With conservatives justifiably in despair over the election of Marxist-Islamist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, it is vitally important to remember that Mamdani has promised to eliminate the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG), which works hand in hand with the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau (CTB). Last December, Mamdani wrote on X, “As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements + brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment [sic] rights.” Today the NYPD deployed the Strategic Response Group (SRG) to harass + arrest striking @teamsters. As Mayor, I will disband the SRG, which has cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlements + brutalized countless New Yorkers exercising their first amendment rights. — Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 19, 2024 Current New York City Mayor Eric Adams has ripped Mamdani for his suggestion, declaring, “When you start dismantling the pieces of the law enforcement apparatus that is specifically designed to carry out functions — that is extremely dangerous. A lack of knowledge and understanding of these roles really could harm law enforcement. There are no routine jobs in the police department. They can turn violent instantly. So I think it’s the wrong decision to do and we should never endanger public safety in the city. It’s not an experiment, it’s experience.” The NYPD’s SRG was created in 2015 under the department’s Citywide Operations Bureau. It coordinates with NYPD’s CTB, which was founded in 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, in which radical Islamic terrorists killed roughly 3,000 Americans and destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City. When the NYPD receives credible terrorist threats, the CTB assesses them and leads the response. The SRG is then deployed to provide tactical manpower — heavily armed, mobile teams trained for rapid containment, evacuations, or securing perimeters. The CTB provides the intelligence and threat analysis, while SRG provides tactical and crowd control capacity. SRG officers receive counterterrorism briefings and CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) response training through CTB programs. “The CT Bureau reviews possible terrorist targets and develops innovative, forward-thinking policies and procedures to guard against attacks, training first responders and specialized units and developing intelligence capabilities for detecting and preventing terrorist attacks,” the CTB’s website states. “The bureau coordinates with federal, state, and other law enforcement agencies in intelligence gathering and sharing, and plays an integral role in the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force.” “Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF) is a multi-law enforcement agency that includes NYPD detectives and FBI special agents who investigate terrorism in the New York City metropolitan area and around the world,” the website continues. “Following the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD substantially increased the number of detectives assigned to the JTTF. This partnership with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies provides the NYPD with access to national level classified intelligence and the ability to analyze and share its own intelligence on the federal level.” If the CTB discovers a terrorist cell, the SRG may prove vital in supplying the forces to target the terrorists. And Mamdani wants to eliminate the SRG.

“Will & Grace” actress Debra Messing is not a fan of the newly elected mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, and her leftist followers are not happy that she’s willing to say so. The 57-year-old Emmy celeb is catching heat for reposting an image on her Instagram Stories from another account called The Persian Jewess, among others. One of the reposted images showed an edited ballot that listed two candidates, one being identified as “A Democrat. Just a Democrat,” and the other as “An actual communist jihadist. A literal Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by @thepersianjewess The original caption said, “This isn’t just a mayoral race. It’s the battle for Democracy itself. New York City, make the right choice. Vote for Cuomo. Vote for NYC. Vote for Democracy.” Another graphic she reposted said, “A vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani is a vote for New-York-Stan.” Other posts called out Mamdani’s extremist rhetoric, including his frequent posts about dismantling and defunding the police.  Messing is an unapologetic leftist Democrat, but she is also Jewish and pro-Israel. The actress posted on Instagram last week that she voted early for Cuomo because “we need someone with experience.”  “Our city is too massive, complex, and consequential to have someone 33 years old who has never held a job, and missed 80% of his votes as Councilman,” she shared with her social media followers at the time.  Messing said she was counting on Cuomo “to bring our city back to what it should be—safe, the thriving financial center of the world, more low cost housing, more police to make our streets and subways safe for everyone. A social worker cannot help someone who is stabbed in the subway.” The actress also shared posts from conservative outlets to her stories on Tuesday. Despite being anti-Trump, she was also sharing posts featuring the president’s endorsement of Cuomo, including one where Trump wrote, “Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!”

President Donald Trump ramped up his pressure campaign to end the filibuster on Wednesday, telling Republican senators in a White House meeting that it’s “very important” for the GOP to “terminate the filibuster” and reopen the government. In the past week, Trump has called for the end of the filibuster multiple times as Democrats continue to block GOP efforts to pass a short-term spending bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump took another step in his call for the end of the filibuster in Wednesday’s meeting, making his plea directly to Republican senators. Trump suggested that Republicans should end the filibuster as soon as “this afternoon.” “I think it’s very important. We have to get the country open, and the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” he said. “And it’s possible you’re not going to do that, and I’m going to go by your wishes. You’re smart people. We’re good friends, but it would be a tremendous mistake, it would be a tragic mistake, actually. It’s time.” The filibuster allows senators to prolong debate on legislation; 60 votes are needed to end a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill. The minority party often uses the filibuster to block votes on bills pushed by the ruling party. Republicans have cautioned against ending the filibuster, saying that it would set a precedent that would also be used against the GOP in the future. Trump, however, argued that Democrats will nuke the filibuster the next time they have power. “We have to do it first,” the president said. “We’ll end up with two, three years, and we’ll have this country so perfect. We will have passed more legislation than any Congress and any group of senators or group of congressmen. … It will be a beautiful machine. Otherwise, we’re just going to sit around and argue with these people all day long, and they’re highly unrealistic. Many of them are radical Left subversives, frankly.” .@POTUS to GOP Senators: “I think it’s very important. We have to get the country open, and the way we’re going to do it… is to terminate the filibuster… It’s time, it’s time… We’ll end up with two, three years, and we’ll have this country so perfect.” pic.twitter.com/Clrd60V7nS — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2025 Trump added that keeping the filibuster alive would ultimately hurt Republicans. “If [Democrats] take power, and it’s more likely that they take power if we don’t [end the filibuster] because we won’t be passing any legislation,” he said. .@POTUS: “If I thought that they weren’t going to pass the filibuster, I wouldn’t even bring it up. They’re going to pass it within the first hour… if [Democrats] take power… they’ll wreak havoc.” pic.twitter.com/ogxZN6PkVT — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2025 After the media left the room and cameras were turned off, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly disagreed with Trump on this point, and the two engaged in a “spirited back-and-forth,” according to CNN. During his remarks, the president argued that if Democrats refuse to agree to a simple bill to extend government funding for even a short period, they won’t negotiate any significant legislation. “We should start tonight with the country is open, congratulations, and then we should pass voter ID. We should pass no mail-in voting. We should pass all the things that we want to pass to make elections secure and safe,” Trump continued. “Because California is a disaster, many of the states are disasters.” .@POTUS to Republican Senators: “It’s time for Republicans to do what they have to do — and that’s terminate the filibuster.” pic.twitter.com/BMUKPybb9a — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 5, 2025 Trump’s comments on Wednesday morning came hours after Axios reported that the president was preparing to ramp up pressure on Republican senators. One anonymous Trump adviser told Axios that the president planned on making GOP senators’ lives “a living hell.” Another anonymous adviser cited by Axios said that Trump is “really mad about this.” As of last week, Republican Senate leadership remained “unchanged” in its support for the filibuster. The office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) told The Daily Wire last Friday that they continue to support the filibuster. Thune told reporters on Wednesday morning, “I know where math is on this issue in the Senate. It’s just not happening.” When former President Joe Biden was in office with majorities in the House and Senate, some Democrats pushed for party leaders in the Senate to end the filibuster to pass leftist priorities, such as abortion protections, gun control, and packing the Supreme Court. Democrats’ efforts to eliminate the filibuster in 2021 were ultimately stopped by former moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

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