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Sunday, June 07, 2026

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that applications are now open for the City's first 2-K seats. ... "This fall, 2,000 NYC families will have access to free 2-K seats, and next year that number will grow to 12,000 families in every borough.

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Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%--all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people--not punishments.

-- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) 9:56 PM · Jun 5, 2026

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-06 12:27 PM | Reply

"Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul announced the historic launch of 2-K just eight days after the Mayor took office, along with a $1.2 billion investment by the state for child care in New York City"

So, the taxpayers in the state of New York are ponying up $1.2 billion dollars to fund free childcare in New York city. And they're just getting started.

"No parent should have to choose between a job they love and a child they can't afford to care for"
-Governor Hochul

Seems a good solution would be not having a child you can't afford, but NYC will see to it that bad decisions keep being made.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-06 03:14 PM | Reply

the taxpayers in the state of New York are ponying up $1.2 billion dollars to fund free childcare in New York city.

The taxes of New Yorkers are going back into helping New Yorkers raise their children.

It's almost like that's the point of a civilization.

It takes a village to raise a child.

The "I got mine, ---- you!" mentality is what's wrong with America.

But it's one deplorable people consider a virtue.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-06 03:24 PM | Reply

Seems a good solution would be not having a child you can't afford

You're pro abortion?

Do you hide this opinion from your fellow MAGAts?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-06 03:25 PM | Reply

FTA:

"a $1.2 billion investment"

It would seem that New York considers its children to be a worthy, if not essential, investment.

#5 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-06-06 03:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 7

You're pro abortion?
Do you hide this opinion from your fellow MAGAts?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-06 03:25 PM | Reply |

#1 Anyone in New York can get an abortion on demand.

#2 No one HAS to get pregnant. There are plenty of workarounds for this issue.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-06 05:48 PM | Reply

#6 Left Hind Turds states the obvious: "There are plenty of workarounds for this issue."

100% correct, Left Hind Turds.

There are plenty of workarounds...

...all of which are none of your business ...

ABSOLUTE 100% TRUE FACTS ABOUT ABORTION

In the entirety of modern human history, no woman has willingly sought an abortion for a wanted child. Not at 9 hours. Not at 9 days. Not at 9 weeks. Not at 9 months. Not ever. WITH ONE VERY IMPORTANT EXCEPTION

But, in the entirety of modern human history, and for many individual reasons, women have sought to terminate the pregnancy of an unwanted child.

Each reason is as individual as the woman seeking to terminate the unwanted child. Sometimes the pregnancy is a result of rape or ------. But whatever the reason, no law or religious dogma has ever stopped women from seeking an abortion for an unwanted child. Nor will it. Not now, not ever.

ONE VERY IMPORTANT EXCEPTION: The most tragic abortions are for women carrying a wanted child but find out that their personal health is at risk. Or that it is an ectopic pregnancy. Or their chance for a future child is jeopardized. Or, the wanted child has no chance to live outside of the womb.

The last scenario is especially hideous: The prognosis for Potter's syndrome is very poor. Most babies with this condition do not survive beyond birth due to respiratory failure. IOW, the mother holds her newborn child while the child SUFFOCATES TO DEATH IN HER ARMS... AND THERE'S NOTHING SHE CAN DO ABOUT IT BUT WATCH HER BABY DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH. This can go on for up to 45 minutes, sometimes even longer.

These are tragic circumstances that, yes, sometimes only become apparent at close to 9 months. This is a fact, a very tragic fact, but a fact, nonetheless. It is also a fact that an abortion is sometimes the only option available for the woman and her family.

Nothing " NOTHING " you or anyone can say will alter these...

ABSOLUTE 100% TRUE FACTS ABOUT ABORTION

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-06 05:57 PM | Reply

The "I got mine, ---- you!" mentality is what's wrong with America.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-06 03:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Middleclass Americans are taxed to hell and back. They're tired of paying for one entitlement after another. The upper middle class had better have tax shelters or they're royally fkked once those children leave home. There's a handful of people like you describe above, but for the most part people are exhausted with this shtt. And it's not just entitlement programs for lower income people. It also encompasses business owners, corporations, foreigners and their grants etc...

For example, when the Vietnamese were brought here as refugees, they were given grants and low- to- no interest loans to get fishing businesses started. This put the existing American fishermen on the endangered species list because they couldn't sell their catches at the prices the foreigners could without going broke. Those are the kinds of Boomers who voted Trump 3 times.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-06 05:59 PM | Reply

#8 Left Hind Turds makes the "trickle-down" ------------ 'experts' "argument": "Middleclass Americans are taxed to hell and back."

No, they're not, Left Hind Turds.

The uber-wealthy have been getting away with not paying their fair share since Reagan.

I say ...

How about we start taxing the uber-wealthy who have, for the past 40 years, been able to dodge their financial responsibilities that provide them with a country that protects them and their money and their property?

Not to mention the fact that this country has given them, the uber-wealthy, a nation of publicly educated wage-earners who can afford to buy their products/services?

How about that?

Afterall, ingratitude is a Cardinal Sin.

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-06 06:08 PM | Reply

The US "invested" over $100bn to kill the Muslims in Iran on behalf of Israel which the American right wing trolls don't bray about, but this modest program in NYC has their panty hose all in a bundle.

In 2025, Muslim mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) pledged to make life better for poor New Yorkers with programs like this and food banks offering inexpensive groceries in each borough of the Big Apple, including Republican-heavy Staten Island.

Mega-oligarch Michael Bloomberg tried to stop these terrific programs to help everyday New Yorkers from ever starting.

So, with the IDF slaughtering tens of thousands of poor Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 7 Oct 2023, super-rich Michael Bloomberg bankrolled disgraced ex-NYS Governor sexual predator Andrew "Judas Iscariot" Cuomo to betray the Democratic Party and run against Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral race.

Mamdani beat the triple loser, who was endorsed by good-for-nothing Eric Trumpf, by eight percentage points.

New Yorkers can't even imagine if status quo dinosaurs Andrew "AIPAC" Cuomo or Eric "the Albanian" Adams were NYC Mayor today.

Now the sinister carpet-bagging Michael Bloomberg is interfering in the Colorado gubernatorial race by supporting Michael Bennett with millions of dollars. Must be a lot of Jewish people in Colorado that this mega oligarch is concerned about. Jews make up 1.8% of the entire population of the Centennial State.

"Gee, how could I ever lose to the Muslim and his hijab-wearing wife?"

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-07 07:26 AM | Reply

#10 Flag:

** THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAILS **


click image above for larger view

Why am I not surprised by this latest antic of C0RI0LANUS?

Why is he bound-and-determined to destroy the only alternative to Trump, MAGA and the GOP: The Democrats.

Watch what he says, not his "polite" routine.

He's a snake in the grass.


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#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 09:53 AM | Reply

Seems a good solution...
#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So you're saying if I have a blow out and end in the ditch, it's my fault for not buying new tires, therefore I get no ambulance?
People that don't make the best decisions are the ones who need the most help. Aren't the strong supposed to help the weak, not kick them to the gutter?

#12 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-06-07 11:34 AM | Reply

Aren't the strong supposed to help the weak, not kick them to the gutter?

That's why people formed a society.

To work together. Help each other and grow stronger, smarter and healthier together.

America was on that trajectory.

Until a bunch of rich people convinced a bunch of with people that blacks and brown were also benefiting.

That's all they had to do.

And Americans started voting against their own best interests.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-07 11:46 AM | Reply

Aren't the strong supposed to help the weak, not kick them to the gutter?

POSTED BY TFDNIHILIST

Not according to Trumptilians.

You haven't heard the Trumpian motto?

Marines say "Always Faithful"

Trumpy says

"Only the weak will fail!"

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-07 11:46 AM | Reply

No one HAS to get pregnant. There are plenty of workarounds for this issue.

#6 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You should really get out of your mom's basement more often.

Someone is not familiar with "teenagers".

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-07 12:03 PM | Reply

Bum Nation
Gimme Dat

#16 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-06-07 12:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Middleclass Americans are taxed to hell and back. They're tired of paying for one entitlement after another. The upper middle class had better have tax shelters or they're royally fkked once those children leave home.
#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And yet you adamantly believe that raising taxes on the rich -- treating the rich the way we treat the middle class -- is the worst thing that could ever happen to the American economy.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 12:40 PM | Reply

Seems a good solution would be not having a child you can't afford
#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You must have a proposal to stop poor people from having children.

Is it making the men gay, by building more truck stops?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 12:47 PM | Reply

^never strays far

#19 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-06-07 01:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Someone is not familiar with "teenagers".

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-07 12:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

I had 3 of them, no issues with unwanted pregnancies. It's called being a parent.

#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-07 07:58 PM | Reply

#20 Left Hind Turds says (about teenagers), "I had 3 of them..."

Were those 3 family?

Or not-so-willing "friends," Left Hind Turds?

#21 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 08:02 PM | Reply

"Left Hind Turds" LOL that's exactly the way I read it in my head

#22 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-06-07 08:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#22 If the moniker fits, you must not acquit.

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 08:07 PM | Reply

I'm guessing Turds is posting some oh-so 'pro-life' comments. Maybe even simping for his pedophile master?

#24 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-06-07 08:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#24 Indeed, Hamburglar ...

Indeed! :-)

#25 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 08:09 PM | Reply

It's called being a parent.
#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And yet you voted for Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin, who let her daughter get knocked up at 17.
Sarah Palin, whose son does domestic abuse.

Why do you pretend you actually care about this issue?
You very obviously don't care who gets pregnant.
You only care about finding excuses to hate poor people.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 08:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 08:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

Don't try to school me on parenting, you don't have any children. And the parents you had let you end up in bath houses giving favors for drugs.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-07 09:16 PM | Reply

#27 Why not Left Hind Turds?

You've proven yourself a danger to children.

So why wouldn't we lecture you, Left Hind Turds?

#28 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 09:18 PM | Reply

Don't try to school me on parenting
#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Oh that's cute! Setting aside that you are not capable of being educated:
Anyone trying to "school" you about your parenting skills at this age would be closing the barn door after the horses have bolted.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 09:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Don't try to school me on parenting, you don't have any children."

You certainly have not displayed any good parenting skills here.

You probably don't have any children either.

At least none that will admit it unless under oath.

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-08 11:36 AM | Reply

"New York City Begins Offering Free Childcare for Toddlers"

Someone should check Trump in after the Knicks game

#31 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-06-08 11:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

If you want to help people who aren't already wealthy to grow wealth, then free child care is a wonderful thing.

This is an entirely inarguable statement.

#32 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-08 11:46 AM | Reply

Free child care in New York! And now in Minneapolis there is a restaurant that does not charge for food. And it's profitable! More profitable than when it charged for food!

What is happening!?

I don't exactly know but I like it.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-08 11:52 AM | Reply

It's not "free".

#34 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-06-08 12:04 PM | Reply

This will cost much more than just giving vouchers to parents to use existing day care businesses. No different than Newspm's "free" diaper program which launders money to an outfit his wife is tied to.

#35 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-06-08 12:06 PM | Reply

pedoringer hates seeing regular people get a break.

#36 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-08 12:26 PM | Reply

If you want to help people who aren't already wealthy to grow wealth, then socialized child care is a wonderful thing.

This is an entirely inarguable statement.

#32 | POSTED BY ZED AT

#37 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-08 12:46 PM | Reply

We socialize the defense of the United States. We actually don't have to do that. We do that because it works.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-08 12:47 PM | Reply

Let the fraud begin!!!

#39 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-06-08 12:52 PM | Reply

Let the fraud begin!!!

#39 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

It began 01/20/2025 and to date has netted Donald Trump and his family billions of dollars.

People who use child care work for a living. It's nothing you would know anything about.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-08 12:57 PM | Reply

This will cost much more than just giving vouchers to parents to use existing day care businesses.
#35 | Posted by BellRinger

No it won't.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 12:59 PM | Reply

No different than Newspm's "free" diaper program which launders money to an outfit his wife is tied to.
#35 | Posted by BellRinger

Oh no. Children are getting diapers.

That really makes you angry, when children in need are being helped by the government.

You truly believe that helping needy children doesn't "promote the general welfare."

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 01:06 PM | Reply

The provision of free, universal child care would provide substantial benefits.
Higher labor force participation and increased work hours of mothers could increase labor income by nearly $900 million.
The disposable income of families could increase by up to $1.9 billion due to the avoidance of child care costs.
Employers could gain $900 million annually from lower turnover and absenteeism
comptroller.nyc.gov

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 01:08 PM | Reply

" pedoringer hates seeing regular people get a break.

#36 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-06-08 12:26 PM | FLAG: "

That's not what I said at all. Stop fantasizing about more trucker dong and read what I actually wrote.

#44 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-06-08 01:13 PM | Reply

an outfit his wife is tied to.

That tie being she knows the CEO. When does the DOJ launch an extensive investigation?

#45 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-08 01:15 PM | Reply

Flag:

It's not "free".

#34 | Posted by BellRinger

Except it might be. Offering child care enables people to work, which grows the economy and increases tax revenue.

#46 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-08 01:32 PM | Reply

No different than Newspm's "free" diaper program which launders money to an outfit his wife is tied to.

#35 | Posted by BellRinger

You don't care. Trump does a dozen things more corrupt than that every week and you're silent about it.

#47 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-08 01:33 PM | Reply

Let the fraud begin!!!

#39 | Posted by oneironaut

There will inevitably be some cases of fraud. I don't think anyone would deny that.

However, you'll take the minority of centers/services being fraudulent as a reason to s*&^ on the entire program.

Like you idiots do for nearly ever other social program with low levels of fraud (ie social security or medicaid/medicare).

Because you're nothing but a disingenuous pile of lying s*&^.

#48 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-08 02:01 PM | Reply

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