🚨Final Emerson/PIX11 has Mamdani *leading* Cuomo 52-48 in the final round of RCV. Cuomo leads the initial round 35-32 percent with 4% undecided. Mamdani has a 10 point lead among voters who already cast ballots. June 18-20, 833 LVs emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-city-…

The Sprawl Cycle

NBC's Yamiche Alcindor called President Trump tonight. He told her he expects the ceasefire to last 'forever' nbcnews.com/world/middle-e…

Strong from the president this morning - He tells me: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?"

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, leads the New York Democratic mayoral primary as CNN projects ranked-choice votes will decide the race. cnn.it/45EDYvi

Cuomo on Mamdani: "Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won."

Zohran Mamdani set to topple Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayoral race ow.ly/37YH106cPKp

fun fact: Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Justin J. Pearson (one of the TN lawmakers expelled in 2023 for protesting) overlapped at Bowdoin College (2014, 2017)

Come senators,congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled The battle outside ragin’ Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin politico.com/news/magazine/…

I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that Michael Bloomberg ALSO campaigned on a free bus proposal in 2009.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, vice president of the United Arab Emirates, is best known as the owner of the Manchester City soccer team. He has also been helping to arm the genocidal Rapid Support Forces as they slaughter in Sudan's Darfur region. nytimes.com/2025/06/29/wor…

SCOTUS decision essentially says district judges can no longer tell govt “stop doing this illegal thing,” but only “stop doing this illegal thing to these people who sued” Longer gloss here: nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/…

Tillis on who he wants to run for his Senate seat: "Not Mark Robinson, because he would probably lose by 20 points. Other than that, I'm open," Tillis said. "I’m here to get a Republican to come behind me. That’s the last thing I would want to leave as my legacy.”

Breaking: The WNBA announced it will expand to 18 teams with new teams in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. The Cleveland team will begin play in 2028, followed by Detroit in 2029 and Philadelphia in 2030.

"Zohran Mamdani’s win was an upset. It drew cries of “It’s not fair” and “This isn’t realistic.” It broke a system that favored establishment candidates. But that was in seventh grade, and he was 12." My recollection for Slate on the Zohran I knew: slate.com/life/2025/07/z…

We estimate the Senate-passed reconciliation bill increases primary deficits by $3.1 trillion over 10 years. The dynamic cost, including changes to the economy, is larger at $3.5 trillion. GDP falls by 0.3 in 10 years and falls by 4.6 in 30 years. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/7/…

Helluva sentence: A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, to kill police officers has been named an adviser to the DOJ task force Trump established to seek retribution against political enemies nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/…

Mamdani described himself as Asian and specified that he was an immigrant from Uganda. Seems reasonably forthright. Cannot comprehend considering this an important piece of information for deciding whether to support a political candidate

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