Ocasio-Cortez’s official House of Representatives biography does not mention these two positions, focusing instead on a post-college position she held as educational director with the National Hispanic Institute and on stints as a bartender and waitress. Similarly, the acclaimed 2019 Netflix documentary “Bring Down the House,” which follows Ocasio-Cortez during her successful June 2018 primary bid in New York’s 14th district, shows her working as a bartender.

“They call it working class for a reason,” she said in the documentary as she hauled buckets of ice and mixed drinks, “because you are working nonstop.”

But elsewhere on the internet, there are traces of Ocasio-Cortez’s less publicized gigs, in which two Israeli-Americans figure — Joe Raby and Chen(i) Yerushalmi, men associated more with the world of venture capital and startups than with the working class.

It was under the aegis of these men that Ocasio-Cortez prepared curricula teaching entrepreneurial and self-presentation skills to ambitious young college students and graduates in the Bronx. These skills, which she helped teach to others, may have been instrumental in her own political rise.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesperson, Lauren Hitt, told The Times of Israel that the names Cheni Yerushalmi and Joe Raby “are not ringing a bell with us over here. It may be a fairly tenuous connection.”

Public sources, however, indicate that Yerushalmi was Ocasio-Cortez’s boss at a company called Gage Strategies, while Raby vetted candidates for the Sunshine Bronx business incubator that she applied and was admitted to. Ocasio-Cortez herself publicly associated with both these employment experiences over a period of five years prior to her election to Congress.

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Both the Brook Avenue Press and GAGEis (also known as Gage Strategies) operated from the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator, a city-subsidized co-working space launched in 2012, where for about $200 a month entrepreneurs could take advantage of workspaces, conference rooms, mentoring and business training. Raby and Yerushalmi, its owners, were seasoned entrepreneurs in the co-working industry who had won a city contract in 2009 to develop the incubator with financial support from the city.

Ocasio-Cortez’s startup Brook Avenue Press was chosen to participate in the incubator program in 2012.

In a 2011 video she recorded shortly after graduating from college, a younger, less polished Ocasio-Cortez described the publishing startup she would go on to develop while at the Bronx business incubator.

“What Brook Avenue Press seeks to do is develop and identify stories and literature in urban areas” for kids, she said.

Despite the fact that participants paid rent to the incubator, there was an application and interview process to get in.

Joe Raby, who a year later would run a major venture capital fund in Israel, described the vetting process in a January 2012 press release.

“We’re different from a traditional incubator because we won’t accept you if we don’t think we can help you succeed,” said Raby, the incubator’s co-founder and managing partner.

“We try to understand your business objective, and create the bridges and opportunities that will help you achieve and measure it.”

Ocasio-Cortez may have gained some early political experience as well while working at the incubator owned by the two Israelis. In August 2012, she, owner Cheni Yerushalmi and a few other incubator participants lobbied for federal legislation that would allow Bronx entrepreneurs to deduct a higher percentage of their startup costs from their taxes.

“Young entrepreneurs are playing a special role in developing promising, creative enterprises for our future and a small break can open up their resources for hiring, creating a new product, or reinvesting in the local economy,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a press release.

Donald Trump has weighed in on CBS axing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert while taking aim at several other late-night hosts.

It was announced yesterday that CBS will bring The Late Show to an end in May. The network described the cancellation of the 32-year-old late-night talk show as a “financial decision”.

However, multiple CBS staffers have told The Independent they believe it to be a continuation of the “Trump shakedown” that began with parent company Paramount’s settlement of the 60 Minutes lawsuit.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.”

He continued: “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.”

The Obama administration "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing "overwhelming evidence" that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump–Russia collusion probe.

Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was "probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means."

One instance was on Dec. 7, 2016, weeks after the election. Then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s talking points stated: "Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome."

Fox News Digital obtained a declassified copy of the Presidential Daily Brief, which was prepared by the Department of Homeland Security, with reporting from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and open sources, for Obama, dated Dec. 8, 2016.

"We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure," the Presidential Daily Brief stated. "Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states."

But the brief stated that it was "highly unlikely" the effort "would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote result."

"Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes," it stated.

The brief noted that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed that any Russian activities "probably were intended to cause psychological effects, such as undermining the credibility of the election process and candidates."

The communications revealed that the brief was expected to be published Dec. 9, 2016, the following day, but later communications revealed that Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "based on some new guidance" decided to "push back publication" of the Presidential Daily Brief.

"It will not run tomorrow and is not likely to run until next week," wrote the deputy director of the Presidential Daily Brief at Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose name is redacted.

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The declassified meeting record, obtained by Fox News Digital, revealed that principals "agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections, if such activity meets the requirements" from an executive order that demanded the blocking of property belonging to people engaged in cyber activities.

After the meeting, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Clapper’s executive assistant emailed intelligence community leaders tasking them to create a new intelligence community assessment "per the president’s request," that detailed the "tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election."

"ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS," the record states.

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Later, Obama officials "leaked false statements to media outlets" claiming that "Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election."

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The official also said that the ICA had assessed that "Russia was responsible for leaking data from the DNC and DCCC," but while "failing to mention that FBI and NSA previously expressed low confidence in this attribution."

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence officials told Fox News Digital Friday that they have been investigating the matter for months.

Officials told Fox News Digital that the new assessment "was based on information that was known by those involved to be manufactured i.e. the Steele Dossier or deemed as not credible."

Officials said that the intelligence was "politicized" and then "used as the basis for countless smears seeking to delegitimize President Trump’s victory, the years-long Mueller investigation, two Congressional impeachments, high level officials being investigated, arrested, and thrown in jail, heightened US-Russia tensions, and more."

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who earlier this month feuded online with President Donald Trump after stepping down as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has been flooding his social media feed with criticism of Trump and his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Using his X platform, Musk has been on a posting spree since Wednesday, posting or reposting criticisms of Trump's handling of the Epstein files more than 35 times.

He's even used his AI chatbot Grok -- which just clinched a $200 million deal with the Trump administration -- to address the issue.

The administration angered many of Trump's supporters when it announced last week that it would not release any additional files on Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail by suicide in 2019, after earlier promising to do so.

Musk's avalanche of attacks comes just weeks after he posted -- but later deleted -- a claim that Trump's name appeared in the Epstein files, and that that was why more documents weren't being released.

At the time he said the post "went too far." Now, however, he's returned to attacking the president.

The Texas attorney general has sued an adult swimming program after two transgender women were allowed to compete at a meet this spring in San Antonio, with one placing first in several events.

The suit alleged that U.S. Masters Swimming undermined the trust of consumers through “false, deceptive, and misleading practices” because it said the other swimmers faced what it described as an unfair disadvantage in the Spring Nationals competition in April.

U.S. Masters Swimming said in a statement that it has been cooperating fully with Attorney General Ken Paxton’s investigation, which comes as a nationwide battle over the participation of transgender athletes has played out at both the state and federal levels.

“It is deeply disappointing to see our organization and individual members publicly targeted in a lawsuit that appears to be more about generating headlines than seeking justice,” the statement said.

One year after coming millimeters from a very different outcome, Trump, according to friends and aides, is still the same Trump. But they see signs, beyond being on higher alert on stage, that his brush with death did change him in some ways: He is more attentive and more grateful, they say, and speaks openly about how he believes he was saved by God to save the country and serve a second term, making him even more dug in on achieving his far-reaching agenda.

“I think it’s always in the back of his mind,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime friend and ally who was in close touch with Trump after the shooting and joined him that night in New Jersey after he was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital. “He’s still a rough and tumble guy, you know. He hasn’t become a Zen Buddhist. But I think he is, I’ll say this, more appreciative. He’s more attentive to his friends,” he said, pointing to Trump sending him a message on his birthday earlier this week.

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While many who survive traumatic events try to block them from memory, Trump has instead surrounded himself with memorabilia commemorating one of the darkest episodes in modern political history. He’s decorated the White House and his golf clubs with art pieces depicting the moment after the shooting when he stood up, thrust his fist dramatically in the air and chanted, “Fight, fight, fight!”

A painting of the scene now hangs prominently in the foyer of the White House State Floor near the staircase to the president’s residence. Earlier this year, he began displaying a bronze sculpture of the tableau in the Oval Office on a side table next to the Resolute Desk.

And while he said in his speech at the Republican convention that he would only talk about what had happened once, he often shares the story of how he turned his head at just the right moment to show off his “all-time favorite chart in history” of southern border crossings that he credits for saving his life.

Sweden’s new Minister for Education and Integration, Simona Mohamsson, says it’s time to stop relying on gut feelings and start using facts when it comes to integration.

The new Liberals leader called for plans to map immigrants’ values, to find out where many sit on cultural issues that may not align with those held by native Swedes.

“It is not a human right to live in Sweden,” she said in a recent interview with Dagens Nyheter.

The government has asked the World Values Survey (WVS), a global research group, to study how immigrants’ views compare with those of people born in Sweden. Mohamsson says it’s about time Sweden looked at hard data instead of assumptions.

“For too long, integration has been based on gut feeling and guesswork,” she said. “With real facts, we can finally talk clearly about Swedish values and take proper action on integration.”

Mohamsson pointed out that Sweden is very different from many countries when it comes to things like religion, gender equality, and family roles. “We’re an extreme country in a good way,” she said. “People coming here can find it hard to understand how our society works.”

Mohamsson said the results could lead to changes in schools, civic classes, or language courses for migrants.

Past surveys have shown that many migrants arrive in Sweden with very different views on topics like divorce, premarital sex, abortion, and homosexuality. Over time, those views tend to shift — after about 10 years, migrants’ values start to resemble those of Swedes. But Mohamsson says that’s too slow.

President Donald Trump offered glowing praise for Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief forthcoming exposé on weaponization of the legal system, Breaking the Law. The two-time New York Times bestselling author of the Breaking series is set to release the findings of a year-long investigation into what he describes as the lawfare “superstructure” that has targeted Donald Trump and overtaken American politics.

President Trump endorsed Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump, hailing it as “a must read.” With his endorsement, the president also offered a grave warning:

“This book is a must read. It shows how corrupt our judicial system is in our country,” President Trump told Marlow during a meeting in the Oval Office. “Cases are rigged left and right. Judge shopping is rampant at levels never seen before. You know the outcome of a case as soon as the judge is picked. And the radical left is using this, their final weapon, to take down America.”

Marlow expressed gratitude to President Trump for the endorsement in a statement to Breitbart News: “Donald Trump has been the #1 target for the left’s lawfare apparatus. No one knows the subject better than he does. He is the ultimate authority on it. So, it means a great deal to me to have his support.” Marlow also emphasized the accuracy of Trump’s assessment that the left’s weaponization of the legal system is absolutely designed to “take down America.”

“This book names names and casts a glaring spotlight on the lawfare operatives who hoped to remain hidden,” Marlow told Breitbart News.

Trump “doesn’t want it to turn into Libya,” said one insider familiar with the administration’s deliberations on potentially joining Israel’s airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired two officials at the National Intelligence Council, officials confirmed to Breitbart News, as part of the Trump administration’s goal to “end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community,” according to a spokesperson.

Gabbard fired Michael Collins, the acting chair of the council, and Maria Langan-Riekhof, who served as Collins’ deputy.

“The Director is working alongside President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the Intelligence Community,” a spokesperson for Gabbard’s office said in a statement to the Washington Post.

The move came as the National Intelligence Council had recently published a report suggesting that the communist Maduro regime in Venezuela plays no role in Tren de Aragua gang members illegally immigrating to the United States.

As the New York Times noted, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials partially dissented from the National Intelligence Council’s findings, indicating that they believe there are links between Tren de Aragua gang members illegally immigrating to the U.S. and the Maduro regime.

“The memo also shed additional light on the F.B.I.’s partial dissent,” the Times reported:

It said that while F.B.I. analysts agreed with the other agencies’ overall assessment, they also thought that ‘some Venezuelan government officials facilitate TDA members’ migration from Venezuela to the United States and use members as proxies in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the United States to advance what they see as the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing governments and undermining public safety in these countries.’ [Emphasis added]

The F.B.I. based its view on ‘people detained for involvement in criminal activity in the United States or for entering the country illegally.’ But ‘most’ of the intelligence community ‘judges that intelligence indicating that regime leaders are directing or enabling TDA migration to the United States is not credible,’ the memo said. [Emphasis added]