New York's East Village voted for Comrade Mamdani by 70%, now suing him

Comrade Mamdani

Leftists sometimes [however rarely] experience the misery that their cherished policies inflict on the rest of us in a direct manner. That's happening right now in the East Village, where they voted in massive numbers for the Marxist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, only to have him decide that they would be among the first to be punished. 

Mamdani’s fellow Twelver Shi’ite, the Ayatollah Khomeini, also allied with the Communists, only to imprison and kill them after he took power. Now Mamdani wants to inflict violent and criminal homeless people on the affluent leftists of the East Village. 

The idea is to demoralize and threaten them until they will support the authoritarian policies that are the heart and center of leftism. Well, it could not happen to a nicer bunch, but they are just toward the beginning of the line. There will be many more victims to come. As H.L. Mencken said in "A Little Book in C Major (1916): "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

East Village residents who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani by a 40-point margin are now suing to stop a building in their neighborhood from becoming a temporary homeless shelter.

The lawsuit, filed with the New York City Supreme Court on Monday, shows hesitation even among Mamdani supporters about the cost of implementing some of his plans.

News of the lawsuit has prompted conservative mockery online, with figures like Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-TX) noting the irony of Mamdani’s supporters turning on the fruits of his administration.

“Oops,” Sen. Ted Cruz said in a post to X.

“No one is more ‘not in my backyard’ than white progressives. This community voted for Mamdani in a landslide but don’t want to live with the consequences,” Michael Henry, a former New York attorney general candidate, wrote on social media.“Not shocked,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said in a post.

Election District 45, the area that includes East Village, voted for Mamdani in a 70.1% victory over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who garnered just 26.0% of the vote. It was one of those "hold your nose and vote" situations with these choices.

Even so, 10 residents joined the Village Organization for the Integrity of Community Engagement (VOICE) in their suit against the city after Mamdani announced plans earlier this year to turn a building at 8 East 3rd Street into a citywide intake shelter to house homeless adult men.

The filing argues the city fast-tracked the process without proper environmental and legal safeguards.

Can I get an Allahu akbar!

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Mamdani Act: Bill introduced to deport immigrants with extremist ideologies

US Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has dropped a monster piece of legislation that would crank up the federal government's power to deport, denaturalize, deny citizenship to, and keep out immigrants who are hooked up with extremist ideologies. We're talking socialism, communism, and Islamic fundamentalism here.

The bill, called the MAMDANI Act (Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists), is a deliciously direct shot at New York City Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani and the growing conservative nightmare of a far-left anti-Israel crowd cozying up with Islamist extremists.

Mamdani, that far-left socialist and proud anti-Zionist, has built his whole political brand on anti-Israel activism and has been hammered for pushing anti-Semitic rhetoric.

In his statement, Roy made it clear the legislation is all about giving the government better tools to screen out immigrants peddling anti-American and anti-Western garbage.

“Not just for the last six years, but for the last 60 years, our immigration system has been cynically used to disadvantage American workers’ competitiveness in favor of mass-importing the third world,” Roy added. “This has not just led to higher crime and lower wages, but also the promulgation of hostile ideologies fundamentally opposed to American values.”

The congressman said the bill is aimed squarely at what he called a “Red-Green Alliance” between far-left and Islamist extremists. That unholy partnership has been stoking antisemitism, anti-American radicalism, and open support for terrorist outfits while hiding behind the fig leaf of progressive politics.

“By targeting the Red-Green Alliance, this legislation deploys new tools to fight back against the Marxist and Islamist advance that has devastated Europe and has now arrived on our doorstep, especially in my home state of Texas,” Roy added.

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Mamdani's administration has its first serious scandal

A New York City employee says she was fired after she reported an anonymous complaint about her boss, Commissioner Sharun Goodwin, and the agency’s general counsel, Wayne McKenzie.

The story centers on Department of Probation investigator Ebony Huntley, who alleged that Goodwin had a “prior intimate relationship” with McKenzie that would “present a conflict of interest and impact impartial decision-making,” according to Politico.

Huntley also alleged that human resources director Zenia Melendez had a history of “verbal and physical violence” toward staff members. The whistleblower said she followed the required process when she submitted the complaint to the city’s Department of Investigation, which informed her that it was looking into the matter.

But the day after she submitted the complaint, she was called into a meeting with McKenzie, who said, “I cannot have a person like Ebony working for me. Effective immediately, you are terminated.”

But that wasn’t the end of the story. Huntley responded to her firing with a wrongful termination lawsuit. She told a reporter, “It’s sh*tty, because I did what I was supposed to do.”

This is the first major scandal to hit Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, even after he promised to bring a “new era” of clean and transparent government after years of corruption allegations under his predecessor, Eric Adams.

Mamdani said he takes “any allegation of misconduct incredibly seriously” but did not comment on the details while the investigation proceeds. “I’m not going to be weighing in on any ongoing investigation. However, New Yorkers should rest assured that there is an investigation.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Probation told Politico the agency is “committed to fostering a professional, respectful and accountable workplace for all employees” and that the “allegations in this lawsuit will be duly addressed as the legal process runs its course.”

Also, the department said Goodwin and McKenzie “will have no role or oversight to any potential investigation to avoid any conflict and to preserve independence.”

Other than the Huntley lawsuit, the Mamdani administration has faced other controversies in its first 100 days. These involve key appointees and policies. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who the mayor appointed as director of appointments, resigned only a day after she was announced. It happened after antisemitic comments she made on social media ten years ago surfaced.

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Mamdani gives e-bikers the green light to kill

Comrade Mamdani and his signature grin

New Yorkers instinctively avoid frothing-at-the-mouth-street-corner lunatics. They don’t know if the psycho might suddenly come at them with a knife, so they cross to the other side to be safe. That's normal survival instincts.

But there’s no street to cross when the lunatic is the man they elected as their mayor. But if there was, they might get run over by e-bikers to whom Zohran (Madman) Mamdani gave license to kill.

Because the comrade wants to shield them from ICE, motorized bikers can now speed as fast as they want yet face only a civil ticket. This, even as he wants to slow auto traffic to a 10 mile per hour piddling crawl [perhaps to force them to give up their vehicles and take "free" buses and trains].

It isn’t breaking news that traffic lights and human life mean nothing to e-bikers. They zoom like bats out of hell up and down Avenues, and sometimes down the one-way uptown avenue. But with Madman Mamdani, they basically get a free pass.

New Yorkers elected this talent-lacking lunatic and got what the asked for, good and hard.

Maybe they will wake up next time, but I doubt it.

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Rama Duwaji, NYC First Lady, deletes old X account on account of it glorifying Islamic terrorists, Jew hatred and no love for USA

NYC Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, deactivated an old X account after a series of resurfaced posts showed her praising Palestinian terrorists, bashing Israel, and criticizing the US military.

The 28-year-old first lady of New York City, who has faced intense backlash over her social media history these past two weeks, removed the account a day after the Washington Free Beacon exposed a collection of disturbing posts she made on X and Tumblr during her teenage years and early twenties.

Although her X account, under the username @_RamaDee, has now been deleted as of Thursday, Duwaji’s public Instagram page, boasting 2 million followers, remains very much active.

Some might say

The wife of the socialist comrade mayor has come under sustained fire for her past online activity, ever since it emerged last week that she had liked Instagram posts celebrating Hamas’s deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, including one that dismissed as a “mass hoax” the rapes carried out by the terror group against hostages and victims.

One cannot help but notice the pattern here: a young woman who once openly admired figures like Leila Khaled, the notorious plane hijacker, and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, now finds those youthful declarations inconveniently returning to public view, just as her husband occupies the highest office in America’s largest city. 

The deletions and the silences speak volumes, even if the words themselves have been quietly taken down.

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NYC gets huge credit downgrade under Mamdani's poor mayoralty

What? No goofy smile?

New York City's Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed jacking up the city's budget in a big way.

Moody's downgraded New York City's financial outlook from "stable" to "negative" on Wednesday, pointing to a projected $5.4 billion budget deficit.

That gaping hole was laid out by Comrade Mamdani during a preliminary budget hearing back in February. The mayor wants to balloon the city's budget from $115 billion under his predecessor to $127 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, as millionaires flee the city.

A spokesperson for Mamdani pushed back, calling Moody's move premature. The rep pointed out that state lawmakers are eyeing roughly $5 billion in extra funding for the city.

Moody's statement did nod to the possibility that the proposed state aid "could have a stabilizing effect over time," but the ratings agency was quick to add that it would only count "if enacted."

If that Albany cash doesn't come through, Mamdani has floated hiking property taxes by 9.5 percent and dipping $980 million into the city's rainy-day fund. Moody's warned that pulling from reserves would "limit financial flexibility, especially if economic growth slows sharply or an outright downturn materializes."

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine described the potential tax increase and reserve raid as having "dire consequences." He called the Moody's outlook shift a major red flag.

"Moody's decision to review New York City's outlook to negative is a sobering wakeup call about the fiscal challenges ahead for us," Levine said.

This downgrade lands after a year of record Wall Street revenues and a solid local economy. Moody's kept the city's bond rating unchanged for now, even as it flipped the outlook. A full downgrade would almost certainly drive up New York's borrowing costs by flashing greater credit risks to investors.

The agency cautioned that a deeper rating cut could come if budget gaps swell to 10 percent of city revenue.

Mamdani has pinned the deficits on what he calls mismanagement during former Mayor Eric Adams's tenure, insisting prior budgets shortchanged cash assistance, rental support, and shelter services. In other words, he refuses to accept any responsibility, which doesn't bode well for future change in his socialist tactics.

The Adams years did, however, see the city take in more than 210,000 migrants, with housing and support costs estimated at roughly $4.3 billion. Those bills are still hammering the budget, but Mamdani's plans for dealing with the budget will only make things worse, as people with wealth wisely flee.

At the same time, Mamdani is pushing ahead with several expensive items from his campaign playbook, like expanded childcare and transit programs. Per estimates cited by the New York Post, his push to extend childcare to two-year-olds could jump from $73 million in year one to $425 million by 2027. 

The so called "free and fast buses" plan might run the city as much as $800 million.

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Compromised News Network blasted over 'bizarre' post about teens charged with throwing bombs at NYC protest

CNN deleted a post about an ISIS-inspired attack in New York and admitted it didn't meet their standards. Classic mainstream media malpractice, especially when they get caught misrepresenting the truth.

Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi were walked out of the 19th precinct in Manhattan on March 9, 2026, after their arrest for tossing an explosive device while allegedly yelling "Allahu akbar" into a protest crowd outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home where people were protesting "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York," and "Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer."

The fake news network is getting hammered on social media for a now-deleted Tuesday post on X that described the two suspects as "Pennsylvania teenagers" who were charged with hurling bombs at a protest near Gracie Mansion on Saturday. They conveniently left out the part when they yelled and what their motives were. 

The CNN post read: "Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home. Here's what we know so far."

So it was just a couple of kids out to enjoy a normal day in the Big Apple and maybe show a little concern about a group of Islamophobic protesters who just don't care about allowing the 'Religion of Peace' to do their thing,

These weren't just some kids out to enjoy the day. 

The suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balat of Langhorne and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi of Newtown, came from Bucks County to Manhattan. Police say they ignited and threw improvised explosive devices into the crowd outside the mayor's residence, hoping to kill as many people as possible. Federal prosecutors hit them with charges of material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, and use of a weapon of mass destruction.

CNN yanked the post and issued this explanation on X: "A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted."

They also failed to explain how these sweet teens were inspired by ISIS, the terrorist organization that beheads and burns people alive if they're considered to be infidels.

Even CNN media analyst Brian Stelter called it out in his newsletter Tuesday morning: "The story itself was solid. But the tweet was outrageous, and quickly addressed by CNN management." He added that the outlet was "rightly criticized" for the post.

Social media lit up over the bizarre framing, which somehow avoided words like "terror" or "terrorist" entirely."This is the weirdest framing," Examiner columnist Tim Carney posted on X. "The major left-leaning outlets hate this story, but know they cannot ignore it, so they go to bizarre contortions."

Deputy editor of Jewish News U.K. Daniel Sugarman pointed out that the post would have been "extremely strange" even right after the attack, but "given everything we now know about these [two] people and their motives, is journalistic malpractice."

Gee, CNN being accused of journalistic malpractice--what will they say next?

But CNN wasn't the only outlet. 

ABC News referred to the ISIS-inspired man as an 'activist' who threw a homemade bomb towards police. And Libs of TikTok posted this: 

"Wow. ISIS-inspired perpetrators commit a literal terrorist act, and this is what CNN comes up with?" media watchdog group HonestReporting asked. "Oh, those poor ‘Pennsylvania teenagers,’ whose lives have ‘drastically changed’ because they made the conscious decision to throw bombs. When will the media stop employing narrative storytelling to infantilize perpetrators of ideologically motivated crimes?"

"Who writes this garbage?" Rep. Eli Crane, (R-AZ), wrote on X. "They are radical Islamic terrorists."

Journalist Scot Bertram had some brutal fun rewriting it to mimic 9/11: "Nineteen men arrived at East Coast airports Tuesday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying a cross-country flight. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change."

RedState writer Bonchie nailed it: CNN was doing "everything they can to make these Islamists [seem] like misguided victims."

"I don’t really understand this framing by CNN," News2Share editor-in-chief Ford Fischer wrote. "Couldn’t anybody who does something life-changing have ‘a normal day’ if they don’t do the thing?"

And Barstool Sports content creator Jack Mac summed up the absurdity: "Man you just gotta hate when two teenagers, who could’ve been enjoying the warm weather, have their life drastically changed because they accidentally brought a home made bomb that would’ve killed multiple people. Oops! I did some terrorism! Can’t believe my life has changed!"This is peak legacy media: soft-pedal radical Islamic terrorism, paint the perps as sympathetic kids whose big day got ruined, then delete and issue a half-hearted mea culpa when the backlash hits. The double standards never stop.

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Comrade Mamdani addresses terror attempt

New York City's shiny new socialist Mayor Zohran "Smiley" Mamdani finally found a moment in his busy schedule to address the little incident outside his official digs. It only took him a full day after protesters were yelling "Allahu Akbar" and chucking a couple of homemade devices into a crowd. Devices that the NYPD bomb squad later confirmed were, surprise, actually lethal.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch dropped the official word on Sunday: "The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a protest yesterday and has determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb. It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death."

So it turns out that this jihadist and his buddy were seriously trying to kill people.

Tisch added that the second one was still getting the full lab treatment with "further analysis" needed.

Then came the gratitude portion of the program: "Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi were arrested on scene yesterday and are in custody in connection with this matter. The NYPD is working on this investigation with our partners at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. I want to again thank the brave members of the NYPD who ran towards the danger without hesitation and quickly apprehended the suspects."

Meanwhile, Comrade Mamdani released his own statement, which managed the impressive feat of moral equivalencing the guys who threw bombs at people with the people they were throwing bombs at.

"Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism," Mamdani complained. "Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are."

The leftist mayor kept going: "What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are. I want to thank the brave men and women of the NYPD who acted quickly to keep New Yorkers safe. Our officers ran toward danger without hesitation, demonstrating once again the courage and dedication it takes to protect this city every single day. My administration is closely monitoring the situation and I remain in close contact with our Police Commissioner."

Yeah, sure.

For context, there were two dueling protests in front of Gracie Mansion. One was a tiny gathering of less than two dozen folks led by January 6 defendant Jake Lang, billed as "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer." The other side pulled in over 100 people under the banner "Run the Nazis out of New York City, Stand Against Hate." [They forgot to add: Death to Israel; death to America.]

Cops kept them separated, but things still got ugly. Someone from Lang's group hit counter-protesters with pepper spray and got arrested. Then tensions boiled over further when Balat and Kayumi got nabbed for the homemade bombs.

In the grand tradition of progressive mayors who love to lecture about unity while carefully avoiding any mention of who actually tried to blow people up, Mamdani's response was a master class in deflection. The bombs were bad, sure, but let's not forget to lead with the real villain: the guy with the offensive protest sign. Classic gas lighting.

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Mamdani's wife "Likes" Hamas on Instagram

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, decided to spend some quality time on her personal Instagram account "liking" multiple posts that enthusiastically cheered on the barbaric Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023.

The scoop from Jewish Insider yanks the curtain off the "moderate" mask Mamdani has been polishing for public consumption. While the mayor now insists he unequivocally condemns Hamas, his wife was out there clicking those little heart buttons on photos of bulldozers smashing through the Israeli border and terrorists joyriding in captured IDF vehicles. 

One anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic gem she liked, courtesy of an outfit called "The Slow Factory," casually reframed the slaughter of 1,200 people as nothing more than "breaking the walls of apartheid."

The timing makes it sting even more. 

Back when Mamdani was still just a state assemblyman, he went public criticizing a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square for "making light" of the massacre. Meanwhile, his then-girlfriend was apparently cozy at home, digitally high-fiving the very same crowd. Duwaji reportedly hearted posts from the "People’s Forum," you know, that node in the network tied to Maoist moneybags Neville "Roy" Singham, which proudly ran the genocidal chant "from the river to the sea" and hailed the Oct. 7 atrocities as a "human right."

When cornered for comment, Duwaji went radio silent. The mayor's office, predictably, turtle-upped into full defensive crouch mode and spat out a boilerplate statement reaffirming Mamdani's "consistent" condemnation of Hamas. 

They somehow forgot to mention whether the mayor shares a dinner table with someone who sees the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as a glorious moment of "collective liberation."

Right after the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis, Mamdani (then a state assemblyman) dropped a statement that mostly aimed its fire at Israel: "I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid."

Fast-forward to the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre, and Mamdani took to his X account with another statement. This time he accused Israel of perpetrating "genocide" in Gaza, leaned on fatality figures straight from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and wrote, "In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war.” He branded Israel’s actions “war crimes," took shots at the Trump administration, and added, "Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account."  

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Mamdani, Omar, AOC defend Iranian regime over Iranians

NYC's socialist Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, fresh off a chummy White House sit-down with President Trump where they hashed out potential Big Apple housing deals, wasted no time joining the Squad's Alexandria Obviously-Commie (AOC) and Ilhan Omar, a woman who married her brother, in blasting the president for the joint U.S.-Israel airstrikes that hammered Iran.

"Today's military strikes on Iran, carried out by the United States and Israel, mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression," Mamdani declared Saturday, barely days after the Ugandan-born ever-smiling mayor seemed to find some common ground with Trump on pumping federal dollars into New York housing projects.

"Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.  Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace."

The low information mayor insisted his top priority remains "making sure that every New Yorker is safe." He said he was in touch with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and emergency management officials to take "proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution."

"Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city, you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders," the far-left anti-Semitic mayor added. "You will be safe here." [Unless you're Jewish.]

Fun Fact: Iranian Americans overwhelmingly support President Trump and Israel's strike on the Iranian regime.

Over in Congress, Rep. AOC (D-NY) didn't hold back either, branding the strikes "unlawful" and accusing Trump of "dragging" Americans "into a war they did not want," while claiming the president "does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions."

"This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic," the former bartender ranted.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) piled on too, slamming Trump for "unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the United States."

The far-left chorus came as Trump and Israel unleashed massive airstrikes aimed at crippling Iran's terrorist regime, with the president vowing the operations would continue as needed to deliver peace in the Middle East. 

Talk about timing: one minute Comrade Mamdani is pitching Trump on 12,000 new homes, the next he's leading the condemnation parade. Classic Squad hypocrisy on full display.

Ask the Iranian people what they want, dolts.

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Want to shovel snow? 5 forms of ID please. Want to vote? No problem.

Snowcialism has officially arrived in the Big Apple, folks. Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is dead set against requiring ID to vote because apparently that's racist or a poll tax or Jim Crow 2.0 or whatever the talking point is this week. But when it comes to signing up to shovel snow for the city during a monster blizzard? Oh, then he wants no less than five forms of identification. 

Welcome to peak progressive logic.

The NYC Sanitation Department website lays it out clear as day: to register as an emergency snow shoveler, you need two small photos (1-1.5 square inches), two original forms of ID plus copies, and your Social Security card. That's right, multiple layers of paperwork just to pick up a shovel and earn some extra cash clearing sidewalks and hydrants. 

Soon they'll be asking us to provide fingerprints, a DNA sample, and an Xray to prove our right to shovel snow.

Mamdani, ever the helpful socialist cum communist, hit a presser Saturday and urged New Yorkers to step up. "For those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage… with your paperwork which is accessible online," Hizzoner said at a presser Saturday.

The gig pays $19.14 an hour, jumping to $28.71 after the first 40 hours in a week. Not bad for some side hustle, but good luck if you don't have your ID portfolio ready to go.

Of course, this comes from the same guy who's tied to the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA hates voter ID laws with a passion, calling them out as "racist voter ID laws and secret poll taxes like the ‘SAVE America Act.'" Their website proudly declares, "Our candidates for office stand firm against racist voter ID laws and secret poll taxes like the ‘SAVE America Act.'"

So what is it called when people must produce 5 forms of ID to shovel snow?

Social media lit up with ice-cold mockery over the glaring hypocrisy. Fox News host Jimmy Failla quipped on X, "This is Jim SNOW 2.0." X user Casey Cook posted, "No joke. To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC….for the impending snowstorm, you need two types of identification. Can’t make this up." 

Another user piled on with a Greta Thunberg gif, captioning it, "Mamdani's snow shovelers must be 'Eligible to work in the United States,'" followed by her famous "how dare you."

A City Hall spokesperson tried to clean it up for The Post, explaining, "As with any employer, the City of New York has a legal obligation under federal law to verify work authorization and maintain proper documentation before issuing payment. We are not legally permitted to hand out checks without completing that process."

Fair enough on the federal I-9 rules, but try telling that to the left when the same logic applies to election integrity. Suddenly it's suppression.

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Meanwhile, Gotham is staring down a beast of a blizzard, with up to 24 inches possible across the East Coast Sunday and Monday. Wind gusts could hit 60 mph, and snow might pile up one to three inches per hour. If Mamdani's voters want to help dig out the city, they'll need more ID than it takes to cast a ballot. Classic.

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Poor New Yorkers form breadline-like formation outside "free" grocery store pop-up

Folks, if there's one thing that can make a New Yorker forget about the rent, the rats, and the guy on the subway playing saxophone covers of death metal, it's the promise of free stuff, or at least stuff others have to pay for, And boy, did Polymarket deliver on that front with their little "first free grocery store" stunt in the West Village. Hundreds lined up like it was Black Friday at a Tiffany's liquidation sale, only instead of diamonds, they were fighting over pasta sauce and Tide Pods. [H/T Fox News Digital]

"New Yorkers are in pain," said Nick from Queens, who paid the recently hiked subway fare to get to Greenwich Village, waiting patiently (or as patiently as a Queens guy can) for his shot at some bath soap and laundry glory.

This whole circus popped up on Feb. 12 as a five-day giveaway courtesy of the crypto prediction market folks at Polymarket, who are apparently feeling the regulatory heat in various states, including the Empire State itself. Critics are calling it a not-so-subtle jab at Democratic NYC Mayor and Comrade Zohran Mamdani's grand plan for communist-style city-run grocery stores to combat the soul-crushing cost of living here. Because nothing says "we're serious about affordability" like a billionaire-backed pop-up that runs out of tickets faster than a politician runs out of excuses.

The scene was pure New York chaos: lines wrapping around the block, people showing up before the sun bothered to rise, and that special anxiety over who snags a yellow ticket before the shelves go barren. It's like musical chairs, but the chairs are cans of soup and the music is the sound of security guards yelling.

As the crowd swelled, so did the drama. Fatima told right-of-center Fox News Digital that she rolled up at 9:00 and got the bad news: "They said that they ran out of tickets."

Sherrod from Jamaica, Queens, got the same brush-off: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.… I couldn't get access to the store."

Security eventually started herding folks away like stray cats: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." So he paid another recently hiked subway fare and went home, we can suppose.

Charming. Nothing says "welcome to our generous giveaway" like being told to flick off. 

For those who scored tickets, it was a supervised shopping spree: pair up with a staffer, fill a blue tote bag, try not to look too greedy. Some loved it. Nick, who somehow landed fourth in line, praised the security: "Security's been phenomenal. This morning, there was a drunk guy over here harassing a lady... the head security guy... got him out of here. Protecting us."

The drunk guy is nowhere to be found and his family might be looking for him.

Others were less impressed. Michael, chilling outside with his chair like he was tailgating the apocalypse, griped about security's "presentation" when dealing with folks from "florid backgrounds," lacking that customer service polish, apparently. He was down to three cups of soup at home and figured the good stuff would be gone by quitting time.

Sumayah from Brooklyn hit it earlier in the week, snagging two dozen eggs and butter before the shelves turned into a ghost town. Out of work for months and on disability, she said this kind of help could save her $600 a month on food and basics. Still, the chaperoned shopping felt weird: "Someone shops with me and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that... they kind of rushed me through things and I couldn’t get all the stuff that I wanted."

It's like, "Do you really need that? Someone in greater need might need that quart of milk--put it back."

But overall? "Very much needed in New York" because it's free for those getting their ticket.

The turnout proved how desperate things are. Word spreads faster than a funny rash one can get sitting bare-butt on the D train. Sumayah even met someone fresh off a plane from India: "‘Oh my God, I'm in line. I'm coming to get free food.' I'm thinking like, how should I get back on the plane with that?"

Of course, the food in India is extremely cheap and delicious--I returned from India last week and you can have a huge meal for about 5 US bucks. Just don't forget to drink bottled water.

Everyone, ticket or no ticket, hammered the same point: food prices here are insane. Jaquan, homeless and riding the A train in, used to drop $300–500 on groceries living with Mom. Monique blew $200 recently and "didn’t even get much." Sherrod's family of four rings up $400–500 a month. Nick switched to fast food and it's wrecking his health, plus he's a month behind on his phone bill because groceries win every time.

The lucky 300+ who made it inside? Ecstatic. Nick emerged thrilled: "I got the spaghetti. I got orange juice. I like orange juice. I also got some ground beef. They had grass-fed ground beef, they had lean ground beef and the regular ground beef, so I'm really glad I got that. I'm really glad I got the grass-fed."

Polymarket [perverse] says they funded the whole thing, tossed $1 million to the Food Bank for New York City, and even handed out $50 gift cards to the folks stuck at the back of the line. How accommodating.

Shoppers saw it as a teachable moment for Mamdani and his city-owned store dreams: better security, no running out of food, crack down on line-cutters, put them in actual food deserts instead of fancy Manhattan blocks.

Because nothing screams "progressive utopia" like a crypto stunt showing exactly why government grocery stores might end in the same ticket frenzy, security shouts, and dashed hopes.

New Yorkers are in pain, alright. And free Tide Pods aren't fixing it because they still aren't edible, kids. 

So where is the money going to come from to pay for "free" groceries? From us, the taxpayers. And in order to pay for it the taxes are going to need to rise, and with Comrade Mamdani as Mayor, they will--at least the property taxes, because that's all he is allowed to raise. He will try to get NY Gov. Hochul on his communist bandwagon, and with elections coming up for her, it's doubtful she'll go along with his demands. 

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But if he raises property taxes the 9.5% he's saying, this will raise a lot of Big Apple hackles and he might even be challenged by the governor for possible removal from office. I've heard rumors but will not take them seriously unless I see some legal movement to end this communist regime.

Free food is not a bad thing, but it's a no-such thing. Nothing is free and someone has to pay for it. This will drive the richest New Yorkers to think twice about where they want to live.

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How Zohran Mamdani can be removed from office

This smile is the main reason he got elected

I asked Grok this question: Can New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani be removed from office? The following is what the AI responded and put in my own words:

The New York City mayor can't be "impeached" in the way we think of the term from the federal level or even the state governor's process; no legislative trial, no articles voted up or down by a City Council acting as a Senate. The NYC Charter and state law don't provide for anything that dramatic or theatrical. Instead, there are two paths to showing a mayor the door, and both are more about removal for cause than a full-blown political spectacle.

First, and by far the most straightforward (if politically explosive), is the governor's power. 

Under Section 9 of the City Charter, and backed by the state Constitution (Article XIII, sections 5 and 13) plus Public Officers Law §33, the governor of New York can simply remove the mayor. It's broad, almost sweeping authority with remarkably few guardrails. The process is this: the governor lays out charges (misconduct, corruption, dereliction of duty, whatever the executive deems sufficient), serves them on the mayor, and gives the target a chance to respond at a hearing. While that's pending, the governor can suspend the mayor for up to 30 days. If the charges stick after due process, out goes the mayor.

This isn't some theoretical relic; it's real authority, exercised rarely but memorably. Think back to 1932, when Governor Franklin Roosevelt had Mayor Jimmy Walker in his sights over bribery and corruption allegations. Walker resigned before the axe fell, but the threat was credible. Courts haven't cabined this power much, so the governor has wide discretion on what qualifies as removable offenses. In the context of recent events (say, federal indictments hanging over City Hall), people have pointed to Governor Kathy Hochul's leverage here, even if political realities make pulling the trigger a high-wire act. It's easy on paper, potentially devastating in practice.

The second route is the City Charter's "Committee on Mayoral Inability," a clunkier, more internal mechanism designed for incapacity rather than outright malfeasance. This five-member panel includes the Corporation Counsel, the Comptroller, the City Council Speaker, a deputy mayor picked by the sitting mayor (talk about a potential conflict), and the longest-serving borough president. 

If four out of five agree that the mayor is temporarily or permanently unable to discharge the duties of the office, whether from health issues, legal entanglements that paralyze governance, or misconduct that renders effective leadership impossible, they can refer it to the full City Council.

Then the Council weighs in: a two-thirds vote (at least 34 of 51 members) is needed to confirm permanent removal or a suspension. It's a high bar, deliberately so, to avoid rash or partisan overreach. No mayor has ever been permanently ousted this way, which tells you how politically fraught and logistically challenging it would be, especially with that mayor-selected deputy potentially acting as a loyal blocker. But no mayor has been so far to the left and so obviously antisemitic as the present clown in office.

In either scenario, removal doesn't require a criminal conviction; charges or a finding of incapacity suffice, with due process baked in to satisfy constitutional concerns. If it happens, the Public Advocate steps in as acting mayor, and a special election follows for a permanent replacement. The system prioritizes stability over swift political justice; stability for the city, headaches for everyone else involved.

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Bottom line: no impeachment circus, just two very different levers, one gubernatorial sledgehammer, one cumbersome city committee, and neither gets pulled lightly. But when the pressure builds, as it has in recent years, those options suddenly look a lot more real.

The garbage is piling up on the streets; five thousand NYPD hiring slots are not going to be filled; and the calls to Islamic prayer are being blasted on city streets. 

The dead from 911 are rolling in their graves.

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Teen hero murdered in the Bronx by teens with guns

A tragic and utterly senseless shooting [aren't they all] in the Bronx has left a 16-year-old aspiring football star dead after he heroically stepped in to shield his friends from a group of illegally armed thugs, yet another grim chapter in the borough's spiraling youth violence epidemic that has residents fed up and demanding real action from city leaders, including their communist mayor.

Christopher Redding, a talented player on the John F. Kennedy High School tackle football team and the Fastbreak flag football squad (with prior stints on the Bronx Colts and LBX teams), paid the ultimate price for his courage. 

According to a GoFundMe page set up by his coach, "Christopher was defending his friends who were being targeted by a group of individuals who then opened fire on them in the Bronx. His last act on earth was one of courage and selflessness, protecting those he cared about."

The chaos unfolded last Wednesday after school dismissal near a bus stop in Kingsbridge, where crowds of teens had gathered. What started as a street dispute quickly escalated, because, as Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson bluntly put it, "This started out as some sort of fight on the street, and it escalated. And, guess what, someone had a gun. That is usually the issue." Gibson added that there's been "too much violence among young adults." But just how much is too much?

Police say four suspects, three males and one female, were involved. It's not yet known if these thugs identify correctly according to their actual gender.

The NYPD released footage of the group, and on Saturday, authorities nabbed a 17-year-old male connected to the incident. He's now staring down a laundry list of serious charges: murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault, and criminal possession of a loaded firearm. Two other young victims, a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, were shot in the right leg and are stable in the hospital. 

Local resident Regina Hall witnessed the panic from her window: after five gunshots rang out, she saw "hundreds and hundreds of kids" waiting for the bus scatter in terror. "You can't come to the stores," she told reporters. "I had a friend that went to the drug store, and she had to try to run from across the street there to here to get to her house." She described regular teen brawls spilling into the streets and noted the noticeable drop in police presence thanks to Mayor Mamdani: "I used to see a lot of policemen around here. But it's, you know, can't say anymore." 

The community is reeling, and frustration is boiling over toward city leadership. Redding's grieving father, Bryan Corley spoke to the New York Post about the remaining suspects still on the loose: "They're still out there, and nothing is really being done. Mayor Mamdani saying that the police is doing a good job. They're not doing a good job. It's disgusting." 

When asked if Mamdani's office had even reached out to the family, he said simply: "no." For his part, Comrade Mamdani addressed the recent Bronx shootings last Thursday, calling them "heartbreaking and horrific" and adding, "I am thankful for the work of the NYPD not only in responding to them but also in the actions they are taking to ensure that we work to prevent them in the future."

District Council Member Eric Dinowitz struck a more urgent tone on X: "guns in the hands of high school students should never be the reality, and we must put an end to this senseless violence." He added that with a new mayoral administration, "we have an opportunity to address this crisis once and for all. My colleagues and I in the City Council will do everything we can to support an anti-gun violence agenda that addresses the root causes and saves lives."

He failed to mention how this would be addressed in terms of getting illegal guns off the streets. It isn't as though criminals are going to give up their guns, and gun laws seem to only apply to law abiding citizens.

Gibson echoed the sentiment, noting the borough has seen a troubling rise in gun violence [as if it's the guns that are violent, not the shooters] that has "leaving too many of our families and community members feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods."

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This isn't just another statistic, it's a heartbreaking loss of a promising young life cut short in an avoidable explosion of street-level stupidity and easy access to firearms among the youth. 

The guns don't commit the violence and the problem isn't just with access to them. The problem starts at home where, for example, missing fathers have no influence on their sons and daughters. The problem is primarily a social problem where cops are vilified and guns are glorified.

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Free Buses, Real Costs: Mamdani’s Socialist Fantasy Collides with New York Reality

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has turned "fast and free buses" into the centerpiece of his administration, selling it as an affordability lifeline and a long-overdue upgrade for a bus system that's been ignored for decades. Nice pitch, but this grand plan is about to slam into the brick wall of New York City politics.

Supporters insist fare-free buses would cut down on conflict, boost safety, and deliver instant relief to the riders who rely on them most. Skeptics, including on-air pundits and transit groups, warn it's a recipe for a massive funding black hole at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unless the city locks in a rock-solid revenue source and a workable operational blueprint.New York City bus riders already endure some of the slowest service in the country, despite hauling millions of passengers daily.

As of early 2026, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has pushed back on Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposal for citywide free buses, arguing that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cannot afford the estimated annual loss in fare revenue. "We’re the biggest ridership, and yet we're subject to the slowest buses. It's a fundamental unfairness. It's an embarrassment," Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director at the Riders Alliance, told Fox News Digital during a bus ride through the Bronx.

That grim track record is exactly why Mamdani's idea has political legs. Pearlstein noted that bus riders, often students, seniors, and caregivers, are squeezed for both time and cash, just like drivers or subway users. Yet buses have been shoved to the back burner on city streets for years.

"That is why this administration's call for fast and free buses resonates," he added. Pearlstein's take, along with others, anchors Fox News Digital's "The Rise of Socialism" series, which spotlights how socialist ideas are creeping into debates and policies in big American cities. Advocates lead with safety and less drama. Multiple sources pointed out that fare disputes routinely spark tension between riders and operators.

"When you eliminate fare payments on the buses, the friction between passengers and the drivers goes away," said Brian Fritsch, associate director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC). "It does create a safer atmosphere for drivers. That has been a sore spot for a number of years."

Brian Fritsch told Fox News Digital that his organization needs to see a more "concrete plan" and determine funding streams for free busing before they take a position on the proposal. Transit analyst Charles Komanoff, who crunched the numbers on Mamdani's free bus idea, backed that up, pointing to past assaults on drivers over fare issues.

"Every year, there’s maybe a dozen cases in which a bus driver is assaulted," Komanoff said. "Presumably that would shrink or maybe disappear entirely if there was no expectation to pay the fare in the first place."

Advocates also lean on data from the city’s recent fare-free bus pilot, rolled out in late 2023 under a state budget mandate. The MTA picked one local route per borough, ditched fares for nearly a year, and brought them back in September 2024.

MTA's review showed ridership jumped on all five routes, about 30 percent on weekdays and closer to 40 percent on weekends. But most of the gains came from current riders making extra trips, not hordes of new users flooding in. The nine-month experiment cost around $12 million in lost fares and extras.

The pilot lays bare the free-transit debate in stark terms: ditching fares can spike usage, but it punches a real hole in the budget and doesn’t magically unleash massive new demand. Expand it citywide, and the cash has to come from taxpayers, Albany, or slashed services elsewhere.New York City is losing close to $1 billion in fare evasion a year. This is roughly the same cost as Mamdani's free and fast bus proposal. However, skeptics say the government must find long-term revenue streams to make fare-free buses successful. Pearlstein argued the pilot still proved free buses are safer and more popular, even if they’re no cure-all.

On affordability, supporters say it would deliver real help to low-income New Yorkers using buses for short, must-do trips.

"Most of the cost of bus operations is already paid for by public subsidies, not by fares," Pearlstein said. "We're collecting several hundred million dollars at the fare box, compared to several billion already invested. What we're replacing is an order of magnitude smaller than what we already raise from other sources."

Komanoff noted most extra trips from free fares wouldn't swap out car rides but would let people take journeys they currently skip.

"We want people to have the basic right to the city," he said.

Supporters add that no fares could shave boarding times and allow all-door loading, modestly speeding things up.

Komanoff's modeling pegged fare-free gains at roughly 7 to 12 percent faster buses. Not revolutionary, but a solid win for daily riders.

"That would be a material improvement in the lives of the two million New Yorkers a day who ride the buses," he said.

Even backers admit speed and reliability trump price every time.

Transit economist Charles Komanoff said he believes Mamdani's bus proposal will essentially generate "free money" via time saved per passenger. "Let’s be clear," Komanoff said. "Making the buses work better, having them be speedier, more reliable, more consistent, is probably more important than making them free. But I think we can do both."

The real killer? Money.

"If there were to be a free bus program, there would need to be some additional revenue coming into the MTA," Fritsch said. "They obviously couldn't just make cuts to make up that loss." Bus fares back MTA's long-term bonds, so scrapping them means reworking financing structures, not just plugging an annual gap.

PCAC has flagged over 20 possible revenue ideas for fare-free buses, but Fritsch stressed the real hurdle is political willpower and city-MTA coordination.

"The mayor has initiatives, the MTA is a state agency," he said. "They need to meet somewhere in the middle."

Komanoff pushed for city taxpayers, not suburban commuters or the MTA, to foot the roughly $800 million annual tab.

"That's not chump change," he said. "But it’s not a game changer for the city’s finances either." Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, spins the funding debate through his ideological filter: make essentials free and accessible by jacking up taxes on corporations and the rich. His platform hammers redistribution and bigger government in daily life, casting fare-free buses as a public right, not a paid service.

Critics call that view naive about real-world operations.

Charlton D'Souza, founding president of Passengers United and a southeast Queens native, fears free buses could set dangerous expectations for a system already short on drivers, plagued by old equipment, and delivering spotty service.

"We don't have enough bus drivers. Trips are not getting filled," D'Souza said. "If you make the buses free, people are going to expect a service."

He flagged accountability and budget risks, citing past cuts in tough times.

"I lived through the 2008 budget cuts," D'Souza continued. "They cut bus routes; they cut subway lines. When elected officials talk, they don't always understand the operational dynamics."

Skeptics question who really wins from universal free fares. It could subsidize folks who don’t need help while starving targeted aid.

"If somebody's making $100,000 or $200,000 and they're getting a free ride, how is that equitable?" D'Souza said, pushing instead to expand the city’s Fair Fares program.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is widely described as a democratic socialist. His campaign materials frame an affordability agenda funded by "taxing corporations & the 1%" and includes other major redistributive goals. 

Critics see free buses as a symptom of a larger slide toward democratic socialism, turning user-fee services into taxpayer-funded entitlements, severing usage from payment, and ballooning government’s grip on daily economics.

Supporters frame it as justice against inequality. Skeptics see a governing philosophy obsessed with redistribution over market sense, risking endless public bailouts.

Still, even wary voices admit Mamdani has moved the needle.

"I liked his positivity, his can-do attitude," Komanoff said, recalling first encountering Mamdani years ago at a rally in favor of congestion pricing. "He didn’t seem stuck in the usual parameters of politics."

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Whether that energy becomes actual policy hinges on nailing down stable cash, fixing operational messes, and getting Albany on board.

For now, Mamdani's free bus dream sits at the crossroads of bold promises and cold math: popular with riders, tempting to advocates, but buried under fiscal and logistical landmines. As Fritsch summed it up: "There's no shortage of ideas. The question is where exactly the money comes from and who actually has the political courage to make it happen."