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New York Post
7 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Mariners vs. Twins picks, best bets: MLB odds, predictions Thursday
Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. Results are in. Zohran Mamdani, backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, won the Democratic Mayoral Primary with 43.51 percent of the vote. Andrew Cuomo, backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, drew 36.42 percent. Brad 'Roller Coaster' Lander rolled in third with 11.31 percent. And Stitches, who failed to secure the Luigi Mangione endorsement, ran fourth at 0.02 percent. Guess New York wasn't ready. We move on. The Mariners visit the Twins and I haven't been this excited since the U.S. beat Haiti in the group stage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Seattle's Emerson Hancock allowed just three runs over 17 ²/₃, but 'Hitchcock' frightened his club, giving up nine runs on four homers in his most recent start. The Twins' Simeon Woods Richardson has given up 11 runs over his past 15 ¹/₃ at home. Simeon Woods Richardson AP Play $50 on the Mariners. José Ramírez for Mayor! Max Scherzer looked as done as Cuomo after giving up a quick run. Learn all you need to know about MLB Betting Jays came back. But Ramírez's hit won it for the Guards 5-4. Down -236 rudygulianis. Why Trust New York Post Betting The one and only Stitches has been handicapping baseball, daily, for the Post since 2019. Miraculously, he has finished in the black twice. But wait there's more. He showed his versatility by winning the Post's NFL Best Bet crown last year.
New York Post
12 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump's border czar Tom Homan delivers stark warning to Zohran Mamdani after NYC primary win: ‘Game on'
President Trump's border czar Tom Homan ripped into Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign promise to 'kick the fascist ICE out of New York City,' telling the Democratic socialist that it's 'game on.' Homan, who Trump tabbed to serve as the top immigration enforcer in the administration, called out Mamdani on Wednesday — one day after the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman declared victory in the NYC Democratic primary. Mamdani has vowed to 'Trump-Proof' the Big Apple if he were to be elected mayor, claiming the president has 'deployed ICE agents to pluck New Yorkers from their families,' according to his campaign website. Advertisement 6 Border czar Tom Homan speaks to Fox Business's Larry Kudlow outside the White House on June 25, 2025. Fox Business Homan had a short, sweet response to the Mamdani's promise. 'Good luck with that,' Homan told Larry Kudlow during his appearance on Fox Business's 'Kudlow.' Advertisement 'Federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute,' Homan added. 'We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city and President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago, we're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities. 'We're going to concentrate in sanctuary cities because we know they're releasing public safety threats and national security threats back to the street, so we know we've got a problem there.' Homan warned the dark horse politician, who upset former Gov. Andrew Cuomo during Tuesday night's primary, that ICE would have plenty of agents to round up the illegal immigrants in the metropolis. 'We don't have that problem in Florida, where the sheriffs work with us, so we're going to double up and triple up on New York,' Homan said. 'Not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we are going to increase worksite enforcement tenfold.' Advertisement 6 Zohran Mamdani speaks to his supporters after declaring victory in the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary on June 24, 2025. Getty Images 6 Federal agents conduct raids in New York City on Jan. 28, 2025. DEA New York Homan lauded current Mayor Eric Adams for helping ICE operations in New York. 'He wants to do the right thing, he wants to be a law and order mayor,' Homan said. Advertisement The White House official said Hizzoner wants the NYPD to work with federal agents on the 'significant public safety threats' and help find the 300,000 missing children trafficked in the US. 'He's in the right mindset, it's just that his hands are tied in many ways,' Homan said about the 64-year-old mayor, who will run as an independent. 6 Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on June 9, 2025. Getty Images In March, Mamdani made a scene inside the statehouse, shouting at Homan as he walked the halls of the state capital, before publishing the footage six months into his primary campaign. The Astoria, Queens assemblyman was protesting ICE's arrest of former Columbia University student and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil who had been detained for lying on his visa forms. Mamdani was removed by state troopers during the March 12 stunt but was released without being charged. 6 Federal agents are stationed at immigration court in New York City. Getty Images 6 Protesters take part in a rally for Mahmoud Khalil outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan on June 22, 2025. Getty Images Advertisement The Ugandan native has called on his supporters to elect him to fight Trump, who he claims is 'tearing at the fabric of New York City in his second term. 'Zohran Mamdani will fight Trump's attempts to gouge the working class, and deliver a city where everyone can afford a dignified life. He'll ensure our immigrant New Yorkers are protected by strengthening our sanctuary city apparatus: getting ICE out of all City facilities and ending any cooperation, increasing legal support, and protecting all personal data,' the campaign site says.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
On Housing, All New York Politicians Are Socialists
Zohran Mamdani's upset victory in the New York Democratic Mayoral Primary on Tuesday puts the self-proclaimed socialist one step closer to enacting his far-ranging left-wing agenda. At the top of the candidate's list, as Reason's Liz Wolfe covered this morning, is his call to freeze rents on New York's roughly one million rent-stabilized housing units. Relative to free market orthodoxy, a rent freeze is indeed an extreme policy proposal. In New York politics, it's a solidly mainstream idea. Mamdani's socialism has gotten a lot of attention, thanks in no small part to his aggressively charismatic social media presence. But when it comes to housing policy, everyone in New York is effectively a socialist, even the allegedly sane, centrist candidates running against Mamdani. When then-Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a rent freeze back in April 2020, a loud supporter of the idea was then-Brooklyn Borough President (and current Mayor) Eric Adams, who'll face off against Mamdani in the general election. The city's mayor-appointed Rent Guidelines Board obliged and voted in June 2020 to cap rent increases through October 2021 on one-year rent-stabilized leases. Coinciding with that rent freeze was New York's eviction moratorium, which in effect made paying rent optional by preventing landlords from removing delinquent tenants. The author of that eviction moratorium was then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani's main—and now defeated—Democratic primary rival. Both Adams and Cuomo have since come out against the idea of a rent freeze in 2025. Yet Adams has also criticized the top-line rent increases currently being considered by the Rent Guidelines Board as excessive. The board voted back in April to back rent increases of between 1.75 percent and 4.75 percent for one-year leases (and 3.75 percent and 7.75 percent for two-year leases). The board will approve a final number next week. Landlords have been harshly critical of those rent increases, which they say don't come close to making up for rising operating costs and the mounting maintenance needs of aging rent-stabilized properties. They say that years of low single-digit allowable rent increases have only compounded the problems created by the state's 2019 rent law, which eliminated or restricted property owners' ability to raise rents on vacant apartments or to cover maintenance and renovation costs. That 2019 law, signed by Cuomo, has been repeatedly challenged in court by property owners who argue that the law's restrictions on their ability to choose their tenants and remove their property from the rental market amount to an uncompensated physical taking. (Last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear several of these cases.) Meanwhile, the 2019 law's limits on rent increases and elimination of avenues by which landlords could remove units from rent control continue to push more and more rental properties into insolvency. As Eric Kober noted in City Journal earlier in the campaign, none of the Democratic or independent candidates are contemplating serious reform of New York's rent stabilization law. Mamdani's proposed rent freeze would certainly aggravate the problems of New York's rental housing stock. But it's not a radical departure from the current system. New York politicians of all stripes are on board with capping rents and regulating rental housing into the ground. Mamdani is just a little more openly enthusiastic about the idea. The post On Housing, All New York Politicians Are Socialists appeared first on
