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Mamdani pressed on pledge to be Trump’s ‘worst nightmare’ and landlord pushback on rent freeze plan

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New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was pressed Tuesday on his pledge to be President Trump’s «worst nightmare» along with his plan to freeze rent, which has been criticized by many landlords in the city.
«What I’ve said time and again is I will not take a reflexive approach in refusing to speak to any one person, depending on their politics,» Mamdani told Fox News National Correspondent Brian Llenas at a Tuesday press conference when asked about his previous claim that his administration will be Trump’s «worst nightmare» and if that threat rings hollow given the amount of federal power and funding the president yields.
«I am looking to work with anyone so long as it’s to the benefit of New Yorkers,» Mamdani continued. «That’s the distinction between myself and Andrew Cuomo. One of many is that he called Donald Trump not on the question of how can we serve New York City, not on the question of how can we protect this city from these cuts, but rather, how could we work together to subvert the will of Democratic primary voters?»
Llenas followed up by asking how voters can be assured Mamdani won’t be reflexive and can work with the White House, given he is currently on a press tour across the city’s five boroughs specifically attacking Trump.
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New York City mayoral candidate and democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025. Voters will head to the polls on June 24, 2025, to vote in the Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral election. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
«What this tour is reflective of is the fact that Donald Trump is attacking this city,» Mamdani answered. «It’s attacking its people. It’s attacking the very fabric of what we call home. And we’ve spoken about it in a fiscal sense, in terms of what it will mean to steal food from the hungry, what it will mean to throw sick people off of their insurance, what it will mean to make it even more difficult to afford the city. And so, yes, this is a tour against the Trump administration’s attack on New York City voters.»
Mamdani added that if Trump «wants to pick up the phone» to work on issues like cheap groceries that he is «willing to work with him on that» but it cannot be a «partnership at the expense of the people in the city.»
Mamdani has faced strong criticism, including from New York Apartment Association CEO Kenny Burgos in a recent interview with Fox News Digital, about his plan to «freeze» rent in the city for some New Yorkers.
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Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, speaks at an endorsement event from the union DC 37 on July 15, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Mamdani was asked what he would say to those who argue rent freezes keep housing supply lower while denying landlords and builders the necessary funds to build more housing or maintain their properties, a concern echoed by Burgos in his comments to Fox News Digital.
«The rent freezes that we’re speaking about, these are rent freezes that have already taken place in New York City,» Mamdani answered. «They happened three times under the previous administration. The issues that we’re having of housing supply, these are long-term issues in New York City, some of which have to do with politics and policy. Some of which also have to do with process.»
«And these are critically important for us to confront as the leaders of this city, because what we are seeing is a vacancy rate that is so low that it is suffocating the city’s ability to continue to grow and ensure that we can welcome more people here.»
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Candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference while campaigning outside a Subway station in New York City, U.S., April 1, 2025. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
Mamdani continued by saying what he has «heard from landlords» is primary concerns about insurance.
«The fact that insurance has doubled in recent years and I see an example in a number of those landlords coming together to create their own insurance entity,» Mamdani said. «I may butcher the name, but Milford Street Captive, which has managed to reduce insurance costs, that’s something that the city can build upon with more significant investment.»
«I’ve also heard from these same landlords that an issue they have is not that a tenant cannot afford the 3 or 4 or 5% increase that the Rent Guidelines Board is passing, as per the directive from Eric Adams. It’s that there are some tenants who can’t afford their rent at all,» Mamdani said.
Mamdani went on to call for more rent vouchers, saying that there are «so many» New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized housing that can benefit from CityFHEPS.
«That could actually increase the amount of money that these landlords take home in rent, but the city hasn’t paid enough,» Mamdani said.
«Those previous rent freezes were temporary, were they not?,» Mamdani was pressed by Llenas.
«I’ve spoken about a four-year rent freeze,» Mamdani responded before moving on to the next question.
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El astrofísico Adam Becker advirtió sobre la obsesión de la élite tecnológica por la inmortalidad y el control global

Un nuevo libro de Adam Becker, reseñado por MIT Technology Review, examina la situación del progreso de la inteligencia artificial (IA), argumentando que hay una perspectiva compartida por los principales magnates tecnológicos del sector, que siguen raíces filosóficas e históricas. En “More Everything Forever” (Más de todo para siempre), Becker expone que figuras como Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos y Elon Musk impulsan una ideología que, según él, promete consecuencias profundas para la sociedad y el planeta.
El libro parte de la premisa de que los líderes tecnológicos más influyentes no solo buscan innovar, sino que intentan rediseñar el destino de la humanidad. Sus proyectos van desde alinear la IA con los intereses humanos y crear una superinteligencia capaz de resolver problemas globales, hasta fusionar la mente con la tecnología para alcanzar la inmortalidad, establecer colonias autosuficientes en Marte y expandirse por el cosmos. Becker sostiene que todas estas metas comparten una misma base: la “ideología de la salvación tecnológica”.
Entre los líderes de este movimiento destacan Sam Altman, CEO de Open AI; Jeff Bezos, fundador de Amazon e impulsor de la exploración espacial privada; Elon Musk, creador de Tesla, SpaceX y GROK, conocido por sus ambiciones interplanetarias; Marc Andreessen, autor del “Manifiesto Tecno-Optimista”; y Ray Kurzweil, promotor de la Singularidad. Todos ellos, de acuerdo al análisis de MIT Technology Review, mantienen la convicción de que la tecnología debe resolver cualquier desafío y que el crecimiento perpetuo es moralmente necesario.
Becker identifica tres rasgos principales de esta ideología: fe inquebrantable en la tecnología como solución universal, creencia en el crecimiento sin fin y una obsesión cuasi religiosa por superar los límites humanos. Según el autor, hay una doctrina común donde “se encuentra la idea de escape y trascendencia, así como la promesa de un futuro asombroso, lleno de maravillas inimaginables, siempre que no se obstaculice el progreso tecnológico”. Esta visión, según Becker, permite a la élite tecnológica presentar la expansión de sus empresas como un imperativo moral y justificar cualquier acción en nombre del avance.

La obra explora las ideas y movimientos que nutren esta cosmovisión. Becker traza un recorrido que va desde los fundamentos del transhumanismo de Max More en los años noventa hasta la actual ideología de la salvación tecnológica, pasando por la llamada “ideología californiana”, una mezcla de valores contraculturales y neoliberales. Conceptos como el altruismo efectivo, el racionalismo, el extropianismo, el aceleracionismo efectivo, el futurismo y el singularitarianismo figuran como variantes del mismo núcleo ideológico. El punto en común es claro: el futuro será extraordinario si se permite la innovación sin trabas.
En este entramado, la Singularidad, momento en que la IA supere a la capacidad humana y y pueda mejorarse a sí misma de forma autónoma, ocupa un lugar central. Kurzweil sostiene la existencia de una “Ley de Rendimientos Acelerados”, según la cual el progreso tecnológico sigue una curva exponencial. Becker cuestiona este supuesto y advierte sobre la mala interpretación de fenómenos como la Ley de Moore, que describe la duplicación de transistores en los chips pero no garantiza un avance perpetuo.

Becker advierte sobre los riesgos sociales, ambientales y políticos de la ideología del progreso sin fin. Su preocupación se basa en que la fe en la salvación tecnológica sea utilizada como excusa para la depredación ambiental, la acumulación de poder, la evasión de regulaciones, además de distraer de los problemas reales del presente a favor de futuros hipotéticos. Sostiene que en la última década, la falta de regulación y de escrutinio mediático permitió que estas visiones se instalaran sin oposición significativa.
El atractivo de estas ideas no se limita a la élite de Silicon Valley, argumenta Becker. Muchas personas encuentran consuelo en la promesa de un futuro predecible, la posibilidad de trascender la muerte y la sensación de que alguien —o algo— tiene el control. El autor observa que en comunidades racionalistas y de altruismo efectivo, es habitual encontrar antiguos evangélicos, lo que sugiere un paralelismo entre la función de la religión y la narrativa tecnológica.
A lo largo del análisis, MIT Technology Review resalta la advertencia de Becker sobre el peligro de aceptar estas visiones como inevitables. Insiste en que solo reconociendo el carácter problemático de estos sueños tecnológicos se podrá desafiar su supuesta predestinación. Cuando la sociedad advierta que esos futuros prometidos podrían transformarse en pesadillas colectivas, la sensación de inevitabilidad que rodea la ideología de la salvación tecnológica comenzará a desvanecerse.
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Ex-Bush attorney general faces House Oversight questions on controversial Epstein deal

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A former attorney general under George W. Bush’s administration is testifying to House Oversight Committee investigators on Tuesday.
Alberto Gonzales, who led the Department of Justice (DOJ) from February 2005 until mid-September 2007, is the second witness being called in the bipartisan House probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
It’s not immediately clear how many lawmakers will appear at the closed-door deposition, which is expected to largely be staff-led. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is likely to attend, however.
Gonzales notably led the DOJ during early talks with Florida federal prosecutors for Epstein’s infamous non-prosecution agreement, which was formed in 2007 and finalized in 2008.
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Epstein, pictured here in New York City on Feb. 23, 2011, is the subject of a bipartisan House Oversight Committee investigation. (David McGlynn)
He left shortly before it was signed, however – something Comer noted in a subpoena cover letter to Gonzales earlier this month.
«Your tenure as U.S. Attorney General, from 2005 to late 2007, coincided with a time period when the FBI investigated Jeffrey Epstein for sex crimes, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida prepared a draft 60-count indictment of Mr. Epstein, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida offered a plea bargain to Mr. Epstein, leading to the signing of Mr. Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement only one week after you left office,» Comer wrote.
The House Oversight Committee sent a flurry of subpoenas regarding Epstein earlier this month, kicking off a bipartisan investigation into the late pedophile.
In addition to Gonzales, subpoenas were also issued seeking depositions from former FBI directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, ex-attorneys general Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Notably excluded from the list is Alex Acosta, the former Trump Labor Secretary who approved the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein while serving as a U.S. attorney in Florida.
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Alberto Gonzales, pictured here in April 2013, served as attorney general from 2005 to 2007. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The subpoenas were directed via a bipartisan vote during an unrelated House Oversight subcommittee hearing on illegal immigrant children in late July.
Renewed interest in Epstein’s case has gripped Capitol Hill after the DOJ’s handling of the matter spurred a GOP revolt by far-right figures.
The DOJ effectively declared the case closed after an «exhaustive review,» revealing Epstein had no «client list,» did not blackmail «prominent individuals,» and confirmed he did die by suicide in a New York City jail while awaiting prosecution.
Democrats seized on the discord with newfound calls for transparency in Epstein’s case – spurring accusations of hypocrisy from their Republican colleagues.
Indeed, the bipartisan unity that the investigation was kicked off with quickly disintegrated after the first witness, Barr, was deposed last week.
Reps. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who attended part of Barr’s deposition, left the room roughly halfway through the sit-down and accused Republicans of insufficiently probing questions during their allotted time to depose Barr.
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Comer, in response, implored Democrats not to politicize a bipartisan investigation.
Divisions deepened after Comer said Barr had no knowledge of, nor did he believe, any implications of wrongdoing on President Donald Trump’s part related to Epstein.
House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who was not in the room, released a statement after the deposition, claiming Barr did not clear Trump.
In addition to Gonzales’ deposition Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee is also expected to hear this week from former Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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