New York Democrats enraged over Trump reigning in the federal Leviathan are falling back on their favorite standby — namely, taxation:

Gov. Kathy Hochul and US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand warned that the possible Department of Education eradication President Trump has alluded to will cause property taxes to spike across the state. …

“This is $5.5 billion that the State receives annually from the Department of Education — $3.2 billion goes directly into our budget, $2.3 billion goes to localities. If that money is jeopardized, what I can tell you will happen, localities lose that money, they will have to raise taxes,” Hochul said.

You mean New Yorkers might have to pay to have their children corrupted and indoctrinated rather than educated instead of the rest of the country being forced to finance it? The horror!

Of course, New Yorkers would no longer have to finance the ruining of children’s minds in other parts of the country. But then, other parts of the country might not go along with the Department of Education’s leftist agenda after the federal Swamp has relinquished control of education. That’s what has Hochul so mad.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

To prevent it from fragmenting into chaos, the USA has the Supremacy Clause, according to which federal law supersedes state law. Yet local jurisdictions governed by liberals thumb their noses at federal immigration and drug laws. Since they are not forced to, why should local leftists comply with anything federal that does not meet with their approval? A deep blue state might even inflict sex change procedures on children in defiance of a presidential executive order. Flipping everything upside down, a state AG might declare it illegal not to commit these crimes against humanity:

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments.

According to James, not to disfigure children as sacrifices to LGBTism constitutes discrimination.

No wonder firefighters boo this Soros-installed anarchotyrant.

Never mind making Greenland part of the USA for now. First, let’s focus on reclaiming New York — which under moonbat rule is effectively no longer part of the country.

Conservative lawyer and Trump ally Mike Davis has warned that James’s antics could land her “fat ass in prison.” Interesting times are unfolding.

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The illegal immigration crisis is worse than some realize. Citing data from the Center for Migration Services, a report from Kathy Hochul’s administration acknowledges 470,100 undocumented workers in New York alone, accounting for nearly one in six employees — and that’s just the illegal aliens who have jobs. We are told that the deportations Trump promised will send the state’s economy into a tailspin by depleting manpower.

Few people in the country illegally are involved in high-skilled trades. Says Hochul,

“Most of them work as construction workers, maids/housekeepers, cooks, home and personal care aides, janitors, and delivery drivers, among other occupations.”

Yet for unspecified reasons they cannot be replaced by Americans currently on welfare.

Exacerbating the problem,

Hochul’s report also noted that remote work has contributed to an exodus of New York residents to lower cost states.

Seems like only yesterday Hochul was sneering that New York Republicans should move to Florida — as many have.

Since New York Democrats are worried about the economy, they must be planning to stop spending so much. Or maybe not. Consider the fiscal year 2026 budget:

The budget is a whopping $252 billion, up about $9 billion from the year before, as Hochul advocates for even more government spending and more “redistribution” — a euphemism for confiscating income and giving it to someone who didn’t earn it.

A formerly temporary tax increase will be extended.

These higher tax rates are a key reason why New York is hemorrhaging people at an alarming rate — the fastest rate, in fact, of any state.

At least New York has plenty of clean-burning natural gas it can extract to generate revenue. But I’m forgetting: that would offend the climate.

Meanwhile,

Hochul’s proposed budget also costs taxpayers more than $1 billion in failed “green” energy “investments” that have negative real returns.

Once a city has entered the Democrat Death Spiral — whereby Democrat policies drive out productive citizens, resulting in an ever more Democrat electorate — it is as doomed as formerly wealthy Detroit. As New York has shown, the same applies at the state level.

On tips from Wiggins and Jack D.

New York City public schools are implementing a black studies curriculum called the Education Equity Action Plan, from pre-K to 12th grade, mandatory for all students in the USA’s largest school system. Jared Taylor is unimpressed regarding the effect the action plan is likely to have on test scores:

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) must be happy about the pre-K lesson devoted to Juneteenth, the federal holiday he created in obeisance to Black Lives Matter race rioters.

Taxpayers are forced to pay for this toxic cultural Marxist BS through the teeth:

New York’s lavish pay, pension and health care plans pushed for by powerful teachers’ unions helped ramp up spending on school districts to a staggering $89 billion…

For $89 billion, imagine how many cans of Raid you could buy. You might even have enough to clean out New York’s educracy, if not the teachers unions.

Teachers in New York State — who are not required to achieve basic literacy because that would be racist — make $92,696 per year on average for what is effectively a part-time job. This is a form of looting as surely as the mostly peaceful protests effectively advocated by John Cornyn.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and seaoh.

Moonbattery is often why we can’t have nice things. An example from the People’s Republic of New York:

A new broadband law is going into effect this week in New York state requiring internet provider to offer low-income residents access to monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps. As a response, AT&T has decided that it no longer plans to offer its 5G home internet in the Empire State…

As anyone with even a junior high understanding of economics is probably aware, price controls mean shortages. Ultimately the shortages result in products and services disappearing entirely.

“While we are committed to providing reliable and affordable internet service to customers across the country, New York’s broadband law imposes harmful rate regulations that make it uneconomical for AT&T to invest in and expand our broadband infrastructure in the state,” the company said in a statement provided to CNET.

As it descends into end-stage moonbattery, New York becomes less a part of the USA. Kevin O’Leary has advised against trying to do business there.

If the Empire State were to become its own country, private internet providers would be taxed and regulated out of existence. The government would step in to replace them, resulting in little if any internet service. But at least it would be free, meaning that someone else would be forced to pay for it.

On a tip from Wiggins.

On a tip from Wiggins.

…maybe it’s just as well:

Daniel Penny won’t always be there when you need him.

A few more years of moonbat rule and you couldn’t get Snake Plissken to visit.

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The fad of punching random women in the face must have run its course. New York City has moved on to something new. Just 5 days after illegal immigrant Sebastin Zapeta killed a woman by setting her on fire on a subway train, we read this:

A homeless man was injured after he reportedly caught on fire inside Manhattan’s Penn Station on Friday night and investigators are probing the cause of the blaze, authorities and sources said.

He is fortunately in stable condition.

The man told police he believes somebody set him ablaze, claiming he was sleeping and woke up on fire, law enforcement sources said.

Although it is unclear what actually happened, readers are advised to avoid NYC subways and NYC in general until civilization has been restored.

Such fads won’t follow those escaping New York for Florida. Here’s why:

Criminals learn to be less bold when their potential victims can fight back.

Government can’t get much bigger than it is in Democrat-dominated New York. Yet New Yorkers cannot expect even a minimal level of safety. From this, we can conclude that Big Government does not make us safe.

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Truth will out. Despite the influence purchased by government grants, scientists acknowledge that CO2 emissions are not harmful; on the contrary, they are beneficial. Yet even as the global warming hoax unravels, insatiably greedy Democrats exploit it as a pretext to loot:

New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law on Thursday.

Fossil fuels companies make our comfortable lives possible. Without them, we would be unable to sustain our current population; many of us would starve. In contrast, Democrats like Hochul do nothing but confiscate our money and make our lives worse. Yet the latter have the whip hand.

If this flies, it will spread:

“New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: The companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” New York Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat who co-sponsored the bill, said in a statement.

In contrast to fair laws, this one will be imposed retroactively:

Fossil fuel companies will be fined based on the amount of greenhouse gases they released into the atmosphere between 2000 and 2018…

Vermont has already passed a similar law.

All human activity produces CO2, which according to liberal ideology is infinitely harmful because it is a threat to life on earth. So Democrats may as well cut to the chase and confiscate everything from everyone. The name for that is Marxism, which is what climate ideology has been about from the beginning.

On tips from Wiggins and ABC of the ANC.

Let’s take another ride on the subway in the sanctuary city New York:

A migrant from Guatemala was arrested in connection to the heinous death of a woman who was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday.

Sebastin Zapeta entered the country illegally. He had been arrested previously but was still running loose in our country.

The NYPD said the killing happened at the Stillwell Avenue Subway station in Coney Island at about 7:30 a.m.

Lighter fluid was used to turn the sleeping woman into a torch. This kind of behavior prevails as NYC disintegrates under liberal rule and potential heroes are terrorized by authorities into minding their own business. The Alvin Bragg types in charge want a world of Sebastin Zapetas, not a world of Daniel Pennys.

Now the good news. Leftist Governor Kathy Hochul says the subways are safe:

At 3:40pm Sunday, hours after the story broke, the New York Governor Hochul bizarrely posted photos of herself smiling with straphangers as she praised the safety of the subway lines.

‘In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day,’ she said.

Imagine how scary they would be if Hochul hadn’t taken action.

Meanwhile:

A TikTok executive who got slashed in the face by a stranger on a New York City subway is suing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for what he describes as “systemic negligence.” The attack, which left him with severe physical and psychological scars, occurred on May 10, 2023, while he was commuting on a southbound C train in Brooklyn.

Gideon Moncrieffe had attempted to intervene in an altercation between a maniac and a drunk. You meet all sorts under the streets of New York. At least Bragg didn’t throw him in jail.

The problem with using lawsuits to compel Democrats to maintain a limited level of public safety is that they even if they lose, they don’t have to pay; taxpayers do.

On tips from Wiggins, Bluto, WDS 2.0, Varla, and ABC of the ANC.

Black Santa is culturally incongruous but not transgressive enough for true moonbats. Add sacrilege to the political correctness by replacing Saint Nick with Transgender Claus:

On a tip from Wiggins.

Among the strong messages voters sent in the November election is that people are sick of Democrats devaluing our earnings and savings by driving up inflation with grossly irresponsible spending. New York Governor Kathy Hochul did not get the memo:

Hochul is proposing giving New Yorkers a one-time payment to help deal with inflation.

More government spending to help with the inflation caused by government spending makes as much sense as calling an inflationary Green New Deal spendfest the “Inflation Reduction Act.”

Families making as much as $300,000 will get $500 while individuals earning $150,000 or less will receive $300, Hochul said.

Sounds fair.

The handouts will be paid for through sales taxes. As Hochul’s fellow Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres notes,

“New York has a Governor who gives with one hand while taking with the other.”

Good thing the Empire State is not an independent country that can print its own money. The currency would be worth the same as Zimbabwe’s.

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The main difference between what they did to Derek Chauvin and what they tried to do to Daniel Penny is that by now, not even the most pathetically naive would let the media dupe them into seeing BLM types as the good guys (try as MSNBC might).

Via Washington Free Beacon:

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist appeared to threaten Daniel Penny and called for violence after Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a deranged homeless man on the New York City subway last year.

Hawk Newsome, who cofounded Black Lives Matter Greater New York and now leads a new activist group called Black Opportunities, shouted “It’s a small world” in the court shortly after the jury acquitted Penny, according to reporters in attendance. At a press conference after the court was dismissed, Newsome said, “We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same?”

That is what a prosecutor might call an explicit call for violence — though not a moonbat prosecutor like Dafna Yoran.

Just a few years ago, white liberal fools shoveled money at vermin like this by the $millions:

Whether black supremacists get traction this time around remains to be seen.

Newsome was an organizer behind protests outside the court each day during the Penny trial. Activists shouted “Murderer, Murderer” and waved signs that said “Convict Daniel Penny.”

Penny’s attorneys suggested the behavior was a form of jury intimidation in court on Monday and asked prosecutors to do more for jurors not to hear their chants. Shortly after that request was denied, Penny was found not guilty on Monday.

Kudos to the jury for showing some guts. They don’t make them like that in Minneapolis. Maybe it is not too late for New York to throw off moonbat rule.

On tips from Varla and Tlabia Majora.

Daniel Penny is being tried for manslaughter because a violent psychopath died while he was restraining him so that he could not harm other NYC subway passengers. As with Derek Chauvin, his actual crime is his skin color. Can Penny get a fair trial in the jurisdiction that found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of nothing in particular? Maybe — but probably not if it is up to prosecutor Dafna Yoran:

Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who urged jurors at Daniel Penny’s subway chokehold trial to convict him of manslaughter on Tuesday, once sought reduced punishment for a Manhattan mugger who killed an 87-year-old over $300 in 2019 under the concept of “restorative justice.”

Matthew Lee, 57, snuck up on the victim, a former Lehman College professor named Dr. Young Kun Kim, from behind at a Citibank ATM on Broadway on May 13, 2018, video shows.

Lee killed Kim with a punch to the head. Presumably because Lee is black and Kim was Asian, making the former the victim according to leftist ideology, the prosecutor’s heart went out to Lee.

Lee was charged with manslaughter instead of felony murder, reducing his potential sentence from 25 years to life to 10 years.

The same charge as with Penny. Under moonbats like Yoran, murdering an old man in the course of robbing him can be the legal equivalent of defending innocent bystanders from a threatening maniac.

Lee is eligible for parole in 2026. Penny could get 15 years if Yoran is successful.

Watch in horror that kooks like this are running the justice system in our largest city as Yoran explains her(?) reasoning:

On tips from Tlabia Majora and Wiggins.