<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com</link><image><url>https://www.batya-us.com/img/substack.png</url><title>Batya Ungar-Sargon</title><link>https://www.batya-us.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:06:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.batya-us.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[batyaus@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[batyaus@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[batyaus@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[batyaus@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[It Was AOC Week! What We Learned About the Left—and the Right—as the Congresswoman Took Center Stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was the week of AOC, the New York City Congresswoman and Socialist Standard Bearer.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/it-was-aoc-week-what-we-learned-about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/it-was-aoc-week-what-we-learned-about</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:19:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211418816/1e6900e7e1a53aa3582b7785d0bbdff2.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>It was the week of AOC, the New York City Congresswoman and Socialist Standard Bearer.</span></p><p>It started with an announcement: The 36-year-old is freezing her eggs, and she is live streaming every injection of the process on Instagram.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, It's Not 'Islamophobic' to Criticize Abdul El Sayed's Views]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many are calling the GOP's attacks on El Sayed 'Islamophobic.' But it's El Sayed who is weaponizing his identity to protect himself from criticism]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/no-its-not-islamophobic-to-criticize</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/no-its-not-islamophobic-to-criticize</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:46:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210662103/07626f0e4f8778047ff10c818f31f783.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Truth Social by President Trump is being called &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; for comparing the President and Melania with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El Sayed and his wife. The caption read &#8220;The Two Americas.&#8221;</p><p>On my show today, I debated Antjuan Seawright on whether the post was Islamophobic.</p><p>You can watch the full debate here:</p><div id="youtube2-ahZFgx4DW_4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ahZFgx4DW_4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;658s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ahZFgx4DW_4?start=658s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This is my opening statement, in which I argued that it&#8217;s El Sayed who is weaponizing his identity to protect himself from criticism.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Won the Great Burrito Wars of 2026?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Kolvet, who started the whole thing, joins me on NewsNation to discuss!]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/who-won-the-great-burrito-wars-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/who-won-the-great-burrito-wars-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:59:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210209218/cd1ed3fa048ec19a2ac5e831db32adf9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Burritos are tearing the Right apart. </p><p>A vicious debate over the cost of a burrito&#8212;and whether it&#8217;s too high&#8212;has engulfed conservative Twitter. </p><p>It started when <span>Turning Point&#8217;s Andrew Kolvet </span><a href="https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2084655580497809835">responded to a tweet about the rising cost of groceries</a><span> with something told to him by a student: &#8220;A burrito shouldn&#8217;t cost $20.&#8221; It just feels like basic things cost &#8230;</span></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Laura Loomer Went to Ukraine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laura Loomer joins BATYA! fresh of her Ukraine trip&#8212;and explains the real reason behind her 180 on the subject.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-real-reason-laura-loomer-went</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-real-reason-laura-loomer-went</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:51:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209561527/143be7d27377a333b50956f2c507adce.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Senator Lindsey Graham was laid to rest this week in a funeral attended by leaders from across the globe, including Israel&#8217;s Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelensky, both of whom also met with President Trump in the Oval Office. Graham was a huge supporter of both Israel and Ukraine, providing a counter-weight to the rising isolationist wing&#8230;</span></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Week Was a Stark Reminder of What the Midterms Are Actually About]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s less than a hundred days until the midterm elections decide who controls the House and the Senate&#8212;and whether President Trump and his Cabinet spend the next two years enacting his agenda or fighting impeachment, which will certainly be the Democrats&#8217; first order of business.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/this-week-was-a-stark-reminder-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/this-week-was-a-stark-reminder-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:43:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209561051/89e28e1ae68eb38a01b52b5823576140.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>It&#8217;s less than a hundred days until the midterm elections decide who controls the House and the Senate&#8212;and whether President Trump and his Cabinet spend the next two years enacting his agenda or fighting impeachment, which will certainly be the Democrats&#8217; first order of business.</span></p><p><span>But this week gave us a number of stark visuals representing what your choices actually are when you go into the voting booth in November.</span></p><p><span>One of them came by way of Spain, which was invaded this week by </span><a href="https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2082891200911347790"><span>tens of thousands</span></a><span> of men from Morocco, who streamed across the border after the border &#8220;totally collapsed&#8221; as one official told the AP.</span></p><p><span>The border collapse comes after Spain gave amnesty to more than a million illegal migrants, the largest migrant amnesty in European history. Naturally, when news about the amnesty program spread, thousands more decided to take their chances at achieving European residency.</span></p><p><span>Because that&#8217;s what amnesty for people who cross your border illegally does: It incentivizes people to cross your border illegally, because it is a reward for crossing your border illegally.</span></p><p><span>But if you think this can only happen in Europe, I urge you to think back to 2022. Remember these scenes? This isn&#8217;t Spain. This is Texas.</span></p><p><span>That was just three years ago!</span></p><p><span>And while most Democrats will now admit that Biden opening the southern border was a mistake, do you really trust them to keep it as airtight as Trump has? Do you trust them not to grant amnesty to millions of illegal migrants, as they&#8217;ve been promising to do for decades?</span></p><p><span>Just 8% of Americans today say immigration is a top concern for them going into the voting booth, in recent polling. But that&#8217;s because President Trump *solved the problem.</span></p><p><span>We got other glimpses of what a Democratic majority would look like this week. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani published a list of 900,000 homeowners who he accused of owning a second home in New York and was targeting for a new tax. It was about 870,000 more than actually own a second home. Hundreds of thousands of middle class New Yorkers were doxxed as the rich enemy by their own mayor.</span></p><p><span>His state-owned grocery stores will certainly put mom and pop groceries out of business. And his sustained attacks on the Jewish community keep intensifying. Expect much more of this if the Democrats win in November. Their slate comes with a healthy dose of socialists&#8212;thanks to the skyrocketing approval for socialism among Democratic voters.</span></p><p><span>And of course, this week we were treated to the release of the private diary of Anthony Fauci, the architect of Blue America&#8217;s disastrous COVID pandemic response. The diary revealed that what Fauci was telling Congress differed from what he truly believed about COVID.</span></p><p><span> It revealed a man in thrall to his own celebrity and the adulation of the glitterati, who were showering him with love. And it was a crucial reminder of what Democrats do when they have power: In the name of protecting you, they take away your rights. And when you demand accountability, they smugly refuse.</span></p><p><span>Fauci was forced into a Senate hearing this week to answer for his past actions and statements. Rather than accept responsibility, he pled the Fifth&#8212;111 times.</span></p><p><span>There&#8217;s a through line here connecting mass migration, class warfare against property owners, and encroaching on your civil liberties: Together they represent an agenda committed to the destruction of what it means to be an American, to have a God given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.</span></p><p><span>President Trump is certainly facing his challenges. We&#8217;re bogged down in Iran. Inflation remains high and gas prices keep climbing. Americans have not seen the evidence of the promised Golden Age yet. But though his plan has had its hiccups, it&#8217;s an agenda designed to restore American greatness, not to fundamentally destroy it.</span></p><p><span>Choose well, my fellow Americans!</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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His Diary Proves It.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in 2022, I interviewed Dr.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/in-2022-dr-fauci-lied-to-my-face</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/in-2022-dr-fauci-lied-to-my-face</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:16:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208906872/0bad84738112c6a14ac493dc01f63643.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in 2022, I interviewed Dr. Fauci about school closures. He insisted he had never recommended closing the schools. </p><p>His very own diary proves otherwise.</p><p>Plus a preview of tomorrow&#8217;s hearing.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Zohran Mamdani Have Blood on His Hands?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I debate my panel]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/does-zohran-mamdani-have-blood-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/does-zohran-mamdani-have-blood-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:16:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208550501/e86b586eac80cd84aa10e2c322ebd3ab.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To American Jews living in New York, it&#8217;s clear: Mayor Mamdani has blood on his hands. </p><p>My panel and I debate the Mayor&#8217;s Netanyahu video and whether it led to the violence in New York City two days later.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.batya-us.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani Has Blood on His Hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two days ago, he published a blood libel about the Jewish State.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/zohran-mamdani-has-blood-on-his-hands</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/zohran-mamdani-has-blood-on-his-hands</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:28:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208273876/76b40a5a70d25c1320299406e0c65bd6.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two days ago, he published a blood libel about the Jewish State.</p><p>Today, a man heeded his call. He picked up a screwdriver, shouted &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; and stabbed two people outside a synagogue.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Antisemitism Is the Point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar, and Zohran Mamdani just can't help themselves. Why antisemitism is so ingrained in the socialist squad mentality]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-antisemitism-is-the-point</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-antisemitism-is-the-point</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:20:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bqxX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F316189eb-5580-476b-a48d-acd22c2ec99d_738x352.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The far-Left Democratic Socialist Squad member Congresswoman Summer Lee of Pennsylvania did her best to dunk on New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer on Twitter yesterday. Gottheimer had tweeted in support of CNN commentator Van Jones&#8217; much praised comments calling the socialists regressive. &#8220;&#8216;No police, no prisons, no borders&#8217; is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE,&#8221; Van Jones wrote, and Gottheimer agreed. &#8220;The Democrats have a big tent. That&#8217;s our strength. We embrace a range of ideas &#8212; but there&#8217;s no room for anti-American bomb-throwers who oppose our ideas, values, &amp; leaders,&#8221; he tweeted.</p><p>Enter Summer Lee.</p><p>&#8220;<span>What about Dems who sign bombs and vote to drop them?&#8221; She snarkily quote tweeted him, no doubt envisioning the braying crowd of socialists patting her on the head for her </span><em><span>stunning and brave</span></em><span> tweet. </span></p><p><span>There was just one problem: It was a different Jewish Josh who had signed bombs&#8212;not Congressman Josh Gottheimer but her own governor, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. </span><a href="https://x.com/KristyTallman/status/1838282577284862383?s=20"><span>They were bombs being made in Scranton</span></a><span> and sent not to Israel, as Summer Lee no doubt believed, but to Ukraine, thanks to a supplemental bill that </span><em><span>Summer Lee herself voted yes on.</span></em></p><p><span>As Community Notes helpfully pointed out, 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Hope this helps!&#8221;</span></p><p><span>Of course, as Community Notes and Gottheimer noted, Omar, too, </span><em><span>had herself voted for those bombs to be dropped. </span></em></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/2079730367397822598?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Ilhan, you know who else voted for it? You.  \n<a class=\&quot;tweet-url\&quot; href=\&quot;https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151\&quot;>clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151</a>&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RepJoshG&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Rep Josh Gottheimer&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/824380405482668042/TGcE_Hz0_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-22T00:48:53.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNyvt96XEAAhki4.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/m8E8N4g8RD&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;He signed the bombs you voted to be dropped. Hope this helps!&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;IlhanMN&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ilhan Omar&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1978480440030715904/-YrmjDZA_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:74,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:455,&quot;like_count&quot;:4860,&quot;impression_count&quot;:285547,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Like Summer Lee, Omar had assumed that the Jewish Josh must have been signing bombs headed for Israel&#8212;because he is Jewish, I guess, and that&#8217;s all you need to know about him. And she used her antisemitic assumption to smear him as one of the bad guys and paint herself and her colleague as the good guys, though in this case, their vote had been indistinguishable.</p><p>Despite this series of self-inflicted humiliations for the Socialist Squad members, Summer Lee felt no need to delete the tweet confusing one Jewish Josh for the other, just as Ilhan Omar feels no shame about trying to insult someone for voting for a bill she herself voted for. </p><p>Shame for saying antisemitic things is beyond the Socialists and the Squad&#8212;because the offending Jews is the point. </p><p>The antisemitism is the point. </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporate Lawyers of the World, Unite! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani and his fellow socialists have redefined "working class" so it includes their rich constituents.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/corporate-lawyers-of-the-world-unite</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/corporate-lawyers-of-the-world-unite</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:52:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/6nbzdlgNyV0" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the patron saint of the socialist movement metabolizing the Democratic Party, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/magazine/zohran-mamdani-interview.html">gave an interview</a> to the <em>New York Times</em> in which he was pressed on how he defines working class. His answer was revealing, to say the least.</p><div id="youtube2-6nbzdlgNyV0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;6nbzdlgNyV0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6nbzdlgNyV0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>&#8220;I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p><p>&#8220;So someone making $250,000 a year is working class?&#8221;<span> The interviewer, Lulu Garcia Navarro, asked.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t asked myself where it starts and stops,&#8221; Mamdani replied. &#8220;What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren&#8217;t able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we&#8217;re asked how we divide this country. I think there&#8217;s only one majority in this country &#8212; it&#8217;s the working class.</span>&#8221;</p><p>So where does he draw the line where someone is &#8220;rich&#8221; and should pay higher taxes? </p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve drawn it at about a million dollars a year.&#8221;</p><p>Did you hear that? <em>A million dollars! </em></p><p>It&#8217;s truly hilarious: Anyone who makes less than a million dollars a year is &#8220;working class.&#8221; </p><p>He&#8217;s not alone in thinking this. It&#8217;s something DSAers angrily tweet at me all the time when I point out that the people voting for them are educated, rich elites: <em>Anyone</em> who works is working class, they say. <em>Surgeons</em> are working class! <em>Lawyers</em> are working class! </p><p>Bear in mind that the median income in New York City is about $60,000 a year. Nationally, it&#8217;s $50,000 a year. But Zohran Mamdani wants you to see a corporate lawyers making $890,000 a year as working class. </p><p>As Garcia Navarro pointed out, &#8220;Someone who is a janitor is going to feel some kind of way about that description if you&#8217;re lumping them in with someone who&#8217;s a lawyer.&#8221;</p><p>After prevaricating a little more and trying to change the subject to talk about his campaign, Mamdani repeated again, &#8220;Look, I think I&#8217;ve defined it to you as someone who works to afford their life.&#8221;</p><p>Tremndous. Corporate lawyers of the world, unite!</p><p>Of course, this isn&#8217;t just ridiculous. The point is to redefine the economic interests of the educated elite, the top 10%, the Mamdani-DSA base, as working class so they can craft policy that puts money in the pockets of the elites while pretending to represent labor.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Socialists Are a Rich White Mini-Party Within the Democratic Party]]></title><description><![CDATA[Far from attracting working-class voters, the Democrats are leaning into an ideology reviled by the voters they lost and continue to turn their backs on.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-socialists-are-a-rich-white-mini</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-socialists-are-a-rich-white-mini</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:47:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207613723/50198ac1dc4554257b626c0f693d5e8d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>The socialists may be on the march across America, but it&#8217;s not working-class voters electing them&#8212;maybe because for all their talke about &#8220;soak the rich&#8221; and &#8220;fight the oligarchy,&#8221; the candidates themselves all turn out to be rich, despite their best efforts to hide it. If there&#8217;s one thing working-class Americans can smell a mile away, it&#8217;s a fraud.</span></p><p><span>A &#8230;</span></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is JD Vance Right That Public Opinion Is Turning on Israel?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The polling tells a different story, at least on the side he's supposed to be on.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/is-jd-vance-right-that-public-opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/is-jd-vance-right-that-public-opinion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:39:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207358098/a47435e08bef1d8c013f511d6d07a1c6.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great joining Elizabeth Vargas on NewsNation to discuss whether the Vice President and Rahm Emmanuel are right that everyone is turning on Israel. </p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Vice President Thirsts for Groyper Approval]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as progressives will say or do anything for a pat on the head by Zohran Mamdani, our Vice President will say anything for an atta boy from Tucker Carlson]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/when-the-vice-president-thirsts-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/when-the-vice-president-thirsts-for</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:32:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FcWn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2077449758596108288.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our Vice President thirsts for the approval of Groypers.</p><p>Just as spineless progressives will say or do anything to get a pat on the head from Zohran Mamdani, Vice President JD Vance seems to be crafting his every utterance for the plaudits of Tucker Carlson and the Groyper Right&#8212;people primarily driven by their  insatiable need to blame Jews for all the world&#8217;s ills. I don&#8217;t think Vance shares this viewpoint; his penchant for conversion suggests none of his beliefs are too closely held. But what the Vice President lacks in conviction, he more than makes up for in pandering, specifically to the conspiracy theorists of Twittersphere.</p><p>The latest evidence of the Vice President&#8217;s thirst for Groyper approval came during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, where Vice President Vance implied that the criticism of the role he played as Appeaser in Chief to the Iranian Mullahs was bought and paid for by&#8212;you guessed it&#8212;Israel. </p><p>Vance was complaining about the opposition he faced for signing what many, including myself, saw as a humiliating deal that left the Iranians feeling like the winners of a war in which our military crushed theirs, a deal that, it bears mentioning, <em>has already fallen apart </em>because the Iranians are who the deal&#8217;s opponents said they were<em>. </em></p><p>Rather than do any soul searching for the role he played in having the U.S. sign a ridiculously bad deal that was actually worse than the JCPOA that Vance himself spent years mocking,<em> </em>Vance blamed the push back on a &#8220;very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation&#8221; paid for by the Israeli government. </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black and Working-Class Voters See Through Millionaire Socialist Abdul El-Sayed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The trend of DSA-aligned candidates being rich and rejected by working class and Black voters continues apace.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/black-and-working-class-voters-see</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/black-and-working-class-voters-see</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:19:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QP1C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FHNOG62YX0AADEr6.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new poll out of Michigan found that Abdul El-Sayed, the DSA-aligned far Left candidate, is trailing Haley Stevens, his moderate Democrat opponent in the primary, by 22 points among voters without a college degree. Stevens has 56% of working-class voters to El-Sayed&#8217;s 34%.</p><p>The poll also found El-Sayed trailing Stevens with Black voters by a whopping <em>46 points</em>. Stevens is polling at 67% of Black voters to El-Sayed's 21%. </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2077152201948967294&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Detroit News/Glengariff poll | 7/8-7/11 LV\n\nUS Senate Michigan Democratic primary 2026 (crosstabs, net)\n\n&#129002;College: El-Sayed +7\n&#129001;No College: Stevens +22\n&#129002;White: El-Sayed +12\n&#129001;Black: Stevens +46\n&#129001;Already voted: Stevens +9\n&#129002;Election day voters: El-Sayed +18\n&#129001;Still holding on&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;PollTracker2024&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Politics &amp; Poll Tracker &#128225;&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1827527827018690560/XQA9QAU2_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-14T22:04:11.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNOG62YX0AADEr6.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/UG8kVjcwFm&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Detroit News/Glengariff poll | 7/8-7/11 LV\n\nUS Senate Michigan Democratic primary 2026\n\n&#128998;Haley Stevens 48%\n&#128998;Abdul El-Sayed 41%\nUndecided/other 10%\n\nhttps://t.co/4ea7p5i0nG&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;PollTracker2024&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Politics &amp; Poll Tracker &#128225;&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1827527827018690560/XQA9QAU2_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:28,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:33,&quot;like_count&quot;:194,&quot;impression_count&quot;:163343,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>As I keep pointing out, it&#8217;s socialism by the rich for the rich.</p><p>And El-Sayed is rich.</p><p>He finally released his tax returns. </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism by and for the Rich]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Left isn't building a world in which everyone can achieve the massive wealth they have acquired but a world in which the peasants remain a serf class unable to even hope for home ownership.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/socialism-by-and-for-the-rich</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/socialism-by-and-for-the-rich</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:48:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e6-Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fnews_img%2F2076285569575862272%2FiBK-YhHY%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3Dorig" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-wants-medicare-for?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=4715391&amp;post_id=206719503&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7e9s2&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">The </a><em><a href="https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-wants-medicare-for?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=4715391&amp;post_id=206719503&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7e9s2&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">Washington Free Beacon</a> </em>has some great new reporting out this morning about the wife of one of the candidates in the Michigan Democratic primary, which is pitting the moderate Haley Stevens against the far-Left Abdul el Sayed, aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. </p><p>El Sayed has all the same views as the other socialist candidates, which is to say that he is running primarily on attacking AIPAC, Israel, and the Jews and non Jews who support it. </p><p>It&#8217;s his go-to move whenever he is asked about anything uncomfortable, whether it&#8217;s his former support for Defund the Police, his current lies about having supported it, or the fact that he is a millionaire who is refusing to release his tax returns so you don&#8217;t find out. </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/DSA_Watch/status/2074916488276754713?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Abdul El-Sayed says he requested to delay his personal financial disclosures until after the Michigan Senate primary because his wife and her family own property abroad &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;DSA_Watch&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;DSA Watch&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2069642143312809984/OBFpVyvg_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-08T18:00:15.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZgP!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2074861096414969856.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/muE17xlMki&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:221,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:330,&quot;like_count&quot;:1116,&quot;impression_count&quot;:105771,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2074861096414969856/vid/avc1/1280x720/1QcBMUjLSwmt_2xI.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>El Sayed has mentioned Israel and AIPAC in <em>over half</em> of his emails, according to <em>The Argument,</em> which is insane when you think about the fact that less than 2% of Democrats vote on foreign policy. </p><p>Surely Michigan voters have more important concerns than where pro-Israel American citizens donate their political contributions? </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/milansingh03/status/2075554126096896011?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;New from me in <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>@TheArgumentMag</span>: Which Democrats are talking about Israel?\n\nOn average, insurgent left-wing candidates mentioned Israel in 43-48% of emails (depending on whether you adjust for boilerplate language). \n\nFrontline Democrats mention it in just 0.02% of their emails. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;milansingh03&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Milan Singh&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2032105709068820480/UwLlP1h__normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-10T12:14:00.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HM3FjfdWAAA7jcm.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/l4Rx7SqqpA&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:9,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:45,&quot;like_count&quot;:231,&quot;impression_count&quot;:38042,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>El Sayed also nominally supports Medicare for All&#8212;which is interesting because the <em><a href="https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-wants-medicare-for?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=4715391&amp;post_id=206719503&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7e9s2&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">Free Beacon</a></em> reported this morning that his wife, a psychiatrist who owns real estate worth at least a million dollars overseas, <em>does not take any insurance. </em></p><p>In a now deleted FAQ on her private practice&#8217;s website, a question about insurance was answered with a single word: &#8220;Do you accept my insurance? No.&#8221; </p><p>It&#8217;s just tremendous: While El Sayed is campaigning on taxpayers funding health care because the system is so expensive and difficult to access for low income Americans, his own wife <em>literally will not take any insurance</em>. You have to be able to fork over hundreds if not thousands of dollars for the privilege of seeing her. And this is a person who is already wealthy from real estate holdings overseas!</p><p> These &#8220;socialists&#8221; are the problem they pretend to abhor: rich elite gatekeepers.</p><p>They aren&#8217;t building a world in which everyone can achieve the massive wealth they have acquired but a world in which the peasants remain a serf class unable to even hope for home ownership.</p><p>It&#8217;s socialism by and for the rich. </p><p>And to distract you, they talk about Israel and Zionists and AIPAC&#8212;just as they once talked about Defund the Police or the climate or trans rights but no longer do because voters hate that stuff. </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Only Question Democrats Should Be Asking Themselves After the Graham Platner Fiasco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why do all the actual working class oyster farmers and lobstermen and flannel wearing truckers and electricians so oppose their agenda that the only one they could find to support it was a faker?]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-only-question-democrats-should</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/the-only-question-democrats-should</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:42:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206690706/b4fd0b9b3042b273f036656e1cd24a8a.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed, veteran mocking, cheating, accused girlfriend abuser who Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ro Khanna, and Zohran Mamdani lined up behind like he was the second coming, has withdrawn from the Maine Senate race after he was accused of rape by an ex girlfriend.</span></p><p><span>They finally found their line in the sand.</span></p><p><span>A Nazi tattoo they c&#8230;</span></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bolton: Erdogan Convinced Trump Not to Arm the Kurds in Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the UN John Bolton joined my show to discuss what went wrong in Iran, whether he has any regrets about Iraq, and more.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/john-bolton-erdogan-convinced-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/john-bolton-erdogan-convinced-trump</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:50:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206647974/d83b23da1b4745635a1df65bf946fa3f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton joined my show to discuss what went wrong in Iran, whether he has any regrets about Iraq, and how Trump can land the plane.</p><p>Most interesting to me was that Ambassador Bolton says that according to his information, President Trump halted a plan to arm the Kurds to fight the IRGC after&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[44% of Muslim Americans Have a Positive View of Hamas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just let that sink in.]]></description><link>https://www.batya-us.com/p/44-of-muslim-americans-have-a-positive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.batya-us.com/p/44-of-muslim-americans-have-a-positive</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Batya Ungar-Sargon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:07:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2OgC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbd552d7-c649-486e-a99f-1b16d94fdf48_926x586.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly half of all Muslim Americans have a positive view of Hamas, the mass-murdering, mass raping, baby kidnapping terrorist organization with genocidal aspirations against the Jewish people. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That&#8217;s what a new Pew Research Center study <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/muslims-and-religiously-unaffiliated-view-palestinians-more-favorably-than-other-groups-do/4palestinian_favorability420px2x-3/">found</a>. </p><p>Just let that sink in: Nearly half of all Muslim Americans like Hamas. </p>
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