As of 3 PM on primary day, only about 330,000 NYC voters had cast ballots, compared to over 710,000 at the same time during Mamdani's mayoral primary win in 2025.
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Claire Valdez's victory rally clips show her leading 'are we ready to abolish ICE?' chants, arguing that the same billionaires funding war abroad are squeezing workers at home. Her May 2026 comments on trans children — calling politicians who trade away trans people 'absolute cowards' — echo Chevalier and Lander verbatim, revealing the DSA's coordinated messaging. Shapiro calls this the 'omni-cause' — a rhetorical frame that collapses Gaza, labor rights, housing, trans identity, and anti-Americanism into a single revolutionary project. He then briefly profiles Aber Kawas, a Palestinian-American who won the Queens Democratic state senate primary, playing a clip from around nine years ago in which she appeared to frame the 9/11 attacks as a logical consequence of American capitalism and racism. Shapiro notes that there's no evidence her views have changed.
Mamdani's victories came on less than half the turnout of his own mayoral primary. Politico noted the turnout machine was 'AWOL.' But the DSA doesn't need high turnout — they need the claim of momentum, and the media is giving it to them.
Kalanick estimates that a decade ago, 90% of media coverage of tech business was negative, treating companies like political targets.
2024–2025 marked the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder in the US since 1937.
From 2024 to 2025, violent crime decreased 9%, property crime decreased 12.4%, and motor vehicle theft decreased 23%.
California's Ebony Alert Program, designed for the swift recovery of missing Black youth and women, officially went into effect on January 1, 2024.
Andrew Santino discovered that American tourists now need to pay $20 to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit the UK, starting January 2025.
Kay Classman, a 28-year-old woman, was arrested for repeatedly enrolling in a Bronx high school posing as a 16-year-old student across multiple school districts.
A poll around 2011 found that 16% of Americans believed 9/11 was an inside job, illustrating how viral misinformation had already embedded itself in public opinion before social media peaked.
Andrew Wilson offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theory, but she refused.
According to the podcast, only 11 people were killed by the coordinated Israeli pager attack on Hezbollah operatives, despite widespread detonations.
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