When the felon vote is crucial, it’s got to be a Democrat primary.

Showing he knows where the real power rests in his party, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week opened the door to tens of thousands of ex-cons on parole in the Empire State to vote despite a state law that forbids it.

And he did it in pure Obama-Democrat style.

According to the Democrat & Chronicle of Rochester, Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday that would grant conditional pardons to felons who’ve been released from prison but still are under court supervision through the parole system. New York law doesn’t allow felons to vote until their parole has been served, but Cuomo’s pardon would get criminals around that.

Naturally, Cuomo made the announcement at the annual convention of the “Rev.” Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, a radical-left group that this year, according to New York’s Amsterdam News, attracted liberal luminaries like former Attorney General Eric Holder, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and California Sen. Kamala Harris.

“In this state, when you’re released from prison and you’re on parole, you still don’t have the right to vote,” Cuomo told Sharpton’s following (which probably has more first-hand experience with felony conviction law than most political gatherings).

“Now how can that be? You did your time. You paid your debt. You’re released, but you still don’t have a right to vote.”

It might sound odd that a man who’s been governor for four years doesn’t seem to have already realized what the state’s laws said about voting until now, but it’s a good bet it’s got a lot to do with the “battle of the lefties” primary challenge he’s facing from former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon.

Being an Obama-style Democrat, Cuomo made the move after New York’s state Senate blocked a similar bill, according to Fox News.

New York state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox called Cuomo’s order a “power grab,” according to The New York Times.

New York’s Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, was disgusted.

“This will give rapists and murderers voting privileges that they shouldn’t have and they don’t deserve,” Flanagan said, according to the Democrat & Chronicle.

Mike Long, chairman of the state’s Conservative Party called out Cuomo for running roughshod over the law just to win an election.

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“I think what he is doing is unconstitutional, number one,” Long said. “Number two, I think he’s pandering to the extreme left-wing elements of our nation.”

Notice that Long didn’t say “left-wing elements of our state.” This story is bigger than that. Cuomo is widely thought to have national ambitions and is a potential contender for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020.

But first, Cuomo needs to win another term in office, and to do that, he needs to first beat a former TV actress in his party’s June 26 primary. And to do that, he needs to pander to convicted criminals with an Obama-style executive order that makes legitimate lawmakers disgusted.

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Social media has greatly advanced our ability to freely exchange ideas … but what happens when it turns ugly?

Simply having an “unapproved” opinion is now enough for people to be silenced, at least if a troubling claim by conservative pundit Mark Dice is accurate.

Last week, the author, filmmaker and commentator stated a view that millions of Americans likely agree with, but found himself in a chilling situation that can only be compared to George Orwell’s “1984.”

“Right-wing commentator Mark Dice, famous for YouTube video interviews with random passers-by in public spaces, says that his Twitter account was suspended Thursday of last week after he implied that transgenderism is a mental illness,” explained Lifesite News.

The incident began when Dice voiced his opinion that Facebook letting users choose literally any description they wanted as their “gender” was a bit over the top.

58 different genders wasn’t “inclusive” enough for Facebook, so now instead of picking from a list of options, that section is a ‘fill in the blank.’ The company is embracing mental illness on a massive scale. #Zuckerberg

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) April 10, 2018

“58 different genders wasn’t ‘inclusive’ enough for Facebook, so now instead of picking from a list of options, that section is a ‘fill in the blank.’  The company is embracing mental illness on a massive scale. #Zuckerberg,” Mark Dice posted.

It was a simple and not particularly outlandish opinion: People cannot invent new genders out of thin air. Whether or not you agree with Dice on gender identity is beside the point, however. What happened next should raise serious questions about free speech and platforms like Twitter.

An angry user responded to Dice, and demanded to know if he thought “fill in the blank” gender identity was a mental illness.

“All of them but two, yes,” Mark Dice replied.

That simple answer was apparently enough to put his Twitter on lockdown. “Soon after the exchange, Dice’s response disappeared from his Twitter feed, and Dice announced via Facebook that Twitter had suspended his account until he agreed to delete the tweet,” reported Lifesite.

The pundit included a screenshot of his Twitter account, which showed the social media platform literally demanding that he delete his last tweet if he wanted to continue using the service.

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“This is the tweet Twitter is trying to force me to delete, for ‘violating’ their terms of service,” wrote Dice. “They locked me out of my account until I ‘agree’ that what I said was wrong!”

Remember, Mark Dice didn’t personally attack anyone. He didn’t hurl curse words. He didn’t threaten violence. What he did was answer another person’s question about unlimited genders, based on his own views on the issue.

Actually, it turns out that Dice is not the only one who sees some gender identity claims as a mental disorder. The American Psychiatric Association recognizes Gender Dysphoria — previously called Gender Identity Disorder — as a psychiatric condition.

“Gender dysphoria diagnosis involves … a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and primary and/or secondary sex characteristics,” states the APA’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.“

If somebody identified as a gender so obscure that they had to write it in on a profile by hand, it’s a reasonable conclusion that they might have gender identity disorder or “gender dysphoria.” Even if you disagree with this conclusion, the point is that Mark Dice was stating his opinion on the matter.

Keep in mind that liberal commentators constantly imply or openly state that President Trump is mentally unstable. That opinion is allowed without question, but if you happen to think that 58 genders are a bit much, it’s into Twitter jail for you.

After sharing a screenshot of the Orwellian demand that he delete his tweet and essentially change his views or be banned, Dice pointed out the absurdity of the situation.

“My reply was to a question someone tweeted to me asking if the countless gender expressions were a mental illness. It’s time Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets grilled by Congress about the censorship of Conservatives. Unbelievable,” he ranted.

“Peanut butter isn’t a gender, you lunatics! Neither are the dozens of others that Cultural Marxists have concocted, and that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube embrace. The Left needs to stop this mass-mental illness,” the pundit declared.

There is some speech that doesn’t belong online. Open threats of violence, pornography, and gore are all examples of content that platforms like Twitter might understandably ban. Stating a fairly common opinion, however, shouldn’t be on that blacklist.

There comes a point when trying to police the internet becomes an excuse to censor speech. Like a 17th Century witch-hunt, forcing people to recant their diverse views or burn at the proverbial stake is getting out of hand.

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Glenn Beck is reportedly downsizing his assets as his media empire dwindles, posting his private jet for sale for an undisclosed amount on a site that sells used aircraft.

The Daily Beast reported that Beck listed his 1966 DC9-15 aircraft–which he purchased for $1 million in 2015–for sale on Controller, a online retailer for used aircraft.

The jet’s registration number listed on the website, N8860, is the same Federal Aviation Administration registration number given to a jet belonging to Mercury Radio Arts—Beck’s radio production company.

The 12-passenger luxury jet includes a convection oven, bar with marble countertops, and a fold-out table in the dining area.

Mercury Radio Arts purchased the jet in 2015 for $1 million from right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Even though Beck’s conservative media empire struggled financially, he held onto the jet.

In April 2016, not too long after Beck purchased the jet, he laid off 40 staffers from his news site the Blaze to “satisfy the requirements of a multi-million-dollar bank loan” Beck took out to keep his struggling media enterprise afloat.

A report from October 2016 noted that the Blaze’s editorial department dropped from 25 employees to six employees during the height of election season.

The woes for the Blaze continued when Beck laid off 30 percent of the Blaze’s staff in September 2017—although he managed to keep his personal chef on the payroll.

Beck’s once-successful media enterprise has had issues over the past few years due to declining ad revenue, a sharp drop in web traffic and subscribers, less reach for the television network as cable distributors dropped the subscription-only channel from their lineups, and management troubles.

Part of the reason for the slump in business for the outlet was due to Beck’s failure to embrace President Trump in the primaries and the general election. He emerged as one of the leading voices in the “Never Trump” movement, putting him at odds with much of his conservative audience.