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Sep212026

Episode 1250 – Maybe Things Ain’t That Bad, Afterall!

Some really good news has hit the people of the United States. We may not be feeling it, but we are better off than we were just a few years ago.

A huge Hollywood film studio is planning to move from California to Texas. Will California ever learn that regulating and taxing people to death is not an incentive for them to stay?

And reality always wins, no matter what a piece of paper says.

Maybe the Economy Ain’t So Bad

According to the New York Post:

Americans’ household income hit a record high in 2025 while the poverty rate fell to its lowest level ever, according to new US Census data.

Real median household income jumped 2.6% to $87,460 — the highest inflation-adjusted level since Census records began in 1967 and beating the previous peak reached in 2019.

The median post-tax household income rose 3.1% to $76,060.

The good news came despite a wild series of economic headlines in the US and beyond, touching on everything from tariffs to international conflicts.

Last year, the poverty rate fell half a percentage point to 10.2%, the second annual decline in a row, according to the data. In 2025, 34.5 million people were living in poverty in the US.

For children, the poverty rate fell to an all-time low of 13.4%.

The Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty line – which factors in non-cash government benefits and taxes – was 13.1%. 

The agency measured a family with two adults and two children as living in poverty if their annual income was less than $32,649.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/business/americans-household-income-hit-record-high-as-poverty-rate-fell-to-lowest-level-ever-in-2025/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

Why’s Everyone Moving to Texas?

According to TMZ:

Internal discussions in the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office were told Paramount would announce it was leaving California, but there’s a twist … sources tell TMZ.

We’re told the Mayor and the A.G. were told the announcement would come yesterday, but it did not happen. We do not know if circumstances changed or if there was just a delay.

As you probably know, the California Attorney General — other with 11 other state attorneys general — have filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Paramount, trying to block the Warner Bros merger.

David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount, has threatened to move the studio to Texas, Tennessee or Georgia if the Cali A.G. didn’t back off and settle.

There were settlement negotiations over the last few months, but they couldn’t reach a deal. Attorney General Rob Bonta said Paramount was being unreasonable.

Ellison threatened to leave California if a settlement wasn’t reached by October 1st. Based on conversations in both the Mayor’s and Attorney General’s offices … it sounds like no deal is possible.

If Paramount pulls the trigger, it will be a devastating 1-2 punch for Hollywood. “American Idol” is leaving Hollywood for Atlanta. Many other productions have also left Hollywood over the last few years. Fact is … if Hollywood isn’t dead, it’s dying.

According to Perplexity:

A draft study commissioned by Paramount and reported in several outlets estimated that a complete out-of-state relocation could ultimately correspond to a permanent loss of roughly 28,990 to 57,980 California full-time jobs across direct, indirect, and induced employment, alongside $10.6 billion to $21.2 billion of annual statewide economic output. It also estimated annual state-and-local tax-revenue losses around $585 million to $1.17 billion. These are economic-model estimates—not company guidance or an announced layoff plan—and should be read as a broad scenario analysis rather than a precise prediction.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/16/paramount-is-about-to-leave-california
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/7d5b63b8-982c-4c15-a9d5-4962fa751424

Making the Kids Dumb Is Part of the Plan

According to the California Post:

California high school students are scoring more straight A’s than ever – but it’s not necessarily because they’re getting smarter, according to data and education experts. 

The number of college applicants reporting flawless GPAs of 4.0 or higher has doubled over the past decade even as state testing shows a post-pandemic plunge in reading and math comprehension — revealing a grade-inflation crisis that’s sending students who can’t even do fractions into top universities.

Over the past decade, the number of students applying to the University of California system with straight A’s skyrocketed from 52,989 in 2015 to 103,138 for the class of 2025, with a notable jump during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022, according to UC data reviewed by The Post.

It’s part of a dangerous slide in grading standards as teachers hand out stellar marks simply for doing the bare minimum, according to critics like Glenn Sacks, who teaches social studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

“When I was hired at one LAUSD school, the administrator showing me my classroom — a man I liked and respected — told me, ‘Don’t fail too many kids–remember, it’s easier to replace one teacher than 35 students,’” Sacks told The Post.

He cited growing pressure on teachers, which started during COVID and continues today, to eliminate D’s and F’s in order to shore up enrollment and attendance. Teachers were told that a significant number of failing grades meant instruction needed to be revised, he added.

Charles Cole, an education advocate who attended California high schools before graduating in 2001, told The Post that grade inflation has been brewing for decades, only to grow much worse in recent years.

Cole, who attended much of his high school in Oakland, racked up top marks in high school and felt betrayed when he found out he had to take remedial classes at his California State University.

California’s state-mandated test results back up Cole’s observations, painting a grimmer picture on reading and math performance than the high GPAs would indicate. Scores on the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments, which measures student proficiency in math and English, were an abysmal 57% in English and just 30.5% in math for California 11th graders in the 2024-2025 school year.

They have improved since hitting lows of 54.8% and 27% in 2021-2022, but are generally lower than pre-pandemic times, according to data from the state Department of Education.

While the University of California GPA data includes out-of-state applicants, the vast majority of applicants since 1994 are California residents.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/us-news/california-high-school-gpas-soar-as-college-math-skills-decline/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

Rest in Peace, Abe!

According to Fox News:

Americans may soon no longer be able to offer a penny for their thoughts — because the 1-cent coin will be relegated to the ash heap of history.

The House of Representatives voted to send the smallest piece of U.S. currency the way of the dodo on Monday, passing the bipartisan Common Cents Act in a unanimous vote.

In addition to blocking the Treasury from minting any more pennies save for collector coins, the bill would also set up a framework for cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest 5 cents, in order to eliminate the need for pennies altogether.

An exception would be provided for cash wages, which must be rounded upwards if the total is not divisible by 5 cents.

Existing pennies will still remain legal tender.

The U.S. Mint stopped producing pennies in November 2025 after 232 years of circulation. But an act of Congress, if signed into law by President Donald Trump, would ensure a future administration does not reverse course.

The cost of minting pennies has risen dramatically in recent years, costing more than three times their value to produce as of 2025. The Treasury estimated an immediate annual savings of $56 million in a press release explaining the decision.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-votes-eliminate-one-cent-coin-permanently

Not Sure About This One

According to Fox News 5 San Diego:

California is moving to impose some of the nation’s strongest protections for children who interact with artificial intelligence after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping new law aimed at regulating AI companion chatbots.

Senate Bill 1119, known as Adam’s Law, was signed into law last week and established new requirements for AI chatbot companies designed to protect minors from potentially harmful interactions.

I never like these types of laws because they are so broad. What do they mean “harmful interactions.”

The legislation was authored by state Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat who represents San Diego, along with Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and Rebecca Baur-Kahan.

The law is named after after Adam Raine, a California teenager who died in 2025. According to the bill’s authors, Adam’s family has said he interacted with a ChatGPT before his death and the chatbot coached him to end his life.

Adam’s parents, Matt and Maria Raine, attended the signing ceremony and have advocated for stronger safeguards around AI chatbots.

What Adam’s Law requires

The new law establishes a range of requirements for companies operating AI companion chatbots that interact with children.

Among other provisions, the law requires the following:

  • Age assurance: AI-operators must use privacy-protective age-bracket signals to identify minors.
  • Risk assessments: Companies must conduct assessments before releasing a new or substantially modified companion chatbot.
  • Crisis support: Platforms must provide referrals to mental health resources when appropriate and notify a parent when there is a credible threat of imminent self-harm or when the operator knows a child has engaged in self-harm.
  • Parental controls: Certain protections, including limits on notifications, usages and persistent conversational memory, will be enabled by default and can only be changed by a parent.
  • Restrictions on harmful content: Companies can face liability for failing to take reasonable measures to prevent certain “harmful outputs,” including self-harm content, sexually explicit material, romantic roleplaying and emotionally manipulative interactions.
  • Incident reporting: Operators must establish an incident-reporting system overseen by the California attorney general.
  • Advertising restrictions: The law limits targeted advertising to children within conversational chats.
  • Privacy protections: The law establishes privacy requirements that go beyond those in the California Consumer Privacy Act.
  • Independent audits: AI operators must undergo independent compliance audits, with findings submitted to the attorney general.
  • Family redress: Families can seek legal resources for certain violations involving crisis referrals, parental notification, default protections and prohibited harmful outputs.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/california-news/california-regulates-ai-chatbots

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Aug222026

Episode 1240 – The Criminals Aren’t the Only Sick Ones!

Let’s talk about this big controversy about flock cameras. One of the dumbest controversies we’ve seen in a while.

A woman is pushing the state of Colorado to allow her to marry a mass murderer.

And people really have no argument when it comes to defending to DEI. Let’s take a look at one of these arguments.

I’ll Finally Address This

According to the New York Post:

A creepy South Carolina cop misused the department’s Flock camera system to run an ex-lover’s license plate over 160 times, according to documents. 

Officer Ellie Anna Hammond, 24, was fired from the Mauldin Police Department on Aug. 3 over the obsessive behavior, KOCO 5 News reported. 

Documents from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy show that Hammond searched the ex’s plate on 166 separate occasions between March and July. 

She gave her superiors phony reasons for tracking the plates, according to documents.

Officials said that these bogus excuses for eyeing the ex’s car included warrant checks, traffic infractions and welfare checks.

Later in the article:

Many activists worried that they can be used to violate people’s privacy, pointing at instances where they have been misused by police.  

Others have argued that the cameras are a valuable law-enforcement tool.

Some things:

  • Both arguments are good arguments. I understand them.
  • This story is an egregious example of what could happen with a bad cop and flock cameras.
  • This is also the exception to the rule.
  • The Left always wanted cameras because they thought cops were killing everyone. Turns out this wasn’t the case.
  • Suddenly the Left doesn’t want cameras anymore.
  • There are far more examples of crime being solved because of these cameras than stories like this.
  • I’ve heard this a bunch of times and it’s true. If you’re worried about your privacy, get rid of your smart phone.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/south-carolina-officer-fired-for-allegedly-using-flock-cameras-to-run-exs-plate-166-times/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

Just Sick!

According to the Post Millennial:

Chris Watts, who is serving multiple life sentences for murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters, is reportedly planning to marry a 39-year-old Wisconsin realtor who has been regularly visiting him in prison.

Lizzie Henderson has confirmed she is in a relationship with Watts, who is incarcerated at Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin. Relatives told the Daily Mail that the couple has applied to marry through the prison system, while sealed court records show Henderson filed an application to legally change her name in September 2025.

Henderson has also relocated from Ohio to Wisconsin with her mother and has been a frequent visitor to the prison. Prison records obtained by the Daily Mail show she visited Watts 20 times last year and spent Christmas Day with him in 2024. During a visit in August 2025, witness Lisa Johnson told the Daily Mail that she saw Henderson and Watts kissing as their visit ended.

Watts was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without parole after pleading guilty to killing his wife, Shanann Watts, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, in Colorado in August 2018. Prosecutors said Watts killed Shanann by strangulation before killing their daughters and disposing of their bodies at an oil site where he worked.

Some things:

  • This is just sick.
  • This man murdered his family and shoved his daughters into a pipe. He did this because he was having an affair and didn’t want to deal with his family.
  • This man is pure evil.
  • This is not a condemnation of our current society. This is actually a real psychological condition.
  • Hybristophilia: a romantic or sexual attraction to people who have committed crimes.

https://thepostmillennial.com/ohio-woman-moves-to-wisconsin-to-marry-chris-watts-in-prison-he-brutally-murdered-his-wife-and-two-young-daughters?utm_campaign=64466

So They Weren’t Qualified?

Some things:

  • So, 800,000 blacks were unqualified for their jobs. That would be the only reason they were let go.
  • It also means 800,000 white and Asian people were discriminated against because a black person needed to be picked for the job.
  • I don’t believe this statement. It’s flat out not that easy to fire someone. Maybe we should discuss cause a little.
  • This is a lot like saying the justice system is racist because 54% of the violent crimes are committed by black people. No one ever discusses whether black people in prison are actually innocent.

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Aug222026

Episode 1239 – There Is A Reason We Have Prisons!

The trial of a woman who killed her children is moving forward. This is a trial a lot of people are watching and for good reason.

The socialists are pulling out an old card when it comes to crime, but reality always has a way of winning.

And let’s talk about flock cameras. I never gave a damn about them before, but the controversy just keeps rearing its ugly head.

The Needs to End

Lindsay Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for the January 24, 2023 killings of her three children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — who were found strangled with exercise bands at the family’s home. After the killings, Clancy slashed her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window in a suicide attempt, which left her paralyzed from the waist down. She’s now 35-36 and has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder (CNN; PBS NewsHour).�

The legal question Clancy doesn’t dispute that she killed her children. The trial instead centers on an insanity-style defense under Massachusetts law: whether she was criminally responsible at the time. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, argues she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and undiagnosed bipolar disorder, worsened by problematic medication management, and that she heard a voice telling her to kill the children and herself (Boston.com; Boston Globe). Prosecutors (Plymouth DA’s office, ADAs Jennifer Sprague and Shannon Buckingham) argue she “acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly,” and that while she had mental health struggles, she was not in “the throes of psychosis” (CNN; CNN).�

Under Massachusetts law, prosecutors bear the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy could appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions. If they fail, the jury must acquit — but an acquittal by reason of lack of criminal responsibility wouldn’t free her; she’d instead go to a state psychiatric hospital with periodic reviews. A conviction carries a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Some things:

  • We need to get rid of the “Not guilty by reason of insanity” thing.
    • She’s guilty.
    • She admits doing it.
    • There’s no innocence here.
  • She was planning this for a couple of weeks before the murder.
  • She sent her husband away before the murder.
  • What is going to make her safer to be around if she gets out?
  • What about the kids? What about justice for them?
  • This is called “family elimination” and more common with men.
    • Men kill themselves more effectively than women.
    • Men who do this are demonized.
    • Why are we treating this woman differently?

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/2b7211cc-c14f-42aa-bd93-2f2714e967d2

They’re Not Stealing Toothpaste

According to Breitbart:

State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, who describes herself as a “neighborhood organizer” and “democratic socialist,” made her comments on Thursday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, the New York Post reported Saturday.

She was joined by members of Court Watch NYC, which claimed they monitored hundreds of arraignments for several days and found half of those cases were misdemeanors.

Gallagher said she is fighting to “pass things like treatment not jail and that we hold the line on the incredible criminal justice reforms that we have done over the last 10 and 20 years that are constantly being threatened by right-wing media who are looking to fear monger about people who are actually just in absolute dire straits.”

Some things:

  • Reality sucks.
    • New York’s policies led to this crime.
    • When the stores are done with the crime and close, these people scream about “wealth disparity”.
    • The demonize the companies that run away.
    • Then they want more power and more policies that led to the problem in the first place.
  • These companies don’t care. They leave and aren’t coming back.
  • The criminals aren’t stealing toothpaste. We’ve seen the videos.
  • Some people cannot be reformed. Where is the boundary

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/08/16/watch-nyc-socialist-lawmaker-claims-stealing-for-biological-need-should-not-be-illegal
https://thepostmillennial.com/nyc-socialist-lawmaker-says-shoplifters-have-a-biological-need-to-steal?utm_campaign=64466

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Aug132026

Episode 1137 – These People Have No Idea What They’re Doing!

Zohran Mamdani, though not terribly popular, has received a “thank you” message from an unlikely source.

A city in California has been using tax money to…raise taxes. I’m not kidding.

And the co-chair for the Democratic Socialists of America proves that the Democratic socialists have no idea what they are doing.

A Special Thanks

According to the Post Millennial:

In a decided shot at DSA-backed New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Florida Chamber of Commerce has officially launched a Times Square campaign dubbing the socialist mayor as Florida’s Economic Developer of the Year through a massive billboard at the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street in Manhattan.

“We wanted to thank him for the jobs, the companies, the people that they’re pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida,” Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News.

“America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that’s paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true,” he said. “And there’s a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that’s never worked anywhere, and it won’t work in America.”

“What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It’s bad for New Yorkers. It’s bad for New York. It’s very harmful for the country,” Wilson continued. “We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we’re hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise.”

Wilson insisted that the campaign is meant to encourage the free exchange of capital rather than to tear New York down. He said he wanted every state to thrive.

“Even though Florida is winning right now, we’re not looking for New York to lose,” he said. “We’re hoping that these other states will say ‘no’ to this move towards socialism and say ‘yes’ to the very policies that our country was founded on,” he said. “This isn’t about spiking a football or looking at the scoreboard about Florida versus New York. This is really about trying to save our country from crazy.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/thanks-for-the-jobs-mamdani-declared-floridas-economic-developer-of-the-year-as-residents-flee-nyc-for-sunshine-state?utm_campaign=64466

These People Keep Getting Voted In

According to the California Post:

Spending taxpayer money to convince taxpayers to pay more taxes — it’s a California specialty.

But it seems Nevada County went too far, as the state’s political watchdogs found the Lake Tahoe-area jurisdiction spent more than $34,000 in taxpayer money trying to convince residents to raise their own taxes — and now that failed campaign is poised to cost county taxpayers another $31,500.

California’s Fair Political Practices Commission is scheduled to vote Aug. 20 on a proposed settlement stemming from Nevada County’s promotion of Measure V, a 2022 ballot measure that would have raised the county sales tax by half a percentage point for 10 years.

Measure V was pitched as a way to generate roughly $12 million annually for wildfire prevention, emergency services and disaster preparedness. But voters weren’t convinced.

The measure received just 48.41% of the vote and failed — despite Nevada County spending $34,614 in public funds on two mailers that state regulators determined crossed the line from informing residents into political advocacy.

The first mailer landed in the mailboxes of 33,351 residents in October 2022 at a cost of $17,708 and touted Measure V as “responsive to community priorities,” including preventing wildfires, improving evacuation routes, enhancing emergency communications and helping low-income seniors and people with disabilities.

But regulators found the county buried the less attractive part — the half-percent sales-tax hike — in the smallest font, while emphasizing the measure’s benefits.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/11/us-news/california-county-caught-illegally-using-taxpayer-money-to-promote-tax-hike/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=capost

These People Are Clueless

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer.

Some things:

  • These people are really dumb. They are not the intellectuals they want you to think they are.
  • They definitely aren’t as smart as the Founding Fathers.
  • This also shows they don’t know what they want. They have no plans.
  • They just want to punish the rich. They’re envious of the rich.
  • They are over-educated (which isn’t saying much), under-employed, spoiled, privileged brats.

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Jul142026

Episode 1226 – RIP, Lindsey!

Donald Trump appears to have learned his lesson when it comes to Iran. I wish he’d learn his lesson about the rest of the Middle East.

A California school has come up with an idea to solve climate change. Sorry guys, The Simpsons did it.

And Zohran Mamdani is trying to get all the white people out of New York.

Some News:

Here is some news:

  • Lindsey Graham, a 23-year US Senator, was 71 years old.
  • The United States continues to bomb Iran.
    • They have closed the straight of Hormuz to Iranian ships.
    • All other ships have to pay a toll to pass the straight.
  • A bipartisan push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is heading for a chamber-wide vote after clearing a key House hurdle.
    • The House Rules Committee on Monday teed up a floor vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to enact Daylight Saving Time year-round — with an option to opt out. The committee approved the rule in a 6-4 vote.
    • The measure has the support of many coastal lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly urged Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks — a practice currently observed by every state except Hawaii and most of Arizona.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/tributes-pour-in-after-lindsey-grahams-sudden-passing?author=Virginia+Kruta&category=undefined&elementPosition=16&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Tributes+Pour+In+After+Lindsey+Graham%E2%80%99s+Sudden+Passing
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-daylight-saving-time-bill-clears-key-house-hurdle

The Simpson’s Did It!

According to the Daily Wire:

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have proposed a method to “dim the sun” in hopes of reducing the looming effects of El Niño, a recent study revealed. 

As reports of stronger El Niños — the natural warming of the Pacific Ocean that affects global weather — by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue, researchers at UC San Diego have determined that damages from the phenomenon could cost the global economy trillions of dollars.

To combat this, researchers in the journal Science Advances have proposed an extremely far-fetched form of “solar geoengineering” known as “marine cloud brightening.”

Injecting these particles into the clouds would hypothetically bounce the rays of the sun out of the atmosphere, preventing the water from heating up, which creates stronger El Niños. 

While some researchers blame global warming for the increasing strength of El Niño, the World Meteorological Association said that “there is no evidence that climate change increases the frequency or intensity of El Niño events,” the New York Post reported.

The proposal from UC San Diego comes after a 2023 study they conducted involved two computer MCB simulations applied to two real El Niño events in 1997 and 2015, per the Post. The study found that aerosols released from an Australian bushfire brightened the clouds and hindered the effects of El Niño. The simulations run by the research team applied the same method to 1997 and 2015, which increased cooling and drying effects by 40%.

Co-author and University of Chicago postdoctoral researcher Jessica Wan stated that the aerosols would have to be “deployed continuously for an indefinite period of time,” according to the Post. 

As of now, there are no real-world plans to test out the far-fetched hypothesis.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-lefts-latest-climate-scheme-block-the-sun-seriously?author=Gus+Wilson&category=undefined&elementPosition=1&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=The+Left%E2%80%99s+Latest+Climate+Scheme%3F+Block+The+Sun.+Seriously.

They Don’t Want Them

According to the New York Post:

The City Council’s Italian Caucus demanded Mayor Zohran Mamdani amend his new immigrant enclaves map — which ignored Little Italy and other Italian-American areas of the five boroughs.

The caucus fumed Thursday over Mamdani’s map which didn’t list Italian enclaves — or big Irish and Jewish neighborhoods — but spotlighted 30 other areas, including Little Palestine, Koreatown, Little Pakistan and Little Odessa.

“You cannot tell the story of immigrant New York while airbrushing out one of the city’s most recognizable and historically significant immigrant communities,” the caucus said in a statement Thursday, calling the omission “incomplete at best and insulting at worst.”

The caucus said the Mamdani administration should work with historians and community groups so the next version of the map gives Italian‑Americans a fair shake.

A City Hall spokesperson said Wednesday that the map was designed to “highlight neighborhoods in New York City that have substantial foreign‑born populations from regions and countries around the world.”

The Italian Caucus pointed out Belmont in the Bronx, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights in Brooklyn and Italian‑American pockets in Queens and Staten Island are also neighborhoods where Italian roots run deep.

None were mentioned in the map.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/09/us-news/nyc-council-members-blast-mamdani-for-erasing-italian-americans-little-italy-from-immigrant-map/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

I Call BS

According to the Daily Wire:

Congressman Ro Khanna, the California Democrat considering a 2028 presidential bid, has spent the past week accusing Israeli settlers and soldiers of unlawfully detaining him and other Americans on an overseas trip.

On July 8th, Khanna joined a delegation organized by Breaking the Silence, a left-wing activist group known for its criticism of Israeli military operations and policies in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank. The group attempted to visit Khirbet Zanuta, a disputed site in the South Hebron Hills that has become a flashpoint in legal battles over unauthorized Arab construction. Israeli authorities designated the area a closed military zone, requiring advance coordination before entry.

According to Israeli authorities, the delegation had entered a closed military zone without prior authorization and was stopped by civilian security personnel coordinating with military forces. Video released after the incident appears to show Israeli soldiers directing the group to wait for police.

Khanna has described the encounter in far more dramatic terms. During a Fox News interview, he claimed “the only reason we’re safe” was because U.S. Embassy official David Brownstein contacted senior Israeli officials.

Khanna has not publicly provided evidence that members of the delegation faced an imminent threat to their lives.

Khanna claimed that “Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.”

Available footage from Khanna’s group shows armed local security personnel carrying rifles on slings, but does not appear to show weapons being drawn or pointed at members of the delegation.

Naomi Kahn of Regavim, an Israeli advocacy group that tracks illegal Arab building in Judea and Samaria, said Khanna used the situation as a publicity stunt.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-ro-khanna-didnt-mention-about-his-detention-in-israel?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Kassy+Akiva&category=News&elementPosition=4&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=What+Ro+Khanna+Didn%E2%80%99t+Mention+About+His+%E2%80%98Detention%E2%80%99+In+Israel

This Is Equity

According to the New York Post:

The U.S. women’s national team won’t play a World Cup match until 2027, but it is still set to receive a major payday from this year’s big tournament.

The U.S. men’s national team earned $16 million from FIFA for reaching the round of 16 before being eliminated by Belgium in a 4-1 loss in Seattle. Under U.S. Soccer’s landmark equal pay collective bargaining agreements, that money will be shared with the women’s national team.

U.S. Soccer keeps 20 percent of the prize money. The remaining 80 percent is split evenly between the men’s and women’s player pools, meaning each team is set to receive $6.4 million from the USMNT’s run. Based on 26-player rosters, that comes out to roughly $246,153 per player.

The women’s share will not be paid immediately.

The USWNT has not yet qualified for the 2027 Women’s World Cup in Brazil, and the final roster will not be selected until closer to the tournament. Until then, the money owed to the women will sit in an interest-bearing account, with that interest also split between both player pools.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/sports/usmnts-world-cup-2026-payout-will-be-shared-with-uswnt-after-equal-pay-cba/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

She’s Going to Retire

According to the New York Post:

Caitlin Clark’s season has been dominated by the headlines surrounding the physical play she’s faced.

Now, a group of United States lawmakers is trying to make its voices heard with the WNBA.

Led by Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. August Pfluger (Texas), a cohort of congressional representatives wrote a letter to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert over what they have called “repeated acts of unnecessary physical hostility and violence” toward the Fever star.

The 11 Republican lawmakers said Clark has faced aggression on the court and outside the court on social media, and it’s time for the league to do a better job officiating things in real time.

“Clark has been hip-checked, poked in the eye, and struck in the throat during games,” the letter read. “These incidents go far beyond routine physical play, yet the WNBA and its officiating have too often failed to address these unacceptable incidents and hold players accountable. Recently, a player even appeared to endorse violence against Clark in a social media post, further fueling concerns about the culture surrounding these incidents.

“In addition, concerning reports suggest that many of these attacks against Caitlin Clark may be racially motivated.”

Things came to a head on June 24 — and the ensuing days — when Clark and the Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas went for a loose ball, and as Clark went to the floor, she was hit in the throat.

Thomas was not called for a foul on the play. However, a day later, she was retroactively handed a flagrant 2 foul and a one-game suspension.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/sports/lawmakers-press-wnba-for-accountability-over-attacks-on-caitlin-clark/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

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Episode 1224 – Saving Democracy by Subverting Democracy!

Democrats are protecting democracy by subverting democracy…again.

Iran can’t seem to behave.

And when are these actors going to learn not to bash their own movies before those movies come out.

News

Here is some news:

  • Graham Platner is out as a Democratic senatorial candidate for Maine.
    • Democrats will choose another candidate (here we go again).
    • The pervert and Nazi has been accused of rape.
    • He left a message. Of course none of this was his fault.
  • We have started bombing the crap out of Iran again.
  • And today is day 4 of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing.
    • He’s the guy who shot Charlie Kirk.
    • The prosecution has introduced an entire timeline with video.
    • The guy is screwed. It’s not going to trial.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-has-a-price-for-dropping-out-report

Dumbass of the Day

What do these movies have in common:

  • The live action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
  • The Alcolyte.
  • Captain America.
  • Supergirl.

These are films that were undermined by their stars before they came out and the movies bombed.

Women in “The Odyssey”:

  • Penelope
  • Helenm
  • Clyemnestra
  • Nausicaa
  • Arete
  • Athena
  • Hera
  • Persephone
  • Calypso
  • Circe
  • Eurycleia
  • The Sirens
  • Skylla
  • Charybdis
  • Tyro
  • Antipoe
  • Alcmene
  • Jocasta
  • Chloris
  • Leda
  • Phaedra
  • Procris
  • Ariadne
  • Maera
  • Clymene

This movie is already getting a lot of hate simply from the previews (remember, no one has seen this movie yet).

  • Lupita Nyong’o being cast as Helen of Troy. Helen as having “white arms” implies a white Greek woman and that Nolan has prioritized diversity over historical or textual fidelity.
  • Elliot Page’s casting as Sinon, a warrior and cousin of Odysseus, has also become a flashpoint, with detractors framing this and the inclusion of rapper Travis Scott in an unknown role as evidence of “culture-war” or “identity politics” casting rather than story-driven choices.
  • Fans of classical history and “historical epics” have criticized the armor, helmets, ships, and general production design as anachronistic or more “comic book” than Bronze Age Greece.
  • Another recurring complaint is Nolan’s decision to use contemporary-sounding language in the dialogue instead of archaic or elevated speech that would mirror traditional translations of Homer.
  • The film is very dark.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/odyssey-actress-imagines-schooling-homer-on-his-treatment-of-women

So They Shouldn’t Know How to Speak

According to the New York Post:

Activists are pushing for Black English to be legitimized in preschool as a way to build children’s literacy skills in California.

The Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE) is part of a movement to challenge “harmful language hierarchies and affirm Black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in Black history, culture, and community.”

The movement also seeks to “address how language bias shows up in early learning spaces–and how it can be dismantled.”

“I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it one way or the other,” the co-founder of BlackECE Ashley Williams told PBS.

She also remembered how speaking Black English is full of slangs and grammatical errors so it came with a lot of embarrassment.

BlackECE is a nonprofit organization centered around a 10-point policy plan that seeks to gain reparations and help Black children, families, and workers.

California released a plan promoting early dual language learning and calling on the state’s education system to support bilingual children in their development in 2020, but the advocacy group believes that Black vernacular should be included.

“We talk about multilinguals, but we don’t include Black children who may be African-American English speakers,” the Director of the Children’s Equity Project Xigrid Soto-Boykin said.

Williams also recalled her experiences in having to “talk white” and talking in her comfortable English and feeling insecure.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/us-news/activists-demand-black-english-be-pushed-on-kids-in-california-preschools/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

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Episode 1213 – That’s the Leader of Your Organization?!

Donald Trump finally has had enough with Iran. It’s about bloody time!

And let’s go over the House Judiciary Committees hearing over the accusations against the Southern Poverty Law Center. It was great.

Well, It’s About Time

U.S. forces carried out a new round of airstrikes on Iranian targets along the country’s southern coast and near the Strait of Hormuz late Tuesday/early Wednesday, framed by Washington as “retaliatory” and “self‑defense” strikes after Iran shot down a U.S. military helicopter earlier this week.

What actually happened

  • U.S. Central Command says American aircraft and missiles struck multiple Iranian military targets, including radar and air‑defense installations and other coastal sites that Washington argues were being used to threaten U.S. forces and shipping near the Strait of Hormuz.
  • The latest wave of strikes began around 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, following the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter over or near the Strait; both crew members were recovered alive by a U.S. sea drone according to U.S. officials.
  • U.S. officials describe the operation as a “measured retaliation” intended to deter further Iranian attacks while avoiding a full‑scale regional war, emphasizing that the targets were strictly military.

Despite the fighting, the U.S. has both resumed getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz and even conducted at least one covert shipment in recent days.[reuters]

Current U.S. flows through the Strait

  • The U.S. Energy Secretary said on June 9 that ship traffic and oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Gulf are “rising very meaningfully” compared with the previous weeks when the corridor was more heavily disrupted by the conflict.[reuters]
  • The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that in 2024 the United States imported about 0.5 million barrels per day of crude oil and condensate from Persian Gulf countries via the Strait, a relatively small share of total U.S. supply but still significant.[eia]

Covert U.S. shipment Trump referenced

  • On June 10, President Trump told reporters that the U.S. had “secretly moved millions of barrels of oil” through the Strait of Hormuz, implying at least one protected or clandestine shipment during the current crisis.[cnbc]
  • Financial and energy media framed this as part of broader U.S. efforts to demonstrate that it can keep at least some flows moving even while bombing Iranian targets and escorting tankers.[cnbc]

How important the Strait is overall

  • Roughly 20–25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade—on the order of 20 million barrels per day—normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making it the single most critical oil chokepoint globally.[britannica]
  • Asia (China, India, South Korea, Japan and others) takes close to 90% of the crude moving through the Strait, while the U.S. directly receives only a small fraction (around 2–3% of those flows), which is why the U.S. is affected more through global price impacts than through physical shortages.[energynow]

The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/f8adf6fa-b155-4ce0-9943-47049ffd75ad

We Are Fighting Back

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Episode 1210 – Doesn’t New York Have Bigger Fish to Fry?

New York has a lot of problems. But they seems to always deflect from those problems to push their woke crap.

The colleges in California, and throughout the country, are finding that a lot of kids entering their schools can’t hack it. They have and idea on how to fix it.

And I am going to talk about a couple of incidents that we’re not talking about here. But it is coming here.

Here We Go Again!

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2062017783643152437/video/1

Ridiculous

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/2062214237569642709/video/1

This Is the Biggest Problem in New York?

According to Perplexity:

New York lawmakers have passed a bill that would systematically replace the words “mother” and “father” with gender‑neutral terms like “gestating parent” and “non‑gestating parent” in state family‑related laws, but it is not law until Governor Kathy Hochul signs it.

What the bill actually does

  • In family court, domestic relations, and related statutes, references to “mother” are replaced with “gestating parent,” and “father” with “non‑gestating parent” or simply “parent.”
  • “Paternity” proceedings (to determine a child’s legal father) are renamed “parentage” proceedings, and “putative father” becomes “alleged parent” in the statutory language.
  • The changes are largely within family‑law contexts (custody, parentage, surrogacy, same‑sex parent cases), rather than banning the everyday use of “mom” and “dad” by the public.

Status and process

  • The bill passed the New York State Assembly earlier in the year and then passed the State Senate this week, so it has cleared the legislature.
  • It now goes to Governor Hochul, who can sign it into law, veto it, or let it become law without her signature; as of the latest reports, it is awaiting her decision.

Stated rationale vs. political backlash

  • Supporters argue the update is meant to align the law with modern family structures, including same‑sex couples, surrogacy, and assisted reproduction, where “biological mother/father” may not match who is actually raising the child.
  • The bill memo says the goal is to use inclusive, gender‑neutral terminology so that all intended or functional parents are treated consistently in court.
  • Critics—particularly Republicans and conservative commentators—frame it as an ideological attempt to “erase” the traditional terms “mother” and “father,” and some local officials have publicly vowed to reverse such changes if they gain higher office.
  • In litigation, petitions and orders would refer to “gestating parent,” “non‑gestating parent,” and “parentage,” which could affect how parentage is framed in disputes over custody, support, and adoption.
  • The change dovetails with a broader trend in New York toward recognizing non‑traditional and multi‑parent arrangements (for example, confirmatory adoptions and recognizing more than two legal parents in some cases).
  • It does not on its face strip anyone of parental rights; instead it re‑labels the categories under which those rights are asserted and adjudicated. This is the slippery slope.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/3fa6c26e-f250-4784-90cd-aeaeb2bd43f7

Well, Yeah

According to the Post Millennial:

Hundreds of University of California faculty members have signed an open letter urging faculty leaders to return to a standardized testing model for math and science applicants. The letter warns of a clear drop in math scores since the tests were abandoned.

After a 2020 legal challenge was raised by a student that argued the requirement provided an advantage to students who could afford prep services, the tests were eliminated. The group of UC Berkeley math professors sent the letter arguing that the college’s decision to abstain from test requirements created ability gaps so broad that instructors were having to teach middle-school math to college-aged students.

The professors cite concerning trends among math students in their open letter.

“Over the past five years, we have seen a widening divergence in mathematical preparation levels within the same classroom,” the letter reads. “This trend indicates that current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors. The UC San Diego Senate–Administration Workgroup on Admissions report documents this crisis in stark terms: in the last five years, the number of students whose mathematics skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort.”

The letter urged the need for the school system to bring back the ACT and SAT requirements as a “critical baseline” to examine whether students have the mathematical abilities required for challenging STEM coursework. It argues that schools in California can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation and AI-assisted application essays.

The professors conclude the letter with a call to action, urging the college to take four steps:

  • Reinstate SAT/ACT Requirements
  • Validate Academic Readiness
  • Establish Faculty Oversight
  • Mandate Institutional Accountability

In response to the letter penned by the UC professors, UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu made the following statement:

“In light of concerns raised by UC faculty about student preparedness for undergraduate study, in March I called upon our systemwide faculty Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) to address timely topics tied to students’ college readiness and UC’s admissions process. BOARS is in the process of proposing a roadmap of policy work and partnership-building with other state and K–12 education leaders in the next academic year and beyond.”

The dispute comes as colleges across the United States grapple with the new era of test-blind admissions. While supporters of these policies argue that the reduced restrictions expand access, there are still many who see the emerging trends as concerning.

https://thepostmillennial.com/university-of-california-professors-tired-of-teaching-students-who-cant-make-the-grade-demand-return-of-standardized-tests

They Ain’t Quitting

According to Reduxx:

Entrepreneur and founder of a women’s-only application has been ordered to pay $20,000, with an additional maximum of $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male after he was denied access to the platform. CEO of Giggle for Girls Proprietary Limited, Sall Grover, was also found to have “discriminated” against Jason “Roxy” Tickle by recognizing him as a male in a selfie he submitted for on-boarding.

The ruling comes after more than four years of litigation, with Tickle having first filed a discrimination complaint through the Australian Human Rights Commission in December of 2021. The latest and final ruling, handed down in the Federal Court on Friday afternoon, was a response to an appeal lodged by Tickle in August 2024 to a decision made by Justice Bromwich stating that Grover was guilty of “indirect discrimination.” At the time, Grover was ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation to Tickle and to pay his court costs up to $50,000. Dissatisfied with the outcome, Tickle further pursued litigation seeking a verdict of direct discrimination.

In a shocking new development, Justice Melissa Perry sided with Tickle, doubled the compensation payout from $10,000 to $20,000, found Grover guilty of direct discrimination, and ordered her to pay court costs for Tickle up to $100,000. In her decision, Justice Perry cited the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984, which was significantly amended in 2013 to include explicit protections for “gender identity.”

.https://reduxx.info/aus-founder-of-women-only-app-ordered-to-pay-up-to-120000-to-trans-identified-male-for-recognizing-him-as-a-man/

More of This

According to Reduxx:

A French women’s rights activist has been found guilty of “public insult” over a remark she made during a televised debate with a trans-identified male. Dora Moutot was informed on May 20 that she had been convicted of “public insult against a person or group of people on account of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity” due to her comment that women are “wary of people with penises.”

Moutot made the statement during an October 2022 episode of the popular talk show Quelle Époque!, where she had been invited as a guest to debate a trans-identified male named Marie Cau, the mayor of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes. While discussing the issue of men who claim to be transgender women, Moutot stated that women have a need to be cautious in the presence of “people with penises.”

In its ruling, the court argued that Moutot had reduced “transgender women” to “their male attribute.”

“By referring to them as ‘penis people’ whom ‘women’ are ‘forced to distrust’, the defendant first assigns transgender women to their penis, that is, to their male sexual attribute of birth, while denying their female gender identity since they are opposed to ‘women’, the defendant thus implicitly considering that transgender women are not women,” the verdict read.

“This statement, which in a generalizing and essentializing way denies the gender identity of those concerned and assigns them to a masculine sexual attribute by associating the latter with a state of danger for cisgender women, is outrageous towards transgender women because of their sex and their gender identity.”

Incredibly Moutot was fined €1,000, to be paid to the state, as well as the payment of €500 in damages to each of the three trans activist associations who backed Cau’s legal complaint, and an additional €2,000 to cover the court costs, which had come from public funding.

.https://reduxx.info/france-womens-rights-activist-convicted-of-insulting-transgender-women-by-discussing-their-male-attribute-fined-e4500/

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Episode 1209 – They Really Care more About Foreigners Than You!

Bernie Sanders has decided to introduce a bill that would seize companies working on Artificial Intelligence.

A bunch of women in Congress want more time off because they are women.

And Zohran Mamdani bemoans all the violence being done to trans people. Too bad he didn’t do a little research first.

This is Unconstitutional

According to Perplexity:

Bernie Sanders has announced that he will soon introduce the “American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act,” which is likely what you’re referring to.

What Sanders is proposing

  • Sanders says he plans to introduce a bill that would create an American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund, giving the public a direct ownership stake in the largest U.S. AI companies (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and others).
  • The fund would be financed through a one‑time 50% tax or mandated equity transfer on the stock of these firms, not on their profits.
  • That stock would be held in a federal sovereign wealth fund, with the government holding voting shares and equal board representation in the covered companies to block decisions deemed harmful to the public.
  • Sanders argues that since AI models are built on the collective work and data of the public, the public should share directly in the wealth they generate.

What it would do for the public

  • The proposal envisions that profits from this sovereign wealth fund would be paid out to Americans as cash dividends, similar in spirit to Alaska’s Permanent Fund payments and Norway’s oil‑fund model.
  • Sanders has also floated that, as the fund grows, some of the proceeds could be used to support broader public goods like healthcare, education, and housing.

Status right now

  • As of early June 2026, Sanders has announced his intention and outlined the concept in a New York Times op‑ed and social media posts, but the formal bill text has not yet been introduced in Congress.
  • Until the actual legislative language appears, the details (covered companies, thresholds, governance specifics, distribution formulas, constitutionality tests, etc.) are still somewhat open and being debated.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/ea5ff482-cdf8-4d6b-ac9c-3fb571fc5e9f

It’s Always About the BS

According to the Daily Wire:

Celebrating Pride Month, New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani shared an article claiming there has been an uptick in “violent killings” of people who identify as transgender. However, a review by The Daily Wire found that none of the deaths cited in the article have been classified as anti-trans hate crimes by law enforcement agencies investigating the cases.

He said, “Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.”

The article was published by Them, which describes itself as “the award-winning authority on what LGBTQ+ means today — and tomorrow.” It claims to cite seven transgender-identifying victims killed this year, but both the report and its underlying source identify only six individuals.

  • The first victim named is Eryka Caldwell. According to the outlet’s own previous reporting, Caldwell was allegedly stabbed to death by his boyfriend, 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez. Caldwell’s sister said he had previously sought refuge from Fernandez in domestic violence shelters.
  • Davonta Curtis was allegedly beaten to death by his boyfriend. Prosecutors say the suspect later stole Curtis’s car, phone, and money. Court records reportedly show the suspect searched phrases including “how to kill someone with a hammer” and “if a person gets hit in the head with a hammer while sleeping, what happens.”
  • Aleanna Royal Belcher was found dead in a homeless shelter stairwell with a stab wound to his abdomen. After completing their investigation, police said they did not believe the killing was a hate crime. 
  • Lucas Redbeard Knapp was shot after reportedly intervening in a confrontation between two parties. Law enforcement investigated the death as a homicide, not a hate crime.
  • Shyyell Diamond Sanchez-McCray, was found shot to death inside a home. Public reporting contains conflicting descriptions regarding whether Sanchez-McCray even identified as transgender or was a gay man who performed in drag. Authorities have not announced a motive, and the investigation remains ongoing. 
  • Dannielle Spillman died in a hit-and-run incident after a dispute involving a vehicle. Authorities have also not classified the case as a hate crime, just like the other five killings in the article.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-pushes-one-of-the-lefts-favorite-hoaxes?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Brecca+Stoll&category=News&elementPosition=4&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=Mamdani+Pushes+One+Of+The+Left%E2%80%99s+Favorite+Hoaxes

Then Don’t Run for Congress

According to the Daily Wire:

Democrat lawmakers are pushing a federal bill to make businesses pay for female workers to take time off for period pain — an issue they’ve framed through the lens of “economic violence.”

The bill, called the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, would require employers to provide up to 12 days of paid leave per year for female health issues, including period pain and menopause symptoms, and also covers abortion and vasectomies.  

Notably, the legislation would hit incredibly small businesses, too, even if the owner has as few as five employees. And it’s backed by abortion giant Planned Parenthood. 

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who attended the presser last month, said women are tired of being told to “tough it out” when it comes to their period and suggested the issue is also about ethnicity.

“While the system is broken for all women, it is in a full blown crisis for Latinas,” the Democrat said. “The nationwide 17% of Latinos lack health insurance — more than double the rate of white Americans. Over 20% of adult Latinos in Arizona have been forced to completely avoid medical care because they simply cannot afford it.”

“Latinas are the backbone of our workforce, and yet they’re disproportionately concentrated in low wage and hourly jobs that lack flexible sick leave,” she continued. “Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day’s pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice; it’s an economic violence.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), who is sponsoring the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, recalled during the presser the pain she’s experienced from her period.

“Today, we are here to talk about women’s pain and how long it’s been overlooked,” Ansari said. “Like most women, I have a very personal experience with reproductive health pain.”

“In the summer of 2015, while starting my career in New York City, I woke up on floor of my local bodega drenched in sweat being dragged into an ambulance,” she continued. “Two male paramedics hovered over me and continued to ask me if I was pregnant. I had passed out from period pain. Even now, every month, I have days where it feels like barbed wire is tightening inside me. I’ve taken 2,000 milligrams of ibuprofen in twenty-four hours and still been in tears from the pain. Often end up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position, crying, moaning, or vomiting. Still, I put on a blazer and gone to work.” 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is also backing the bill. “I know that many of you understand that we’re sick and tired of women having to be expected to say, ‘suck it up,’ or still perform at the highest level,” Tlaib said at the presser. “They’re expected to show up to work despite incredibly painful periods and sit through meetings after being denied competent health care. And for far too long, women’s pain has been minimized, ignored, dismissed, and even politicized.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/economic-violence-dems-hold-presser-demanding-paid-time-off-for-periods?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&category=undefined&elementPosition=1&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=%E2%80%98Economic+Violence%E2%80%99%3A+Dems+Hold+Presser+Demanding+Paid+Time+Off+For+Periods

What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?

According to the Post Millennial:

Just weeks after Seattle unveiled four “smart” public toilets in Pioneer Square at a cost of roughly $116,000 per unit, one of the high-tech restrooms was vandalized when someone smashed a window.

The incident comes less than a month after city officials celebrated the launch of the Throne Labs restrooms as part of Seattle’s preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and broader efforts to revitalize downtown. The city is spending approximately $465,000 on the one-year pilot program.

Photos of the damaged restroom circulated on social media after being shared by Seattle Submissions. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) told local media that the damage was repaired in less than a day by Throne Labs, the company operating the facilities.

The vandalism is likely to raise questions about whether Seattle’s latest public restroom experiment will fare better than a similar effort nearly two decades ago. In the mid-2000s, Seattle spent millions on automated public toilets equipped with self-cleaning systems and multilingual instructions. The futuristic bathrooms quickly became targets for vandalism and were plagued by reports of criminal activity and drug use. The city ultimately abandoned the program and sold the units on eBay for a fraction of their original cost.

SDOT has emphasized that the program is intended as a one-year trial and will be evaluated based on technology performance, cleanliness, maintenance needs, and public feedback. The city has suggested additional units could be deployed elsewhere if the pilot proves successful.

https://thepostmillennial.com/vandals-strike-seattles-116000-smart-toilets-just-weeks-after-installation-they-were-for-the-fifa-world-cup

Gee, I Wonder What Will Happen?

According to the Post Millennial:

Seattle is in the process of building a tiny home village intended to house the city’s homeless population ahead of the FIFA World Cup coming to the Emerald City on June 15.

Andrea Suarez of We Heart Seattle said that the Bay View Pallet Shelter Village, located near 15th and Armory Way, is being operated by Everyone Deserves Housing. “People moving in here will be the people most highly affected by FIFA World Cup or displaced by World Cup.” The housing village will be “low barrier,” she said, which means drug users will be allowed access, and the facility is set to open on June 8. 

Some things:

  • I’m sure Whole Foods and the storage building will be thrilled that this little “community” is going up.
  • Thank God it is by a liquor store.
  • How about you DON’T allow drugs in the area?
  • She admits there will be a crime problem in the area and it is up to the community to deal with it.

The mayor’s office initially estimated that the first 500 units, which the city has not shared what kind of units these would include, would cost $28,000 per year. However, they later acknowledged that higher support shelters could cost closer to $45,000 per year. While the mayor has identified $17.5 million from the city budget to go towards housing costs, it would only partially cover the 500 units if each were the more expensive $45,000 price tag. 

Supporters of the plan argue that while the shelters are not a permanent solution, they provide an immediate alternative to unsheltered living as Seattle prepares to host a major international event.

https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-builds-tiny-home-village-for-citys-homeless-drug-users-displaced-by-fifa-world-cup-games

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Episode 1194 – The End of the Country is Near!

The “moderate” governor of Virginia has decided to rig all elections.

Another promise by Zohran Mamdani goes out the window.

And have you ever wondered what airline pilots talk about with the control tower? Well, we know now.

What Going On In Iran

Here’s the news in Iran:

  • The ceasefire is supposed to end tomorrow in the war against Iran.
  • Trump says that it is unlikely he will extend the ceasefire.
  • The United States is capturing ships going into and out of Iran.
  • Some ships are getting through.
  • Chris Murphy, while in Spain ripping Donald Trump, is under fire for cheering on the Iranians.

They Cheat

According to the Daily Wire:

Bringing the United States perilously close to dismantling its constitutional foundation, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed HB965 into law, officially entering the Commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The decision has sparked immediate outrage across the state, as critics realize the measure effectively renders the individual votes of Virginians “null and void.”

By signing this compact, Spanberger has agreed to hand Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the national popular vote — regardless of how the people of Virginia actually cast their ballots. With Virginia’s entry, the movement is now a terrifying 48 electoral votes away from taking effect. The current total stands at 222 votes, or 82% of the way to the 270-vote threshold required to fundamentally upend American elections.

It is no coincidence that the states rushing to bypass the Constitution represent a monolithic partisan bloc. To date, every single state that has joined the compact is a blue state, moving the country toward a system where a few deep-blue urban centers could dictate the presidency for the entire Union. The list of members includes:

  • Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, and now Virginia.

This partisan rush to ignore state boundaries flies in the face of Alexander Hamilton’s warnings in Federalist No. 68. Hamilton cautioned that the Electoral College was not a mere suggestion, but an “excellent” system designed to protect the Republic from the very “tumult and disorder” that a direct popular vote invites.

The Founders were explicitly wary of a direct popular vote, fearing it would allow a “demagogue” with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” to manipulate the masses. Hamilton argued that the presidency should not be a prize for the most famous or the most populist, but should be determined by an intermediate body of electors — men “most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/spanberger-pushes-nation-to-brink-signs-law-rendering-states-votes-null-and-void?author=Hank+Berrien&category=undefined&elementPosition=26&row=3&rowHeadline=Latest+News&rowType=Vertical+Carousel&title=Spanberger+Pushes+Nation+To+Brink%2C+Signs+Law+Rendering+State%E2%80%99s+Votes+%E2%80%98Null+and+Void%E2%80%99

Do This With Food Stamps

According to the New York Post:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted Tuesday that the promised lower prices at his city-owned grocery stores will only be guaranteed for a core set of everyday staples.

Items in those so-called baskets of goods have yet to be decided, but likely include essentials such as bread, milk and eggs, officials said.

Beyond those essentials, the stores will also sell other foodstuffs and items. Officials said they’ll aim to make those items low-cost as well, but may not always be able to achieve the perpetual discount.

“When it comes to the products that we will be selling at the city-run grocery stores, there will be an essential basket of goods that will be guaranteed a cheaper price, and cheaper than what they’re being sold at currently,” Mamdani said during a news conference at La Marqueta in Harlem.

The already city-owned La Marqueta was the first location revealed to host Mamdani’s socialist pet grocery project, but he said Tuesday the actual store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029.

Other yet-to-be-decided municipal grocery stores will open before then, with the first expected to greet shoppers in late 2027, officials said.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-city-owned-grocery-stores-will-only-guarantee-lower-prices-for-a-core-basket-of-goods/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

Ugh!

According to the Post Millennial:

The Federal Aviation Administration has said it will investigate an incident that has gone viral in which two pilots were heard meowing and barking at each other over an air traffic control frequency.

One pilot was heard saying “meow meow frequency from Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC in audio first obtained by ATC.com. The other pilot barked in response. The audio was captured on April 12.

One person replied on the frequency, “You guys need to be professional,” which was met with more meowing and barking. A person replied, “This is why you still fly an RJ.” RJ refers to regional jet, where many pilots begin their careers. It is unclear which flights the pilots had been on or what airline they worked for.

Per the New York Post, the FAA said it prohibits pilots from engaging in “non-essential conversations” below 10,000 feet. “Conversations must be related to the safe operation of the aircraft. The FAA investigates all situations where pilots may have violated any regulation,” the agency said.

Dennis Tajer, a pilot and spokesperson for the American Airlines pilots’ union Allied Pilots Association, said he has heard meowing on the “guard frequency, which is reserved for emergencies, before. It is unclear what frequency the April 12 incident took place on.

“It’s not entertainment, it’s a serious frequency and it has a serious purpose,” Tajer said, per ABC News. “Anything that contaminates that with idle humor or any kind of schtick is not received well and it should stop.”

Addressing those meowing, Tajer said, “For the few individuals out there that do it: stop, join us, stay safe and we’ll keep that frequency sacred and protected.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/faa-to-investigate-pilots-for-meowing-woofing-on-air-traffic-control-frequency

Hmmm!

According to the Daily Wire:

President Donald Trump’s administration is investigating the “troubling” deaths and disappearances of scientists and researchers who each reportedly had access to classified information at some point in their careers.

“In light of the recent and legitimate questions about these troubling cases, and President Trump’s commitment to the truth, the White House is actively working with all relevant agencies and the FBI to holistically review all of the cases together and identify any potential commonalities that may exist,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Friday afternoon.

Her remarks came after Fox News’ Peter Doocy pressed both Leavitt and President Donald Trump about the eerie timeline, given that at least 11 scientists have died or disappeared under strange circumstances. All of these individuals have been tied to military, nuclear, or aerospace research, according to Fox News.

A spokesman for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration told The Daily Wire on Friday that it is “aware of reports related to employees of our labs, plants, and sites and is looking into the matter.”

Trump himself said that he had just left a meeting on the topic as he departed the White House on Thursday for Las Vegas.

“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump said. “Pretty serious stuff … hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.”

Amy Eskridge, for example, was an Alabama researcher who died on June 11, 2022, at the age of 34 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science and worked on “antigravity” research. In a 2020 interview with YouTuber Jeremy Rys, she described receiving “harassment, threats,” and sabotage of her research. Notably, she suggested at one point that scientists who had breakthroughs in their work would “disappear” or stop working.

The list of the missing and death of government scientists:

  • Monica Jacinto Reza – NASA scientist – Disappeared June 2025
  • Carl Grillmair – Astrophysicist – Shot on his porch in February, 2026
  • Nuno Loureiro – MIT Physicist – Shot in his home in December 2025
  • Air Force Maj. Gen. William McCasland – Vanished from his home in March 2026
  • Michael Hicks – NASA Researcher – Died in July 2023
  • Frank Maiwald – NASA Engineer – Died in July 2024
  • Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez – Los Alamos Employees – Disappeared in May and June 2025
  • Jason Thomas – Pharmaceutical Scientist – Went missing in December 2025
  • Steven Garcia – Kansas City National Security Campus government contractor – Disappeared in Albuquerque in 2025

https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-scientists-are-turning-up-dead-or-missing-now-the-white-house-is-stepping-in

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