Enzo Fernandez heading home a stunning 92nd-minute winner. Replays of the incident suggested Salah went down rather easily, with only minimal contact — Tagliafico&#8217;s challenge connected with the ball first, not his opponent&#8217;s feet.
And the larger story of the match wasn&#8217;t a stolen goal — it was a genuine, jaw-dropping Argentina comeback. Down 2-0 with under 40 minutes left against a team that had gone unbeaten through the tournament, the defending champs scored three unanswered goals in a 14-minute span, with Messi at the center of it after missing a first-half penalty. That&#8217;s not officials handing Argentina a trophy — that&#8217;s the two-time champs refusing to go home against the tournament&#8217;s Cinderella story.
None of that has stopped the pile-on. Egypt&#8217;s coach, its federation, and now New York&#8217;s mayor are all singing from the same &#8220;we were robbed&#8221; songbook — despite the tape showing a legal foul call and a legitimately incredible comeback.
Mamdani built a career on playing the underdog card. Turns out he&#8217;s happy to play it for a soccer team on another continent, too — evidence be damned.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdanis-wife-skips-americas-250th-celebration-for-luxurious-overseas-islamic-retreat">skipped</a> America&#8217;s 250th birthday festivities to co-host a women-only &#8220;spiritual&#8221; getaway that recast the mother of Jesus as a modern-day Palestinian political symbol.
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The event at a monastery retreat in Corsica was organized by the Muslim travel outfit The Women Sanctuary, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/07/us-news/mamdanis-wife-co-hosting-pricey-pro-palestine-retreat-in-corsica-after-skipping-july-4-celebrations/">reported</a>. Tickets for a private cottage run as high as $5,260. Organizers say the gathering will &#8220;honor&#8221; Mary as a figure revered in Islam, with one past attendee going so far as to describe her as a “Palestinian woman who gave birth under occupation” — the kind of framing critics justifiably call a wholesale rewrite of first-century history.
Duwaji&#8217;s own history adds fuel to critics&#8217; fire: she has previously liked social media posts celebrating Hamas and produced illustrations for anti-Israel pieces.
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Historians note the claim about Mary collapses under basic chronology. Jesus and Mary were Jews living in Roman-controlled Judea; there was no Palestinian nation, people, or identity in existence at the time. The very name &#8220;Palestine&#8221; wasn&#8217;t applied to the region until the second century, when Rome rebranded Judea as &#8220;Syria Palaestina&#8221; specifically to erase its Jewish association after crushing a Jewish revolt.
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In 2013, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/2013-12-23/ty-article/abbas-jesus-was-palestinian/0000017f-e55e-d9aa-afff-fd5e01410000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Jesus “a Palestinian messenger,” and in 2019, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) shared a social media post that stated, “I was once asked by a relative who is a Palestinian Christian why the Christian right in America largely supports their oppression. ‘Don’t they know we’re Christian too? Do they even consider us human? Don’t they know Jesus was a Palestinian?’”
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As former Republican speechwriter Peter Wehner has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/jewish-history-jesus-settler-colonialism-claims/677149/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a>, “In fact, although many Palestinians today are Christians, Jesus himself was not one. He was born to Jewish parents in Judea, he lived as a Jew, and he died as a Jew. In the time of Jesus, Palestine didn’t exist — as a place, an entity, a word, or a concept. In the second century, Judea, which was the epicenter of large-scale Jewish rebellions against Roman rule, was renamed Syria Palaestina — later simply Palaestina — by the Romans.”
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This isn&#8217;t the first time the Holy Family has been repackaged as Palestinian. In December 2024, the Vatican itself courted controversy when Pope Francis toured a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-francis-attends-vatican-nativity-exhibit-showing-jesus-as-a-palestinian?utm_source=chatgpt.com">nativity display</a> created by Palestinian artists that dressed the infant Jesus in a keffiyeh. A Palestine Liberation Organization official used the occasion to thank the pontiff for backing the Palestinian cause. Francis had already drawn fire for calling Israel&#8217;s military response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre &#8220;immoral&#8221; and for suggesting an investigation into whether Israel&#8217;s conduct in Gaza amounted to genocide — remarks that fueled accusations he was tilting against the Jewish state.
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Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt didn’t hold back after New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, trashed the United States during what was supposed to be a celebration honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Taking to X, the fiery Republican launched a blistering counterattack against Mamdani, torching the leftist&#8217;s bleak depiction of the country and labeling him an anti-human Marxist bent on destroying American culture.
The fireworks erupted after Mamdani delivered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-paints-sinister-picture-of-america-in-speech-honoring-250th-anniversary?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mamdani+Paints+Sinister+Picture+Of+America+In+Speech+Honoring+250th+Anniversary">deeply cynical address</a> on July 3. Instead of honoring the land of the free, the Big Apple’s Left-wing leader painted a dark, sinister portrait of America. Mamdani claimed the nation was fundamentally built on exploitation, bigotry, and prejudice, describing it as an &#8220;arena of supremacy&#8221; where wealthy oligarchs buy elections and corporate landlords abuse tenants.
In a radical rhetorical tirade, the socialist mayor went as far as slamming federal immigration enforcement, accusing ICE agents of terrorizing local neighborhoods and kidnapping undocumented immigrants in unmarked vans. Mamdani concluded his grim speech by redefining patriotism as nothing more than anti-government street protests and righteous dissent.
Pratt wasn&#8217;t having any of it. The former GOP candidate fiercely defended the country while ripping into Mamdani&#8217;s Marxist worldview. He started by warning of the Left’s obsession with rewriting history.
&#8220;We all had to sit and watch that vile commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our Founding Fathers&#8217; desk to try and lecture us about our own history,&#8221; Pratt said. &#8220;Notice how the communist always attacks your history. The communist must attack your history. Why? Because history is what anchors you.&#8221;
Pratt likened the nation to a family home, explaining that even the painful or messy historical memories anchor people to their roots and foster an unbreakable bond that true patriots will fight to protect:
&#8220;What makes your home special? It&#8217;s not the marble countertops or the expensive furniture or the fancy appliances,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s the memories you have there. &#8216;That backyard is where we got married; that living room rug is where our son took his first step. Hey, don’t touch that; that was his first teddy bear.&#8217; It doesn’t matter how torn and tattered that thing is; you will never get rid of it. And you will fight anyone who tries to take it away.
He then outlined how the Left proceeds: &#8220;That&#8217;s what the communist always starts with: the bad memories. &#8216;Oh, we can get rid of that little story. We can knock down that statue. We can change the name of that street. That&#8217;s a bad memory from our history. You don&#8217;t want that memory hanging around. You&#8217;re not a   bigot, right?&#8217; And slowly but surely, this wall comes down. Then that wall gets sledgehammered.
Invoking Chairman Mao’s infamous destruction of traditional culture, Pratt declared that communism is an evil, anti-human religion that thrives on total demoralization. He passionately argued that loving America is a vital necessity, noting that the United States has consistently served as the world’s ultimate shield against global tyranny and madness. Pratt pointed out that American ingenuity has served as the cradle for world-changing innovations like airplanes, the internet, and space travel.
Turning his sights directly on the New York executive, Pratt concluded: &#8220;Commie Mamdani’s ancestors never bled for this country. He has no history here, so he has no attachment to our home. He has no place to rewrite our history and lecture us about what our country stands for. So celebrate today. Show some American pride. Honor your  history. Raise your flag. Raise a finger and say, &#8216;F*ck you, communists. This is our home and you can&#8217;t have it. Today we celebrate our Independence Day.&#8217;”
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A masked man holding a BB gun at a Queens mosque touched off a political controversy over the weekend after top New York Democrats rushed to frame the incident as an anti-Muslim hate crime — only for it to emerge that the suspect himself may be Muslim.
Police say Sheikh Haque, 33, of Buffalo, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/04/masked-man-arrested-by-nypd-for-pulling-bb-pistol-during-queens-mosque-prayer-service-nyc-islamophobia/">burst</a> into the Muslim Center of New York during Friday prayers on July 3, brandishing what looked like a real firearm in front of dozens of worshippers gathered for services around 1:30 p.m. A congregant quickly wrestled him to the ground, and he was held down with help from an off-duty MTA worker, a cab driver, and an NYPD officer until police arrived. The weapon turned out to be a BB pistol. No shots were fired and no one was hurt.
Haque was charged with weapons possession and menacing. Police have not filed hate crime charges, and it remains unclear what prompted the disturbance.
That didn&#8217;t stop a wave of elected officials from immediately casting the episode as an act of bigotry against Muslims. Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2073482553235779979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2073482553235779979%7Ctwgr%5Eb25f05c7cac566c0898fcddb446637a6b73a4285%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D1128909action%3Dedit">posted</a> on X that a &#8220;terrifying situation&#8221; had unfolded for &#8220;Muslim New Yorkers,&#8221; thanking the bystanders who intervened and declaring that &#8220;every New Yorker should be able to observe their religion without fear or intimidation.&#8221;
New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James went further, calling the incident &#8220;horrific under any circumstances&#8221; and urging New Yorkers, “We must stand united against Islamophobia.”
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Today, a masked individual reached into his pocket to pull out what appeared to be a deadly weapon during Friday Prayers at the Muslim Center. 
This is horrific under any circumstances, especially when a community is joining in prayer.
We must stand united against Islamophobia. <a href="https://t.co/yGdC3XdcKs">https://t.co/yGdC3XdcKs</a>
&mdash; NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) <a href="https://x.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/2073184275491377216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Grace Meng and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats, echoed similar sentiments, with Schumer saying he was troubled by what he called another possible attack targeting a house of worship.
Critics online slammed Mamdani once Haque&#8217;s background surfaced, accusing officials of jumping to conclusions and exploiting the incident for political messaging before basic facts — including the suspect&#8217;s own religious identity — were established. The backlash spread quickly across social media, with numerous commentators mocking the rush to label the episode a hate crime.
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The guy with the gun was also Muslim. Convenient fact to leave out. What a snake.
&mdash; Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) <a href="https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2073636663939744127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Sunni on Shia or Shia on Sunni?
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Why didn&#39;t you share the name of the attackers, Zohran? <a href="https://t.co/8qDGrIixfH">pic.twitter.com/8qDGrIixfH</a>
&mdash; Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) <a href="https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2073503636387217637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Tell us about it. <a href="https://t.co/dK4YUq8PfF">pic.twitter.com/dK4YUq8PfF</a>
&mdash; Sarah 🥨 (@cosmopterix) <a href="https://x.com/cosmopterix/status/2073747626277720420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The flap comes months after Mamdani made fighting Islamophobia a signature issue, arguing in past remarks that anti-Muslim bigotry gets a pass in American politics that other forms of hate do not. Months after his ascension to the mayoral position, Mamdani <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CFSNVWVo77U">said</a> of Islamophobia, “I think there’s an unabashed nature to it, and it has been echoed from the highest offices in this country and they do so without any sense of shame. And what is remarkable about Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry is not that it is bigoted, for there is so much bigotry in this country, it is that there are very few who speak up in opposition to it, the manner in which it has become normalized.”
In his race for the mayoralty, Mamdani <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/zohran-mamdani-decries-racist-baseless-attacks-emotional-speech-islamo-rcna239632">said</a>, “For as long as we have lived, we have known that no matter what anyone says, there are still certain forms of hate that are acceptable in this city. Islamophobia is not seen as inexcusable.”
The incident also follows separate criticism of the mayor over his stance on Israel, after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-accuses-israel-of-religious-favoritism-trips-over-saudi-arabia-and-iran">compared</a> the Jewish state to Saudi Arabia on religious freedom grounds — a comparison that drew accusations of ignoring Israel&#8217;s protections for religious minorities and its Arab citizens&#8217; political rights, while sidestepping harsher criticism of Iran&#8217;s treatment of religious minorities.
As of Sunday, Haque&#8217;s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court remained pending.

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While Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America&#8217;s 250th birthday to criticize capitalism, ICE, and what he described as an &#8220;arena of supremacy,&#8221; his wife, Rama Duwaji, spent the nation&#8217;s milestone celebration thousands of miles away at a luxury Islamic spiritual retreat in Spain.
Duwaji departed from Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this week for Mallorca, a Mediterranean island off of the western coast of Spain.
Far from simply vacationing abroad, Duwaji is serving as the artist-in-residence and one of the featured hosts for the sold-out Women&#8217;s Sanctuary retreat. Attendance costs roughly $3,400 per guest. The <a href="https://thewomensanctuary.com/retreats">program</a> centers on &#8220;Plants of the Quran&#8221; through art, botanical workshops, and Islamic spiritual reflection. She is also scheduled to help host a second sold-out retreat in Corsica later this month exploring &#8220;Mary in the Quran.&#8221;
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Funny how when <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZohranKMamdani</a> was telling New Yorkers to lower their AC his wife Rama Duwaji was boarding a flight to party in Mallorca
Reminder that I can’t tag her because she deleted her account after her insanely offensive tweets were discovered
Champagne socialists <a href="https://t.co/aD1XmiMXNe">pic.twitter.com/aD1XmiMXNe</a>
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) <a href="https://x.com/ArynneWexler/status/2073055796095484295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
The timing of the trip drew criticism as Americans celebrated the nation&#8217;s 250th anniversary over the Fourth of July weekend. Republican New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/04/us-news/mamdanis-wife-rama-duwaji-ditches-america-250-bash-for-islamic-spiritual-wellness-retreat-in-spain/">New York Post</a> the decision reflected poorly on the city&#8217;s first family. &#8220;Nothing says &#8216;America 250&#8217; quite like skipping the celebration for a Mediterranean vacation,&#8221; Ariola said. &#8220;I am not surprised because she has made her hatred for America very evident.&#8221;
Councilman Frank Morano similarly criticized the optics, &#8220;it&#8217;s disappointing that the First Lady chose to be overseas instead of taking part in one of the biggest civic events our city and country will mark this year,&#8221; Morano said. &#8220;No one is saying elected officials and their families can&#8217;t take vacations, but this was a moment to show up for the city and for the country.&#8221;
The Mayor&#8217;s Office declined to respond directly to the criticism but confirmed Duwaji was not accompanied by officers assigned to the family&#8217;s NYPD security detail.
The trip also renewed scrutiny of Duwaji&#8217;s past social media activity. Earlier this year, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/zohran-mamdanis-wife-celebrated-palestinian-terrorists-including-plane-hijacker-in-social-media-posts-from-early-adulthood/">deleted posts resurfaced</a> in which Duwaji criticized the United States and American foreign policy. In one post, she shared a message claiming American soldiers &#8220;are not brave&#8221; and accused them of &#8220;slaughtering 3rd world civilians&#8221; in pursuit of American hegemony. Other deleted posts reportedly praised Palestinian militant organizations and criticized U.S. support for Israel.
Mamdani previously defended his wife, arguing she should not be judged by past social media activity because she holds no official role in his administration. Duwaji later apologized for a number of the posts.
Her overseas retreat came as the mayor himself marked the nation&#8217;s semi-quincentennial with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-paints-sinister-picture-of-america-in-speech-honoring-250th-anniversary">speech</a> that focused less on the country&#8217;s founding than on what he views as its present shortcomings.
Speaking from behind George Washington&#8217;s former desk at New York City Hall, Mamdani criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policy, condemned economic inequality, and argued that America had become &#8220;an arena of supremacy.&#8221;
&#8220;We see masked agents terrorizing our streets,&#8221; Mamdani said, referring to ICE officers, while also criticizing what he described as monopolies and oligarchs controlling the nation&#8217;s wealth.
Although Mamdani concluded his remarks by saying &#8220;God bless America,&#8221; much of the speech centered on America&#8217;s failures rather than the anniversary being commemorated.
The mayor later participated in several official America 250 events in New York, including the Parade of Sail and a Fourth of July lighting ceremony at the Empire State Building, while Duwaji remained overseas.

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New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked America&#8217;s 250th anniversary Friday by painting a dark, sinister picture of the greatest country on earth.
Mamdani delivered a speech in which he invoked the history of immigrants who came to America&#8217;s shores, describing them as “weary from long journeys” who were greeted by “a towering monument to freedom, her torch glowing worldwide welcome.”
He soon turned toward the dark: “Each of these new arrivals peered through portholes onto a city that was changing as fast as the nation. They saw merchants peddling their wares on the docks, streets being laid out on a grid, buildings rising into the clouds. They could not yet see the nativism they would face, the jobs they would be refused, the landlords who would not rent to them, and the abject labor and living conditions they would withstand.”
He then twisted history, insisting that immigrants did not freely seek to come to America but were sent by the world: “For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people, it sent peasants and serfs from slums and shtetls who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land.”
He then revealed what he believes America truly is: “It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had. &#8230; You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit, how small they are, how weak, how unoriginal.”
He continued, “At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest, but time and again, including 250 years ago, though those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.”
His depiction of modern America was equally bleak:
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As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry, while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see massed agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone, and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. &#8230; We see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. &#8230; We see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections to the highest bidder.
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After claiming that “ICE invades our neighborhoods,” he issued a call for action: “Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it. After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?”
Take note: this is the same mayor who signed off on a budget that cut funding for the Department of Veterans&#8217; Services by roughly <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/veteran-services-face-1-million-cut-under-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-budget-11952694">$1 million</a>.
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Mamdani Paints Sinister Picture Of America In Speech Honoring 250th Anniversary

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New York City&#8217;s freshly-inked <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/mamdanis-nypd-cops-cut-blindsided-city-council-leaving-lawmakers-bracing-for-other-surprises-in-126b-budget-they-passed/">$126 billion budget</a> shows exactly where Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s priorities lie — and it&#8217;s not with the men and women who served in uniform.
The City Council, with Mamdani&#8217;s sign-off, carved out roughly $7 million for so-called &#8220;trans equity&#8221; initiatives, including $6.45 million funneled to a laundry list of LGBT advocacy groups and another $40,000 specifically earmarked for &#8220;Drag Story Hour&#8221; programs in city schools and libraries, The New York Post<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/nyc-budget-funnels-7m-to-transgender-programs-drag-story-hours"> reports</a>. Council Speaker Julie Menin alone kicked in $10,000 for drag readings in her district, while six other council members, Shaun Abreu, Tiffany Caban, Julie Won, Shahana Hanif, Gale Brewer and Crystal Hudson, chipped in $5,000 each.
Meanwhile, over in the Department of Veterans&#8217; Services, the story is the opposite: a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/veteran-services-face-1-million-cut-under-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-budget-11952694">roughly $1 million cut</a>, shrinking the department&#8217;s budget from about $7.6 million to $6.6 million — a drop of more than 13 percent. The mayor&#8217;s plan would also scrap the &#8220;Homecoming of Heroes&#8221; ticker tape parade in favor of a cheaper substitute march, and trim funding for annual events honoring former service members by about $60,000 a year through 2030.
Put plainly: the city is spending more on gender-identity programming and drag performances than it&#8217;s spending on services for the roughly 200,000 veterans who call New York home.
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For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services.
Understand where we are. <a href="https://t.co/vwQxqBVxUK">https://t.co/vwQxqBVxUK</a>
&mdash; Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) <a href="https://x.com/VickieforNYC/status/2072473558786134098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Critics wasted no time pointing out the math. State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar questioned why police funding lags while cash flows toward what he called fringe initiatives, saying, “Why isn’t there more money for police? There are countless dollars going toward extreme, far-out programs. This goes way beyond recognizing transgender individuals into spending millions of taxpayer dollars to promote transgenderism.”
Nassau County Executive and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman echoed, “Only in [Democratic Gov.] Kathy Hochul’s New York are your hard-earned tax dollars funding drag queen story hours instead of new police officers, roads, and schools. It’s a slap in the face to every New Yorker who goes to work every day to provide for their family, and it ends when I’m governor.”
Veterans advocates are similarly furious. Marine Corps veteran Osbert Orduna called the cuts insulting to disabled veterans who sacrificed for the country.
But this is par for the course for a mayor who hates what America stands for.

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There isn&#8217;t a breeze in sight. The air is stuffy, muggy, thick enough to chew. Lady Liberty still looks beautiful with the sun on her copper facade, and I won&#8217;t complain about a sunny day, no matter how hot it gets. But today there&#8217;s something heavier than the humidity hanging over the city. For some New Yorkers, there&#8217;s a looming, crushing sense of guilt, stickier than the air itself.
Because they haven&#8217;t turned their AC up to 78 degrees.
Why would anyone willingly suffer through a muggy apartment when they could enjoy the start of Fourth of July weekend in a crisp 68-degree living room? Because the socialist, terror-sympathizing, former-failed-rapper mayor of New York City told them not to. For the good of the very warm collective.
&#8220;Set your AC to 78 degrees,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072411003170472359">says</a>. Because &#8220;a stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved,&#8221; he says. Translation: sweat now, comrade, so YOU [insert Sophia Cunningham pointing meme] don’t overheat the cooling system and kill grandma.
That&#8217;s eerily reminiscent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mocking-france-makes-america-cooler">French health officials last week</a>, instructing the elderly and sick to essentially stick their heads in ice buckets and sip cold soup rather than run an air conditioner. I made fun of France for sounding like the third world. I didn&#8217;t expect the third world to make it to New York City this fast.
It&#8217;s the same degrowth logic wearing a different accent. Paris told its sick and elderly to suffer through the heat for the sake of the planet. Mamdani is telling everyone else to suffer through it for the sake of the grid. Different continent, same underlying belief: your comfort is negotiable, and someone else always gets to decide the terms. Today it&#8217;s your thermostat. Tomorrow it&#8217;s your grocery cart, your car, your lightbulbs. The mask doesn&#8217;t come off all at once. It slips one degree at a time.
Last week,<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-lasted-nine-days-without-ac-europeans-dont-have-a-choice"> I went nine days without AC</a>. It hovered between 78 and 80 degrees, and it was unbearable. Now the mayor of a city of eight million residents is scolding those same residents into voluntary suffering and harm, fresh off a campaign that promised prosperity, rainbows, and abundance for all. Nothing to see here, folks. Just a full-fledged Islamic socialist chipping away at the freedoms and comforts we hold dear, one thermostat at a time.
Utopia was supposed to be air-conditioned.
Mamdani blames the power grid, apparently so fragile that if all eight million New Yorkers don&#8217;t sweat through their Alo yoga pants and Wall Street suits in togethership, the whole system goes dark.
And what made the grid so fragile in the first place? Horrendous Democrat energy policy, three decades in the making. New York banned hydraulic fracking despite sitting on massive Marcellus Shale reserves, in the name of eliminating gas use. It didn&#8217;t eliminate anything. It just made the state import the energy it refuses to drill for itself. Environmentalists celebrated the closure of <a href="https://x.com/isabelleboemeke/status/2072662692721312036/photo/1">Indian Point</a>, a nuclear plant that once supplied roughly 25% of New York City&#8217;s electricity. The grid never recovered. Then came the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, mandating 70% renewable energy by 2030 and leaning on unreliable sources like solar and wind. Less efficient. More expensive. Exactly the recipe for a grid that buckles the moment July shows up.
Naturally, the socialist mayor isn&#8217;t offering practical fixes like drilling, fracking, coal, or nuclear power. That would be radical. Instead, he&#8217;s threatening you with thermostat mandates and <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072733749263901182">doubling down</a> even when his proletariat complains.
A commenter <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DaTUv2wJ5Ur/?hl=en">on my recent video mocking Mamdani </a>for this wisecracked that Texas has also asked residents to set their AC to 78 during extreme heat waves. Sure. But Texas asks because it regularly hits triple-digit heat that sends demand through the roof, even with a grid that actually builds power plants and lets markets work. Mamdani is asking because years of green policy, championed by his side, shuttered reliable nuclear capacity and choked off gas, leaving the grid with paper-thin margins. Now ordinary New Yorkers get to roast while the system he inherited, and never intends to fix, tries to catch up.
Mamdani handed us this layup himself the moment he <a href="https://x.com/JoshWalkos/status/2006914140636590553">swore</a> to strip away your individuality in exchange for warm, collective security. That cozy collectivism now looks like a forced, hellish scarcity. The cozy collectivism he promised now looks a lot like forced, hellish scarcity. That&#8217;s the trick with socialism. It&#8217;s always sold as a group hug and delivered as a group sweat.
You can&#8217;t say every wise soul in history didn&#8217;t warn you.
&#8220;Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,&#8221; said Winston Churchill.
That quote could be on a welcome mat outside Mamdani&#8217;s front door. A door I&#8217;d bet good money leads to a home that isn&#8217;t sitting at 78 degrees.

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Far-Left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told New York City residents and business owners to take on the heat wave in the name of collectivism, urging them to keep their thermostats set to a toasty 78 degrees.
&#8220;New York: it&#8217;s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you&#8217;re not using, and unplug what you can,&#8221; Mamdani told residents.
The high temp on Wednesday was 91 degrees, which can feel even hotter in the city. Temperatures are expected to hit around 100 degrees for the rest of the week.
&#8220;Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment,&#8221; the mayor added. &#8220;A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let&#8217;s ease demand — and get through the heat — together.&#8221;
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New York: it&#8217;s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.
Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you&#8217;re not using, and unplug what you can.
Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings,…
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072411003170472359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2026</a></blockquote>
He also instructed business owners to keep the thermostat at 78 degrees.
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Mayor Mamdani: &#8220;Set you thermostats to 78 degrees to alleviate the stress on our grid&#8221;
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Mamdani, who has spoken about the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-warmth-of-collectivism-a-month-into-mamdani-nyc-is-covered-in-massive-piles-of-trash">warmth of collectivism</a>&#8221; and embraces <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-coldest-rent-control-gimmick-yet">socialist policies</a>, was quickly roasted online for the request to residents.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/RonDeSantis/status/2072456275019927883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">joked</a>, &#8220;Is this what was meant by the warmth of collectivism?&#8221;
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2072455711288959261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">asked</a> Mamdani, whom he referred to as a &#8220;commie,&#8221; to show his thermostat. He added in a follow-up tweet, &#8220;Communism always goes the same way. They smile &amp; promise you the world. Free this, free that, abundance for all! How? Don&#8217;t ask!&#8221; Pratt wrote. &#8220;Then they get into power, and the rationing begins. First a smiley ask. Then a demand. Then a bullet. &#8216;You used too much energy, comrade.&#8221;
&#8220;I have texted all my coworkers who voted for Zohran to send me a photo of their A/C set to 78,&#8221; Barstool&#8217;s Jack McGuire <a href="https://x.com/JackMac/status/2072437369270124663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">said</a>.
&#8220;This is the stark scarcity of socialism,&#8221; New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik <a href="https://x.com/EliseStefanik/status/2072439834149523537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">commented</a>. &#8220;New York is a state of extraordinary abundance in energy, power, and natural resources. Yet it is only because of the failed policies crushing our state’s energy independence that we have to settle for this Third World scarcity.&#8221;
&#8220;The Communists really mean it when they say &#8216;replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;AMERICA IS THE LAND OF THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, AND THE INVENTORS OF AC (in Brooklyn, no less)!!!!&#8221;
Barstool founder Dave Portnoy <a href="https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/2072431020436083067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">posted</a>, &#8220;78 degrees??? Welcome to communism people! Hope you enjoy!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-coldest-rent-control-gimmick-yet">Mamdani’s Coldest Rent Control Gimmick Yet</a>

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‘Welcome To Communism!’: Mamdani Roasted For Heatwave Instructions For New Yorkers

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