Nithya Raman is seeking the Los Angeles mayor’s office. Yet she has declined to tell voters which elements of the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform she supports.

That silence is more than political evasion. Los Angeles voters deserve to know what a candidate asking to lead the city intends to do once in office.

The DSA, for its part, has made its expectations clear.

Raman is not simply a Democrat who accepted an endorsement from a group with which she has little connection. She belongs to DSA-LA, which helped elect her to the City Council in 2020, supported her reelection in 2024 and endorsed her mayoral campaign this month.

The organization’s endorsement comes with explicit conditions. Under its Democratic Socialist Program, candidates seeking DSA-LA backing must “commit to our Program” to win an endorsement and maintain the relationship afterward.

That is not a claim made by Raman’s political opponents. It is the DSA’s own description of its endorsement rules.

Nor is the endorsement merely symbolic. Before selecting a candidate in this year’s mayoral contest, DSA-LA said it would “throw the full weight of our power” behind its choice.

The group chose Nithya Raman.

What, then, does DSA-LA expect candidates it endorses to support? Its agenda begins with private property.

DSA-LA supports having the government “expropriate privately owned housing” and urges the “creative use of eminent domain” to shift housing from private ownership. Its platform also backs universal rent control, vacancy taxes, automatic rent freezes and eviction moratoriums during declared emergencies.

Public safety is another major part of the program. The DSA calls for reducing the number of sworn police officers and replacing them with civilian personnel for traffic enforcement and mental-health responses. It also supports redirecting police funding, decriminalizing drug use and financing safe-injection sites.

The organization further advocates city-owned businesses in sectors such as grocery stores, restaurants and internet service, fare-free public transit and expanded voting rights for noncitizens in local elections.

These are not hypothetical warnings about what socialists could eventually pursue. They are policies DSA-LA has formally put in writing.

That does not necessarily mean Raman endorses every provision.

That is precisely why the California Post asked her to explain her position.

The Post sent Raman’s campaign 16 direct questions based on the DSA platform. Does she support using eminent domain to transfer privately owned housing into public or community ownership? Would she reduce the number of sworn police officers? Does she favor decriminalizing drug use, allowing noncitizen voting or creating city-owned businesses?

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Sixteen questions were submitted. Raman’s campaign answered none.

Raman has shown that she is capable of breaking with the DSA when she chooses. Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, she criticized a DSA-LA statement, saying it “failed to reckon with the horrors committed by Hamas” and was “unacceptably devoid of empathy for communities in Israel.”

DSA-LA later censured Raman after she accepted an endorsement from Democrats for Israel-Los Angeles, although it continued to support her.

Raman, in other words, knows how to draw a boundary. Voters deserve to know where she draws it on the rest of the DSA agenda.

Raman herself acknowledged earlier this year that while she shares DSA’s emphasis on the working class, “I don’t always agree with my allies on how to accomplish our goals.”

Maybe so. Then tell voters where.

Instead, when DSA-LA endorsed her this month, Raman welcomed it. She said she was “proud that DSA-LA is joining our broad coalition.”

Nobody forced Raman to join the DSA. Nobody forced her to seek its endorsements. And nobody forced her to accept the volunteers and political muscle that come with them.

If Raman wants voters to separate her agenda from the DSA’s, the burden is on her to tell them where she parts company.

Los Angeles voters deserve to know what someone asking to be their next mayor intends to do with their city. The California Post gave Raman 16 chances to tell them.

She refused every one.

That isn’t just evasiveness. It’s contempt for the voters whose trust she is asking for.

Jon Fleischman, a longtime strategist in California politics, writes at SoDoesItMatter.com

Patrick Clancy has spoken publicly for the first time since his former wife Lindsay Clancy’s case ended in a controversial mistrial, revealing that he experienced suicidal thoughts after the deaths of their three children.

In an emotional interview with 60 Minutes, Patrick described the devastation that followed after Lindsay strangled their children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan—before attempting to take her own life in January 2023.

Patrick, who discovered the children in the basement of the family’s suburban Massachusetts home, said his world abruptly lost its meaning.

“There was no family routine, no bedtime stories, no purpose. Everything just came to a screeching halt,” he said, becoming visibly emotional.

He recalled driving past his children’s school one day at the same time their classmates were being picked up. “I just couldn’t be there anymore,” Patrick said.

The 38-year-old father said the overwhelming grief led to suicidal thoughts, adding that he once felt indifferent about whether he would live to see another birthday.

“There was a time when I didn’t think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it,” he told the program.

Patrick also discussed the lasting impact of Lindsay Clancy’s trial, which unfolded three years after the children’s deaths. At the same time, he spoke about rebuilding his life and his plans to start a family with his new wife, Dr. Rachel Danis.

The case drew intense attention across the United States when Lindsay Clancy went on trial in July, facing three counts of first-degree murder.

On the evening of January 24, 2023, the 36-year-old labor and delivery nurse asked Patrick to leave their home in the affluent Massachusetts town of Duxbury to collect medication from CVS and pick up a restaurant order.

Prosecutors said that while Patrick was away, Lindsay used exercise bands to strangle the children in the basement.

She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck before jumping from a second-story bedroom window.

Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that night, while Callan was found with a heartbeat.

The baby survived for four more days before dying in Patrick’s arms.

“I’m so grateful for those four days I had with him. And I’m so grateful he hung on,” Patrick said during the 60 Minutes interview.

Lindsay survived the fall but was left paralyzed from the waist down.

The mother of three has never denied killing her children. However, she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing that she was experiencing severe postpartum depression and psychosis at the time.

Her six-week trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, fueled a wider international debate over postpartum mental illness, criminal responsibility and how the justice system should handle such cases.

Ultimately, after seven days of deliberations, a mistrial was declared on September 4 after the 12 jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

In an unprecedented move, it emerged during deliberations that a lone male holdout – since identified as Michael P Desronvil – was refusing to join the other 11 in finding her not guilty by reason of insanity.

Several jurors have since spoken out to accuse him of showing reasonable doubt but refusing to apply it to the law. Desronvil has hired an attorney and released a statement pushing back on their claims, saying he believed Clancy ‘knew exactly what she was doing.’

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Speaking to 60 Minutes, Patrick revealed that the trauma of testifying at Clancy’s trial took its toll and caused him to suffer a panic attack inside the courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

‘We did take a break right before they played the 911 call, which I knew was going to be just horrific,’ he said.

‘And I went to a back room, and I started having this massive traumatic panic attack. My heart was pounding.’

Patrick said he was put in an ambulance and offered medication, but turned it down, insisting he wanted to resume testifying. 

‘I want to finish this so I can be done with this,’ he said of that moment.

Inside the courthouse that day, the Daily Mail had seen emergency responders entering the room beside the courtroom during a recess, with dispatch audio referring to a juror suffering a panic attack.

When proceedings resumed, all jurors returned but Patrick did not. His testimony was put on pause and two brief witnesses took the stand instead before he returned a few hours later. 

Throughout his hours-long testimony, Patrick repeatedly struggled to contain his emotions, trembling at points, taking deep breaths and wiping away tears as he relived the painful memories.

Patrick testified how Clancy had asked him to go to collect a takeout order and medicine that evening.

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He returned home to find the house ‘really quiet’ before discovering his wife lying injured in the back yard.

In one of the most harrowing moments of the trial, jurors heard Patrick’s gut-wrenching 911 call capturing the moment that he found the bodies of his children in the basement.

Patrick’s primal, unearthly screams could be heard in the call before he cried out: ‘She killed the kids!’

The call has not been publicly released with only the jurors and a small handful of members of the public and reporters inside the courtroom that day, including the Daily Mail, hearing it.

In the absence of its release – and claims that Patrick appeared stoic on the stand when viewed through the livestream – the grieving father faced a slew of vile conspiracies and rumors online.

His testimony was picked apart by internet sleuths with some going as far as to accuse him of possible involvement in his children’s deaths.

Patrick told 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat that the rampant conspiracies are ‘painful’ and a ‘huge distraction’ from the issues at the heart of the tragedy.

‘It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children. It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health. And it’s done real harm to real people, myself included but also others,’ he said.

‘It’s painful to see. And it makes it difficult to be in public and it’s possible that some of those people after seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it and that’s what we’re left with.’

The 38-year-old’s attorney has since issued a legal warning to conspiracy theorists that ‘this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop’ or ‘there will be consequences.’

Patrick told 60 Minutes that he had spoken with postpartum mental illness experts and psychiatrists since the tragedy to learn what had taken place.  

At the time of Clancy’s spiraling mental health, Patrick said he didn’t know anything about postpartum mental illness. 

He recalled noticing a big change in Clancy’s mental health around fall 2022.

‘She went a few nights without sleeping,’ he said. ‘She came downstairs one morning and she said, “I didn’t sleep at all last night.”‘

Her mental health deteriorated further in December before she entered a psychiatric hospital for five days from New Year’s Day 2023. Just 17 days after she was discharged, Clancy killed the children.

Patrick said he now realizes there are ‘things that I didn’t see.’

When asked if he was angry with himself or felt like he had failed in some way, Patrick told correspondent Ross Douthat: ‘I think I did the best I could with what I had at the time, and I live with the outcome. I live with it every day, but I think I did the best I could.’

For Patrick, a move away from Duxbury to New York City in April 2023 – three months after the killings – was the start of him rebuilding his life, he told 60 Minutes. 

Five weeks later, on May 26, it was what should have been Callan’s first birthday. 

‘How do you celebrate your son’s first birthday months after he’s passed away?’ he said, choking up with emotion.

‘And so I go to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I light a candle, and I say, “I love you, buddy.” And I walk out on Fifth Avenue and I start crying my eyes out. And nobody cared.’

The following January, he met Dr Rachel Danis at a run club in Manhattan’s Central Park.

The Daily Mail exclusively revealed in July that the couple wed this April in an intimate ceremony at the historic Ladies Pavilion overlooking Central Park’s lake before celebrating with family and friends at Sarabeth’s restaurant.

Joining Patrick in the 60 Minutes interview, Rachel said that she tries to ‘take some of the weight’ from her husband’s grief.

The couple also revealed that they are starting a family together and ‘can’t wait to tell [their children’ about their brothers and sister.’

While Patrick tries to rebuild his life, Clancy’s criminal case now hangs in the balance after the mistrial was declared earlier this month.

Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz is yet to reveal whether or not his office plans to try her a second time – and whether on the same or lesser charges.

Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington has filed a motion asking the court to acquit her on all charges, arguing that the state did not present enough evidence in its case and so should not be able to retry it.

The motion will be argued when the two sides return to Plymouth County Superior Court for a hearing on September 29.

Patrick Clancy pleaded for at least one of his children to survive, held his baby son Callan as he died and explained why he forgave Lindsay after she killed their three children.

In an interview with correspondent Ross Douthat on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” the grieving father described his children’s final moments, recounted what Lindsay told him about the killings and discussed online attacks he says are damaging their legacy.

The interview followed the end of Lindsay’s triple-murder trial, which concluded in a mistrial. Her defense attorneys argued that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Prosecutors contended that she understood her actions.

From the desperate appeal he made at the hospital to the claims circulating online after the mistrial, Patrick described how the tragedy has changed every aspect of his life.

‘Just give me one’

Patrick said he held on to the hope that Callan could survive after his older siblings, 5-year-old Cora and 3-year-old Dawson, were found dead inside the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Doctors had restored the baby’s heartbeat, and Patrick told Douthat that he began picturing the life he might still build with his youngest child.

“I remember that night, I really thought there was a chance that Callan would live,” Patrick said.

“And I remember just thinking, ‘Just give me one. Just give me one kid,’” he continued. “And I would raise him as best I could, and I would give him the best life I possibly could. And I’d tell him about his brother and sister.”

That hope began to disappear when Patrick arrived at Boston Children’s Hospital and saw the expression on a doctor’s face.

Callan’s heart continued beating for four days. Patrick became emotional as he recalled apologizing to his son and remaining by his side during his final moments.

“I said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he told Douthat, his voice breaking. “And I got to hold him. I got to lay down next to him. And he died in my arms.”

As Callan remained hospitalized, Patrick said he held his son’s hand while using his other hand to write about all three children. He told Douthat he worried their memories could fade unless he captured them in words.

Lindsay never asked for forgiveness

Among the tributes Patrick wrote were words of forgiveness for Lindsay. He said she has never asked him to forgive her, but he decided to offer that forgiveness regardless.

“I saw headlines that said, you know, ‘killer mom’ and ‘baby murderer,’ ‘monster,’ and none of them were accurate,” Patrick said during the interview. “I believe that it was her mental illness that caused that.”

Patrick also said he feared that failing to forgive Lindsay would allow anger to consume him.

“I felt that if I didn’t get there, I would be eaten up inside,” he said.

When Patrick asked Lindsay whether she remembered killing their children, he said she described the memory as resembling a dream.

“She said it was like a dream, and she remembered it much in the way you would remember a dream after waking up,” he told Douthat.

Patrick said he did the best he could as Lindsay’s condition worsened but must live with what happened.

“I think I did the best I could with what I had at the time, and I live with the outcome,” he said. “I live with it every day.”

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Grief left him unsure he would survive

Patrick told Douthat his grief became so overwhelming that he questioned whether he would live to see another birthday.

“There was a time where I didn’t think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it,” he said.

Patrick later left Duxbury for New York City, where he could grieve without being recognized. Five weeks after the move, on what would have been Callan’s first birthday, he went to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, lit a candle and told his son, “I love you, buddy.”

“And I walk out on Fifth Avenue and I start crying my eyes out, and nobody cared,” Patrick recalled.

For Patrick, being able to cry without drawing attention was exactly what he needed.

“I thought, this is where I need to be,” he said. “I can grieve.”

His Manhattan apartment remains filled with reminders of the children, including a baby sloth Cora carried everywhere and a photograph of Callan wearing an oversized bow tie, “60 Minutes” showed.

Patrick said they also return to him in vivid dreams. In one, Cora walked into the kitchen of the family’s former home and hugged him.

“I just looked at her and it was like I basically just said, ‘Where have you been?’” he recalled. “Those dreams are so real.”

‘Trial by TikTok’ fueled painful attacks

The mistrial unleashed what Douthat described as a “trial by TikTok,” with online sleuths and influencers spreading baseless theories portraying Patrick as uncaring, unfaithful and even responsible for the children’s deaths.

“It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children,” Patrick said. “It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health, and it’s done real harm to real people.”

He said the repeated accusations have made it painful to be in public and warned that people may start believing false claims if they see them often enough.

“After seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it,” Patrick said. “And that’s what we’re left with.”

Patrick said he sought answers from Postpartum Support International, psychiatrists and other experts. Those conversations helped him begin processing what happened.

A new marriage and keeping his children’s memory alive

Patrick’s wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, joined him for the “60 Minutes” interview and recalled first learning about his children after noticing their photograph on his phone during a coffee outing.

“I just asked, ‘Who are those cuties?’” Danis told Douthat. “And Pat had said, ‘Those are my kids.’”

When she asked whether they lived in Massachusetts, Patrick told her they had died.

Patrick and Danis met through a New York running club in January 2024. Their relationship deepened as they continued running together, and they married in New York City this April.

The couple also discussed starting a family.

Asked what he would tell a future child about Cora, Dawson and Callan, Patrick said all of his children would remain part of the same family.

“You have different relationships with your kids, but they’re all your kids,” he said. “And I can’t wait to tell them about their brothers and sister.”

Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after jurors split 11-1, with 11 favoring a finding that Lindsay was not criminally responsible and one holding out for a conviction. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will try her again.

The Jets produced 285 yards of offense, outgaining the Packers by 86 yards.

They also controlled the clock, holding possession for 37:40 compared with Green Bay’s 26:57.

New York won the turnover battle, too.

Add in a 10-point advantage with 11:04 remaining in the fourth quarter, and the Jets appeared to have nearly everything working in their favor.

Yet they still found a way to lose, falling 20-17 to the Packers in overtime at MetLife Stadium after committing 13 penalties for 156 yards.

The most damaging infraction came in overtime, when Jarvis Brownlee Jr. was flagged for unnecessary roughness against Chris Brooks following Brooks’ 15-yard reception.

With the penalty added, Green Bay moved to the Jets’ 22-yard line. Jordan Love then connected with Matthew Golden for 15 yards, putting the Packers in position for Trey Smack to win the game with a 26-yard field goal.

Brownlee did not speak with reporters after the game, but Jets head coach Aaron Glenn addressed the costly mistake.

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“It just can’t happen,’’ Glenn said. “I don’t think it’s anything he doesn’t know. It can’t happen. We can’t let our emotions get the best of us in a situation like that because we have to make sure we do what’s right to try to go win the game. That was one of the decisions we didn’t make correctly. I’d say that.”

“As an aggressive player, there are going to be aggressive penalties at times. Obviously, it was untimely. But we trust him, and I don’t think we’ll harp on him too much,” Cisco said.

Brownlee’s penalty drew the most attention, but it was far from the only mistake that contributed to the Jets’ overtime loss.

“It’s unfortunate,’’ Tippmann said. “I was one that had one. You know, those are plays that you wish you had back, stuff that you’ve got to lock into the moment, make sure you’re playing in the moment and that you’re fully there. And it’s just something I wish I had back.”

The penalties and other lapses were among the issues Glenn highlighted after the game.

“The penalties, listen, they were on both sides,’’ Glenn said. “I think we had 13 [and Green Bay] had 14, so, obviously, they were calling it like that.”

Green Bay did commit more penalties than New York, but the Jets were charged with 23 more penalty yards.

“I know this,’’ Glenn said. “Next week, we have a number of things we have to fix. And those things I just talked about are some of them.”

President Donald Trump is set to visit Gracie Mansion on Monday for an in-person meeting with Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s democratic socialist mayor.

The meeting will take place as global leaders arrive in Manhattan for the United Nations General Assembly, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also expected to speak.

Trump and Mamdani will meet at the mayor’s official residence on the Upper East Side, marking their third known face-to-face encounter and their first in New York City.

City Hall provided little information Sunday about the subjects the two leaders are expected to discuss.

Mamdani’s office said the conversation would center on “issues affecting New York City and New Yorkers.”

The White House confirmed that the meeting is planned but did not release further details. No public start time has been announced.

The encounter comes during a tense political week in New York, as the United Nations gathering brings extensive security measures, motorcades and road closures across Manhattan.

Trump is scheduled to address the General Assembly on Tuesday while also holding talks with several visiting foreign leaders.

Netanyahu’s arrival could create an especially sensitive situation for Mamdani.

The mayor has long criticized Netanyahu and Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

Mamdani said last week that he would not participate in protests linked to the gathering, adding that the New York Police Department was making preparations for the event.

He has previously called Netanyahu a “war criminal” and said the Israeli leader “belongs in The Hague,” home of the International Criminal Court.

In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the conflict in Gaza.

Netanyahu and the Israeli government have denied the allegations. Israel is not a member of the International Criminal Court.

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During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani pledged that Netanyahu would be arrested if he entered New York City. He later recognized the legal limitations confronting City Hall.

The United States has not joined the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the ICC, and the Trump administration has strongly opposed the court’s case against Israeli officials.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the administration is preparing expanded sanctions targeting the ICC over its efforts to prosecute Netanyahu.

Mamdani himself was coy last week when asked whether he would sit down with Trump while the president was in town.

‘When it comes to the president, we continue to have a conversation about how best to deliver for this city,’ he said.

‘That is a conversation that has been done in person, it’s been done over the phone, and it will continue so long as either of us have the ability to deliver for the city.’

For two politicians separated by enormous ideological differences, their relationship has repeatedly proved warmer than many expected.

During the 2025 mayoral campaign, Trump called Mamdani a ‘100% Communist Lunatic,’ while Mamdani positioned himself as a determined opponent of the president’s agenda.

Yet when Mamdani traveled to the White House after winning the election, their first encounter produced a surprisingly cordial display.

Trump even suggested the mayor-elect could ‘surprise some conservative people.’

‘We have one thing in common,’ Trump said following that November meeting. ‘We want this city of ours that we love to do very well.’

Mamdani returned to the White House in February for another private sit-down, where housing was among the issues discussed.