Obama PACKS an arena. Trump gets a gym.

Barack Obama rallied with Sen. Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday night at the Arena at Southlake outside Atlanta, which holds 8,000 people. Footage showed it packed to capacity.

He had some thoughts on how the president spends his days. Trump “is spending time super gluing gold medallions to the mantle in the Oval Office,” Obama said.

“He is literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war.”

Trump “wasn’t even mad” about last week’s Saddam Hussein comparison, Obama said. “But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory.”

Trump’s own financial disclosures show he bought between $35,007 and $175,000 worth of Cheesecake Factory stock in 2025.

“I am old enough to remember when a president wearing a tan suit was a major national controversy,” Obama said. “And I know I look good in that suit. It was tight.”

Ossoff said the administration “lied us into war” and “spent most of the last year covering up for the world’s most famous pedophile.”

The same night, Trump rallied for Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy at the Shoemaker Center, a gym on Ohio University’s Chillicothe campus with bleacher seating for about 2,400.

“I’ve covered dozens if not hundreds of Trump rallies, and I can’t recall him ever holding one in a room as small as this arena in Chillicothe, Ohio,” NBC’s Garrett Haake posted.

Trump still told the crowd that “every rally” was “totally sold out.”

Then he spotted two supporters from Blacks for Trump. “How come there’s only two tonight? What’s going on?” he asked.

Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost Brazil’s presidential election to Lula on Sunday, landed in Miami on Wednesday after the State Department granted him and his family U.S. visas.

Brazil’s Supreme Court had ordered his passport seized on Monday. He’s under criminal investigation over a money-laundering scheme.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino has ordered federal police to investigate the Rockbridge Network, a conservative donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance.

Police will look at any contacts between Rockbridge and Brazilian political operatives or companies. In Brazil, it’s illegal for candidates to accept help from overseas.

Dino wants to know whether there was “effective furnishment of resources—including human resources—services, or other measurable economic advantages” in the campaign.

Rockbridge denies any contact with Brazilian officials and says some Brazilians “made false representations about their relationship with Rockbridge.” Vance’s office declined to comment to the Post.

On Monday, Trump said Brazil’s vote “looked like another rigged election, frankly.” Brazil’s courts would now like a word with his vice president’s donors.

Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers with César Chávez, died Wednesday at home, her family said. She was 96.

She coined the rallying cry “Sí, se puede!” Yes, it can be done.

She started out as a teacher. “I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS documentary.

“I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”

She was jailed 22 times for union protests. In 1988, a police baton at a protest against George H.W. Bush broke three of her ribs and pulverized her spleen.

She was on stage with Robert F. Kennedy after he won the 1968 California primary, and he thanked her before he was shot. In 2012, Barack Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“I hope that my legacy will be one of an organizer that organized to fight injustice,” she said in a 2025 documentary.

It is. Rest easy, Dolores.

A new Siena poll released Wednesday found 69% of New York City voters view Mayor Zohran Mamdani favorably, up from 60% last month. Just 28% view him unfavorably.

Statewide, he’s at 47% favorable and 43% unfavorable. Trump is at 61% unfavorable.

His endorsement is helping, too. Forty-five percent of likely voters said Mamdani’s backing is a plus for Gov. Kathy Hochul. Only 30% called it a negative.

Trump’s endorsement of Republican Bruce Blakeman went the other way, with 48% calling it a negative and 28% a positive.

Hochul now leads Blakeman 54% to 40%. Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said Blakeman is “quickly running out of time to close a gap that is growing rather than narrowing.”

Also this week, the NYPD suspended plans for a no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte after progressive lawmakers objected.

The mayor Republicans spent a year running against is now a selling point.

Prosecutors in Hennepin County, Minnesota, charged right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe and influencer Cam Higby on Wednesday with felony unlawful voting and identity theft.

During Minnesota’s Aug. 11 primary, the two went to Minneapolis polling places in costumes and gave poll workers the names of registered voters, without those voters’ knowledge, to start the state’s “vouching” process.

County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the names they used included some residents who were dead.

“James O’Keefe and I are going to go around the city to different polling stations,” Higby said in the video they posted to YouTube.

Poll workers got suspicious and reported them. The system “functioned well during the primary,” Moriarty said.

O’Keefe’s group says they never cast ballots. Moriarty said that isn’t the question.

“It is not against the law to be performative. It is not against the law to be offensive,” she said.

In the November 2024 election, fewer than 0.6% of Minnesota votes went through the vouching process they set out to expose.

Their first court appearance is Nov. 16. They went looking for voter fraud on camera, and prosecutors say they found it.

Fox News is on track for its lowest-rated month since December 2023, according to Nielsen numbers obtained by Oliver Darcy’s media newsletter Status.

Total viewers are down 27% from last October. Among viewers 25 to 54, the group advertisers pay for, it’s down 32%.

MS NOW is up 16% over the same stretch. CNN is up 3%.

Darcy noted that “Trump’s favorite morning show, ‘Fox & Friends,’ is also struggling.” Status also reported that “the network conspicuously started declining to air Trump’s rallies live.”

After Chillicothe, we can’t blame them.

A hacker group calling itself the Department of Peace says it broke into DHS’s single sign-on system and pulled personnel records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors. The leak group Distributed Denial of Secrets posted it online Wednesday in a searchable database it calls Icepick.

The records include names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses and office locations. WIRED found groups tied to undercover operations, wiretap programs, Palantir software and Grok.

More than 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection. Another 10,000 cover ICE and its Homeland Security Investigations unit.

The hackers made clear who they were answering. “On July 17th, Markwayne Mullin said he was ‘turning up the heat.’ This is what happens to ICE when you do that,” a spokesperson said.

DHS told NPR it is “aware of a potential breach” and working to “ensure all are properly protected.”

DDoSecrets left its own note with the files.

“They have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs.”