Gerald Posner

To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

🚨 WATCH: Commie Jew hater Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention, declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable."

To every Democratic politician touting DSA primary wins as proof the party is a 'big tent': listen closely to antisemitic Twitch influencer Hasan Piker at this weekend's College Democrats of America convention. He is not 'energizing the base' —he's declaring war on any Democrats who "compromise, who conciliate, and who betray" the revolution by funding ICE, supporting Israel, or working with "fascists." "We don't need those Democrats anymore." The new left doesn't want accommodation or coalition. They want to purge you, take over, and run it themselves. Piker is telling you exactly what comes next. "We are coming. We are unbossed. We're unbought. We're unbound. And we will become undeniable." Believe him. (And yes — that does appear to be a Mao Zedong-inspired jacket. History rhymes.)

What occurred outside 26 Federal Plaza this morning was deeply disturbing. I’m relieved no one was seriously injured and that a suspect is in custody. My team is in touch with the NYPD and we will support the federal investigation. Our administration will continue to ensure that every New Yorker is safe in their city — and hold accountable any who threaten that.

Most everyone I know finds Greta Thunberg's crossover into geopolitics cringeworthy. Fine. But cringe with over 16 million Instagram followers isn't harmless — it's a online delivery system with a megaphone, and she just used it once again to call Gaza a "genocide," stated not as her opinion, but flatly, as fact. Here's the test I'd apply to her claim, and I'd ask you to apply it too. We live in an age when a single incident anywhere on earth gets captured from a dozen phones, multiple angles, uploaded in minutes. If the last verified genocide of the modern era — the Nazi extermination of Europe's Jews — had happened with smartphones in every pocket, we would have thousands of photos and videos of it: the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile SS units that shot roughly 1.5 million Jewish men, women and children into pits and ravines across Eastern Europe, plus the millions more gassed at the death camps or worked to death in slave labor. That is what a real genocide leaves behind in a documented age — irrefutable, overwhelming physical proof. Now look at your phone. Where is that proof for Gaza? Over two million Gazans, nearly every one carrying a pocket camera. Where are the mass graves shot from above, the systematic execution footage, the trail of murderous squads? It isn't there. What's there is the same recycled images, unverifiable claims, and narratives that fall apart the moment anyone scrutinizes them. Platforms like Telegram are filled with emotional montages, recycled war footage, and lots of selective framing. They just do not have any proof of genocide. That absence isn't a gap in the coverage. It's the strongest evidence there is no genocide. Greta doesn't check anything. She amplifies. She has appointed herself with her millions of followers as the arbiter of genocide by feeling instead of fact — and she's doing for this lie what Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens do for their large followings: laundering a fringe obsession into the mainstream, one hysterical video at a time. Don't underestimate her. This is exactly how an antisemitic blood libel becomes conventional wisdom — not through evidence, through reach. She is vile.

Former Secretaries of State are usually diplomatic. Not Mike Pompeo this morning regarding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s boast about arresting Israel’s Prime Minister: “This is a communist, antisemitic mayor, trying to make news for his own audience… There’s no chance he’s going to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu.” His follow-up landed even harder: Mamdani never named Putin, who’s abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children — or Iran’s leaders, accused of mass war crimes. Just the one Jewish state’s leader.

A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name. 57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon. Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry. Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not. And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed. He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night. Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise. The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country. Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself. Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.