#NYC Mayor's #Primary Tightening Between Ugandan born #Socialist #Assemblyman Zohran #Mamdani & Disgraced Democrat Ex #Governor #Cuomo, who resigned top state office under cloud of sexual harassment claims despite decades of erstwhile establishment ego, ol' fashioned #NY #Nepotism aiding his image.

A former adviser to Mr. Cuomo, said that the biz elite favorite had run a “grim and joyless campaign” compared to upstart candidate endorsed by #WorkingFamilies Party, #AOC and #DJT enemy Letitia James. The night before #election day, Mamdami appeared on #CBS TV with Stephen Colbert and sent email to supporters noting “It is essential that we turn out in record numbers in order to turn the page on #AndrewCuomo, his billionaire donors, and the #politics of big money and small ideas”

#RankChoice voting makes predicting outcome harder than usual in the multi candidate mayoral race, but Mamdani has momentum since leaping double digits in polling over past month, while third place to likely to go to his ally and city #Comptroller Brad Lander, who was recently talk of town after being body slammed and arrested by #ICE.

http://nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyregion/mayor-primary-mamdani-cuomo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.syZZ.Zlkcz8iwilBF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #ArticleShare #GiftLink #NYTimes #ManhattanMelodrama

V WaPo:

Following strikes on Iran, these U.S. bases could become targets

https://wapo.st/4lgqSZF

Welp: "American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=5aUYI8dJ_4U5JTdJqsIAqwzbXk7nlcFLPaxDqLj0C5E

#Tennessee 's top tier #hospital facing hundreds of layoffs in key positions as #GOP and #Drumpf appointee #RFKJr unleash drastic cuts in #federal support for #healthcare research , training and #medicine.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2025/06/20/vanderbilt-university-medical-center-layoffs-vumc-nih-cuts/84286194007/ #Vanderbilt #Medical #GiftLink

V NYTimes:
A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Show the Limits of China’s Power

China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/world/asia/us-iran-israel-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.pLOR.JbuY80r85Tvs&smid=nytcore-android-share
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V NYTimes:
U.S. Spy Agencies Assess Iran Remains Undecided on Building a Bomb

U.S. intelligence officials said Iran was likely to pivot toward producing a nuclear weapon if the U.S. attacked a main uranium enrichment site, or if Israel killed its supreme leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/politics/iran-nuclear-weapons-assessment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.MeXI.IyW-HY0KoOgM&smid=nytcore-android-share
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V NYTimes:
Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-military-parade-israel-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.ZEWr.u8_CeOMaXTvF&smid=nytcore-android-share
He has ordered more troops to Los Angeles and Washington than he currently has stationed in Syria and Iraq combined
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Coverage of the Bay Area No Kings protests, including one I was at, where we lined one side of El Camino for seven miles across four towns.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-trump-bay-area-outrage-senators-takedown-concerns-shootings-democrats/?share=stnoogrrdadnortcetkn

Protest coverage from The Oregonian

"Tens of thousands of people gather for ‘No Kings’ protests in Portland"

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This is a good article by Apoorva Mandavilli about how RFKJr’s changes to the CDC’s ACIP committee can lead to huge changes in children’s access to vaccines. Even if a vaccine is theoretically available, monkeying with ACIP can guarantee that half or more US children don’t get them.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/health/vaccines-kennedy-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.Ogew.Cxqm33SeJrZL&smid=url-share

V WaPo opinion:
'Maybe they really were immigration officers, just as they claimed. Or maybe they were a ragtag vigilante group, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street.
“It could have been like a band of the Proud Boys or something”

https://wapo.st/4kIGFke
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More on the ACIP firings. #GiftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/kennedy-politics-vaccine-advisers-dismissal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.gThi.PKH4ekgGRB8N&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

V NYTimes op ed:
"Since Donald Trump was elected again, I’ve feared one scenario above all others: that he’d call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to martial law."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/autocracy-trump-la-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.1Xh2.SH6xmHE2iqLi&smid=nytcore-android-share
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V WaPo:
The May 27 DOJ document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink national monuments, which confer federal protections to millions of acres of federal land, much of it in the American West.
https://wapo.st/4kUcDtX
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"Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say"

"In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims."

#GiftLink #USpol #USpolitics #Trump #TrumpAdministration

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-emergency-powers-invasion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.zaYH._X8HLY0K9Uie&smid=url-share

Great playlist of #SlyStone from @washingtonpost.com

https://wapo.st/4jKcN5B

There are apparently concrete plans to impose martial law. Trumpies are flat out planning to make war on America.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/noem-immigration-protests-letter-20369001.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3VzLXdvcmxkL2FydGljbGUvbm9lbS1pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi1wcm90ZXN0cy1sZXR0ZXItMjAzNjkwMDEucGhw&time=MTc0OTUyMzYzNTA2NQ%3D%3D&rid=ZjZmMmQ3YjgtNjRhMy00ZmM1LWFlMmItZTNmNzM5MTExODA5&sharecount=Nw%3D%3D

V WaPo:
Inside the battles that shattered Trump and Musk’s alliance

https://wapo.st/3TeoIxy
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