NYC Rent Hits Record High Under Mamdani

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Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of “affordability.” Let’s check in on how affordable housing has become under the Marxist mayor.

Via ZeroHedge:

New data from The Corcoran Group, a major residential real estate brokerage founded in NYC, shows that rents in the metro area have climbed to a new record high.

Manhattan’s median rent rose 8% from a year earlier to $5,295, while Brooklyn reached $4,350, also up 8%, according to the report. Manhattan’s vacancy rate narrowed to 1.49%. In Queens, Rego Park posted particularly sharp increases, with one-bedroom rents up 12% and studio rents up more than 20%.

Under progressive hyperregulation, new housing does not get built. Landlords cannot afford to maintain what housing already exists due to rent control. Meanwhile, liberals have flooded the sanctuary city with hordes of foreigners, many of them here illegally; a staggering 40% of NYC rental units are occupied by people born in other countries.

Less supply + more demand = higher prices. The economics is so simple, even socialists could understand it. But they choose not to.

Uh oh:

City Comptroller Mark Levine commented on the new report, saying, “NYC’s housing affordability crisis is at DEFCON 1. We need to push harder on every front to address our housing shortage.”

Wrong. They need to stop pushing and let the free market provide people with a place to live, while allowing ICE to do its job, which will decrease the pressure from abroad that has helped drive up housing costs.

Instead, they will double down on Marxist policies until they achieve their objective of 100% government housing. Those who manage to secure a unit will find themselves living in Cabrini-Green. But at least they can force everyone else to pay for it.

On a tip from patthedog.

Children Confiscated From Christian Parents in Sweden

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Ever since the French Revolution, leftists have aspired to de-Christianize society. The moonbats running Sweden even confiscated Sara and Tiana Samson from their parents Daniel and Bianca, evidently for being too Christian.

Here’s how it started, via Discern Report:

Sara, then 11, told officials at her school that her parents had abused her. She was angry that they would not let her wear makeup or have a smartphone. Within days she admitted she had invented the story, and her younger sister Tiana confirmed it. Prosecutors investigated and found no evidence of abuse.

That should have been the end of it. But social engineers have kept the girls from their parents since 2022.

Pressed to justify the separation, officials pointed to the family’s habits. They attended church three times a week. The girls did not paint their nails. The home had no television. The parents read their daughters Bible stories, which Daniel Samson says authorities characterized as violent. Out of these ordinary marks of a devout Christian household, the Swedish state constructed a charge of “religious extremism” and used it to keep two little girls from their mother and father.

The girls have not flourished since Big Government took over as their parent.

Daniel Samson says both girls have attempted suicide repeatedly in state custody, six or seven times by his count, and that his eldest daughter has since been placed in an adult psychiatric facility. He reports that Sara began using drugs while in the state’s care. The girls have been shuffled through foster placements and, according to the family, are now barred from seeing their parents at all after the Samsons took their story public.

Yet authorities remain resolute:

The family has lost 14 times in Swedish courts, and in March the European Court of Human Rights ruled their final appeal inadmissible.

The girls have been pleading to go home. They can take solace from Isaiah 49:25:

But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

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Foreign Adolescents Help Administer Elections in California

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As Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton can tell you, California elections have degenerated into a banana republic farce. Helping to administer them are adolescents from other countries.

Natalie Winters reports:

Documents reviewed by this publication reveal that California officials are directing public schools to identify teenagers as young as 16 to work inside polling locations during the November 2026 election, including lawful permanent residents who are not United States citizens.

Those who speak a language other than English get a $100 bilingual bonus.

County election agencies say they may issue ballots, check voters off official rosters, help operate election equipment, assist voters throughout the day, prepare ballots for pickup, and participate in closing polling locations.

Nobody knows how many foreign teenagers have already been doing this; the state doesn’t track it. But those in charge want more:

The recruitment campaign appears in a June 30 letter signed by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and distributed to county superintendents, charter school administrators, and high school principals across the state.

Unsurprisingly, this campaign is endorsed by left-wing NGOs:

The expansion was supported by California Common Cause, the League of Women Voters of California, the California Immigrant Policy Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, and several other immigration advocacy organizations.

Students may not only administer but host elections:

The same letter encourages school districts to turn their campuses into vote centers, effectively transforming California’s public-school system into both election infrastructure and an election-worker recruitment pipeline.

Consider the kind of people running schools in California and you can see the cause for alarm.

Meanwhile, California high school kids are paid with public funds to be left-wing activists and the state has passed an emergency law to prevent federal oversight of elections.

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Multicultural Enrichment Live on Greek TV

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As the Great Replacement tide continues to surge, multicultural enrichment is so prevalent that the media can’t help but report it, even if by accident. Watch as a diversity-enhancing migrant rips a gold cross necklace off an elderly woman’s neck live on Greek TV:

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Muslim Countries Turn Away Gay Cruise Ship

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They may have common adversaries, but Muslims and LGBTers are not on the same page when it comes to floating bacchanalias.

Via Townhall:

[A] gay cruise operated by Atlantis Events was denied docking in Turkey precisely because the passengers are gay men. The cruise, which left from Athens on July 5, said it would dock in Cairo, Egypt, instead.

There’s just one problem: Egypt denied them, too.

The difference between Muslims and moonbats is that Muslims are not wrong about everything.

It could be a health issue. Muslims might not like diarrhea.

Don’t worry, gay cruisers; Israel will take you for sure. But I’m forgetting; Israel is no good because it is part of Western Civilization.

Maybe they should try Gaza. The locals would be glad to show them the nice views from rooftops.

On tips from abcanc, Wiggins, and seaoh.

Death by Socialized Medicine

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The good thing about medical care in the UK is that it is largely free (unless you pay taxes). The bad thing is that you get what you pay for.

The Beeb reports from East Kilbride, Scotland:

A 55-year-old man died alone after twice calling 999 only to be told by call handlers an ambulance would not be sent for him.

999 is the British 911.

Brian Hurton had an aortic dissection – when a tear opens up in the body’s main artery – on 18 November last year.

He told emergency services he couldn’t breathe and thought he was going to collapse. They said to call back later if he didn’t feel better. When he called again, they said they were busy so a clinician would get back to him. Then he died.

Britons can be grateful that at least they don’t have the Canadian version of socialized medicine. Calling 999 might result in a euthanasia team being dispatched to their door.

On a tip from Steve T.

Tim Walz Hysterically Objects to Election Monitors

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As it has for decades, the DoJ Civil Rights Division will dispatch monitors to various jurisdictions to witness elections. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon explains:

Tim Walz further confirms the Democrat intention to cheat with his hysterical reaction:

“Trump’s DOJ monitoring elections is like a fox monitoring a henhouse.

“We cannot allow our right to vote to be undermined by political interference. Every state must administer their elections free from unlawful federal intrusion.”

100 Percent Fed Up notes that …

…these monitors observe and document. They do not replace Minnesota election officials, run polling places or count the state’s ballots, which makes Walz’s rhetoric sound considerably more dramatic than the actual federal role.

As Shakespeare might put it, the moonbat doth protest too much regarding free and fair elections.

On a tip from patthedog.