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Social media erupts after Mamdani’s far-left supporters turn on him over homeless shelter: ‘Oops’

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani, proposes a new pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes in NYC valued at $5 million or more. Former Miami mayor Francis Suarez criticizes the plan, arguing it’s ‘absolutely backwards’ and will lead to capital flight and budget holes, ultimately harming everyday New Yorkers.
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East Village residents who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani by a 40-point margin are now suing to stop a building in their neighborhood from becoming a temporary homeless shelter.
The lawsuit, filed with the New York City Supreme Court on Monday, shows hesitation even among Mamdani supporters about the cost of implementing some of his plans.
News of the lawsuit has prompted conservative mockery online, with figures like Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noting the irony of Mamdani’s supporters turning on the fruits of his administration.
«Oops,» Sen. Ted Cruz said in a post to X.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference at La Marqueta in East Harlem on April 14, 2026, outlining plans for city-run grocery stores aimed at lowering food prices. (New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference announcing a city-run grocery store plan in East Harlem.)
«No one is more ‘not in my backyard’ than white progressives. This community voted for Mamdani in a landslide but don’t want to live with the consequences,» Michael Henry, a former New York attorney general candidate, wrote on social media.
«Not shocked,» Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said in a post of his own.
Election District 45, the area that includes East Village, voted for Mamdani in a 70.1% victory over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who garnered just 26.0% of the vote.
Even so, 10 residents joined the Village Organization for the Integrity of Community Engagement (VOICE) in their suit against the city after Mamdani announced plans earlier this year to turn a building at 8 East 3rd Street into a citywide intake shelter to house homeless adult men.
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Trains arrive and depart at the Queensboro Plaza subway station with the New York City skyline visible behind on Dec. 23, 2005. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The filing argues the city fast-tracked the process without proper environmental and legal safeguards.
«It challenges the city’s hastily made and legally invalid decision to locate a new citywide homeless adult male intake center at 8 East 3rd Street without following any of the legal requirements that must precede such a significant and consequential decision,» the filing reads.
To circumvent them, the complaint notes that Mamdani relied on an emergency declaration from 2022 — a power originally issued to handle an influx of asylum-seekers.
Mamdani announced the temporary housing project at 8 East 3rd Street as a way to accommodate the closure of Bellevue Shelter, a separate homeless intake site that the mayor’s office said had deteriorated too far for use.
«The Department of Social Services (DSS) and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will immediately implement an operational plan to vacate 30th Street and relocate the critical functions to other sites. There are approximately 250 individuals in the shelter and the DSS is working to relocate these individuals by mid-March,» Mamdani’s office said in a press release.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks at the Service Employees International Union 32BJ SEIU rally on Park Avenue in Manhattan on April 15, 2026. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu)
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The mayor’s office also detailed that a second accommodation site would be opened at 333 Bowery St., beginning on May 1, to house families without minor children.
The New York Supreme Court has not yet responded to requests for emergency relief that would pause the city’s plans.
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¿Es o no es? Un misterioso Stradivarius reaviva una historia de saqueo nazi que llega hasta Argentina

¿Un Stradivarius robado por los nazis en Polonia reapareció a finales de marzo durante un concierto en el noreste de Francia? La experta Pascale Bernheim, que lo busca desde hace años, asegura que sí, aunque el origen del instrumento genera debate.
Este violín, fabricado por el célebre lutier italiano del Renacimiento Antonio Stradivari y desaparecido desde hace años, tiene actualmente un valor estimado en más de 10 millones de euros (más de 11,7 millones de dólares).
La experta cuenta que sus sospechas comenzaron tras leer la crónica del diario local Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace sobre una velada el 31 de marzo en el museo Unterlinden de Colmar, en el noreste de Francia, que combinaba una cata de vinos y un concierto de violín.
El violonista Emmanuel Coopey tocó varios violines distintos, entre ellos tres antiguos: uno fabricado en “1624” por el lutier Niccolò Amati, otro “del taller de Antonio Guarneri fechado en 1735″… y “uno de 1719 de Antonio Stradivari, según el artículo del diario.

“Estoy absolutamente convencida de que se trata del ‘Lauterbach’”, declara la presidenta de la asociación Musique et spoliations (Música y Expoliaciones), en referencia al violín robado en 1944 en Polonia y llamado así por uno de sus primeros propietarios.
Soldados nazis lo robaron en 1944 en el Museo Nacional de Varsovia, pero la última vez que fue visto fue a inicios de los años 1990 en Francia tras pasar años en la República Democrática Alemana, en la órbita soviética, según una investigación del diario Le Parisien.
Sólo existen nueve Stradivarius de 1719, de los cuáles dos están desaparecidos: el “Lauterbach” y otro apodado “Lautenschlager”.
Sin embargo, este último tiene una particularidad. Su tapa inferior está compuesta de dos tablas de madera, por lo que no puede ser el violín usado en Colmar, cuya parte posterior está fabricada con una sola, según la información del rotativo.
El organizador de la velada en Colmar es además el productor de conciertos de música clásica Emmanuel Jaeger, quien en 2017 se puso en contacto con la experta para investigar el origen de un violín en posesión de Jean-Christophe Graff, un lutier de Estrasburgo.
Este último pensaba que tenía un Vuillaume, de menor valor, hasta que, durante un coloquio, un reputado experto mundial, el británico Charles Beare (fallecido en 2025), le dijo: “Esto no es en absoluto un Vuillaume, es un Stradivarius y un Stradivarius del periodo más bello”, explica Pascale Bernheim.

A Graff le preocupaba tener en su posesión un violín expoliado, agrega la experta.
La especialista inició entonces sus investigaciones, identificó al propietario del “Lauterbach” antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el industrial polaco Henryk Grohman –que lo había cedido al museo polaco antes de su muerte–, y localizó incluso a descendientes suyos en Austria y en Argentina.
Pero el origen del instrumento aún está por determinar con certeza. “Que yo sepa, Beare evaluó en dos ocasiones el violín y posteriormente se sometió a un análisis dendrocronológico», método que permite determinar en particular la edad de los objetos de madera, explica Bernheim.
Ni Emmanuel Jaeger ni el lutier de Estrasburgo respondieron. El primero declaró, sin embargo, a Le Parisien que la experta se equivocaba. “No se trata del violín robado”, aseguró también el jueves en Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace.
Según el organizador de la velada, el violín cedido para el concierto por el propietario del instrumento es otro Stradivarius de 1719. “Errar es humano y puede que me equivoque”, replica Bernheim. Pero si se trata efectivamente de un Stradivarius de 1719, sin ser el Lauterbach, “en ese caso, que nos explique cuál es”.
Fuente: AFP
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Blue state residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ progressive takeover, says top state attorney

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A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an «insane» «ultra-progressive» takeover.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Haven Shoemaker, state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, said that after decades in public service, he is «sick to death» of the policies that «emanate» from the state capital in Annapolis. He said he is especially disgusted with Maryland’s «sanctuary» policies and the high taxes he said are being levied in part to pay for more services for illegal immigrants.
«Maryland has become California on the Chesapeake,» said Shoemaker. «It only gets worse. It’s not getting better. And at some point, I just had to make a personal decision that it’s time to throw in the towel and head for what I believe are greener pastures.»
Shoemaker is not the only one. He said that he sees Marylanders giving up on the state «all the time.»
«The State of Maryland has one of the worst outward migration numbers of any state in the country right now,» he said. «So, I don’t know who’s going to be the last to foot the bill for the profligate spending that Annapolis likes to engage in, but it’s not going to be me, I can tell you that.»
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Marylanders are «fleeing in droves» under Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and the Democra-controlled State Assembly, according to Carroll County State Attorney Haven Shoemaker. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Moore’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. Fox News Digital also reached out to Maryland House Speaker Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk and Senate President Bill Ferguson for comment.
Born in Baltimore in the 1960s, Shoemaker spent three decades in local and state politics before taking the job as Carroll County’s top prosecutor in 2023. His career in public service includes seven years as mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, four years as a Carroll County commissioner and nine years in the Maryland House of Delegates. He rose to the role of House Minority Whip for the Maryland Republican Party.
Despite years deeply involved in state politics, Shoemaker said his decision to abandon Maryland has been a long time coming.
«I’ve been contemplating this move for a while, but the linchpin for me was this most recent legislative session where they essentially made Maryland a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants,» he told Fox News Digital.
Earlier this year, the Maryland General Assembly passed an emergency measure to ban local and state law enforcement agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through what is known as the 287(g) program. Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, whose name has been floated as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, signed the bill into law.
While emphasizing that law enforcement would continue cooperating with ICE on deporting individuals who «pose a risk to public safety,» Moore lauded the bill, saying, «We will not allow untrained, unqualified and unaccountable agents to deputize our brave local law enforcement officers,» according to WYPR.
While signing the measure, Moore stressed his view that «Maryland is a community of immigrants,» saying, «It is not our weakness, it’s our strength.»
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The Maryland State Capitol building in Annapolis, Md. (Getty Images)
Shoemaker, meanwhile, said that Maryland’s sanctuary-style policies are «just part of the problem.»
«In addition to that, their tax policy here is horrendous,» he said. He pointed to how state leaders raised taxes in Maryland last year by $1.6 billion.
The tax raise was passed by the State Assembly and approved by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore as part of a $67 billion state budget in 2025. The raise was part of a plan to address roughly a $3.3 billion budget deficit. Maryland’s budget is relatively large compared to other states, despite the state ranking 18th in population and 42nd in land size.
Shoemaker said that state leaders are «already looking at a structural deficit going into next year’s budget of another billion and a half or so.» He asserted the «handwriting is on the wall» that «Maryland politicians are beholden to their ultra-progressive base.»

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2024. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg)
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In the end, Shoemaker said that he has finally decided to escape to the South and head for North Carolina.
«A lot of taxpayers from across the State of Maryland are fleeing in droves,» he said. He added a warning to Moore and other Maryland leaders: «If you want to staunch the bleeding that’s occurring, maybe you should rethink your policies.»
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