[PJ] With federal investigators digging into her immigration history, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is starting to look like a woman who knows she's in serious trouble. And she definitely should be taking it serious, as House Republicans have made it clear that if investigators prove fraud, Omar won't just face a scandal. She'll be deported.
Now, Omar loves to play the fearless fighter online. Last month, she posted a video to social media playing the victim and attacking the Trump administration.
"Hi everyone, Ilhan here. I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support to everyone who sent a note of support, for everyone who sent $5, $10, $20," Omar said in the video. "That goes a long way as we fight Trump and his administration, for trying to intimidate me, and so many people right before the midterm elections."
Then she really laid the bravado on thick. "We know that they're running scared," Omar said. "We're not gonna be intimidated. We're not gonna be silenced. We're not gonna be scared."
[NYP] Mayor Zohran Mamdani quietly earmarked another $6.2 million for his "mass engagement" office that critics claim is merely a taxpayer-funded political propaganda arm for City Hall.
Hizzoner snuck in an additional $1.1 million in undefined spending for the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement in his mid-year budget modification released Thursday.
That brings the total budget for the activist-packed outreach office to a whopping $6.3 million for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, the newly released documents show.
A City Hall spokeswoman said the added funds would cover new text messaging and other outreach tools, claiming they were necessary as "the Office of Mass Engagement connects directly with New Yorkers during critical moments in their lives."
The socialist mayor’s pet project originally had an approved $5.2 million budget for expenses, not including salaries for staffers, many of whom are far-left activists.
The updated budget documents also added another $1.7 million to the office’s piggy bank for each of the three following years, for a total $6.2 million in extra spending.
[Federalist] Commie apple doesn't fall far from the diseased tree
The son of former CIA Director John Brennan was arrested Friday for alleged possession of child sexual abuse material, otherwise known as child pornography.
The 40-year-old Kyle Brennan was arrested at his place of work in Virginia, and the FBI executed a search warrant on his cell phone, which allegedly contains “sexually explicit” materials of children. He is being charged with “transportation of child pornography.”
Court documents allege his phone contained “approximately 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls, including prepubescent girls, engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” which included an explicit image of a toddler.
According to documents, there was a “fully nude, pubescent minor girl on a locker bench” whose “wrist and ankles were bound and her mouth was gagged.”
“There is probable cause to believe that on or about April 7, 2024, BRENNAN knowingly transported child pornography using a means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce,” court documents state.
The Warrenton, Virginia, Police Department responded to two CyberTipline Reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), according to the Department of Justice. The local police identified an account registered to Brennan, which appeared to have been used to upload CSAM, which included an image the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office was able to identify as a 12-year-old girl, the Department of Justice said. Warrenton is in Fauquier County.
According to the Department of Justice, the Fauquier Sheriff’s Office searched Brennan’s residence and devices in the summer of 2024, and the office referred the case to the FBI on Oct. 2, 2026.
Brennan faces a minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison. He did not return a comment request from the Daily Mail.
The arrest comes as John Brennan is himself under investigation for concocting the Russia collusion hoax. Evidence shows Brennan and other Obama administration officials, such as Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, conspired to perpetrate the hoax.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe has suggested Brennan and Clapper are still liable for their alleged crimes, even as some argue the statute of limitations is up.
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I can get worked up over it. For every one of those pictures, a child was sexually abused. If you pay for those pictures, you are encouraging that type of activity. You are just as bad as the pervert who took those pictures and you should spend a very long, hard time in prison so other inmates can help you to experience how that kind of abuse feels.
What I like best about this article is where it says Kyle Brennan was arrested at his place of work. I hope that was extremely humiliating for him.
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The local police identified an account registered to Brennan, which appeared to have been used to upload CSAM
So he was sharing it as well. F*&k him. Literally.
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[ChicagoSunTimes] Mayor Johnson's chief financial officer abruptly resigns. In her resignation letter, Ashlee Gabrysch said she felt compelled to quit because “to continue in this role would be to compromise my integrity and professional obligations.”
Gabrysch issued a statement saying she was unwilling to compromise her financial integrity. She did not reveal what it was she was asked to do that would have damaged her reputation...
"As the City of Chicago's Chief Financial Officer, there is nothing more important than my fiduciary duty to the City and its taxpayers. The Chief Financial Officer's statements about city finances are not idle chatter: they are relied upon by investors, ratings agencies, City Council, and taxpayers. The CFO must act scrupulously to ensure they are always accurate and complete,"..
"... to continue in this role would be to compromise my integrity and professional obligations. I therefore have concluded that I must step down from my role, and hereby tender my resignation."
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several other finance officials in Chicago have resigned under Mayor Johnson
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....compromise my integrity and professional obligations.”
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The problem will be that her replacement might not be so scrupulous.
There is no honor among real thieves.
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I see the Mayor's administration is already attacking her: "absent during critical periods during budget preparation" and issuing a "$75 million payout without proper legal authority."
So many thieves in that den of corruption its hard to know what's what. Probably safe to think that Mayor Johnson is digging his hole deeper. He's got real problems with the current funding gap.
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[Regnum] The recent US elections resulted in a resounding victory for the Democrats. However, difficult times lie ahead—they must somehow resolve the serious intra-party rift that is brewing between the centrists and the rising left.
The congressional elections can be called a real triumph for American socialists, as hundreds of candidates they supported were able to achieve success.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement has been around in the United States for several decades. It emerged in the 1970s as a coalition of civil rights activists and trade unionists.
The DSA advocated détente with the Soviet Union and opposed the hawks in the Ronald Reagan administration when he came to power after winning the November 1980 election.
Democratic socialists were quite active in the 1980s, but then the movement experienced a long and painful decline against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR and the collapse of leftist ideas around the world.
Democrats in the United States embraced globalism and neoliberalism, epitomized by Bill Clinton's policies. Socialists, meanwhile, became marginal anti-globalists for a long time, holding protests at World Trade Organization forums—and nothing more.
Moreover, the left's traditional electoral base—union workers—began to erode after the relocation of many manufacturing industries to Latin America and Asia. Subsequently, blue-collar workers shifted their party affiliation and began supporting Republicans, including helping Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election.
Interestingly, it was that year that the Democratic Socialists began to experience a resurgence. They were greatly aided by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the left-wing senator from Vermont, who gave Hillary Clinton a tough fight in the presidential primaries.
Already in 2018, the socialists managed to elect their first representatives to Congress and strengthen their position at the local level in Democratic states.
But the real breakthrough for the American left occurred during Trump's second term. First, they achieved a landmark victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, electing Zohran Mamdani. He never tires of pointing out that he is an immigrant, a Muslim, and a socialist. In short, he embodies everything MAGA America dislikes.
Following the recent elections, Democratic Socialist candidates have already become mayors of four major American cities.
Los Angeles joined New York City, where Indian candidate Nithya Raman, emulating Mamdani's style, won. In the District of Columbia, home to the US capital, Black Lives Matter activist and socialist Janice Lewis George became mayor. Leftists also won in Seattle.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which numbered in the thousands just 10 years ago, now has 130,000 members. They have representation on city councils in many major US cities.
For the first time, a DSA candidate was also elected as a senator at the federal level: Egyptian and socialist Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
Like Mamdani, he was able to win largely due to the sharp rise in anti-Israel sentiment in American society. Socialists advocate a military embargo and sanctions against Israel.
For the first time in modern history, the majority of Americans have developed a negative perception of the Jewish state's policies. The left's anti-war agenda has given them political leverage in the recent elections.
In the lower house of Congress, the Progressive Socialist Caucus comprises several dozen members. While this may not seem like a large number, their votes can be decisive in blocking initiatives from other Democrats.
The left will develop a kind of "golden share" when making any decision. And they will use their new position to try to break the established status quo.
Back in the summer, the DSA movement presented a plan for a large-scale left-wing restructuring of America. They propose completely abolishing the Senate, which they call undemocratic. They claim each state should be represented by two senators, regardless of its population—700,000, like Alaska, or 40 million, like California.
It also proposes abolishing ICE, closing most prisons to reduce the inmate population (currently 2 million), introducing direct presidential elections, cutting Pentagon budgets in half, and placing large corporations under direct government control, effectively nationalizing them.
Such a program is clearly too radical even for most Democratic voters, let alone American society as a whole. Therefore, socialists are emphasizing certain populist proposals that are quite popular with society.
Specifically, the creation of a "Medicare for All" system—that is, a unified state health insurance program along European lines. Admittedly, it will cost many trillions of dollars.
Moreover, now the socialists are calling on the other Democrats not only to fight Trump, but also to try to implement some reforms, just so as not to waste time.
The current administration, which promised the advent of an "American golden age" in early 2025, is a typical example here. Ultimately, it has failed to implement virtually any of the initiatives it promised a year and a half ago.
Centrist Democrats believe they can spend the next two years in the comfortable position of "fighting Trumpism," launching investigations and impeachments. And, overall, not changing anything about the current situation in Washington.
The left, however, wants to immediately embark on large-scale reforms while the Democratic Party maintains a significant majority in both houses of Congress. The last time Democrats controlled so many seats—260 in the House and 56 in the Senate—was in the early 1990s.
Newly elected socialist Senator Abdul El-Sayed is even proposing to call government health insurance "Trumpcare for all" in order to play on the US president's ego and convince him to accept leftist demands.
However, the split within the Democratic camp is unlikely to allow them to seriously implement their initiatives. Although they will indeed try to do some obvious things—ending Trump's trade wars and the Iran adventure.
This means that the growth of far-left sentiments in the Democratic camp will certainly continue.
In the next elections (they will be held in 2028), the socialists plan to win Senate races in two states at once: New York, where they will try to unseat the Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and Pennsylvania, where pro-Israel Democrat John Fetterman will be re-elected.
Schumer faces a potential challenge from young Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, arguably America's most popular left-wing activist. Fetterman faces Gaza-born writer Ahmed Moore, a vocal critic of Israel. Congress will therefore continue to rapidly shift leftward in the next election cycle.
The rapid spread of leftist sentiments among young Americans—millennials and Zoomers—is also playing into socialists' hands. Recent surveys show that nearly half of all undergraduate students in the US view the socialist agenda favorably as opposed to the capitalist model.
Moreover, it previously seemed that Zoomers would be more right-leaning than previous generations. Many of them supported Trump in the 2024 election. But the highly unpopular Iran War and the fuel crisis forced them to shift sharply to the left.
The main question that remains open is whether the Socialists will be able to significantly influence the outcome of the 2028 presidential race. They will certainly try to push their candidate to at least the vice-presidential level.
One thing is clear: the split within the Democratic ranks will continue to deepen. And this is perhaps the Republicans' only hope of somehow regaining the ground they lost in the recent elections.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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