Disney's left-wing late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel made yet another ill-timed remark involving the death of someone across the political aisle from him -- this time, joking about Rudy Giuliani rising from "the grave" just days before the former New York City mayor was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Sunday urged the Trump administration to cut off federal funding to the University of Michigan after a professor appeared to praise anti‑Israel student activists who illegally set up a campus encampment following Oct. 7, 2023.

“It’s unacceptable for any university professor to praise chaos that glorified America’s enemies, justified violence, and terrorized Jewish students,” Scott wrote Saturday on X. “If this is what Americans are paying for, it’s time to cut them off COMPLETELY.”

According to the university’s website, the University of Michigan received at least $1.17 billion in federal taxpayer funding during fiscal year 2024.

Scott’s remarks followed comments by University of Michigan professor Derek Peterson during the school’s spring 2026 commencement ceremony, in which Peterson publicly praised pro‑Palestinian student activists who had participated in the now‑dismantled encampment.

“Sing for the pro‑Palestinian student activists, who have for these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza,” Peterson said during the ceremony.

University administrators previously determined that the encampment posed a safety risk to the campus community and violated university policies. The encampment also resulted in vandalism of campus property, according to reporting by The College Fix.

“In recent days, encampment participants have also received numerous outreach attempts from U‑M administrators and DPSS leadership, asking them to leave,” campus police said in a statement at the time. “The encampment posed safety risks, both to participants and the community at large, and its presence was in violation of policies and regulations. Its removal was important to help maintain the safety and security of the U‑M campus community.”

After the encampment first emerged, the homes and private property of several university regents and administrators were vandalized, The College Fix reported.

In June 2024, the front of Jewish Regent Jordan Acker’s law office was spray‑painted with the phrases “free Palestine” and “divest or f— off.”

In October 2024, then‑University President Santa Ono’s home was vandalized with the words “intifada,” “coward,” and “divest.”

In March 2025, Provost Laurie McCauley was targeted when protesters broke a window at her home and spray‑painted “free Palestine,” “divest,” and “no honor in genocide,” according to ABC News Detroit.

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America’s Mayor is on the mend.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia, according to a statement from his spokesman Monday, and he remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

Giuliani, 81, came to global prominence in 2001 as he led New York’s recovery from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers, which his spokesperson said led to him developing restrictive airway disease.

“This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” spokesperson Ted Goodman said in a post on X.

He added that Giuliani was now breathing on his own.

Giuliani was hospitalized at Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he lives, according to a person familiar with the matter and The Palm Beach Post. He was admitted there on Sunday.

This latest health crisis comes eight months after the former mayor was injured in a vehicle accident in New Hampshire.

In a statement on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called Giuliani “a True Warrior and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”

New York City’s current mayor, Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, on Monday wished Giuliani a steady recovery.

“He’s been a fixture in our city’s politics and public life for so many years. And I know that many New Yorkers are concerned by the reports that he’s in critical condition,” Mamdani said.

Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on X that he is “praying for Rudy and his family and hoping for a full recovery.”

“We shared a cigar in Florida not too long ago,” Adams added. “I’m saving one for when you are back home, my friend.”

Reuters contributed to this story.

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James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was again indicted recently, this time for putting a picture of seashells on his social media that were arranged to convey a message threatening President Donald Trump. And the message was “86/47.”

In other words, however you define 86, I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when the term was used to eject somebody from a bar.

But over the ensuing decades, people have used it in an eliminationist fashion. The mafia, get rid of somebody, “86 them,” “kill them.”

But here’s the problem. James Comey says that he was just walking along the beach and that he happened to see this message, and he didn’t quite know what it meant. But why would he put something on social media if he didn’t know what it meant?

And how in the world would the FBI director—who’s supposed to be knowledgeable about all the terms that gangsters use or bars use; this comes with the field—and he claims he didn’t know what he was doing? But why would he do it in the first place? More importantly, we have had three assassination attempts against Donald Trump.

So, when you look at the case ostensibly, you say, “Well, what’s so wrong in a free-speech America with just putting out a seashell message?” Well, nothing is wrong if that’s what it was, but we don’t know what it was.

In other words, we don’t know to what degree he might have made the message deliberately or whether he deliberately wanted to convey a message in a climate in which the president of the United States is in constant jeopardy of being shot, and he was the former FBI director.

Now, most of our legal eagles, on both the left and right, agree that it’s a weak case and, under the First Amendment, it will be thrown out.

But there’s another wrinkle to it, and that is we were told this was a weekslong, even a monthslong investigation. Ostensibly, it didn’t take any time to investigate a seashell photo.

All you do is look at it. Maybe you talk to his family or whatever, and there’s the evidence. But it seems as if they were subpoenaing personal tweets, I don’t know, correspondence with his family and friends. The point of all that, apparently, is that the DOJ is trying to see if he contextualized what he was doing.

If he said something like, “This is neat. I threaten the president with a vicarious method that kind of exculpates me, but it still gets the message,” I don’t know if that happened, but there’s something more to the case, because I don’t think otherwise they would have brought it.

Finally, this particular case may not go to trial. It may or may not, depending on what the investigation has found, but it’s in a larger context. It’s really disturbing.

Remember that he went before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, and he testified about all the aspects of the Russian collusion case and all the misadventures of the FBI. On 245 occasions, James Comey said [variations of] “I don’t know. I don’t remember. I can’t think of anything.”

In other words, he deliberately stonewalled a congressional investigation while he was under oath. If any of you listening were to have, I don’t know, not reported $10,000 and the IRS asked you about the conditions of how you earned it, and you said, “I don’t know. I can’t remember,” I don’t think that would last very long.

In addition to that, you remember that he had a private conversation shortly before he was fired with the president of the United States. After that conversation was over, in which he claims that Donald Trump said to go easy on former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Trump says he explicitly asked him if Trump himself was the object of an investigation, which we know he was, and Comey had assured him that he was not.

Comey went out and, on FBI pad, he memorialized that, at least his version.

And then he deliberately took a third-party friend and gave him that message, that description of the conversation, with the sole intent to leak it to The New York Times.

And then, when the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, looked at that, he claimed that a private conversation with the president of the United States covering some of the most intimate matters of governance was not classified.

He said it was confidential. And so, there were never any indictments lodged against James Comey for, on 245 occasions, not telling the truth, leaking what should have been a classified document that the government owned and that he took out himself.

He did not put it in the FBI filing system. He took it, as he said, kind of an insurance policy, and then he deliberately leaked it to The New York Times.

I could add a couple of epilogues to the James Comey story. In addition to all this, you’ve got to remember that he was the architect of Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The FBI hired Christopher Steele as a contractor and paid him money even though, according to the testimony of FBI investigators, they could not corroborate much or most of the Christopher Steele dossier.

They couldn’t. And yet they used that dossier, by the testimony of Andrew McCabe, Comey’s successor. They used that dossier to get FISA warrants against U.S. citizens. An erroneous document was used to confuse the judge as if there really was some type of Russian collusion, and therefore they had a right to spy on people like Carter Page.

And then we get back to the 2016 election when Hillary Clinton used a private home-brewed server against the law to do that. If you’re secretary of state, it might have been a misdemeanor, might have been a felony, depending on how it was interpreted.

No. 2, her husband, Bill Clinton, met the attorney general of the United States, Loretta Lynch, kind of on an accidental private plane rendezvous at the Phoenix airport, right in the middle of this investigation of Bill Clinton’s wife.

Then we also learned that when these emails were subpoenaed, they were destroyed by Hillary Clinton, and the servers themselves were destroyed. And Comey—and this is very interesting—Comey was the director of the FBI. He was not the attorney general, but he took on the role of both FBI director, investigator, and Department of Justice prosecutor to adjudicate himself.

In other words, he presents evidence to the attorney general, who then adjudicates whether it’s worthy to go to trial, and that person was James Comey. And of course, he said that while Hillary had broken the law, no normal prosecutor would have furthered the case and brought her an indictment. What am I getting at?

I don’t know the degree to which the DOJ will be able to file an indictment that sticks and will have an actual trial. But that said, what James Comey did to the FBI on numerous occasions was a betrayal of his office and a betrayal of the United States.

And just to finish, he was not an isolated case.

Robert Mueller, his predecessor, testified before the House committee and said he did not know much at all about the Steele dossier. The Steele dossier was the sole catalyst that prompted his appointment as special counsel. He said under oath he didn’t even know much about it, couldn’t talk about it.

I just mentioned his successor, James Comey’s successor, interim chief of the FBI, Andrew McCabe. On four occasions, he lied, two of them under oath, to federal investigators. He lied about leaking material about an investigation.

And finally, Christopher Wray, the fourth FBI director in succession, didn’t tell us the complete truth about the role of the FBI on Jan. 6 and the aftermath—the role and the number of FBI informants who were there on Jan. 6, the exact role of the FBI surveilling traditional Catholics. He said it was an isolated case. It was not, and he didn’t tell us why the FBI was going to school board meetings, likely at the prompt of teachers’ unions.

So, we’ve had a miserable, despicable record of four FBI directors in succession who have either lied to Congress or broken the law or lied to investigators or haven’t come full and told the truth to a congressional committee under oath.

And so, whatever we find out with James Comey, he’s got a lot of culpability, moral if not legal.

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New York City may be broker than a barista with a college degree but that isn’t stopping socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani from funding his activist army.

On Wednesday, the mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement rolled out a program called “Organize NYC” that’s billed as a “long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

The first thing these paid activists will do is to get people to participate in the Rent Guidelines Board hearing in June.

“Volunteers will canvass across the city to encourage tenants and landlords to testify ahead of the Board’s June vote, which will determine whether rents increase or remain the same for more than 2 million New Yorkers.

This vote mainly has to do with a potential further rent freeze in the city.

The Mayor’s Office said in a statement that these publicly paid community organizers “will not advocate for any specific outcome,” but you can bet that critics of the program aren’t buying it.

If you have any doubts about what that totally, absolutely neutral program is about just watch a few minutes of the ad pumping this grift.

Yes, “Mohammed” in the commercial here is wearing a keffiyeh, which has become a symbol of Palestinian “resistance” to Israel and is often worn by members of Hamas.

Even some Democrats weren’t too pleased with this sartorial choice.

“It’s all intentionally divisive and hateful,” former Democratic state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said to the New York Post on Saturday. “This man is representing the administration. If someone came to my door with a keffiyeh, I’d immediately be nervous.”

But that’s only a small part of the issue with Organize NYC.

In a separate New York Post editorial on Sunday John Ketcham and Christian Browne—two Manhattan Institute scholars—called out Organize NYC as an attempt to create a thinly veiled, “taxpayer-funded effort to embed campaign-style political organizing inside city government, dress it up as civic virtue, and deliver Mamdani’s campaign promise under a veneer of official neutrality.”

That certainly seems to be the case.

As the authors noted, Mamdani’s office has been vague about how much money the utterly broke city government facing a “historic” budget crisis will be sending Organize NYC’s way.

It’s clear what Mamdani is doing. He’s funding his activist class and making sure that public money is going to his people while using them to bolster numbers for their pet causes. As I wrote when he won the election in November, Mamdani will “provide an ample training ground for his socialist comrades to gain experience wielding power.”

This is a small but critical part of that larger goal. And you can be sure this model will be copied elsewhere.

The leftist Dissent Magazine celebrated Mamdani’s initiative to keep activists activated. Though even they had to acknowledge that “pushing against the limits of what is perceived as acceptably ‘political’ within the confines of city government will be one continuing challenge for the Office of Mass Engagement.”

You can be sure that not only will Mamdani lean heavily on this organization in New York City, but the Left will launch similar efforts elsewhere.

That’s why what happens in New York unfortunately matters beyond the limits of the five boroughs. Mamdani’s revolution is a pilot program for socialist government that the Left hopes to scale up and spread elsewhere. Nevermind that the previous pilot programs didn’t turn out too good. Surely, True Socialism will work this time, right?

Right now, Mamdani and company are focused on consolidating, ensuring they keep control long after their popularity plummets.

Once Democrats and the Left gain power they focus immediately on cementing it, ensuring that their people get the fruits of patronage, and that public money flows toward their pet projects, their people, and away from their enemies.

Whether their policies or other activities serve the broader public matters a lot less than ensuring their own people are taken care of.

You can see why the Left’s activist class, their NGO network, and their hordes of government bureaucrats remain so committed to the cause despite obvious governing failures.

Those failures are your problem, not theirs.

From their perspective, the government doesn’t really have to provide clean streets, efficient services, law and order, or anything like that. It’s about spoils and special benefits, with a little redistribution and social engineering on the side.

This is one of the many reasons so many of our big, blue cities seem utterly dysfunctional despite so many economic advantages.

Unfortunately for New York, Mamdani is doing everything his predecessors did wrong and making things worse. But he’s doing this while cleverly ensuring that even if his socialist experiments fail there will be nothing anyone can do about it.

Dark times in the Big Apple.