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The Brew: New York City is ‘Great Replacement’ Central, with 38% of Population Foreign-Born

By John Zmirak Published on October 24, 2025

If you’re wondering how a postcolonial Marxist Muslim who defends Hamas is the frontrunner for mayor in my hometown New York City, you’re not the only one. One explanation is the virtue-signaling of wealthy Leftists who live in doorman buildings, use private schools, and don’t need to take the subway — insulating themselves from the chaos that ordinary New Yorkers must live with. That’s a moral problem New York shares with most blue cities.

But the second explanation is starker and more quantitative: Almost half the city was born overseas, mostly in Third World countries whose political cultures are starkly incompatible with America’s founding, ideals, or culture. These people come from zero-sum societies where gaining control of the State is the only road to safety or even survival, and the winners of elections use the government to pillage or even imprison the losers.

Import a Third World electorate, get a Third World election. Take a look at the polling numbers, broken out by those who were born here, versus those whom our anti-American immigration system imported:

So 38% of New York residents were born in another country. Then most got educated in broken, Leftist-union dominated public schools, where “assimilation” is treated as a “racist” demand to make.

Are these immigrants forming the backbone of the economy? Well, no. In fact they’re disproportionately acting parasitically on the taxpayers:

The New York City and State governments helped create this perfect storm of poverty, cultural chaos, and Leftist domination, by fighting to bring and keep ever more low-income immigrants to the city. This is the plan the Left has for the whole of America: flood the country with claimants for public benefits who will vote as they are told, and demonize any dissenters as “racists” and “xenophobes.” Nice work if you can get it.

Judicial Tyranny Continues

In case you were wondering if the government has taken as its primary mission the displacement of its citizens by hostile foreign colonists, check out this story from Gateway Pundit:

US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, barred ICE agents from arresting illegal aliens at Cook County, Illinois, courthouses if they don’t have a warrant.

Judge Cummings said the ICE agents can be arrested if they violate his court order.

The judge barred ICE agents from making “collateral arrests” – a term that describes the arrest of illegal aliens who happen to be discovered during the arrest of another alien for whom they have a warrant to take into custody.

Is everything clear now? Efforts to enforce American law will be punished with prison, while foreign invaders will be rewarded, because they can be used for political domination.

Pope Leo Shills for Open Borders

Of course a program as self-evidently suicidal as universal celibacy, radical pacifism, or open borders requires some moral support. As a Leftist Chicago politician, Pope Leo XIV has weighed in again:

“With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing, not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, but rather grave crimes committed or tolerated by the state,” he said, according to a speech published by the Vatican.

“Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted – even celebrated politically – that treat these ‘undesirables’ as if they were garbage and not human beings.”

Drawing on a theme close to the heart of his predecessor, Pope Francis, Leo also defended rescues at sea, speaking the day after 40 migrants were found dead following a shipwreck off Tunisia.

“When cooperatives and projects are formed to feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, rescue the shipwrecked, provide daycare, create jobs, access land and build houses, remember that we are not serving an ideology but truly living the Gospel,” he said.

The pope, the ostensible leader of Western Christendom, is wielding such victimist language as natives in Britain, Ireland, France, and other traditionally Christian countries are persecuted by their governments for complaining about Islamic colonization of their territory, at taxpayer expense.

As I’ve written here many times: If Christianity really were a civilizational suicide cult, I would persecute it myself. It isn’t, of course. That’s just what Screwtape wants us to think, so he can goad us into paganism. His servants are doing their best to further that message.

“Vulnerable Migrants” Are Victimized by Phony Christians and the Left

While Democrats and their captive clergymen grandstand about human traffickers whom President Donald Trump has tried to send back home to face justice, remember the number that the Left — secular and religious — wants you to forget: 450,000. That’s the count so far of migrant children whom the Biden regime lost in the system in just the year of 2024, sending thousands to slave labor factories and sex traffickers. No one on the Left ever complained.

Now Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reports on the latest efforts of the Trump administration to track down and rescue those children:

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The Crazy Isn’t Limited to the Left

Speaking of Screwtape, he’s eager to squelch any sparks of religious revival, such as those spread by Charlie Kirk when he was martyred out of hatred for Christian faith. What better way than to send believers down rabbit holes of conspiracy and paranoia? That’s precisely what online personality Candace Owens (among many others) has been engaged in, in the weeks since Kirk’s public murder. Here’s Owens promoting the most toxic conspiracy theories imaginable without any evidence whatsoever:

Trangenderism Is Child Abuse

The real war we face is the spiritual one, and anything that distracts you from that is propaganda from the Enemy. He is especially keen to squelch the abundant evidence that his attack on God-given human sexuality causes nothing but harm and horror. So it’s our job to point you squarely towards such proof. The Connecticut Centennial reports:

Child psychiatrist Mark McDonald, M.D. warned that the rise of transgenderism among children and adolescents has led to “a medical cultural emergency” fostered by a medical system designed “against the health and safety and well-being of these young people.”

Casting the political issues aside, McDonald focused on three points: the “false” narrative from trans activists that “somehow medical intervention … is the solution to the problem;” the causes or origins of gender dysphoria in order to better understand why this crisis happened in the first place; and whether young people with gender dysphoria can obtain “real treatment.”

The author of the COVID-era United States of Fear and subsequent Freedom from Fear, McDonald began by confronting the transgender industry claim heard by many parents: that failure to affirm their child’s “new” gender identity by refusing medical treatment will lead to a greater likelihood of their child committing suicide.

“Yes, yes, absolutely, it’s true,” he asserted. “People who call themselves transgendered do have exceptionally high suicide rates. The reason for this is not surprising. They’re mentally ill, and people who are mentally ill, specifically with depression or anxiety, do have higher rates of self-harm, higher rates of suicide and also higher rates of medical problems, which is also true with schizophrenics and bipolar disordered patients.”

Transgender activists have made the false claim that gender dysphoric young people are more likely to commit suicide if their parents refuse to accept their child’s chosen “new” gender and reject treatment with puberty blockers, hormone drugs, and, potentially, mutilating surgeries.

McDonald stated clearly, however, that “so-called treatments” for the young adolescent with this mental health problem should not include “cutting off their breasts or penis, flipping their vagina into a phallus, or injecting them with castrating and infertilizing hormones.”

“That is not treatment. That is medical malpractice, that is mutilation, that is child abuse,” he warned.

McDonald cited retrospective data from northern European studies that, according to the psychiatrist, “answer the question very clearly: is it in the best interest of these transgendered people to have surgical interventions and hormonal interventions?”

The answer, he said, is an “emphatic” no.

He observed one Swedish study of 350 post-surgical, self-identified, transgendered adults. Researchers found that 10 to 15 years after the surgeries, suicide rates were 20 times higher than in the general population.

It’s hard to process such data, which show how corrupted our institutions have been, and how fundamentally we must fight to bring them back to sanity, never mind sanctity.

The White House Celebrates God’s Most Vulnerable and Innocent

Not everything is terrible. Far from it. If there’s one litmus test we could look for to distinguish between good and evil it would be this: How do you treat “the least among your brethren,” such as innocent children born with genetic handicaps? While it isn’t perfect by a long shot, the Trump administration passes this test:

Along The Stream

What do secular scientists who reject evidence of divine Design in nature do to keep up their spirits? Later this morning. read about how they turn to fantastical stories of benevolent little green men.

Don’t miss this powerful video: Faith Womack chats with Kirby Kelly, a Dallas-based content creator and author, about overcoming sexual sin, shame, and finding true freedom in Christ.

 

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.