"He attempted to pass legislation that would strip Jewish nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if they supported Israel. Yes, you read that right"…JPost
. . . "A strong collective of Zohran Mamdani’s core brain trust are 30-somethings or even younger Gen Zers with little to no experience in government — but long histories of radical left-wing politics, a review by The Post found.
"Mamdani’s front-runner status in the Big Apple mayoral race puts these untested youths — who variously have ties to billionaire George Soros, grew up in swanky homes and went to posh private schools — a stone’s throw from the levers of power." . . .
"This week, New York City sent a message — and for Jews, it’s chilling.
"Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and anti-Zionist State Assemblyman from Queens, just won the Democratic Primary in a landslide. But this isn’t a local political story. It’s the story of how antisemitism, cloaked in social justice language and weaponized by extremist ideologues, has gone mainstream in America. And now it's winning.
Let’s be honest about who Mamdani is — and what he stands for:
What Zohran Mamdani stands for
He has refused to condemn Hamas after its October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, blaming Israel for the massacre on October 8, before it even retaliated.
He refused to support Holocaust remembrance legislation." . . .
. . . "In the days since Mamdani’s win, antisemites online have only grown more emboldened. I’ve seen people openly posting “The intifada has been globalized,” telling Jews to “leave New York,” and even saying “Hitler would have loved this.” This is the climate Mamdani has helped create — one where genocidal slogans are no longer fringe, but viral. Like many grifters these days, he surfs on the algorithmic waves of antisemitism." . . .
Jan. 3, 2026 — U.S. military forces capture Maduro. Within minutes, the same network activates with graphics, slogans, protests, like a switch flipped on. This wasn’t solidarity. It was a long-running relationship, tested, rehearsed, and ready.
"For the past 22 years I have watched, written about, broadcast, and cross-referenced the groups, messages, and protests by the left in Portland, Oregon. For a long time, before the Occupy Wall Street movement, I was one of the few in Portland talking about the derivations of these groups on my blog and the radio. Before the category-killing Antifa movement subsumed the anarchists and BLM activists, these groups always came from one place: the ANSWER Coalition. This anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-anything-opposed-to-America organization gave cover to the wildest and most extreme groups in Portland. Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and anti-Semites, the Wobblies, and any group with a fist in their logo found a home in the ANSWER Coalition. Republicans were not invited.
"When ANSWER discovered I was outing them in public, they removed the individual groups from their website. Apparently, they didn't want anyone to know they were associating with terrorist organizations. But—what ho!—the group, which stands for Act Now to End War and Stop Racism, began right after the al-Qaeda attack on the United States in 2001, in fear that the U.S. would retaliate for that whole flying airplanes into the Pentagon and New York skyscrapers thing.
"Whose side are they on, anyway?
"Not yours.
"Just take a look at their last few months of activity that I screenshotted from their website:" . . .(See above and others herein) More...
"One such woman wears "Free Luigi" buttons. Another is thrilled that the song "Bread and Roses" was sung. A third strongly shares Mamdani's verbal commitment or rather promise to make the "rich" pay more for the "poor."
"This may have been among the worst New Year's of my life.
"The only thing missing was Leni Riefenstahl’s camera to capture the symbolic pageantry of this second inauguration, a record of the grandiose promises made and cheered.
"NYC's new mayor is an out-and-out Islamist even more so than a democratic socialist. This is what the Red-Green alliance looks and sounds like. On Mamdani's very first day in office, he jettisoned the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism/anti-Zionism and lifted preexisting restrictions on boycotting Israel.
"Excuse me? How will doing so improve housing and childcare in NYC? Then again, Mamdani is a smooth, ambitious, and charismatic figure--and he knows exactly to whom he is pandering.
"The loudest and longest ovation Mamdani received was when he referred to the Palestinian communities in Bay Ridge Brooklyn as if they were forgotten, under represented, or the victims of "Islamophobia" (a false concept but no matter). He failed to describe them as having been among the loudest and most visible of Jew and Israel haters in the city. What he said, exactly, was this: "Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge will no longer have to contend with a politics that speaks of universalism and then makes them the exception."
"Unless I missed it, Mamdani said nothing about the rise in attacks on Jews in our once fair city; he did mention pastrami on rye and having enjoyed lox and bagels in his formative years--as if such food is all that Judaism is about. Harmless enough. Nothing else to see here.
"But if, or rather when, the mayor fails to deliver on all his pie-in-the-sky promises, he has two ready-made scapegoats to blame and to feed to the rage of the masses: The millionaires, the billionaires--and the Jews.
"Our new mayor said nothing about the massive looting, the street- and train-based violence, or the fetid encampments that have sprung up like poisonous mushrooms. All he mentioned was something rather Orwellian about dealing with mental illness. Mamdani will "create a new Department of Community Safety that will tackle the mental health crisis and let the police focus on the job they were signed up to do." And how, Sir, do you plan such a "tackle"? Given that there are no medications or therapies that can turn around schizophrenia and other serious forms of psychiatric illness?" . . . More
More voices of young women; the same voices that cheer for the murderers of Jewish families, assaulting Jewish students attending college classes, adore Luigi Mangione for killing a father and husband.
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of Psychology at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, and a retired academic and psychotherapist.
"So in October 2023, I reached out on social media to all the Jewish women I knew, to offer them my love and support. I looked for tiny signs from other feminists that they supported Jews, and tried to gather them together. I spoke up in feminist circles. I went to the first march (actually more of a shuffle) against antisemitism. I have never felt so welcome – or so horribly humbled and embarrassed by the gratitude Jewish women expressed for what, to me, is a basic act of humanity and feminism.
"I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Jews forever. I do not want to live in a world where Jews are not safe. Hence, I am a Zionist. I stand with Israel."
“Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance. “You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.
"Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.
“ 'Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.
“ 'Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.
"Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.
"She also unloaded on law enforcement in a May 2020 rant that came during the furor over the death of George Floyd.
“ 'The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she posted.
"Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, also served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign in 2025.
"She was a key player in lobbying the Democrat-run state Legislature to tighten the city’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, making them more pro-tenant." . . . More...
“Paying providers upfront based on paper enrollment instead of actual attendance invites abuse,” said Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill. “In Minnesota, we’ve seen credible and widespread allegations of fraudulent daycare providers who were not caring for children at all. The reforms we are enacting will make fraud harder to perpetrate.”
"The more the onion gets peeled back, the more it looks like the Democrat Party has been heavily invested for years in perpetrating fraud via daycare centers. First, it was the mostly Somali-operated "learing centers" in Minnesota, and, now, it looks like upwards of $19 billion in taxpayer money was sent by the Biden admin to daycare centers without first verifying that children were actually attending the centers.
"As we've learned from Nick Shirley's fantastic coverage from Minnesota, there's apparently a booming market of "ghost centers" that have the signage and the storefronts, but not so much the children. Shirley visited several centers that looked like legitimate operations from the outside, but were revealed to be ghost care businesses operating without children, despite receiving taxpayer funding for child care services.
"It turns out that taxpayers have actually been sending gobs of money to daycare centers across the country that weren't required to confirm attendance records – and it's all thanks to former President Joe Biden. According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Administration for Children and Families, Biden implemented a series of rules in 2024 "that required states to pay providers before verifying any attendance and before care was delivered."
"On Monday, HHS announced it was rescinding the Biden-era rules and rolling back "provisions in the 2024 Child Care and Development Fund rule that weakened oversight and increased the risk of waste, fraud and abuse in federally-funded state child care — including programs now under investigation in Minnesota." . . . More
“People are tired of legacy media, they want change, and that change starts on January 26.” The California Post will be available on web at californiapost.com, in your app store, print and all social channels " . . .
"A new era of common sense and accountability arrives in California on January 26.
"That is the launch date of the California Post — the brand new, seven-days-a-week digital and print newspaper for the Golden State.
"The sister publication to the New York Post brings all the hard-charging, plain-spoken journalism of The Post to the West Coast.
"In announcing the date, California Post editor-in-chief Nick Papps said, “It’s time to hold the powerful to account and start fighting for hard-working Californians.
"“The California Post will be a game-changer across news, sports, opinion and entertainment,” Papps said." . . . More...
. . . "What I predicted was that the ruling regimes, both Iran and Venezuela, would go by the boards, and the benefits coming to everybody in America not affiliated with the Democrat Party would be manifold.
"Iran, I noted, is going to collapse on its own, mostly because the ayatollahs are so incompetent at the basic functions of government that they’ve allowed the reservoirs which supply water to the 15 million people who live in and around Tehran to go almost completely dry. And with a pretty rough drought hitting that country, they’re now talking about moving Iran’s capital and relocating — assumedly by force? — most of the population elsewhere. (RELATED: Unmasking Iran’s Hidden Footprint in the Americas)
"This is quite possibly the single most pronounced confession of governing failure in world history. Especially in light of all the money wasted by the Iranian regime on utterly idiotic things like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and a nuclear program that American and Israeli airstrikes reduced to ash last year. The desalination plants and water pipelines Iran desperately needs could easily have been built over the course of the past couple of decades, and everyone knows it. (RELATED: Trump’s Declawing of Iran Is Reshaping the Middle East)
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests or desert, according to an intelligence report shared withThe Times.
Khamenei, 86, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family, should he see that the army and security called on to quell the unrest are deserting, defecting, or failing to follow orders.
“The ‘plan B’ is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba,” an intelligence source toldThe Times.
Beni Sabti, who served for decades in Israeli intelligence after fleeing the regime eight years after the Islamic revolution, toldThe Timesthat Khamenei would flee to Moscow as “there is no other place for him.”
Nationwide protests triggered by economic hardships have gripped cities across Iran, including in the holy city of Qom, over the last week.
Protesters accuse anti-riot forces — made up of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Basij militia, the police and the army — of using violent means including live fire, tear gas and water cannons to suppress the demonstrations.
The forces are under the total command of Khameini, who is the supreme source of power in the Islamic republic, overruling the army, courts and media. He relies on the IRGC to enforce his bidding as a central source of power.
The escape plan will be activated should Khamenei feel his security forces are not following orders. Desertion and defection are not easily undertaken, with Khamenei protecting loyalists, controlling key appointments and their safety, according to a psychological profile of the leader done by a western intelligence agency and seen byThe Times.
But the same assessment said Khamenei was “weaker, both mentally and physically” since last year’s 12-day war with Israel. He has barely been seen in public and, notably, has not been seen or heard from during the last several days of protests. For the duration of war, Khamenei holed up in a bunker, avoiding the fate of several other high-level IRGC officials and feeding his “obsession with survival.” . . . More...
. . . "In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels “green” policies have been enacted in the name of combating a conjured-up climate emergency, many people get dangerously cold in the winter. So far, this hasn’t happened on a large scale in America, where the climate collectivists have not been as adept in imposing their lethal program as their European counterparts. Freer markets keep people warmer in winter.
"Zero-sum thinking, which is at the heart of socialism, also has a knack for creating a frigid attitude toward one’s fellow man. When you believe that one person’s gain is another’s, perhaps your loss, you don’t view your successful neighbor with warmth. The victims of Stalin’s collectivist famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, some of whom were driven to cannibalism to survive, probably did not regard their neighbors or even their family members benevolently. Envy, suspicion, and hostility were characteristic of other places where ostensibly well-meaning rulers condemned selfishness and imposed various forms of collectivism. The death toll beggars belief. Some remain in denial about it. We can be certain that those catastrophes did not befall those tens of millions of innocent victims because they were deprived of a chance to vote on which clueless bureaucrats would administer society’s central plan, as Mamdani and his “democratic” socialist followers suggest." . . .
"If it sounds ominous, it's because it is. We Americans like to make our own destiny, chart our own course. The only "warmth" in collectivism is when we all gather around the last lump of coal, hoping it lasts through the night as our leaders take refuge in their mansions. Or the warmth that comes from the flesh of those being burned at the stake for crimes against the collective."
"Zohran Mamdani is a dangerous communist who is likely to DESTROY NYC through his dedication to communist ideology. Let’s be clear: COMMUNISM HAS FAILED everywhere it has been tried. NYC will be no different,"[Rep.Lisa McClain] asserted in a post on X."
"Every collectivist project begins with promises of warmth, care, and justice. It ends with scarcity, repression, and power concentrated far from the people it claims to serve."
. . ."Collectivism is not a metaphor. It is a governing philosophy with a long and bloody record. In the twentieth century alone, regimes organized around collectivist principles – whether socialist, communist, or their hybrids. – were responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people. That figure is not polemics; it is the consensus of serious historians. Mao’s China, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, Kim’s North Korea, Chávez and Maduro’s Venezuela – the list is not obscure, and the outcomes are not ambiguous.
"When Mamdani speaks of the “warmth” of collectivism, he is not offering a novel moral insight. He is recycling the oldest fantasy of modern politics: that coercive systems can be redeemed by benevolent intent, and that the concentration of power becomes humane if wrapped in moral language.
"The American constitutional order was built in conscious rejection of that idea. It begins with the premise that individuals possess inherent dignity and moral agency, and that power – especially when centralized – requires limits, friction, and accountability. Liberty was never understood as isolation from others, but as the precondition for moral responsibility within a plural society. That framework is not cold. It is sober – and hard-earned.
"Mamdani’s formulation relies on a false dichotomy as crude as Ayn Rand’s, just inverted. Individualism is caricatured as selfish, antisocial, and morally barren. Collectivism is romanticized as humane, solidaristic, and just. Neither caricature survives contact with reality.
"American individualism has never meant atomized isolation. It has always existed within a dense web of mediating institutions: families, religious congregations, unions, charities, neighborhoods, and voluntary associations. Markets operate within this moral ecosystem. They are not a substitute for community; they are a mechanism that allows diverse communities to flourish without coercion. Calling this tradition “rugged individualism” is not analysis. It is a smear.
"By contrast, collectivism does not generate warmth. It centralizes responsibility—and in doing so drains moral life of choice, obligation, and meaning. Care becomes bureaucratic. Solidarity becomes mandatory. Dissent becomes selfishness. The individual is treated not as a moral agent, but as raw material for a collective project.
"This is not abstract theory. It is the lived experience of societies that have subordinated the person to the collective in the name of justice or equality.
"Defenders of Mamdani’s rhetoric will inevitably gesture toward Scandinavia. But the Nordic countries are not collectivist societies in the ideological sense Mamdani invokes. They are market economies with strong property rights, high levels of social trust, robust civil society, and cultural norms that long predate their welfare states. They succeed not because they rejected individualism, but because they rely on it – tempered by social cohesion that cannot be legislated into existence." . . .More warmth here...
"If they get their way, what's Trump supposed to do? Send Maduro back?" Are they saying Trump needs to take him back? . . . The Maduro era is coming to an end and while it's not done yet, it's going to be done. Freedom is coming and Venezuelans are going to remember who their friends were."
"Gonzalez has, you know, won comfortably here," Van Hollen continued. "And so this is clearly an effort to deny the will of the people. Maduro lost.""He is trying to cling on to this claim of legitimacy that he won, when all the evidence shows otherwise," Van Hollen said. "So this is why Secretary Blinken did...the right thing, recognizing the real winner here, Gonzalez. And this is why the United States is now going to use its leverage and influence to push for negotiations to transition to the truly elected leader, Gonzalez. We know Maduro and his cronies do not want to go quietly into the night. The United States needs to work with our partners and allies in the region to ratchet up the pressure on behalf of the Venezuelan people."
"The United States has said that Mr. González is the president-elect of Venezuela and has urged Mr. Maduro to step aside.
"The Biden administration also announced that it was extending protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the United States with temporary protected status. The measure allows those who apply to stay for an extra 18 months.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the decision to raise the bounty on Mr. Maduro was part of “a concerted message of solidarity with the Venezuelan people,” meant “to further elevate international efforts to maintain pressure on Mr. Maduro and his representatives.”
"South Florida is home to the largest Venezuelan diaspora within the United States. Roughly 40% of the residents in Doral, Florida — a city west of Miami — are of Venezuelan descent."
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a South Florida Democrat with a sizable Venezuelan population in her district, bucked her party Saturday to praise President Donald Trump’s capture of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
"Wasserman Schultz said the U.S. military operation removing Maduro from power is “welcome news” for the millions of Venezuelans living in exile, though she argued Congress should have been informed. Conversely, a chorus of congressional Democrats immediately slammed the successful military operation as illegal and contrary to American interests.
“ 'The capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who oppressed Venezuela’s people is welcome news for my friends and neighbors who fled his violent, lawless, and disastrous rule,” Wasserman Schultz wrote on X Saturday morning.
So said Eric Swalwell
"The South Florida Democrat, who notably chaired the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2011 to 2016, also called for a “liberated Venezuela” featuring democratic rule, arguing “cutting off the head of a snake is fruitless if it just regrows.”
“ 'This action offers beleaguered Venezuelans a chance to seat their true, democratically elected president, Edmundo González,” Wasserman Schultz continued." . . .
"Many Florida lawmakers enthusiastically backed the seizure of Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, who wereindictedSaturday on federal charges in the Southern District of New York.
“Maduro’s narco-dictatorship has ENDED,” Rep. MarÃa Elvira Salazar, who represents a South Florida district covering downtown Miami,wroteon X. “The narcoterrorist who poisoned our children, exported crime to our neighborhoods through the Tren de Aragua, and turned Venezuela into a State of terror will now face the justice of the United States.”
"In an “age of rage,” the most irate and irrational reigns supreme.
"Fromdemanding that any Democratic nominee pledge to demolish the new Trump ballroom toopposing parental rights in schools, Swalwell has struggled to find traction with far-left California voters.
"However, he is now promising to violate the Constitution. That did not take long. We do not even have a clear idea of who will be the frontrunners in the election. It is like a game of chicken where Swalwell immediately drives off the cliff before anyone gets into their cars.
"Ironically, it is precisely what he has accused Donald Trump of doing: disregarding the Constitution when it suits his political agenda.
"In case it matters to anyone left in California, he cannot do this. Seizing federal agents sort of went out of constitutional style after the Civil War. The “immense powers as governor of California” do not include dictating what federal officers can wear on their faces or bodies.
"The first tiny barrier to Swalwell’s antebellum policies is the Supremacy Clause, which prevents states from “interfering with or controlling the operations of the Federal Government.”United States v. Washington(2022). Since McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, the Supreme Court has consistently struck do wn state laws that impede federal enforcement." . . . More yet! Eric Swalwell's Backward Priorities: Arrest ICE Agents, Keep Illegal Aliens in California's Farm Fields
"In the end, Swalwell is a legend in his own mind; a peevish little man forever auditioning for the role of Serious Leader, while in reality he's just another grandstanding backbencher."
Adam Schiff on X: "Nicolás Maduro was a thug and an illegitimate leader of Venezuela, terrorizing and oppressing its people for far too long and forcing many to leave the country. But starting a war to remove Maduro doesn’t just continue Donald Trump’s trampling of the Constitution, it further erodes America’s standing on the world stage and risks our adversaries mirroring this brazen illegal escalation.
"For months, as the Trump administration massed American servicemembers and firepower in the Caribbean, and used military force to destroy vessels and kill those on board, I and others in the Senate forced bipartisan votes to stop the illegal misuse of our armed forces. We warned that the true motive was not drugs, but regime change in an oil-rich nation. Despite all of the administration’s false denials, those motivations are now clear.
"Acting without Congressional approval or the buy-in of the public, Trump risks plunging a hemisphere into chaos and has broken his promise to end wars instead of starting them. And in conjunction with his continued saber-rattling around the world and dropping approval ratings at home, the American people should be concerned that this is not the last time he will break that promise.
"The President has vowed that this is not the end of our engagement in Venezuela, saying that ‘we'll be involved in it very much.’ Congress must bring up a new War Powers Resolution and reassert its power to authorize force or to refuse to do so. We must speak for the American people who profoundly reject being dragged into new wars."
"California Governor Gavin Newsom did not directly response to the attacks. He zeroed in on a comment Trump made about the L.A. fires during the news conference.
" 'Unless Trump is finally delivering the federal aid survivors need to rebuild after the horrific fires — nearly a year after California first requested it — he should keep Los Angeles out of his mouth," Newsom's office says on social."
