THE WORLD NEEDS WATER-MIT JUST INVENTED GETTING IT FROM THE AIR!

MIT Invents “Bubble Wrap” That Pulls Fresh Water From The Air…Even In The Driest Places In The World

MIT researchers have invented a new water-harvesting device — a high-tech version of “bubble wrap” — that can pull safe drinking water straight from the air, even in extreme environments like Death Valley, the driest desert in North America, according to LiveScience.

In a study published June 11 in Nature Water, the team described how their innovation could help address global water scarcity. “It works wherever you may find water vapor in the air,” the researchers wrote.

The device is built from hydrogel, a material that can absorb large amounts of water, sandwiched between two glass layers resembling a window. At night, the hydrogel draws moisture from the air. During the day, a special coating on the glass keeps it cool, allowing water to condense and drip into a collection system.

The hydrogel is molded into dome shapes — likened to “a sheet of bubble wrap” — that swell when absorbing moisture. These domes increase surface area, helping the material absorb more water.

LiveScience writes that the system was tested for a week in Death Valley, a region spanning California and Nevada that holds the record as the hottest and driest place in North America.

Despite the harsh conditions, the harvester consistently produced between 57 and 161.5 milliliters of water daily — about a quarter to two-thirds of a cup. In more humid regions, researchers expect even greater yields. According to MIT representatives, this approach outperforms earlier water-from-air technologies and does so without needing electricity.

One major breakthrough was solving a known problem with hydrogel-based water harvesters: lithium salts used to improve absorption often leak into the water, making it unsafe. The new design adds glycerol, which stabilizes the salt and keeps leakage to under 0.06 parts per million — a level the U.S. Geological Survey deems safe for groundwater.

Though a single panel can’t supply an entire household, its small footprint means several can be installed together. The team estimates that eight 3-by-6-foot (1-by-2-meter) panels could provide enough drinking water for a household in areas lacking reliable sources. Compared to the cost of bottled water in the U.S., the system could pay for itself in under a month and remain functional for at least a year.

“We imagine that you could one day deploy an array of these panels, and the footprint is very small because they are all vertical,” said Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor and co-author of the study. “Now people can build it even larger, or make it into parallel panels, to supply drinking water to people and achieve real impact.”

The researchers plan to continue testing the device in other low-resource areas to better understand its performance under different environmental conditions.

WELL KNOWN PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS STUCK WITH OVER $668 BILLION IN BAD DEALS, AND 12,000 BUSINESS THEY CAN NOT SELL!!!

Deal Drought Adds To Private-Equity Costs

Private equity’s three-year deal slump has worsened a longstanding problem: billions of dollars of aging, underwater funds that continue to cost investors money.

The slowdown in mergers and acquisitions that began in 2022 has made private equity less profitable and reduced the amount of money firms return to investors. While this year began with hopes of a recovery, the slump has persisted, and shares of the biggest firms— Blackstone, Apollo Global Management and KKR — are down 10% or more in 2025. Over the same time, the S& P 500 has risen roughly 5%.

Beyond hitting profits, the slump has delayed the timeline for private-equity firms to sell investments, adding to the pile of so-called tail-end funds, those a decade or more old.

Firms had $668 billion of private-equity assets globally stuck in tail-end funds as of the most recent data, from the end of 2023, 19% higher than the previous year, according to a forthcoming report from Treo Asset Management, a special-situations firm.

“Funds are getting older, and the holds are getting longer,” said Finbarr O’Connor, Treo’s chief investment officer and founding partner. While the report is based on data more than a year old due to a lag in when firms issue financial data, O’Connor says the trend continues, and he forecasts tail-end assets to hit $1 trillion in coming years.

Many of these deals are underwater. The Treo report showed more than a third of assets held eight years or more are worth less than the initial capital invested.

These stuck funds can be a double blow for a fund’s backers: Often unsuccessful investments that are hard to sell, they raise investor costs by extending the annual management fee for years past the usual term.

Fund limited partners are likely paying between $3 billion and $13 billion a year in management fees on the $668 billion in tail-end assets, based on the typical fee range of 0.5% to 2% of net asset value, according to Treo’s estimate. Firms often reduce a fund’s management fee from the industry-standard 2% once it enters tail-end territory— but rarely all the way to zero.

The report underscores some of the cascading effects of private equity’s exit drought. In the U.S., firms’ combined exit volume in the nearly 2½ years since the start of 2023 remains below the 2021 sum alone, according to research provider Pitch-Book Data. By 2023, U.S. firms’ median investment hold time had climbed to a record high of seven years, and it remains near the historic peak.

U.S. buyout firms held nearly 12,400 unsold companies as of the first quarter of 2025, a seven- to eight-year backlog at the current pace of sales, PitchBook says.

Private-equity investors have grappled with the problem of old, struggling investments for years.

Selling tail-end stakes on the secondary market is hard, because most buyers want bluechip assets, not old funds full of odds and ends. Continuation funds are a popular way to extend promising assets, but are less viable for those of uncertain or little value.

Removing a fund’s general partner and installing a new one to wind down the assets is something more investors are considering now amid the sales slowdown, O’Connor said. It is considered a drastic step, and happens rarely.

Often, investors have no better option than to be patient and wait for a sale. But that leaves the question of fees, and how to best motivate managers to sell and wind the fund down.

More investors “are scrutinizing the fee model” of these late-stage funds, said Runjhun Kudaisya, a partner in the private- funds group at law firm Goodwin Procter. With average fund life—which used to be 10 to 12 years—now stretching toward 15 years, “there has been a shift in the market” and fund backers increasingly try to negotiate late-stage fees CERTAINLY TIME TO STOP INVESTING WITH THE BIG NAMES. THE ONLY THINGS THEY ARE GOOD AT IS GETTING FEES!

LAVISH PALACES WHERE AUTHORITARIAN RULERS LIVE

What do Ukraine’s Mezhyhirya Residence, Turkmenistan’s Oguzhan Palace, and Turkey’s Presidential Complex have in common? All were built at enormous expense, flaunting lavish amenities and sprawling grounds — monuments to the wealth and power of authoritarian rule.

Here’s a look at some of the world’s grandest presidential residences, where opulence meets political might.

UKRAINE, Novi Petrivtsi: Mezhyhirya Residence

Mezhyhirya was Viktor Yanukovych’s residence during his time as Ukraine’s prime minister and president until he fled amid the 2014 Maidan Revolution. Now a “museum of corruption,” it boasts a car museum, golf course, zoo, fountains, helicopter pad, and even a church — showcasing the former leader’s lavish lifestyle.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Abu Dhabi: Qasr Al-Watan

Qasr Al-Watan, the presidential palace of the United Arab Emirates, was completed in 2017 and opened to the public in 2019. Built at a cost of $490 million, this predominantly white palace houses historical artifacts and manuscripts while also displaying diplomatic gifts received by the U.A.E.

TURKEY, Ankara: Presidential Complex

The Presidential Palace in Ankara, also known as Ak Saray (White Palace), was completed in 2014 for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Built on former forest land, it boasts over 1,100 rooms and officially cost around $615 million, though critics say the true price was much higher. The complex includes a mosque with a capacity of around 3,000 and Turkey’s largest library, with a collection of more than 4 million books.

RUSSIA, Gelendzhik: ‘Putin’s Palace’

This palace complex on the Black Sea coast near Gelendzhik is rumored to be Vladimir Putin’s residence, with speculation about its existence dating back to 2010. In 2021, the late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny released an investigative documentary claiming the palace was built for the Russian president at a cost of around $1.4 billion. According to the investigation, the complex features an underground hockey stadium, a theater, a vineyard, and a church. It also has a no-fly zone, and boats passing must give it a wide berth. Putin has denied ownership, while Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg claims the palace is his.

RUSSIA, Moscow Region: Novo-Ogaryovo

Novo-Ogaryovo is Vladimir Putin’s state residence located outside Moscow. Originally constructed in the 1950s, the estate underwent extensive renovations under Putin’s direction after 2000. According to some reports, areas have been added to the compound recently, including a recreational facility belonging to Russia’s Federal Protection Service (FSO), heliports, and even air-defense systems. There might also be a tunnel leading from the FSO facility to Putin’s residence.

TAJIKISTAN, Dushanbe: Palace Of The Nation

The Palace of the Nation, completed in 2008, is the official residence of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. To make space for the palace, a 100-year-old synagogue and other buildings in the neighborhood were controversially demolished. Built for $300 million, the palace is surrounded by parks, fountains, and other notable landmarks, including the Independence Monument and the Dushanbe Flagpole, which rises to a height of 165 meters and was once the tallest in the world.

TURKMENISTAN, Ashgabat: Oguzhan Presidential Palace

The Oguzhan complex is the official residence and workplace of Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhammedov. Named after an ancient Turkmen tribal leader, it has been home to the country’s presidents since the 1990s. In 2011, a new palace and additional facilities were added at a cost of approximately $350 million. A state reception house and a square for parades and other state events are currently under construction in front of the palace.

FREDDY THE CUSTOM INSPECTION K-9 WAS DOING HIS JOB WHEN A MEAN EGYPTIAN KICKED HIM!

Man who kicked customs dog at Dulles ordered to leave U.S.

A 70-year-old man pleaded guilty to attacking Freddie the Beagle and was ordered to pay $840 in vet fees.

Freddie, a K-9 with the CBP’s Beagle Brigade with his handler CBP Agriculture Specialist Mellisa Snyder at Dulles International Airport in October. (Craig Hudson/For the Washington Post)

Freddie the Customs and Border Protection beagle spent Tuesday morning doing his typical work: patrolling the international baggage claim area at Washington Dulles International Airport for undeclared agricultural products. Then the morning took an unusual turn.

After the dog alerted his handler that a piece of luggage from Cairo was suspicious, the duo approached the suitcase’s owner, a 70-year-old man from Egypt.

“He violently kicked Freddie with sufficient force to lift the 25-pound beagle off the ground,” a CBP news release says. A veterinarian said the dog suffered contusions to his right rib area and ordered “rest and a mild dose of pain meds,” agency spokesman Stephen Sapp said in an email.

Customs officers arrested Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie and took him to a local jail. He was charged with willfully and maliciously harming a police animal.

Further investigation revealed what Freddie had detected: 55 pounds of beef, 44 pounds of rice, 15 pounds of vegetables, corn seeds and herbs — items that were not allowed into the country and seized, according to the news release.

“Being caught deliberately smuggling well over one hundred pounds of undeclared and prohibited agriculture products does not give one permission to violently assault a defenseless Customs and Border Protection beagle,” Christine Waugh, CBP’s Area Port Director for D.C., said in a statement. “We rely heavily on our K9 partners and Freddie was just doing his job. Any malicious attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.”

In a quick resolution, Marie pleaded guilty in federal court during his initial appearance Wednesday. He was ordered to pay restitution for Freddie’s vet fee — $840 — and had to report to CPB to be removed from the U.S. He flew to Egypt on Thursday.

Freddie the beagle suffered bruised ribs. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

It was just the latest chapter in an eventful life for the 5-year-old beagle, who was found on a median in Georgia before going to work for the U.S. government. The Washington Post wrote about Freddie and fellow Dulles sniffers in November.

His handler said at the time that he has learned to sniff out meat like cane rat, pigeon, snake and camel in addition to beef and pork. He is part of a “Beagle Brigade” used around the country to keep out diseases, invasive pests and plants.

According to CBP, the agency’s agriculture specialists and canines seized nearly 3,600 prohibited items including plants, meat, animal by-products or soil at U.S. entry points in a standard day last year.

Freddie’s plight drew attention on social media; well-wishers asked for updates in the comments on videos posted earlier this year on an official Facebook page.

In an Instagram post Friday, the agency said the pup would make a full recovery and shared a photo of him sampling a Starbucks “Pup Cup.”

“Freddie should be back in a week,” Sapp said in an email.

WHAT DOES JEFF BEZOS SPEND MONEY ON AND WHAT DOES HE OWN???

From Amazon Stock to Property To Jets, a Look at Mogul’s Wealth

Jeff Bezos used to drive a 1997 Honda Accord and repurposed surplus wooden doors as desks. Now he is one of the wealthiest people in the world.

His vast sums have allowed Bezos to spend on passion projects such as Blue Origin rockets, and a Venice wedding to fiancée Lauren Sanchez that some estimate could cost $15 million to $20 million.

Total wealth

Bezos is among the richest billionaires, according to The Wall Street Journal, which in February estimated his net worth at $263.8 billion.

Bezos owns about 8.6% of Amazon, a percentage valued at roughly $190.56 billion as of early June, per FactSet.

In 2024, Bezos sold about $13.5 billion of Amazon shares.

The billionaire’s private investment firm, called Bezos Expeditions, manages his personal wealth and investments. It has around $107.8 billion of assets, the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute estimated. The firm’s website said it has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Uber Technologies, Perplexity and the Washington Post, as well as spacetransportation company Blue Origin.

Real estate

Bezos is the country’s 23rd-largest landowner, with 420,000 acres across the U.S., according to the Land Report, a trade publication. He has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on homes, including:

The Warner Estate in Beverly Hills, Calif., at left, which he paid $165 million to buy in 2020.

A 14-acre compound in Maui that cost Bezos $78 million in 2021.

Three properties in Indian Creek—an exclusive island near Miami— that Bezos bought for a total of $234 million in 2023 and 2024

Three apartments at 212 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, costing a collective $80 million in 2019.

Jets and a superyacht

Bezos has become a collector of fancy planes. He also owns a huge yacht that he primarily parks in Port Everglades, Fla.

The 417-foot-long superyacht, named Koru, cost at least $500 million, according to luxury lifestyle publication Robb Report.

Its support vessel, the Abeona, cost an additional $75 million and features a helipad, the publication said.

Bezos owns two jets and two helicopters, according to Jack Sweeney, who tracks celebrity jets. Bezos’ Gulfstream G650ER jet costs more than $50 million, while his G700 ,above, sells for around $75 million.

PRIVATE JETS OF CLIMATE FIGHTERS SUCH AS JOHN KERRY AND BERNIE SANDERS CAUSE MORE CLIMATE DAMAGE THAN AIRLINES!

Study Exposes the Hypocrisy of Climate Cultist Elites and Their Fossil Fuel-Guzzling Private Jets

Private jets produced more emissions than all flights at a major international airport in 2023, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

The ICCT found that that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of private jets outweighed the emissions of all flights, including commercial ones, departing London’s Heathrow airport in 2023. Just one private jet produces as much GHG emissions as 177 cars or nine heavy-duty trucks, and there has been an increasing trend in private jet emissions over the past decade, the report states.

“Private jets are a surprisingly large source of air and climate pollution,” ICCT aviation fellow Daniel Sitompul said.

“It’s pretty well known that in a typical year, private jets are responsible for about 2 percent of aviation emissions,” ICCT research director and co-author of the new report Dan Rutherford told The Washington Post. “What we’ve done for the first time is, we’ve basically used flight trajectory data to break that out into the individual contributions of airports and countries.”

The report measures and maps the GHG emissions produced globally by private jets throughout 2023 through a combination of data sources including worldwide flight paths, engine emission databases and airport coordinates, according to the report. ICCT then used the data to “spatially allocate fuel use and emissions to airports and countries for about 94% of private jet activity globally,” according to the report.

Data also indicated that GHG emissions from private jets have increased globally from 2013 to 2023, according to the report.

ICCT compared these data with Heathrow airport’s 2023 sustainability report that notes the emissions of its departures that year, the report indicates. Heathrow is Europe’s busiest airport and is now the fourth busiest in the world, though it was the seventh busiest in 2023, according to Time Out.

Though several environmentalists, celebrities and Democrats shun GHG emissions and support policies that seek to limit them, many of them have been caught using private jets to fly to and from occasions like sporting events and climate change policy summits. For example, the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference ushered in guests who arrived on private jets and proceeded to exchange ideas about cutting GHG emissions.

Prominent celebrities that preach about climate change initiatives while still regularly using private jets include Leonardo DiCaprio, Taylor Swift, Oprah and Steven Spielberg among several others. Notably, Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also recently defended his private jet usage while on his “fighting oligarchy” tour.

TEXAS SUPREME COURT MAKES COMMON SENSE DECISION REVERSING CRAZY APPELLATE COURT AWARDING $100 MILLION JUDGMENT IN CRASH CASE

Werner Wins $100M Nuclear Verdict Reversal by Texas Court

Ruling Ends Yearslong Battle Stemming From 2014 Fatal Wreck

The case stretches back to a 2018 trial in which a Houston jury returned what stands as one of the highest monetary judgments against a motor carrier. (Werner Enterprises)

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The Texas Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Werner Enterprises, reversing a $100 million jury verdict against the motor carrier upheld by an appellate court in a 2014 fatal crash in which a pickup truck lost control on a slick interstate, traveled across the highway median and collided with a Werner tractor traveling on the opposite stretch of road.

“The foregoing holdings dispose of all claims and require rendition of judgment for the defendants,” the Texas high court wrote in a June 27 ruling. “The court of appeals’ judgment is reversed, and judgment is rendered for the defendants.”

The case stretches back to a 2018 trial in which a Houston jury returned what stands as one of the highest monetary judgments against a motor carrier. Werner first appealed the jury verdict in October 2018 to the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston. That appeal ultimately was denied in a 5-4 decision after languishing in the legal system for several years.

In its case before the state appeals court, Werner objected to the jury’s finding that the driver and company were negligent and also to the judge’s decision to allow certain evidence in the case. Werner also objected to the jury’s award of future medical care expenses for the plaintiffs.

But the Texas high court rejected the notion that the Werner driver shared in the fault for the accident.

“This awful accident happened because an out-of-control vehicle suddenly skidded across a wide median and struck the defendant’s truck, before he had time to react, as he drove below the speed limit in his proper lane of traffic,” the court wrote. “That singular and robustly explanatory fact fully explains why the accident happened and who is responsible for the resulting injuries. Because no further explanation is reasonably necessary to substantially explain the origins of this accident or to assign responsibility for the plaintiffs’ injuries, the rule of ‘proximate causation’ does not permit a fact finder to search for other, subordinate actors in the causal chain and assign liability to them.”

(Supreme Court of Texas via YouTube)

The high court said that nothing the Werner driver, Shiraz Ali, did or didn’t do contributed to the pickup truck hitting ice, losing control, veering into the median and entering oncoming traffic on an interstate highway.

However Ali was driving, the presence of his 18-wheeler in its proper lane of traffic on the other side of Interstate 20 at the precise moment the pickup truck lost control is just the kind of “happenstance of place and time” that cannot reasonably be considered a substantial factor in causing injuries to the plaintiffs.

“Instead [the pickup driver] losing control and hurtling across the median was the substantial factor in bringing about the injuries,” the court wrote. “The presence of Ali’s truck on the other side of the median at that precise moment was merely ‘the condition that made the harm possible.’ ”

“This appeal presents several distinct questions of law of manifest importance to the jurisprudence of the state, at least some of which require the reversal and rendition of the judgment below,” Werner argued in its brief filed with the high court in August 2023. Werner said the state court of appeals’ denial imposes a legal duty on Texas motorists in the state’s largest appellate district to anticipate that vehicles on the other side of a divided highway “will lose control and cross directly into their path.”

It argued further that “a failure to foresee this remote possibility and do everything possible to avoid it, including getting off the road entirely, can make a driver 100% responsible for almost any accident.”

Werner said the relevant facts of the accident are undisputed: Ali was proceeding in his lane, operating and in control of a Werner tractor-trailer, when the plaintiff’s vehicle suddenly careened into his path, leaving him no time to avoid a fatal collision.

Werner ranks No. 18 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest for-hire carriers in North America and No. 32 on the TT Top 100 list of the largest logistics companies in North America.

RADICAL MUSLIM WINS NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRAT (OF COURSE!) MAYORAL PRIMARY-ONLY A FRACTION OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS VOTED IN A “RANKED CHOICE” VOTING METHOD

14 Things everyone needs to Know About the Radical Muslim Socialist That Just Pulled off a Shocking Election Victory in New York City

by: Michael Snyder

By the way, the Muslim takeover of Great Britain has already happened. London and all major British cities have MUSLIM mayors! There are now 3,000 mosques in Britain!

(End of the American Dream)—A far left Muslim socialist that has only been a citizen of the United States for seven years is the Democratic nominee to be the mayor of the biggest city in the United States. Let that sink in for a moment. Zohran Mamdani is a smooth talker, and he ran an excellent campaign. But if this is what the future of America looks like, we are in enormous trouble. He dreams of creating “a socialist New York”, and many analysts are suggesting that if he wins the general election in November it will open the door for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028.

Can you imagine that?

At one time it was unimaginable that someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be a legitimate contender for the presidency.

Of course at one time it was unimaginable that someone like Zohran Mamdani could run for mayor of New York City and defeat a big name like Andrew Cuomo, but that just happened…

As elections go, Tuesday’s party primary for mayor was a thunderbolt: New York voters turned away from a well-funded familiar face and famous name, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and in doing so made a generational and ideological break with the party’s mainstream. They turned to a 33-year-old, three-term state assemblyman, Zohran Mamdani, who ran on an optimistic message that has eluded many national Democrats about affordability and the rising cost of living.

We live at a time when the Democratic Party has drifted very far to the left, and working class people came out to vote for Mamdani in droves…

Mamdani exceeded more than 60% of the vote in vast swathes of the city, building a multi-ethnic coalition across brownstone Brooklyn, working-class Queens and upper Manhattan.

“The surge by Mamdani is something I’ve never seen before in New York City politics,” J.C. Polanco, a political analyst at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, said before the results were known. “It’s been an incredible campaign that understood social media and marketing like no other.”

But do those voters really understand who this guy is?

I was stunned when I found out what he actually believes.

The following are 14 things that everyone needs to know about Zohran Mamdani…

#1 He was born in Uganda and has only been a U.S. citizen since 2018…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, moving to New York City with his family at the age of 7. A graduate of the NYC Public School System, he attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. A few years later in 2018, he became naturalized as an American citizen.

#2 Mamdani was endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and she campaigned for him vigorously. Once it was clear that he had won, AOC was absolutely thrilled…

“Your dedication to an affordable, welcoming, and safe New York City where king families can have a shot has inspired people across the city,” Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who endorsed Mamdani, said in a post on X. “Billionaires and lobbyists poured millions against you and our public finance system. And you won.”

#3 He has publicly stated that he dreams of creating “a socialist New York”…

#4 President Trump is calling him a “100% communist lunatic”…

The president piled on a series of insults toward the Democratic nominee for the nation’s largest city, calling him a “100% communist lunatic” who is backed by congressional Democrats. “We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous,” Trump said.

#5 He wants to dramatically raise taxes in order to pay for his progressive agenda…

During the 11-candidate campaign for mayor, Mamdani pushed for raising $10 billion in revenue by raising taxes on individuals and businesses to help pay for his ambitious goals, such as eliminating fares on city buses, freezing costs at all rent-stabilized apartments, and establishing city-owned grocery stores.

#6 Billionaire John Catsimatidis is warning that he will have to close or sell all of his grocery stories in New York City if Mamdani’s plan to create government-owned grocery stores comes to fruition…

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create a network of city-owned grocery stores to drive down food costs is facing pushback from the industry, with the head of a Manhattan-based grocery chain threatening to sell or close the business if Mamdani is elected.

John Catsimatidis, the CEO of grocery chain Gristedes, found fault with Mamdani’s plan, saying the business couldn’t compete in the market if there are city-run supermarkets.

“If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” Catsimatidis told FOX Business. He will also contemplate moving his corporate offices to New Jersey.

#7 He has publicly called for the police to be defunded…

#8 Before he became a U.S. citizen and entered the world of politics, he was a rapper…

In 2016, Mamdani’s song, #1 Spice, produced under the name Young Cardamom with Mamdani’s childhood friend Abdul Car Hussein, who performed as HAB, was featured in Disney’s “Queen of Katwe,” directed by Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair.

#9 As a student, he co-founded the very first Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at his college…

Taking that lesson with him, he went on to co-found his college’s first Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and later organize across the country with different progressive organizations seeking to win national elections as well as expand healthcare coverage.

#10 His wife is also a pro-Palestinian activist, and she is originally from Syria…

Rama Duwaji stood beside her husband as the 33-year-old Muslim socialist led with 43 percent of the vote and ‘made history’, in his own words.

It was only a few weeks ago that Mamdani hard-launched his wife, who he met on Hinge, sharing a carousel of their wedding pictures on Instagram.

Until recently, the glamorous Syrian illustrator – who uses her art to support America’s growing pro-Palestine movement – was largely absent from her husband’s online mayoral campaign.

#11 Mamdani has been criticized for his defense of the phrase “globalize the intifada”…

An activist for Palestinian causes, Mamdani faced questions over his ability to lead the largest population of Jews outside of Israel. He has refused to say that he supports Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement condemning Mamdani’s defense of the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a reference to the armed Palestinian uprisings against Israel.

#12 During an interview, Mamdani admitted that he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited New York City.

#13 He is already being compared to Barack Obama…

“It really represents the excitement that I saw on the streets all throughout the City of New York,” said Letitia James, the New York attorney general. “I haven’t seen this since Barack Obama ran for president of these United States.”

#14 If Mamdani wins the general election in November, he will be the first Muslim mayor in the entire history of the Big Apple…

If elected this November, Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and is of Indian ancestry, would be the city’s first Muslim and first Asian American mayor.

Okay, so let’s assume for a moment that Mamdani actually wins the general election in November.

If that happens, it will be a major milestone for the progressive movement in this country.

Could it also make Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028?

There has already been a lot of talk that she might run…

Speculation is swirling about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plans for 2028 after she successfully endorsed dark-horse socialist Zohran Mamdani in the heated New York City Democratic mayoral primary.

Many observers believe the lefty “Squad” member will try to move up from her House seat — whether to the Senate or even the White House — in the aftermath of Mamdani’s stunning upset over ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday night.

“It just continues to open more doors,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s former spokesperson and author of America’s Undoing Substack, told The Post. “It just broadens her horizons.”

Even though the U.S. has been moving to the left for decades, I still don’t think that this country is ready for a socialist in the White House.

But I could be wrong.

Very few of the experts thought that Mamdani had a chance to win.

Now it is likely that he will be the next mayor of New York City.

We have allowed socialist ideology to be preached in our high schools, colleges and universities for a long time, and so we shouldn’t be surprised that large numbers of our young people are now socialists.

We are reaping what we have sown, and this is just the beginning.

CHINA DELIVERED FAKE DRIVER LICENSES TO ALLOW MASS ILLEGAL VOTING FOR BIDEN IN 2020 ELECTION, FBI HID THIS INFORMATION, TIK TOK USER DATA USED TO CREATE FALSE ID’S

Patel, Bongino say prior FBI leaders hid evidence of Chinese interference in 2020 election

“Previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people,” the bureau’s new top two leaders say.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino alleged Tuesday that the bureau’s prior leadership “chose to play politics” and hide evidence from the American people of a Chinese plot to hijack the 2020 U.S. election with fake mail-in ballots for Joe Biden.

The two FBI leaders’ statement came a week after Just the News reported Patel turned over to Congress earlier this month a long-hidden intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to carry out a scheme to swing the 2020 election to Biden with fake mail-in ballots.

Patel located the evidence based on information that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, got from whistleblowers and forwarded to the FBI, officials said.

Patel and Bongino said Tuesday they are committed to getting Grassley and the American public more evidence about the plot and the failure to fully investigate it.

“Based on our continued review and production of FBI documents related to the CCP’s plot to interfere in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people – exposing the weaponization of law enforcement for political purposes during the height of the 2020 election season,” Patel and Bongino said in statement given to Just the News.

“Thanks to the great Oversight work of Chairman Grassley, the information the old FBI regime covered up will now be released to the public,” they added. “This FBI leadership team will continue keeping our promise of aggressive transparency and working around the clock to fix the underlying problems to restore the FBI to the trusted institution the American people deserve.”

The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren’t corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies at about the time that then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified there were no known plots of foreign interference ahead of the 2020 election in which Biden defeated Donald Trump, officials told Just the News.

When they were recalled, FBI officials asked fellow spy agencies to destroy their copies of the intelligence report, which included detailed information from a cooperating confidential human source.

“This report was recalled in order to re-interview the source. Recipients should destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings,” the recall notice obtained by Just the News stated.

The subject line of the FBI intelligence bulletin succinctly stated the potential nature of the alleged plot: “Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver’s Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020

That said, the FBI bulletin provided significantly detailed information for agencies to investigate as leads to make sure the U.S. election wasn’t being hijacked by a foreign power seeking to exploit a sudden explosion in mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic that struck earlier in 2020.

“In late August 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States driver’s licenses that were secretly exported to the United States,” the report reads “The fraudulent driver’s licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden despite not being eligible to vote in the United States.”

“China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address, which would allow the Chinese government to use real US persons’ information to create the fraudulent driver’s license,” the report continues. “The fraudulent driver’s licenses were to include true ID number and true address of US citizens, making them difficult to detect. China planned to use the fraudulent driver’s licenses to account for tens of thousands of mail-in votes.”

GET USA RESIDENCY WITH $5 MILLION COST GOLDEN VISA, ALMOST 70,000 HAVE APPLIED!

Lutnick hails Trump’s $5mn investor visa as almost 70,000 apply

Programme to grant foreigners legal residency in US in exchange registers 68,703 people on waiting list

a person looking at the new website on a phone and laptop for the planned $5 million US residency permit — Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump card will be made of gold. ‘It will be beautiful’ © Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images

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Nearly 70,000 people have signed up for the new golden Trump Card, a visa scheme led by commerce secretary Howard Lutnick that will grant foreigners legal residency in the US at a cost of $5mn.

Last week, Lutnick’s department launched a website — trumpcard.gov — for would-be applicants to register their interest in the visa and to provide basic contact information, including their name, email address and region of the world. The card shown on the website features President Donald Trump’s face and signature, as well as an eagle, the Statue of Liberty and the American flag.

On Monday morning, Lutnick said his department’s internal online dashboard showed 67,697 people on the waiting list. Within an hour, the number had jumped to 68,703.

“The card will be made of gold,” the US commerce secretary told the Financial Times. “It will be beautiful.”

“Donald Trump appreciates these kinds of things. He cares about how it looks. He cares about how it feels. I mean, he deeply cares about that, and thinks if you’re going to buy and make this investment in America, we should give you something that is beautiful.”

Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick — US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has said issuing 200,000 visas would reap $1tn for the Treasury © Eric Lee/Bloomberg

Lutnick has said the initial idea for the visa came from billionaire Trump donor John Paulson as a way to raise revenue for the US and help it pay down its $36tn debt.

The commerce secretary said the Trump Card will appeal to business leaders and companies seeking legal residency in the US for themselves or their employees.

The chief executive of a global technology company who asked not to be named said through a spokesperson that his group would seek to buy more than 100 Trump cards if the scheme comes to “fruition”, adding he viewed the initiative as a way “to welcome the world’s best and brightest to the United States — particularly entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists”.

In 1990, Congress created a route to permanent residency for foreign investors through the EB-5 visa programme, which has a minimum investment of up to $1.8mn. About 14,000 such visas were granted last year, according to Invest In the USA, an EB-5 trade association.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick is pressing for the new scheme to replace the EB-5 visa, and is planning to expedite the creation of a much larger programme within months.

The commerce department plans to issue tens of thousands of Trump cards over the summer, said people familiar with the matter. Lutnick has said issuing 200,000 visas would reap $1tn for the Treasury.

Lutnick in May travelled with the president to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and concluded his conversations with foreign dignitaries with a pitch for the Trump Card.

“Whenever I meet with international executives, I always go through it with them and sell it to them,” he said. “I can’t help myself.”

The White House still needs to determine crucial details about the scheme, although three months ago Lutnick claimed on the All-In Podcast that it would launch in about a fortnight.

The design of a special tax structure for Trump Card holders has yet to be finalised, and while the vetting of applicants is expected to be done by the departments of homeland security, state and commerce, Trump has not decided whether citizens of any particular countries would be excluded from applying.

The White House has banned travel to the US from a dozen nations and is reportedly considering others.

Italian billionaire and stablecoin Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino in April told the FT that the success of such visas depended on the tax treatment they afforded.

Ardoino, who has partnered with Lutnick’s former firm Cantor Fitzgerald in a crypto venture, said “the problem” with Americans is “wherever they go, they have to pay taxes in the US”.