Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants to protect illegal immigrants using taxpayer-funded Medicaid, so she’s suing President Donald Trump for exposing them. Nessel joined a coalition of blue states in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to provide Medicaid data to the Department of Homeland Security tasked with immigration enforcement.
“Dana Nessel is suing to KEEP illegal immigrants on Medicaid,” Sen. Aric Nesbitt, a Lawton Republican running for governor, posted to X. “Looks like she wants to continue her losing streak.” In June, DHHS sent information on non-citizens enrolled in Medicaid in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C. to “to ensure that Medicaid benefits are reserved for individuals who are lawfully entitled to receive them,” department spokesman Andrew Nixon told The Associated Press. Data from the House Energy and Commerce Committee on “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Medicaid shows there’s 1.4 million illegal immigrants enrolled, 1.2 million recipients who are ineligible, and 4.8 million able bodied adults choosing not to work.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is under fire following accusations that he misled Congress about the extent and extravagance of a controversial $2.5 billion renovation of the Fed’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Critics, including lawmakers and former Federal Reserve insiders, are now demanding accountability after Powell’s sworn testimony appeared to contradict government planning documents.
During a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, Powell was grilled over The Post’s April exposé, which revealed a bloated renovation project some have compared to the “Palace of Versailles.” Under intense questioning, Powell rejected the portrayal as “misleading and inaccurate.” “There’s no VIP dining room, there’s no new marble. There are no special elevators,” Powell testified. “There are no new water features, there’s no beehives, and there’s no roof terrace gardens.”
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump calls for Fed Chair Jerome Powell to resign. I'd love for him to resign… He's done a lousy job. pic.twitter.com/wmsmFJuRBs
However, planning documents submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission in 2021 — and not revised since — appear to directly refute Powell’s claims. One excerpt notes, “The private dining rooms on Level 4 (of the Fed’s Eccles building) will be restored,” while another confirms, “The Governors’ private elevator will be extended to discharge at the dining suite level.” Additional plans specify “vegetated roof terraces” designed to attract “urban wildlife and pollinators,” along with mentions of new marble installations and water features.
Andrew T. Levin, a Dartmouth economics professor who served at the Fed for two decades, didn’t mince words about Powell’s testimony. “A top Fed official cannot be permitted to make false statements under oath at a congressional hearing,” Levin stated. “Such statements must be promptly corrected, and in egregious cases, subject to censure by the Senate.”
Republican lawmakers echoed those sentiments. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, slammed Powell for being “clearly not prepared for his testimony, and should be embarrassed.”
.@BernieMoreno: “One man—Jerome Powell—is costing this country $400 billion a year. Homeowners, businesses, credit card holders, all suffer because he has a personal beef with the president. I’ve advocated for his immediate removal. He’s a partisan. This guy needs to go.” pic.twitter.com/lnhDhel5QJ
“He made a number of factually inaccurate statements to the Committee regarding the Fed’s plush private dining room and elevator, skylights, water features, and roof terrace,” Lummis told The Post. “This is typical of the mismanagement and ‘don’t bother me’ attitude that Chair Powell has always shown.”
The Federal Reserve has declined to comment on the controversy, further fueling criticism over transparency and accountability. Adding to the firestorm is the skyrocketing cost of the Fed’s headquarters overhaul, which has jumped 30% from its original $1.9 billion estimate to a staggering $2.5 billion. Powell appeared to brush off concerns about fiscal discipline during his testimony, stating simply, “The cost overruns are what they are.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), chair of the Senate Banking Committee, criticized the project as “luxury upgrades that feel more like they belong in the Palace of Versailles,” signaling growing impatience among lawmakers over what they perceive as government excess.
The Fed’s renovation splurge is drawing heightened scrutiny due to the institution’s current financial woes.
If you stick around Hollywood long enough, especially as a woman, people will always start to poke fun at your aging. “What happened to her?” people ask, when they see a 75-year-old Ann Wilson (of the band Heart) tottering onstage under extra weight and unkempt gray hair. Well, getting older is what happens, but there’s a limit.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin appears to have found that limit. Twitter is abuzz this week with “fresh” pictures of the controversial performer walking around in full sunlight wearing a T-shirt promoting her show. Hard, direct lighting from the sun is unkind to women of a certain age for sure, but there seems to be more going on.
Griffin appears to have gotten her facelift from an embalmer. Comedian Terrence K. Williams has a happy-go-lucky manner that works well to sell his Cousin T’s line of pancake mix, but even he had a hard time staying nice. “Kathy Griffin-girl!” he said through laughter. “What in the world-wh-what happened to you? Girl, Kathy, did you look in the mirror before you walked outside?
Do take a look. The press oddly frames these grisly photos as due to Griffin being “makeup free,” but if you take a look, she’s got it absolutely caked on. It just doesn’t make any difference.
It’s not clear that a mirror would have helped, given that vampires do not cast reflections. Maybe it was the sunlight-a known undead allergy that did this to her face? Truth be told, Miss Griffin has been looking a fright for a few years. No one can know for sure, but it seems likely that the common plagues of female celebrity—anorexia, plastic surgery, neuroticism—are taking their toll on what’s left of Griffin.
Looking a fright isn’t the only thing, of course, that has put Kathy Griffin the news. The stand-up comic has long been known for bitchy, acid commentary and gossip-related jokes. She’s a bit like a downmarket version of the late legend Joan Rivers. But Griffin’s grotesque photoshoot protest against Donald Trump will be the thing she’s most remembered for. In 2017, a year after Trump took office for the first time, she posed for a photograph holding a realistic dummy of Trump’s decapitated head, dripping with blood. National Public Radio had a “look-back.”
Here’s a sampling of the Twitter/X reaction to Terrence William’s short video on the matter:
Joy Reid suffered a meltdown after President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis toured a newly-constructed immigration detention facility in the Everglades.
The former MSNBC host described the facility as a “concentration camp” for “rounding up brown people.”
This week, Reid accused DeSantis of building a facility to imprison Latinos, claiming that innocent people would be indiscriminately targeted due to their race.
“He took the comfy couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he’s building in Florida in order to round up people—brown people—and throw them in a camp because he doesn’t want them in Florida,” Reid fumed. “Anybody who is perceived or looks Latino is afraid to go to work.”
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by both critics and supporters, the facility was unveiled in a remote, swampy region near the former Dade-Collier Airport. The center can hold up to 5,000 detainees and is already housing roughly 3,000. Immigration judges are stationed on-site to expedite deportation hearings within 48 hours.
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Hilarious. @thereidout Joy Reid says @RonDeSantis just created a “concentration camp” for brown people in the Everglades.
She’s of course referring to Alligator Alcatraz.
Hey Joy, last time I checked, the ovens at Auschwitz didn’t have Air Condition.
President Donald Trump referred to New York City mayoral nominee and State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as a “100% communist lunatic” during an appearance on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo in late June. The comment drew immediate responses from media outlets and fact-checking organizations, several of which labeled the statement as “false.”
Fact-checkers from outlets including PolitiFact and Al Jazeera asserted that Mamdani is a democratic socialist, not a communist, and dismissed Trump’s remarks as inaccurate. However, in the days following Trump’s comments, closer analysis of Mamdani’s affiliations, public statements, and policy positions has led to renewed questions about how distinct his views are from traditional communist doctrine.
“He’s a communist… a pure communist,” President Trump said in the Fox News interview.
“Let’s say this, if he does get in, I’m going to be president, and he’s going to have to do the right thing. They’re not getting any money. He’s got to do the right thing.”
Trump on Mamdani: "He's a pure communist. I think he admits it … If he does get in, I'm gonna be president and he's gonna have to the right thing or they're not getting any money. He's gotta do the right thing." https://t.co/QQbrnNjfPBpic.twitter.com/uwVwXClF5U
Mamdani, who represents New York’s 36th Assembly District in Queens, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an organization that advocates for a range of policies that include universal public housing, socialized healthcare, and eliminating profit motives from key sectors of the economy.
While the DSA does not label itself as a communist group, its platform draws from ideological frameworks with Marxist and Trotskyist roots. According to the DSA’s published materials, the group supports “democratic control over the economy,” “worker ownership,” and the dismantling of structures it considers “profit-driven exploitation.” Mamdani has publicly supported and sponsored legislation that aligns with these goals, including:
– Rent cancellation and eviction bans during states of emergency – Creation of publicly owned grocery stores in underserved communities – Elimination of the 421-a tax incentive for private real estate developers – Expansion of fare-free public transportation – Proposals to transfer housing and public goods to state control
In public statements and posts on social media, Mamdani has frequently referred to landlords as “exploitative,” called for the end of private profit in housing, and described capitalism as “structurally violent.”
A resurfaced video clip from 2021 shows Mamdani stating that “the end goal is to seize the means of production,” a phrase historically associated with communist economic theory. Critics argue that these positions, along with Mamdani’s alignment with the DSA, reflect an ideological framework that closely resembles communism, regardless of how Mamdani identifies himself.
This is not terrible AI, it's a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.
"The end goal of seizing the means of production."
Trump’s remarks, they contend, reflect a broader concern over the policy direction and rhetoric embraced by some figures on the left. Despite that, media outlets have pushed back, focusing their fact-checking primarily on definitions.
PolitiFact’s analysis emphasized that Mamdani has not openly declared himself a communist and has not called for the abolition of all private property or representative democracy. Their assessment categorized Trump’s comment as “false” on the grounds that it misrepresents Mamdani’s declared political affiliation.
The dispute centers less on party membership and more on ideology. While Mamdani does not belong to a formal communist party, his policy goals — including public ownership, the elimination of private profit in essential services, and wealth redistribution — mirror concepts found in Marxist economics.
President Trump’s remarks have brought national attention to Mamdani’s candidacy in the aftermath of his surprise win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Mamdani’s campaign has continued to promote a platform focused on housing, transit, and labor reforms. As the general election approaches, scrutiny of his ideology and the broader implications for Democratic Party politics remains ongoing.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced the Trump administration will cut off funding to GAVI, a Bill Gates-backed global vaccine alliance, until it takes steps to “re-earn the public’s trust.” Kennedy criticized the global vaccine group in a pre-recorded speech shown at a GAVI meeting, citing its actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kennedy says the organization:
Pushed “social media companies to silence dissenting views” and “stifle free speech.”
Made “questionable recommendations” such as “encouraging pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines.”
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RFK Jr. just froze U.S. funding to GAVI, the vaccine group cofounded by Bill Gates!
GAVI is the global vaccine alliance pushing mass vaccination with billions from the U.S. and deep ties to the WHO.
RFK’s demanding they stop censoring questions and start measuring real health… pic.twitter.com/3V773GdYhk
— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) June 25, 2025
RFK Jr. also singled out GAVI’s promotion of the DTP vaccine in developing countries, noting that girls who receive it are up to 10 times more likely to die from all causes within their first six months of life, according to major peer-reviewed studies. The DTP vaccine is no longer used in the developed world.
However, GAVI responded in a statement saying it “continues to have full confidence” in the DTP vaccine.
The numbers: The United States contributes roughly $300 million annually to GAVI, according to The National Pulse. According to NPR, the international agency — established in 2000 — says it has played a role in vaccinating 1.1 billion children against a long list of potentially debilitating diseases, from polio to malaria to mpox to measles. It claims credit for saving 20 million lives. Global health experts say GAVI is instrumental in getting vaccinations to lower-resource countries, providing funding to buy vaccines and support for disease outbreak responses.
The U.S. has been one of the largest donors to GAVI, funding about 13% of the agency’s budget. Under the Biden administration, the U.S. pledged $2.53 billion starting in September 2022 through the year 2030. Of that amount, $880 million has so far been dispersed.
In a statement, GAVI said the organization’s “utmost concern is the safety and health of children” and rejected Kennedy’s accusations that it was not following scientific data on vaccines.
The statement said: “Any decision made by Gavi with regards to its vaccine portfolio is made in alignment with recommendations by WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), a group of independent experts that reviews all available data through a rigorous, transparent, and independent process. This ensures Gavi investments are grounded in the best available science and public health priorities.”
Actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell said this week that she relocated to Ireland due to the impact President Donald Trump’s first term had on her mental health. Speaking with Chris Cuomo on his podcast, O’Donnell described the move as an act of “self-preservation,” citing depression, alcohol use, and public encounters that left her feeling unsafe in the United States.
O’Donnell has been an outspoken critic of President Trump for years, frequently clashing with him publicly. During the interview, she said the national political climate and public reaction to Trump’s presidency left her disillusioned and emotionally distressed.
“I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking,” O’Donnell told Cuomo. “It hurt my heart that America believed the lies about him. And then it broke my heart to be in a business that creates and sells those lies for profit.”
Rosie O’Donnell, who self-deported to Ireland after Trump won, says she was very depressed and was overeating and over drinking after Trump was first elected
O’Donnell said her decision to leave the U.S. was motivated by a desire to protect her mental well-being. She described the move to Ireland as a personal reset, offering an environment where she felt distanced from what she described as the pressures of American celebrity culture and political hostility.
“When I got here, I noticed right away there was a different culture about celebrity. They’re not lauded in Ireland. They’re not thought of as better than anyone else,” O’Donnell said. “Coming home here felt like coming home.”
She also described a series of negative interactions in public following Trump’s election in 2016, saying those moments contributed to her desire to leave the country. O’Donnell recounted an incident involving her child, who is autistic. “People in CVS saying to me and my autistic 12-year-old, ‘Hey, Rosie, Trump won. Ha ha.’
One cursed at us,” she said. “I find myself feeling safe,” she added. “There’s no MAGA support here.”
O’Donnell did not specify when exactly she moved to Ireland, but described the transition as one that provided emotional relief. She did not indicate whether the move is permanent, though she characterized it as a necessary change for her and her family. The comments come as O’Donnell continues to remain active in media and entertainment. She did not directly reference any upcoming projects during the podcast episode, instead focusing on the emotional toll she said the political climate had taken on her during and after President Trump’s time in office.
President Trump has not publicly responded to O’Donnell’s latest remarks. The two have had a history of public feuds dating back to his business and television career, prior to his election as President. The interview with Cuomo marks O’Donnell’s first detailed public explanation of her move to Ireland and the personal reasons behind it.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) publicly addressed federal charges filed against her during an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki this week, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. McIver is facing up to 17 years in prison in connection with an alleged assault involving federal law enforcement officers at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Jersey. The charges stem from an incident during a congressional visit to the detention center, where McIver allegedly interfered with federal officers and resisted their commands.
Yesterday, LaMonica McIver (D-NJ and wearing a red blazer) appeared to interfere with officers at an ICE facility in Newark.
According to federal prosecutors, McIver is charged with three counts of forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers. “I never thought I would be facing charges as a sitting congresswoman,” McIver said in the Wednesday interview. “It’s a scary situation, too, because I’m thinking of my mom.” She added that her mother was present during her legal proceedings and had been significantly stressed by the situation.
McIver, a first-term Democrat representing New Jersey, stated that the charges arose from a visit to the ICE facility that she claims was part of a congressional oversight role. She said the potential sentence weighs heavily on her and her family. “When they’re saying that you’re going to face 17 years in prison, I’m thinking about my daughter, who’s 9 years old. I’m thinking about my husband, my family,” McIver said. “And it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this is awful.’”
Federal prosecutors allege that McIver physically engaged with federal officers at the facility, prompting the charges. The exact details of the altercation have not been fully disclosed by either party, but officials confirmed that the investigation remains active.
Look, I never thought I'd be facing charges as a sitting congresswoman, but l'm not going to stop doing my job.
The Department of Justice has not commented further on the pending case. McIver has not entered a plea at this time, and it remains unclear whether the case will proceed to trial. The arrest and potential sentencing have drawn national attention, given McIver’s status as an elected federal official. It is unusual for a sitting member of Congress to face such serious criminal charges stemming from a physical altercation with law enforcement. The incident took place during an anti-ICE rally at the facility. McIver has not publicly confirmed whether her visit was tied directly to the protest, but sources familiar with the investigation say the congresswoman was among several individuals demonstrating against ICE operations at the time.
/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal just SUED the University of Michigan and the Michigan Law Review Association for illegal racial discrimination. pic.twitter.com/rOI6iTfWJf
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) June 19, 2025
The University of Michigan is facing a federal lawsuit alleging its law school publication discriminates against straight white men. Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences filed the federal antidiscrimination lawsuit on Wednesday in the Eastern District of Michigan against the Michigan Law Review and its editors, as well as the university and its Board of Regents, MLive reports.
The voluntary membership organization contends the law review uses a “holistic review” process that prioritizes women, minorities, gay, lesbian or transgender students over straight white and Asian men with better writing scores and grades.
The lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a nonprofit legal firm founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, which argues the “anti-American scheme corrupts legal education and undermines equal justice under the law.”
“No American should ever face discrimination based on their race. Yet, despite clear law on point prohibiting such discrimination and numerous Supreme Court decisions, racial discrimination continues to be pervasive throughout academia,” Gene Hamilton, AFL President, said in a statement.
“AFL will not tolerate this unconstitutional discrimination at the University of Michigan and is taking decisive action to restore meritocracy and protect American values.”
AFL contends UM, which is subsidized by tax dollars, “brazenly defies Title VI, the Equal Protection Clause, and (federal law), employing secretive selection committees to enforce diversity quotas and discriminatory citation policies that favor ‘underrepresented’ authors while penalizing white scholars, including underrepresented Republicans and Protestant Christians.”
“Until recently, membership on the Law Review was an academic honor reserved for students who were selected on account of their first-year grades and their performance on a writing competition,” according to the lawsuit.
“But left-wing students and affirmative-action devotees at the University of Michigan Law School were unhappy with the demographic makeup produced by merit-based selection,” it continued.
“So the Michigan Law Review, with the approval and acquiescence of the University of Michigan general counsel’s office, has implemented a corrupt and illegal scheme of race and sex preferences to select its student members.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband, venture capitalist Paul Pelosi, reported significant financial gains in 2024, with new congressional financial disclosures revealing that the couple earned between $7.8 million and $42.5 million over the course of the year.
Their total net worth could now reach as high as $413 million. This marks a substantial increase from 2023, when disclosures indicated the couple’s net worth could be as high as $370 million.
BREAKING: Pelosi did it 👑
She officially finishes 2024 up 54% and beat out Inverse Cramer for the top portfolio on Autopilot
— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@PelosiTracker_) January 2, 2025
Because lawmakers are only required to disclose broad ranges for assets and income, the exact total remains uncertain. Market analytics firm Quiver Quantitative, which tracks stock transactions and estimates real-time valuations, pegged the Pelosis’ net worth at $257 million in 2024—up $26 million from the previous year. That figure does not include valuations for various other holdings, including a Napa Valley winery, a Bay Area Italian restaurant, and a stake in a political data and consulting firm.
A large portion of the couple’s financial success has come from stock trades made in Paul Pelosi’s name.
The former House Speaker has long been scrutinized for her husband’s trades, with Rep. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) even introducing legislation bearing her name aimed at banning congressional stock trading.
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