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Screenshot Radical Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that the city will open five city-owned, taxpayer-funded grocery stores, one in each borough, with prices on a core basket of items set at up to 30% below typical retail. The plan, a centerpiece of Mamdani’s campaign, will use $70 million in capital funds. The city will own the land or space, cover construction, renovations, rent, and property taxes. Core discounted items include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, plus about 20 pantry staples, dairy, and refrigerated goods such as eggs, milk, bread, cheese, rice, and beans. Prices…
British American classicist scholar Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s The Odyssey inspired Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film interpretation of the nearly 2,800-year-old poem, is entirely underwhelmed by the end product. To say the least. The academic used a brutal essay in the London Review of Books to decry Nolan’s $250 million work as delivering an “abysmal” screenplay, despairing ” I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script. Wilson has also translated Seneca and Euripides, as well as Homer’s Iliad as part of her work as a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In her appraisal Wilson writes:…
Florida Democrat gubernatorial hopeful David Jolly has a long history of embracing radical transgender ideology, masking it during his current campaign as opposed to Florida Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who has made it clear that he stands against the indoctrination of children and the left’s schemes. Jolly – once a Republican representative – does not highlight his support of transgender issues on is campaign website, instead broadly speaking of his disinterest in “culture wars,” which he believes “divide and demonize.” “Florida should reject the politics of division and hate, and instead create a home where everyone is valued,…
President Trump on Monday announced that he is filing an amended complaint in which he will “lay out, in extreme detail,” numerous offenses in his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. This comes after US District Judge Steven Merryday declined the Times’ request to toss the case out on Monday. Trump said the Times “failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped.” Per Bloomberg: The federal judge in Florida overseeing President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times has deferred ruling on the newspaper’s request to…
Harvard University, which has ties to Communist China, has apparently outpaced other American universities in receiving foreign funding. Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who also chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants government officials to investigate China’s flow of money into colleges, Fox News reported Monday. The outlet noted the U.S. Department of Education has kept a list of federally funded universities that received foreign money, and “The Trump administration sought to revamp the agency’s online reporting portal, and, in doing so, it has shown that one institution, Harvard University, has scored more foreign funding than any other college in the country.”…
Screengrab Social Media/X Toronto criminals are targeting the US consulate. Canadian police are hunting a suspect after at least one shot was fired outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto earlier today (27). No injuries were recorded in the second such incident in just the last four months. Shots fired outside U.S. Consulate, heavy police presence in area https://t.co/rj7jTAoJg3 — CP24 (@CP24) July 27, 2026 Reuters reported: “Police officers, alerted by the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence of a weapon having been fired outside the building on University Avenue. Police said that a white sedan was seen…
The Lebanese father of the suspected Islamist terrorist who understood to have attacked the Berlin Pride Parade before being shot dead by police has insisted that his family are moderate Muslims who oppose jihadists like ISIS, throwing into question the efficacy of assimilation in modern Germany. The multicultural project that is Berlin was again marred by tragedy on Saturday, as Abdul Ballut, a 21-year-old German-born, Lebanese heritage Islamist was said to have used a van to mow down revellers at the Christopher Street Day Pride Parade, leaving one dead and 29 injured. Ballut was known to police at the time of…
President Donald Trump on Monday called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the Senate in session to terminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act. Trump took to Truth Social in the morning to pressure Thune to keep senators working in Washington until the SAVE America Act, which takes a number of steps to secure federal elections, is passed. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. On MSNOW’s Morning Joe show today, host Joe Scarborough lost his mind going off on DNC chair Ken Martin over the party’s financial troubles. According to recent reports, the DNC actually put up the building that houses their headquarters in order to gain a new line of credit. Scarborough and his co-hosts are beside themselves over this, and are even calling for Martin to be replaced. Transcript via NewsBusters: MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So we move now from things making a lot of money to things losing a lot of money. At seven minutes past the top of…
Freshly anointed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday as his first foreign leader since taking office a week ago. The move comes as Kyiv seeks to ensure the stream of billions of pounds in support continues to flow from UK taxpayers via Number 10s munificence and its new – part time – inhabitant even as questions are asked about its distribution. AFP reports the two leaders were set to visit a British naval base and hear from both countries’ armed forces personnel involved in training Ukrainian service members for battle, Burnham’s Downing Street office confirmed…