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Today on TAP: His platform, his movement, and his super-rich enemies all fit the historic pattern of New York’s politics. Zohran Mamdani delivered a major speech last night to thousands of supporters who’d crowded into New York’s United Palace to hear him lay out the stakes in the upcoming mayoral election. To the historically sentient, the speech was replete with echoes of New York’s previous progressive heroes—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and A. Philip Randolph in particular. Mamdani began by acknowledging the legions who’d walked precincts and made phone calls on his candidacy’s behalf. “There is something special in...

Senate Republicans tried and failed for the ninth time to reopen the government and are starting to believe that Senate Democrats won’t budge until next week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats again blocked the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) in their push for an extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies. They argue that unless congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump come to the table and negotiate an extension to the expiring tax credits, they won’t provide Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., the necessary votes to reopen the government.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita seeks stronger immigration enforcement powers to help the Trump administration fix Biden’s border crisis.INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indiana lawmakers and sheriffs gave at least three standing ovations to U.S. border czar Tom Homan Tuesday in the state capitol as he urged them to pass state legislation to bolster immigration enforcement. “Despite all the hate and all the attacks on me, Tom Homan is not going anywhere. I promised President Trump I will finish this job,” the beefy 63-year-old stated from the speaker’s podium of the Indiana House floor, prompting one of the standing ovations. Indiana Attorney...

Janai Nelson, a lawyer for the NAACP, argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it is necessary to have a second majority-black district in Louisiana because “white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not.” “It was clear that, regardless of party, white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not,” the lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed. “We know that there is such a significant chasm between how black and white voters vote in Louisiana that there is no question that...

Because of slavery and Jim Crow and too many movies like The Help, there was a point where I genuinely cared about the plight of black Americans in general.But these days I’m a little picky. When people say “Black Lives Matter,” I like to ask, which ones? Because Black Lives Matter already pretended “all of them,” and if we’re being honest, it felt a lot like No Lives Matter.How can you say lives matter, for instance, when you don’t care how they live? And how can you say “people are important” without asking them to take themselves seriously? What we...

Government shutdown Carlos Garcia October 14, 2025 The government shutdown is threatening troop wages. President Donald Trump said that a very wealthy person offered to pay the wages for the military troops if the government shutdown continued. The president made the comments to reporters on Tuesday as he sat next to Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House. 'This is a position that is being forced upon us by Democrats.' "I actually have a man who is a very wealthy person ... who called — a donor, a great gentleman. And he said, 'If there's any money necessary, shortfall...

A shuttered plant is reimagined as Manresa Wilds, an example of an old facility repurposed to solve a new century’s problems. The hike up to the roof involved Escher-like flights of metal stairs and grated catwalks like high wires, dangling above a spectacular abyss of rusted machinery. The ’60s-era control room, straight out of “Apollo 13,” opened onto a turbine hall the size of the concourse at Grand Central.I was blown away. The plant has been shuttered since 2013 and parts of it look like workers walked out one day and left everything as it was. Suburban Connecticut is not...

Here’s the latest. The Supreme Court appeared poised on Wednesday to upend a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by prohibiting lawmakers from using race as a factor in drawing voting maps, which could spark widespread redistricting efforts. If the justices determine that lawmakers may not consider race in drawing districts, the repercussions for the country’s political balance could be sweeping, allowing Republican state legislatures to eliminate at least a dozen Democratic-held House districts across the South.

As mail-in ballots began arriving for California's redistricting plan, voters in some counties have found a strange feature in their ballot envelopes: A hole that shows if they voted "no." Check it out: VIDEO AT LINK............. And lest anyone think this is just a bunch of conspiracy theorists overreacting, the Los Angeles Times addressed the issue with a statement from the California Secretary of State. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Monday pushed back against a torrent of misinformation on social media claiming that mail-in ballots for the state's Nov. 4 special election are purposefully designed to disclose how...

President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel will deliver a press conference together in the Oval Office this afternoon. The topic of the presser remains unclear at this time, but this comes as the Trump Administration has said it is investigating and planning to take action against the violent leftwing terror network, Antifa. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to The Gateway Pundit last week that the Trump Administration is “aggressively” investigating the Soros and far-left terror-sponsoring organizations that are funding Antifa and violent riots in liberal cities like Portland and Chicago. The FBI, Homeland Security, and even the...

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on social media that on the way back to the U.S. from NATO’s Defense Ministers meeting, Hegseth’s plane made an unscheduled landing in the United Kingdom "due to a crack in the aircraft windshield."

Key Points A federal judge blocked the Trump administration, for now, from firing federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown. The order came five days after the administration issued reduction-in-force notifications to more than 4,000 federal workers.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters. The court's six conservative justices, to one degree or another, seemed like they would vote to effectively strike down a Black majority House district in Louisiana because it relied too heavily on race. Such an outcome could mark a fundamental change in the voting rights law, the centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement, that succeeded in opening the ballot box to Black Americans and reducing persistent discrimination in voting. A ruling for...

The taxpayer-funded CEO of Los Angeles County was quietly awarded $2million after she complained about a ballot measure that she claims will force her out of her job and bruise her 'reputation'. Fesia Davenport, who earns a hefty $570,000 per year for overseeing the county's government operations, secretly entered the handsome settlement in mid-August. The agreement, first reported by the LAist on Tuesday, vaguely indicated Davenport sought out compensation for 'reputation, embarrassment, and emotional distress' she sustained on the job.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Tuesday that he is on board with a proposal to have a conversation with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on C-Span. . “I look forward to that,” Jeffries told reporters in Washington. “We’re going to try to get it scheduled, absolutely,” he promised, referencing a possible joint appearance on C-Span’s new program Ceasefire. The development could set the two party leaders in the House up for a rousing debate over the government shutdown, which entered its 15th day on Wednesday. Johnson has declared he has no intention of accepting Jeffries’s offer to do...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has made good on his promise to ensure President Trump’s threats to unseat him will “backfire” as his campaign fundraising numbers reach personal record heights. Massie has touted more than $2 million in cash on hand for his reelection bid after managing to pull in nearly $768,000 in contributions from July to September, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. That three-month sum is reportedly a record for Massie’s political career. The Kentucky Republican has bucked the Trump administration on numerous occasions, warranting recognition as a firebrand for White House critics. Massie voted against the...

As the federal government shutdown stretches into its 14th day, reports from Capitol Hill and the White House suggest that the impasse won’t end anytime soon, with the Trump administration refusing to budge on the Democrats’ demands of expanding COVID-era Obamacare subsidies and other spending by $1.5 trillion. According to a report from Punchbowl News, the Trump administration appears to be finding new sources of federal dollars in order to fund critical functions such as paying federal law enforcement officers and continuing to serve the over six million Americans who rely on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,...

You get the sense that Taylor Greene has lost interest in the Republican projectGeorgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent the last week gnawing on the hand that feeds her, showing that no one in American politics is worse at reading the tea leaves. Taylor Greene entered Congress in 2021 wearing a face mask that read “Trump Won.” She was so fervently a supporter of January 6 pardons that Georgians invoked an “insurrectionist disqualification clause” to try to remove her from Congress. But now that MAGA is riding high on a wave of world peace and prosperity, Taylor Greene has...

A White House spokesperson tells Fox News Digital that 'Criminal illegal murderers and rapists received Medicaid at the American taxpayers’ expense' The White House unveiled a number of criminal illegal migrants who received Medicaid as the Senate remains in gridlock over the government shutdown. Fox News Digital obtained detailed information surrounding the arrests of 49 illegal migrants, who have all been deported under the Trump administration, who were arrested for an array of crimes that occurred in the U.S. Charges include murder, assault, theft, burglary, rape and sexual abuse of a minor among other serious charges. In Congress, the federal...