Chevalier co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group associated with Mahmoud Khalil that called for eliminating Western civilization. She believes all deportations are wrong, wants to abolish prisons, and tweeted in 2019 'seize the means of production.' She just won a Democratic congressional primary.
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Shapiro plays the actual TV ad Mamdani ran during the NBA Finals: a 30-second spot featuring Daria-Liza Chevalier pledging to abolish ICE, Brad Lander pledging to block billionaires, and Claire Valdez pledging to take on greedy corporations. Every single one of them won. Shapiro then plays Mamdani's victory speech, in which the mayor declared that last June's primary win was 'not an anomaly — it was the beginning.' Mamdani told supporters they could now speak 'a language of fact' rather than a language of hope. [1] — Ben Shapiro "NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran an ad during the NBA Finals backing three radical congressional candidates. All three won — Daria-Liza Chevali…" 25:43 Shapiro identifies this as a textbook execution of Step 2: claim victory, claim momentum, make it feel unstoppable.
All three candidates endorsed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a TV ad aired during the NBA Finals won their Democratic congressional primaries.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran an ad during the NBA Finals backing three radical congressional candidates. All three won — Daria-Liza Chevalier in NY-13, Brad Lander in NY-10, and Claire Valdez in NY-7. Shapiro calls it the beachhead the DSA needed.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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