Husband | Dad x 2 | PubSafety @ManhattanInst | Contributing Editor @CityJournal | Member @CouncilonCJ | Book: bit.ly/4qyUO6X | Views my own
Joined August 2015
- Tweets 37,742
- Following 3,315
- Followers 16,740
- Likes 77,907
3,136 Photos and videos
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
"A “sex abuse recidivist” with six arrests on record, including multiple prior charges of attempted rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching. In July 2023, he was arrested for attacking a 21-year-old woman in Brooklyn." Let's not release him again. nydailynews.com/2026/06/12/w…
4
8
27
1,166
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
South Boston comes out to support the children who were robbed at gunpoint at their lemonade stand.
Hundreds of community members came together to support the children, shutting down the street.
"We're going to do everything we can to make sure that we hold the appropriate people accountable here," said Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden.
According to the Boston Herald, one of the suspects, a 14-year-old, has been arrested.
The teen has been charged with two counts of armed robbery and two counts of unlawful possession of a gun.
Video: taylorknowlesre / tt.
Jun 12
NEW: Police are searching for two teens who robbed a lemonade stand at gunpoint in Boston.
Two children were running a lemonade stand in South Boston when police say “masked juveniles” robbed the boy and his sister.
The two suspects, described as boys about 14 and 11, asked the children running the stand if they accepted Apple Pay.
One of the suspects then flashed a gun in his waistband before stealing their cashbox, which contained about $50.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them so they can make arrests.
The children say they aren't letting the robbery stop them. They have since reopened their lemonade stand.
105
535
3,561
118,933
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
This is the correct response. Are we now a nation that condemns achievement? So much of the griping here is jealousy. If Elon was cutting checks to the DSA they'd be building statues of him in downtown Minneapolis by now.
Amid all the predictable seething jealousy and bitter resentment to this news, I’d like to congratulate @elonmusk on an astounding achievement. He’s got there by being the most driven, creative, hard-working and ambitious business genius in history. Salut, Elon! 👏👏
23
205
1,201
18,101
This brings to mind the dynamic John Stuart Mill described when he wrote, “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
@elonmusk is like a guy on payday walking past a gaggle of thugs who just watched him cash his check. It would be no less of a robbery if the people who run his pockets wear suits and serve in Congress.
A 5% tax on Elon’s net worth would fund every community health center in America for the next 26 years.
I’ll say it again. Tax the rich.
3
9
65
3,259
RT @reihan: Definition of “working class” is infinitely elastic. Have the right opinions, wear distressed denim, sell oysters to your mothe…
7
This is a banger that deserves 10x more “likes”
It’s not a “trillion pounds,” it’s a trillion dollars—which is no accident.
1
1
52
3,566
My wife and I make a solid middle class living. Our very modest house has appreciated since we bought it. Our modest retirement accounts have grown substantially since we began contributing to them. The modest savings we’ve invested for our children’s education has also grown with the market.
Are we rich? No. But we’re definitely not “poorer than ever.” And neither are most Americans. This is the fixed pie fallacy, and it’s bunk.
Many people need to hear this.
The only people the rich 'create wealth' for is themselves.
This is why despite the US getting 40x richer in the last 50 years, you are poorer than ever.
7
15
287
15,545
The truth is that people like Elon Musk—who start companies that produce value in the form of products and services that improve the quality of people’s lives enough to get them to voluntarily part with their treasure—produce an enormous amount of wealth for the people they employ and for those who invest in their companies. Those investments reflect part ownership in those ventures by mostly ordinary people who count those shares as a substantial portion of their net worth. The idea that this state of affairs is somehow immoral or less preferable than some realistic alternative is insanely wrongheaded.
1
1
19
866
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
I don’t mean to be callous. But if the IPO fizzled yesterday, would your situation be any different today? Are you worse off because he’s a trillionaire? Were you better off on Thursday when he wasn’t?
Jun 12
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
225
141
2,426
129,869
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest aren’t dumb enough to actually think Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in cash waiting to be taxed.
They just think their followers are dumb enough to think that. And they are.
380
1,799
12,989
155,410
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
All of the Ivies have finally realized what we all knew to be true (and what @neetu_arnold has written about extensively)—there needs to be an objective standard for college admissions. Essays and GPAs alone don't cut it.
You can't deny reality forever.
Jun 12
Wow. Columbia brings back the SATs
That means all the Ivies have reinstated standardized test considerations in admissions
4
10
35
5,572
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
"When you see the yellow, do you not see the person behind the wheel? That's someone's spouse, child, parent or friend — a New Yorker."
(Same could be said about the blue.)
But no, the mob does not see that.
That is why mobs are lethal and terrifying.
Jun 11
That's our member behind the wheel. He was pulled out of the cab and suffered shock and physical injury to his arm, back and head.
The whole city is elated about our hometown team — and that includes drivers who watched the game last night at airport lots while waiting for the next fare, listened on their radios while cruising for the next job, and huddled at hotel lines with the same heart-stopping anxiety that turned into the most beautiful joy.
Pulling the cab driver out of his seat, stomping on and shattering his hood turned our joy into a nightmare.
When you see the yellow, do you not see the person behind the wheel? That's someone's spouse, child, parent or friend — a New Yorker.
He wasn’t out there for a joy ride, he was working to make ends meet and to get his fellow New Yorkers home safely.
Cabbies pay just to go to work. They pay for their cars — whether through loans or leases.
Drivers need safety on the job, both in the quiet moments of ordinary days and in the middle of public celebration.
Shame on anyone who turns these joyful moments into nightmares for fellow New Yorkers.
1
7
67
3,572
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Jun 12
My latest on the politicization of scholarship: cityjournal.substack.com/p/t…
2
17
61
3,370
Jun 13
Increasing the NYPD headcount (if only modestly) is good, actually.
First: The NYPD is still significantly smaller than it was at the turn of the century, when it was handling far fewer calls for service.
Second: The best available research suggests that hiring additional officers literally saves lives—particularly in minority neighborhoods. That investment would easily pay for itself in spades, as quality analyses have shown.
As for the idea that there’s any hope for a Department of Community Safety ever displacing a single function of the NYPD, I recently explained why that simply isn’t in the cards: city-journal.org/article/mam…
Bottom line: The DSA intern managing this account has no idea what s/he’s talking about. Divesting from the NYPD will only result in more crime—particularly in the city’s black and brown neighborhoods. The research is clear and overwhelming. More policing 👉🏽 Less crime.
Read our statement on the proposed increase to the NYPD headcount.
To get involved, join the Racial Justice Working Group at an upcoming meeting: actionnetwork.org/events/dep…
3
8
69
5,172
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Jun 12
Ro Khanna is worth $230 million!
How about you donate $200 million of that first before you talk about stealing anyone else’s money!
Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.
In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide
Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.
408
2,898
17,863
370,784
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Jun 12
It's an incredible thing that the world's first trillionaire is an American.
Americans are among the richest people in the world, with some of the highest average wealth per capita and more billionaires than any other nation.
These things are laudable.
American prosperity should be celebrated, not vilified.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.
Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
14
28
304
13,521
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Jun 12
His parents really took all the money and left with him with a public defender.
Just astonishing.
BREAKING - Karmelo Anthony’s family is now forcing him to file paperwork claiming he is “penniless, destitute, and indigent” in an effort to obtain a free appellate lawyer, despite moving into a $900,000 home and purchasing a $150,000 car after raising over $600,000.
262
573
7,942
361,701
Rafael A. Mangual retweeted
Jun 12
The NBA draft is bullshit. Most picks never make the All Star team.
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
Community note
Eminence is incredibly rare, so 12.3% among gifted students is decidedly over-representative. For example, around 0.023% of Americans are full professors at R1 institutions, yet 22 of 677 (3.25%) of gifted students studied eventually held this position (a ~140x fold increase).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…
3
24
1,106
Jun 12
Incredible special episode of the @CityJournal podcast this week. A must-watch!
Jun 11
NEW: Zhenya Abbruzzese (@segm_ebm) joins me for a special @CityJournal podcast to discuss pediatric transition advocates' leading piece of evidence: the Utah review.
Conflicts of interest, omission of harms, failure to conduct formal synthesis, and more. Full interview 👇
5
17
3,436