Violence Against Institutions Is Still Violence

There is a revealing tendency in modern politics to excuse intimidation when it is directed at the "right" targets. The latest incident outside New York City's ICE office is another reminder that political extremism rarely begins with grand acts of terror. It begins with the steady normalization of threats, harassment, and the belief that ideological opponents deserve fear rather than debate.

On Monday morning, a man believed by law enforcement sources to be an anti ICE activist allegedly deployed an incendiary device outside 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan while armed with two airsoft rifles, triggering a federal terrorism investigation.

At least two people were injured after the suspect allegedly "menaced" bystanders with the airsoft rifles, according to MS NOW. Five law enforcement sources told the outlet the suspect appeared to be an anti ICE radical.

Video from the scene showed smoke billowing near the entrance of the federal building as ICE agents, FBI personnel, and other officers rushed outside with weapons drawn. Federal Protective Service officers quickly took the suspect into custody. Authorities shut down the surrounding sidewalk and evacuated the building while investigators secured the area.

According to the FBI, the incident unfolded at approximately 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

"This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza. The individual has been taken into custody and the FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the incident," the FBI said.

FBI Director Kash Patel later confirmed that there were "two minor injuries reported thus far."

Law enforcement sources told MS NOW that the incendiary device consisted of fireworks placed inside a shopping cart, soaked with an accelerant, and then set ablaze.

The New York Police Department also confirmed that a firearm was recovered in connection with the incident, although investigators have not yet established whether it belonged to the suspect or whether it was separate from the reported airsoft rifles.

The choice of location was hardly accidental. Twenty six Federal Plaza houses the New York City Field Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as a federal immigration court. It serves as the operational center for ICE enforcement activities across New York City's five boroughs and numerous surrounding counties.

The attack arrives against the backdrop of increasingly hostile rhetoric surrounding immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security has previously warned of a dramatic rise in attacks targeting ICE officers, reporting a 3,300 percent increase in vehicle assaults during a recent period compared with the previous year.

Whether this case ultimately results in terrorism charges remains for investigators to determine. What is already beyond dispute is that attempts to intimidate public servants through violence represent an assault on the rule of law itself. A society that tolerates politically motivated intimidation because it is directed at unfashionable institutions soon discovers that violence rarely confines itself to one target. Once ideological fanaticism is excused, it has an unfortunate habit of expanding its ambitions.

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Mamdani Discovers Crime Stats Improve Dramatically If You Explain Them Long Enough

New York City Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani found himself taking incoming fire Monday after offering what may become the Left's newest crime-fighting strategy: explaining away bad statistics until everyone forgets why they were worried in the first place. That tactic is known in the military as "baffle them with your bullsht."

During an interview with PIX11 News, Mamdani was asked about concerns over rising rape and felony assault numbers raised by New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin. Rather than promising tougher enforcement or more police, the mayor reached for a familiar progressive comfort blanket, context.

"And what I think is important to know is a lot of the increase in rape also comes from an expanded definition of what counts as rape, as well as survivors coming forward for acts that took place years prior," Mamdani said. "And we are thankful for them coming forward, the courage and the bravery it takes, but just to provide New Yorkers with that context."

Translation: don't believe your lying statistics.

To be fair, Mamdani also pointed out that murders and shootings remain among the lowest on record. Unfortunately for New Yorkers, that reassurance landed about as well as telling someone their apartment fire isn't so bad because the kitchen is still standing.

Even some Democrats were less than thrilled with the explanation.

New York City Council member Susan Zhuang wrote on X, "Expanding the legal definition of rape was an important step toward recognizing more survivors under the law. But it should never be used to deflect from the responsibility to reduce sexual violence. Survivors deserve leadership, action, accountability, and justice. They don’t deserve deflection."

Women's sports advocate Riley Gaines summed up the reaction with a question many were already asking: "HOW did women vote for this guy?"

Rep, Chip Roy (R-TX), offered his own assessment: "Rapes are up. Rents are up. Foreign diseases and parasites spreading. Historic Churches burning left and right. Elect the third world, get the third world."

OutKick founder Clay Travis piled on with, "Sure, New York City rents hit an all time record high today, but at least the mayor is still very eloquent on social medi…whoops!"

RedState writer Bonchie simply observed, "Going great."

Pro-Israel activist Lizzy Savetzky added, "Didn’t realize rape had a dynamic definition."

Substack writer Jim Treacher quipped, "No wonder these guys saw no problem with Platner."

Mamdani's reference to an "expanded definition" appears to point to New York's Rape is Rape Act, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2024. The law broadened the legal definition of rape to include forms of nonconsensual sexual assault beyond vaginal penetration.

That explanation, however, leaves one awkward detail. The law took effect in September 2024, yet the NYPD's latest CompStat report still shows rapes up 6.6 percent compared with the same period last year, well after the legal definition had already changed.

Apparently, in progressive governance, reality is just another statistic waiting for the proper explanation.

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Zohran Mamdani Forced to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday While Wife Finds Better Things To Do At Luxury Islamic Retreat In Spain

Just another disgusting anti-American Communist [allegedly]

Nothing says "Happy 250th, America!" quite like spending Independence Day reminding everyone why America is terrible while your spouse is sipping Mediterranean sunshine at a $3,400 spiritual retreat dedicated to discovering flowers mentioned in the Quran.

As patriotic Americans celebrated the nation's 250th birthday with fireworks, flags, backyard barbecues, and enough red, white, and blue to make an eagle shed a tear, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the occasion to deliver another lecture about capitalism, ICE, and America being an "arena of supremacy."

Meanwhile, his wife, Rama Duwaji, decided that celebrating the country her husband now governs was simply too exhausting. She boarded a flight from Newark Liberty International Airport and headed for the luxurious Spanish island of Mallorca, where she is serving as artist-in-residence for a sold-out Islamic women's retreat.

The exclusive getaway carries a price tag of roughly $3,400 per guest, because apparently spiritual enlightenment is considerably more meaningful when accompanied by Mediterranean views and boutique accommodations.

Participants spend their time exploring "Plants of the Quran" through art, botanical workshops, and Islamic reflection. Duwaji is also scheduled to headline another sold-out retreat later this month in Corsica examining "Mary in the Quran," proving that nothing complements America's birthday quite like being several thousand miles away discussing someone else's religious heritage.

Republican New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola summed up the optics with remarkable restraint.

"Nothing says 'America 250' quite like skipping the celebration for a Mediterranean vacation," Ariola said. "I am not surprised because she has made her hatred for America very evident."

Councilman Frank Morano also questioned the decision.

"It's disappointing that the First Lady chose to be overseas instead of taking part in one of the biggest civic events our city and country will mark this year," Morano said. "No one is saying elected officials and their families can't take vacations, but this was a moment to show up for the city and for the country."

The Mayor's Office declined to answer the criticism directly, though officials did confirm one encouraging detail. Duwaji did not require members of the NYPD security detail to accompany her Mediterranean escape.

The trip also revived interest in Duwaji's previously deleted social media posts, which offered a level of enthusiasm for the United States usually reserved for America's geopolitical rivals.

Among the resurfaced posts was one claiming American soldiers "are not brave" while accusing them of "slaughtering 3rd world civilians" in pursuit of American hegemony. Other deleted posts reportedly praised Palestinian militant organizations and criticized U.S. support for Israel.

Mamdani has argued that his wife should not be judged by those posts because she holds no official position in his administration. Duwaji later apologized for several of the messages, although critics noted that deleting anti-American rhetoric is considerably easier than explaining it.

Back home, the mayor marked America's semiquincentennial from behind George Washington's former desk at New York City Hall. Faced with an opportunity to celebrate the country that has given millions of people unprecedented liberty and prosperity, Mamdani instead chose to focus on everything he believes is wrong with it.

"We see masked agents terrorizing our streets," Mamdani said, referring to ICE officers, while also criticizing what he described as monopolies and oligarchs controlling the nation's wealth.

One can only imagine George Washington listening from the great beyond, wondering whether crossing the Delaware had somehow led to Independence Day becoming an annual grievance seminar.

To his credit, Mamdani eventually concluded with "God bless America," although by then the phrase landed like an obligatory disclaimer after several minutes of cataloging the nation's alleged sins.

The mayor later attended official America 250 celebrations in New York, including the Parade of Sail and the Empire State Building's Fourth of July lighting ceremony.

His wife, meanwhile, remained comfortably overseas, reminding Americans that while millions celebrated the greatest experiment in self-government ever devised, at least one member of New York City's first family apparently found a luxury Mediterranean retreat to be the more compelling destination.

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Penn Station stabbing suspect in custody, at least for now

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

Five commuters were stabbed at New York’s Penn Station late Sunday night in what authorities are calling a “random attack” by a “deranged man,” which in modern New York political terminology means “a vibrant expression of urban diversity.”

The suspect is in custody, at least until the city’s revolving-door justice system remembers that accountability is problematic and decides he deserves a taxpayer-funded second, third, or seventeenth chance, depending on his melatonin level and political affiliation.

The bloody attack has once again raised concerns about public safety in the city, particularly with President Trump scheduled to be directly above Penn Station tonight at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 between the Knicks and Spurs. Apparently, even attending a basketball game in Manhattan now comes with the ambiance of a live-action crime documentary.

Five victims were hospitalized, including one with serious injuries.

The rampage reportedly began shortly after 7 p.m. at the busy Midtown transit hub. According to officials, victims suffered injuries ranging from minor to severe before Amtrak police apprehended the suspect.

An Amtrak spokesperson confirmed the arrest, while stunned commuters posted images online showing police tending to bleeding victims in the station.

 
The New York Times reported that six individuals were stabbed, including the suspect himself, who reportedly suffered “minor injuries,” proving once again that in New York, the criminal often winds up getting nearly as much sympathy as the people he attacked.

New Yorkers also learned from the Daniel Penny saga that intervening to stop violent chaos can be a faster route to prosecution than actually committing the violence. So naturally, most commuters now keep their heads down and pray they are not the next contestant in Gotham’s nightly lottery of urban disorder.

Meanwhile, Democrats continue insisting Americans should abandon their cars and embrace public transit while refusing to address the violent crime, rampant homelessness, untreated mental illness, and general lawlessness that make many people avoid public transit in the first place. 

It's beginning to sound like London's mayor trying to ban knives because they're used in terrorist [Islamist] attacks on Londoners.

Naturally, Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded with the kind of sterile bureaucratic statement that sounds like it was generated by an AI trained entirely on diversity seminar pamphlets.

“I’ve been briefed on the horrific stabbing at Penn Station. Based on the information available right now, six people were stabbed and the alleged perpetrator is in custody following a swift response from the Amtrak Police Department,” he wrote on X. 

He almost added: "My heart goes out to the real victim in this incident, the man who was fed up with the system and went on a stabbing spree."

“My heart is with everyone who was injured, [whatever that actually means] their loved ones, and all those shaken by this unacceptable violence. I’m wishing each of the victims a full and speedy recovery. I’m grateful to the Amtrak Police Department and the first responders who acted quickly to apprehend the suspect and provide emergency care. There are currently no impacts to Amtrak service. My administration is in contact with Amtrak officials as they investigate this incident.”

Noticeably absent from the statement was any serious plan to stop criminals from terrorizing commuters in the first place. But perhaps that would conflict with the Mamdani governing philosophy that crime is less a criminal issue and more a misunderstood form of economic self-expression.

Under the progressive worldview, the real villain is not the guy stabbing strangers at Penn Station. It is apparently “systemic inequity,” “housing insecurity,” or insufficient access to taxpayer-funded artisanal co-ops.

And because this is New York City, there is a very good chance the suspect already has a rap sheet long enough to qualify as serialized fiction. Odds are he has been arrested repeatedly, released repeatedly, and excused repeatedly, all in the name of “equity” and “criminal justice reform.” After all, isn't he the real victim here?

At some point, normal people begin to notice the pattern. The city arrests violent offenders, progressive activists demand compassion, leftist judges release them, politicians hold press conferences, and commuters continue bleeding on subway platforms while the ruling class lectures everyone about the importance of taking mass transit to save the planet.

Maybe this is all a secret plan to lower the planet's population for the sake of the environment. Who knows?

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NYC Mayor Drops $5.2 Million Of Taxpayer Cash On Brand New Socialist Propaganda Office

In a free society, government works for the people. The moment elected officials start funneling public money into operations designed to build political loyalty rather than deliver actual services, that relationship flips on its head. It is the oldest trick in the machine politician playbook. And every generation of Americans seems doomed to relearn the lesson the hard way. 

Here is the question every taxpayer should ask when scanning a city budget: Does this dollar go toward something citizens actually need? 

When the answer turns out to be a brand new office packed with campaign operatives and gift wrapped as civic engagement, you already know something rotten is going on. The numbers just dropped though, and they are worse than anyone expected.

Taxpayers are on the hook for 5.2 million dollars to pay the swollen salaries of the information ministers in socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani new City Hall propaganda bureau. A staggering 175 percent more than first thought, according to the New York Post.

It is barely been open for business for a month, but the Office of Mass Engagement has already seen its headcount balloon 186 percent from 14 to 40, with $5,123,756 earmarked for salaries, according to the city recently released 2027 executive budget.

Read that again. An office that did not exist six months ago has gorged itself to 40 employees and a 5.1 million dollar payroll. With another 26 hires on deck for next year at an average salary of $125,000. 

That is not a typo. For perspective, this single office budget now eclipses what the city allocates to entire agencies like the Board of Corrections and the Office for People with Disabilities. Disabled New Yorkers get less institutional support than the mayor personal propaganda arm. Stunning priorities.

Your tax dollars at work.

Even Democrats can not stomach this one. Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf was blunt: “This is purely politics at a time when real services are needed. We have real deficits and this mayor is spending five million dollars to put 40 political operatives on the payroll. It’s morally incomprehensible… It’s outrageous.”

He went further. “This isn’t for anybody’s benefit but the mayor’s.”

Hard to argue with that when you look at the hiring. The office commissioner, Tascha Van Auken, served as Mamdani campaign field director. He's not a seasoned civil servant, nor a policy expert. Van Auken is merely a campaign operative who's now drawing a city salary. One listed role, a $150,000 campaign style director position, carries a job description virtually indistinguishable from political campaign work. These are loyalists with government email addresses and taxpayer funded paychecks.

From campaign trail to City Hall.

The ideological wiring here runs deep. A $150,000 'deputy director role for co governance'. Yes, that is the actual title. Used language nearly identical to a DSA co chair manifesto called Building Municipal Socialism in New York with DSA. 

Subtle, it is not. The office claims to champion marginalized communities, but critics point out it primarily caters to the mostly white and affluent DSA base that carried Mamdani into office.

The office debut initiative, Organize NYC, deploys staff for door to door canvassing and volunteer recruitment. Tactics ripped directly from the Democratic Socialists of America handbook. And what, exactly, are they organizing around? Rent Guidelines Board hearings tied to the mayor signature rent freeze proposal. City Hall insists the office will not advocate for any specific outcome.  

Yeah, sure. And the canvassers knocking on doors ahead of the mayor top policy vote are just there for the fresh air.

Here is a detail that deserves attention: workers have been canvassing the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn since early May. Missing from the list? Staten Island. The city lone Republican leaning borough. A spokesperson rushed to assure reporters that a borough rep had been hired. Draw your own conclusions.

Zoom out, and the pattern only sharpens. Mamdani has budgeted $51.8 million for the mayor office in 2027. A $7 million jump over his predecessor. His communications staff is expected to be the largest in New York City mayoral history. This is constructing a permanent campaign apparatus with public funds, brick by brick.

Americans who still believe government should be limited, accountable, and focused on serving citizens. Not itself. Need to pay attention to what is happening in New York. When a mayor first instinct in office is to build a multimillion dollar machine to organize political support for his own agenda, he is not expanding democracy. 

He is consolidating power. And every New York taxpayer is footing the bill, whether they signed up for it or not.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Glorious People's Republic of Brooklyn Takes Shape, Backed by Leftist-Islamist Coalition That Swears It's All About the Vibes

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani’s political takeover of New York City was backed by a leftist-Islamist coalition, but abstract ideology only gets you so far. Plenty of the Muslim donors and voters weren’t there just for religious and racial reasons, but they hoped to reap tangible benefits from the move. And that’s where the corruption tends to come in.

Sure, everyone's been distracted by the shiny ‘free grocery store’ promises that now will take 3 years to do, but plans like this may be much closer to where the money is really going as Mamdani proposes massive rezoning of an area that has a large Muslim population. 

The City Planning Commission is referring to its new initiative as the “South of Prospect Plan” and aims to rezone the commercial corridors of McDonald and Coney Island avenues, as well as surrounding blocks, for taller buildings and more housing development.

The blocks currently feature long stretches of single-story businesses, auto body shops and low-rise homes. When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, I could walk to McDonald Ave. and Coney Island Ave. in five minutes. 

Four subway lines connect the neighborhood to Manhattan, and in the coming years, a new light rail line could traverse the area, providing direct access to Queens, making the Brooklyn blocks prime real estate for new housing.

And anyone owning real estate in the area, including the small houses that the mostly Bangladeshi and Pakistani Muslim occupants in the area have settled in, will stand to make tens of millions of dollars. Mazel tov, comrades!

The area south of Prospect Park overlaps with districts represented by Council members Shahana Hanif, Rita Joseph, Farah Louis and Simcha Felder.

Hanif and Joseph each said they support the plan.

Shahana Hanif is a Bangladeshi Muslim councilwoman affiliated with the DSA, and a Mamdani ally who represents the Bangladeshi settler population in the area. Diversity is our strength, especially when it comes with waterfront property values.

I certainly hope the FBI and the DOJ are going to keep a close eye on who profits from this Mamdani plan. Or, knowing how things work in New York, maybe they'll just rename it the "Equity and Inclusion Development Fund" and call it a day.

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Mamdani is to Reagan as AOC is to Einstein

Leave it to the New York comrade mayor Zohran Mamdani to lecture Americans on hardship while taking aim at one of the most popular and economically successful presidents in history.

During a Monday press conference, Mamdani mockingly referenced former President Ronald Reagan’s iconic 1986 quip: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Mamdani, who never ran a real business and is a failed rapper, thought of himself as a master of rhetoric. The dolt replied: “I think nine more terrifying words are actually ‘I worked all day and can’t feed my family.’”

It is a fantasy line, but is completely a figment of his tiny imagination. 

Mamdani is attacking Ronald Reagan, a man whose conservative policies actually rescued the American worker, all while Mamdani practices a brand of fiscal theft today that guarantees future generations will pay the price tomorrow. If you don't believe that, ask the Teachers Union and the veterans from whom he stole money from their retirement funds and military parade funds, respectively.

Let us look at the facts. 

When Reagan took office in 1981, the American economy was being suffocated by Carter-era stagflation, a toxic mix of double-digit inflation and high unemployment. Reagan did not use big-government handouts; he crushed inflation from 13.5 percent down to 4.1 percent. He slashed the astronomical 21.5 percent prime interest rate in half, sparked a 92-month peacetime economic expansion, and oversaw the creation of over 16 million new jobs.

Reagan’s supply-side miracle did not simply help the wealthy; it lifted everyone. Real median family income rose by 12.6 percent, and poverty rates plummeted. Minority communities thrived, with black unemployment at a near all-time low and black-owned businesses expanding by nearly 38 percent.

Aside from bashing Israel, what has Mamdani actually done?

Reagan knew that the American taxpayer did not exist to fund bureaucratic overreach. As he noted in his 1980 GOP acceptance speech, any program representing a theft from their pocketbooks had to go.

Contrast that economic boom with Mamdani’s current high-wire balancing act in New York City. He recently took a rooftop victory lap, boasting that he magically closed a 12 billion dollar budget deficit without resorting to austerity. But take a look under the hood and see that Mamdani’s solution is just a massive shell game of short-term gimmicks and fiscal procrastination.

To patch the hole for fiscal year 2027, the socialist mayor relies on roughly 2.8 billion dollars in one-time measures. He is implementing a punitive pied-a-terre tax and clawing back unincorporated business tax credits that hit self-employed New Yorkers making as little as 142,000 dollars, giving productive citizens an explicit incentive to flee the city. Worse yet, he is extending the amortization period for unfunded pension liabilities, pushing hundreds of millions in city obligations well into the 2030s.

By kicking the pension can down the road and relying on temporary state aid infusions from Albany, Mamdani is not saving New York; he is merely loading up a fiscal time bomb. Fiscal experts note that these gimmicks leave the city dangerously exposed to massive multi-billion-dollar deficits in the years ahead, topping out at an estimated 9.8 billion dollars by 2030. 

Mamdani wants to pretend that he's the champion of the working class. In reality, Reagan’s free-market policies allowed families to feed themselves through dignity and work. Mamdani’s progressive playbook simply steals financial stability from the future to fund big-government hubris today.

And for the bonus round, he and his wife are full-blown anti-Semites.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani's budget cuts come as no surprise

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New York City socialist and anti-Zionist Mayor Zohran "Smiley" Mamdani claimed he will close the city's budget deficit without cutting services. Just like his 'free buses' claim  before he got elected, this too was a lie.

 Mamdani "closed" the deficit by holding back the city's pension payments while taking a bailout from Albany. This wasn't 'taxing the rich,' it was taking the money from hard working New Yorkers. 

His cuts to veterans' services, however, was the most disgusting of all, including events like parades. We veterans called it a "slap in the face," and it shows where the guy's priorities lie: to the Communist agenda.

We're talking a planned cut of a million dollars from veteran services and events like a ticker-tape parade for former military men and women, that we learned about on Wednesday.

If comrade Mamdani's budget goes through, it would be reduced by about $7.6 million in fiscal year 2026 adopted budget to $6.6 million in his 2027 budget he disclosed Tuesday, a reduction of more than 13%, according to city records.

Service-disabled Marine Corps veteran Osbert Orduna referred to the move “a slap in the face” to veterans, especially those living with visible and invisible wounds of war.

This makes perfect sense, of course. Democrats and socialists like Mamdani hate America, and they certainly despise the men and women who sacrificed to protect our nation and the world. In fact, many of them seem to be rooting for Iran to win the war with us.

"There will be endless billions for progressive nonprofits to 'organize' on behalf of the DSA and for useless pet projects and leftist special interests, but our veterans get less in the annual budget than we spend to build a single public toilet. It's a disgrace," Paladino wrote. "My district has the largest number of veterans per capita in the entire city, and my district office hosts the first and only veteran resource center in New York. I meet these men and women every day and my office tries to do everything we can for them, but we're already operating on a shoestring and it's heartbreaking to think we're going to have even less to offer them."

Bronx borough president Vanessa L. Gibson said they will be advocating for a restoration of these funds in the final budget.

"It’s insulting to cut any resources and programs from our veterans and military families for their service and sacrifice to this Nation. I hope this can be reversed," Gibson wrote on X.

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