Families of 9/11 victims are urging organizers of the 25th‑anniversary Ground Zero memorial to bar New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani from attending, saying his presence would dishonor the dead. Their campaign has taken the form of an online petition that has drawn tens of thousands of signatures in recent weeks, including support from hundreds of relatives of people killed in the attacks.

The petition asks the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and city officials to “carefully consider” whether Mamdani’s participation aligns with the ceremony’s focus on remembrance, unity and rejecting extremism, citing concerns about his public positions and associations.

Organizers and family members describe the anniversary at Ground Zero as a “sacred” and deeply personal event, not a political platform, and say the mayor would be an “unwelcome guest” at a ceremony meant to honor nearly 3,000 dead.

Petition founder Giovanni Galante, whose wife was killed on 9/11, has called Mamdani’s presence “a slap in the face” and argued that someone who has associated with figures who suggest America “deserved” the attacks should not attend.

The petition cites Mamdani’s past refusal to clearly denounce slogans such as “globalize the intifada,” his praise for Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj, and his ties to commentator Hasan Piker, whose remarks about 9/11 have drawn backlash.

Commenters on the petition, including first responders who were on the scene on September 11, say allowing Mamdani to attend would insult the memories of fallen firefighters and other victims.

Asked at a press briefing about survivors and families calling on him not to attend the memorial, Mamdani replied, “I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted … by standing alongside them at this year’s 9/11 commemoration.”

He added that the day is a “solemn” one felt by everyone who calls New York City and the United States home, and his office has confirmed he intends to attend despite the petition demanding he stay away.

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Across the nation, leftists in education are implementing a new program that is designed to turn kids against their parents by labeling them as oppressors. This aligns with the left’s world view that everyone falls into the category of either victim or oppressor.

This is being brought to light by Marissa Streit of Prager U, a conservative organization that provides educational lessons on the internet and analyzes education policy in America.

It is just another reminder that the left uses education to spread political propaganda, not only on college campuses but in K-12 classrooms as well.

FOX News reports:

Controversial teacher training targets parental authority as oppression, education expert warns

Teacher training programs across the country are adopting radical new educational theories to undermine parental authority and drive a wedge between parents and children, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit warned in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Streit is raising concerns over the rapid spread of the “ethnic studies” curriculum, which she says is being implemented or endorsed in more than 22 states across the nation. She specifically cited the controversial term “adultism,” saying it paints standard parental boundaries as a form of oppression.

While the term “adultism” historically originated in sociology to describe age discrimination against children, Streit argued it has found new life in teacher training materials and is being used to portray standard parenting rules on clothing, relationships or major medical decisions as a form of “fascism” or tyranny.

Streit displayed a teacher training manual titled, “Lessons In Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators,” which she says promotes anti-capitalism, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the rejection of adult authority.

The textbook’s publisher, AK Press, says the book is “designed for educators, parents, and young people, this toolkit shines a light on innovative abolitionist projects, particularly in Pre-K–12 learning contexts.”

However, Streit argues that ethnic studies modules simply repackage concepts like DEI, social-emotional learning, and Critical Race Theory, that have received negative attention, to promote many of their same anti-capitalist and Marxist ideals.

Using our education system for indoctrination is bad. Trying to drive a wedge between children and their parents is downright evil.

Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon should look at this program very closely.

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President Trump on Wednesday responded to the Federal Reserve’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, blaming the “political” Board of Governors and defending Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. 

Warsh, he said, is “a brilliant guy” and would “love to see lower interest rates.”

Ahead of the decision, on Monday, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “Rates should be lowered,” noting that “this country could be at 8%, 9%, 10%, 12%, GDP.”

“Kevin’s fantastic, but he’s got a board, and the board members are very political, I would say,” Trump said. “He’s got a board, and he wants to do the right thing. I know what he wants to do, but you need the consent of some people that have perhaps bad intentions.”

“Our country is the strongest we’ve ever been. It’s the hottest country anywhere in the world, and frankly, we’re being very nice to a lot of countries that would not survive without us. And you know who wouldn’t survive without us? Israel,” Trump added. “If I didn’t get involved and if I didn’t blow up those nuclear, essentially soon to be nuclear weapons, the dust, as they call it, Israel would have been terminated months ago and years ago if I didn’t terminate the Obama horrible agreement.”

WATCH:

And after the Fed voted to maintain interest rates, Trump was asked if he’s “disappointed” with Kevin Warsh. But the President again slammed the “political board.”

“Kevin’s got a board. He’s fantastic. He’s a brilliant guy, smart. I know he’d love to see lower interest rates, but he’s got a board, and it’s a political board, and they want to keep rates up, but we fight through rates,” Trump said.

“We have the strongest investment ever made in a country of any country. It was China about 13/14 years ago. We have far greater $19.2 [trillion].”

“Even Jensen would say that’s a lot. And Jensen’s spending a tremendous amount of money by hundreds of billions of dollars. He happens to be in the room. He’s spending more than United actually. He’s spending 10 billion. Jensen’s spending hundreds of billions, right?” He added, referencing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

“As you know, the Biden administration, for four years, did much less than $1 trillion. We’re doing $19.2 trillion in one year, so we have things that are happening in our country the likes of which nobody’s ever seen. Plants and factories are moving in. Toyota just announced they’re building one of the largest car plants anywhere in the world and truck plants anywhere in the world. We are building more automobile plants now than at any time in the history of our country.”

WATCH:

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted 9-3 to keep rates at the range of 3.5% to 3.75%. The three no votes, Beth M. Hammack, Neel Kashkari, and Lorie K. Logan, sought to raise the interest rates by 1/4 percent.

MORE:

JUST IN: Federal Reserve Leaves Rates Unchanged (Fed Chair Presser)

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Professor and Attorney David Clements Is Being Vindicated by the Day

Attorney David Clements was a professor at New Mexico State University at the time COVID hit the United States.  He was an accomplished turn attorney and professor and had received numerous compliments and awards for his work leading up to that time.  He was well-liked by the students.

But the professor did not believe that it was necessary to wear masks in his class at the university. By the time of the video below, there was ample evidence that the masks would not protect you from any virus, let alone COVID.

Professor Clements allowed students in his class not to wear a mask, and the liberal professors attacked him for his beliefs.  They held a meeting to discuss Clements’ sins.  They clearly had lost any ability to challenge the COVID lies by this time and use common sense in examining the hysteria that led people to believe that masks would protect an individual from the virus.

We now know, based on the Fauci diary, that although he was saying things in public that were contradictory, in his diary, he acknowledged that COVID-19 was no worse than the flu and that the masks were a joke.

Professor Clements lost his position at the University for standing up for common sense.  The liberal professors had no answers; this is what hurt them most.  Did they care more about their students’ safety or being right?

Here is what Professor Clements faced – he didn’t have a chance of keeping his job.  These minds were closed to anything or anyone challenging Fauci’s COVID madness.

Fauci is going down, and so are the institutions that went along with the lies.

My introduction to the wider world was over Covid insanity.

Litigation continues with @nmsu. They owe me damages, my job, and an apology.

Share to let them know.

Fauci is going down, and so are the institutions that went along with the lies.

My introduction to the wider world was over Covid insanity.

Litigation continues with @nmsu. They owe me damages, my job, and an apology.

Share to let them know. pic.twitter.com/PUexz243jX

— David Clements (@theprofsrecord) July 29, 2026

Pride hates truth tellers.

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During a recent episode of The Five on FOX News, Greg Gutfeld talked about one of the central truths of socialism. It requires enforcement.

Gutfeld points out that capitalism does not require this, and that capitalism doesn’t need a ‘movement’ to get people interested in it.

He also notes how socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan are starting to back wawy from the socialist label, suggestig that it’s not as popular as the left seems to think.

PJ Media has details:

Greg Gutfeld nailed the pattern Tuesday night on The Five. When co-host Jessica Tarlov protested that she isn’t one of the “nutbags,” Gutfeld pointed out that liberals almost always feel the need to say that. “It’s because you kind of innately know that leftism is loony and out of step with mainstream thinking that you have to go, yeah, I’m a little nutty, but I’m not that nutty,” Gutfeld said. “You guys call us Nazis, but we get rid of our Nazis; we don’t push them into the Senate and hope they win.”

Gutfeld then gave the DSA credit for something El-Sayed clearly can’t manage: honesty. “Right now, what I find is that the DSA is saying exactly what they are to everyone, and they may be the most honest leftists about what they want,” he said. “They’re saying what they want to take over, they’re saying what they want to tax, they’re saying what they want to ban.”

That candor, Gutfeld argued, exposes the whole racket.

“It reveals an essential truth about socialism, and I would say the slower socialism called Democrats, is that it’s all top-down social engineering,” he said. “And it cannot exist unless you enforce it aggressively, which means it is antithetical to human nature. If this stuff was so innate, why do you have to force it down our throats?”

Watch the segment below:

GREG GUTFELD just said it PERFECTLY:

“It reveals an essential truth about socialism…it cannot exist unless you enforce it aggressively, which means it is antithetical to human nature! If this stuff is so INNATE, WHY do you have to FORCE it down our throats?!”

“CAPITALISM… pic.twitter.com/TUPRBefDAh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 29, 2026

Have you noticed that people don’t seem to flee from America to socialist countries that already exist?

Do people on the left realize this?

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