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Democratic socialist candidate Donavan McKinney was projected to win the Democratic primary to represent the Michigan 13th Congressional District on Wednesday morning. The Associated Press called the race at 9:59 a.m. on Wednesday morning, at which time McKinney held 51.9% of the vote to Thanedar's 48.1%, with 95% of precincts reporting. His victory marks the ouster of Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., who attracted national attention for introducing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump early in 2025.

A federal appeals court ruled 8–5 on Tuesday that Florida may enforce its 2023 Protection of Children Act, which prohibits minors from attending certain sexually explicit live performances, including some drag shows. The ruling by the full, Atlanta=based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacates a district court’s statewide preliminary injunction that had blocked enforcement of the law. The challenge was brought by HM Florida-ORL, LLC, which operates the Orlando restaurant Hamburger Mary’s. The restaurant argued that its family-friendly drag performances could be swept within the statute and that it would be forced to bar children from attending.

Donald Trump was President of the United States, and James Comey was his employee. Comey was terrible at his job and was engaged in a massive conspiracy to slander and perhaps imprison the president, pushing conspiracy theories he knew to be false, leaking false information to the media through intermediaries, including information that was classified, and hence he broke the law. President Trump fired him. Comey's allies in the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the president for exercising his constitutional duties as Chief Executive of the United States.

New York Socialist Brian Romero has not yet reached Albany, but he has already launched his first public spending initiative: covering his own rent. Romero, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 34th Assembly District, launched a GoFundMe asking supporters to cover his rent and groceries while he waits to take office. The campaign sought $2,000 and collected more than $1,000 from 13 donors before disappearing Friday. The timing was apparently a coincidence. Romero pulled the fundraiser shortly after the New York Post started asking questions.

A district court on Thursday blocked New York from enforcing its assisted suicide law against four orders of Catholic nuns and several Catholic healthcare ministries as their religious liberty lawsuit continues. The temporary agreement, which New York agreed to, will shield the Catholic nuns and ministries from being forced to take any part in assisted suicides when the law legalizing the practice goes into effect on Wednesday, attorneys with Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced. The agreement will be in effect while the court considers their request for a preliminary injunction.

On Monday, OutKick Founder Clay Travis announced that he is upping the ante and offering a $10 million wager to the WNBA: Your champion team vs. a boys’ high school state championship team. If the WNBA wins, Travis pays them $10 million. If the boys win, the league pays Travis $10 million. “Important announcement: I am upping my offer, 10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s [sic] high school state title team of my choice,” Travis wrote. “If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.”

Francesca Hong, current Democrat gubernatorial candidate in the state of Wisconsin, said she once left a Culver’s fast food restaurant after she nearly experienced an “anxiety attack” due to “too many old white people.” Hong shared her story about the anxiety episode in a 2019 post on X. “I ate two bites of my kid’s cheeseburger at a Culver’s in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack,” she said. Hong said the establishment had “to many old white people who didn’t think we spoke english.”

They’re trying to protect the paesan! A new nonprofit is planning to unveil a Christopher Columbus statue in Brooklyn this October — dodging Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other haters who’d rather cancel the Italian-born explorer. The Preserving Italian Heritage Coalition, brought together by Chinese-American state Assemblyman Lester Chang (R-Brooklyn), is planning to house the statue at the John Hughes Club in Dyker Heights, private property that keeps it out of the clutches of city officials.

The View alumna Rosie O'Donnell announced this week that she will return to the show for the upcoming 30th anniversary special. O'Donnell, 64, served as a host of the daytime program twice, first from 2006 to 2007 and then from 2014 to 2015, and left each time after a single season. During her tenures, she developed a reputation for clashes with her fellow panelists Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg. Now she has confirmed: 'I will go on the 30th anniversary next year and be on in whatever way they want me, just as a guest,' on the podcast The Tangle.

Rosie O’Donnell recently opened up, candidly speaking about the possibility of hosting a new streaming show, America’s love for nostalgia, the death of celebrity culture, how she could bring back hope, and why she won’t return to the small screen while Donald Trump is still in the White House. (snip) Of course, there is one major caveat: “It would be when Trump is no longer in power. That’s when I would want to start. And that’s really when the healing must begin. The healing must begin in this country. And if I could be in any way part of that, I would be very, very happy.”

I wrote yesterday about Francesca Hong, the socialist who seems poised to capture the Democratic nomination for Governor of Wisconsin. (snip) She was sued to recover defaulted credit card debt just a couple of months ago: (snip) Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words.

A former University of Michigan medical center employee will receive $410,000 in a settlement after the hospital illegally terminated her for refusing to use preferred pronouns and refer patients for transgender drugs or surgeries. As part of the settlement, University of Michigan Health-West must also implement a religious accommodations policy, according to First Liberty, the legal group representing Valerie Kloosterman. Under the policy, employees cannot be forced to use pronouns or to participate in gender transition treatments if doing so would contradict their religious beliefs.