Lessons From the Graham Platner Disaster  —  Hopefully, by the time you read this, Graham Platner will have dropped out of the Senate race in Maine.  If he hasn't, he needs to, immediately.  —  His campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, has become a shameful catastrophe.

The World Cup Stood as a Break From U.S. Politics.  Then Trump Got Involved.  —  The president's call to the head of FIFA underscores that he has yet to find an area of American, or even global, life where he is unwilling to assert himself.  —  For nearly a month, President Trump had stayed away …

Midtown Manhattan Building Evacuated as Officials Warn of Collapse  —  The complex, which once housed offices for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, is being converted to residences.  Officials inspecting it found support columns were buckling, and upper floors were sagging.

JD Vance Is Worried  —  JD Vance seems stressed.  —  Not just because he must publicly support a war that he privately opposed, or because his political fortunes are tied to a president whose approval rating is circling the drain.  Those conditions are bad enough for the vice president.

Supreme Court justices to make rare appearance before Congress  —  Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and a conservative, are set to testify before a House subcommittee next Tuesday.  —  Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will testify before Congress next Tuesday …

Trump's AG Pick Hit With Massive Revolt of DOJ Veterans  —  CARTE BLANCHE  —  Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing is scheduled for July 15.  —  A staggering revolt has sprung up against President Donald Trump's attorney general pick.  —  Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche took the reins …

Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe … President Donald Trump on Tuesday resurrected his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, and suggested the U.S. could pull all of its armed services members out of Europe in response to the continent's continued pushback on the issue.

Ex-Florida Democratic Governor Nominee Andrew Gillum Arrested For Drug Possession  —  EX-FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE ANDREW GILLUM BUSTED IN ALABAMA FOR NARCOTICS POSSESSION … Andrew Gillum — the ex-politician who lost to Ron Desantis by a slim margin in the 2018 Florida governor's race …

Trump's Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It  —  After the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major defeat by upholding birthright citizenship last month, an angry Trump took to Truth Social to urge Republican lawmakers to overturn it with legislation.

Trump's Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society  —  Joe Gebbia, the U.S. Chief Design Officer appointed by Trump to lead the new National Design Studio boosted anti-immigrant claims by the John Birch Society.  The guy whose entire job is branding the US government aligned himself …

Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports  —  As the administration works to expand gun rights, hospitals and community groups have lost funding, and reports on preventing firearm injuries have vanished from government websites.

Why Democratic Socialists are suddenly winning everywhere  —  It's not because of ideology … Democratic Socialists are on a roll.  In New York's June 23 primaries, candidates allied with the Democratic Socialists of America won in 9 of 10 races the organization fielded a candidate in …

ICE Takes on New Role in Suppressing Online Dissent  —  ‘Warning Notice’  —  This story has been percolating in local media since last month — credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but the totality of it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so.

Where Obamacare enrollment is plummeting  —  Ohio, Oklahoma, Arizona, South Carolina and Minnesota have sustained some of the deepest losses in Obamacare coverage since beefed-up federal subsidies expired this year, according to state-by-state federal data.

U.S. gave Tehran details on Iranian asylum seekers, lawsuit alleges  —  The claim, outlined in court papers, contends information shared with Iran could jeopardize the lives of pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities and LGBTQ people.  —  Summary  —  A lawsuit filed Tuesday …

Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✅ Subscribe to PN ✅  —  Trump is an incompetent, ignorant, lying blowhard.  He is also vain, resentful, and filled with hate.

MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections  —  The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus.  Election denial bigwig Steve Bannon has outlined a scheme in which President Donald Trump …

America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population  —  America has a missing-middle problem — and this one is demographic. … - This is the Gen X-ish squeeze: The age group includes most of Generation X, plus younger baby boomers.  — It also overlaps with the “sandwich generation” …

The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic … A model of the Statue of Liberty made by immigrant farmworkers on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington.  Lawren Simmons for The New York Times  —  While the nation's 250th birthday may have passed …