Breaking news from 2025: The New York City Council gives its Hero of the Year award to Hamza bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden. In making the award, the council declares that the bin Laden family has suffered enough since the “unfortunate events” of 9/11 and credits Hamza, who took over al Qaeda, for being an “inclusive fighter for Muslim rights.”

Time does not heal all fools and when it comes to stupidity, the future looks a lot like the present. No, the City Council will never learn.

In case you haven’t heard, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is the prime suspect in the decision by the board of the Puerto Rican Day Parade to honor a convicted terrorist, Oscar López Rivera, as a National Freedom Hero.

Her “hero” was found guilty of trying to overthrow the government of the United States with FALN, a terrorist organization that carried out 120 bombings in New York, Chicago and elsewhere.

Its 1975 bombing at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killed four people.

López Rivera defended violence as necessary to free Puerto Rico from American colonialism so it could become a socialist country.

None of that makes him an American hero — except to Mark-Viverito, a radical Puerto Rican with a long affinity for homicidal maniacs. She was photographed three years ago wearing a communist beret and standing next to a woman wearing a Che Guevara ­T-shirt. Later, she shared a computerized image of herself in Che Guevara likeness.

So her campaign for López Rivera’s release from federal prison was no aberration. After President Barack Obama commuted his sentence, Mark-Viverito flew to Puerto Rico to escort him to a public rally.

On the other hand, Mark-Viverito only joined in the council’s recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag about the time she became speaker.

Like López Rivera, she wants independence for Puerto Rico. Alas, the vast majority of Puerto Ricans don’t, with proposals to that end getting only a sliver of the island’s votes. Violence was the FALN response.

It’s also worth noting that Puerto Rico’s current governor, Ricardo Rossello, slammed the decision to honor López Rivera, calling it “beyond comprehension.” He told The Post, “I firmly reject this being associated with the people of Puerto Rico.”

For her part, Mark-Viverito musters only the tired argument that “ultra-right-wing forces” in Puerto Rico are stirring up opposition. This from the same pol who equated President Trump’s immigration policies with “ethnic cleansing.”

Her history and this incident show how far from the mainstream Mark-Viverito is, but what’s remarkable is that her terror-coddling hasn’t stopped her rise in the Democratic Party. Mayor Bill de Blasio supported her for speaker, as did other borough leaders and her colleagues, and the mayor is planning to join her in the parade on June 11, marching beside or behind López Rivera.

Of course, de Blasio himself is a card-carrying lefty from way back, having sneaked into Cuba for his honeymoon and waxed nostalgic for the good old days of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua — who also killed and tortured their way to power.

Yet with the exception of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., no other top Democrat in the city or state will march this year because of López Rivera. Good for the boycotters, but it would be even better if they spoke forcefully about why.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for example, waited for police organizations and major sponsors to pull out before he made the choice not to march — without explaining why. Only on Memorial Day did he give a reason to a reporter, saying, “This has been an injection of politics into the parade that I think, frankly, was unfortunate.”

Sorry, but terrorism is not “politics.” It is terrorism and sweeping it under the rug with euphemisms isn’t leadership.

Nor did Cuomo criticize de Blasio and others for marching, saying, “Everybody has to make their own decision.”

Now imagine a pro-Trump rally. Would Cuomo stand silent about Dems who marched to support the president of the United States who is from another party? Or would he denounce them?

On the national stage, Democrats have been accused of losing touch with working-class Americans. They have been accused of pursuing boutique causes, of slavish adherence to group-identity politics and of courting elitists at the expense of middle-class values.

Guilty as charged, and the López Rivera case is a perfect homegrown example. It’s the same phenomenon of ignoring the concerns of working families, only this time the boutique cause is a convicted terrorist.

Cuomo clearly has national ambitions, and the Democratic Party is looking for leaders to save it from oblivion. This would seem, then, the perfect time for the governor to mount his bully pulpit and demand that the mayor join the boycotters unless the parade rescinds its award to López Rivera.

Or have Democrats become so addicted to ethnic pandering that even denouncing terrorism is forbidden?

Trump’s US-First teutorial

Angela Merkel’s attacks on President Trump make her an instant favorite in anti-Trump precincts, but making the case for the German chancellor on the merits isn’t so easy.

Would, for example, the NeverTrumpers dare say that Merkel is right to refuse to pay the required 2 percent of its GDP for its own defense and NATO?

Would they dare say that Trump is wrong when he argues that the US trade deficit with Germany, $67.8 billion at last counting, is bad for US workers?

And do they really want the president to cede America’s big decisions, such as on the climate pact and the Iran deal, to foreign governments and the United Nations?

Germany’s pique over Trump happens to coincide with Merkel’s bid for re-election. She’s running largely as a status quo candidate, with the European Union and NATO helping Germany, while much of the burdens are borne by others. America is one of the others.

The Brexit vote was a consequence of Merkel’s European leadership. The millions of unvetted Mideast refugees and migrants she let into Europe is another part of her legacy.

Trump was elected to represent the United States, especially its workers, and not the blob of “international partners” so beloved by the former president and elitists everywhere.

If delivering on his promises to Americans upsets Germany and other Eurocrats, so be it. This is what change looks like.

Subway slashers’ crazy free ride

Anna Martinez, the “stroller mom” on the subway who was slashed in the face by a homeless woman, offered common-sense wisdom when she learned her attacker had been arrested more than 60 times for drugs and prostitution.

Said Martinez: “For her to be arrested [60] times and still be walking around free — the city has stuff screwed up.”

Amen.

It’s a bloody outrage

Headline: “Kathy Griffin Holds Bloodied Trump Mask In Photo Shoot.”

Coming soon: CNN announces it is giving Griffin a raise.