Late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently interviewed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and it was exactly the slobber-fest you would imagine.

Kimmel, who normally spends his time on the air crying about various things Trump has said or done, fell all over himself heaping praise on the Big Apple’s communist mayor, even asking at one point if he could come and be the mayor of Los Angeles after he’s done with New York City.

As it has been pointed out many times before, this is no longer an entertainment show. It’s pure, left wing politics, every single night.

NewsBusters has details:

There are softball interviews, and then there is whatever ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did on his Monday show with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As Jimmy Kimmel Live! started its week-long Brooklyn field trip, the part of Kimmel that seeks to portray himself as someone who speaks truth to power took a backseat to the part of him that is fangirls over left-wing politicians as he invited Mamdani to come back to Los Angeles and “be our mayor.”

Before Kimmel introduced Mamdani, Kimmel played a montage of conservative media personalities warning about what would happen to New York if Mamdani were to get elected. However, given the left-wing audience, Mamdani was greeted with a boisterous ovation, which led Kimmel to begin, “I think this means you’re doing a good job. I have to tell you, I live in Los Angeles, and that is not the reception our mayor would get. So, how is the complete and total destruction of New York going?”

Mamdani retorted, “You know, it’s proceeding as planned.

Kimmel then continued with the gush-fest, “This is really, I think you’ve taken an interesting tack. It’s what you said you were going to do, but, you know, most of the time mayors don’t do what they say they were planning to do. And you focus on really, I think, simple, common-sense things. Like, we talked about the potholes, obviously, you filled a lot of those potholes. Do you think Mayor Adams goes ‘Why didn’t I fill the potholes? That would have been a good idea.’ You have creative ideas that seem to be successful so far. Like this parents’ night out idea.”

Here’s a clip:

Jimmy Kimmel is taking his show on the road to Brooklyn this week and is already gushing over Zohran Mamdani, “You focus on really, I think, simple, common sense things. Like, we talked about the potholes, obviously, you filled a lot of those potholes. Do you think Mayor Adams… pic.twitter.com/HBfwU7rmD7

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 29, 2026

The liberal media will not allow Mamdani to fail.

He has to be a success so that they can claim Democratic Socialism is an effective way to govern.

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NASA is currently looking at bringing back the SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, first developed by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s.

This airplane travels at altitudes of more than 80,000 feet and can reach a speed of 2,200 miles per hour. The two pilots, who are the only passengers in the plane, must wear special space-type suits. It’s an amazing piece of engineering.

The plane was retired in the 1990s. No word yet on the reason for bringing it back.

The New York Post reports:

NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why

NASA appears to be pulling the fastest plane ever produced —the SR-71 Blackbird — out of retirement as the Trump administration suggested it’s working on a new generation of hypersonic surveillance jets.

Former NASA and Air Force engineers confirmed that they had been recently offered jobs to get an old Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird back in the air nearly 27-years after its last flight, Aviation Week reported.

Mike Relja, a former test engineer for the Blackbird — which is capable of reaching speeds of Mach 3.3, 2,200 mph — said NASA reached out to him last month to get the neglected plane up and running, but added that he was now too old for such a massive undertaking…

The aircraft, which debuted 59 years ago, still holds the achievement for fastest crewed jet-flight on public record.

At Mach 3.3, for example, it could fly from New York to Los Angeles in a little over an hour — compared to about 5 hours and 30 minutes for a commercial airliner.

Retired NASA employees also confirmed that other Blackbird engineers were contacted over the summer to do work on the jet.

The plane is a thing of beauty.

NASA reached out to multiple former SR-71 Blackbird staffers in recent weeks to help restart the program and return to flight -Aviation Week pic.twitter.com/eChUqc2Rm0

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) September 29, 2026

BREAKING:

Aviation Week writes that NASA has contacted former SR-71 Blackbird personnel to help them get the only remaining frame back in the air pic.twitter.com/yC2NyFN72v

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 29, 2026

This footage includes a takeoff and landing.

SR-71 Blackbird. 1979. pic.twitter.com/RfP4AnJ90L

— nate (@refueled) September 11, 2026

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President Trump spoke to reporters in a rare press conference outside the Oval Office on Tuesday after meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson and tech and AI executives. 

Earlier, Trump had participated in an announcement about his new AI website, America.gov, to help Americans navigate the federal government.

The new tool allows Americans to easily access every government agency in one place, with artificial intelligence that makes it possible for previously hours-long tasks, like changing one’s last name, to be completed in minutes.

Trump highlighted the ease of changing one’s last name and securing proper identification, arguing it takes away the “number one excuse” for not passing the SAVE America Act.

WATCH: Trump Says Nobody Can Complain About Voter ID With America.gov, “Nobody Will Have Any Excuse” on the SAVE America Act

Later, while speaking to reporters at the White House with Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Trump expanded on his plans for artificial intelligence and America.gov and nuked a CNN reporter who asked about AI guardrails.

"Do you think that self-policing is an option?" she asked, regarding AI companies having their own guardrails to prevent abuse. "Hold it, hold it," Trump responded, prompting the reporter to apologize.

"CNN fake news," he said before turning to Dario Amodei and saying, "She's fake news, CNN, the worst!"

WATCH:

This comes amid Trump's ongoing feud with CNN after kicking them out of the White House earlier this month, then later banning them from accessing Air Force One.

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The 2028 election is right around the corner. Is New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to run for president? For Senate? For the House of Representatives?

These questions — and many more — shroud the 2028 Democratic primaries in much mystery. Much to the detriment of the public, and the delight of speculative journalists, Ocasio-Cortez has not yet made her own plans clear.

In 2025, an AOC presidential candidacy seemed likely to many. Her participation in Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour suggested that she may have been considering national office.

Recently, however, she appears to be much more interested in the issues of her home state, New York.

Last Thursday, she began a statewide tour of key cities. In Buffalo, she helped launch an effort dubbed “Project Reactivation,” which targets 100,000 inactive registered Democrats across New York.

“Oftentimes inactive voters are blamed as though it’s their fault for not participating,” AOC said, according to Buffalo-Toronto Public Media. “We need to give people a reason to participate. We need to give people a reason and something to vote for.”

From Buffalo, she traveled to Ithaca Sunday for a “Students vs. Billionaires” event for Cornell University and Ithaca College students. While there is a very strong progressive base in the area, AOC encouraged her audience to get involved in local and congressional elections to ensure a blue victory.

After Ithaca, she visited Syracuse and brought another version of “Project Reactivation” to central New York.

While visiting these various cities, AOC made sure to meet with local politicians. In Buffalo particularly, she held a 30-minute closed-door meeting with Mayor Sean Ryan, and then a televised impromptu news conference.

Focus on cities outside of her congressional district doesn’t necessarily prove Senate aspirations, yet AOC’s recent interview with the New York Times revealed a few matters of extreme importance:

“Every element of this is something that’s within consideration,” AOC said when asked about running for president or senator.

Times reporter Shane Goldmacher wrote that “Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who won her seat by toppling a powerful Democratic House leader in a 2018 primary, did not rule out the possibility of challenging [Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck] Schumer — even if he helps Democrats win a Senate majority in the midterms.”

In the interview, AOC made it very clear that her choice would not change if her primary challenger is a potential Senate majority leader or a former vice president.

“I don’t think that my decisions would come down to deference,” she said.

While she has not officially denied the idea, here are a few compelling reasons to believe that AOC will not pursue lodging at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

First, only one House member has ascended directly to the presidency. That was James A. Garfield in 1880. Even if AOC was very popular, it would be quite uncommon — unprecedented in modern history — for someone of her limited experience to be granted the highest office in the nation.

The second reason comes from the use of the phrase, “if AOC was popular.” While she is popular in specific progressive circles, the country overall would have to shift radically to the left for her to ever be elected.

A recent New York Times/Siena University poll revealed that her favorability rating among Republicans was less than 1 percent. This renders crossing party lines for coalition construction practically impossible.

Furthermore, only 30 percent of all likely voters nationally viewed her favorably, with 41 percent holding unfavorable opinions. It’s difficult to win a race with those kinds of numbers.

This would explain why AOC hasn’t made any public visits to the early presidential primary states. She likely knows that “President Ocasio-Cortez” is a long shot. “Senator,” however, is very plausible.

AOC is armed with a statewide tour and a massive grassroots fundraising base, and Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat appears to be set squarely in her sights.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his federal criminal investigation into President Trump.

Merrick Garland, US Attorney General under Biden, appointed Jack Smith to investigate Trump in November 2022, just one day after Trump announced a 2024 White House bid.

In June 2023, Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami for lawfully storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago estate, which was protected by Secret Service agents.

In a separate case in Washington DC, Jack Smith indicted Trump on four counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

On Tuesday, Jack Smith defended his inquisition and said he stands by his decision to charge President Trump.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz blasted Jack Smith and accused him of “egregious abuse of power.”

“Congratulations! Because you have succeeded where Richard Nixon failed, which is weaponizing the DOJ to go after your political opponents! You are stepping into the shoes of John Mitchell…your abuses are far greater,” Ted Cruz said.

“For the rest of your life, you’ll be hailed as a hero in the resistance movement. I presume you have a pink hat somewhere at home,” Cruz said.

He continued, “But you have brought the DOJ into disrepute. Instead of being apolitical and enforcing the law, you willingly conscripted as a foot soldier as the DNC.”

“And you reelected Donald Trump, because the people were disgusted at you,” Ted Cruz said.

“I believe his conduct represents the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the Department of Justice,” Ted Cruz later said.

WATCH:

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