On tax day, radical communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a menacing message to New Yorkers, reminding them that he is coming for them.

In the creepy message, Mamdani used the penthouse, owned by Ken Griffen, Founder, CEO, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Citadel, as a cautionary example of what is in store for New Yorkers, and Citadel is clapping back by threatening to scrap its $6B investement in the Big Apple.

Mamdani’s threat to raise $500M could cost the city $6B.

The video released on tax day starts out with Mamdani telling viewers, “When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich.”

Then, with a grin and an attempt at a bit of Hollywood flair (which translated into creepiness), he leaned menacingly into the camera, tapped the lens and declared, “Well, today we’re taxing the rich.”

“I’m thrilled to announce we’ve secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York’s history. This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full-time in the city. Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.”

“This pied-à-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate but who don’t actually live here.”

“But even so, they’re able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world. And most of the time, these units are sitting empty since, again, they don’t actually live here. This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.”

“Now, it’s coming to an end. This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.”

“It’ll help fund things like free childcare, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods. As mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city, and some a little bit more than others.”

“Happy Tax Day, New York.”

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. pic.twitter.com/Wky2LFXC9W

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) April 15, 2026

According to The New York Post, a top executive at the hedge fund “sent a companywide email Thursday afternoon blasting the mayor’s comments – and hinting at a potential reversal on a massive Midtown project.”

Per The Post:

“We are about to commence the redevelopment of 350 Park Avenue, creating 6,000 highly paid construction jobs and supporting the creation of more than 15,000 permanent jobs in mid-town New York,” wrote Chief Operating Officer Gerald Beeson in an email obtained by The Post.

“The project – if we move forward – will entail more than $6 billion dollars of spending.”

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An ultra-wealthy big game hunter received a cruel twist of fate while going after a wanted prey in Africa.

The Daily Mail reported on Friday that 75-year-old multi-millionaire Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio was hunting alongside a professional hunter in the Lope-Okanda forest of Gabon last week to try to get a shot at a shy and elusive antelope called the yellow-backed duiker when he met a brutal fate.

As Dosio and the other hunter went deeper into the rainforest to find the duiker, they unexpectedly stumbled into five female elephants with a calf.

The startled and angry animals promptly charged after Dosio and his professional hunter.

The professional hunter was violently thrown aside and lost his gun in the bushes. He suffered serious injuries but survived.

Dosio, however, was trampled to death by the elephants.

The Mail notes that the elephants were so well hidden in the undergrowth that they seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

A retired game hunter in Cape Town who knew Dosio told the Daily Mail that the now-deceased man’s hunts were all about conservation.

He added that Dosio also booked a hunt for dwarf forest buffalo and was barred from carrying his own guns by “strict” licensing laws.

“Ernie has been hunting since he could hold a rifle and has many trophies from Africa and the U.S.,” The hunter told the Mail. “Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.”

“Ernie had booked a hunt for dwarf forest buffalo and duikers, in particular the yellow-backed duiker, and, under strict licensing laws, he could not take along his own guns,” he added. “The hunting company would supply a shotgun and cartridges for the duiker hunt.”

Dosio, over the course of several years, had hunted a variety of critically endangered and vulnerable species in Africa, including elephants, leopards, rhinos, and lions.

He had also hunted almost every species of deer in the United States.

Dosio leaves behind his long-term partner Betty and his two sons, Jeff and Blake. Per the Daily Mail, Dosio’s body is being repatriated by the US Embassy in Gabon to Lodi in California.

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In July 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that USAID would no longer send foreign assistance across the globe.

Rubio noted that USAID had, for decades, failed to ensure the programs it funded actually supported America’s interests.

“Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown,” Rubio wrote in a blog post, according to Fox News.

“This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency,” Rubio said.

During the summer of 2025, the DOGE team announced they had eliminated another $14.3 billion in bogus contracts, including international contracts tied to USAID.

Following the funding cuts, the agency went from roughly 10,000–16,000 direct employees (plus hundreds of thousands of contractors and local staff overseas) to under 300 remaining staff. Over 90–97% of USAID’s workforce was eliminated.

Elisabeth Bumiller and Eileen Sullivan wrote A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss for The New York Times, bemoaning the struggles of the laid-off workers, something thousands of Americans face each day without fawning coverage from the outlet.

The authors share the example of a USAID-funded senior VP,making $272,000, or roughly five times more than the median income of the average American worker.

Per NYT:

Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior vice president at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store near her home in Falls Church, Va.

The example, however, had the opposite effect of garnering sympathy.

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) notes, “NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.”

“In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological.”

NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.

In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological. https://t.co/c6UEuewmTO

— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) April 23, 2026

An X user pointed out the hypocrisy of the NYT constantly screaming about “fighting privilege” in contrast to how the story is framed.

“$272k for a job at a non profit, paid for by the US taxpayer and she cannot find adequate employment elsewhere? What does that say about her?”

“It screams, ‘this woman was WAYYY overpaid for the skill set she had!’ Which is yet another perfect example for why USAID was shut down. I’m sorry, why are we supposed to feel bad for her? Average salary in the US is $63,000….

“I mean pick a lane, one minute the NYT is screaming about fighting privilege and then the next minute they are posting this, which is the very definition of privilege. This article is asinine.”

$272k for a job at a non profit, paid for by the US taxpayer and she cannot find adequate employment elsewhere? What does that say about her? It screams, “this woman was WAYYY overpaid for the skill set she had!” Which is yet another perfect example for why USAID was shut down.…

— Lifeabundantly (@Lifeabundantly5) April 23, 2026

Another user asked, “So, she was wildly overpaid by my tax dollars, now she is competing in the real world with a limited skillset, and any of us care why?”

So, she was wildly overpaid by my tax dollars, now she is competing in the real world with a limited skillset, and any of us care why? https://t.co/ZdnuWeVCHq

— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) April 23, 2026

One user pointed out the obvious point the NYT article ignored, “Pro Tip: If your NGO has to close its doors when the government stops funneling taxpayer dollars to you, then you were NOT a ‘Non-governmental organization.’”

Pro Tip: If your NGO has to close its doors when the government stops funneling taxpayer dollars to you, then you were NOT a “Non-governmental organization”

— VoxDawg – Pattern Recognizer (@VoxDawg) April 23, 2026

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In a recent press conference, reporters asked President Trump if he needed more time for the Iran war and whether this violated his promise to defeat Iran in under a month. Trump responded, “We don’t need more time. The US is not under time pressure. Iran is.” He went on to point out that wars take time. The Vietnam War took over a decade, but “I took the country out militarily in the first four weeks. Now all we are doing is sitting back” and seeing what deal they offer.

“And if they don’t want to make a deal, then I will finish it up militarily.” He explained that the US had hit over 75% of the total targets originally selected before the operation began. “We have knocked out their manufacturing. We’ve knocked out their missile production. We’ve knocked out their drone production. We’ve knocked out everything.”

The reporter kept pushing him for an exact deadline and an end for the war, but Trump remained unperturbed. “I don’t want to rush myself,” President Trump said of U.S.-Iran negotiations.

“Every source is saying ‘Trump is under time pressure.’ You know who is under time pressure? They are, because if they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode because they have no place to store it. If they have to stop it, something happens underground that essentially renders it in very poor shape.”

Trump acknowledged jokingly that he did not understand exactly how the damage occurs, but said his advisors did. And he is correct about the damage.

Iran has only about 20 million barrels of spare onshore storage capacity. With surplus production of 1.5 million barrels per day unable to be exported, those tanks fill in just 13 days, a hard physical deadline that diplomatic maneuvering cannot alter. Once storage is full, production must halt, and halting production triggers irreversible geological damage.

Forced shut-ins after as few as four days break reservoir pressure balance, drive water and gas intrusion, and trigger paraffin buildup that clogs tubing and pores. The specific mechanism is called water coning: when production stops, water sitting below the oil pushes upward into the well, trapping oil in rock pores where it becomes difficult or impossible to extract.

The result is a permanent loss of output. Iran’s fields were already declining at 5–8% per year before the U.S. blockade began. Forced shutdowns could permanently eliminate 300,000 to 500,000 barrels per day of production capacity, equivalent to $9–15 billion in annual revenue that cannot be recovered.

The blockade producing this pressure is deliberate. Treasury Secretary Bessent has signaled a strategy of inflicting long-term damage to Iran’s oil infrastructure without direct military force. Restarting shut-in wells can take months and cost billions, and in some cases production never fully returns.

On the diplomatic track, U.S.-Iran talks collapsed on April 12. Trump then declared a naval blockade of Iranian ports, with the U.S. Navy preventing ships from entering or exiting. Iran briefly declared the Strait of Hormuz open on April 17, but Trump confirmed the port blockade would remain regardless. Iran closed the strait again on April 18. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that reopening the strait is impossible as long as the U.S. blockade stands.

Rystad Energy estimates Iran’s energy infrastructure will require up to $19 billion in repairs from direct strike damage alone, with full production recovery potentially taking two years, separate from and in addition to the permanent underground reservoir damage accumulating from forced production shut-ins.

Trump made it clear that he is going to patiently take his time and get the best deal possible for the American people. “I don’t want to rush it because you guys are trying to make us look as bad as possible. I want to take my time. We have plenty of time, and I want to get a deal. I want to get a great deal where our nation and the world are safe from lunatics with nuclear weapons.”

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