SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS TAKEN EARLY RETIREMENT: NYC’s smiling socialist mayor is VERY different behind the scenes, as progressives who crossed him allege tyrannical and ruthless behavior.

Known for his smiling and seemingly unflappable attitude, Mamdani attacked both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat whom he deemed too centrist.

But sources inside Mamdani’s political circle have now alleged that the mayor wields his power for personal gain and has no qualms sidelining old friends or his ideologies to further his agenda, The New York Times reported.

He has been accused of snubbing friends, meddling in political campaigns and strong-arming liberal nonprofits to protect his own interests.

So… they’re saying he’s a socialist?

OUCH: Meta Planning Sweeping Layoffs as AI Costs Mount.

Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.

No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said.

Top executives have recently signaled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told them to begin planning how to pare back, two of the people said. The sources spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to disclose the cuts.

“This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in response to questions about the plan.

If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company’s most significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the “year of efficiency.”

Previously: Meta boosts annual capex sharply on superintelligence push, shares surge.

Slightly More Previously: Zuckerberg Spends Big: $200M+ to Snag Apple’s AI Lead For Meta’s Superintelligence Team.

Just in case those getting laid off didn’t know where the money went.

GROOMING, STRAIGHT UP: Author Brags About Hiding LGBTQ Messaging in Children’s Book Cover.

EMBARRASSMENT CAN BE A GREAT MOTIVATOR:

Valid question: Did President Trump invite the NATO members to contribute Naval assets to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz in a real attempt to get their help, or simply to expose the fact that none of them have meaningful Naval assets to contribute anymore? pic.twitter.com/4Ru7tYQa8G

— ⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ (@EnergyAbsurdity) March 16, 2026

There’s also this:

Yes. We are an insecure nation that needs US to love us and pretend that we are equals. We're a high maintenance girlfriend who thinks she's a lot more attractive than she is.

— Chris Loblaw (@chrisloblaw) March 16, 2026

I’m reminded of what Harry told Sally: “You’re the worst kind. You’re high maintenance but you think you’re low maintenance.”

IDF INTEL: We destroyed Iran’s base for attacking satellites to keep space supremacy.

In an extremely rare public statement, an IDF Unit 9900 intelligence official said on Monday that Israel has destroyed an Iranian base which was focused on building technologies to shoot down Israeli satellites and other adversaries’ satellites.

According to the officer from the IDF’s clandestine satellite intelligence division, the goal of the attack was to maintain Israel’s supremacy in space, especially regarding satellite surveillance.

“We are leading many efforts to preserve the IDF’s freedom of action in the arena of space, and to harm the capabilities of Iran to act and to build such forces,” said the Unit 9900 official.

He complimented the Defense Ministry and the broader defense establishment – Israel Aerospace Industries is the lead Israeli satellite developer – to help “IDF intelligence to continue to operate surveillance satellites and to provide critical intelligence for the war, to provide warnings [of ballistic missile launches] and to” target adversaries throughout the Middle East.

Welcome to the 21st Century we were promised, when “space superiority” is a real thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gavin Newsom’s California Doesn’t Really Exist. “The once-great city of San Francisco — where Newsom used to be mayor — is in a financial doom spiral from which it is unlikely to fully recover. Hollywood isn’t Hollywood anymore; television production has mostly moved to Canada and Georgia. Incredibly wealthy tech bros and other billionaires are hot-footing it out of California before they can be taxed into oblivion. That upsets a lot of the state’s revenue generation plans.”

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger… We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work… pic.twitter.com/7nWX9jL6NI

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) March 17, 2026

More to come — from Nick Shirley, who continues doing the press’s work for them.

UM, THAT’S NICE? OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic.

OpenAI’s delayed “adult mode” for ChatGPT is expected to support saucy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot’s ability to generate images, voice, or video. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, an unnamed OpenAI spokesperson described content that will be provided by the upcoming feature as smut rather than pornography, allowing ChatGPT users to generate textual chats with adult themes.

The feature was initially announced in October, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claiming that the company had managed to mitigate enough of the “serious mental health issues“ with its AI model to relax safety restrictions and introduce “erotica for verified adults.” ChatGPT’s adult mode was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but OpenAI said earlier this month that it was delaying the rollout to focus on higher-priority tasks. A new release timeline has yet to be announced.

The delay was also due to internal concerns and technical challenges around safeguards for the feature, according to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting. A council of advisers selected by OpenAI warned the company in January that ChatGPT’s adult mode may be accessible to children and foster unhealthy emotional dependence on the chatbot, with one unnamed council member saying OpenAI risked creating a “sexy suicide coach.”

So maybe not so nice then.

PROTECTING CHILD RAPISTS TO GET BACK AT TRUMP:

WATCH: Four weeks ago, a frustrated ICE agent in the sanctuary city of Boston contacted me, telling me a group of anti-ICE agitators had just blown their operation to arrest a Salvadoran fugitive who is wanted in his home country on an arrest warrant for child rape & had been… pic.twitter.com/NgOmjEWh6Q

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 16, 2026

ICYMI: California Chased Out Another Billionaire, Bringing the Total Money Lost To…

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Israel said it had killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, a central figure in Tehran’s aggressive military response to U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, as well as the commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force.

My comment: Larijani as head of the Basij militia supervised the…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 17, 2026

CHANGE I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN: Trump says he thinks he will have the ‘honor’ of taking Cuba.

Here’s how much the Commie regime cracked on Monday: Cuba plans to open up to investment from nationals living in U.S., as Trump puts pressure on island.

“Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies [and] also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants,” Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said in an interview with the outlet. He added that the country is open to “not only small investments, but also large investments, particularly in infrastructure.”

Fraga indicated that the new policy would be announced Monday night.

CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.

It marks a notable shift for the country, which has had a largely state-controlled economy for decades and heavily restricted residents from starting private businesses until 2021.

Not only that, but Havana until viewed Cuban exiles like Stalin viewed Trotsky. Inviting them — and their money — back is probably the biggest concession we’ve yet seen. With more to come.

Fidel outlasted every president from JFK to GWB, and his Communists from Obama until… Trump 47?

#RESIST: Nevada Sheriff Defies Judge to Keep 35-Arrest Violent Offender Behind Bars.

BECAUSE OF COURSE SHE DID:

Ireland’s new president Catherine Connolly sends out a 60-second message ahead of tomorrow’s Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations:

"The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the courage of migrants"

🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/D32OOGjp06

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 16, 2026

TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK HIM: 100 Years Ago, Robert Goddard Lit the Fuse for the Space Age.

THIS IS NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY:

This is just another part of what all the smart people have been saying is Iran’s amazing strategic vision that’s going to win this war for them. https://t.co/Dyt08VP2Ht

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 15, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘SNL’ Mocks Tucker Carlson, Gets Pundit 100 Percent Wrong.

“SNL” scribes don’t even know who Carlson is in 2026. He went from a firebrand Fox News star to a raging Israel hater who promotes conspiracy theorists and skewers the U.S. Military.

The show’s obvious lack of ideological diversity behind the scenes allowed this limp sketch to flower. It missed its target by a wide margin.

Culhane’s impression nailed some of Carlson’s catch phrases and his maniacal laugh, but it missed who the pundit has become over the last two years.

Read the whole thing.

ICYMI: Iran Looking *Almost* Ripe for Regime Change.

NOT THE COMPANY IT ONCE WAS: Adobe Fined, CEO Steps Down, Stock Tanks. AI? “Just about every creator using Abode figured the ludicrously overbroad terms and conditions were designed to let Adobe train their AIs on creator’s work, and make them pay for the privilege of doing so to boot.”

SAD: Armenian Cultural Heritage Sites Facing Destruction in Nagorno-Karabakh.

HMM: Sen. Mike Lee: We’ve ‘Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) now thinks the SAVE America Act may finally be getting somewhere. Lee, the lead sponsor of the legislation, posted a video update on Friday announcing that he believes we’ve “turned kind of a corner” on the SAVE Act.

After weeks of uncertainty about procedure, Lee said he and Thune have been working through options that could bring the bill to the floor for real debate – not just a choreographed vote designed to fail.

“Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed,” Lee said in the video. “Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We’ve turned kind of a corner. Over the last few days, there’s been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will be and will not be using. In the end, we’ve been working closely with Leader Thune and his staff, and they’ve been great to work with. What we’re coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster.”

Well, stay tuned.

A BILLIONAIRE HERE AND A BILLIONAIRE THERE: California Chased Out Another Billionaire, Bringing the Total Money Lost To…

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (RECENT) HISTORY:

‘One Piece’ actress Charithra Chandran demands ceasefire in Gaza- despite a ceasefire for the past 6 months.

“What we are demanding is a ceasefire in Gaza and I think I am so blessed to have a platform and this is the least I can do to use it.” pic.twitter.com/LCmfveTS50

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 16, 2026

Amy Alkon in the replies: “Actors used to have publicists to follow them around with a muzzle and swiftly strap it on whenever they seemed on the verge of uttering words in the presence of a reporter.”

Actors used to be run by the studios, which used to know what they were doing.

WELL, YES: US could take Iran’s main oil export hub ‘at a time of our choosing,’ Jack Keane says.“We can take Kharg Island at a time of our choosing, and we choose not to take that now,” Keane told “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“Would we take it in the future? Those options are there for the president, likely towards the end of this? Because, if we take Kharg Island, either we occupy it or blockade it, there’s a number of things that we can do.”

Keane said such a move would effectively put the Iranian regime in “checkmate,” given how heavily its economy depends on the island.

“Now we [would] own all of their major assets. It’s 50% of their budget, 60% of the revenue, 80, 90% of the distribution points for their oil,” he said.

The real question is how long we’d stay there, with American fingers around the neck of a sizable fraction of China’s oil supplies.

Related: It’s all about China: Trump’s seemingly chaotic global policy all makes sense.

Marines are reportedly on the way.

HE WAS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, STILL TOASTED BY LEFTIES:

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 16, 2026