Trump's jaw-dropping election-rigging win

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A federal judge — a Trump appointee — declined to block the president's executive order limiting mail-in voting and creating a national voter eligibility list. Democrats had argued the order was flatly unconstitutional. California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded by signing legislation to shield the state's elections from federal interference, but the ruling makes clear that Trump is winning the slow-motion war over who gets to vote in the 2026 midterms he's rightfully panicking about.

Senior White House officials reportedly told Pentagon staff they "have to get this done" — pushing through a $620 million federal loan tied to an investment firm connected to Don Jr. Combined with Trump buying between $1 million and $5 million in Dell stock before the Pentagon handed Dell a $9.7 billion contract, a clear pattern of pay-to-play corruption is crystallizing in real time. Congress has said nothing.

And? Samuel Alito's son has been quietly working inside the Trump administration while his father refuses to recuse himself from related cases before the Supreme Court. The report says the younger Alito has been "sheepish" about his family connections. He should be. This is a direct conflict of interest at the highest level of the judiciary — and the kind of story that should end careers

CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported a jaw-dropping 40-plus point decline in Trump's approval among his own voters in just a few months, driven by economic pain — Americans are saving less than half of what they were before, and white non-college voters — the bedrock of MAGA — are turning. Trump reportedly blurted out an unscripted admission about his party's midterm trouble during a public appearance.

Republicans in Congress are visibly rattled, with the GOP's recent legislative stumbles — including a failed immigration funding bill — raising alarms about whether they can pass anything at all before November.

This is the authoritarian escalation that deserves more outrage than it's getting. The Justice Department is actively trying to unmask Reddit and Twitter users who posted criticism of ICE. Separately, a federal jury convicted an army veteran and two other protesters on conspiracy charges for a June 2025 ICE demonstration. The DOJ also sued four states for refusing to give ICE agents undercover license plates. The government is now treating dissent itself as a crime. This story will rage through the weekend.

Mayor Mamdani is reclaiming efficiency from the right. But he actually means it.

Mamdani this week launched the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE) — and made sure everyone knew the difference from the federal version.

"Elon Musk took that language and used it to cut as many jobs as possible for the neediest people," he said. "Ours is a sincere commitment to efficiency. Not as a byword for cutting services."

COGE’s mandate? Tear down bureaucratic barriers that slow housing and infrastructure, give city agencies the tools they actually need to deliver, and modernize how the city manages its budget. The goal isn't cuts — it's a government that works.

It's the latest move in what's shaping up to be a genuinely consequential early tenure. Last week, Mamdani dropped the most ambitious housing plan in modern city history — 400,000 affordable units backed by $22 billion in capital investment. He's already taken initial steps on universal childcare. And 56% of New Yorkers now say the city is moving in the right direction, up from just 31% before he took office.

He ran on big ideas. He's actually doing them.