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“Rep. Mike Lawler’s (R-NY) fight to hold on to a key battleground seat is getting a behind-the-scenes assist — for now, at least — from an unlikely group: House Democrats,” Axios reports. “Kamala Harris carried Lawler’s district in 2024, but some Democrats are privately wary of spending the small fortune it would take to oust […]

Wall Street Journal: “The ascendant far-left is hitting turbulence in the Midwest, where voters are showing that the big victories they have had in deep blue pockets of the country are much tougher to secure in purple areas. While progressives have been gaining ground in races across the country, the mixed results show that there […]

A few years ago I’d have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do app as having come from Google’s design team. But this is apparently real. I almost hope it’s AI slop and that there aren’t any human designers there who think anything in this app has appropriate proportions or is aesthetically pleasing.

(Here’s an XCancel link for the x.com averse. You can just change any x.com/* URL to xcancel.com/*. But, alas, the XCancel mirror of the original tweet loses the animation showing the UI in motion — for some, but not all, users.)

~ Summer’s at its end, no paths leading home, memories haunt, hunger leads wherever he does roam. The hazy starlight setting, the sun’s ready to rise. A frightened little orphan wipes dreams from sleepy eyes. ~ Soon the bells will ring calling all’s return. The timid sure to flounder, the hardy always earn. Darting through […]

Plus: Garry Tan hosts Xavier Becerra, Bilal Mahmood goes to the mat for YIMBY, and new City College board candidates emerge.

This is unreal.

I thought he was going to be blown off the staircase.

Can you imagine if Biden had looked like this? What would the media say?

Open thread.

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“President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge was a stunning episode of official deception,” the New York Times reports. “But it pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose activity is shrouded in so much mystery that journalists have tried to track it by assessing the wilting of his office […]

Wall Street Journal: “North Carolina, Wyoming, Florida and Oklahoma all have some kind of property-tax limit or rollback on the ballot this November. This follows bills passed in more than 10 states since early last year, including Iowa and Georgia recently, aimed at hemming in a growing source of frustration for many homeowners. Lawmakers in […]

Photos by Stacie Joy  A few scenes from Ninth Street and Avenue A this afternoon as New Yorkers looked skyward for today's partial solar eclipse, which peaked around 1:54 p.m., with the moon blocking about 10% of the sun...