ZOHRAN MAMDANI WANTS TO SPEND $30 MILLION ON A GOVERNMENT-OWNED GROCERY STORE IN A CITY THAT IS ALREADY BROKE.

The media wants you to think Mamdani is a bold young reformer trying to make New York affordable. He is not. New York City is staring at a massive fiscal hole, small grocers are already operating on razor-thin margins, and Mamdani's answer is to use taxpayer money to become their subsidized competitor. We break down the math, the ideology, and the people who actually get crushed when government decides it wants to run the corner store.

Plus -- Eric Swalwell's collapse is one of the clearest windows you will ever get into how the Democratic machine really works. Four women came forward. Endorsements vanished overnight. Staffers sprinted for the exits. And Ruben Gallego performed the political version of "shocked, shocked" so hard he deserves his own Oscar category. The story is ugly. The timeline is worse. And the party that spent years telling you to believe women suddenly needed a newspaper first.

🛒 MAMDANI'S GOVERNMENT GROCERY STORE -- $30 million for one store, in a neighborhood that already has options, in a city facing a huge budget crisis. We walk through the numbers, the bodegas, and why this is not affordability. It is socialist performance art with a taxpayer-funded cash register

🏙️ NEW YORK IS BROKE -- reserves are draining, deficits are rising, and Mamdani is still pitching luxury-grade socialism like money grows on a city-owned avocado tree

🥛 THE BODEGA BACKLASH -- immigrant-owned stores, neighborhood markets, and working families are the ones Mamdani undercuts first. Government is not filling a gap. It is becoming the bully on the block

🧮 WHY THE MATH DOESN'T WORK -- private grocers live and die on margins. government stores live and die on your wallet. We explain why this model keeps failing everywhere it is tried

🔥 ERIC SWALWELL'S COLLAPSE -- the allegations, the timeline, the endorsements disappearing at light speed, and the Democratic panic that tells you this was never about principle. It was about getting caught

🎭 RUBEN GALLEGO'S SHOCKED ACT -- Swalwell called him his best friend in the world. Gallego says he knew nothing. We examine that claim with the respect it deserves, which is very little

👀 THE OPEN SECRET PROBLEM -- if rumors were circulating for years, why did the party keep promoting Swalwell right up until the second the press made it impossible

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TRUMP CALLED THE POPE WEAK ON CRIME. POSTED HIMSELF AS JESUS CHRIST. DELETED IT BY MORNING. AND HIS SPIRITUAL ADVISER ASKED CHRISTIANS TO VENMO HER TEN PERCENT OF THEIR INCOME. ALL IN THE SAME WEEKEND.

The media wants you to think this is a story about a president attacking a peaceful holy man for no reason. It is not. Pope Leo XIV -- the first American-born pope in history, from Chicago, Illinois -- has spent months wading deeper into American domestic politics, culminating in urging American citizens to call their Congress members and oppose their own president's foreign policy. A foreign head of state. Lobbying American voters. Against their own government. Trump called it what it is. Today we back him up.

Plus -- Sabrina Carpenter headlined Coachella, got called Islamophobic for not recognizing a sound she'd never heard in her life, and the internet convicted her before she finished her piano set. The history behind that sound is more interesting than anything the mob has to say about it.

🎤 SABRINA CARPENTER VS. THE ZAGHROUTA -- what the sound actually is, why Lawrence of Arabia matters, and why the audience member at Coachella used a thousand-year-old tradition as a gotcha instead of a gift

⛪ THE VATICAN IS A FOREIGN POWER -- not a metaphor, not a figure of speech. Full diplomatic corps, UN seat, foreign policy agenda. And its head of state just lobbied American citizens against their own president

🏛️ THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC TRADITION -- Charles Carroll signed the Declaration. Casimir Pulaski bled at Savannah. Stephen Moylan rode with Washington. Every one of them chose America over Rome. We make the case Leo should too

⚔️ THE IRAN WAR AND THE JUST WAR QUESTION -- forty-seven years of Iranian terrorism, a nuclear weapon weeks away, and a pope who is contradicting Augustine and Aquinas inside his own church's intellectual tradition

🤳 THE JESUS IMAGE -- Trump posted it on Orthodox Easter, his own base called it blasphemy, and it was deleted by Monday morning with zero explanation. We defend the troll and explain why it worked

💸 PAULA WHITE'S VENMO TITHE -- the White House Spiritual Adviser asked for the first tenth of your gross income while the pope was being praised globally for moral clarity. CashApp. Venmo. PayPal. God takes whatever's in your digital wallet

🎙️ CAMELLIA PETERSEN (@RareCamellia) joins us to break down the politics, the optics, and the Paula White pattern the Trump administration should have caught long before giving her an official title

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Swalwell QUITS Governor Race Amid Rape Investigation | Iran War Update | Masculinity Crisis | Rand Paul 2028 | Wake Up America with Austin Petersen

Eric Swalwell — the California Congressman who once threatened gun owners with nuclear weapons — dropped out of the governor's race Sunday night as a Manhattan DA criminal investigation opened into rape allegations from four women, including a former staffer. We're covering every angle, including Austin's personal history with Swalwell going back to 2018 when Swalwell called him a "troll" on Twitter during his Missouri Senate campaign. Full accountability, zero sympathy.

Then — the Iran war escalated dramatically this weekend. Peace talks in Islamabad collapsed after 21 hours of negotiations. Trump announced a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz beginning yesterday. Gas prices are up 31% since the war began. We break down the honest challenges AND the case for why this moment may be the most consequential strategic realignment in the Middle East since 1979. American energy dominance is being proven in real time with an armada of supertankers loading US crude in the Gulf of America.

Plus — Jon Miltimore from the American Institute for Economic Research (@Miltimore79) joins us to discuss the Wall Street Journal's fascinating piece on the masculinity crisis in America, what prestige television tells us about lost men, and why Jennifer Siebel Newsom's war on masculine virtue looks a little different the morning after her party's front-runner quit a governor's race over rape allegations.

And — Tom Pappert from the Tennessee Star (@RealTomPappert) is here for a tough love conversation about Rand Paul's 2028 presidential flirtation. We're both fans. We both think it's a bad idea. We'll tell you exactly why — and what we'd say to him if he called.

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