What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.
No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.
And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.
I was born a week after America's bicentennial...which means I'm turning fifty in a little bit...yup, I'm approaching middle age😉
Grifters, outrage pundits and radicals aside, I also still believe that America is humanity's best chance for getting things right
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
🚨 WOW! Rep. Anna Paulina Luna just TOOK DOWN Democrats' lies on the House floor 🔥🔥
"My colleagues are spending a LOT of time lecturing the American people on how the SAVE America Act is going to require you to show your papers, but last time I checked, during COVID, they demanded that if you simply wanted to go to a funeral, be with your loved ones while they were dying, or get married, you had to SHOW YOUR PAPERS!"
"In fact, in New York City, they were literally asking you for your COVID passport. Yet the SAVE America Act, a common sense piece of legislation that requires two things, voter ID plus proof of citizenship, is being labeled by people in the Senate and people in this very chamber as Jim Crow era laws. Well, let me remind the American people of history!"
"It was the Democrat party that championed the Jim Crow era laws. And this is the farthest thing from it."
"In fact, if you're doing that, you're insulting over 70% of your voters, Democrats who believe that voter ID is the best way to secure an election."
"I do not believe that Barack Obama in showing his voter ID was engaging in Jim Crow era law or pushing that type of perspective!"
"And for the same people that are advocating saying that Kristi Noem and ICE will demand your personal information and you will be under surveillance, let I remind them that they actually all authorized the reauthorization of FISA unreformed that violated your constitutional rights. So this is pretty simple."
"If you are not an American, you do not get to vote in our elections. This is not a free for all country. A majority of Americans support this."
"A majority of the world has voter ID in place. It is not racist." @realannapaulina
New York City’s rent freeze sounds compassionate—until you meet the landlords barely hanging on.
@LLBiggers interviews a landlord whose grandfather fled Castro’s Cuba and spent a lifetime building a future in New York.
Now, government housing policies threaten to destroy everything he built.
Mamdani left out here the one-off gimmicks-$2.3 billion in deferring costs for four city government pensions and an $8 billion bailout from the Governor. And the “fiscal crisis” is driven by overspending. His adopted FY 2027 budget is approximately $125.8 billion, the largest budget in New York City history. It increased spending by about $10 billion (roughly 8.5%) from the prior year’s adopted budget of about $116 billion. It’s bigger than the entire state of Florida which has four times more people.
The moment it became official. 🇺🇸
The Class of 2030 took the Oath of Allegiance on The Plain, formally beginning their journey as cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.
#DutyHonorCountry#USMA2030#RDay
I built a way to save America a whole lot of money.
A patient of mine needs a mastectomy with tissue expander reconstruction, so we called a hospital’s price transparency line to ask for an estimate before surgery.
The quote? $430,000.
Then I sat down and estimated what it would cost to perform that exact same operation at Redbud Surgery Center.
About $17,000.
This is exactly why I believe independent outpatient surgery centers are part of the future of healthcare.
When physicians are empowered to build efficient, patient-centered facilities, we can often provide the same high-quality care in a setting that is more affordable, more transparent, and designed around the patient experience.
Healthcare doesn’t have to be this expensive.
Competition works. Transparency works. Innovation works.
If we want to lower healthcare costs in America, we don’t have to lower the quality of care. We simply have to start supporting models that deliver excellent outcomes without unnecessary overhead.
There are solutions. We just have to be willing to build them.
They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.
The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.
Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
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Watch closely new video showing the U.N. reaction: as courageous former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky confronts October 7th denier Reem al-Salem—by recounting the horrific abuse she suffered from Hamas—the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women sits there stone-faced. No empathy.
An activist judge just blocked our commonsense restriction on using SNAP benefits for soda and junk.
SNAP is for food — not sugar bombs fueling obesity, diabetes, and skyrocketing healthcare costs for low-income families.
Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize junk food and drinks at the expense of American health.
This administration will keep fighting to Make America Healthy Again.
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Ro is worth $200m and has $600m in trade volume so far during his time as a congressman
He is a liar, hypocrite, insider trader, and fraudster
If he wants to fund these causes, he should be the first to give from his private fortune
🚨DECIMATING NATIVE WILDLIFE: A quarter of the female pythons pulled from Collier County this season were found with full white-tailed deer in their stomachs.
@ConservancySWFL wildlife biologist & project manager Ian Bartoszek: “This was our first four-ton removal season."
How wildlife teams hit a massive four-ton removal RECORD to save local ecosystems:
This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.
A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.
It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:
56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.
More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.
343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.
That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.
The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:
The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.
Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.
Now look at the individual leaderboard:
- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade
And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.
She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.
The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.
The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.
And the cruelest part is this:
A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.
But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.
They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.
The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
The irony is too rich to ignore. A piece lamenting that players made “a night meant for inclusion about something else entirely” …by simply writing Bible verses on their hats. Silently. On their own caps.
Let’s think about what “inclusion” apparently means here: everyone is welcome, celebrated, and affirmed…unless you’re a religious person expressing your faith quietly, in which case you’re a problem to be ridiculed by a major sports outlet.
The players weren’t protesting. They weren’t disrupting anything. They weren’t demanding anyone agree with them. They wrote scripture on their hats. That’s it. And yet the media framing treats this as an act of aggression against inclusion…while simultaneously being deeply exclusionary toward them.
This is the core contradiction the mainstream sports media can never seem to resolve: inclusion only seems to flow in one direction. Pride Night deserves full-throated coverage and moral endorsement. A Bible verse deserves a condescending op-ed.
If a reporter wrote a piece mocking players for putting an LGBTQ+ symbol on their cap, their career would be over by morning. The double standard isn’t subtle …it’s architectural.
True inclusion, by definition, has to include people of sincere religious faith. The moment a media outlet decides that one group’s expression is a celebration and another’s is an embarrassment, they’ve stopped covering a story and started enforcing a cultural orthodoxy.
That’s not journalism…it’s a dress code. @nytimes@TheAthletic
they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.
you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.
i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.
i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.
let’s leave it at that then.
perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.
@KatieMiller@elonmusk@FT In 100 years, when children learn about the advancements that occurred during this period, they’ll read about two people: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
These reporters and their hateful, demonic rhetoric will be forgotten by history.
@CAgovernor Maybe you could focus on getting rid of the massive corruption that occurred under your watch instead of criticizing our greatest Americans — and largest tax payers in history?