Zohran Mamdani says he and allies he endorsed carry a ‘national message’
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Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservationsZohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”.Mamdani made that triumphant clarion call on ABC News’s This Week just five days after he had seen his endorsed candidates win Democratic nominations in three races for New York congressional seats, as well as for five state legislature positions in Albany. He made no effort to disguise his delight that his clean sweep marks a dramatic shift in Democratic politics – not just in New York City, which he has led since January, but also across the US. Continue reading...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but arrive later, rejecting a GOP challenge to a Mississippi law.
President Trump said talks with Iran would resume Tuesday in Qatar, despite the two sides trading attacks in the Gulf over the weekend. Iran did not confirm whether it will participate.
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social…
Iran’s president on Monday said Qatar will release $6 billion in frozen assets as negotiations to end conflict in the Middle East were strained by new attacks. “Based on the plans made, $6 billion out of the total $12 billion of Iranian resources in Qatar will be released and returned to the country, and necessary…
JERUSALEM — The United States and Iran will hold new talks on Tuesday in Qatar, President Donald Trump said Monday, after the two sides appeared to step back from a wave of attacks that threatened to derail peace efforts.“IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING.
Support for the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the United States and Iran to end Operation Epic Fury relies on intentionally imprecise drafting and pronouncements made by the president and vice president that conflict with the MOU and Iran's view of it, alignment with Iran, or a desire to see Donald Trump fail.
President Donald Trump set off widespread mockery with the unveiling of his so-called "patriot passport," and one political analyst highlighted a surprising message sent by the official document.The passport design shows a glowering Trump standing at the Resolute Desk in front of the text of the Declaration of Independence, but the featured slogan – “Welcome, but be good!” – mystified critics and prompted ridicule."I'm not sure I've seen the entire internet laugh at Donald Trump in the way that they just did," said political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.The message was confusing and also displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of what passports actually do, Cohen said."A passport is a document issued to U.S. citizens by the U.S. government," he said on his "No Lie" podcast. "It is what we carry when we travel abroad. It is not a message to foreigners. It's a document that says, 'Hey, this person is American and they're allowed back in.' The people being welcomed in this transaction are not Americans – Americans live here, you don't welcome someone back to their own house.""If Trump wanted to put 'welcome. but be good' on something that actually said welcome to somebody, he'd want a visa, which is the document issued to foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States," Cohen added. "That's the document where welcome but be good would at least make a modicum of sense."Cohen turned his attention to one interpretation that listeners might not have noticed."Although I'd still argue that it's very weird," he said, "but no, he put it on the passport, the American passport, which Americans use to leave. So either Trump is welcoming his own citizens to their own country, or he's telling Americans to behave themselves when they travel abroad, which for the guy who campaigned on America First is a remarkably submissive message to put on the nation's travel document." "By the way, the Washington Post noted that those words don't even appear anywhere in the images that Trump actually posted," Cohen added. "So there's also just a very real possibility that he made it up entirely. But that couldn't possibly be the case – Donald Trump lie? No. But here's the thing, and this is where I want to zoom out, because 'welcome, but be good' is actually the perfect encapsulation of the Trump presidency. Not because of the confused civics, although that counts too, but because of what's actually in this passport.""Inside this new patriotic passport, available in limited quantities starting just before July 4, is not the Statue of Liberty, not Independence Hall, not a painting of the Great Plains," Cohen added. "It is a picture of Donald Trump looming over the Resolute Desk with the Declaration of Independence behind him and his signature in gold below, making him the first living president whose image appears inside America's travel documents. Because lest you forget, every opportunity is a good opportunity for Trump to promote himself." - YouTube www.youtube.com
