#TIL - A Congressman was once sworn in on a #Superman comic book.

Some on the right are outraged that #Mamdani took his oath of office on a #Quran . But at least three #NYC Mayors have been sworn in on a #Torah , several elected officials have used only a copy of the Constitution, and Donald never touched a Bible at all when swearing in for this last term.

In 2023, California Congressman Robert Garcia (D) outdid them all. He took his #OathOfOffice on a #Superman comic book. It was placed in a stack of items that meant a lot to him, including a photo of his late parents and his citizenship certificate. It was a rare copy of Action Comics # 1 (first appearance of Superman) from the Library of Congress, so it did have historical significance.

As a Superman fan myself, I know he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a copy of that treasure in his hands for just a minute, and I completely endorse the idea. Buying his own copy would have set him back millions of dollars, but that brief moment of "geeking out" was free, thanks to our National Archives.

#MayorMamdani #ZohranMamdani #NY #DCU #DCcomics #NewYorkCity #ActionComics1 #SwearingInCeremonies #Religion #FreedomOfReligion

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Why this congressman is using Superman comic for swearing-in

When Robert Garcia is sworn in to Congress, he will have a vintage Superman comic with him.

^{By Brandon Drenon (BBC News)}

"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.

For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.

In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.

Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."

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#USA #NewYork #NYC #Mamdani #AntiZionism

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

^{Molly Crabapple (The Guardian)}

Zohran Mamdani - the new mayor of New York is an islamist.
And as a true islamist he starts to dismantle the state and particularly the justice system of USA.

nypost.com/2025/12/11/opinion/…

#US #uspol #USA #Mamdani #NYC

Douglas Murray: Zohran Mamdani appointing radical transition team has NYC in for a rude awakening

Well, New York — we’re going to be in for quite a ride.

^{Douglas Murray (New York Post)}

"Billionaires spent just as much trying to defeat #Mamdani than if they just paid their taxes"

Yeah because it's not just about the money. It's about the misery. Misery makes for obedient workers. Can't have people walking around with pocket change because the bus is free, and a clear head because their kids are well taken care of. Who's working an extra twenty hours a week in those conditions?

#Capitalism is built on capital but it thrives on misery.