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Luigi’s ‘Mangionistas’ should be stamped and certified insane, not welcomed as ‘press’

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Recently, a friend in media asked how he could acquire a New York City press pass.

I sent him the form to fill out, but I told him it was a longshot without a legitimate body of work.

Apparently, all you need is a Substack and a lust for political violence.

Perhaps it helps if you give yourself a cutsie name like the “Mangionistas.”

On Monday morning, Luigi Mangione appeared for a hearing in Manhattan, and the aforementioned “Mangionistas,” aka his murder cheer squad, showed up to support him.

And these extremists have been granted full legitimacy by mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Executive Director of the Press Credentials Office, Samer Nasser.

Although she’s mostly behind the scenes, the official city biography for Nasser describes her as a “native New Yorker and first-generation Arab American,” who previously worked for CBS news, Al Jazeera America and Fox Business.

Standing outside of court, the gruesome trio — Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas and Lena Weissbrot — proudly showed off their press credentials like fan girls finally getting backstage passes to meet their favorite K-pop group.

They obviously weren’t there to report on the hearing. They were there to endorse and justify the cold-blooded Midtown murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian........

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