Mayor Mamdani’s July 10 press conference featured questions from far-left outlets. The mainstream media has been quick to criticize President Donald Trump for offering access to friendly outlets. Zohran Mamdani “appears to be trying a similar approach but, unlike Trump, he’s so far gotten no apparent pushback about it,” our Ira Stoll writes. Mamdani’s July 10 “consumer protection” press conference featured lines like: “We’re going to start with Praj at the Nation. … We’re going to go with Sophie from Mother Jones next. … We’re going to go to the Jacobin next.” The official transcript of the presser omits those cues, though it includes the softball questions the left-wing outlets served up in response to Mamdani’s announcement of a city crackdown on Internet “subscription traps and junk fees.” Instead the Jacobin reporter asked, “To what extent will this affect people outside of New York City, and is this part of your vision of the kind of 21st-century sewer socialism?” The term “sewer socialism“ is a marketing effort, a euphemism to make communism seem more pragmatic and less scary. Mamdani first met Cea Weaver, now the director of his Office to Protect Tenants, in 2019, “at a reading group for the socialist magazine Jacobin,” Jonathan Mahler reported in the New York Times magazine earlier this year. A 2018 tweet from Weaver said, “Impoverish the white middle class. Homeownership is racist/failed public policy.” The handpicked outlets dutifully produced friendly coverage. “A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better,” was the heartwarming headline over Sophie Hurwitz’s dispatch for Mother Jones. It concluded, “it’s nice to see that, at least on the local level, protecting people from predatory corporate tactics might still be possible.” So nice! Jacobin served up an Instagram post that garnered 123,000 “hearts.” It read like the City Hall press release: “Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced yesterday a ‘Click-to-Cancel’ rule that will protect consumers from subscription traps and hidden junk fees. The move is expected to save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.” No one looks at it as costing companies or their shareholders up to $162.5 million a year. READ MORE: ‘We’re Going To Go To the Jacobin Next’: Mamdani Handpicks Left-Wing Media for Questions Additional reading: South Carolina governor Henry McMaster is appointing Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to finish out her brother’s term in the Senate, McMaster announced on Monday. She is “a mother of two who worked to help people with disabilities find jobs,” according to the New York Times, and her late brother took care of her when he was 22 and she was 13 following the death of their parents. In a moving speech, the new senator Graham said, “Lindsey has always been there for me. Now, I will be there for him.” Bad day to be a mullah: Trump announced he’s reimposing the U.S. blockade over the Strait of Hormuz, writing in a Truth Social post, “The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT.’” Iranian officials denounced the “provocative behavior” in the latest sign MOU was DOA. Some members of the Democratic Socialists of America are calling on left-wing candidates to refuse to work with Morris Katz, the 27-year-old “child of the New York cultural elite“ who was involved in recruiting accused rapist and fake oysterman Graham Platner to run for Senate in Maine. But Zohran Mamdani, who has also worked with Katz, is standing by his man, saying Katz “remains a top advisor of mine” and pledging to “continue to work” with him. Remember Kathryn Ruemmler, the Obama White House counsel who maintained a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and accepted a trove of luxury gifts from the late sex criminal? Ruemmler purportedly resigned from her gig as Goldman Sachs general counsel, but rather than leave in June, she “is instead staying on in an advisory role to help the transition to her successor,” a decision that “reignited concern among some inside the bank,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Check out our full Tuesday lineup below. Abdul El-Sayed’s Father-in-Law, a Top Donor to an El-Sayed Super PAC, Is Among Top Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Organization Linked to Terror Funding ‘It’ll Be Violent’: Chicago Teachers Union Hosts Israel-Hating Communist Convention Where Radicals Call for Sabotaging US Ports, Backing Iran ‘We’re Going To Go To the Jacobin Next’: Mamdani Handpicks Left-Wing Media for Questions EXPLOSIVE! The Truth About Lindsey Graham’s Fatal ‘Heart Attack’ Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.