Dem House Candidate’s 2013 Arrest Resurfaces in Pivotal Race for Control of Congress

MICHIGAN: Democrats looking for the perfect candidate to help them reclaim control of Congress have apparently decided that what their party needs is an environmental activist who once chained himself to industrial equipment, resisted police, and later tweeted, "Defund the Police!"

Enter William Lawrence, co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement and Democratic candidate challenging Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI), in what could be one of the most closely watched House races in America.

Lawrence was arrested in 2013 during a protest against Enbridge Line 5, the 645-mile pipeline carrying crude oil and natural gas between Wisconsin and Ontario through Michigan.

In the spirit of the cretins who glue their hands to roads, Lawrence and several fellow activists chained themselves to machinery in an effort to stop the pipeline. Police eventually had to cut them loose before hauling them away. 

The defendants were charged with trespassing, as well as resisting and obstructing a police officer. According to court documents, Lawrence and three others had to be physically removed from the equipment before being arrested without incident.

In other words, Lawrence's résumé already had everything modern progressive politics requires: activism, arrest, opposition to fossil fuels and a sincere belief that government should be heavily funded, provided the government is not the police.

That last part became particularly interesting in 2020, when Lawrence posted on X, "Defund the Police!"

The following month, he got even more specific, calling for the Lansing, Michigan, police department to be defunded.

But that was then.

Asked about those comments now that he is asking voters to put him in Congress, Lawrence offered a somewhat more nuanced position, a position known as 'walking it back,' or 'flip-flopping.'

"I don't support defunding the police. I follow the lead of first responders and gun violence prevention advocates I have met with here in the district, who support increased funding for youth programs, mental health resources, and community violence intervention, working in collaboration with law enforcement."

So, apparently, "Defund the Police!" has now been upgraded to "Fund Several Things Around the Police." Lawrence thinks the American public is stupid, and anyone who considers voting for him has to fit that definition.

His campaign also emphasized that his conviction has since been expunged under Michigan law, which is certainly convenient when applying for a job that requires voters to inspect your entire political history.

Lawrence has also addressed the arrest himself. In an Instagram video earlier this year, he said he "took a stand" against Enbridge and added, "Was it righteous? Absolutely. Was it wise? Perhaps not." [Is he a dolt? Totally.]

That's a remarkably sophisticated way of saying, "I was absolutely right, although maybe getting arrested over it was not my finest afternoon."

"The fact is, they were back operating that afternoon, while my collaborators and I faced legal consequences for years," he said. "I wouldn't advise you do what I did, but my conviction remains, and you can always count on me to fight for pure Michigan and our water."

Which is reassuring. If elected, Lawrence presumably intends to fight for Michigan's water using the traditional congressional method of introducing legislation rather than chaining himself to the Capitol plumbing.

Lawrence was backed by progressive groups during his primary campaign, although he has since said he has left the Democratic Socialists of America as the general election heats up.

Naturally, that did not stop House Republicans from reminding voters that Lawrence spent considerable time swimming in the deep end of the progressive pool.

"Socialist felon William Lawrence is a radical far-left liberal who puts his extreme climate agenda ahead of common sense and the priorities of hardworking Michiganders. Lawrence’s extreme agenda makes one thing clear: he is far too radical for Mid-Michigan and can’t be trusted to put Michigan families first," NRCC spokesman Zach Bannon said.

Republicans already face an uphill battle to retain control of the House, with history suggesting that the party holding the White House generally takes a beating during midterm elections. But Democrats have their own problem.

Their increasingly energetic march toward the political left has given Republicans a potentially useful campaign strategy: simply reminding voters who some of the Democratic candidates actually are.

Lawrence's primary campaign was an upset victory over establishment-backed candidates Matt Maasdam and Bridget Brink, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Now Lawrence heads into the general election hoping to convince Michigan voters that the man who once chained himself to pipeline equipment is exactly the person they want helping write the nation's laws.

At least he has experience obstructing things.

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Democrat Sends ‘Condolences’ To Hasan Piker After Florida Primary Defeat

WASHINGTON, D.C. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz celebrated defeating Democratic Socialists of America-backed challenger Oliver Larkin by doing something rarely seen in modern Democratic politics: winning an election and then immediately sending his condolences to Hasan Piker.

Moskowitz offered his “condolences” to the far-left, anti-America, anti-Zionist streamer who had enthusiastically backed Moskowitz’s execrable opponent, apparently demonstrating that there are still Democrats who would prefer socialism remain a theoretical concept that works beautifully in countries that somehow still have capitalism to pay for it.

Larkin lost to the more moderate Moskowitz in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, proving that at least some Democratic voters remain reluctant to hand the controls of the American economy to people whose primary qualification is having memorized the word “oppressor.”

The heavily redrawn swing district is expected to be one of roughly two dozen House races that could determine whether Republicans retain their razor-thin majority in the midterm elections.

Naturally, Moskowitz knew exactly whom to thank for his victory.

"My condolences to @hasanthehun," Moskowitz wrote on X with the kind of graduate-level snark normally reserved for academic journals and congressional group chats.

Piker, apparently unable to witness a congressional election without immediately locating Israel somewhere inside it, responded:

"its pretty wild that his first thought was a prominent critic of israel, before even thanking his constituents lmao. really worried about his genocidal emotional support apartheid state."

Piker refused to capitalize Israel, apparently saving his capital letters for more important subjects, such as Islam.

Moskowitz eventually got around to thanking his constituents the following day, along with his wife, children and late father.

"I want to thank the voters of District 25 for continuing to have the faith in me to deliver results for Florida," he wrote. "I want to thank my wife and kids who I have spent a lot of time away from. My dad died of cancer 4 years ago. He would have enjoyed all of this. I miss him. Onward!"

So, to recap: Moskowitz won an election, thanked his voters and family, remembered his deceased father, and then apparently committed the unforgivable political sin of noticing Hasan Piker.

Moskowitz later argued that Democrats should stop treating Piker like the embarrassing relative who arrives at Thanksgiving, insults the host, declares the family business exploitative, and then gets quietly ushered into the garage whenever respectable guests show up.

"Democrats shouldn’t play hide the Piker now," Moskowitz said after his victory, according to Politico Playbook. "For all those people who thought it was a great idea to campaign with him, as Jay-Z once said, ‘Bring ’em out, bring ’em out.’ They shouldn’t be hiding him now."

Piker was not exactly thrilled by the invitation to step into the electoral spotlight.

"I’m genuinely concerned for his mental well-being."

In reality, Piker is not concerned about anyone's mental well-being. He's only concerned with hating on the American people.

"I think he should stop posting on the internet and focus on defeating the Republican in his newly redistricted congressional seat," Piker added.

Apparently, according to Piker, Moskowitz's mental health became endangered somewhere between winning an election and mentioning the guy who campaigned against him.

Moskowitz then called DSA members "anti-American at their core."

This presumably did wonders for the atmosphere at Piker's online headquarters, where the American flag presumably remains classified as hostile propaganda.

Piker has become something of a political flashpoint for Democrats, who are now wrestling with a fascinating strategic dilemma: Should they appeal to ordinary Americans, or should they continue taking electoral advice from a millionaire internet celebrity whose political worldview sometimes sounds like it was assembled from the comment section of a college freshman's TikTok video?

Piker has campaigned with several far-left candidates, including Francesca Hong, who lost her gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has argued that Democrats should include people like Piker because the streamer reaches a large audience. Democratic strategist James Carville, meanwhile, has expressed considerably less enthusiasm about turning the Democratic Party into a group project with Piker.

This leaves Democrats facing the sort of strategic question that political consultants usually charge six figures to avoid answering: Is Hasan Piker an electoral asset, or is he what happens when a campaign accidentally gives the microphone to the internet?

Commentator Kaivan Shroff noted that Piker probably would have been celebrating loudly had Larkin won.

"One of the asymmetries in Democratic politics right now is that when a DSA candidate wins, it is immediately treated as evidence of some enormous ideological realignment in the party," Shroff said. "When a more moderate Democrat wins, there is usually much less hype and almost no corresponding narrative.

"We saw that with David Crowley beating Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, and now Moskowitz has beaten a DSA-backed challenger in Florida," Shroff continued. "Imagine the coverage if the result had gone the other way, and imagine the victory lap Hasan Piker and the online left would be taking right now.

"I actually think there is value in Moskowitz picking this fight," he added. "Piker backed his opponent and made himself part of the race. By going after him publicly, Moskowitz is forcing people to tell the other side of this story, and, frankly, here we are talking about it because he did."

Indeed, Piker's involvement in Democratic politics has produced an electoral strategy that appears to have been designed by someone who believes America is simultaneously an oppressive empire and the most important audience on Earth.

After El-Sayed won his Michigan primary, Piker rejected calls for the candidate to repair relationships with skeptical Democrats ahead of the general election against Republican Mike Rogers.

"Like everyone being like, Abdul has a f--- ton of work to do mending bridges. Here's the f---ing take nuke for you, OK? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s---, OK?" Piker said.

Which is certainly one approach to coalition building.

Nothing says “let's expand the Democratic coalition” quite like immediately informing large portions of the existing coalition that they are human garbage.

And now Piker has another Democratic primary loss to contemplate, along with the horrifying possibility that a Democratic congressman might actually want voters to know who his political allies are.

Moskowitz has apparently decided that if Hasan Piker wants to help Democrats win elections, Democrats should at least have the courtesy to introduce him to the voters.

"Everyone, this is Hasan. He thinks America is terrible, Israel is worse, capitalism is evil, and somehow we're supposed to believe he's helping us win Florida."

The condolences, it seems, were entirely appropriate.

In the strange new world of Democratic politics, apparently the most controversial thing a congressman can do is win an election, thank his constituents, remember his father, and then point out who was rooting for the other guy.

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Curtis Sliwa Tells 9/11 Families to Stop Being ‘Sore Losers’ Over Mamdani

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Apparently, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks now comes with a new rule: You are allowed to remember the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamist terrorists, but apparently not to complain about the Islamist mayor attending the ceremony.

Former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa told relatives of 9/11 victims Thursday to “stop being sore losers” after some families launched a petition urging New York City Mayor, comrade Zohran Mamdani, to stay away from this year’s Ground Zero commemoration.

“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers!” Sliwa told reporters Thursday. “You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was.”

That is certainly one way to put it. 

Some relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have backed a petition asking Mamdani not to attend the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed 2,977 people.

Giovanni Galante, whose 29-year-old wife, Grace Catherine Galante, was killed on 9/11 and who helped organize the petition, accused Mamdani of failing to “meaningfully acknowledge the horror” of the attacks and associating with people who have minimized them. 

[In fact, on the day of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Mamdani's wife, Rama Sawaf Duwaji, like a post from The Slow Factory account that included images from the assault. It showed a bulldozer breaching the Gaza-Israel barrier and terrorists on a captured IDF vehicle. An overlaid text of the image said: "Resisting apartheid since 1948," and "Systemic change for collective liberation." The next day, she like posts from The People's Forum (associated with Times Square protests involving Democratic Socialists of America and their buddies.) These promoted standing with "Palestinian resistance," along with the "from the river to the sea" slogan. In February 2024, after a NY Times investigation into sexual violence during the attack, Duwaji liked a post referring to reports of Hamas rapes as a "mass rape" hoax that was "fabricated" by The Times. Mamdani never condemned his wife's words.]

Cheri Sparacio, whose husband, Thomas, was also killed on 9/11, pointed to Mamdani’s association with left-wing scum-streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11” before having to later apologize.

Mamdani has said he plans to attend the September 11 ceremony anyway, his way of doxing them.

Sliwa, who ran against Mamdani and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the Republican candidate in last year’s mayoral election, said families have every right to dislike the mayor, but apparently the mayoral chair now comes with a complimentary halo.

Sliwa called the petition effort ridiculous. Sliwa is wrong.

“Once he got elected, you should have known he was going to be there at 9/11,” Sliwa said. “Now, if you choose to turn your back on him, I don’t want to ever tell family members what they should be doing on this holiday, not holiday, but this solemn occasion, that’s your choice.

“But I believe you respect the office,” he continued. “He’s the mayor. He’s representing the city.”

Why? Why must we 'respect the office' if the person in office is a socialist-Islamist who apparently plans to ruin the city's economy with his communist ideas? Maybe respecting the office means going after the person who is degrading the office. 

Sliwa also revisited an embarrassing moment from the closing days of the 2025 mayoral campaign involving Cuomo and radio host Sid Rosenberg.

Rosenberg joked with Cuomo, who was running as an independent, that Mamdani would cheer for the terrorists if another September 11 attack occurred while he was mayor. Cuomo chuckled before replying, “That’s another problem.”

Sliwa said the remark hurt Cuomo at precisely the moment when his campaign had begun gaining momentum.

“He was gaining traction, and then he made that stupid remark and then didn’t handle it well,” Sliwa said. “And then Zohran exploited the hell out of it, as he should.”

“That was Islamophobic,” Sliwa added.

So, in the strange political universe of New York City, the 9/11 anniversary has somehow become a referendum on Islamophobia, mayoral etiquette and whether grieving families are sufficiently respectful of the office.

Meanwhile, the families who actually lost loved ones on September 11 apparently get to choose between keeping quiet and being labeled “sore losers.”

What a country. What a crazy take by a guy who's lost my respect.

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Holiday-Hating Socialist Loses Wisconsin Primary After Democrats Decide They Prefer Someone Who Doesn't Want To Cancel Turkey Day

If King Kong married Francesca Hong, she would be Hong Kong

WASHINGTON — In a shocking upset that has left progressive activists wondering how the working class could possibly reject pure socialist purity, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated Democratic socialist/communist Francesca "Dragon Lady" Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night. 

[H/T The New York Post]

This happened despite polls that had confidently predicted Hong would cruise to victory by double digits despite her history of calling for canceling the cops and Thanksgiving.

Crowley’s campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET, a margin of 0.41 percentage points.

Under Wisconsin law, Hong could have requested a recount since she trailed by under one percentage point, but would have had to pay for it since her deficit was greater than 0.25 percentage points. State law does not provide for automatic recounts in close races, which is probably for the best given how progressive math usually works. And besides, she would have probably lost because most people know how suck-worthy socialism is.

Crowley, 40, [no relation to Candy Crowley] was the late choice of Wisconsin’s Democratic establishment after Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez and her predecessor Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race in recent weeks. 

Crowley had initially dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez last month, but re-entered the race in an effort to stop the socialist Hong after Barnes quit. Apparently even Democratic power brokers drew the line at nominating someone who once treated America’s founding holidays like a problematic Instagram post.

“To Francesca [Hong], Kelda [Roys], Joel [Brennan] and every candidate who shared their vision for Wisconsin, thank you. They challenged all of us to think bigger about what our state can become,” Crowley’s campaign manager Garren Randolph said in a statement name-checking his candidate’s primary rivals.

“From day one, this campaign has been about what comes next for Wisconsin: making life more affordable, strengthening our schools, creating good-paying jobs, and making sure opportunity reaches every corner of our state,” he added.“Now, David is focused on bringing people together, earning the support of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and anyone who believes Wisconsin is at its best when we work together and deliver results. David is ready to get back to work, build a broad coalition, and win in November.” 

“Our team campaigned clean, our souls are intact and we really made meaningful change for the progressive movement,” Hong’s campaign manager Becky Cooper said after she conceded, while the candidate herself told supporters Tuesday night in Madison: “We have built something that will change politics forever.” 

Changing politics forever apparently includes losing to a moderate after years of faculty-lounge radicalism. Crowley, who will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany in the November general election, would be the Badger State’s first ever black governor. 

“I am so proud of David; he’s the future of our Party, and I can’t wait for him to be our next governor. For now, we polka. Tomorrow, we’re back at work to win,” outgoing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers wrote on X early Wednesday. [Imagine Crowley doing a polka.]

“Tom Tiffany, we’ll see you in November.” 

Hong, who campaigned on hiking taxes for the rich, was snapped wearing black Air Jordan sneakers with a blue jacket and matching heart-printed socks while casting her ballot on Tuesday. The sneakers can retail online for $300, which is quite the look for a former dishwasher, line cook, and chef who dropped out of the University of Wisconsin and now lectures others about the working class. 

The DSA comrade had in recent weeks found herself backtracking in media interviews from past statements in favor of abolishing police departments and canceling Thanksgiving Day. She even railed against Valentine’s Day. This shows us her brilliance by declaring war on chocolate, flowers and love.

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“Police exist to uphold white supremacy,” the dolt had posted on Twitter, now X, in October 2021. “Defund then abolish. Reform can’t be an option.”

The year before, the Mensa wannabe had also posted, “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” in a now-deleted tweet. She’s since disavowed both of those statements. “I’ve cooked many great Thanksgiving dinners,” she told CBS News ahead of the primary election, “and I’m not going to cancel Thanksgiving.” Sure. If she had won, what would stop her?

Critics in both Republican and Democratic circles expressed concerns that Hong’s past radical comments and policies would spell trouble for her in the November general election, at least for now, as history has shown us, the Democrats keep moving farther and farther to the extreme left once they get in power.

Two of the biggest socialist-communist in US politics, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Commie-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Commie-NY), kept their distance from Hong after campaigning hard for far-left America-hating, anti-Semite, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ahead of his primary win last week in nearby Michigan.

“She is a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica,” wrote ex-Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod of Hong in an X post last week. 

“This tweet is a perfect example of why the consultant class keeps losing elections,” responded comrade Dragon Lady. “They’re totally clueless, and they’re hellbent on keeping working-class people out of politics. I’ve spent more time in kitchens than faculty lounges. Perhaps you’d like to come to Wisconsin and work a Friday night dinner rush with me?” she taunted. [Her famous Chinese-style dish named in honor of Joe Biden, Sum Dum Fak is so good that people crap their pants over it.]

Crowley deftly positioned himself in the moderate lane, telling reporters Monday: “There are a lot of people who are scared. She is a self-proclaimed socialist. There are a lot of people worried about not just this party, but this country moving in that direction,” he added. 

Crowley had reminded Wisconsin Democrats a day earlier: “Our ultimate goal is to make sure we don’t have a MAGA extremist occupying the governor’s office.” 

In an interview with Politico Friday, Evers wouldn’t commit to backing Hong if she won the primary. “I want to have a chance to take a breath, and once that’s in a position, we’ll see,” he said, adding: “But I anticipate that David will win.” 

In other primary results that somehow failed to feature holiday cancellation as a core platform: In South Carolina, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone and Rep. Ralph Norman advanced to a special Aug. 25 runoff to determine who will receive the Republican nomination for Senate following the death last month of Darline’s brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham. 

Minnesota voters will elect their first female governor in November, as Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Republican state House Speaker Lisa DeMuth won their respective primaries. Progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig to win the Democratic nomination for US Senate and will take on Republican Michele Tafoya, a former Emmy-winning NFL sideline reporter. 

In Connecticut, 78-year-old Democratic Rep. John Larson, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1998, lost his primary to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, 46.

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Socialist Mayor Mamdani booed off the stage in a New York minute: gets instant karma in Staten Island

New York City’s freshly minted socialist, comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up to a massive pro-police celebration on Staten Island thinking the working-class crowd would greet him like a conquering hero. 

Fat chance.

Instead, 3,500 residents and families treated him like the defund-the-police enthusiast he has always been and the result was that in under a minute of incoherent taqiyya mumbling, the crowd drowned him out with pure, unfiltered American 'eff off.'

Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, anti-Semite, who spent years treating cops like the enemy, stepped up to the microphone at the NYPD’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime. He barely got out a greeting before the boos, jeers, and chants of “get out of here” and “nobody wants you” turned the stage into his personal walk of shame. 

He tried to power through but the crowd refused to let up and bow down to his nonsense.

Eventually the commie mayor clutched his heart in that signature performative Islamic-like gesture, waved like a beauty pageant contestant who just lost, and fled the stage still smiling as if the entire humiliation was some kind of progressive victory lap. This was what can only be described as a major dork performance and embarrassment. 

The audience kept right on booing and shaking fists while organizers desperately tried to restore order. Conservative voices wasted no time celebrating the moment of clarity. Pundit Eric Daugherty summed it up perfectly: the mayor was “VICIOUSLY booed and jeered off stage” and “walked off in SHAME.” 

Commentator Joey Mannarino added the necessary realism: “New York’s communist mayor just got the reception he actually deserves.” 

The same cops and taxpayers this DSA scumcrumpet spent years vilifying and trying to defund finally told him exactly where he could stick his soft-on-crime agenda. 

Staten Island, unofficially known as the last remaining pocket of common sense in the five boroughs, saw right through the act. This was not some random outburst because everyone with eyes and ears knows how Mamdani’s entire political brand has been built on treating law enforcement like the problem. His campaign embraced the defund movement. His first budget sliced police funding and scrapped plans to hire 5,000 new officers. 

New York City Police Department Chief of Department Michael LiPetri attends the
National Night Out Against Crime at Restoration Plaza. (Getty Images)

Then came “Snowballgate,” the February incident where roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with ice projectiles, injuring two. Mamdani’s response was to minimize the dickwads behavior by calling them “kids” having a playful snowball fight and carefully avoid any suggestion that assaulting cops might actually be illegal. If you saw the video of the incident, you'd immediately know that this wasn't a freaking snowball fight but an attack on police. 

Crime expert Rafael Mangual noted the obvious: the mayor refused to back the NYPD or call for prosecutions. The message was clear. Officers are the bad guys. Violent mobs are simply energetic youth.

So when the same commie mayor waltzed into a National Night Out Against Crime event expecting applause, Staten Island delivered the only logical response. The people who actually live with the consequences of progressive soft-on-crime policies decided they had heard enough. No amount of hand-over-heart theatrics could paper over years of anti-police rhetoric. The crowd simply exercised their right to free speech and informed the mayor that his particular brand of socialism has no constituency among the people who still believe cops should be allowed to do their jobs.

In the end, Mamdani left the stage to sustained mockery while the rest of the city continues to deal with the real-world results of his bs ideology. High crime, declining quality of life, and a police force under constant political assault do not magically disappear because a socialist mayor smiles through the boos. 

Staten Island just made that point louder and clearer than any policy paper ever could. God bless the people who still refuse to pretend otherwise.

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AOC Warns America Could Be Invaded By Reading Section She Didn't Read

On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Commie (Comrade-NY) once again reminded Americans that confidence and comprehension are not necessarily traveling companions.

The latest episode began after the Bronx-born, Yorktown Heights raised, socialist took to social media to denounce the pending National Defense Authorization Act. She declared that one provision in the bill was an “existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy” that would “merge parts of our military with the IDF.”

Unfortunately, she is a dolt. The actual legislation refused to cooperate with her interpretation.

Within hours, critics, lawmakers, and legal experts pointed out that Section 219 has nothing to do with AOC's verbiage.

Rather than placing American troops under Israeli command or having Marines report to Tel Aviv before breakfast, the provision simply formalizes ongoing cooperation between the United States and Israel on research, technology development, missile defense, artificial intelligence, and counter drone systems. Let me say that important word again: COOPERATION.

In other words, it describes the sort of defense partnership Washington has maintained with allies for years, making it a rather disappointing script for those hoping for an international military takeover.

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin suggested the New York Democrat spend less time inventing geopolitical thrillers and more time brushing up on reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was even less charitable. “Good grief, you are either obtuse or intentionally lying,” he wrote on X.

Legal scholars also struggled to locate the imaginary constitutional apocalypse AOC described. They noted that joint defense projects such as Iron Dome and David's Sling have been staples of U.S. policy for decades under bipartisan administrations, including laws signed by former President Barack Obama. As constitutional crises go, Congress passing legislation through Congress ranked surprisingly low on their list.

For longtime observers, the episode felt less like breaking news and more like a rerun. AOC has repeatedly delivered sweeping pronouncements about Israel before discovering that the facts stubbornly refuse to endorse them.

Her most memorable performance came during a 2018 appearance on Firing Line, where she labeled Israel "occupiers" before admitting she was “not the expert on geopolitics” after being asked to explain the issue.

Since then, she has continued courting her activist base with increasingly uncompromising positions, including promising at a Democratic Socialists of America forum never to support military aid to Israel, even defensive systems like Iron Dome that exist to intercept rockets aimed at civilians.

By week's end, Americans were once again left wondering whether AOC's greatest legislative talent is transforming routine defense cooperation into an Avengers crossover event. The only thing that actually merged was another social media panic with another elementary misunderstanding of the bill she was criticizing.

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Cori Bush's Comeback Tour Features Maoist Who Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Politics is often described as the art of strange alliances, but former Rep. Cori Bush has apparently decided subtlety is overrated. Her campaign trail now includes a self described Maoist anti-Semite scumwafer who openly defends Hamas and Hezbollah, cheers the desecration of the American flag, talks about "unmaking" America, and casually wonders, "What's wrong with throwing molotovs at a police station?" 

Apparently the only thing missing from the résumé was "villain in an 80s action movie."

Bush, who is trying to reclaim Missouri's 1st Congressional District after voters showed her the exit, recently appeared at a campaign event standing beside Christopher Winston, better known online as "BlackRedGuard." Winston has spent years posting revolutionary rhetoric that makes the average college radical sound like Fred Rogers.

Among his greatest hits, Winston mocked leftists who distance themselves from terrorist groups, all while not actually participating in terrorist activities himself because he's a coward.

"If you say sh-- like 'I don't support Hezbollah/Hamas' and call yourself a leftist you lame. All power to all the resistance. Peace through the sword."

That is certainly one way to test the limits of the phrase "mostly peaceful."

Winston has also declared, "Do not fix America. Unmake it." Because rebuilding a nation from scratch has worked out so well every other time Maoists have tried it.

Not content with merely rooting against America, Winston also celebrated attacks on one of its most recognizable symbols.

"I applaud the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of the slavery and genocide which built America. It should always be desecrated in that way." Obviously he's a fool who refuses to acknowledge how slavery was abolished in America, while much of it still goes on in the Middle East while he refuses to discuss that tidbit.

Perhaps the most unintentionally hilarious moment came during a 2024 interview when the dangerous dolt was asked why a committed Maoist would bother hanging around the Democratic Socialists of America.

His answer skipped the usual talking points about organizing and solidarity.

"Well, it's obvious why I'm a Maoist in the DSA. There's a lot of naive young white people to brainwash."

It is rare to hear someone describe the progressive recruitment strategy with such refreshing honesty.

When the discussion turned to political violence, Winston asked:

"What's wrong with throwing molotovs at a police station?" As long as someone else does the molotov chucking.

A cohost nervously suggested that might destroy the organization. Winston's response was even more revealing. 

"That's why we want the masses to do it."

Most political campaigns ask volunteers to knock on doors. This one apparently prefers firebombing tutorials.

Cori Bush's campaign had an opportunity to explain Winston's role, whether he was invited, or whether she even knows him. Instead, it responded by sending reporters a Fox News story about Joy Behar defending democratic socialism, apparently hoping everyone would become distracted before asking follow up questions.

Winston's admiration for Bush has hardly been a secret.

"Yeah, I'm a Maoist ultra with dreams of riding into power on a tank like Fidel and Che but in the meantime Cori Bush is the best congressperson right now and we need to back her."

It takes genuine talent to make "I'll settle for Cori Bush until the communist revolution arrives" sound like a campaign endorsement. He might as well have said, "You can hold your nose and pull the lever as long as you vote for Bush."

Bush's orbit has also included anti Israel activists, defund the police advocates, and organizations linked to some of the most radical elements of the American left. At this point, finding another extremist attached to the campaign is about as surprising as finding a pink-hair vegan at a Whole Foods.

The truly absurd part is that none of this appears to be a deal breaker for the activist class. 

Imagine the media reaction if a Republican candidate posed beside someone praising political violence or openly admitting he wanted to brainwash young people. Every cable network would interrupt programming with a weeklong democracy emergency.

Instead, Bush campaigns beside a Maoist who defends terrorist groups, applauds flag burning, jokes about Molotov cocktails, and literally says he joined the DSA because there are "a lot of naive young white people to brainwash."

The remarkable part is not that he said it. The remarkable part is that everyone around him seems to have nodded politely and kept handing out campaign signs like useful idiots

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Communist candidate runs out of live interview when asked about her social media history, wins nomination anyway

Newly minted socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier dramatically walked out of a radio interview Tuesday after hosts had the audacity to ask her about the mountain of unhinged social media posts that have defined her campaign against New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

Just hours after bolting from the live Spanish-language station La Mega like a student fleeing a pop quiz, Comrade Avila Chevalier pulled off a stunning upset by defeating the five-term incumbent and Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair in New York's deep-blue 13th District, which covers chunks of Manhattan and the Bronx. 

The win sends this DSA darling straight to Congress, where she will almost certainly be sworn in come November to represent the very voters she once lectured about the evils of nationalism.

Backed by socialist anti-Zionist/anti-Semitist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists [aka Communists] of America, Avila Chevalier had zero interest in answering questions on primary Election Day about her colorful history of archived, now-deleted posts. Those greatest hits include trashing Democratic leaders, demanding the abolition of police and prisons, opposing all deportations, and hurling various rhetorical grenades at U.S. institutions and foreign policy. Other than that, she's as sweet as apple pie.

Oh, wait. 

She also spearheaded anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and hung around with a campus crew that openly cheered "Death to America." Because nothing says "future congresswoman" than calling for the death of the nation in which you choose to run for public office.

The backlash reached new heights over her bizarre takes on Dominican nationalism. 

In old posts, she refused to fly the Dominican flag on her profile because, unlike calling for death to America, she considered nationalism "violent." This landed especially well in her heavily Dominican-American district, where locals began wondering if their candidate actually likes the culture she wants to represent.

When radio hosts tried to give her a chance to address the Dominican community before polls closed, Avila Chevalier pivoted straight into unity mode. She said she felt bad about her old tweets in a general, non-specific way and that it was time to come together and fight for the important things. Pressed on the flag controversy, she insisted she wanted to talk about "the issues impacting residents of New York 13" instead. When a third host kept pushing, she snapped that she was not going to sit there and be yelled at, declared she had already addressed it, wished everyone a beautiful day, yanked off her headphones, and marched out of the studio.

Truth being, she was scared to deal with her own words.

The old social media dumpster fire has been the central drama of the Democratic primary, with Avila Chevalier claiming the scrutiny distracts from the real issues and insisting she has evolved since posting all that stuff. She has apologized for some of the rhetoric, including shots at former Vice President Kamala Harris, but she still proudly defends her belief that "all deportations are wrong." Opponents have pointed out that this might be a problem for voters who prefer not having open borders as official policy.

In the end, none of it mattered much in one of America's bluest districts. The controversy simply tested whether voters would overlook a trail of radical statements in favor of fresh socialist promises. They did. Congratulations to the newest member of Congress. America surely cannot wait, and will get what they voted for . . . good and hard.

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DSA's Chilling Demands for Their Anti-Israel Puppet Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Boycott, Divest, and Arrest Netanyahu on Sight

"Smiley Z" 

If you thought the Democratic Socialists of America's takeover of New York City couldn't get any more unhinged, buckle up. Leaked docs reveal the Big Apple's DSA chapter is gearing up to strong-arm incoming Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani into shoving a toxic, Israel-loathing agenda down the throats of every hardworking New Yorker.

Tucked into the NYC-DSA's so-called "Anti-War Working Group" manifesto, a laundry list of 12 fever-dream "demands" for their handpicked mayor, is a full-throated call to slash every city contract with any company daring to do business with Israel. Oh, and let's not forget yanking all city funds from banks that have the audacity to lend a dime to the Jewish state. If there was no law against beheading Jews, well, figure it out.

This bombshell planning doc, first blown open by Just The News, was peddled at their November 2 public powwow, showing the DSA's been scheming since at least late September to lock in Mamdani's allegiance to their jihad against Israel once he swears in come January, and make sure he doesn't wimp out under "Zionist pressure."

The Democratic Socialists of America have big plans for card-carrying NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, especially when it comes to pushing its extreme, Israel-hating views on New Yorkers. NYC-DSA/ Instagram

The rest of this socialist fever dream? It's a greatest-hits of anti-Israel lunacy that'll make your blood boil:

Divesting city pensions from Israeli bonds and securities.

Banning Israeli products from the city-run grocery stores Mamdani wants to open.

Investigating real estate agents “hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank.”

Stripping tax-exempt nonprofit status from entities that raise funds for the Israel Defense Forces.

End the NYPD’s training with Israeli Occupation Forces.

Arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for “war crimes” if they enter the Big Apple.

Dismantle an NYC-Israel Economic Council formed by outgoing Mayor Adams.Mamdani, the unapologetic cheerleader for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) wrecking crew, won't even pretend to soften his core belief that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. And don't get him started—or do—on refusing to denounce "globalize the intifada," the bloodthirsty slogan that's code for wiping Israel off the map. Dennis A. Clark“Well at least the DSA mask is off,” said state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew. “This was never about affordability, free buses or anything else. This was always about Jew hatred.

“With every municipal issue facing New York City’s government, the DSA doesn’t care about the state of our schools, streets, parks, subways, city budget or anything else. They care about Israel — Israel and only Israel.

“At least now they can stop trying to deny their antisemitism; most New Yorkers aren’t stupid,” said Yeger.Mamdani's dad, Mahmood Mamdani, perches on an advisory board that's made a cottage industry out of screeching "genocide" at the Jewish state. Campaigning? Sure, Zohran sprinkled some antisemitism condemnations like fairy dust while schmoozing Jewish leaders for votes. But it's all smoke, pure theater from a guy who's been marinating in this hate his whole life.

NYC-DSA’s “Anti-War Working Group” listed a dozen “demands” for the incoming Mamdani administration.

Enter Alicia Singham Goodwin, niece of China-loving Marxist moneybags Neville "Roy" Singham, who's the political puppet-master at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. They rolled out a "Jews for Zohran" whitewash back in January, handing Mamdani a get-out-of-antisemitism-jail-free card, as The Post exposed in July.

But here's the kicker: He’s refused to budge on his longtime stance that Israel shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state or condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” that calls for the destruction of Israel.

“Well at least the DSA mask is off,” said state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew. “This was never about affordability, free buses or anything else. This was always about Jew hatred.” Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) isn't mincing words, calling out "Comrade Zohran" as the ultimate "radical DSA puppet" after poring over these docs.

“It was always obvious that he would carry the will of the most radical among us to the highest seat of power in our city,” she said. “Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.”

Mamdani and his DSA overlords? Crickets on requests for comment. Shocker. New Yorkers, brace yourselves—this is the red-flag circus coming to City Hall.

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Linda SarSour will ensure Mamdani follows her directions if elected

In the grand bazaar of American identity politics, where the stalls overflow with grievances and the currency is unyielding entitlement, few figures peddle their wares with quite the fervor of the execrable Linda Sarsour. 

This Palestinian-American activist, ever the vigilant sentinel of the progressive faith, has taken to the digital airwaves to issue a stern admonition to her protégé, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America's anointed contender for New York City's mayoral throne. Should he triumph on Election Day, she promises, there will be no complacency in the ranks of his supporters. No, they shall not "let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall." 

Instead, Sarsour and her anti-Semitic cronies will loiter perpetually on the steps of that venerable edifice, transformed into a sort of ideological praetorian guard, ensuring their jihadi toes the line on promises as radical as they are risible.

Picture this: a Saturday night Instagram livestream, captured by Fox News Digital, where sourpuss Sarsour addresses her flock with the solemnity of a commissar briefing the apparatchiks. "I just want you all to know I'm not going to work for the Zohran administration," she claims, as if preempting some imagined descent into bureaucratic sinecure. "I'm not going to work in City Hall, because, guess what? There gotta be people like me willing to stay outside." 

Ah, the romance of the outsider; the eternal revolutionary who thrives on the periphery, forever threatening the storming of the Winter Palace, even as their chosen one occupies it. "Our friends on the inside need people on the outside to hold them accountable. To say, 'We see you. We're paying attention.'"

This is a thinly veiled warning, laced with the unmistakable stench of leverage. Mamdani, after all, owes much to Sarsour's mentorship. A fellow traveler in the Democratic Socialists of America, [a group of socialists who are not so quietly infiltrating the Democratic Party while hating them] he first crossed paths with her in 2017, pounding the pavement alongside her for the doomed candidacy of Khader El-Yateem, another jihadi DSA darling. 

Soon after, Mamdani ascended to the board of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, co-founded by comrade Sarsour herself. She was there at the cradle of his Assembly victory and the launch of his mayoral bid, a spectral godmother whispering incantations of solidarity. Now, as MPower Action, the political nonprofit she co-chairs, marshals a coalition of 110 groups, from labor unions to Muslim and South Asian outfits, all bent on crowning the city's first Muslim mayor, the bill has come due.

Sarsour's ire, it transpires, fixates on one overt particular pledge: the evisceration of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group, that elite unit forged in 2015 to confront terrorism, riots, and the more boisterous strains of protest. Insofar as the, you know, Jews are concerned, I guess we'll see how many will need to flee the city to save their skin.

Mamdani has pledged the NYPD's disbandment, even as he murmurs sweet nothings [i.e., taqiyya] about retaining Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, a choice that drew Sarsour's pursed-lip disapproval. "I wasn't really happy about the news that he was going to keep Tisch on for the NYPD," she confesses in the stream. Yet she tempers her discontent with a reminder of the pecking order: "What's most important is that in New York City, the police commissioner works for the mayor. They are not a separate elected official. So that means if Zohran says to Tisch, 'You gotta do A-B-C,' Tisch gotta do what the mayor says." Should Tisch demur, the mob outside will duly descend: "Now, if she doesn't do that and goes against the mayor, then that's when we're going to have to go to Zohran and be like, 'You definitely made the wrong decision here. What are you going to do to hold your police commissioner accountable to the plan?'"

Hitler salute? 

One cannot help but marvel at the choreography here, the way Mamdani's campaign pirouettes between invocations of his Muslim heritage and a studied avoidance of anything so gauche as overt sectarianism. Sarsour, ever the apologist, dismisses any suggestion that faith is the fulcrum: "Our candidate is out there and just happens to be a Muslim," she insists. His pro-Palestine fervor? Conspicuously holstered. "None of the campaign was ever like ‘Free Palestine’ or the Muslims are going to get extra rights. It just happens to be something that's part of who Zohran is. But that's actually not been his campaign." 

How convenient, this selective amnesia, especially when one recalls the protests that have convulsed New York since Hamas's barbaric incursion on October 7, 2023, demonstrations policed by the very unit Mamdani and Sarsour now seek to consign to history's dustbin. Both have marched in those ranks, their chants echoing off the canyons of Manhattan.

And yet, for all the talk of accountability, Sarsour's rhetoric occasionally cracks open to reveal the fissures in this improbable alliance. Mamdani's coalition, after all, marries the DSA's Marxist zeal to the firebrand sermons of figures like Siraj Wahhaj, the cleric who once vouched for the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 

"You can't be a Marxist and a jihadist and an Islamist and a fundamental Muslim, or whatever they call him, all at the same time," Sarsour concedes with a wry shake of the head. "You gotta pick a side. Either we're theocrats or we're leftists. Like these things don't go together." A rare moment of candor in a movement that prides itself on such contradictions, tacitly nodding to the messaging triumph of blending red banners with green crescents.

Come inauguration day in January, "Inshallah," as Sarsour invokes with pious flourish, dreaming of a "new type of politics," the mayor-elect will find his view from City Hall obstructed not by pigeons, but by the expectant faces of his benefactors. "When Zohran gets inaugurated in January, and as we move forward with this mayor, we have to be the people outside," she urges.

"Zohran is going to have to tell his own critics that are on the other side to basically say, ‘Look out that window, those people outside, these constituents, these activists, these organizers that are outside, I'm accountable to them, because they're the ones that helped me get there.’" And should he falter? "When he does something when he's in City Hall and he's wrong, I'm going to tell him he's wrong." After all, as she reminds her audience, "Voting for Zohran is not, 'We're going to vote for Zohran and just let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.' Our job as a movement is we have to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable."

In this tableau, one glimpses the inexorable logic of the activist state: power is not an end, but a means to perpetual agitation. Mamdani may wear the mayoral chain, but the true governors will be those rattling the gates below, their demands as unyielding as the Brooklyn Bridge. Whether New Yorkers, wearied by riots and radicalism, will indulge this shadow governance remains the gamble of the hour. But if history is any guide, the house always wins, at least until the next election, or the next conflagration.

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