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How do British people tell the difference between prime minister John Major and prime minister Keir Starmer?

As Trump & Republicans rush to give $90K to each of the million people with incomes of $1M by canceling health care for 12 million of us, they also set a record for monetary self-harm. The 6-time bankrupt & financial criminal Making America Weak on all economic fronts! Happy 4th!

56-44% for Mamdani is a bona fide landslide. But ranked-choice voting gives an even clearer view of how much NYC Democrats dislike Cuomo. In the final round, after the 10 other candidates were eliminated, only a third of their voters went for Cuomo, and two-thirds for Mamdani.

Very important point - lots and lots of people on Medicaid don't realize that they're on it and are potentially at risk of being kicked off it.

Good piece, great lede.

$9B of the $10B total is from his meme coin (“a type of digital currency tied to an online joke or mascot, it has no function beyond speculation”) and his Truth Social meme stock DJT, which lost $400M in 2024 on $3.6M in revenue — “the average of a single McDonald’s restaurant.”

I see that this new budget bill collapses the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development into a different NIH institute. So RFK Jr. agreed to remove his Aunt Eunice's name from the NIH named after her?

I enjoy reading Matt Yglesias. I can’t stand listening to him talk. Truly a voice for print.

A salute to one of the House Republicans—one of two out of 220—who voted against the America-wrecking budget bill: Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 of Bucks County PA, ex-FBI agent who led both their public corruption and election crime units, the last remaining moderate Republican with backbone.

The 50-odd million people over 65 on Social Security just got this misleading email from the government. Trump is very stupid in many ways. But this—perpetuating his lie that Social Security recipients no longer have to pay income taxes on their benefits—is real evil genius.

Shockingly out-of-it: the HHS.gov secretary, the guy who in charge of the Medicare system, was unaware last week that U.S. Department of Justice is investigating UnitedHealthcare—the biggest seller of Medicare Advantage plans—for criminal Medicare fraud. A major story that broke in May.

If I ran MSNBC, Friday nights at 11 and Saturday in primetime I’d put on a new show—young host, at the top a 10-minute montage of the week’s stories like this, all clips from their shows, followed by an airing of Idiocracy. (And try to license the title for the show’s name.)