Merz is saying out loud what so many are saying privately

NEW: As Zohran Mamdani surges in the polls and prediction markets today, the Chicago Tribune editorial board issues a warning to New York City voters. “Want to know how a socialist mayor would govern New York City? Ask Chicago.”

Hear me out. How about we globalize empanadas instead? They’re really good.

“To put it simply: Mamdani won because of October 7, by which I mean, he is the encampment candidate,” writes John Podhoretz “He is the ‘Free Palestine’ candidate. He is the ‘globalize the intifada’ candidate. He emerged from the pack because this was his secret sauce”

“Por el comunismo estoy yo aquí”, Cubana le dice a Ayuso. “Soy Cubana”

Big news: Centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant in Iran are “no longer operational” after the United States attacked the facility with bunker-busting bombs, says Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency nytimes.com/2025/06/26/wor…

Dems say Harris woulda won with better turnout. But new voter turnout data suggests that, if anything, Trump would have done even better if everyone had voted. Particularly dispiriting for Dems: Young & nonwhite voters defected by the millions to Trump. nytimes.com/2025/06/26/ups…

This is cartoonishly ignorant. New York City has *always* been a city of immigrants—hello, Ellis Island. It’s the poster child for America’s melting pot & our promise of opportunity. That’s beautiful. Acting like it’s new or un-American is just cheap, ahistorical rage bait.

The irony of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York: His defeated rival, Andrew Cuomo, is largely responsible because his policies as governor drove up the cost of housing, @WSJOpinion argues. That handed Mamdami an issue he drove to victory. wsj.com/opinion/zohran…

Big win for Trump: The Supreme Court limited the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, though it left uncertain the fate of his push to curtail birthright citizenship wsj.com/us-news/law/sc…

Trump’s policy would deny citizenship at birth to an average of 255,000 babies born annually in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. wsj.com/us-news/law/sc…

“Just when the conventional wisdom that America was in terminal decline had congealed into place,” Walter Russell Mead says, “the airstrikes suggest that American power remains unique in world affairs.” The big picture from @WSJOpinion wsj.com/opinion/the-st…

Left-wing populists are often a mirror image of right-wing populists (just ask us here in Latin America). Essential reading by former Clinton and Obama official, William M. Daley, as the utopia candidate gets closer to becoming New York’s next mayor. wsj.com/opinion/mamdan…

Exploding U.S. indebtedness makes a fiscal crisis almost inevitable washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

finally!

Tragic, any way you cut it: Isidro Perez escaped Cuba's brutal Communist regime and lived in the US nearly 60 years. Convicted in the '80s of drug charges, the 75-year-old was nabbed by ICE and died in custody. He'd complained of chest pains. cbsnews.com/miami/news/cub… CBS News Miami

Now open for tourism: Jonestown, Guyana, where 900 people drank the Kool Aid and died in 1978 in one of the 20th Century's most bizarre cult tragedies. nytimes.com/2025/07/03/wor…

Marco Rubio retira al principal diplomático en Bogotá por "declaraciones infundadas y reprobables". Quizás se refiere a las de Petro: culpando a los países ricos por muertes gratuitas durante la pandemia y al racismo detrás de las políticas migratorias. eltiempo.com/politica/gobie…

Let’s not forget that July 4th is also the anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s epic speech (1939) at Yankee Stadium

Here‘s Realpolitik axiom for you: The Revolution always eats its own first.