May 18, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF TOLERANCE: ‘I Don’t Give a Flying F— He Died!’ NYC Mayor’s Office Gives Press Badges to Luigi Mangione Fangirls Caught on Tape Celebrating CEO’s Murder.

The New York City Mayor’s Office gave coveted press badges to a trio of “journalists” who celebrated the murder of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson outside a court hearing for his accused killer, Luigi Mangione, on Monday.

The women, sporting city-issued press badges, called Thompson a “murderer” and “terrorist” outside a hearing held ahead of Mangione’s upcoming trial. Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting Thompson in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024, has become a cause célèbre of left-wing activists and journalists. Hasan Piker, the far-left podcast host who rubs shoulders with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D.), said in a recent New York Times interview that Thompson was guilty of “social murder.”

“F— Brian Thompson. I don’t give a flying f— he died,” Ashley Rojas, one of the credentialed journalists, said outside the court hearing. Rojas was joined by two other “Mangionistas,” Lena Weissbrot and Abril Rios. The trio do not appear to work for any publication.

Mangione’s attorney is asking his fan girls to dial their squeeing back a notch or twenty:

As Noah Blum adds, “Luigi fangirls tanking his defense would be the ultimate hilarity.”

Including those old enough to know better:

Related: Review: Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, by Noah Rothman.

One particularly jarring moment in the first chapter comes not when we find that left-wing violence has become hugely prevalent in modern American life, but that we have all become—to some degree—numb to this left-wing violence. Even the most avid political enthusiast will likely have forgotten—under the weight of sheer frequency—at least one example of violence that should be once-in-a-generation, but is now more once-in-an-afternoon. Even as a conservative reader whose career focuses on the battle against antisemitism in the West—making the notion of political violence far from imaginary—I was astonished by how normal this constant onslaught of violence has become, with the “fiery but mostly peaceful” riots of just a few years ago feeling more like a long-forgotten dream.

We’ve had a few of those:

One of the reasons these periods of violence eventually become “long forgotten dreams” is that media gatekeepers are “unexpectedly” simpatico with leftist violence. In response to Posobiec’s tweet, Hollywood has made two movies about this period — one was directed by Sydney Lumet, and the other by Robert Redford. And both films sympathized with the bombers.

More:

See also: the DNC-MSM’s freakout over Spencer Pratt. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record quips:

UPDATE:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll