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As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a midtown Manhattan office building, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, inserted himself into the discourse. His comments concerned a photo taken Thursday of Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, sitting on a folding chair inside a mosque, next to Mayor Eric Adams. To her left, men in kurtas and police uniforms kneel on a carpeted floor. Hochul wears a dark pantsuit, a somber expression and, on her head, a black scarf looped over her hair. After an anonymous social media user posted the photo and asked...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a champion of the progressive left, is praising democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s focus on affordability as he runs for mayor in the nation’s most populous city as a model for the Democratic Party. Asked by Fox News as she teamed up at a campaign event at a union headquarters on Monday with the Democratic Party’s New York City mayoral nominee if Mamdani was what the future of the party should look like, Warren answered “you bet.” “The Democratic Party needs to stand up and be clear. We are the party that fights for affordability, for working...

Fake Indian Endorses Real Indian https://buff.ly/Ben71Qohttps://babylonbee.com/news/fake-indian-endorses-real-indian NEW YORK, NY — As the race for mayor of New York intensified, one prominent candidate landed the support of another popular Democrat, as a fake Indian made a public endorsement of a real Indian. Fake American Indian Elizabeth Warren made a public appearance in the Big Apple on Monday to offer he approval and support to New York City mayoral candidate and real Indian Indian Zohran Mamdani. "As a pretend Indian, I am honored to endorse a for real one," Warren told reporters. "I've watched what capitalist Republicans have done to New York....

CNBC host David Faber battled Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., over raising taxes in New York City and Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's economic policy proposals on Monday in a fiery back and forth. "You mentioned Mamdani and you are in New York sort of speaking on behalf of him to a certain extent," Faber said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street." "New York does not operate in a vacuum. It competes with other cities. And so this idea of somehow raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, who, by the way, would point out pay roughly 15 percent of their income...

Widows and grieving mothers of fallen NYPD hero cops aren’t buying mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani’s pro-police switcheroo. Mamdani tried to make a clean break from his “defund the police” past on Wednesday as he privately visited with the family of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was gunned down in the Midtown mass shooting by crazed gunman Shane Tamura. “Now, when a police officer is killed he wants to say, ‘Oh, I support the police,’” Tatyana Timoshenko, the mother of slain NYPD Det. Russel Timoshenko, told The Post. Timoshenko — whose 23-year-old son was shot and killed in 2007 while pulling...

https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/billionaires/Since Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and other people believe that billionaires shouldn’t exist, I asked Grok what would happen if the government were to seize Elon Musk’s wealth.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)July 30, 2025Bernie Sanders said:“Billionaires should not exist.”Source:https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1176481898685710337Billionaires should not exist. https://t.co/hgR6CeFvLa— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 24, 2019Zohran Mamdani said:“I don’t think that we should have billionaires.”Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowT8L8Uu6kI asked Grok:Some people, such as Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, say that it’s wrong for anyone to be a billionaire. Twitter has a hashtag called #BillionairesShouldntExist. Some also say that rich people “hoard” their money. What percentage of Musk’s...

Most mainstream media outlets have made it clear in recent years where their loyalties lie regarding the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. But while rational observers can disagree about how both sides have reacted in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, the use of misleading photos to manipulate the narrative should never be deemed acceptable. That’s what the New York Times essentially admitted it did with a photo originally presented as a severely malnourished child in Gaza. A little legwork by a watchdog group called Honest Reporting helped expose the misrepresentation, as Breitbart reported: The New York Times admitted...

This was the (top part of) front page of the New York Times on July 25 featuring what appears to be a starving, emaciated Gaza child.I just went through the front pages of the New York Times for the past 365 days. Not once has it positioned a photo in this extraordinary way.Usually the NYT will feature a photo that is four columns wide, and that photo is always wider than it is tall (landscape). For example, here is the front page from yesterday, illustrating the mass shooting in Manhattan.Once every couple of months it has a feature photo that...

Yasmine Mohammed lived through a nightmare after her mother married an Islamist man. She joins Glenn Beck to tell her story about how she survived physical and mental abuse (including being hung upside down and whipped) in the name of "religion," and how a judge whitewashed it as a cultural issue. Video is 45:39 minutes long.

CNN’s Erin Burnett is being skewered for reporting that the gunman who opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper — killing an NYPD cop and three others — was “possibly white” after viewing the initial security footage released immediately after Shane Tamura’s deadly rampage. In the photos first shared online, the suit-clad Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Avenue with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand. CNN host Erin Burnett said that police knew the gunman had “sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white” during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening. The chilling...

The NYPD officer shot and killed by a deranged gunman inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday was identified as a “hero” dad and nearly four-year department veteran – whose wife is about to give birth to their third child, officials and sources said. Married father-of-two Didarul Islam, 36, was remembered as a dedicated family man who loved putting on the uniform after he was senselessly murdered by 27-year-old Shane Tamura inside 345 Park Avenue, heartbroken city leaders said during a press conference. “He was doing what he does best and all members of the police department carry out, he was...

The man who unleashed chaos inside a Midtown Manhattan office tower on Monday afternoon has been identified as Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old licensed private investigator from Las Vegas who once dreamed of a life in football. Authorities say Tamura arrived in Manhattan by car on Monday, parked around the corner and walked into 345 Park Avenue in the heart of Midtown Manhattan with a concealed weapon permit issued by the Las Vegas Sheriff's Department. Tamura headed straight into the building, strolling across a wide city plaza with his rifle in plain sight. What followed was a terrifying and targeted shooting...

The maniac gunman who killed at least five people at 345 Park Avenue on Monday evening was identified as a 27-year-old Las Vegas man, according to law enforcement sources. Shane Tamura was named by sources as the shooter who stormed the 44-floor swanky Midtown office building and opened fire, killing one police officer and at least four civilians.

A gunman seen carrying an assault rifle killed one police officer and injured at least six others when he opened fire in broad daylight in the heart of New York City, before he reportedly took his own life. Security camera photos posted online showed the gunman wearing a sport coat and button-down shirt while carrying the large rifle near a midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone asset management and the NFL on Monday. He is believed to be a 27-year-old man from Las Vegas, who had a silencer on his massive weapon when he opened fire inside the lobby...

"BREAKING: Active shooter described as a “middle eastern man” opened fire at police in Manhattan"

Zohran Mamdani fled to Uganda, and the details have completely exposed his grift. The self-described communist is currently the frontrunner to become the next mayor of New York City, with the press swooning over him as an Obama-type figure. As it turns out, though, Mamdani is a bit more of a fan of capitalism than he lets on. He didn't go to Uganda to help feed people in one of the world's most malnourished countries. Instead, he went there to lock them out behind a wall of heavy security so he could throw a three-day-long wedding bash, sparing no expense,...

Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently celebrated his wedding to his artist wife at a lavish compound owned by his family in Uganda. Mamdani, 33, shocked the political world when he defeated Andrew Cuomo to win the Democrat nomination to run the Big Apple, campaigning on far left policy and drawing controversy for his anti-Israel views. The state assemblyman recently took a break from the campaign to visit Uganda, where he was born and spent the first few years of his life being raised by his filmmaker mother Mira Nair and academic father Mahmood Mamdani. The far-left...

Sir Sadiq Khan has been informally advising the Democrats’ left-wing New York mayoral candidate on how to win his election. Zohran Mamdani, 33, shocked America’s political establishment last month by defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo in the race to secure his party’s nomination. Sources say Mamdani and Khan have since exchanged texts and spoken over the phone. Khan’s advisers have also been in contact with Mamdani’s campaign team. The sources close to Khan add that Mamdani needs to move to the centre to widen his appeal, particularly as Cuomo and the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, are running as independents...

The winner of the New York City Democratic primary for mayor is traditionally considered the overwhelming frontrunner in the general election. That's because Democrats outnumber Republicans roughly six-to-one in the nation's most populous city. However, that's not the case this year, one month after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born, state assemblyman from Queens, stunned the political world by topping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates in a come-from-behind primary victory to capture the nomination. President Donald Trump believes that Cuomo, who last week officially announced he would continue his mayoral bid as an independent...

Of course he does. Some will put that down to leftist hypocrisy, but Zohran Mamdani, like a lot of Islamists, just cosplays as a Communist. He puts out radical ideas to win over leftists, but many of those same ideas if actually implemented would cause plenty of damage to the Muslim cohort that funded him and turned out the bloc vote for him. Is he serious about them? No. He is serious about Jihad and Islam. This stuff is just theater, sucker bait for leftists who think they found an even more uncompromising version of Obama. “My platform is that...