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Kacey Musgraves abruptly cancels concert dates from 'Middle of Nowhere' tour
Kacey Musgraves' fans were stuck in a "dry spell" after the country music star canceled tour dates.
Musgraves, 37, was scheduled to open her "Middle of Nowhere" tour on Aug. 20 in Chicago, but fans were recently notified via ticketing agency that the show was canceled.
In addition to the concert at the United Center, her TD Garden show on Aug. 29 in Boston and a stop in Brooklyn on Sept. 2 was also scrapped.
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Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that the "Follow Your Arrow" singer is doing well, and that the tour was always scheduled to begin on Aug. 21, which also coincides with Musgraves' birthday.
Sources also confirmed additional dates were added to the tour after the original announcement, but she went back to the originally scheduled commitments.
Fans were left wondering about the "Space Cowboy" singer after receiving a notification from Ticketmaster that show dates were dropped.
"Please be advised that the Kacey Musgraves concert scheduled for Saturday, August 29, 2026 at TD Garden has been canceled," Reddit screenshots showed.
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"All tickets will be automatically refunded to fans at their original point of purchase. Please allow 7-10 business days for refunds to process."
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Musgraves released her seventh studio album, "Middle of Nowhere," in May through the relaunched Lost Highway Records label. Shortly before its release, Musgraves announced a two-dozen city tour through the states with stops in LA, Nashville and New York, to name a few.
Inspired by her Texas upbringing, the 13-track album debuted at No. three on the Billboard 200, and has charted at No. 1 on top album sales.
"Middle of Nowhere" marks Musgraves' first album since the wildly successful 2024 catalog "Deeper Well," which received three Grammy nominations, including Best Country Album.
DSA co-chair embraces abolishing Senate, ICE, borders as Democratic infighting escalates
A top Democratic socialist leader on Sunday embraced abolishing the Senate, national borders, prisons and more, laying bare the movement's sweeping agenda as ideological divisions within the Democratic Party continue to deepen.
Speaking to Fox News' Shannon Bream, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) national co-chair Megan Romer fired off a series of "yes" and "true" responses when asked whether the organization's platform calls for dismantling major American institutions.
"[You're advocating for] abolish[ing] the Senate?" Bream asked.
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"True," Romer responded.
Romer also affirmed the organization's support for replacing the presidency and Supreme Court, abolishing ICE, eventually eliminating national borders while granting amnesty to people living in the country illegally, defunding the Pentagon, phasing out prisons and shifting most large corporations to public ownership.
She said some proposals, including abolishing borders and prisons, are part of the organization's long-term vision.
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Explaining the push to eliminate the Senate, Romer called the chamber "an anachronistic institution" that was designed to limit the influence of ordinary Americans.
"It comes from the British House of Lords," she said.
"The Senate was part of the system that was made to make sure that the people didn't have too much of a say. So we want to expand Congress significantly, but make it a unicameral legislature," Romer said.
Romer also defended the DSA's decision to field candidates on the Democratic ballot line despite criticism from party leaders who argue the organization should build its own political party.
"The two parties have, over years and decades, created a system where ballot line access is extremely difficult for third parties," Romer said.
"We run on the Democratic ballot line where it makes sense. We run independents sometimes where that is a viable possibility, but it's a ballot line. What matters is what the voters think, and the voters are overwhelmingly choosing our candidates," she said.
The comments come as a growing number of prominent Democrats warn the party risks alienating voters by embracing positions championed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of 'fomenting hate,' says rhetoric is making New York Jews afraid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of "fomenting hate," arguing Sunday the democratic socialist's anti-Israel rhetoric is dividing New Yorkers and making the city's Jewish community feel unsafe.
"Look what he's doing. He's fomenting hate. He's supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone, but he's trying to turn one group against the other," Netanyahu told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.
Netanyahu said Jewish Americans in New York have told him they are growing more fearful.
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"They're afraid right now, and I don't think it's accidental that after [Mamdani] made this hate speech against Israel and against me, the next day, a Jew is stabbed coming out of a synagogue," he said.
The Israeli leader was referring to last week's stabbing outside a Manhattan synagogue, where authorities allege 51-year-old Raul Morales stabbed a Jewish man in the chest with a screwdriver while shouting "Allahu Akbar."
Reports also allege Morales yelled the same phrase during a separate stabbing of a 57-year-old Asian man.
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"I think that it's shameful. This thing is very bad for New York. I think it's very bad for peace," Netanyahu said, criticizing Mamdani's rhetoric.
Netanyahu appeared to be referring to Mamdani's remarks from last week, in which Mamdani acknowledged that New York City officials lack the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu under the International Criminal Court's (ICC) warrant, but urged federal officials to do so.
Mamdani called Netanyahu a "war criminal" and "the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people" during the address.
Despite Mamdani's repeated insistence that the Israeli leader is not welcome in New York, Netanyahu said he still intends to travel to the city for the United Nations General Assembly which begins in September, where he vowed to "speak the truth" and defend Israel and its ties to the United States from the podium.
"I'm not concerned [about Mamdani]," Netanyahu said.
"I've appeared just about every year... in my prime ministership, unless there are security conditions, but barring that — and I don't expect that to be the case this time — yes, I do intend to come to New York," he said.
The New York City mayor's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Popular pastime sending more Americans to ER with devastating injuries
The Detroit, Michigan, metro area is reporting an uptick in serious incidents related to electric bikes (e-bikes).
Fox 2 Detroit reported that police are seeing a rise in e-bike crashes, while doctors say they're treating a growing number of related injuries.
These incidents have reportedly led some communities to seek restrictions on e-bikes or to ban them altogether.
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Some e-bikes can reach speeds of up to 28 miles per hour, increasing the potential severity of crashes on sidewalks and streets.
Fox 2 Detroit spoke with emergency room doctor Robert Sherwin of the Detroit Medical Center, who reported seeing everything from minor injuries to major trauma related to e-bike incidents.
"These Class 3 bikes are probably more like motor vehicles," he said. "They travel up to 28 miles an hour, and a lot of riders aren't expecting that, might not be experienced in that."
"These e-bikes are heavier than regular bikes, and they travel much faster, but the human body doesn't change just because a bike has a motor."
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Fox 2 Detroit also spoke with local bike shop owner John Hughes, who suggested the "real issue" has always been sharing the road with cars.
"Cars aren't looking out for bikes... people don't respect bikes as a form of transportation, and that's where it gets dangerous."
Hughes continued, "There's a ton of traffic out there. Everyone is on their cellphones. They're texting and driving constantly."
E-bike rider Cam Cason told Fox 2 Detroit that he takes his e-bike to work and school, crediting it as a "very efficient way" to get around.
"Way better than a car, in my opinion," he said. "When you don't have to spend $30 or $40 just to get some gas, use the electric bike to get where you need to go."
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As concerns over e-bike safety grow nationwide, states are beginning to tighten regulations. In New Jersey, a new law enacted this year requires e-bikes to be registered, and riders must be at least 15 years old and possess either a valid driver's license or an e-bike license to operate one.
The law was enacted amid growing concerns about e-bike crashes, including the death of a New Jersey teenager. Supporters argued that licensing, helmet and registration requirements would promote responsible riding and reduce bodily harm.
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NYU Langone Health released an advisory in April on the surge in brain and spine injuries related to e-bikes and scooters among riders and pedestrians in New York City.
According to a study published in the journal Neurosurgery, medical emergencies involving pedal-powered and electric bikes and scooters accounted for nearly 7% of trauma patients admitted to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue.
One-third of the 914 patients treated for injuries involving pedal-powered and electric bikes and scooters suffered a traumatic brain injury. More than two-thirds required hospital admission and about 30% needed intensive care.
Physical harm linked to electric bikes and scooters increased from less than 10% of cases in 2018 to more than half by 2023, according to the study. The most common cause of injury, accounting for about half of all cases, was a collision with a car or truck.
Fewer than one-third of riders wore helmets, which was linked to a "significantly higher rate" of brain and facial injuries. The study found that 20% of patients tested positive for alcohol, which was associated with more severe head trauma and lower rates of helmet use.
Pedestrians struck by electric vehicles suffered brain injuries at nearly twice the rate of riders, according to an analysis of 69 pedestrian cases.
Corresponding author Hannah Weiss, MD, a resident in the Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, commented in a statement that these findings suggest "micromobility injuries are producing serious brain and spinal trauma that demands neurosurgical care at a scale we haven’t seen before."
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"In a busy urban setting, we are seeing more and more of these injuries firsthand," she went on. "The data point to actionable solutions – helmet use, safer bike lane design and enforcement – that could prevent many of these injuries and better protect both riders and pedestrians."
Paul P. Huang, MD, associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and chief of neurosurgery at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, added that the study highlights that "urban infrastructure must continue to improve to keep pace with the rapid rise of electric bikes and scooters."
"Future studies should track these injuries across multiple cities and measure whether protected bike lanes, helmet programs and speed enforcement actually reduce the number of brain and spine surgeries we perform," Huang said.
CNN panelist blames 'culture war' retribution as reason for Ryan Clark's ESPN departure
Ryan Clark is no longer employed by ESPN.
After it was first reported by OutKick that Clark would be among a collection of on-air talents let go by the four-letter network Tuesday, July 21, the story shifted focus to a combination of cause and blame around the situation, and not the termination itself.
Clark was told the news on Monday during a taping of ESPN's 'NFL Live' after OutKick had obtained the information and had asked the network for comment. ESPN acted in such a manner, telling Clark during a taping, in an attempt to keep OutKick's Dan Zaksheske and Bobby Burack from breaking the story.
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In his first public comments following his ouster, Clark accused ESPN of intentionally leaking the news to OutKick. The fact that OutKick obtained the information hasn't exactly sat right with at least one CNN contributor.
During 'CNN This Morning' on Sunday, Jason "Jah" Lee raised questions about the situation as a whole while also pointing to Clark getting caught up in a "culture war" leading to his demise at ESPN.
"I think Ryan Clark got swept up in some level of culture war retribution," Lee, the senior editor at Bossip, explained. "The reason he got fired during the segment is because an outlet called OutKick contacted ESPN threatening to leak this information. How would OutKick get this information?
"OutKick is owned by Fox News Corp and was established by Clay Travis. If you know Clay Travis, he is not a bleeding-heart liberal. I feel a lot of this was purposefully done to embarrass Ryan Clark. ESPN has taken a lot of heat for being a liberal bastion lately, and I feel like perhaps [Clark's] bosses thought this was a time to push the other direction."
Clark, a former Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, began his NFL analyst career at ESPN in 2015. According to Burack, he made around $2 million per year, roughly four times what the average NFL analyst earns.
TikTok influencer who accused estranged husband of pedophilia found dead in possible murder-suicide
TikTok influencer Sara Gilson, also known as Sara Duffey, posted weeks ago alleging that her husband was a pedophile. The estranged couple has since been found shot to death in the woman's Oklahoma home in what is reportedly believed to have been a murder-suicide.
Gilson, who had recently filed a protective order against her husband, 48-year-old Jeremiah "Shawn" Duffey, posted the TikTok video on July 11. It was captioned, "Preparing for when Netflix drops a documentary about my soon to be ex husband who I just found out is a pedophile." The video was still visible on her account as of Saturday.
Thirteen days after she posted that video, police reportedly responded to a domestic call on July 24 at 41-year-old Gilson's home. When officers arrived, they found Gilson and Duffey dead from apparent gunshot wounds, according to local outlet KTUL.
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KTUL cited an extended family member who identified the pair as the dead bodies in the home and said that Jeremiah, who went by Shawn, allegedly broke into the home, killed Sara and then himself. Police confirmed the couple's identities, according to local outlet KRMG, but did not say if it was a murder-suicide.
Police insisted there was no threat to the public at this time, according to KRMG.
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Authorities also said that the 911 call came from a juvenile in the house, the local media outlets reported.
Duffey had been ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Gilson as part of her June 10 protective order against him.
On the same day she filed her protective order, another woman filed for a separate protective order against Duffey after he was allegedly spotted "kissing and fondling" her 15-year-old daughter, who played on the youth basketball team Duffey coached, according to The Oklahoman.
Duffey had allegedly been sending the girl inappropriate messages and had given her money "to keep her quiet," the outlet reported.
After the coach was allegedly spotted with the girl, a report had been filed to the Owasso Police Department.
Gilson had also filed two previous protective orders against Duffey, though both were dismissed after Gilson failed to appear at the hearings, People reported.
Gilson and Duffey had reportedly shared children of their own.
Fox News Digital contacted the Owasso Police Department for confirmation and further details.
This red state is strengthening its grip as America's next economic heavyweight
The race to become America's next economic heavyweight may already have a frontrunner.
The latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) migration data show billions of dollars in taxpayer wealth flowing into Texas, while Census figures show the state's largest metropolitan areas continue to outpace much of the country in population growth, strengthening a decades-long shift in America's economic center of gravity.
What's more, Texas isn't relying on a single boomtown. Dallas-Fort Worth added more residents than any metropolitan area in the country over the past year, while Houston, Austin and San Antonio also ranked among the nation's fastest-growing metros.
That unusual breadth gives Texas multiple engines of economic growth, providing businesses with larger labor pools, diversified industries and a broader customer base than states anchored by a single dominant city.
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The population boom has been accompanied by an influx of wealth. IRS migration data analyzed by the Tax Foundation show the Lone Star State gained more than $5 billion in adjusted gross income from interstate movers, while California and New York recorded multibillion-dollar losses.
"Capital follows where there is confidence," Texas Association of Business Chief Policy Officer Gabriela von zur Muehlen previously told Fox News Digital. "And right now there is a tremendous amount of confidence in Texas."
Von zur Muehlen said Texas' tax structure and predictable regulatory environment continue to attract businesses and investment from other states, helping reinforce the state's economic momentum.
While Florida attracted the nation's largest influx of taxpayer wealth and South Carolina posted the strongest inbound migration rate, Texas stood out by combining billions in new taxable income with rapid growth across Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio.
Economists say that combination matters because higher-income households bring spending, investment, entrepreneurship and tax revenue that can accelerate job creation, fuel commercial development and attract even more businesses. Over time, those forces can transform fast-growing metros into some of the nation's most influential economic hubs.
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Unlike simple population counts, adjusted gross income offers a glimpse into the economic resources newcomers bring with them. Higher-income households can contribute disproportionately to consumer spending, investment and local tax collections, making income migration an important measure of a region's long-term economic strength.
The migration data are only part of the story.
Earlier federal estimates showed Texas wasn't just adding residents — it was becoming wealthier on a per-person basis. Despite adding roughly 419,000 residents in 2025, more than any other state, Texas' economic output climbed to about $2.9 trillion, while per-capita GDP continued to rise, suggesting the state's economy was becoming more productive rather than simply larger.
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Business leaders say those trends are creating a self-reinforcing cycle. As more workers and higher-income households relocate to Texas, companies gain access to a larger labor pool and customer base, encouraging additional hiring, investment and expansion. That growth, in turn, creates more jobs and opportunities that can attract even more residents.
The migration has coincided with years of corporate relocations and business investment across the state, particularly in technology, finance, manufacturing and energy. The influx has also fueled new housing developments, logistics hubs, manufacturing projects and expanding commercial corridors across many of Texas' fastest-growing metropolitan areas.
Supporters of Texas' economic model argue its lack of a state income tax, relatively affordable cost of living and business-friendly climate continue attracting both employers and workers, reinforcing the state's long-term growth.
California and New York remain among the nation's largest and most influential economies.
But the latest Census, IRS and federal economic data suggest Texas continues gaining ground by attracting people, taxpayer wealth and economic output simultaneously, an uncommon combination that could reshape where businesses invest, jobs are created, and economic influence grows over the coming decade.
Black bears invade Lake Tahoe homes as break-ins surge and locals fortify defenses
Black bears are increasingly breaking into homes around Lake Tahoe, leaving residents to spend thousands of dollars protecting their properties from hungry wildlife.
So far this year, South Lake Tahoe police have received 174 bear-related calls, compared with 97 during the same period last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Several incidents involved bears making their way into homes.
One local couple told the publication they were washing dishes when they looked up to find a bear standing in their living room.
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The animal wandered through the house, sniffed a tube of toothpaste in the bathroom and urinated on the floor before leaving. It was the couple's second bear break-in within the span of a month, the publication said.
As encounters become more common, some homeowners have begun installing electric mats, reinforced doors and other deterrents that can cost thousands of dollars.
Resident Margaret Deanesly Ziegler has installed everything from electric deterrents to a steel door to protect her summer cabin from bears, spending about $7,500 in the process, WSJ reported.
"I heard the most god-awful noise," the retired physician told the publication. "I heard the house being wrenched, the wood being torn apart."
"The bears are winning," Ziegler said. "I'm the one that's spending the money."
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Similar encounters have occurred across the Lake Tahoe Basin in recent weeks.
Fox News Digital previously reported that a California man deployed bear spray after a black bear charged toward him outside his vacation home over the Fourth of July holiday. He spotted the animal rummaging through a garbage can inside his garage.
Video of the encounter captured the bear rushing toward the homeowner before he deployed the spray, sending the animal running away.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife notes on its website that black bears are "highly food-motivated" and naturally investigate attractive smells in search of food.
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The department recommends eliminating food attractants and blocking access to them with bear-proof containers, electric fencing or electric mats. It also warns that bears accustomed to human food can become increasingly bold and destructive, while cubs often learn those behaviors from their mothers.
The increase in encounters has also sparked debate among Lake Tahoe residents over whether bears or people are driving the problem.
"We don't have a bear problem, we have a people problem," one Reddit user wrote.
Another resident shared that a bear broke into their home earlier this year despite keeping trash secured, writing that they eventually installed bear mats because "it's just the price we pay to live side by side with bears."
Others said bears have remained a routine part of life around Lake Tahoe and that conflicts can often be avoided.
"Bears have been fine in my neighborhood," one user wrote. "Don't leave food or trash out and they just wander through."
Fox News Digital's Brittany Miller contributed to this report.
Mamdani's politics linked to Muslim Brotherhood ideology as New York violence escalates: report
On Tisha B'Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar marking the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the long history of catastrophes that followed, an assailant armed with a knife walked up to two men on Manhattan's Upper West Side and stabbed them. One wore a yarmulke.
Witnesses said the assailant shouted, "Allahu Akbar." The victims, ages 50 and 57, survived. A suspect is in custody, and police are examining the motive. But New York City did not need to wait for a formal designation to understand the gravity of the crime that had been perpetrated.
Only a day earlier, Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish community in the Diaspora, released a video accusing Israel of war crimes and genocide — and declared that Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected leader of the region's only democracy, should be arrested.
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The mayor of an American city has no such power. Municipal leaders are forbidden by law from carrying out their own foreign policy. Nevertheless, Mamdani’s public relations stunt, amplified not only on social media but by the media of record, used language decrying the Jewish state as a criminal enterprise and suggesting that its defenders are fair game, setting the stage for bloodshed.
Jewish organizations had warned that the climate in the city was becoming dangerous. Their prescient warnings became prophetic as police officers cleaned up the crime scene.
It would not be appropriate to claim that any politician placed the weapon in the hands of the man who allegedly stabbed two innocent New Yorkers while attempting to terrorize the American Jewish community.
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I contend something far more uncomfortable and dangerous: words and ideas lead to such actions, and a public culture that brands the Jewish state as genocidal or apartheid and treats "resistance" as a virtue normalizes a permission structure — in the dockets of justice and in the halls of power — in which such violence becomes thinkable.
This is the argument of a report that the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) published on Mamdani in 2025. It is the argument that the events of this week have tragically underscored.
The report traces the origins of Mamdani’s worldview. As a student at Bowdoin College, Mamdani co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. In the aftermath of Oct. 7 — the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — he downplayed the atrocity while characterizing Israel's legally justified defensive response as genocide.
He repeatedly declined to condemn the slogan "globalize the intifada," offering only that he would "discourage" its use, as though a call to export anti-Jewish violence to the streets of America were merely a matter of etiquette. He introduced legislation to punish New York charitable institutions that support Israel. His first act as mayor, before addressing police unions and garbage collection, was to remove the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism from the city’s lexicon.
He accepted a $100,000 donation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization identified by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing case, and he has associated with figures such as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who served as a character witness for the man convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
These are not stray data points. His close friend, influencer Hasan Piker, and political candidates Mamdani has openly endorsed assert that the United States deserved what it got on Sept. 11, 2001 — a travesty as we prepare to honor the 25th anniversary of the attack on New York City itself. Mamdani’s words and actions form a dangerous pattern, and that pattern has a name: the Muslim Brotherhood.
ISGAP research on the Brotherhood's strategic entryism into North America describes a century-long campaign that its own internal documents lay out plainly. "The Project" of 1982 and the "Explanatory Memorandum" of 1991 — evidence entered in federal court — describe a strategy the authors call "civilization jihad": to exploit the freedoms of Western democracies to hollow them out from within, patiently, over generations, until the host society no longer recognizes what has been done to it.
Front organizations advise governments, shape civil-rights policy, embed themselves in universities and cultivate media, all while presenting a moderate face. Qatar underwrites much of it. Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine sit within this ecosystem, and Hamas, which calls itself the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and which the U.S. has designated a foreign terrorist organization, is what the ideology produces.
The Brotherhood is Sunni; the revolutionary regime in Tehran is Shia. On almost everything else, they are rivals, yet they converge on one project: the destruction of Israel and the humiliation of the West. When an American mayoral candidate adopts the same moral and political map, in which Israel is the aggressor and its enemies are the aggrieved, he is not dissenting bravely from consensus. He is translating a dangerous ideology into the fluent, sympathetic idiom of Western progressivism, where it does its most effective work precisely because it no longer seems foreign.
This is why the antisemitism at the center of Mamdani's politics cannot be waved away as a mere progressive ideology. Antisemitism is the oldest early-warning system a society has. It begins with Jews, and it never ends there. The same worldview that marks Jews as obstacles also marks pluralism, free exchange and the liberal democratic order itself as enemies. An assault on the Jews of New York is an assault on the idea of New York, on the essence of the American democratic experiment.
Listen closely to how Mamdani talks about his own city. The wealthy, landlords and the "billionaire class," in his telling, are a shadowy few who hoard the city and lock everyone else out. The language is reminiscent of Der Sturmer and the films produced by Joseph Goebbels. Presented as economic justice, this is familiar and dangerous rhetoric.
The oldest antisemitic libels have always relied on the image of a rich, rootless minority pulling the strings while ordinary people suffer. When a politician's economic populism runs on the same rails as his hostility toward the Jewish state, the two are not unrelated. They draw from the same well. This is why the assault is not merely on Jews or Israel. It is on the very fabric of the U.S. — on the idea that a free society is built through commerce, contract, and pluralism rather than resentment, expropriation and the search for an enemy within.
A man was knifed outside a synagogue on the saddest day of the Jewish year in a city whose mayor spends his energy accusing the Jewish state of genocide. We must say clearly what connects the rhetoric to the risk, refuse the normalization of hatred dressed up as social justice, and insist that words that prepare the ground for violence be named for what they are before the next knife is drawn.
Unrestrained by his theatrical and ineffectual call for Netanyahu’s arrest, Mamdani now calls for massive demonstrations when the Israeli leader visits the city for the U.N. General Assembly in September.
"The mayor’s activist posturing puts police officers on the street in a terrible position," New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said. "Protests during the U.N. General Assembly are nothing new, but when the mayor of the city is actively calling for demonstrations, violent agitators will assume they have permission to cause as much havoc as possible."
The stabbings in Manhattan are just the beginning of something far more dangerous. Mamdani, it appears, has sounded the call, content that the globalization of the intifada will erupt on the streets of the city he is sworn to serve.
Christopher Sanchez's dominant home ERA makes Phillies run line the play against Yankees
It was a bit of a dull weekend on the diamond. I haven't been all that impressed with the matchups. Usually, baseball has some really good pairings for the weekend, but now and then, there aren't too many impressive series. I do like the Seattle and Texas one, but we've covered them once, and I don't have a great read on the game today. So, I'm going with the other game that I like - New York vs. Philadelphia.
The New York Yankees are just two games back in their division, but for whatever reason, it feels like this team is on the verge of a collapse. Maybe I'm exaggerating here, but something about the conversation from the media is that the Yankees are falling apart. I don't quite see it, but they do have a very talented roster on the injured list, so maybe that's the issue. The good news for them is that Ben Rice is having a fantastic season, their players could all return healthy in plenty of time, and they are still a likely playoff team.
The Yankees are looking for a sweep today, and they send out Will Warren to get the job done. Warren has been fine this year. He has been reliable, tossed a reasonable number of innings, and hasn't missed any time due to injury. He did, for some reason, pitch for less than an inning in relief on Wednesday. His numbers are seven wins and four losses, with a 4.00 ERA and a 1.37 WHIP. Philadelphia hitters have seen him 31 times and gotten eight hits, with only Kyle Schwarber launching one over the fence.
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The Philadelphia Phillies have been one of the better teams in baseball this season. They are 5.5 games back of the Braves at the moment, but this was a division that looked like Atlanta would lock up by the end of May, so this has been some progress. Looking at the team and players' statistics, the one thing that has stood out to me is that Schwarber leads them in homers, Brandon Marsh leads in average, and Bryce Harper leads in RBIs. It isn't just that three different guys lead them in three different categories; it is that there are even more on the team having really strong years. They have six guys hitting .240 or better.
It shouldn't be surprising that a good team has players performing well. Part of what makes the Phillies so dangerous is their ability to not need just one guy to carry the load. In the rotation, I will say one guy, tonight's starter, does seem to be carrying his weight and then some. Christopher Sanchez is having another solid year with a 12-4 record, 2.64 ERA, and a 1.19 WHIP. Sanchez has been fantastic at home with a 1.03 ERA as well. Honestly, the only bad home start he has had was the All-Star Game. Yankees hitters are hitting just .200 against him in 45 at-bats.
I'm sure we can find a player prop if you're looking for that sort of thing. Ever since sports betting became legal basically everywhere, I feel like the daily fantasy stuff is not as popular. Maybe it is, and I'm just not paying attention. Either way, Cody Bellinger is someone you might want to add on the team, and Ryan McMahon is someone to fade.
For the game, there are two options here - the Phillies, despite losing the first two games of this series, should win tonight. Sanchez has been great in Philadelphia. Paying -193 for them to win is not something I'm interested in. Instead, I am going to take the Phillies on the Run Line tonight. I've made this point before and need to follow it more. The Yankees have had 25 1-run games this year, and the Phillies have had 27. In 105 games, that's less than 25% of their final scores being decided by a run. Give me the Phillies -1.5.
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