The print lede of the NY Post’s story about Mamdani and Trump posing with a mock-up cover of the NY Daily News: Mayor Mamdani snuck off to Washington, DC, Thursday to pitch President Trump on a housing project - and brought along a photoshopped version of a failing and irrelevant New York City newspaper in an attempt to flatter him.
Cry more, New York Post.
As Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s family, we commend the British authorities for taking meaningful action and treating the Epstein files with the urgency they demand. While these arrests aren’t for the underlying exploitation, they are a crucial step toward truth and accountability. The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated. Sky and Amanda Roberts
Virginia Giuffre's family on the arrest of ex-U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson:
"The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated."
Full statement
In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time.
Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too.
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NEW: Detainees at a Manhattan ICE jail could turn toothbrushes into “improvised” weapons, US Attorney Jay Clayton warns.
He did not give an example of a migrant using a toothbrush as a weapon.
Lawyers say they’ll be used to clean teeth.
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Despite Pam Bondi’s announcement that the feds would seek to kill Luigi Mangione, there was no movement on the docket today.
But more than $20k in donations rolled in to his legal defense fund.
“Keep your head high my little bambino!!!!” one donor wrote.
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Columbia protest leader Mahmoud Khalil has been locked up, away from his pregnant wife, for more than two weeks.
Did a judge listen to arguments today on whether to release him on bail?
He did not.
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Letters from Mahmoud Khalil’s Jewish peers are pouring onto the court docket:
“I can state with full confidence that Mahmoud has never expressed support for Hamas.”
“Mahmoud has protected Jewish students at Columbia like myself more than the university ever has.”
NEW: Congestion pricing has turned some of its staunchest critics into supporters.
“I’ve definitely changed my mind,” one commuter told me, whose daily bus trip has gone from more than an hour down to 25 minutes.
Diddy defense PR messaging screenprinted on hoodie: "The media and social media has this case all wrong...There are no celeb sex tapes. No minors. No celeb freak off tapes in this criminal case."
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The scene outside of the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Friday for Luigi Mangione's first NYC court appearance since his December 2024 arraignment.
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams and Trump's Justice Department have insisted that Adams' corruption case is over and done with.
It's not.
Judge Dale Ho has appointed an independent lawyer to weigh in before he rules on the government's unprecedented request:
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I second this motion!!
NEW: The son of a British banker was arrested for violently assaulting Sienna Hubert-Ross, a comic known for Kamala Harris impressions.
Months later, charges were quietly dropped.
“This is a travesty of justice,” Sienna told me.
We take a closer look:
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important story about a monstrous character
NEW: Manhattan federal prosecutors have ditched a criminal probe into WWE boss Vince McMahon — months after a judge quietly found that there was “probable cause” that he covered up payoffs to women at his company, his atty says.
We take a closer look:
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The Justice Department says it’s shutting down an FBI task force targeting foreign influence because it has more “pressing priorities”.
Russia, Russia, Russia
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"It has become ever more apparent that to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals," Reagan-appointed Judge Coughenour said as he blocked Trump's birthright citixenship order. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Andrew Taake pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump pardoned him.
Now he’s been rearrested on charges of sending sexually explicit texts to a minor.
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Doing so would be inconsistent with what she writes here about defending the work of her line prosecutors.
Stay tuned
Interim SDNY boss Danielle Sassoon blasts Biden for making pardons on his way out of office “without consulting the career prosecutors who handled the cases.”
Sassoon is overseeing the case of Eric Adams — whose camp is angling for a Trump pardon
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Thanks Renee
Trump has lawyered up to fight his felony conviction in his Manhattan hush money case — remember that one?
His new attorneys for his appeal are from a very prominent law firm but you won’t see me calling any lawyers “elite” 😉
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He’s due to report on June 6 — 10 weeks after his wife’s trial is set to start — and the feds’ reply to the bail pending appeal request is due Feb 19.
No word on that yet.
In court, Bob Menendez said he was a “chastened” man.
Outside, he called the case a political “witch hunt” — even though he’s Democrat and the case was brought by a Democrat.
I asked him about this.
He slunk away without answering.
Cc @damian-williams.bsky.social
