David Grzelecki 🇺🇸

Classical, folk, country, blues, boss brass, rock, rhythm and jazz. 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇮🇱

[David Grzelecki 🇺🇸 @DavidGrzelecki]

Astoria/LIC Queens is rapidly going third-world - with people parking unregistered RVs on city streets and living in them, stealing electricity from light poles and water from hydrants. Report it to @NYC311, and @NYPD114Pct all you want. They ENFORCE NOTHING.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

The failing Seattle Times. Instead of investigating fraud, they’re going after the guy rooting it out.
@nickshirleyy

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

Do you want to live in America or in white guilt America?

Cause this is what it’s like living in white guilt America:

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Remembering the great Thelonious Monk who was born on this day in 1917.

Here, he is performing “Round Midnight” with Charlie Rouse on saxophone, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums live in France, 1966.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

It’s a sanctuary for criminals.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SCOOP

Professor at @UBuffalo Joseph Hundley was reportedly “driving erratically” while trying to tail a border patrol vehicle conducting operations in the Buffalo area

Agents called police after they observed his car following them to multiple locations and “driving recklessly”

When police pulled him over he claimed he was just driving to work

We received this report via FOIA request after receiving a tip about his behavior.

Is conducting anti-ICE scouting work appropriate behavior for a professor in your institution @UBuffalo??

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Another day, another Econ 101 lesson for Professor Warren.

Her “Trumpflation” tracker conveniently ignores the Bidenflation tidal wave that crushed American families, cherry-picks wage growth by refusing to acknowledge positive real wage gains since President Trump came into office, and swaps official medical-care CPI data for premium projections when it suits her narrative.

The Harvard Square inflationista is offering a statistical sleight of hand, not a serious assessment of today’s U.S. economy.

Here is the full picture, including an apples-to-apples comparison of President Trump’s real economic results measured against the failed policies Senator Warren championed under Biden.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

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[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Eight people killed by ICE (5) or Border Patrol Agents (3) since January 20th, 2025. Any death is tragic, but the government claims these individuals were not blameless. Annual Average Customs & Border Protection Fatal Encounters under Trump are half what they were under Biden https://t.co/yZ1iHvT7ug
#illegalaliens #ICE #CBP

[New York Post @nypost]

'Criminal illegal' migrant shot by ICE tormented NYC apartment building with machete, neighbor claims: 'Menace to society' https://t.co/FGiGLjQ8R9

[placard corruption @placardabuse]

This dirty cop didn't have to block the crosswalk when they parked illegally in the No Stopping zone.

They went out of their way to pick the most disruptive, hazardous place to break the law.

#NYPDinsurrection
#PlacardCorruption

[Paul Vallas @PaulVallas]

Yes, Mayor Johnson actually said it. 

Facing an $882 million budget shortfall, the mayor he will tax corporations that are making “more money ... than they’ve ever made in the history of the world,” including the “free labor period of slavery.”

Didn’t know Chicago had corporations that profited from free slave labor. 

Will someone tell our former history teacher turned mayor that Illinois was a free state that sent 256,000 residents to fight in the Union Army. And would someone remind the mayor 35,000 died for the cause of freeing slaves.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Huntsville, Ala. Trantifa militant Anthony Elijah Slota has been federally charged with possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act Weapon. Slota belongs to an Antifa cell that has allegedly stockpiled unregistered firearms to use for violent direct action against ICE and the state. https://t.co/eruxyD5BQB

[Robert Holden @BobHoldenNYC]

Mamdani clearly hates Europeans, especially white New Yorkers. Period.

First, he snubbed German-Americans at the Steuben Day Parade. Then Polish-Americans at last week’s Pulaski Day Parade. Now Italian-Americans on Columbus Day.

What does that tell you? I call it racism, plain and simple.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

The Hill is out with my column on Jack Smith appearing in a "No Kings" T-Shirt after his recent testimony. https://t.co/uU6qjfC4E7 The pretense was gone, and Smith was finally in his element. Smith might view this as his coming-out party, but he actually came out years ago.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

NOT A NEW YORKER.

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 “Death to America” at the Claremont Colleges: Mohamed Abdou Urges Students to Emulate Hamas, Organize Underground, and Wage War Against the “Great Satan”

One of the more alarming events I attended this week was Mohamed Abdou’s October 7th talk, “Re-Igniting Student Organizing Against Settler-Colonial Amerika,” organized by a student-run group at the Claremont Colleges.

Abdou’s central thesis was effectively that student organizers should emulate Hamas, particularly the small, secretive groups. He drew a direct parallel between Hamas’s clandestine preparations and the students in attendance: “Sort of like you organizing today in a small tight-knit group.”

“Organizing requires secrecy. It requires deception. It requires being quiet, going underground.”

Abdou even compared the clandestine organization of the student event itself to Hamas’s preparations, declaring, “It’s the same thing with the mujahideen.” He later made his message explicit.

“We need to become like Al-Qassam. We need to become like Hamas, like Islamic Jihad.”

But Abdou’s message went considerably further than organizational tactics as he urged revolutionary confrontation with America.

He spoke of an Islam that “hates America,” declaring that Islam, indigenous values, and the black radical tradition are “antithetical to American values.”

Abdou then asked whether the Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim diasporas wanted to become the new “brown face of empire,” like Barack Obama, or pursue a different path.

“Or [do] they want to take war to the enemy? Do they, are they willing to wage war on behalf of justice? Against injustice, which is what America stands for. To deal with Great Satan. To deliver a blow and death to America. For something better.”

There is a really nasty anti-assimilation message here. Abdou portrayed participation in American politics as complicity with empire, while presenting revolutionary confrontation and the clandestine methods of Hamas as alternatives for his student audience.

And in a harrowing conclusion to a talk celebrating the third anniversary of October 7th, which Abdou called the “3rd blessed anniversary,” he told attendees, “I look forward to many, many conspiratorial events to do with you.”

[Stu Smith @thestustustudio]

🚨 DSA’s Darializa Avila Chevalier Says Convicted Felon’s Criminal History “Doesn't Even Matter,” Accuses Jessica Tisch of “Villainizing” Him, and Demands Her Resignation

This is a fascinating glimpse into DSA-style co-governance in action, revealing both the growing tensions over the Mamdani administration and the movement's commitment to abolitionism.

Speaking with Hasan Piker today about the ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal, a Dominican national with a prior felony conviction and pending charges for allegedly selling fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine to an undercover detective, Darializa Avila Chevalier was unable to explain his criminal history when Hasan asked about it.

Instead, she acknowledged reviewing NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s remarks against “our statement,” which her team had prepared, before declaring, “To me it doesn't even matter.”

It was Hasan who later supplied the details, citing the New York Times on Belgal’s drug offenses and robbery.

Avila Chevalier nevertheless accused Tisch of attempting to “villainize” Belgal, demanded her resignation, called for his release from federal custody, and advocated abolishing ICE and stripping its funding.

Notably, Avila Chevalier had also taken to the streets to protest the shooting that same evening, confronting federal agents investigating the scene and later participating in demonstrations outside the hospital.

She went so far as to portray Belgal’s flight from federal agents, with his five-year-old child in the back seat, as an entirely understandable act of parental protection, suggesting that any parent would have done the same.

The interview concluded with her telling Hasan’s audience to “Fuck ICE and abolish it.”

[Handre @Handre]

At La Cabaña prison in 1959, Che Guevara presided over tribunals that executed somewhere between 156 and 550 men, many after trials lasting minutes. Appeals were theater. "Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail," he wrote, which is a convenient position when you are the one holding the rifle.

The man despised markets with the same enthusiasm he despised due process. As head of Cuba's National Bank, he destroyed the peso, printing money and signing the new bills simply "Che" to show his contempt for the whole institution of sound currency. Cubans paid for this in bread lines.

He built labor camps too. The UMAP camps, opened in 1965, held homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone the regime labeled counter-revolutionary. Forced labor under armed guard. These people needed "moral correction".

Leftists wear his face on a T-shirt, advertising a man who wanted to abolish the very commerce that printed the shirt. He called money a bourgeois disease. He loved the firing squad and hated the price system, which makes sense, because both let strangers coordinate without a commissar's permission.

A killer. Economically illiterate. Incapable of reason. No wonder the left idolizes him.

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Memo to Assemblyman Micah Lasher, I lost a son to a heroin overdose. I know firsthand what narcotics do to families.

You’re demanding the immediate release of Oscar Belgal.

According to the NY Daily News, Belgal was indicted on 10 narcotics-sale counts after allegedly selling fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to an undercover detective on at least eight occasions. He also has a grand larceny conviction.

The drug charges are pending, and he is entitled to due process. So are the ICE agents involved in the shooting.

But you demand his immediate release while lecturing New Yorkers about cruelty.

Where is your compassion for the families devastated by the drugs he is accused of selling?

Cc @MicahLasher