- Ahmad Austin Jr. @ Mediaite: Top NYC Official and Mayoral Candidate Arrested at Immigration Court Protest
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested at an immigration court on Tuesday for trying to prevent ICE agents from detaining migrants.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: In the wake of the shootings in Minnesota, Trump refuses to call Gov. Tim Walz
The governor called for “leading with grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency.” That proved too difficult for the president.
- Stephanie McCrummen @ The Atlantic: The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World
Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.
- Angry White Men: Laura Loomer: Electing Zohran Mamdani Will Cause ‘Another 9/11 Terror Attack’
On Friday, a day before early voting began in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor, white nationalist and Trump ally Laura Loomer smeared one of its candidates, Zohran Mamdani, as a “communist and jihadist.” And she claimed that if Mamdani were to win, the United States will be “in store for another 9/11 terror attack.”
- Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck @ CNN: Pirro endorsed threat to criminally investigate January 6 prosecutors in office she now runs
Jeanine Pirro, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, has a far lengthier public history of controversial comments than her predecessor, Ed Martin, whose nomination failed last month in part over his own past criticism of January 6 prosecutors, Capitol Police officers and federal judges. Pirro has echoed many of those same sentiments, even endorsing possible criminal investigations of prosecutors in the very office she now runs.
