HIS MOTHER WORKED THREE JOBS, BUT NEWSOM WASN'T A LATCHKEY KID SCRAMBLING FOR FOOD

Gavin Newsom's secret past he's so desperate to hide... and the damning evidence that proves who he really is

 

By Dana Kennedy 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 6, 2025

 

 

 

Governor Gavin Newsom (pictured) is facing criticism for seemingly trying to spin his gilded upbringing  into a rags-to-riches tale during a recent interview  

 

Call it Nob Hill-billy elegy.

Presumed 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom, Democratic governor of California and a card-carrying member of the San Francisco elite, has been channeling the ghost of Horatio Alger in a much-mocked attempt to portray himself as someone who made it out of a tough childhood.

But Newsom, 58, famously grew up surrounded by the most powerful families in California who not only backed his early business ventures but greased the wheels of his political ascent, sources have told the Daily Mail.

Even his staunchest supporters admit that Newsom's early life was not exactly the stuff of deep struggle.

But that hasn't stopped Newsom from painting himself as a graduate of the school of hard knocks.

During his October 25 appearance on the All The Smoke podcast, hosted by former NBA champions Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Newsom described his upbringing as being 'about paying the bills, man… It was just, like, hustling.'

After his parents divorced in the early 1970s, he was raised by his hard-working single mother - first in a San Francisco home now worth about $3.6million and later in equally affluent Marin County. Newsom's mother, Tessa, worked three jobs to support her two children, and his father's highest salary throughout his career as a judge was $75,000, according to SFGate.

The paper described them as having 'enviable connections' but 'little money.'

 

Newsom (right) is the son of late California judge William Newsom (left) once a lawyer for the billionaire Getty oil family (the father and son are pictured in 2004)

 

'I was out there kind of raising myself…' he said on the podcast. 'I was sitting there with the Wonder Bread… macaroni and cheese.'

A number of longtime Newsom observers in California called his tale a farce, and said he and his allies have long pushed the story of his allegedly underprivileged childhood.

'He talks about his poor mother, working her fingers to the bone, as if he went barefoot to school,' Dan Walters, a columnist with CalMatters who has covered California politics for 50 years, told the Daily Mail.

'Yeah, barefoot to private school in Marin County.'

Kevin Dalton, a political activist and longtime critic of Newsom, claims the governor tailors his story to fit his audience.

'He's a chameleon and will bend and shapeshift and change colors, you know, whatever suits his current environment,' Dalton told the Daily Mail.

'You can hear it with his speech, you can hear it with his stories. He's never once talked about eating Wonder Bread and mac and cheese, but all of a sudden he's in a room with a bunch of ex-NBA ballers and this stuff starts coming up. It's perfect.'

Newsom's upbringing was complicated, but far from impoverished, according to most accounts of his life.

His parents divorced when he was young, and his father, William Newsom III, was a well-connected San Francisco lawyer who later became a judge - and then became the family lawyer for the Getty oil dynasty.

 

Pictured: The Democrat governor on an episode of the All The Smoke podcast last week, during which he claimed his family had to 'hustle' to make ends meet

 

His mother, who died of breast cancer in 2002 at age 55, did work multiple jobs when Newsom was a kid. But Walters said he still 'had an upper-class upbringing of a sort.'

'He wasn't a latchkey kid scrambling for food.'

Before Newsom's parents divorced in 1971, the family took in young Gordon Getty, son of oil tycoon J Paul Getty, and gave him what Walters called 'some family structure.'

The Gettys, one of America's richest dynasties, in turn helped provide Newsom with an entrée into San Francisco's upper crust and politics.

'The two families - the Newsoms and the Gettys - have been intertwined for decades,' Walters told the Daily Mail. He said there were two other powerful San Francisco families in the mix - the Pelosis and Browns (the latter being the family of Governor Edmund Gerald 'Pat' Brown).

The Newsom, Pelosi and Getty families are godparents to one another's children and make appearances at important family events, according to James Reginato's book, Growing up Getty.

Newsom's father's legal work for the Getty family brought them into the orbit of immense wealth - and even danger.

Back in the 1960s, J Paul Getty's grandson, John Paul Getty III, was kidnapped in Italy and had his ear cut off. The ransom was then delivered by Newsom's father, who was the young man's godfather.

 

Newsom (left) grew up around the wealthy and influential Getty family who was instrumental in launching his political career. He is pictured in June 2004 with Gordon Getty (center), the son of oil tycoon J Paul Getty, and former Governor Jerry Brown (right), during a Napa Valley Wine Auction event at the PlumpJack Winery in Oakville, California

The family fortune made by oil tycoon J Paul Getty is now shared among dozens of descendants

 

'He was sort of a legal gopher for the Gettys,' Walters said. But that Getty connection paid off in very big ways.

In the 1980s, while serving as an appellate court judge, Newsom's father helped push through a bill that changed California trust law, a move that gave Gordon Getty control of his billion-dollar inheritance.

'It was a huge deal,' Walters told the Daily Mail. 'We're talking about a billion-dollar gesture for his pals.'

Shortly afterward, Judge Newsom resigned and became trustee of the Gordon Getty Trust.

'He stayed on the bench long enough to help make the law that benefited Getty, and then went to work for him,' Walters said. 'And no one ever said a word.'

Mike Netter, co-chair of the Rebuild California movement and one of the leaders of the failed 2020 attempt to recall Newsom, has no patience with the governor's tales of alleged childhood poverty.

'Basically, Gavin Newsom was born into this tiny elite group of people who took power about 40 or 50 years ago and have been running the state of California ever since,' Netter told the Daily Mail.

 

The Getty family fortune is estimated to be worth more than $5billion. The Newsoms were so close to the family they even took in J Paul Getty's fourth child, Gordon Getty (right), in his youth  

 

Prior to running for public office, Newsom became a millionaire with his first venture, PlumpJack winery, which he started at age 24 with Billy Getty (pictured together with Peter Getty in 1992)

'San Francisco is like a city back East, the only one of its kind out here. These people - the Gettys, the Newsoms, the Pelosis, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown - grew up without any opposing views and took over California.

'The problem with Newsom is the same problem we see in the state. It's too much of a one-party, one viewpoint state.'

Netter also pointed out that Newsom became a millionaire with his first business venture, PlumpJack winery, which he started at age 24.

The website for the winery says it began as a 'humble wine store' in San Francisco, but it was, in fact, funded by Gordon Getty with his son Billy Getty as his partner.

The name came from an opera Gordon Getty wrote called Plump Jack, which comes from the nickname for Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's most famous comic characters.

By 2003, as Newsom prepared his run for San Francisco mayor, the PlumpJack group of businesses had turned him into a millionaire on paper - with holdings valued between $6million and $7million - and were generating hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, fueled in large part by Getty family investments.

But the Newsom family's political reach extended far beyond the Gettys.

Newsom's grandfather, William Newsom II, was close to Pat Brown, California's governor in the 1950s and '60s. Later on, Newsom's father was appointed to the appellate court by Pat's son, Governor Jerry Brown.

 

The famous Getty Villa in Malibu (pictured) served as the backdrop for a 2004 eight-page spread in Harper's Bazaar titled The New Kennedys, featuring Newsom and his then wife Kimberly Guilfoyle 

Prior to running for public office, Newsom (center) became a millionaire with his first venture, PlumpJack winery, which he started at age 24 with Billy Getty (pictured together with Peter Getty (left) in 1992) 

 

'These families... they've all been connected by politics, marriage and money,' Walters told the Daily Mail.

Walters credits Willie Brown (no relation to Pat or Jerry) with launching both Newsom's and Kamala Harris's political careers.

'Willie Brown was king of San Francisco,' Walters said. 'He could make or break anyone - and he made Gavin... without Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom wouldn't exist politically.'

In addition to the family tree of political entanglement, Newsom's personal life has fallen equally under a microscope.

'His father had a big drinking problem - a very big one - and so did Gavin later, which is why he quit drinking,' Walters told the Daily Mail. 'It's a family disease.'

In a 2007 interview with SFGate, Newsom said he 'didn't know' if he was an alcoholic or not, but said he was seeking treatment for alcohol.

He revealed that he had been attending nightly counseling sessions, which were helping him examine why he felt the need to 'drink to an extreme.'

'I don't need to drink now. I need more time to reflect,' he said at the time. 'I've got to be ready, focused and clear.'

However, in later interviews, he denied having gone into any formal treatment program.

He told the Sacramento Bee in 2018 that he had resumed drinking - reportedly a little bit of wine every now and then - after a period of abstinence.

'No, there's no rehab. I just stopped,' he said. 'There was no treatment, no nothing related to any of that stuff. I stopped because I thought it was a good thing to stop.'

Newsom's love life has also been a focal point for some.

During the same 2007 interview with SFGate, he publicly acknowledged - and apologized for - an affair he had with his appointment secretary Ruby Rippey‑Tourk in 2005.

While Newsom was in the process of divorcing first wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, he became involved with Rippey‑Tourk, who was also the wife of his campaign manager. (Newsom was still legally married at the time, but was divorcing.)

In the interview, Newsom called it 'something I'll for the rest of my life regret.'

He married his first wife, attorney and legal commentator Guilfoyle, in 2001, and they divorced in 2005.

'They were a wonderful couple,' a prominent San Francisco socialite, who has known Newsom since he was a child, told the Daily Mail.

'It was just a matter of bad timing. Kimberly wanted a baby, and at that time, Gavin didn't. It was too soon.

 

Some critics have attributed Newsom's political success - particularly his mayoral campaign in 2003 - to his close ties to California politician and former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown

Newsom married actress and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Lynn Siebel (left), in 2008. Together they have four children and split their time between a $9million mansion in Marin County and a $3million home in Sacramento

Newsom faced a gubernatorial recall in 2020 due to his oppressive COVID restrictions and a bumpy vaccine roll-out during the pandemic

 

Newsom faced a gubernatorial recall in 2020 due to his oppressive COVID restrictions and a bumpy vaccine roll-out during the pandemic

Newsom then married actress and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Lynn Siebel, in 2008.

Together they have four children, split their time between a $9million mansion in Marin County and a $3million home in Sacramento, and look like the picture-perfect family. But Siebel comes with her own considerable baggage.

In 1981, when Siebel, then six years old, was with her family in Hawaii, she and her older sister were playing with golf carts. Siebel accidentally backed her cart into her sister who had been hiding behind it, killing her.

Siebel said she has been plagued with survivor's guilt ever since.

'I felt the pressure to be perfect,' she told Entertainment Tonight, 'to make my parents forget, by being two daughters instead of one.'

Siebel also publicly accused Harvey Weinstein of rape and sexual assault, and was one of the women who testified against him in his 2022 Los Angeles criminal trial.

She said she first met Weinstein in 2005 when she was an aspiring actress and filmmaker, and later agreed to meet him in a Beverly Hills hotel room where she said he raped her.

In recent months, Siebel, who runs the nonprofit Representation Project, which bills itself as 'the leading gender watchdog organization,' as well as other companies, has come under fire for raking in thousands of dollars in donations from corporations that lobby the state of California.

In light of all this, Newsom's critics find his recent remarks about his hardscrabble life difficult to stomach.

'Politicians love the humble pie routine - to say they came up from nothing. But Gavin Newsom? He's as connected as they come,' Netter told the daily mail.

Dalton finds Newsom's Proust-like memory of his mac-and-cheese days to be 'pure comedy.'

'It was exactly like Hillary Clinton pulling out the bottle of hot sauce from her purse. It's all wildly convenient and contrived - but the scariest part is it's wildly effective.

'You know, I can say, the guy's a sociopath, but then everyone on the left is like, 'Yeah, but he's got great hair,' right? So it's hard to combat.'

Activist Denise Aguilar of the Freedom Angels group in California that fought vaccine laws and also worked for the 2020 recall of Newsom told the Daily Mail that Newsom is not fit to be president because she believes he is out of touch with the common man he describes himself as being.

'Newsom is out there on podcasts in his bid to be president and talking about growing up hustling and eating Wonder Bread, yet his actions as governor have forced Californians to hustle to put food on the table and pay the bills,' Aguilar said.

'I find it interesting that Gavin Newsom says he understands the struggle to make ends meet, yet it's his policies that are directly responsible for skyrocketing the cost of living that has Californians struggling every day to pay for food, gas, utilities, insurance and housing.

'Most people in California would tell you not to ever let Newsom California the nation.'

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS TAKING OVER JOBS

Grimmest warning yet for America's workers as layoffs soar to 22-year high - as firms break long-held taboo on firings

 

By Daniel Jones 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 6, 2025

 

 

 

Amazon boss Andy Jassy has warned the company will keep cutting corporate staff as it leans more heavily on AI and automation. The company recently laid off 14,000  

 

American companies slashed more than 150,000 jobs last month - the biggest October total in more than two decades.

The bombshell figure comes as firms turn to artificial intelligence and aggressive cost-cutting to weather a cooling economy.

A report from layoff tracking firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October, up 175 percent from a year earlier and 183 percent from September.

It marks the sharpest rise for the month since 2003, when the economy was still reeling from the dot-com bust and widespread layoffs swept through Silicon Valley.

Challenger's report noted a striking reversal of a long-standing corporate taboo: announcing job cuts before the holidays. 

‘Over the last decade, companies have shied away from layoffs in the fourth quarter,’ said Andy Challenger, chief revenue officer at the firm. ‘But this year, with social media and investor pressure for efficiency, that caution appears to have disappeared.’

The timing has drawn comparisons to Scrooged, the 1988 Bill Murray classic in which a ruthless TV executive fires an employee on Christmas Eve - only to be haunted by the consequences. 

The combination of new technology, rising costs and weaker demand is forcing companies to scale back. ‘Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic,’ he said, ‘but this comes as AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs drive belt-tightening and hiring freezes.’ 

 

Scrooged star Bill Murray plays a cold-hearted boss who sacks staff on Christmas Eve — a moment many say feels uncomfortably familiar this year

Retailers and warehouses are shedding thousands of roles as automation and store closures reshape the job market

 

Tech companies led the layoffs with more than 33,000 job cuts, followed by warehousing, which shed nearly 48,000 roles as automation replaces pandemic-era staffing. 

Retailers reeling from store closures, service firms that provide support to other businesses such as cleaning and logistics, and consumer goods companies that make everyday products also announced significant cuts. 

From January through October, US employers have announced more than 1.09 million job cuts - a 65 percent jump on last year and the highest level since 2020.

Cost-cutting was the top reason for the layoffs in October, followed by artificial intelligence, while 'DOGE Impact' was the leading reason for job losses in 2025.

AI has been blamed for more than 48,000 roles that were slashed this year as firms restructure to integrate automation into everything from customer service to logistics.

‘October’s pace of job-cutting was much higher than average for the month,’ Challenger said. ‘Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles, which could further loosen the labor market.’

Meanwhile, hiring plans remain weak. US employers have announced just under 490,000 new hires so far in 2025, down 35 percent from last year and the lowest level since 2011.

‘It’s possible rate cuts and a strong November could spur a late-season hiring push,’ Challenger said, ‘but at this point we do not expect a strong seasonal hiring environment.’

 

Target in October said it will eliminate around 1,800 corporate positions — roughly 8 percent of its head office workforce — as sales slump 

 

There have been a string of big companies announcing headline grabbing layoffs in recent months. 

In May, Walmart, America's largest employer, announced it was cutting 1,500 jobs from its tech operations and e-commerce teams.

Procter & Gamble, the owner of Tide detergent and Gillette shaving products, is also undergoing significant cuts. The company said it would eliminate 7,000 positions.

Microsoft, one of the leading firms investing in AI, said on June 18 it expected to lay off thousands of employees next month as it shifts resources toward deeper investments.

The next day, Intel, which makes processors that power millions of Dell, HP and Lenovo computers, said it will slash 25,000 jobs this year as it battles to turn around its flagging fortunes.

Last month saw a surge of layoffs. On October 23, Target announced it will eliminate about 1,800 corporate positions as it looks to save money and reinvent itself after nearly three years of falling sales. 

The cuts — roughly 8 percent of Target's 22,000 corporate staff — will primarily affect its US workforce.

On October 28, Amazon issued 14,000 pink slips to white-collar staffers as it turned to AI. 

 

UPS has axed 34,000 jobs so far this year — far more than the 20,000 it initially projected — as it restructures to cut costs 

 

The same day, UPS revealed it has eliminated 34,000 jobs so far this year — a far steeper reduction than the 20,000 it projected in April.   

Why companies are cutting jobs in 2025

Cost-cutting was the biggest driver of layoffs in October, responsible for more than 50,000 job losses as firms tighten budgets ahead of year-end, according to the Challenger report.

Artificial intelligence came next, blamed for 31,000 cuts in October and more than 48,000 so far this year, as companies automate roles once held by humans.

Economic pressures also played a major part, with 21,000 jobs lost last month due to weaker demand and slowing growth. Another 16,700 cuts came from store and plant closures, while restructuring drove nearly 7,600 more.

Government reductions under the so-called ‘DOGE impact’ - a mix of federal job losses and related private-sector fallout - remain the single biggest factor overall, accounting for nearly 300,000 layoffs this year.

At the top level, the shake-up has also reached the boardroom: the Midwest logged 351 chief executive exits so far in 2025, up 6 percent from last year, led by Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.

EUROPEAN POLITICIANS ARE LEARNING FROM MAMDANI'S WIN THAT HATRED OF ISRAEL IS AN EASY TICKET TO POWER

Mamdani’s triumph is likely to embolden leftists in the West

For European observers, in particular, the success of the Red-Green alliance in the New York City mayoral race should be a wake-up call. 

 

By Fiamma Nirenstein

 

JNS

Nov 6, 2025

 

 

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic winner in the New York City mayoral race, speaks outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx in New York City on October 24

 

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York marks not only a political turning point for the city, but also a symbolic triumph for the Red-Green alliance that has been steadily taking shape across the West. This new coalition—of the radical left and the Islamist movement—has found fertile ground both in Europe and the United States.

Yet in Europe, its impact is even greater, the result of years of confused immigration policies, moral relativism and the naive illusion that multiculturalism could exist without values.

Mamdani represents the perfect embodiment of this alliance. His campaign was built on pro-Palestinian slogans and on the rejection of Israel’s legitimacy. He has succeeded where others have merely experimented—by turning anti-Zionism into a mainstream political banner.

The shocking fact is that he won even a quarter of the Jewish vote in a city that, along with Jerusalem, holds the largest Jewish population in the world. That, more than anything, reveals how deep the moral disorientation has become. There are always Jews ready to go as sheep to the slaughter, convinced that universalism and tikkun olam (fixing the world) somehow mean denying their own peoplehood.

For European observers, this is a wake-up call. When a proudly Islamic mayor who refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization can rise to power in America’s most Jewish city, it tells us that anti-Zionism has become the most fashionable form of antisemitism.

Mamdani’s first pledges say it all: he aims to sever New York’s cooperation with Israeli institutions, including the successful Cornell-Technion partnership that has fueled dozens of startups; to boycott the New York City–Israel Economic Council; and to divest from Israeli pension funds.

He has not spoken of human rights, except when blaming Israel. He has never declared support for the Jewish state. On the contrary, he has praised and globalized the intifada against it.

In his youthful arrogance, he seems to believe he can reshape the moral compass of the West. His lineage—as the son of a famous director who banned her own films from being screened at Jerusalem’s liberal Cinematheque—adds to his aura among the “chic” intelligentsia of the left who prefer rebellion to truth.

Mamdani’s rise from campus activism, through founding Students for Justice in Palestine, to the mayor’s office of New York, shows how deeply the anti-Israel ideology has penetrated the cultural and political bloodstream of the West.

The consequences will not be merely symbolic. Jewish life in New York will no longer resemble the witty, vibrant, self-confident world of Woody Allen and Seinfeld. The schools, the cultural institutions and the public sphere will now be influenced by a leadership that views Jews as dhimmi, tolerated but inferior, whose existence must be justified through endless apologies for Israel.

Whether Mamdani will actually reduce rents or make buses free is irrelevant. What matters is that his rise will embolden a new generation of European politicians who have already noticed how effective antisemitic and anti-Zionist slogans can be in mobilizing crowds. They are learning fast that hatred of Israel is an easy ticket to power.

But this bus that Mamdani is driving is not free—not for democracy, not for freedom, and certainly not for the Jews who once made New York their proud home. It is heading toward a destination we have seen before in history. And this time, the ticket price could be the moral soul of the West itself.

MAMDANI'S VICTORY HAS PUT ROCKET FUEL BEHIND THE ALREADY DELIRIOUS FEELING AMONG MUSLIM RADICALS THAT THEY ARE NOW ON THE CUSP OF CONQUERING THE WEST FOR ISLAM

The Islamist capture of New York

America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. 

 

By Melanie Phillips 

 

JNS

Nov 6, 2025

 

 

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx in New York City on October 24

 

The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than seismic.

It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish list. It’s not just that his antisemitism and hatred of Israel make him a potential threat to the city’s Jewish community.

More importantly, what’s happened is a major strategic victory for the Islamic world in its war against the West. Muslim activists are ecstatic that Mamdani has conquered New York—the city with the largest number of Jews outside Israel—for Islam.

They’re linking this directly to the onslaught that they’ve mounted against the Jewish world for the past two years by weaponizing Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas in Gaza. Qatari journalists, reports MEMRI, have exulted that Mamdani’s victory was the outcome of the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Jaber Al-Harmi, the editor of the Qatari state daily Al-Sharq, wrote that New York was “the capital of the Zionist lobby” as the largest stronghold of the Jewish community in the United States. “Two years ago,” he wrote, “no one could have imagined such a major shift against the Zionist narrative. The steadfastness and resistance of our people in Gaza have turned the tables on the Zionists and exposed their colonialist settlement project to the entire world.”

Mamdani’s victory has put rocket fuel behind the already delirious feeling among Muslim radicals that they are now on the cusp of conquering the West for Islam.

This euphoria was triggered by the fact that on Oct. 7, the Hamas-led forces had been able to do what had previously been thought impossible—breach Israel’s apparently impregnable fortress.

The ensuing demonstrations on the streets and campuses of Western cities—with intimidation and violence towards Jews, chants for their murder, and calls to destroy Israel and America, producing next to no pushback by the police or other authorities—weren’t just protests against Israel or demands to “Free Palestine.” They were demonstrations of raw Islamic power over the bamboozled and supine West.

That campaign was organized by a global alliance between Islamists and the hard left. A similar alliance has brought Mamdani to power.

Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour has said that a fund controlled by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was Mamdani’s largest institutional donor. CAIR, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2007 terrorist-funding case that linked it to Hamas, is a Muslim Brotherhood outfit.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda is to conquer the West for Islam. Its strategy includes infiltrating democratic institutions in order to subvert them. And now, its biggest prize by far is to have captured the mayoralty of New York, America’s commercial and cultural heart.

Mamdani achieved this by concealing what he is. A Shia Muslim who is reportedly driven by hatred of Jews and an obsession with “Palestine,” he works for the destruction of Israel and has refused to condemn chants of “globalize the intifada,” the call for the murder of Jews around the world.

In his victory speech, his mask slipped. He did not project himself as a unifier of the city he now leads. He did not display the smiley charm and charisma that had wowed so many New Yorkers. Instead, he made an angry, divisive speech.

He declared that New York was now “a city where more than a million Muslims know that they belong … in the halls of power.” And he also threatened that any criticism of the Islamic world, which he termed Islamophobia, would now not be allowed.

At a post-election rally in Times Square, where hundreds of Muslims prostrated themselves in prayer to the chants of Allahu akhbar! (“God is great!”), he declared that New York was “a city of immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Of the city’s white-skinned, native residents, he made no mention.

The city’s Muslims responded to his triumph by jubilantly stating, “Now this is our time,” calling for Sharia law to start and hailing an “Islamic caliphate of New York.”

The prospect of Mamdani now controlling the city’s police and what children are to be taught in school chills the blood.

But New York is by no means the only place in America where Islamization is making important inroads. The Palestinian Arab-American influencer Abdul Eyad celebrated Mamdani’s victory by telling Israelis in New York to pack their bags and get out. He said that they should go to Poland or Cyprus, but not to “Palestine,” where they would be humiliated and removed.

This charming individual appeared to be speaking from Plano, Texas. This city hosts the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), a restricted Islamic community governed by Sharia law that has existed for nearly 12 years and comprises a mega-mosque, homes restricted to Muslim purchasers, Islamic schools, an Islamic medical clinic and Islamic businesses.

The community’s resident scholar, Yasir Qadh, has declared democracy incompatible with Islam, refused to condemn terrorist groups like Hamas, and preached that Islamic law—not Western governance—should dictate every aspect of life. Now he is leading a coordinated effort to Islamize Texas, using EPIC as the nucleus of a growing network of Islamic enclaves designed to operate outside the framework of U.S. law. 

According to the RAIR Foundation, which campaigns against Islamization in America, plans are in the works to expand EPIC to create EPIC City, a 402-acre residential and commercial enclave that will include more than 1,000 homes and community provisions structured to function within an Islamic legal and social framework.

At a public inquiry into this development last April, Lt (Rtd) Douglas Deaton, an expert in SWAT tactics and urban threat analysis, gave evidence based on his experience with the Plano police department.

One of the first houses in EPIC, he said, had been positioned with a clear view of some of the police department’s most sensitive tactical assets. “That house has all the hallmarks of a fortress and a command post,” he said. “The rear of the house looks a lot like an observation post and a shooting platform.”

The original owner of that house, says RAIR, is listed in public records as Junaid Din, a prominent fundraiser for EPIC and a co-founder of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research based in the city of Irving, Texas, which promotes the integration of Sharia law into Western societies. Its founder and chairman, Omar Suleiman, described Zionists in 2014 as “the enemies of God, His messengers, sincere followers of all religions and humanity as a whole.”

The EPIC development is part of a calculated, long-term political strategy to carve out a separate, parallel society where Islamic law—not American values—dictates daily life. The jaw-dropping thing is that this is happening not in Dearborn, Mich., a long-standing Somali Islamic stronghold (which is troubling enough), but in the state of Texas, the standard-bearer of robust American Christianity.

That, of course, is precisely the point. The choice of Texas in which to develop this openly defiant, parallel Islamic society is not random. It’s strategic.

Islamic jihadis draw their strength from the symbolism of their conquests, which inspires their own forces and demoralizes their victims. The Twin Towers, Texas, now New York— the Islamists are steadily destroying these icons to conquer America.

When nearly 3,000 New Yorkers were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001, the city came together against the threat of jihadi Islam. Now, in November 2025, Islam has captured New York through a civilizational jihad few Americans acknowledge or understand.

Americans have naively believed that Islamization is confined to Britain and Europe. They’ve failed to see how it is advancing in America as well.

Shockingly, some 30% of New York Jews voted for Mamdani. They need to rip off their liberal blinders and wake up. The Trump administration must wake up, too. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. America is the frog in the Islamist pot that’s being slowly boiled alive.

TEXANS VOTE AGAINST PROPERTY TAX INCREASES

Texas voters said no to property tax hikes this week, as Republican leaders signal more cuts ahead

Even voters in Austin, one of the state’s most liberal cities, shot down a measure to raise property taxes. 

 

 

by Joshua Fechter

 

The Texas Tribune

Nov 6, 2025

 

 

 

“The public is signaling they want more,” said state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican who pushed the tax-cut measures. 

 

DALLAS — Texas voters this week showed wariness toward raising property taxes — and embraced cutting them.

Voters across the state shot down bids by school districts and cities to increase funds to hire teachers and police officers, pave roads and keep schools humming. More than half of those measures failed in Tuesday’s elections, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.

The most dramatic failure came out of Austin, where voters in one of the state’s most liberal cities rejected a measure to boost tax bills to tackle homelessness, bolster public safety and close a multi-million dollar budget gap — a stunning rebuke against Austin City Hall.

At the same time, Texas voters handed homeowners and business owners significant property tax breaks by wide margins.

To tax-cut proponents, that suggests a continued appetite for tax cuts.

“The public is signaling they want more,” said state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican who pushed the tax-cut measures.

State Republican leaders plan to push hard on their desire to cut taxes during the 2026 midterms and when they get back together in Austin in 2027.

Once upon a time, Texas voters were more open to tax increases. School districts held 751 elections asking voters for higher tax rates between 2006 and 2019, according to the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, a business lobbying group that pushes for tax cuts. Voters signed off on 80% of them, according to that group’s analysis of Texas Comptroller data.

That’s a stark contrast from Tuesday’s results, when some 44 school districts asked voters for permission to adopt a higher tax rate, according to a partial Tribune tally of tax-rate elections held across the state. Voters rejected more than half of them.

“Taxpayers really said ‘enough, we don’t have any more money to give,’” said Genevieve Collins, director of the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity’s Texas chapter, which pushed to defeat some of the measures.

In Austin, city officials pushed a 20% tax hike to produce about $110 million to plug a $33 million hole in the city budget, tackle the city’s homelessness crisis and improve public safety and parks. For the typical Austin homeowner, that would have meant an additional $303 toward their annual city tax bill, not including other fee increases the city enacted this year.

The measure drew pushback on affordability grounds. Local officials in recent years had already gone to voters several times asking for tax-rate increases. Five years ago, Austin taxpayers signed off on a 20% tax increase to pay for Project Connect, the city’s multibillion-dollar public transit expansion that has since been plagued with delays and cost overruns. Last November, voters approved tax increases for Austin ISD and Travis County. The county again raised taxes this year to help pay for damage caused by the July 4 floods.

Still, the average Travis County homeowner’s tax bill was effectively flat from 2019 to 2024 when adjusted for inflation.

At the same time, opponents ridiculed questionable city spending practices, many of which were unveiled by the Austin American-Statesman. To Matt Mackowiak, who heads the group Save Austin Now that pushed against the tax measure, the proposition’s defeat is indicative of a lack of trust in City Hall.

“They want to keep the party going and they’re sending the bill to taxpayers,” Mackowiak said. “And for once, taxpayers sent the bill back and said ‘no.’”

In the wake of the measure’s defeat, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson acknowledged that Tuesday’s result was a “referendum” on City Hall. He called for a “systemic evaluation” of the city budget to look for ways to cut costs. Houston Mayor John Whitmire initiated a similar audit that found about $122 million in savings. And Mackowiak vowed to force a city charter amendment for an independent audit of the city’s finances if officials don’t make sufficient strides to rein in spending.

“We need to give voters reason to trust us — to trust that we will strike the right balance between services and the funding needed to provide those services,” Watson said in a statement Tuesday night.

Despite Tuesday’s defeat, property taxes in Austin will still rise — but not by as much as they would have had the proposition passed.

Austin wasn’t the only city where city voters said no to a higher tax rate. Voters in Mesquite rejected a tax-rate increase that would have enabled the city to hire two more firefighters and three police officers, among other matters.

Pushes to raise taxes didn’t fail everywhere. Voters in 19 school districts, including in Waco, Garland and Denton, signed off on higher taxes this week.

Texas officials face continued pressure to put a further dent in property taxes. Gov. Greg Abbott has signaled he wants to make property tax cuts a central feature of the 2026 midterm elections. But just how state lawmakers would go about delivering more in tax cuts remains to be seen. Texas is already set to spend $51 billion over the next two years to curb school property tax bills, a massive sum that includes the tax breaks approved Tuesday. The state’s slowing economy may put a crimp on efforts to expand tax breaks for homeowners and businesses.

Abbott and Bettencourt have expressed an appetite for making it even harder for cities and counties to raise more property tax revenue. The state already has tight limits enacted in 2019 on how much in property taxes localities can raise each year, and cities and counties have felt the pinch on their budgets as the state booms and demand for services grows.

There are signs that lawmakers’ years-long push to rein in property tax bills has worked. Property taxes in Texas sit about where they did in 2019, according to the Census, and have fallen in most metropolitan areas. But other costs, like homeowners’ insurance, have eaten into any savings delivered via tax cuts.

Some of Texas’ most die-hard conservatives would love the state to eliminate property taxes altogether. Some of Texas’ most influential Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, have vocally poo-pooed that idea as highly unrealistic and costly. By one estimate, the state would need to find more than $81 billion a year in new taxes or budget cuts to abolish all property taxes.

MAJOR ACADEMIC TESTING COMPANY LEAVING CA

By Bob Walsh

 

The Educational Testing Service, which has administered among other things the S.A.T., G.R.E.  (graduate school entrance exam) and E P T (English placement test, required for most college entrees.  They no longer are doing contract work with these groups and are closing down their presence in Sacramento.  About 750 people are losing their jobs, though many MAY be picked up by Measurement Inc. of North Carolina who will apparently be picking up the contracts.  

FILLING IN THE BLANKS

By Bob Walsh

 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a child care worker outside Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Learning Center in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood on Nov. 5, 2025.

 

 

A couple of days ago an interesting ICE arrest went down in Chicago.  What is being reported in most of the media is, at least according to ICE, NOT what actually happened.

The woman was (allegedly) as targeted pickup by ICE.  That means that she was NOT just an illegal, they had some specific reason to go for her.  Normally this is actual guilt or strongly suspected guilt of some additional crimes beyond merely illegal entry.  She fled into a day care center.  She had no affiliation with the day care center, contrary to what is being reported.  She (allegedly) threatened the children in the day care center.  She was dragged out kicking and screaming and thrown in an ICE vehicle.

I have no idea which side is telling the truth.  I do know that ICE has very little reason to lie about something like this where the truth would certainly come out relatively soon and make them look even worse than they would otherwise.  That does not mean that that is NOT what happened.  It does mean I am very happy to wait and find out just what the hell really happened.  

I wonder if the mainstream media will issue a correction if it turns out their report was bullshit?   I sort of doubt it.

NASTY NANCY IS PULLING THE PIN

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

Nasty Polosi, the worlds best superannuated stock picker and long-time member of the House of Representatives from San Francisco, announced today that she is NOT running again in 2026.  She was the Speaker of the House for some number of years and was very, very good at enforcing discipline within the ranks of the democrats. 

NOTABLE DEATH ... JUNE LOCKHART

By Bob Walsh

 

 

June Lockhart was Timmie's mom in many of the Lassie productions and also appeared in Lost In Space among other rolls.

She died two weeks ago at age 100.  She might not have had the most depth of any actor of her time, but what she did she did very well indeed.

LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT UNDER INVESTIGATION

By Bob Walsh

 

Karen Bass, the communist Mayor of Los Angeles, has directed that the Fire Department be investigated for various items of alleged incompetence and nastiness.

The big deal is the Palisades fire from January.  It seems that the staff on scene reported that the fire was still smouldering under ground when they were ordered to return to quarters by their battalion chief.  That is the fire that reignited several days later and burned down a bunch of Los Angeles.

Also being looked at are issues involving retaliation against whistleblowers and suspected financial irregularities within the firefighters union.

It is possible that some of this is management by the third law of thermodynamics.  (When the heat is on somebody else's ass it isn't on yours.) But in all fairness to Mayor Bass there seems to be some there there.

PARTS FALLING OFF IS USUALLY BAD

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 

They have concluded that one of the engines fell off the UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky a couple of days ago prior to impact, killing all of the crew and at least nine people on the ground.

I confess to having only modest knowledge of aircraft accident investigation but I do seem to recall that when large, important parts fall off of aircraft, especially when the plane is fully loaded and very close to the ground, it is often very bad.  One instance I am aware of occurred after maintenance people got "creative" with their method of removing and reinstalling the engine, which is normally very time consuming.  There were only three bolts that held the engine on, and if you damage the mounts in the process of changing engines it can have unintended results.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ISSUES

By Bob Walsh

 

The DOT has announced today that they are ordering 10% cutbacks of flights at some airports starting Friday.  This is due to the deterioration of their human infrastructure component.  They haven't been paid for a month but are still supposed to be showing up to work.  Many are working side jobs to put food on the table while working their required shifts and it is stressing them badly and impacting their operational efficiency.

IF YOU DO SOMETHING STUPID AND ILLEGAL YOU SHOULDN'T TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT

By Bob Walsh

 

Background: Surveillance video of John Reilly allegedly firing at a DoorDash driver on May 2. Inset: John Reilly 

 

Regular readers will remember I wrote about this basic incident several months ago.  Some poor Door Dash driver showed up at the wrong house back in May in Orange County, N Y.  This resident, John Reilly, 48, was pissed and ordered the guy to leave.  He attempted to, then Reilly opened fire on him, wounding him grievously.  

It seems that on the day following the shooting the cops showed up and questioned his wife, Selina Nelson-Reilly, about the incident.  She denied having any knowledge whatsoever of any such incident.  She then deleted 17 videos from their smart door bell camera.  She then sent a text to a friend and posted on social media about deleting the recordings.  

The wife has been indicted on charges of hindering prosecution and evidence tampering.  She is due to appear in court in January on the matter.  

Reilly has been charged with attempted murder, three counts of assault and criminal possession of a firearm.  He is out on $250,000 bail with an ankle monitor.

ACH DU LIBER ... BELOVED HITLER WAS THE VICTIM OF DAMN JEWS WHO PRESSURED CHURCHILL INTO REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH THE PEACE-LOVING FUHRER

By Howie Katz

 

Nick Fuentes

 

Can you believe that more than 750,000 Americans have bought into the conspiracy theory that Hitler was the victim of Jews who pressured Winston Churchill into refusing to compromise with the peace-loving Nazi leader. They are the followers of Nick Fuentes, a rabid Jew-hater and strong supporter of President Trump, who feeds this sort of garbage to his gullible admirers. 

 

According to Fuentes, a peace-loving Hitler was the victim of Jews who controlled the banks and the media

 

Jew-hater Tucker Carlson has given Nick Fuentes (left) a Jew-hatred platform on his podcast.

 

 

To make matters worse, Jew-Hater Tucker Carlson who has more than 13 million followers, has given Fuentes a Jew-hatred platform on his podcast.

 

What is so sickening to me is that Trump and many conservatives won't disavow the Jew-hating pair. 

IF SHE IS NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT, MTG WILL BE A REPUBLICAN KAMALA HARRIS

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells allies she's running for president in 2028 as firebrand reinvention gains momentum

 

By Jon Michael Raasch 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 5, 2025

 

 

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene leaving 'The View' in red pant suit in New York City on Tuesday. A recent report indicates that she wants to run for president in 2028 

 

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is telling close confidants that she wants to run for president in 2028. 

The Georgia lawmaker has been telling her congressional colleagues she is eying a bid for the White House, four sources familiar with the matter told NOTUS. 

One of the sources shared that MTG believes she is 'real MAGA and that the others have strayed' from Trump's true vision. 

Greene also believes she will get the money to pull off the expensive gambit, the source revealed. 

In fact, the congresswoman thinks she has 'the national donor network to win the primary.' 

The congresswoman did not deny her ambitions when responding to the Daily Mail's request for comment. 

'Last week, it was rumored that I was planning to run for Governor of Georgia. This week it’s rumored I am running for President. I’m committed to one thing: serving the best district in the Nation, Georgia’s 14th.'

Greene, 51, a conservative mother of three known for her outlandish attacks on her political opponents, has recently separated herself from the GOP by repeatedly criticizing party leadership. 

 

Though it is early, Vice President JD Vance is widely expected to get the nod from the GOP 

 

Based on her recent social media posts and TV appearances, one may come to think that Greene is center-right. But those who are longtime MTG watchers may beg to differ. 

Once a purveyor of lies about 'space lasers,' Greene has been embraced by even her most ardent opponents because of her recent critiques of Republicans and specifically her embrace of healthcare reform - a top priority among those on the left. 

She is no longer ridiculing trans people in front of her nearly 8 million social media followers; instead, she is talking about advancing Obamacare subsidies. 

Greene's efforts appear to be apart of a larger rebrand. 

On Wednesday, Greene chastised GOP leadership's failure to provide relief to  'Americans suffering from high cost of living, rising food and energy prices. 

In the same post, she accused leadership of 'leaving them out to dry with no plan on our skyrocketing health insurance premiums.'

Once siloed to the far-right networks like One America News (OAN) and Real America's Voice, a network her boyfriend Brian Glenn works for, MTG has broken out of the conservative echo chamber and found herself in bluer waters. 

This week, she appeared on ABC's 'The View,' a left-leaning daytime program that frequently slams Republicans and Trump. 

Overall, the TV appearance was tame, despite one tense moment. 

Though Greene was pressed on her 'space laser' comments, she was able to find middle ground on the issue, admitting she was tricked by what she had read online.

Green also noted how the phenomenon - being tricked by things you read online - is common on both sides of the political aisle, a point well taken by the hosts. 

She also recently appeared on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher, where the Republican was similarly greeted with a warm reception.

YOUNGKIN RESUSCITATES DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Rising Republican's future now in tatters as he's blamed for electoral bloodbath

 

By Victoria Churchill 

 

Daily Mail

Nov 5, 2025

 

 

 

President Donald Trump blames election losses om government shutdown 

 

The dramatic Republican drubbing in Virginia on Tuesday night is now imperiling the 
once bright future prospects of Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Four years ago, in 2021, Youngkin was a national Republican hero after he led the GOP to control all three elected statewide offices, as well as gains in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Yesterday, Democrats flipped control of all of the state's executive offices, and also flipped 13 seats in the House of Delegates, giving them control of 64 percent of the chamber come January. 

Now, some in his party view Youngkin as a pariah who should not have meddled in this year's GOP primary, during which he tipped the scales in favor of his lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, to be his heir.

A longtime conservative Virginia operative said the decision to 'personally select the nominees and clear out the primary' sealed Youngkin's fate. 

Matthew Hurtt, Chairman of the Arlington GOP, told the Daily Mail that Youngkin was responsible for the waterfall of losses up and down the ticket in 2025, following an 'unnecessary battle' with the lawmakers over a taxpayer-funded stadium in Northern Virginia.

In the minds of other Virginia conservatives, however, Youngkin will maintain a positive legacy.

Tim Parrish, Virginia State Director of the free-market advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, told the Daily Mail Wednesday that 'Youngkin’s legacy can be wrapped up in one word: Stability.'

 

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin campaigns for Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears at The Salisbury Center on November 03, 2025 in Manassas, Virginia

Winsome Earle-Sears makes pancakes at Shorty's Diner alongside Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on November 03, 2025 in Richmond, Virginia

A supporter reacts while listening to Republican candidate for New Jersey governor Jack Ciattarelli address them at his election night rally after U.S. media projected Democratic candidate U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill had won the election, in Bridgewater, New Jersey, U.S., November 4, 2025.

 

For Parrish, that stability came in the form of leadership in the post-COVID era, as well as major policy wins on education, which was a key platform on which Youngkin ran and won in 2021. 

The outgoing governor's leadership on issues such as economic investment and job creation was also appreciated by Carrie Sheffield, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice, who told the Daily Mail that the incoming Spanberger administration will embrace 'policies that spark inflation and reduce employment.'

As far as Youngkin's political future is concerned, Parrish says that it is still currently bright, but that it would be squandered by joining the Trump administration

'I think he should run for the US Senate in 2026 and continue to be that champion for Virginians, while also appealing to the American people on the national stage,' Parrish concluded.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment when asked by the Daily Mail about Youngkin's legacy, political future, or whether he would be considered for a role in the administration.

Asked about his political future at a press conference on Wednesday, the governor deflected, noting and that he will work with Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks at a post-election news conference in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025

 

Hurtt, however, shared a more direct perspective with the Daily Mail about the governor's political future, noting that 'it would be hard for Governor Youngkin to make the case that voters should ‘promote’ him to any other office, state-wide or nationally,' and that a national run wouldn't be in the cards without early support from Virginians.

Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist and host of the War Room podcast, completely eviscerated Youngkin for pushing a 'Never-Trumper candidate'  

Back in August, numerous longtime Republican players in Virginia privately told the Daily Mail that they had serious doubts about Earle-Sears's ability to emerge victorious in November. 

One GOP operative told the Daily Mail, under the condition of anonymity at the time, that 'this is 100 percent Glenn Youngkin's fault for clearing the field by endorsing her right after the 2024 election.'

The operative also noted that there were real conversations about potential primary challengers to Sears, which the governor worked to keep at bay. 

Following Sears' loss, former Trump 2024 campaign manager Chris LaCivita noted on X that a 'Bad candidate and Bad campaign have consequences - the Virginia Governors race is example number 1.'