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Send us a message!!! NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three congressional candidates, and all of them won.

Two current members of Congress lost their seats, including one backed by Hakeem Jeffries. The hosts discuss what it means for a first-term mayor, just six months into office, to outperform the House Minority Leader in a congressional primary, and whether this has any impact beyond Brooklyn.

The Supreme Court released three major rulings in one week, each decided by a 6-3 vote. Damon Landor, a Rastafarian man in a Louisiana prison, had his 20-year dreadlocks forcibly cut.

The court agreed his rights were violated, but said he cannot sue. Another ruling ended legal status for 350,000 Haitians under TPS.

Manny highlights Clarence Thomas’s comments, and Chuck explains the significance. In the asylum metering case, the court ruled that people standing on the Mexican side of the border have not technically “arrived” in America.

Chuck reads the official definition of asylum. For Pickle of the Week, they look at North Carolina’s public school system, which is now the seventh-most-economically segregated in the country, 72 years after Brown v.

Board. In the Spotlights segment: Manny covers North Carolina’s tampon tax bill, Chuck talks about Africa’s World Cup run in Atlanta, and Jeezy, a devout Christian, shares why he opposes Texas requiring Bible passages in public schools: “Faith is not faith if it’s forced.

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