Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams declared his opposition to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist “movement” — which includes defunding the police and shuttering prisons — during a fundraiser co-hosted by a Republican member of the City Council, The Post has learned.
A video recording of Adams’ speech shows him telling supporters that the battle he faced wasn’t with his political rivals in the Nov. 2 election, but with the Democratic Socialists of America.
“I’m no longer running against candidates. I’m running against a movement. All across the country, the DSA socialists are mobilizing to stop Eric Adams,” he said.
“They realize that if I’m successful, we’re going to start the process of regaining control of our cities.”

A Maryland man was arrested for repeatedly threatening to harm Dr. Anthony Fauci and his family, along with another top doctor.
Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 56, allegedly sent multiple emails that repeatedly threatened acts of gun violence, physical beatings, torture and arson, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
The profanity-laced missives were sent from an encrypted Swiss-based email account between December and last week, and were filled with conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic and homophobic comments, documents allege.
He faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted, according to prosecutors who said the charges stemmed from stepped up security around top medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Babysitter Terry McKirchy got a light sentence 36 years ago after pleading no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain damage — weekends in jail for three months and three years probation.
But now McKirchy is facing a possible life sentence after a Florida medical examiner says Dowling succumbed to those injuries when he died in 2019 at the age of 35 after a life with severe mental and physical disabilities.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned a significant cyber attack on the United States could lead to “a real shooting war” with a major power, comments that highlight what Washington sees as growing threats posed by Russia and China.
“I think it’s more than likely we’re going to end up, if we end up in a war – a real shooting war with a major power – it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence and it’s increasing exponentially, the capabilities,” Biden said during a half-hour speech.

Three bochurim on a trip to Ukraine to visit kevorim were tragically killed when a small sightseeing aircraft they were flying in crashed into a home in the village of Sheparivtsi.
The three bochurim, from Monsey, Williamsburg, and London, have been identified as Heshy Weiss Z”L, Avraham Fromowitz Z”L, and Lazer Brill Z”L.
Misaskim is at the scene and working with authorities to have the bodies moved for kevurah.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined.

Agudath Israel of America has announced that it will be having The Agudah Convention this coming November – specifically, with a change from the usual date to November 18 – November 21, 2021 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stamford, CT.
The convention has always been the organization’s signature event of the year, bringing together the “Agudah family” for several days of chizuk, chavershaft and practical planning in the presence of many of the leading Gedolei Yisroel of our time.

Americans are growing more negative about the track the country is on, according to a new poll.
More than half of those surveyed in the ABC News/Ipsos poll published Sunday, or 55 percent, said they are pessimistic about the direction of the country. In May, 36 percent indicated the same thing.
Forty-five percent of respondents now report feeling optimistic about the way things are going in the United States. Almost two in three – 64 percent — agreed in the May survey, however.
Optimism is currently down about 20 points among Democrats and Republicans, pollsters found, and down 26 points among independents.

GOP legislators in Michigan have abolished the law that allowed Democrat governor Gretchen Whitmer to continuously lock down the state since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
TheBlaze reports that the state House, which is led by the GOP, voted 60-48 Wednesday to repeal the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945, which granted Whitmer the authority she used in locking down Michigan indefinitely. The law gave extensive authority to governors in issuing emergency declarations and setting rules to “protect life and property or to bring the emergency situation within the affected area under control.”
The state Senate, also held by the GOP, voted 20-15 to repeal the law last week.

Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will change its name to Guardians, the franchise announced Friday, dropping the racially offensive name it has been known as for more than a century.
The change was announced in a video on Twitter narrated by Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who worked in Cleveland early in his acting career and starred in the women’s baseball movie “A League of Their Own.”
The name Guardians is a reference to well-known art deco statues located on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, which spans the Cuyahoga River and connects downtown Cleveland to the city’s trendy Ohio City neighborhood. Those statues are known as the “Guardians of Traffic.”

Microsoft first threatened to resurrect the infamous Clippy, and now the company is following through.
In a Medium post detailing a new set of Office 365 emoji, the Windows maker says the default paperclip emoji is being replaced by the digital Office Assistant of the Windows 97 era, though with a slightly more modern, flatter design.
Clippy joins a group of 1,800 refreshed emoji across the various apps and programs bundled with Microsoft 365, most of which now have a new animated 3D look. Microsoft says the new emoji are coming to Flipgrid starting today and will come to Teams and Windows later this year, and then onward to Yammer, Outlook and more apps in 2022.