Niccolò Machiavelli :
"To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbor is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenseless against the angry neighbor, and you are destroyed."
[The Prince]
Knicks win the NBA, Arsenal win the Premier League, and three out of three of the lefty candidates he endorsed for Congress are heading for Congress having won their primaries tonight.
What a year @ZohranKMamdani is having. Better even than 2025 - and that’s saying something! 😉
🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani drops a massive bombshell!
He announces a historic $1.2 BILLION expansion of free childcare, increasing seats from 2,000 to 12,000 across NYC.
He is actively destroying the crushing costs of raising a family for the working class!
⚡️BREAKING: Netanyahu says it was his plan to drag the United States into the war against Iran
"When I came to President Trump, I told him: We are going into Iran. I did not ask for permission. I simply informed him"
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This World Cup, everyone plays by the rules.
Why are so many Americans willing to flirt with Marxism?
This morning's daily news briefing reports on Zohran Mamdani's latest victory over the Democrat establishment, Donald Trump reportedly telling Benjamin Netanyahu that "the Jews are sick of" him, the latest twist in the bizarre Byron Noem saga, and more. Posted below.
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I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.