Monday, August 17, 2026

Mamdani's FREE Grocery Plan BACKFIRES As New Yorkers See What's Actually Inside

 William Reports News   "New York City's plan to open five publicly funded grocery stores is colliding with the very businesses it promised to protect. This breakdown traces how bodega leader Radhames Rodriguez's endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani hinged on a promise of consultation, and how the plan that followed—thirty percent discounts on staples, funded through a subsidized model where the city covers construction, rent, and property taxes—has left small grocers questioning whether they can survive next to a competitor operating without their overhead. We examine internal city records showing the stores will skip butcher counters, hot food, and the high-margin items bodegas depend on, while undercutting the staples families spend most on every week.

"The deeper story here is about who absorbs the cost of "affordable" groceries and what it means when government enters direct retail competition with small, often immigrant-owned businesses. We look at the economics behind grocery margins nationally, the failed precedents in Baldwin, Florida and Erie, Kansas, and the pointed remarks from Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Gustavo Gordillo suggesting struggling bodegas "shouldn't have been in that business in the first place." We also examine the political fault lines this has exposed within the Democratic Party itself, from Governor Kathy Hochul's public defense of free enterprise to City Council Speaker Julie Menin's unspoken reservations, and the emerging legal challenge from an immigrant-led business coalition. Finally, we unpack the administration's plan for a membership card system to monitor purchases—and what the gap between the promise of "free groceries" and the mechanics being built actually reveals about the program's real cost and timeline."

Ann Coulter & Hasan Piker HEATED Debate on Immigration & Trump

VIDEO: I met the weasel, Hasan Piker, in 2018   Recently, someone asked me if I’d ever met Hasan Piker and I said no, but then a friend sent me this video from 2018. You can see why I found him unmemorable.

"Ann Coulter and Hasan Piker join Elex Michaelson on "The Issue Is:" for a fiery debate on the 2018 migrant caravan, President Trump's promised border wall, asylum policy, and whether Trump bears responsibility for the pipe bombs mailed to Democratic figures by Cesar Sayoc."

Ann Coulter


The Demonic Possession of Liberal Women: “Now we shall touch the bottom of this swamp.” Arthur Miller, The Crucible

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics


"There is something spiritually wrong with liberal women. I’m not suggesting that liberalism is evil. Only that it has become the portal for the demonic possession of women. It has perverted their inherent compassion, femininity, and maternal instinct into a counterforce of darkness. So that they act and talk like demons. And seeing them do it is akin to witnessing a Witches Sabbath.

"Watch the ghastly clip of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey last week signing a bill to legalize killing a baby up to a minute before his or her birth. The dozen intentionally uglified women behind Healey grin and clap with glee, as if they had rescued children instead of sanctioned their gruesome murder. By any measure of humanity, even if you support the right to abortion, the moment demanded somber ceremony not celebration. Unless you were a soulless antihuman ghoul, which all these women clearly are.

"And they have plenty of company. Last week, Trump’s radiant Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her resignation to focus on her new baby and family. Leavitt’s most recent pregnancy had earlier come under attack from what should have been the least likely source, a delivery nurse at a Florida hospital.

"The nurse, Lexie Lawler, posted in a TikTok video, “As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear…. I hope that you f…ing rip from bow to stern and never function normally again.”

"That Lawler confidently vomited her bile in public displayed insanity as much as immorality, and, even most chilling, zeal. Perhaps it was the sight of Leavitt’s crucifix at the White House podium that set Lawler off. Yes, she got fired for it. Yet her witch sisters are being elected all over blue America, and are making a play for the rest of the country. If more Christian voters don’t take up the cross against them this fall, the result will literally be Apocalyptic.

Obama to Launch New Podcast Ahead of Midterms

 Jon Dougherty  

"With the six-episode series scheduled to begin next month, the remaining major detail is Obama’s guest list, which has yet to be revealed." 


"Former President Barack Obama is returning to podcasting with a new series centered on literature, expanding the media portfolio he and former first lady Michelle Obama have continued to build since leaving the White House.

"Obama announced Monday that he will host a six-episode podcast, “A Great Book With Barack Obama,” which is scheduled to debut next month. The series will explore six books that he says have shaped his views on politics, race, faith and American society." . . .

The books chosen for the series are James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon,” Cormac McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses,” Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead,” Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men” and John le CarrĂ©’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.”

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Todd Blanche reveals FBI's role in Nancy Guthrie search

 UK Daily Mail  

"'Six months ago, someone took her out of her bed in the dead of night. We have lived every moment, every breath and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since,' the Today host wrote on Instagram."

USA Today


"Attorney General Todd Blanche has cast doubt on whether the FBI will take over the search for Nancy Guthrie, six months after her disappearance.

Blanche, who was recently appointed by President Donald Trump, sat down with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker six months after Guthrie was last seen by her son-in-law, who dropped her off at her $1million Tucson home on January 31.

'Whether the FBI takes the lead, we are there to support,' Blanche said. 'We're going to continue to do that.'

'Whether we come in with sharp elbows and take it over, that's not necessarily the right thing to do for her.'

The search for the 84-year-old mother of Today star Savannah Guthrie has been led by Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who has faced scrutiny over alleged missteps during the investigation.

FBI had evidence Swalwell got illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy, bombshell memos show

 Just The News   

"The FBI knew early on during the recruitment that Fang was tied to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing’s notorious intelligence service. The bureau also identified her parents as MSS agents, knew she was raising money for California Democrats and was willing to use sex as a means of getting ahead in the world of U.S. politics."


 "The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.

"The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.

They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.

Unlike unpredicated "assessments," a predicated investigation allows agents to use advanced and intrusive methods like electronic surveillance or informants.

The files provide significant new details about the long-rumored relationship between Fang and Swalwell, including that:

  • The FBI initially wanted to investigate the congressman for a bribery scheme in which he exchanged donations from Fang for her planting interns in his office, but eventually decided to narrow the case to seek criminal charges only against Fang for making illegal donations to the California Democrat through conduits.
  • Swalwell admitted to having sex with Fang, his staff placing Fang’s interns in Congress and not having a strong enough campaign finance system to detect the straw donations she allegedly passed through U.S.-citizen conduits. . . .  More... 
Eric Swalwell Thought He Got Away With It...NOPE!   "On this full, LIVE episode of LARRY with Larry O'Connor, we discuss the BREAKING NEWS that the FBI had knowledge of illegal donations made by Fang-Fang the Chinese spy to Congressman Eric Swalwell, Hakeem Jeffries in the HOT SEAT about how Democratic Socialists are destroying his hold on power, Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer having a struggle session for Anthony Fauci, and MUCH, much more!"

Acknowledging Everything, Solving Nothing

 Brian C. Joondeph   

"Yet none of those actions has repaired potholes, reduced auto theft or other crimes, improved educational outcomes, shortened emergency response times, or made downtown feel safer after dark."

"Not long ago, I attended a Sunday service at a Methodist church in Denver.

"Before the service began, the pastor introduced herself, shared her preferred pronouns, and informed the congregation that we were worshipping on stolen Native American land.

"I remember wondering why, if the land had truly been stolen, the church still owned it. I wrote about it on these pages. 

"Now Denver’s City Council wants to add another public ritual to official meetings.

"Not a prayer.

"Not the Pledge of Allegiance.

"Not even a moment of silence.

"A labor acknowledgment recognizing slavery and its legacy.

"The proposal is curious for one obvious reason.

"Colorado entered the Union in 1876 — more than a decade after the Civil War ended — as a free state. No one currently living in Colorado was ever enslaved, and no one currently living in Colorado owned slaves here.

"Yet before city business can begin, elected officials may soon be expected to acknowledge historical events that occurred generations before anyone in the room was born.

"The ritual keeps growing.

"First came pronouns. Then land acknowledgments. Now slave acknowledgments.

"One wonders what comes next." . . .  More...

Is Your Home Really ‘Stolen Land’? The Case for Property Rights | The American Spectator    . . . "The legitimacy of my title does not depend upon proving that no injustice occurred somewhere in the centuries before I acquired it. It rests upon a legal order that long ago decided that ownership must eventually become settled, or ownership can have no meaning at all." . . .

History of the Crow Tribe [CONDENSED] - Montana Beyond    A Democrat relative of Crazy Horse stated, "I am living on stolen land" and offered reparations to the Crow descendants kicked out by the Sioux. The former Sioux City, Iowa has been changed to Crow City. TD

But wait! The Crows took the land from the Apache! 

"Upon arriving in southeastern Montana, the Crow tribe began establishing their historic lands in this area, warring with various Shoshone bands, pushing them further west, and allying with local Kiowa and Plains Apache tribes.  When the Kiowa and Plains Apache later migrated south, the Crow remained. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, during the fur trade, the Crow continued to establish their territory around present-day southeast Montana." 

Crow Indian Reservation from Interstate 90 in the Crow Agency/Lodge Grass area, Big Horn County, Montana. Montanabw, CC BY-SA 4.0

UPDATED: Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S. |

"And Abdul El-Sayed’s participation makes it clear that he’s comfortable with calls to conquer the United States, to murder millions of people and to subjugate all non-Muslims to Islamic Supremacism." 

AfterMath - Home

Frontpage Mag    “Wherever you came from, you came to America. And you came for one reason—for one reason only—to establish Allah’s deen,” Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a former vice president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), had told Muslims, “democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”

“Muslims in America are the most strategic Muslims on Earth,” the top Islamic figure, who has posed with numerous politicians, including Zohran Mamdani, said.

“If you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.”

“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate,” the unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing predicted. “Take my word, if eight million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”

“If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time,” Imam Zaid Shakir, a repeat ISNA guest, preached. “What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Muslims.”

“Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim country.”

“I believe that as Muslims we should participate in the system to safeguard our interest and try to bring gradual change for the right cause, the cause of truth and justice. We must not forget that Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction,”  Muzammil Siddiqi, a co-founder of ISNA, had said." . . .

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. 

Abdulraham Mohamed El-Sayed pals around with a pedophile adjacent [to use a Democrat term] cleric   "It’s very important that Americans understand that the DSA and Islamic takeover of the Democrat party—which is what’s happening when avowed DSA supporters and Muslims like Zohran Mamdani and Abdulrahmen Mohamed El-Sayed run and win as Democrats—means bringing utterly foul people into the heart of American politics. By foul, I mean their ideas are anti-American, anti-constitutional, pedophilic, antisemitic, anti-Christian, and misogynistic, and that’s just for starters." . . .

Full article here...

Hasan Piker throws support behind AOC for 2028 election

AOC's student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg freezing journey

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.

"The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.

"The “Tax the Rich!” pol reported less than $81,000 in total assets.

"Recently, Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that she’d been saving up for some time instead to freeze her eggs, a process that can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 per cycle." . . .

Virginia Salon Owner Boots Jewish Israeli Customer — Then Her Own Video Makes It Even Worse

RedState  

"Karimi's own explanation was that Walton “would have slid by” if she had agreed there was a genocide and said she did not support the Israeli government."

"Jessica Walton says her eyebrow appointment at Karimi Brows in Alexandria ended when the owner, Fatana Karimi, told her to leave. Walton is Jewish and Israeli-American. Karimi later posted part of the argument herself.

"Walton said she and Karimi had spent much of the appointment talking about Afghanistan. Walton had recently finished a novel partly set there and told Karimi about the Afghans she had interviewed, as well as their shared interest in Afghan poetry and food." . . .

. . . "The trouble started, Walton said, after she described the novel's Jewish half-Israeli character and mentioned that she was Jewish and half-Israeli herself.

"Karimi told her to leave, according to Walton.

"Get out of my shop."

"Excuse me?"

"I can't provide service to an Israeli. It's against my political beliefs. You need to leave immediately."

"Walton says Karimi also told her there was “no such thing as Israel” and described Israel as Palestine stolen by Jews. Karimi's own video starts later, after the two women were already arguing, so those remarks aren't on the clip. 

"Writer Gary Weiss posted Walton's account Friday and also pointed to the video Karimi had released from the salon." . . .

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Oh, So This Is Why Luigi Mangione Pleaded Guilty

PJ Media 

  "If Turley is right, a man who executed a father of two on a Manhattan sidewalk in broad daylight could walk away from the murder charge entirely on a technicality, having already secured the lighter of his two possible sentencing outcomes.

The generation that blames Israel for Oct 7 considers Mangione
innocent?

Luigi Mangione, the man whose assassination of a health insurance executive turned him into a folk hero to many on the left, shocked the country on Friday when he finally admitted to the killing and changed his plea to guilty.

"I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan. I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death of bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal," Mangione told the judge. He admitted to stalking his victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in the weeks before he gunned him down. The guilty plea locks in a consequence few outside the courtroom seemed to notice at first: a state court can no longer try Mangione for murder.

Mangione had spent more than a year cultivating an image as a martyr willing to fight the system to the end. So why did he suddenly fold and admit everything?

According to Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, the answer has nothing to do with a guilty conscience. Turley discussed the plea with host Charlie Hurt on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, and argued the move was a calculated legal gamble aimed at avoiding a life sentence rather than any sign of remorse.

Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges connected to Thompson's murder. He still faces a separate state trial in New York scheduled for September. That's where things get interesting, because the two cases carry sharply different stakes. The federal charge carries a possible sentence of life without parole. New York's state system has no such option available.

"The New York case is the case that involves the murder charges, but it is also the case and is the case that has a lower potential ceiling for the sentencing," Turley said." . . .

‘Sharia Is Already Here,’ Speaker Tells Plano Mosque Open House

 The Dallas Express  

The public debate turns on whether Americans can protect private religious exercise while identifying and resisting efforts to impose religious authority through law or political power. At the Plano mosque, that distinction was not theoretical. It was the argument in the room and outside its doors. 

Sharia bildbanks

"A Muslim outreach leader told visitors at a Plano mosque Saturday that Sharia is “already here,” describing it as a religious framework Muslims follow through charity, family obligations and personal conduct.

"Outside the Islamic Association of Collin County, an Iran-born Christian who said he lived under Sharia offered a starkly different warning. He argued that Islamic law becomes dangerous when it gains political power and is enforced by the state.

"The competing messages unfolded during an open house billed as “Understanding Islam & Shariah: Myths vs Facts.” About 100 people attended the event at the mosque.

The DX Brief

  • The event: WhyIslam Dallas organized a July 18 open house at the Islamic Association of Collin County in Plano with mosque tours, food, a presentation and questions from visitors.
  • What was said: GainPeace Director Dr. Sabeel Ahmed said Sharia is already practiced in the United States through Muslims’ personal religious conduct. His remarks presented it as personal religious guidance, not a replacement for American civil law.
  • The dispute: A Christian attendee questioned the treatment of women in some Muslim-majority countries. Outside, Edwin Isagholi, who said he was born in Iran and lived under Sharia, warned about blasphemy and apostasy laws.
  • Why it matters: The exchange placed two different meanings of Sharia in direct conflict: a personal code of faith and an enforceable political or legal system.   More...
Like the “handwriting on the wall” that Prophet Daniel had interpreted, there are four Arabic words, which could lead to submission of the entire world to Islam, if non-Muslims do not fully understand their meaning and implications. Those words are takiyya, tawriya, kitman, and muruna.

UPDATE:   Can't pay interest under Sharia law? Minneapolis says no problem, offers alternative financing | Alpha News MN   . . . "Minneapolis operates a loan program for business owners who don’t want to pay interest for religious reasons — and $1.44 million has already been issued through that program.

"The city’s Alternative Financing program was created specifically to comply with Islamic law, or Sharia, which prohibits charging or paying interest — known as riba — and instead relies on financing structures that generate a return without conventional interest." . . .

Why All Leftism Is Now Far Left

 Itxu DĂ­az  

"That is why the first thing the postmodern left did was to start renaming everything: from sex or gender to the way we refer to certain races. It is fair to admit that they won the battle of the dictionary."

Conservative America

"A 20th-century leftist might have debated how much the state should intervene in citizens’ lives. A postmodern leftist only debates how far the transformation of society and the minds of each individual citizen should go. It’s as if they have gone from being bad economists to being bad psychoanalysts.
"Gender politics, rewriting history, multiculturalism and open borders, or abolishing the police were issues that used to be addressed by a small group of leftists we called the “far left.” In both the United States and Europe, these issues are now the central agenda of left-wing parties, starting with the Democratic Party, perfectly caricatured today in what AOC represents. (RELATED: The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Feeds On DSA NaĂ¯vetĂ©)
"The 20th-century left, the left of class politics, was profoundly wrong about everything, but the contemporary left, the left of identity politics, is simply insane. The revolution that socialists entrusted to the proletariat of the last century, they now intend to carry out with an army made up of trans people, immigrants, people of fluid and intermittent sexuality, and ordinary Americans who are suddenly fascinated with Islam. Sometimes, when I watch the woke army struggling to form a uniform line, I don’t know if I’m looking at real soldiers or just at a circus. (RELATED: You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics)
"A curious observation: leftists never try to convince informed and free people; they always go after those they consider dependent and malleable. Just as yesterday they went after the workers, and especially the blue-collar workers and those who, a priori, are less intellectually qualified, now they’re going after the freaks, those who don’t know their own identity, and those who urgently need to see a psychologist.
"In comparison, the blue-collar workers at least had the dignity of labor and an ethical foundation vastly superior to that of this brainwashed mass of followers of postmodern progressivism. Perhaps it’s time to pass a law (Good Lord! Am I asking the government to solve something? What have I become?) that prevents political parties from seducing those with obvious mental problems with Gnostic rhetoric. If you think about it, by gathering the mentally ill, the left has become one of those infamous cults from the 90s where one idiot managed to get a thousand fools to give him money, offer him sexual favors, and later commit suicide without killing him. (RELATED: From Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Samuel Moyn: What Happened to the American Left?)" . . .  More...

Itxu Díaz is a Spanish journalist, political satirist, and author. He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario Las Américas in the United States, as well as a columnist at several Spanish magazines and newspapers.