"The retired US air force brigadier general
in May demanded the removal of Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Fox News maga,
after he shared information about military strikes on Yemen in a Signal messaging app group chat that inadvertently included the editor of the Atlantic.
Though the president chose to keep Hegseth in place despite the so-called Signalgate scandal, Bacon told the Post in an interview that he “would have been fired” at any point in his military career for doing what Hegseth did."
Furthermore, he stood as the lone House Republican
to vote against a measure that would take Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and make it law.
“I’m not into doing silly stuff,” Bacon, who joined Congress in January 2017, wrote on social media.
“It is sophomoric.”
"Bacon criticized the brutal job and spending cuts that the Trump administration has inflicted within the federal government since the president retook office in January. "
Donald John Bacon
(born August 16, 1963) "is an American politician and retired military officer
who has served as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2017.
During his 29 years in the United States Air Force,
he commanded wings at Ramstein Air Base, Germany,
and Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha, Nebraska,
before retiring as a brigadier general in 2014. "
"Bacon is often considered a moderate centrist Republican (dissenting fascist.)
His district was carried by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and Kamala Harris in 2024 presidential election,
making it a perennial swing district. Bacon has been described as a maverick for his opposition to the isolationist and protectionist policies proposed by
KingDonald Trump, who has derided him as a "rebel."
Bacon self identifies as a Reagan Republican."
Bacon was an original sponsor of the Naming Commission, which stripped the Department of Defense of names valorizing the Confederacy,
and of the Emmett Till Anti lynching Act, which established lynching as a unique hate crime,
and voted to enact the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
He was one of 37 Republicans who rejected attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and
one of 35 who supported the committee to investigate the January 6th attack/insurrection/sedition/treason."
"Bacon is one of a slate of U.S. representatives sanctioned by the Russian government and
was the first member of Congress to be hacked by the Chinese government."
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"sympathy for Israel has reached an all-time low, with Pew showing that
over 71% of Democrats aged 18-49 have a negative view."
"Bernie Sanders " said
"Kamala Harris would “be president of the United States today” had she simply had a platform geared towards the working class, and focused on knocking on doors."
'People came out for Mamdani because he rejected a party machinery whose establishment candidate,
Cuomo, was literally part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team. "
"It mattered that Mamdani said he would arrest Netanyahu"
"Mamdani " won
" in deeply Hispanic and Asian areas, and doing extraordinarily well among young people of all races. Polling showed him second among Jewish voters."
"the largest threat this campaign will face is the pressure placed on it by the pro-Israel machinery of the Democratic party.
The senator Kirsten Gillibrand suggested he may be a threat to Jewish New Yorkers,
Laura Gillen, a congressperson, called him “too extreme” and Tom Suozzi, another congressperson, said he had “serious concerns” about his campaign.
Mamdani is reportedly scheduled to sit down for meetings with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries,
who have so far declined to endorse him"
"Marjorie Taylor Green retweeted an AI-generated image of the Statue of Liberty covered head-to-toe in a black burqa"
"Tennessee Republican Andy Ogles called for Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported, posting on X
“Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/zohran-mamdani-palestinian-protest-movement
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(Sound familiar, Orr what, Yusef.)
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Drumpf " justified his travel ban, which Mamdani’s home country Uganda may be added to in the coming months"
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"The son of academic Mahmood Mamdani
and filmmaker Mira Nair, Mamdani was born in Uganda and briefly lived in South Africa.
He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was seven years old and settled in New York City"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
"2024, Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City in the 2025 mayoral election.
His campaign platform includes
support for free city buses,
public child care,
city-owned grocery stores,
a rent freeze on rent-stabilized units,
and building affordable social housing units.
He is a critic of the state of Israel. "
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Father:
"political commentator based in New York City. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science and African studies at Columbia University"
Mahmood Mamdani
was born on April 23, 1946 in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India
(now in Maharashtra, India),
and grew up in Kampala, Uganda. He is an Indian-Ugandan. His parents are Gujarati Muslims."
"He was one of 26 Uganda students in the 1963 group of the Kennedy Airlift,
a US-funded scholarship program that brought hundreds of East Africans to universities in the United States and Canada between 1959 and 1963.
Mamdani began studying at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1967.
He was among the many students in the northern US who made the bus journey south to Montgomery, Alabama,
organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in March 1965 to participate in the civil rights movement.
This was during the time of but distinct from the Selma to Montgomery marches. He was jailed during the march and was allowed to make a phone call.
Mamdani called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, D.C., for assistance"
"The ambassador asked him why he was
"interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country",
to which he responded by saying that this was not an internal affair but a freedom struggle
and that they too had gotten their freedom only last year.
Soon after, he learnt about Karl Marx's work
from an FBI visit."
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"Mississippi Masala
is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by
Mira Nair,
based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala,
starring Denzel Washington, ( Malcom X)
Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores an interracial romance between an
African American and Indian American."
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