3+ day, 15+ hour ago (479+ words) The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration. Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration's'third-country deportation program. His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as "disgraceful and disgusting." A teaser for the New Yorker's story on X quoted Etoria as crying about how being taken "to another land in shackles and chains" helped him "imagine how the slaves might have felt" " without focusing on his violent record for murder and other gun crimes. "I see you conveniently forgot…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (553+ words) The Issue: Increasing support for socialism amid New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's win. All of you who smugly vote for socialists should heed Margaret Thatcher's words of wisdom: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money ("Socialist NYC? Yes we "Khan," Nov. 15)." This is the most basic flaw in socialism's economic structure. It will never succeed in New York City or anywhere else. It seems that New Yorkers suffer from not knowing history and economics. Too many ignorant people are voting in too many ignorant politicians. Millions of the illegal immigrants who flooded the United States were escaping from socialism in South America, Central America and Cuba. Socialism is a system that makes everyone poor except for those in control. Meanwhile, capitalism is the best source of social justice ever devised by man;…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago (116+ words) Before his arrest on sex trafficking charges, Jeffrey Epstein gave a rare string of interviews to reporter Charles Gasparino, insisting he was no sex trafficker and claiming ignorance of his victims" ages. Now, in the aftermath of Epstein"s death, Gasparino looks back on those off-the-record exchanges and provides a glimpse into Epstein"s private world. Before his arrest on sex trafficking charges, Jeffrey Epstein gave a rare string of interviews to reporter Charles Gasparino, insisting he was no sex trafficker and claiming ignorance of his victims" ages. Now, in the aftermath of Epstein"s death, Gasparino looks back on those off-the-record exchanges and provides a glimpse into Epstein"s private world....

3+ week, 5+ hour ago (1129+ words) As awful as the mayoral election outcome was for sensible New Yorkers, misguided Washington Republicans plan to use the results as a club to further punish the city. If they succeed in hitting Gotham with enormous financial penalties for electing socialist radical Zohran Mamdani, the GOP wackos will end up penalizing all 8 million New Yorkers, including the 1 million who rejected Mamdani to vote for other candidates. The efforts also could turn Mamdani into a martyr, which would boost his popularity and inspire far-leftist copycat candidates across America. Another unintended consequence of the daffy congressional effort could be the death of the election chances of one of their own. Upstate Republican firebrand Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she will run against Gov. Hochul next year. Stefanik, the star of GOP efforts to hold college presidents responsible for the antisemitism on…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (479+ words) One of four journalists recently fired by Cond" Nast for confronting the company's head of human resources is asking internet users for help covering his rent. Ex-senior writer for Wired Jake Lahut was seen in a Wednesday video clip standing feet away from HR boss Stan Duncan as angry employees confronted to exec over layoffs tied to Cond's downsizing of Teen Vogue. The layoffs of Lahut and three others came just hours later. Lahut wrote on Spotfund that he's seeking short-term help in the wake of his firing. "After getting terminated as one of the Fired Four at Cond" Nast, I need to shore up a couple months of rent as I get on my feet," he wrote. "Any amount helps," Lahut added. "Plus, New York is expensive!" As of Friday afternoon, the scribe had received more than $5,000 from dozens…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago (264+ words) PornHub traffic plummeted in the Big Apple on Tuesday night as nervous New Yorkers watched the election count come in, new data from the website reveals. Visits to the X-rated site were down a staggering 41% at 10 p.m., around the time Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took to the stage to make his victory speech. Given Mamdani's popularity in certain Brooklyn neighborhoods known as "the commie corridor," it's no surprise the traffic drop was most pronounced in that borough, down 35% on average for the entire evening (6 p.m. to 12 a.m.). Voters in Staten Island appeared to be the least invested in the election outcome, with that borough seeing the smallest drop in traffic, down just 15% in the same time period. Meanwhile, young voters were more likely to swap porn for politics on Tuesday, with viewership dropping most acutely among those aged between 18 and 35. Meanwhile, the dirty data…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (563+ words) Mayor Eric Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday as part of his taxpayer-funded multi-day trip to the Holy Land " as he took a veiled swipe at his successor Zohran Mamdani's incoming tenure. In what could be his final foreign trip as mayor, Adams said he met with Netanyahu to reaffirm New York City's ties with Jerusalem, with the Big Apple housing the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel. "Just met with Prime Minister @netanyahu where we discussed the fight against antisemitism and the unbreakable bond between New York City and Israel," Adams wrote on X. "We stand strong, proud, and united against antisemitism and all other forms of hate," he said. Adams, who left for Israel on Friday, emphasized the connection with Israel was important " a tie he feared could be undone under the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1040+ words) Moms on Manhattan's Upper East Side are embroiled in a Facebook feud over the mayoral election of Zohran Mamdani. The private cyber scuffle spilled out into the pages of left-leaning New York magazine, which published a gossipy hit piece detailing how warring factions were battling it out on two private chat groups: Moms of the Upper East Side (MUES) and UES Mommas. Barely were the ballots finally counted before hundreds of residents in the ritzy neighborhood "who voted for Andrew Cuomo by a 24-point margin " posted panicked messages saying they were frightened and fleeing, fearing the Democratic socialist's radical policies would turn the Big Apple into 1930s Germany. "With all my love for NYC I can't believe 50% +- of the city voted for this joker," one mortified momma moaned on the MUES page, which has more than 35,000 members and is usually reserved…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (304+ words) Follow along on our election results map as the race for New York City mayor between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa nears the finish line. A record number of New Yorkers made their voices heard in the heated, historic election that pegged a socialist as the Democratic candidate against a three-term former governor running as an independent " and a Republican candidate who just wouldn't call it quits. As of 6 p.m., 1.01 million voters had cast their ballots on Election Day, in addition to the 732,000 who voted early " a massive turnout of more than 1.7 million, more than any since the 1993 mayoral race. Some 124,000 mail-in ballots also already came in, the city Board of Elections said. The 1993 mayoral race saw 1.898 million votes, and turnout in such elections dwindled until 2001, when about 1.5 million New Yorkers cast their ballots, electing Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (739+ words) A former CBS News producer accused the network of "race-based layoffs" after corporate parent Paramount Skydance introduced sweeping cuts, claiming in a viral TikTok that every producer laid off from his team was a person of color while white colleagues were reassigned. Trey Sherman, who is black, served as an associate producer for "CBS Evening News+," a streaming extension of the network's flagship broadcast that was among the programs shuttered during the layoffs. He also worked for CBS's Race and Culture Unit, which was dissolved in the same round of cuts that affected about 100 staffers across the division. Sherman said in a TikTok posted Wednesday: "I just got laid off from my job at CBS, and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color. Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated…...