Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told viewers on MSNBC’s All In that President Donald Trump’s actions have put children’s lives at risk by threatening access to health coverage, repeating her assertion that he wants “to just make sure that kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance.”
During the interview, host Chris Hayes pressed her on a claim he said he’d heard circulating — that some observers believe Senate Democrats’ refusal to back a short-term funding deal stems from Sen. Chuck Schumer’s fear of a left-wing primary challenge from her. “Are you planning to primary challenge him? Do you think that’s why he’s doing this?” Hayes asked directly.
Ocasio-Cortez rejected the premise that the dispute is about her, saying the stakes are far higher: ensuring families can keep their children covered. “This is so not about me in this moment. This is about people being able to insure their children. I will say, because I saw some senators speculating about this, and I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it’s because of AOC, well, if that’s the case, my office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly. Because what I’m not going to do is tolerate 4 million uninsured Americans, because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don’t have access to insurance. That’s what’s not going to happen. So if those senators think that we’re having a shutdown because of me, they’re free to enter my office and negotiate, because what we’re not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and chemotherapy. So come stick a deal with me.”
{Matzav.com}
A Hunter College graduate who made headlines after being filmed aggressively ripping down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas later secured an internship inside the state assembly office of leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, The NY Post reports.
Frances Macalimbon Hamed, whose image appeared in The Post in 2023 after she and another activist were caught destroying hostage-awareness posters, eventually took a position as a “constituent-services intern” in Mamdani’s Queens district office.
On Tuesday, Mamdani’s mayoral campaign acknowledged Hamed had indeed been one of his interns but stressed that the lawmaker had not been aware of the video footage when she was brought on board.
“This individual is and has never been employed by the Mamdani campaign,” Mamdani’s spokesperson said.
“She was not employed by the Assembly office when this occurred nor did they know of this video or this incident when she was hired.”
According to a biography posted on Hunter’s website, the Bronx-born activist worked in Mamdani’s legislative office from February through May, handling matters like unemployment and housing assistance for constituents.
That same profile also mentioned Hamed’s future ambitions, which included seeking a role at either the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs or the Mayor’s Office of Asylum-Seeker Operations.
Her position in Mamdani’s office came roughly two years after she and fellow activist Jonathan Isla Rampagoa were filmed tearing down hostage posters that had been put up near Hunter’s Upper East Side campus following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel.
“What is your name? Are you from Hunter?” someone can be heard asking the pair in the viral video, as Hamed repeatedly attempted to cover her face from the camera.
The incident exploded online after the watchdog group StopAntisemitism shared the clip, with internet users swiftly identifying the students involved.
Attempts by The Post to reach Hamed for comment were not successful.
She is not the only intern connected to Mamdani’s Assembly office who has been linked to anti-Israel activism.
Another intern, City College student Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik, who worked with Mamdani before he launched his mayoral run, was once videotaped scolding a Muslim police officer at a pro-Palestinian demonstration over his decision to serve in law enforcement.
Malik also held a summer 2024 internship in Mamdani’s district office, where her LinkedIn page says she assisted with communications, outreach, policy, and constituent services.
{Matzav.com}
Conservative commentator Candace Owens has intensified her controversial remarks, repeating an unfounded allegation that Israel was responsible for the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, while also suggesting the organization itself was tied to the supposed plot.
Owens, who has often made headlines for provocative commentary, argued that Kirk was targeted just two days before he and Owens were scheduled to appear together publicly. “About 48 hours before Charlie Kirk died, Charlie informed people at Turning Point, as well as Jewish donors and a rabbi, that he had no choice but to abandon the pro-Israel cause outright,” she claimed, pointing to what she alleged was a motive for silencing him.
She went on to say that Kirk had wanted to bring her back into the Turning Point fold despite pushback from funders. “He also expressed that he wanted to bring me, Candace Owens, back because he was standing up for himself,” she added, describing it as resistance to pressure from “Jewish donors.”
Owens argued that the circumstances of his death were deliberate. “He just, 48 hours later, conveniently catch a bullet to the throat, before our on-stage reunion could happen,” she stated.
{Matzav.com}
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