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When Mayor Mamdani fails to deliver all he has promised, we will be here to pick up the pieces.
We love New York. We love the free market. And we're here to deliver solutions that work. nytimes.com/2026/07/29/nyreg…
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JUST IN: Lawyers are telling us that some of these migrant-only welfare programs violate American civil rights law. It's for @CivilRights to crack down.
EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.
We went inside the system and exposed it all.
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"We're spending at least $11 billion a year on just Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants, but on top of that, we have everything from housing, food, and cash, and other benefits they can claim on behalf of themselves and their U.S.-born children.
California's created a shadow welfare state to get around prohibitions on federal dollars going to illegal immigrants, and they're funding it 100% with California taxpayer money."
@kennethschrupp on his investigation exposing California's shadow welfare state for illegal aliens:
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Christian Bale's nonprofit recently opened Together California, a foster-care village in Palmdale, outside Los Angeles. The $22 million development will house as many as 72 children and their caregivers.
The village includes a playground, a community center, social services and studio apartments for young people preparing to leave foster care. One parent in each household will be paid to manage the home full time. The homes also have enough bedrooms for large groups of siblings to live together.
Mr. Bale told the New York Times that keeping siblings together was one of his priorities. He's right about the trauma of separation, @robkhenderson writes for the @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/free-express…
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Special thank you to @ishapiro and everyone at the @ManhattanInst for hosting a wonderful discussion last week about "Israel on Trial."
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NEW: California Democrats are trying to bring back racial discrimination in education.
A new referendum would entirely remove Proposition 209—which prohibits the state from giving preferential treatment based on race, sex, or ethnicity—from the kindergarten to 12th grade level.
MI senior fellow @GailHeriot's latest in @realDailyWire ⬇️ dailywire.com/news/californi…
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"The California government is now giving out free housing vouchers, healthcare, food, cash assistance, even car insurance subsidies for illegal immigrants. If you total up all the spending over the course of a year it's topping $11 billion.
...What they are doing is astonishing. They are creating a magnet for illegal immigration, and then in some cases rewarding families with two anchor babies, two illegal parents and illegal grandparents, theoretically up to $100,000 a year in free benefits."
@christopherrufo on his latest @CityJournal investigation w/ @austenhufford & @kennethschrupp ⬇️
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California’s Shadow Welfare System for Illegal Immigrants
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When Roland Fryer sought to improve 20 struggling Houston schools, he implemented five practices: more instructional time, high-dosage tutoring, frequent teacher feedback, data-driven instruction and a culture of high expectations.
The results were extraordinary.
In math, elementary students gained four additional months of learning each year; secondary students gained nearly eight months in a nine-month school year. Every graduating senior in the high schools was admitted to a two- or four-year college.
Roland Fryer writes about Nikole Hannah-Jones, school choice, and the real way to turn struggling schools around in @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/the-educatio…
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MI's @DrJenniferWeber says banning AI in schools is a mistake:
"The kids that are not in public schools are probably going to learn to use [AI], and so the kids that are in public schools are going to be the ones that are left behind...
...giving kids a chatbot in Kindergarten is definitely not the solution. We should put pressure on teaching those foundational skills in K-2, and starting in grade 3, start to slowly integrate [AI], because that is the future."
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"There are two ways for America’s schools to get artificial intelligence wrong. One is to hand a child a chatbot and let it do all the thinking — and the other is to ban AI and pretend it doesn’t exist.
New York and Los Angeles have both chosen the second option. That means they’re setting their students up to get the first."
@DrJenniferWeber in the @nypost: nypost.com/2026/09/21/opinio…
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Here's California proudly advertising welfare for illegal aliens:
"No Social Security number? No problem!"
EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.
We went inside the system and exposed it all.
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The shadow welfare system in California costs taxpayers $10 billion per year. @CityJournal reporters saw it for themselves.
Read @christopherrufo, @austenhufford, & @kennethschrupp's full report: city-journal.org/article/cal…
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Tomorrow, I will be moderating The American City is Worth Fighting For: How Have Some Cities Shown the Way to Win? With MI scholars @nicolegelinas and @danielgolliher
An AF-DC/@ManhattanInst event, we’ll explore how we got here and what it’ll take for our cities to reach their full potential
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Worth The Risk: A Conversation with Allison Schrager and Cliff Asness nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1RKZzBeZW…
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.@christopherrufo tells @billmaher that the Right is starting to win back educational institutions:
"A lot of institutions, and in particular schools, have realized that the kind of panic around BLM, George Floyd, 2020, transgender ideologies went way too far.
I'm seeing a lot of these school districts in blue states, red states, start to moderate, start to actually get back to what parents want, and most importantly, focusing on what kids actually need.
They don't need a shrine to George Floyd in the kindergarten classroom. They need to learn their ABCs. And we're going back to that, and I think that's a win."
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Imagine that your car has been stolen with your kid in the back.
Would you want police to have a tool available to them to help find that vehicle quickly?
That's what automated license plate reader cameras like Flock do: allow police to significantly narrow the search area and find vehicles of interest.
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"The whole AI discussion...it has echoes of what you were seeing during the Cold War with nuclear weapons. Well, if the Soviet Union's going to be building nuclear weapons, we should be building better ones. And if China's going to be developing AI, then we should be developing better AI.
If AI is going to wipe us all out, I kind of agree with what @tedcruz said recently, which is if there are going to be killer robots, I'd rather they be American killer robots."
@robkhenderson on @Gutfeldfox:
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NEW: The push to ban Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) is mistaken.
While there are legitimate concerns about the abuse of ALPRs, the best approach for policymakers is not to ban the technology altogether, but to mitigate those risks through sensible regulation.
@Rafa_Mangual & @CharlesFLehman suggest rules mandating:
- logging of access
- supervisory approval
- limits on data retention
- audits
- criminal penalties for misuse
- restrictions limiting the use of police ALPRs to major crimes
- prohibitions on placing ALPRs near sensitive places, like churches or medical facilities
Their latest research report is out now: manhattan.institute/article/…
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