(DCNF)—Former Democrat New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman said Friday on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber that the term socialism has been “weaponized” into an “anti-American” slur, praising socialist Democrat New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as the party’s future following his mayoral primary win.
On Tuesday, Mamdani officially became New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, beating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by an estimated eight points, according to Associated Press projections. While discussing criticism of Mamdani’s views from both parties, Bowman was asked if he’s been “surprised” by comments like Democrat New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand suggesting Mamdani made a reference to calling for a “global jihad.”
“I’m not surprised, unfortunately. You know, there’s so much ignorance toward and around the Muslim religion and Islam as a religion. People from different backgrounds, brown people from different backgrounds,” Bowman said.
“The word socialism is weaponized as some kind of, you know, anti-American thing. Senator Gillibrand and others seem to have fallen victim to that level of ignorance and miseducation,” Bowman added. “There are thousands, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Muslims in New York state. Senator Gillibrand represents them too.”
During her interview on “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Thursday, Gillibrand also called for Mamdani to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
On “The Bulwark” with host Tim Miller, Mamdani was asked about the phrases “globalize the intifada” and “from the river to the sea,” which he refused to denounce. After the clip circulated online, Mamdani doubled down Tuesday, again refusing to denounce “globalize the intifada,” saying the phrase could have “different meaning[s] for many different people,” according to PIX11.
Gillibrand’s team — as the MSNBC guest host told Bowman — later said on X she had not meant “global jihad” and “misspoke,” with her communications director adding her main concern was Mamdani denouncing the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
Bowman was later pressed whether he believes the Democrat Party “is going to learn some lessons” from the New York City mayoral race. He called on his fellow lawmakers to “get on board” with Mamdani.
“I hope so. They got to. Everyone should get on board and endorse Zoran right now because our party’s approval numbers are 20 something percent. We’re on life support. We allowed Trump back in the office again,” Bowman said. “Our democracy is on the precipice of falling apart. The Democratic Party has to save American democracy and leaning into Zoran and others who are stars in our party.”
“We got a bunch of stars right here in New York … Uplift them. We have to bridge the gap, the generational divide that’s happening in the party between the older, more establishment and the younger,” Bowman said. “We have to bridge that gap to save our country.”
Amid concerns about his leadership, Mamdani sought to woo Jewish voters during an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Wednesday. When asked about worries from the city’s Jewish community, Mamdani said he would increase funding for hate crime programs by 800% to help “root out” antisemitism.
Mamdani has faced backlash for policies he plans to implement if elected mayor, including raising the minimum wage to $30 and proposing $10 billion to fund a range of free amenities.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
