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BREAKING: "OH MY GOD! OUCH!" Morning Joe’s Mika bursts out laughing after Fox News accidentally exposes Trump’s latest crowd size disaster at his "Great State Fair!"
Donald Trump has spent years obsessing over crowd sizes, so naturally his allies are still trying to convince America that sparse turnouts are actually massive gatherings if you just squint hard enough.
That effort hit a brick wall Monday when co-host Mika Brzezinski watched a Fox News segment defending attendance at Trump’s Freedom 250 “Great American State Fair” event and simply lost it.
Trump has claimed that 45,000 people attended his speech at the Trump-backed celebration in Washington, D.C., despite multiple reports and visual evidence suggesting the crowd was dramatically smaller.
News outlets estimated attendance at roughly 1,000 people, and photos showed that the audience occupied only a relatively small portion of the event grounds. 
Still, Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke insisted viewers were getting the wrong impression.
“And sometimes the pictures really don’t tell the full story because if you look behind us you see, okay there are a couple hundred people back there,” Corke said.
“But the truth is when you make your way over here and you're in a wash of people.”
That’s when Mika lost it.
“Oh my God!” she exclaimed before bursting into laughter. “OUCH!”
Corke said it with a straight face, but the camera didn't lie. 
As Corke attempted to explain that unseen multitudes were lurking somewhere beyond the lens, viewers could plainly see a large open grassy area behind him that looked considerably less like Woodstock and considerably more like a county fair that forgot to advertise.
Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg delivered the coup de grâce.
“If only they had employees who knew how to operate cameras that could capture these images he describes,” Goldberg quipped.
For years, Trump has treated crowd sizes the way Captain Ahab treated the white whale. No matter what else is happening in the world, he always seems to circle back to proving that more people showed up for him than for anyone else.
Unfortunately for Team Trump, cameras remain stubbornly nonpartisan.

 Supreme Court to weigh Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship voting law
The justices will consider whether the requirements violate the federal National Voter Registration Act.
June 29, 2026, 9:56 AM EDT

WASHINGTON — Taking up a new case touching on Republican warnings about alleged election fraud, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether Arizona rules requiring voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote violate federal law.

In the court’s next term, which starts in October, the justices will decide whether the state can seek more information than what is mandated under the federal National Voter Registration Act.

Under the Arizona law, people would have to show a birth certificate, passport or some other proof of citizenship in order to register to vote using the state registration form.

The case, arising from an appeal brought by the Republican National Committee, does not affect the separate process in which people can register using the federal form, which only requires that applicants attest they are U.S. citizens.

 Supreme Court widens Trump’s power to fire agency leaders — except the Fed
The exception for the Federal Reserve is a blow to Trump’s efforts to prod the central bank to lower interest rates.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/trump-supreme-court-slaughter-cook-fire-fed-00979734

The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump sweeping power to control executive branch agencies, while effectively exempting the Federal Reserve.

The justices voted 6-3, along ideological lines, to scuttle a 91-year old precedent that said Congress can limit the president’s ability to fire Senate-confirmed leaders to instances of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”

But in a separate ruling, the high court voted 5-4 to send back to a lower court a lawsuit over Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed member appointed by President Joe Biden. The decision, which allows Cook to remain in her post while litigation continues over the effort to dismiss her, is a blow to Trump’s efforts to prod the Fed to lower interest rates.

The court did not outright prevent Trump from firing Cook, but it rejected his arguments that courts had little power to review the decision.

 In the Cook case, Roberts rejected the Trump administration’s contention that the president’s firing of Cook could not be reviewed in court and that she could not stay in office while contesting the decision.

“To accept any of those arguments would in effect transform the Federal Reserve’s for-cause protection into at-will employment,” he wrote.

Such a step would be “out of step with the statute Congress enacted and our nation’s tradition of central banking protected from political interference,” he continued.

Made me think of Rush-Freewill  "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

Supreme Court hangs up on whether smartphone search was 'reasonable'
The action leaves Okello Chatrie convicted of robbing a bank in Virginia in 2019 after police tracked him down by searching for smartphones in the area where robbery occurred.-USA Today


 The Supreme Court decided that police who sifted through smartphone data to locate unidentified suspects in crimes conducted a "search" under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, but sent the case back to lower courts to determine whether the search in a bank-robbery investigation was reasonable.

The case focused on Okello Chatrie, who was convicted of robbing a bank in Virginia in 2019 after police tracked him down by searching for smartphones in the area where robbery occurred. Chatrie argued the police warrant for Google to sift through 500 million customers to find his Samsung Galaxy X9 phone violated his Fourth Amendment right against an unreasonable search because police hadn't identified him as a suspect.

But the Justice Department said Google only named three suspects out of the millions searched. Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.

Birthright Citizenship ruling is tomorrow

‪Dona Dickinson‬
 ‪@donadickinson.bsky.social‬
· 42m
SCOTUS refused to hear E. Jean Carroll.
So it’s official: he is a predator.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝‬
 ‪@sundaedivine.lol‬
· 2h
The Rapture took the crowd and left the porta-potties.

Rick Havoc‬
 ‪@rickhavoc.bsky.social‬
· 4h
A.) Respect is earned.
B.) Fat chance.


Donald Trump Is Going Viral For Demanding People To Respect The President