Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a MAGAt infested shithole.
Updates:
Entertainment:
‘Law & Order’ star investigates her own family’s tragic car crash in ‘My Mom Jayne’
At the very start of My Mom Jayne, producer and director Mariska Hargitay lays out the basic facts, as she knows them, about her parents, siblings and early childhood.
Hargitay has only the vaguest memories of her mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex-symbol movie star who died in a 1967 car crash, at age 34, when Hargitay, one of her mother’s five children, was only 3. Hargitay was raised by her father, who also was a celebrity of the 1950s: He was Mickey Hargitay, a former Mister Universe … and the only parent young Mariska ever really knew.
NY Mayoral Primary:
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
[image or embed]— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) June 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says, as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.
When he first declared his candidacy for mayor last fall, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was a state legislator with a thin résumé who was unknown to most New Yorkers.
Months later, he appears poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor, having bested a better known and more experienced cast of candidates who had deep relationships with voters across New York City.
Garbage People Doing Garbage Things:
From the MarKODA Files: The Islamophobia Edition:
State News:
California is the fourth-largest economy, the most diverse state in the most diverse democracy, and a leader in technology and innovation BECAUSE of immigrants.Immigrants are what make our state great and they are what make this country great.
— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Craven Assholes:
‘They’ll get over it,’ McConnell reportedly assures GOP colleagues about Medicaid cuts
U.S. Senate proposals would shutter some Kentucky hospitals, warns state hospital association chief
While Republican senators from some states are voicing worries similar to those of Kentucky hospitals, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell had a different message for Senate Republicans in a closed meeting Tuesday, reports Punchbowl News.
“I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it,” McConnell was reported as saying.
Punchbowl reports that during the closed meeting, Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, raised concerns about Senate-proposed changes to the provider tax that helps support hospitals caring for large numbers of Medicaid patients. Tillis warned that provisions in the mega-bill that Republican leaders hope to approve by July 4 could result in GOP electoral losses similar to those suffered by Democrats after passage of Obamacare.
A spokesperson for McConnell, the former Senate Republican leader, told the Lantern: “Senator McConnell was speaking about the people who are abusing Medicaid — the able-bodied Americans who should be working — and the need to withstand Democrats’ scare tactics when it comes to Medicaid. Senator McConnell was urging his fellow members to highlight that message to our constituents and remind them that we should all be against waste, fraud, and abuse while working to protect our rural hospitals and have safety nets in place for people that need it.”
