WELL SAID:
Comparing a socialist politician to Jackie Robinson is a profound insult to history and courage. Robinson faced down real hate to prove a man should be judged on merit. The modern left elevates politicians who demand people be judged by their group. This isn't progress, it's…
— Kentucky (@KentuckyKOT) October 28, 2025
SAY, I’M BEGINNING TO BELIEVE THIS MAMDANI FELLA MAY HAVE JUST A TWINGE OF ANTISEMITISM TO HIM: Zohran Mamdani made vile, conspiracy-tinged statement tying NYPD to IDF, resurfaced video shows.
Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once made a vile, conspiracy-tinged statement tying the NYPD and the Israeli military, according to a shocking video that resurfaced Tuesday.
“We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF,” the Queens assemblyman said, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
Mamdani made the comparison during the 2023 Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention, where he was the keynote speaker.
During a separate panel discussion titled “Socialist Internationalism: The Solution to the Crisis of Capitalism,” Mamdani said it was important to connect “hyperlocal” and “international issues” with residents.
“We are in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here,” he said..
“For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them connected,” he continued. “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
Good and hard, Fun City:
Yeah, he's an antisemite.
The theory that all evil in your world ultimately traces back to the Jews – that's what antisemitism is. https://t.co/Xq3aH3E8ad
— Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) October 28, 2025
Related: Imagine That — Actions Have Consequences.
If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City, Republicans plan to highlight that fact in their midterm campaigns against Democratic lawmakers nationwide.
That entirely unremarkable observation is the subject of an item in Axios in which the GOP is accused of plotting to “weaponize” New York City Democrats’ voting preferences, which, we should observe, consists entirely of noticing them.
For years, says reporter Kate Santaliz in her scandalized dispatch, the GOP has made former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi into a “bogeywoman.” Her capacity to “rile up the base” was unrivaled. But with her diminished role, “GOP strategists are testing new symbols of the party’s left, and hope Mamdani will fill that void.”
Evergreen:
CORN, POPPED: House Oversight Nixes Biden Autopen, Refers to DOJ. “But there are at least three reasons not to pop all your corn at once.”
THREAD:
One more thing: The dearth of jobs for Humanities majors was masked for about a decade by an explosion in dubious HR jobs focused on DEI, perfect for, say, an anthropology major with an interest in trans rights. No one's hiring for that anymore, and people who had those jobs are… https://t.co/AMkdn6aJ5b
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) October 27, 2025
CHIPS ARE HARD: China Tries To Backward Engineer ASML Stepper, Wrecks It. “The fact that they couldn’t get the machine back together correctly rather belies the idea that China has world-class semiconductor technical knowledge.”
Read the whole thing.
SCHADENFREUDELICIOUS: Bari Weiss Sharpening Her Axe for ’60 Minutes’ Crew. “This is the same 60 Minutes that had to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump earlier this year to the tune of $16 million, after the ‘news’ program edited a campaign interview with Vice President Kamala Harris to make one of her infamous word-salad answers make sense. Edited? Did I write ‘edited?’ 60 Minutes hacked that answer with an axe like it was a half-naked teen in a slasher movie.”
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MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump-haters’ White House ballroom tantrums get even more ridiculous. Best quote: “It’s like the media is a cat and Trump has the world’s biggest laser pointer.”
BEEF PRICES ARE OUTRAGEOUS: Political peril spurs Trump to act on beef prices even as ranchers rage.
The near-term solution to boost supply — plans to purchase 80,000 metric tons of beef from Argentina, quadruple the typical quota — has spurred intense backlash from farm-state Republicans and agriculture industry groups who have felt burned by several Trump administration policies in recent months.
But Trump’s election was fueled, in part, by Americans’ concerns over high costs, an issue the president often hammered on the campaign trail as he promised food prices would fall if he returned to the White House. Ten months in, Trump and his top aides are scrambling to keep the campaign pledge, calculating that in the short-term it’s worth antagonizing ranchers, a loyal GOP constituency that benefits from elevated beef prices, if they can bring down costs for consumers.
“It’s kind of like eggs, part two,” said one person close to the Trump administration, who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. “This all kind of started with just concern over consumer prices.”
The average price for a pound of ground beef is $6.32, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
More trade with a friendly, liberty-loving nation like Milei’s Argentina seems like a no-brainer.
IT ENCOURAGES BEARS TO AVOID PEOPLE, TOO:
The success rate for bear hunters in Pennsylvania it's about 5 percent per the @PAGameComm however that doesn't stop thousands of hunters to head up to bear camp every year as tradition, mutual dependence & a profound connection to nature draw hunters to the challenging nature of… pic.twitter.com/6lLztXpaTw
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 28, 2025
Related: Bears, Boston and the Gods of the Copybook Headings.
I’M SO OLD, I STILL REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS AT LEAST PRETENDED TO BE THE PARTY OF COMPASSION: Chicago Mayor on Illegal Alien Rapist: ‘Let’s Move On.’
That makes me kinda old, actually.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Why I no longer engage with Nature publishing group.
Dear Dr. Kuttner:
I am writing in response to your invitation to review the manuscript titled “Large circular dichroism in the total photoemission yield of free chiral nanoparticles created by a pure electric dipole effect” submitted for publication in Nature Communications.
Although the topic is within my field of expertise and I would normally welcome the opportunity to contribute to peer review, I must decline. Furthermore, I have decided not to engage with journals belonging to the Nature group in any professional capacity in the future because the group has adopted policies and practices that are incompatible with the mission of a scientific publisher.
Scientific publishers play a key role in the production of knowledge — they are a pillar of what Jonathan Rauch has termed the “the Constitution of Knowledge” (Rauch, 2025). The role of the publisher is to be an epistemic funnel: it accepts claims to truth at one end, but permits only those that withstand organized scrutiny to emerge from the other, a function traditionally performed by a rigorous peer-review and editorial process. This process should be guided by scientific rigor and a commitment to finding objective truth.
Unfortunately, the Nature group has abandoned its mission in favor of advancing a social justice agenda.
Much more at the link — and now do Scientific American.
NEW VERB: To Bukele a Problem.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dem 2028 Speculation Is Entertaining Political Theater. “Yes, the 2028 presidential election is a long way off and we still have midterms to deal with more than a year from now. I also have never been a big fan of election speculation this far out, but the Democrats are struggling right now and I’m rather enjoying it. Things won’t always be this way, so I’m going to revel in their misery while I can.”
YOU DON’T SAY: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns.
Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described “white liberals” while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group’s report shared first with Semafor.
The group, called Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.” Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.” (Welcome began as a PAC in 2022, then founded a nonprofit with the same name for political research.)
Elected Democrats will receive copies of the report after its Monday publication, followed by events to promote it in DC and New York. The report urges party members to abandon some of the progressive language about race, abortion, and LGBTQ issues that Democrats began using after the 2012 election — and recommends the nomination of more candidates willing to vote with Republicans on conservative immigration and crime bills.
That’s probably solid advice, and nothing Bill Clinton didn’t run on in 1992. But it comes from the same people saying things like this further down in the report:
The report doesn’t urge Democrats to move fully to the right, reserving vocal praise for several progressive stars in the party with a more direct appeal to economic opportunity and lower cost of living.
“We have much to learn from the relentless focus of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani” on those fronts, the authors write.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani — the moderate faces of the New Democratic Party!
NONPROFIT REFORM IS ESSENTIAL:
If you look at the crumbling policies that destroy blue cities it’s directly traceable to the rapidly growing nonprofit industrial complex https://t.co/Zu5bwbics1
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) October 27, 2025
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: UK Muslim Tells UK Progressive This Brutal Truth. “This is where things get complicated, right before they get funny, which comes a short (?) while before the inevitable bloodshed.”
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DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE:
Fake News MSNBC: "I don't think any Democrat has called Trump Hitler…"
Here are two minutes straight of Democrat leaders comparing Trump to Hitler and Nazis 👇 pic.twitter.com/vQx3K3D1UN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 27, 2025
And such ranting is Godwin-approved, alas: Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
Scott Adams last month: Why Did People Think They Could Cheer Charlie Kirk’s Murder Without Consequences?
There are numerous stories of teachers and people associated with schools who are getting canceled—meaning fired—for saying horrible things: essentially being happy, or saying it was justified, that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. What do you think about that? People are losing their jobs all over the place.
Well, let me tell you the thing that is most shocking about that. The most shocking thing is that the people who spoke out that way believed they wouldn’t get fired. I think they were all surprised, which means they’ve been living entirely within a bubble in which they thought other people would agree with that. Are you kidding me?
They thought they were in the bubble of reality where—let’s say that Hitler was an American and he died—would you feel bad about saying, “Thank God Hitler died”? No, you wouldn’t, because you would assume that almost every single person would agree with you. So it would be easy to say that.
These people are saying it in public for the world to see, as if that’s what a normal person would think. How hypnotized would you have to be?
So, in my mind anyway—and I think I’ve said it online at least once—I think of these people as the “hypnotized Hitlerians.” You can drop the “hypnotized” if you need to. But the Hitlerians are people who live in this little world where they think Hitler actually came to power in the United States because so many bad people on the left have been saying that. People should know better.
They do. But since they believe it advances their goals, and don’t really care who it gets killed in the process, the DNC-MSM aren’t going to stop doing the “hypnotizing” anytime soon:
SUPERCUT: MSNBC has an addiction to calling ICE “gestapo.” pic.twitter.com/NjsYstcCbn
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2025
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO TO THE RESCUE? Cuomo closes gap on Mamdani as NYC mayor race tightens dramatically in new poll.
With just over a week until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani holds a double-digit lead in the raucous race for the nation’s most populous city, but former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the gap, according to a new public opinion poll.
Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York City borough of Queens who shocked the political world in June with his convincing win over Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party’s mayoral nomination, stands at 44% support among likely voters in the most recent survey in the race, from Suffolk University.
Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid multiple scandals and who is running as an Independent candidate in the general election after losing the primary, had 34% support in the survey.
The survey was conducted Thursday through Sunday, entirely after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams endorsed Cuomo in a bid to defeat Mamdani.
The only thing I’m certain of is that New Yorkers will come out the losers.
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