Mamdani SUES Trump over this

In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court ruled that the government was "unlikely to succeed on the merits" of Trump's executive order mandating new mail voting restrictions, allowing states to continue using the same processes they've used for years.

Even Brett Kavanaugh — not exactly a defender of voting rights — concurred, writing that election officials simply don't have time to implement the rules before voting is already underway.

The court's two most right-wing members dissented — on what should have been a unanimous decision.

Mayor Mamdani announced yesterday that New York City, joined by several other major cities, is suing the Trump administration over a new rule that would make it easier to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who have used public benefits.

The "public charge" rule is a direct attack on immigrant families who use programs like Medicaid or food assistance — penalizing people for being poor while trying to become citizens.

The rule is designed to stoke fear — discouraging migrant families from seeing a doctor or getting help they are legally entitle do, out of concern that doing so could jeopardize their legal status.

"Our immigrant communities are not a burden," Mamdani said. "They are the people who make New York City and this country great."

Mamdani sent a direct message to Trump in his press conference: “to get to any of us, you have to get through all of us.”

Mitch McConnell, 84, was wheeled out of his Washington home Monday and transported to the Capitol, where he spoke briefly to reporters and cast his first vote after a 92-day absence following a June hospitalization.

His office had released only two photographs during the entire disappearance.

McConnell disclosed he had been briefly unconscious and dealt with a mild case of pneumonia. His wife, Elaine Chao, was absent — as she has been throughout the entire episode, including when he was first hospitalized.

Conservative broadcaster Scott Jennings took a victory lap after his claims he had multiple phone conversations with McConnell.

He may be alive, but it looks like no one is home.

ProPublica reported that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch in Vladimir Putin's inner circle, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump Jr.'s destination wedding in the Bahamas.

Kremlev — president of the International Boxing Association, which is financed by Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy company — rented a private island for the reception at $100,000 per night, paid an estimated $70,000 for fireworks, and helped plan the event.

The payments were routed through a Dubai entity used by the IBA. Only around 50 people attended the reception. Donald Trump was not among them. The president of the United States skipped his son's oligarch-sponsored wedding, and that is somehow the least alarming detail in this story.34e4e

Trump-installed leaders of the Kennedy Center told the Washington Post that the institution is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close as early as today.

Their proposed solution: put Trump's name on the facade.

The center's crisis stems directly from Trump's earlier tantrum — he was blocked from renaming the building and shutting it for renovations, and his MAGA appointees have been running it into the ground ever since. Trump's niece weighed in, saying she knows exactly what's driving the fit.

A president manufacturing a fiscal crisis at a national arts institution so he can extort his own name onto it. It’s as ridiculous as it sounds.