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New York Passes State Budget With No Funds to Support Access to Transgender Care
Advocates say the state has fallen short as hospitals have shut down care for transgender people nationwide.
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‘May Allah Condemn You to Hell': Erotic Poet on New York City Council Damns Fellow Muslim Woman Who Dared Criticize Mamdani’s Treatment of Jews
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A Muslim New York City councilwoman became so enraged that a fellow Muslim woman had broken ranks and criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s treatment of Jews that she told the woman she hoped Allah would damn her to Hell. The post ‘May Allah Condemn You to Hell': Erotic Poet on New York City Council Damns Fellow Muslim Woman Who Dared Criticize Mamdani’s Treatment of Jews appeared first on .
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Socialist Zohran Mamdani launches Elon Musk-style ‘COGE’ chaired by Soros-aligned Dem
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes a page from Elon Musk's DOGE playbook by launching his own city Commission on Government Efficiency.
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Bovino slams DHS response to New Jersey ICE facility protest: ‘Should’ve been over in 15 minutes’
Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino criticized the Department of Homeland Security‘s response to the outbreak of protests at New Jersey‘s Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Thursday. People have gathered outside Delaney Hall since last week, protesting the conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark as detainees raise alarm bells […]
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US losing 'military dominance' in shocking new era of 'high-tech warfare': expert
War has existed throughout human history, but the weapons have changed dramatically over the years. Medieval warfare was fought with cavalry, swords and armor; in 1945, during World War 2, U.S. President Harry Truman used nuclear bombs against Japan. The United States still has the world's largest military, but according to conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, U.S. military technology is behind the times and remains overly reliant on 20th Century methods.In a late May Times podcast, Douthat examined the "future of high-tech warfare" with Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer of the defense technology company Anduril.When Douthat noted that "drones and robots and autonomous weapons are remaking battlefields," guest Brose responded that "in order to talk about the future, we probably also have to talk about the past and present." "When you look at the future," Brose told Douthat, "I would argue that the assumptions that are now very evident to us in the present are almost the opposite of what we've built our military around. I don't think that we have the kind of military dominance that many of us in the 1990s and early 2000s just took for granted. We have peer competitors and rivals in the world who are adapting to and really disrupting the American way of war. I think that we are going to find a much more contested battlefield, where we're going to lose a lot of planes, ships, satellites and other things."The defense expert continued, "We're going to shoot a lot of weapons, and we're going to have to replace that as an act of production over a long period of time. I think that is not a future that we're really ready for. All of this points in the direction of autonomous systems, lower-cost systems — things that are much more like consumer technology or commercial capabilities than they are legacy military capabilities."According to Douthat and Brose, two current conflicts — the war in Iran and the Ukraine/Russia war — show how much war methods have changed since the 20th Century.Douthat asked Brose if he envisions a "near future where infantry itself starts to be obsolete and you literally just have drones and robots maneuvering against each other."Brose responded, "I think that's further out, if it's ever something that becomes feasible, simply because, so long as human beings continue to live on and inhabit the Earth — which I'm pretty sure we're going to do for the indefinite future — I think it becomes very difficult for these types of robotic systems to entirely go in, take and then hold ground. We've seen plenty in the war in Ukraine that militaries can be, at various different times in the battle, adept at taking ground. It's the holding of it that becomes very difficult."Brose added, "The question then becomes: Can those gains be solidified? Can those gains be held entirely through nonhuman means? That's not a bet that I would make at the moment."
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DOJ subpoenas Reddit in effort to unmask Trump critics
The Justice Department is intensifying efforts to identify anonymous social media users who have criticized government deportation policies, issuing grand jury subpoenas to Reddit and X demanding names, addresses, and banking information.The US Attorney's Office for Washington under Jeanine Pirro has subpoenaed the platforms as part of criminal investigations targeting at least two anonymous posters who have criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, reported Bloomberg.“They started with an administrative summons, which does not indicate a criminal investigation, and then progressed to the grand jury subpoena, which does,” said Lauren Regan, an attorney representing a Reddit user who posted criticism of ICE. "[That] is further proof that this is a bad faith attempt to unmask the user.”The targeted users learned of the subpoenas only after being notified by the companies themselves and subsequently hired attorneys to challenge the government demands.Neither the Justice Department nor the users have been informed what specific crimes are allegedly being investigated, but defense attorneys suspect the investigations may relate to allegations of revealing a federal officer's location data or making perceived threats, but they argue their clients committed no crimes. They contend that even if no charges are ultimately filed, the government's effort to unmask dissenters amounts to intimidation designed to suppress protected free speech.Court records show the administration initially pursued administrative summonses — which bypass judicial review — but withdrew them after legal challenges. The government then escalated to grand jury subpoenas, which carry the weight of criminal investigations and are far more difficult to challenge.According to former federal prosecutor Bonnie Greenberg, those challenging such subpoenas face an extremely heavy burden, saying that in her 37-year career as an assistant U.S. attorney, only one person attempted to quash a grand jury subpoena, and the judge ruled against them.The cases involve relatively innocuous posts. One user posted simply "expletive ICE," while another made what his attorney describes as a sarcastic remark on X that included an address found elsewhere on social media. Defense attorneys note the posts contain no indication of violent intent.Civil liberties advocates warn the tactic threatens fundamental protections for anonymous speech. First Amendment Coalition Executive Director David Snyder pointed to The Federalist Papers, which founding fathers published under pseudonyms to protect themselves from government retaliation while shaping the nation's founding principles.Both sets of lawyers have filed motions to quash the subpoenas in federal court, with cases pending before U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg.Reddit has stated it vigorously defends user anonymity and routinely objects to overbroad requests threatening civil rights, but the outcome will likely have significant implications for online speech protections in the current political climate.
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It’s not DOGE, it’s COGE: Mamdani introduces commission to make NYC more effective
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) announced the appointment of a new commission Thursday focused on improving the effectiveness of the city’s government. The newly unveiled Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE) drew immediate comparisons to the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) championed by President Trump and Elon Musk, which cut hundreds of thousands…
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Hegseth names investor who made anti-Islam remarks about Mamdani to Pentagon tech board
The Defense Department has appointed to its recently established Science, Technology and Innovation Board (STIB) a Silicon Valley venture capitalist accused of making Islamophobic remarks targeting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, to the board along with 32 other appointees, according to a…
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New York mayor wears Arsenal kurta during Eid prayers
The mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani takes his Arsenal super-fandom up a notch by attending Eid al-Adha prayers in the Bronx wearing an Arsenal-themed tunic.
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