Media watch: What’s in the Water at CNN? Even after that was “widely mocked,” anchor Abby Phillip later wrongly claimed the attack was aimed at Mayor Mamdani. A CNN reporter also implied Mamdani was a “target of political violence,” while contributor Ana Navarro “capped it all off” by characterizing the attack as an “attempt against” him. “I don’t know if this sort of ignorance is ideologically driven, down to simple pig-ignorance, or the product of a black-op psychological experiment involving LSD in the CNN water supply.”Labor beat: Behind Sanders’ 5% Wealth TaxSen. Bernie Sanders’ bill to sock billionaires with a 5% wealth tax, a “litmus test” for Democratic presidential candidates, “has attracted a coalition of supporters — chief among them government employee unions,” observes Aaron Withe at The Hill. “The relationship between government union growth and federal spending is no coincidence.

Source: CNN March 14, 2026 15:57 UTC