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Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force 1 and a little laryngeitis
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that is making my voice sound huskier than usual. This feature is a little more topical
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and relevant to my job as a columnist for the New York Post. Today's topic is The Bazaar
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and frankly alarming response of New York City's hapless Mayor Zoran Mamdani to an attempted
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Islamist bomb attack in Manhattan on the weekend. Mayor Zoran Mamdani showed his true colors
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on the weekend when he responded to the attempted ISIS-inspired bombing of an anti-Muslim protest
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by first condemning white supremacy before getting around to in the second paragraph of
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his statement, saying violence at a protest is never acceptable. While that's one way of putting
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it, it took NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish to issue her own statement for the full gravity
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of the attack to be officially acknowledged. This is what happened on Saturday. Two suspected
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ISIS sympathizers threw improvised explosive devices into a group of police and protesters
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outside Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side. One of them was yelling al-Aqba. The homemade
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bombs were packed with the lethal chemical known as Mother of Satan that has been used
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in multiple high-profile terror attacks around the world over the past decade. The bombs
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were also filled with shrapnel, screws and bolts to tear into human flesh for maximum
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carnage. Luckily, both bombs malfunctioned before they could kill and may, many one and
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two suspects were arrested. Commissioner Tish said Sunday that the NYPD bomb squad had
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examined one of the devices and determined it is, quote, not a hoax device or a smoke bomb.
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It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death.
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Mamdani made no mention of the suspect's ideology in his pathetic statement, while railing
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against the right-wing activist Jake Lang as a white supremacist who organized a protest,
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quote, rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. He said,
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it is in a front to our cities' values and the unity that defines who we are, end quote.
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During a moral equivalence between Lang's hate speech and literal islamist bomb throwers
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is not who we are either. It's only the radical left to believe speech is violence, but violence
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is something to tolerate for the right cause. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for the
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next episode of Pod Force One with one of the Trump Cabinet's secret weapons to fire up
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the economy. Kelly Leffler, the billionaire fortune 500 executive who now heads the small business
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administration. I hope you can tune in and have a wonderful week.