American Manners

Ah, yes, Americans, famous for their refined "manners" and never eating food with their fingers.

The Future Of The Democratic Party

When Eric Adams barely squeaked by, all the advanced politics knowers decided - amazingly - that barely winning a heavily contested primary in New York City somehow meant you were just what the nation was looking for in a politician. It didn't make any sense then, but those are the rules now.

Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a new vote count confirmed on Tuesday, cementing his stunning upset of former governor Andrew Cuomo and sending him to the general election.

The Associated Press called the race after the results of the city’s ranked choice voting tabulation were released and showed Mamdani beating Cuomo by 12 percentage points.

At Least Some Good News

Though only the good die young, it seems.

US televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multi-million dollar ministry with a global reach was crippled after a sex scandal, has died at the age of 90.

Lunch

Unsurprisingly, the budget passed the Senate.

Tick Tock You Don't Stop

I know it makes me a bad blogger, but I can't be bothered to follow the unfolding vote in the Senate. At some point I realized if it isn't fun to watch the game, you can just find out the score at the end and spend your time doing other things.

Small Pleasures

I think Elon loses here, bigly, but that'll be funny, too.

“I’ve had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years,” Low told POLITICO in a rare interview since Musk’s ugly spat with Trump. “Knowing Elon the way I know him, I do think he’s going to do everything to damage the president.”

I know none of this matters, but allow me my small amusements in the middle of all this.

Reporter: Are you going to deport Elon Musk? Trump: We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM

Let Them Fight

 

Sure, Elon, primary every Republican.

Elon's pretending he cares about the spending and debts while Trump is rightly pointing out that he just cares about free money for himself is funny.

Morning

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