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Former Obama and Hillary Clinton staffer Zara Rahim, who publicly wished death on President Trump after his 2020 COVID-19 diagnosis, has found a new gig consulting for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Campaign finance records show that the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist assemblyman’s campaign paid Rahim $3,500 for communications consulting, the Washington Free Beacon first reported. Shortly after President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 in October 2020, Rahim infamously wrote on X that she “hope he dies” before quickly deleting the post. “It’s been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past four years, but, I hope he dies,” she...

Far-left Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and equally far-left Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz aren’t the only top party members who apparently hope a few Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are taken out. One more is the small-town vice mayor who invited Hispanic gangs to fight the agents. And now another party panjandrum can be added to the list. Count in Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington, an Indian immigrant whose office on Capitol Hill, staffers have said, is a Dickensian sweat shop. She thinks ICE agents are “terrorists,” yet another label that might just get one of them...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) issued a statement after President Donald Trump suggested he would be arrested for refusal to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. In Mamdani’s statement, he stated that Trump had “threatened” to have him “arrested, stripped” of his citizenship and “put in a detention camp and deported.” Mamdani, a Democrat socialist, also criticized Trump for praising New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported,” Mamdani said. “Not because...

Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: Death to the IDF isn’t about people. Death to America means death to imperialism. For people who throw around strong words all day, they sure struggle to say what they actually mean. Watch my debate with Taylor Lorenz on @PiersUncensored @piersmorganJul 1, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s run for mayor of New York City is a clear and present danger to the stability, economic health, and democratic foundation of both the city and the nation. His platform is rooted in a radical socialist ideology that has, time and time again, led to failure, repression, and suffering wherever it has been tried. And thanks to a clip surfacing on social media today, we see that Mamdani is not hiding this. In fact, he has been strikingly open about what he believes and what he plans to do. You can listen to his comments for yourself here....

[Catholic Caucus] Sanctuary Profaned: Ideology Takes the Altar in San DiegoSan Diego (USA) - Friday, June 20, 2025, a Eucharistic celebration was held in the cathedral of the Diocese of San Diego (United States of America), presided over by Bishop Michael Pham on the occasion of World Refugee Day. An event that, while seemingly intended as a political statement, turned into a grave liturgical abuse and a profanation of the sacred.During the Holy Mass, which was also broadcast by the media, it became clearly evident that individuals were present in the sanctuary who were not only non-Catholic, but even women...

June is Black Music Month. This year, I decided to come back with another jam session for you all. Here is my rendition of "Hey Joe" by the Godfather of Rock, Jimi Hendrix.

OKLAHOMA CITY — As Juneteenth celebrations begin in Oklahoma City, a rally on Thursday morning focused on using the holiday to advocate for undocumented immigrants. "We know as the African American community that freedom is not always free,” said CJ Webber-Neal, founder of the Neal Center for Justice

One morning earlier this month, Melanie woke up to the news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had detained more than 40 migrant workers at a garment factory, as part of a series of raids across Los Angeles. Her high school, located downtown, is not too far away from where the arrests took place. She didn’t want to go to school – but still drove there to complete her final exams...... Embedded in their local communities, teachers are now becoming the biggest advocates and resource distributors for their students, helping them develop longer term resiliency at school and beyond....... Throughout...

Even by Jim Acosta standards, the former CNN correspondent’s tirade on The Contrarian podcast Monday was pretty terrible. Following the weekend’s No Kings protests, it should come as no surprise that Acosta had a lot of smoke to blow on the immigration issues in contention. Chatting with hosts Jen Rubin and April Ryan, Acosta was full of praise for the “peaceful, nonviolent protests” against President Trump’s “regime.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, progressive "Squad" leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blamed President Donald Trump for the ongoing immigration riots in Los Angeles, saying he is "creating this chaos" and that the Trump administration "owns this." She said Trump and Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller are taking calculated steps to sow chaos and stoke unrest throughout the country. "It's his decisions, his aggression. His ability to intentionally stoke this, that is the problem," Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News Digital

Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Homeland Security agents were using “Gestapo-like tactics” to arrest immigrants. Goldman said, “I will be introducing a bill that will prevent Homeland Security officers from hiding or concealing their identities and wearing masks, because we don’t live in a country, an authoritarian country, where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people. That’s the stuff of authoritarian states. That is not the stuff of the — that’s not how the United States operates. And that’s really where this is breaking down, is the...

“From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor — Death to the colonial empire,” warned Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a viral Instagram post praising anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles while linking U.S. immigration enforcement with the Gaza conflict, and casting both the U.S. and Israel as colonial powers to be violently dismantled.

An English instructor at Glendale Community College recently sent an email encouraging the campus community to join in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The call came as riotous demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles have included destruction of property, looting, arson incidents, and the injury of at least five police officers. On Sunday, Julie Gamberg, a faculty member at Glendale Community College, sent an email promoting anti-ICE demonstrations organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter, according to screenshots of the note circulated on X. “Citizens who know their rights can disrupt and slow ICE incursions,” states...

The mayor appeared glum on CNN as she tried blaming Trump for her riots. “I will tell you that it is peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids will be.” “That is the concern because people in this city have a rapid response network. If they see ICE, they go out and they protest.”

Should Minnesota House Rep Kaohly Her be deported after she admitted to being an illegal alien? The fact is that I think she is lying. She's implying that since her citizenship is based on a mistake she is somehow 'illegal'. I call B.S. but if she insists perhaps Secretary Rubio can make an exception and deport her based on her claim... UNFORCED ERROR? ... with her parents.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced backlash on social media Friday, including from members of the Trump administration, for pushing back on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting illegal immigrants in her city. "This morning, we received reports of federal immigration enforcement actions in multiple locations in Los Angeles," Bass said in a statement on Friday. "As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place. These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city. My...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sought to energize activists at a Democratic state convention in South Carolina, as the party's 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and then became his state’s governor, keynoted the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. Speaking to convention delegates for more than half an hour, Walz used colorful language and spoke plainly as he lobbed...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Democrats had to “fight like hell” to take the government back from President Donald Trump. Raskin said, “We got to take the government back from all of the grifters and autocrats and dictators and people who are just trashing the basic values of the country, whether we’re talking about a professional civil service, whether we’re talking about due process, which is what separates the rights and freedoms of the people from arbitrary governmental power and dictatorship, whether we’re talking about free speech or free press. You know, there kicking the...

The following is an excerpt of the book description written for The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century which Professor Harold Hongju Koh published on June 25, 2024.If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs? Or if re-elected, could President Biden gradually take us to war throughout the Mideast—Gaza, Yemen, Iran, the Red Sea—by supplying weapons and ordering drone strikes, cybercommands and Special Forces without congressional approval?SNIPThis increasing imbalance of foreign affairs power has intensified across recent administrations of both...