Michigan Democratic Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed seems to me most notably a member of what Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has denominated “the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control.” He also mirrors fake working class Dems like Maine’s “ill-starred oysterman” and former Senate candidate Graham Platner as well as the extremely wealthy Rep. Ro Khanna.
Running in a competitive primary for the Democrat nomination, El-Sayed has withheld public disclosure of his most recent tax return. Primary opponent Haley Stevens has hammered him for it. Stevens herself is a lightweight who appears to have pulled ahead of El-Sayed.
The Washington Free Beacon has exposed El-Sayed’s mulitifarious fakery in a series of storiesby its dogged reporters. Yesterday, for example, Alana Goodman detailed the luxury watches El-Sayed sports while campaigning agaist the wealthy. It’s a hilarious story. File it under Laughter Is the Best Medicine.
Now El-Sayed has released two pages of his 2025 tax return. Goodman writes:
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed released two pages of his 2025 tax return showing $686,069 in total income, including $292,000 in “additional income” and $262,000 in capital gains, placing him in the top 1 percent of Michigan earners.
But the return does not reveal the sources of that income because El-Sayed released only the first two pages, omitting the remainder that would provide further detail.
Further into the story Goodman adds:
“I’m a public servant, my wife is a clinician, at the end of the day we have a pretty standard tax return,” El-Sayed said. “You’re gonna be like, ‘Wow, this is pretty mundane, I don’t know what they were talking about.'”
But the candidate, who has billed himself as a crusader for the working class against the wealthy, does not have a “standard” return when compared with the average Michigander or American. His total income places him in the top 1 percent of earners in Michigan, where the median household income is $68,500, according to IRS data reported by Axios. In Detroit, it’s just $38,000. El-Sayed makes roughly 18 times as much.
El-Sayed’s fakery is not his worst feature, but it should make it easier for some to see through him.
For fresh proof of how little New York authorities care about social-services fraud, consider the curious case of adult daycares in Flushing.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, puts out that within a one-mile radius in the Queens neighborhood, a full 64 Social Adult Day Care centers operate, with thousands upon thousands of supposed elderly enrollees.
This reeks: Over the past three years, such New York senior centers have generated $2.5 billion in billings, with $2.1 billion of that coming from Flushing.
Flushing’s Medicaid-eligible senior population grew by 20% from 2018 to 2024, yet the number of seniors billed by social adult daycares surged by 390%.
How convenient that electronic sign-up sheets are usually the only thing SADCs need to provide to get reimbursed.
To be clear, some centers have real enrollees, but then again they bribe seniors with monthly $500 kickbacks — but that payout drops to $300 if they actually
Nor do the scams stop there: Centers team up with pharmacies and durable medical equipment stores (one Flushing entrepreneur was running three such “stores” out of his apartment), steering enrollees toward unneeded medications or wheelchairs to generate more taxpayer reimbursements.
And it would all continue on, absent Team Trump’s war on fraud.
Plainly, state Attorney General Tish James and other top officials just don’t care; they see it as free money (no matter how much goes to fraudsters), as government-funded personal assistance has become the state’s fastest-growing industry — jumping from $2.5 billion in 2019 to $12 billion in 2026.
The amendment to block military assistance failed, but partisan split cemented the increasingly polarized view of the U.S. ally.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/15/israel-aid-vote-house-democrats-00999917
07/15/2026 04:47 PM EDT|Updated: 07/15/2026 05:38 PM EDT
Nearly half of House Democrats voted to cut off aid to Israel Wednesday, underscoring a seismic shift in political support for the longtime U.S. ally.
The amendment to a State Department spending bill would have eliminated $3.3 billion in funding, and thanks to strong Republican support for the Jewish state, it failed 314-104 . But the vote served as a moment of reckoning for House Democrats who have had to confront years of voter outrage about Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.
“There’s also a real sense that the status quo cannot continue,” the House’s No. 2 Democrat, Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, said in an interview before voting for the amendment.
The vote came after months of contentious primary elections where progressive candidates toppled incumbent after incumbent by publicly eschewing spending from pro-Israel groups and promising to recast America’s relationship with the nation.
The scale of Democratic support for the amendment Wednesday was an acknowledgment of the grassroots fury that has reshaped the political landscape inside the party — a transformation that has rapidly accelerated under President Donald Trump and his close ties to the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Just over two years ago, only 37 House Democrats — mostly on the party’s hard-left flank — voted for a similar bid to crack down on U.S. aid for Israel.
This time, a much broader swath of Democrats came along — 103 of the 211 members voting Wednesday, plus another 10 who voted “present.”
The supporters included Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the esteemed former speaker, who said in a statement that she reluctantly backed the amendment to send a message that Americans “are rightly demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu government cannot maintain its current course.”
While the amendment in question was introduced by an isolationist Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, every other member of his party rejected the amendment. That was itself evidence of how entrenched pro-Israel views have become in the GOP: Two years ago, 21 House Republicans voted to cut Israel aid.
The rest of the support it received on the floor came from a divided Democratic Party, and the split went to the very top.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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Under James’ “leadership,” New York ranks 49th among the states for criminal investigations per billion of Medicaid dollars spent.
No doubt, she’ll win the fraudster vote this November.