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(DC Pundit) – America turned 250 yesterday, and while most New Yorkers were sweating through Fourth of July festivities, possibly with their thermostats turned down per the mayor’s instructions, Rama Duwaji, wife of radical NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, was soaking up the Mediterranean sun on the resort island of Mallorca.

You really can’t make this stuff up.

Duwaji, a 29-year-old illustrator and ceramist, skipped the patriotic celebrations entirely and flew eight hours to Spain to co-host a sold-out Islamic “spiritual wellness” retreat called “Plants of the Quran,” put on by a for-profit organization called The Women’s Sanctuary. The retreat, which kicked off Wednesday and runs through Monday, centers on sacred flora referenced in Islamic texts through art, botanical workshops, and spiritual reflection.

The price tag for this slice of spiritual luxury? A cool $3,400 per guest.

The Dallas-raised, Dubai-educated, Syrian-American artist serves as the outfit’s “artist in residence” — which apparently comes with the perk of jetting off to a resort while her husband rants to working-class New Yorkers about their energy consumption back home.

That’s right. While his wife was living the high life on a Spanish island, Mayor Mamdani was busy telling New York City residents to dial back their air conditioning. In the summer. In New York City. Nothing screams “man of the people” like a lecture on thermostats from a guy whose wife is enjoying a $3,400-per-person retreat in one of Europe’s most desirable vacation destinations.

This is the same Mamdani, remember, who spent the Fourth of July sitting behind George Washington’s desk at City Hall calling America “an arena of supremacy” and dismissing citizens who love their country as weak and unoriginal. He’s the Ugandan-born democratic socialist who beat out more moderate candidates in this year’s New York City mayoral race, riding a wave of far-left enthusiasm.

For conservatives who have been watching New York’s steady leftward lurch with growing alarm, the Mamdani household’s Independence Day week serves as a pretty telling snapshot. The mayor attacks capitalism and the wealthy in a public address, while his wife enjoys a luxury overseas retreat that most New Yorkers couldn’t dream of affording, all while telling those same New Yorkers to keep their apartments warmer.

Funny how when @ZohranKMamdani was telling New Yorkers to lower their AC his wife Rama Duwaji was boarding a flight to party in Mallorca

Reminder that I can’t tag her because she deleted her account after her insanely offensive tweets were discovered

Champagne socialists pic.twitter.com/aD1XmiMXNe

— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) July 3, 2026

The left loves to talk about income inequality. They’re considerably less enthusiastic about practicing what they preach.

Gracie Mansion, the historic Upper East Side residence where the Mamdanis now live on the taxpayer’s dime, presumably sat quiet while the first lady of New York City sipped something refreshing poolside in the Balearic Islands. Meanwhile, the working families of the five boroughs got a holiday week’s worth of progressive moralizing from their new mayor.

A long track record of bashing America. An eight-hour flight to a luxury resort. A $3,400-per-head spiritual getaway. And a lecture for regular New Yorkers about their thermostats.

This is who’s running the largest city in the country now. Happy 250th, America, try to stay cool.

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(DC Pundit) – Nothing says “Happy Birthday, America” quite like sitting behind George Washington’s desk and telling Americans their country is a supremacist hellhole. But that’s exactly how New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to ring in the nation’s 250th birthday.

Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant who somehow climbed to the top of New York City’s political food chain, delivered an address from Federal Hall, now housed in City Hall, flanked by a group of foreign nationals, using the occasion to take shots at ICE, capitalism, and the very economic engine that built the skyline visible outside his window.

“Here at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington’s desk, alongside new Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America, but like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington,” Mamdani said.

From there, Mamdani went full progressive lecture mode, declaring that America “is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”

He didn’t stop there. Turning his sights on everyday Americans who take pride in their national heritage, Mamdani dismissed them as small-minded. “How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal,” he said, accusing them of racism and xenophobia.

Mamdani used the platform to attack ICE, capitalism, and wealthy Americans, including Elon Musk.

Socialist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, just gave a speech on what he thinks it means to be an American on America’s 250th Birthday.

He attacked our nation as “an arena of supremacy” that “persecutes” and claimed ICE is “invading our streets”. pic.twitter.com/kyHY6TXHfi

— America (@america) July 3, 2026

Musk fired back with a pointed observation: Mamdani came to this country, has built nothing here, and now collects a $250,000 taxpayer-funded salary while living rent-free at Gracie Mansion, the historic Upper East Side official residence of New York City mayors.

“Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker,” Musk wrote in response.

Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2026

It’s a sharp contrast worth noting. Musk, also an immigrant, arrived in America and proceeded to build some of the most transformative companies of the modern era, creating thousands of jobs in the process. Mamdani arrived, entered politics, and is now lecturing the country that gave him everything about how rotten it is.

For conservatives across the country, Mamdani’s address is yet another reminder of what the radical left has in store for America if given enough power. They don’t want to fix the country, they want to fundamentally transform it into something the Founders would never recognize. And they’ll use every symbol of American greatness, including George Washington’s own desk, to make their case.

Two hundred and fifty years of American history, and this is what New York City offers as a tribute. At least we know what we’re up against.

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(DC Pundit) – Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat and ordained Baptist pastor, stood before members of the IKAR synagogue in Los Angeles this week and delivered a sermon that doubled as a political broadside, declaring that opposition to transgender ideology amounts to spiritual violence. Speaking alongside Rabbi Sharon Brous, Warnock told the congregation that society must “push hard against bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, transphobia, xenophobia in all of its forms because it is violence not only against humanity, but against divinity. It is an offense to the glory of God.”

It’s worth pausing on that word choice. “Transphobia” implies fear, yet most Americans who object to the broader trans agenda aren’t afraid of anyone, they simply don’t want it taught to second graders, and they don’t think biological men belong in their daughters’ locker rooms. That’s not a phobia. That’s a boundary.

Warnock didn’t stop with a general lecture on tolerance. He turned the criticism inward on his own community, confessing he’s had to chasten members of his own church for their views, admitting “that church is as homophobic as anybody.” He went further still, telling the room that Christians have been “blind to our bigotry, to the ways in which we are inhospitable to those who had another way to center,” before crediting Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and the LGBTQ community with teaching the church a lesson about who truly understands divine glory.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) says "transphobia" is "violence not only against humanity but against divinity. It is an offense to the glory of God." pic.twitter.com/CVMbGP07Vm

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 29, 2026

None of this should come as a shock from Warnock, who has spent years cultivating his image as one of the Senate’s most outspoken champions of transgender politics. He tweeted during his 2020 campaign against then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler that he’s “a pro-LGBTQ+ pastor who understands that no one is free until we are all free,” and Breitbart notes he’s a “self-described ‘pro-LGBTQ+ pastor,’ and one of the Democrats’ loudest voices when it comes to promoting the transgender agenda.” He’s also endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, hardly a neutral validator.

What’s notable here isn’t just the theology, dubious as it may be coming from a man of the cloth lecturing other people on what offends God. It’s the political calculation. Democrats lost ground in 2024 in part because swing voters recoiled from the party’s aggressive push on gender ideology, particularly around kids and sports. Rather than recalibrate, Warnock is doing the opposite, reframing the entire debate as a matter of religious righteousness, with anyone who disagrees cast as committing an offense against the Almighty himself.

Make no mistake: this isn’t a one-off speech. It’s a signal of where the party intends to plant its flag heading into future elections. Parents who simply want a say in their children’s education are now being told by a sitting U.S. senator that their position is a form of “violence.” This is an attempt to put the debate beyond debate, and voters who feel talked down to tend to remember it at the ballot box.

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(DC Pundit) – Someone alert Bernie Sanders! A billionaire is trying to buy American elections, flooding the political system with cash to influence who sits in power. This is exactly the kind of thing Bernie rails against in every speech, every fundraising email, and every television appearance he’s ever done.

Oh wait… The billionaire in question is George Soros, and he’s spending his money to elect Democrats. Never mind then. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Soros, the 95-year-old Hungarian-born hedge fund mogul and longtime left-wing mega-donor, has poured more than $100 million into efforts to help Democrats win elections. And you won’t hear a single peep about it from Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or any of the other self-described Democratic Socialists who spend every waking hour lecturing the rest of America about the corrupting influence of billionaire money in politics. Funny how that works.

Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for Americans for Tax Reform, explained what all that cash is actually buying. “Money talks, and Soros money says the most insidious, unconstitutional, costly tax hikes in American history are on the table,” Kellogg said. He also described Soros as a “wannabe Bond villain” responsible for the radical takeover of the Democratic Party. Accurate? Absolutely.

Here’s where it gets particularly crafty. Only a sliver of this cycle’s contributions, $793,800, were made directly in Soros’s own name. The overwhelming majority, $102 million, was funneled through the Democracy Political Action Committee, the super PAC Soros personally launched back in 2020, which serves as the family’s primary political arm. The arrangement is designed to make it difficult for the public to track exactly which radical candidates the Soros machine is propping up at any given moment. Transparency for thee, but not for me.

This is the same George Soros who has spent decades financing district attorney races across the country, helping elect progressive prosecutors in major cities who went soft on crime and watched their communities pay the price for it. He’s the same man who has funded open-borders organizations, radical social justice groups, and media operations that push his worldview into the mainstream. And he’s been doing it for years while the left cheers him on and the Bernie crowd conveniently looks the other way.

Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening here. When Sanders and AOC stand at their podiums and thunder about fighting “the oligarchy,” they aren’t talking about George Soros. They never are. They’re talking about conservative and Republican-aligned donors. The whole “fighting billionaires” routine is a performance, a tightly scripted act designed to rile up the base while Soros writes nine-figure checks to reshape American elections from the shadows.

The left’s outrage over money in politics has always had an asterisk.

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