Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made good on his promise to inject even more racially based policies into the city with his “racial equity plan.”

Mamdani had a special media briefing on Monday to announce the plan to benefit “black and brown New Yorkers,” especially as it is relates to the “cost-of-living crisis.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity ‘strategies’ in the plan and 600 ‘indicators to track and report progress.’

“This is not a crisis affecting a small minority of New Yorkers. It is a crisis touching the vast majority of our city, in every borough and every neighborhood,” Mamdani said.

“But we know this crisis is not felt equally. Black and Latino New Yorkers — who have been pushed out of this city for decades — are bearing the brunt,” he added. “These reports make one thing clear: We cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity.”

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, responded simply, “Sounds fishy/illegal. Will review!”

Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su added that the administration aimed to dismantle “structural racism and inequity” in order to establish “true economic justice.”

“Inequity has been embedded in the foundation of our city and nation since their inception; dismantling it requires a collective effort,” said NYC Chief Equity Officer and NYC Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice Commissioner Afua Atta-Mensah.

Atta-Mensah went on to say every government agency will implement the new policies to “advance racial equity, promote justice, and create lasting change.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity “strategies” in the plan and 600 “indicators to track and report progress.”

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Some of the goals include expanding access to capital for underserved businesses, applying a “racial equity framework” to all new housing proposals, and reducing “truck-related pollutants” in “communities of color.”

The plan also involves a new “true cost of living” measure meant to supplant traditional measures of poverty. According to Mamdani’s administration, 62% of New Yorkers don’t meet “their true cost of living,” while 18% to 20% were “identified as poor” under traditional measures.

They reported that Hispanics had the highest percentage that fell under the TCOL standard, with black residents coming in second.

A Blaze News request for comment from the mayor’s office was not returned by time of publishing.

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The announcement of Terafab was made at a decommissioned power plant, reflecting Elon Musk’s understanding of stagecraft: The ruined infrastructure of one era makes a convenient altar for the next. On March 21 and 22, 2026, at the Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Musk presented Terafab. It is either the most ambitious semiconductor manufacturing project in history or a very expensive project that may not come to be.

Terafab is a plan to build vertically integrated chip-manufacturing capacity in Austin, combining under one roof the design, fabrication, packaging, and testing of advanced semiconductors. Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are the collaborating entities. The announced investment figure is $20 billion. The stated long-run target is one terawatt of compute capacity per year, a number that converts the language of performance into the language of power.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement.

Measuring compute in watts means that the limiting factor is energy throughput. The International Energy Agency has described data centers as a fast-growing fraction of global electricity demand; by 2030, in its base case, that demand could roughly double.

The technical core of Terafab is its most defensible part. The pitch is about iteration speed: If you can design a chip, fabricate it, package it, test it, and revise the mask, all inside one building, without shipping components between specialized facilities in different countries, you can improve faster than anyone who does not. In conventional semiconductor manufacturing, these functions are geographically and organizationally scattered. A mask set travels; a wafer ships; a packaged part crosses an ocean. Each journey is a delay, and delay is the enemy of the feedback loop. Terafab is a wager that learning velocity beats static node leadership.

A factory within a factory

Advanced fabs are among the most expensive and complex structures human beings have ever built, typically $10 billion and several years for a single facility, dependent on supply chains for equipment that cannot be wished into existence by ambition or capital alone. Extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, to name one critical dependency, cost hundreds of millions of dollars apiece and are manufactured by a single Dutch company. The closed loop is a compelling engineering idea. The project will involve equipment lead times, utility provisioning, the yielding of learning curves, and the peculiar physics of building things in the real world.

There is a second Terafab nested inside the first. The announcement includes chips, named D3, designed for space environments, paired with a vision of solar-powered orbital compute satellites, initially around 100 kilowatts and scaling toward the megawatt range. Terrestrial compute is constrained by land, power, cooling, and local political opposition to enormous data centers. Space has sunlight and no neighbors to complain about the noise.

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Of course, space also has no air. In vacuum, heat cannot leave a system by convection, only by radiation, which requires very large radiator surfaces at high power levels. The International Space Station’s thermal control system requires radiators the size of tennis courts to reject the heat generated by its systems. Radiation poses its own complications: The energetic particles of the space environment induce bit flips and long-term degradation in electronics not specifically hardened against them. The orbital vision is not impossible. It is simply a different problem than the earthbound one, even when presented in the same breath, as though the same momentum carries the project from Austin to low Earth orbit without friction.

The future needs power

Terafab’s “everything under one roof” approach has an ancestor in the great vertical integration projects of industrial capitalism, such as Ford’s River Rouge complex, which turned raw materials into finished automobiles inside a single, vast geography, its own power plant humming at the center.

The global semiconductor supply chain is highly concentrated: Roughly 92% of the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing capacity sits in Taiwan. To build end-to-end domestic capability is simultaneously a resilience project and a power project, a bid to internalize a strategic resource inside one corporate constellation rather than depend on the broader market of specialized suppliers.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement, and its cultural work is to naturalize a particular diagnosis: that intelligence is infrastructure, infrastructure is energy, and energy is the horizon of meaning for civilizational progress. Whether or not the fab gets built on schedule, whether or not the orbital satellites ever achieve megawatt-scale compute, the frame has been installed. The factory is where the future lives, and the future needs power.

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A 12-year-old was found dead under very disturbing circumstances at her stepfather’s home, and Connecticut police believe he sexually assaulted her before her death.

The Enfield Police Department said in a post on Facebook that officers responded to a report of an unresponsive female at a home on Elm St. on March 18 at about 10:25 a.m.

‘It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore.’

Police said the girl, identified as Eve Rogers, was declared dead.

The girl’s mother said she went to wake up her daughter and found her dead, according to a WFSB-TV report.

The girl was being homeschooled and was not enrolled in any public school. She was withdrawn from school in 2022 in the fourth grade.

Police said they obtained a search warrant and conducted an investigation at the home for many hours.

Anthony Federline was arrested on Thursday and charged with sexual assault in the first degree as well as risk of injury to a child.

WVIT-TV reported that the arrest warrant said pills were found in the room where Rogers was found dead and that she was found naked from the waist down with a blanket over her bottom half.

DNA testing led to Federline’s arrest, but authorities said the DNA of an unknown person was also found.

The family initially began a GoFundMe donation page, but it was later deleted.

Parents in the school district are outraged because Federline was allowed to continue driving a school bus after the death of his stepdaughter. He was fired by the district after he was charged and arrested.

“We just wanted answers. We wanted accountability. We wanted some sort of transparency. We wanted answers from somebody,” said Malcolm Maxwell-Frechette, a parent of a student who rode on Federline’s bus.

Enfield superintendent Steven Moccio addressed the criticism in a statement to parents.

“Mr. Federline was removed from his position upon the district’s notification of arrest. Prior to that time, the district was unaware that he was a person of interest,” he said.

“It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore, but it doesn’t make me feel any better about the situation,” Maxwell-Frechette added.

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Connecticut state rep. John Santanella (D) released a statement urging the amendment of a bill that would place restrictions on homeschooling based on the incident.

“What we do know is heartbreaking,” he wrote. “A young life, a life that never had the chance to be fully lived, has been lost, and our community is left to grapple with that loss. In moments like this, we are reminded that the policies we debate in Hartford are not abstract. They have real consequences for real people, especially the most vulnerable among us.”

Federline was held on a $1 million bond.

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John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” which inspired many of our nation’s founding principles, makes the simple assertion that the basic role of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the consenting governed. Though our federal government has long since strayed from this purpose, opportunities to defend it are always a worthy endeavor.

That is why President Trump’s appointment of Vice President JD Vance to lead a new task force dedicated to rooting out fraud in the United States is a welcome undertaking.

There’s no incentive for states to police fraud: They can’t go over budget, and the feds still pick up the tab for illegitimate claims.

For too long, numerous states have abused federal dollars, failing to ensure that many recipients are even real or qualified for federal funds and leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab. Contrary to the media narrative that the administration is simply on a blue-state witch hunt, the billions of dollars stolen in Minnesota (yet to be returned) tell a different story.

For once, the executive branch is demonstrating proper oversight in the service of the American taxpayer, and it is long overdue.

Federal prosecutors estimate that, across 14 Minnesota Medicaid-funded programs, fraud totals more than $9 billion. That number is half of all federal matching funds allocated to the state since 2018.

It’s often said that taxation is theft. In Minnesota, it appears to be policy.

Correctly, Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Vice President JD Vance, have turned off the credit card until Minnesota officials can clean up their act.

Following a January CMS effort to get the state into compliance, the agency is also deferring payment for Q4 of 2025, having identified $259.5 million in fraudulent and illegal claims.

Like clockwork, officials, including Gov. Walz, began to plead on behalf of victims of a potential Medicaid fallout, portraying themselves as the defenders of the very Minnesotans victimized by the fraud they enabled.

In a House Oversight Committee hearing just a few weeks ago, Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison faced questions with a surprising lack of urgency. When asked if he felt the state’s efforts to return funds were successful, Walz denied culpability: “I can’t speak to that … I don’t have any part in that.”

Despite media outlets defending the state’s “good-faith effort” to make amends, the estimated $80 million returned still falls short of even 1% of the money stolen from taxpayers.

Similarly, Walz refused to elaborate on whether government officials who enabled fraud had been fired. During the Oversight Committee’s investigation, it was revealed that dozens of whistleblowers who reported fraud inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services were retaliated against. Minnesota DHS hired outside entities to investigate staff who fell out of line.

The reason? Dozens of whistleblowers reported that they were told not to say anything about the fraud for fear of being called “racist” or “Islamophobic.”

Not only did Walz and Ellison know about massive welfare fraud in the state, but they went to great lengths to keep it that way, afraid that cracking down on the disproportionate amount of Medicaid fraud in the Somali community would harm them politically.

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This level of fraud is historic. But rather than making a good-faith effort to identify fraud and recover taxpayer funds, Minnesota may become the first state to pursue the unprecedented step of suing CMS instead of using the agency’s internal appeals process. While state officials claim they are at a loss over how to satisfy CMS requirements, doubling down on fraud is doubtlessly not the solution CMS is looking for.

Vance, now tasked with developing a nationwide anti-fraud strategy, should build on CMS’ approach in Minnesota, one that directly targets the root of the problem.

Minnesota, like many states, receives a Federal Medical Assistance Percentage of 90% for adults covered under the ACA expansion. In practice, that means for every dollar the state spends, the federal government contributes nine. States that spend more get more. There’s no incentive for states to police fraud: They can’t go over budget, and the feds still pick up the tab for illegitimate claims, ultimately passing the balance on to taxpayers.

In context, CMS’ Medicaid funding pause in Minnesota functions as a blunt but effective check: no oversight, no money. Should Minnesota decide to bolster program integrity and ensure that Medicaid assistance only goes to Americans who are truly in need, it can confidently spend its cash again with the assurance of federal backing.

In the meantime, every other state would be wise to take note and get its house in order before Vance drops the hammer.

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A leader of the Democratic Party in Florida was found dead at her home last week, and her husband has already been charged with murder.

Colleagues at City Hall in Coral Springs, Florida, began to worry when Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, 38, did not show up for a meeting at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Her husband, 40-year-old Stephen Bowen, responded to one individual’s inquiring text messages by indicating that he did not know where she was and claiming that “her car is not at home,” according to an arrest report.

A pillow with ‘burn marks’ was also found at the scene, and police suspect it had been used ‘as a makeshift silencer.’

By early afternoon, police went to the residence believed to be shared by Metayer and Bowen to conduct a welfare check. There, they discovered a “human body wrapped in blankets and black garbage bags … in the bed of the second-floor master bedroom,” according to the arrest report.

A pillow with “burn marks” was also found at the scene, and police suspect it had been used “as a makeshift silencer,” the arrest report said.

By the time Metayer’s body was discovered, Bowen was already under heavy suspicion. In a 911 call just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Bowen’s uncle, Owen Small, alleged that about four hours earlier, Bowen had arrived at Small’s residence and admitted that he had “shot his wife” with a shotgun three times the previous evening, rolled her up in a “comforter with a garbage bag around her feet,” and then slept downstairs, the report said.

Small claimed to police that he pressed his nephew to explain why he had shot his wife and that Bowen had told him that he “couldn’t take it anymore,” the report added.

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Leslie Washington Jr., who said he knows Bowen through the Freemasons, claimed to police that Bowen had called him around 12:30 p.m. and asked to stop by. According to a summary of Washington’s statements in the report, Washington and Bowen then met in a parking lot, where Bowen handed Washington an item Bowen described as a “gun bag.”

Washington added that he took the bag into his apartment and that he “placed ammo boxes inside his vehicle for Stephen Bowen,” but that “he was unaware of what criminal act Stephen Bowen committed,” the report alleged.

Bowen was taken into police custody around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and booked into Broward County jail on charges of first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating evidence.

Meanwhile, Metayer’s loved ones throughout the state of Florida are devastated by her unexpected death.

“Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer loved Coral Springs, and our community is forever changed without her. We honor her service, her legacy and passion. Together we stand united during this time of profound grief,” the city shared in a Facebook message Friday that also included a video tribute to Metayer.

“There are no words that can truly capture the depth of this loss,” Coral Springs City Manager Catherine Givens said.

“It is with a broken heart and profound grief that the Florida Democratic Party mourns the sudden and horrific death of our beloved Vice Chair, Nancy Metayer Bowen,” said a statement from Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried.

“Above all, Nancy was my friend and a friend to everyone who has ever believed that democracy was worth fighting for. The world is less bright without her in it,” Fried’s statement added.

Metayer was first elected to the Coral Springs City Commission in 2020 and was then re-elected in 2024. Her fellow commissioners appointed her to be vice mayor in November.

She was expected to announce a congressional bid soon, according to Democratic Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

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The SAVE America Act — which would simply require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections — remains stalled in the Senate after three weeks of contentious debate, a failed cloture vote blocked by the Democratic filibuster, and the ongoing partial DHS shutdown.

Opponents continue to lean on the argument that the bill disenfranchises millions of married women. Because roughly 80% of them change their last name upon marriage, their current legal name no longer matches the name on their birth certificate (the main document accepted as proof of citizenship). This could force them to obtain additional paperwork like marriage certificates or updated records that many may lack or find burdensome.

Meryl Streep is now apparently joining the fight to block the SAVE America Act. On a recent episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the 76-year-old actress randomly brought up the bill and perpetuated the same argument.

Pat Gray played the clip on a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed” and addressed Streep’s comments.

Near the end of the episode, after spending the majority of the time talking about Streep’s latest film, “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Colbert asked if there was anything else on her mind she wanted to talk about, and Streep used that opening to pivot and deliver her warning about the SAVE America Act and married women.

“The Save America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going to have to go to the registrar and prove that they are who they are,” Streep said.

“When you get to the voting booth in November, you might be disqualified because your name on your birth certificate doesn’t match your name on the voting rolls, … and this is such a pain in the neck because you have to go, but do it because otherwise you’ll be turned away, and I think that women need to be heard, especially in this moment,” she added.

Pat is nauseated with Hollywood’s left-wing agenda.

“Just the lies that continue to spill out of these stupid people,” he sighs.

“I doubt she knows that’s a lie. She probably really believes it because she only follows left-wing morons,” he adds.

Pat explains that the SAVE America Act’s co-author, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), has repeatedly debunked the claim that the bill disenfranchises married women. Numerous times he has clarified that the SAVE America Act includes special accommodations for name discrepancies: Women can provide additional linking documents (like a marriage certificate) or simply swear an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, after which states can verify the details later.

“There’s nobody going to be left behind when it comes to being accepted into the voter pool,” co-host Keith Malinak says.

“But the only way to convince the American people that the SAVE Act is something negative is to lie about it,” Pat says, “and so that’s what they do. They just sit there and lie through their communist teeth.”

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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Recently, while attending a musical with my children and niece, I suddenly found my faith in humanity partially restored. The actors performed with confidence and grace, the sets were beautiful and well crafted, and the orchestra below provided harmonious accompaniment all throughout the show.

From the beginning to end, the kids and I were immersed in the story and songs, somehow forgetting we were watching and listening to adolescents still in high school.

The whole experience reminded me how much is possible with this age group, given the right motivation. They can put in grueling hours, endure severe criticism, and embrace strict discipline, all in the hope of creating something compelling.

When those charged with performing the rituals of celebration and devotion only do so out of necessity, their celebrations will inevitably become ugly, superficial, and false.

Miraculously, they shunned the temptations of their screens, perhaps realizing that mindless scrolling offers them nothing of substance. The better part of their humanity took over and moved them to make a show for their community.

While I take solace in such knowledge, I cannot suppress the frustrations that also arise. If I could only witness a small modicum of this effort from these same students in my English classes, my job would be so much easier.

Compared to memorizing lines and music and performing before the bright lights and a large crowd for three hours straight, learning to write a clear and organized essay should be a breeze.

These frustrations aside, attending the musical and marveling at the work and energy involved reveal a deeper truth about what stirs young adults to noteworthy action: the intense desire to create something good, true, and beautiful.

If the possibility exists to participate in an event or project that merits large audiences, critical acclaim, and thoughtful analysis, this will inherently draw young people to its cause. By contrast, if those events and projects are performed out of a sense of duty and nothing more, those young people will take their talents elsewhere.

As many Christians can attest, this dynamic is readily apparent in religious worship. When those charged with performing the rituals of celebration and devotion only do so out of necessity, their celebrations will inevitably become ugly, superficial, and false.

The innumerable offenses against good taste and authentic piety afflicting so much of modern Christianity come not only from the infiltration of pernicious philosophies and ephemeral trends but also from a general retreat from the high ideals that formerly animated Christian life and expression.

This has resulted in a vicious cycle that drives away more young souls with each round. At some point in the last century, it was decided by pastors and other ecclesial authorities that they could best serve the needs of the Catholic Church by watering down the faith and making it less intimidating.

The heavy load that burdened Catholics — that is, the expectation of celebrating and participating in a service that was true, beautiful, and good — would be lifted, or at least lightened. In practical terms, this meant simplifying the liturgy, dumbing down the theology, and substituting superficial fashions for timeless traditions.

Never has it been so easy, yet so uninspiring, to be a Christian. Besides transforming Christianity into something cheap and unattractive, the changes wrought in the name of lowering barriers effectively drained the Church of its vitality.

For many Catholics, including myself, it is not so much the tacky felt banners and cheesy hymns that bother us, but the general lethargy and mediocrity that underlie such choices. Everything seems to be done out of a sense of familiarity and obligation, not a desire to make something excellent.

In light of the brilliant show that I just saw at my high school, I can see all the more clearly what it is that pushes away young people from the faith. Most of them want to create something significant, but churches no longer let them do this. So many parishes have relaxed standards so much that being a practicing Christian hardly feels like anything.

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Older adults contending with the challenges of raising children, making a living, and participating in their local communities might appreciate these concessions. Younger adults, however, will invariably channel their aptitudes and abundant enthusiasm to singing in a musical, playing in the marching band, or competing in a sport.

Moreover, they will even cultivate a quasi-religious zeal in these endeavors. I only half-joke with my students when I tell them they are caught up in a cult. In a certain sense, they are.

These extracurricular programs often determine their community and give them a raison d’être. To adults, these shows and games might be wholesome pastimes that help build character; for the students, they offer the kind of fulfillment and meaning that should be coming from their Christian faith.

None of this is to argue against the existence of such programs — I hope to attend more musicals with my kids, after all — but for the restoration of these programs’ virtues in Christianity. In order to bring back the youth and reinvigorate today’s dwindling churches, pastors need to bring back the rigor required to realize the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Fortunately for Christians, they have a rich tradition of art and scholarship from which to draw and apply such rigor. They only need to overcome their own misgivings and exert themselves as far as they can, doing more both inside and outside worship. Once they experience the joy and satisfaction that come out of it, they will finally understand why such traditions exist in the first place and just how wonderful is our God.

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