Today is Celebration Day in NYC and Chicago.

Celebrate!!!

Political races around the country.

Georgia.

Senator Jon Ossoff is the only Democratic senator seeking re-election in a state Trump won in 2024, making Georgia critical to both parties’ hopes of controlling the Senate. His Senatorial opponent is now clear.

Rep. Mike Collins, a Trump endorsee, won Georgia’s Republican Senate runoff.

Collins was the subject of an House Ethics Committee investigation over an alleged “ghost intern” arrangement, misusing taxpayer funds by paying more than $10,000 to an intern who allegedly did little or no work while she was reportedly dating Collins’ then–chief of staff.

Trump’s other endorsement in Georgia lost the Gubernatorial nomination.Burt Jackson, a first-time political candidate, self-funded his campaign, spending more than $100 million of his own money to secure the Republican Governor's nomination.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, is the Democratic nominee.

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One more thing. or two.

This June 15 New York Times Editorial exposed Trump as a loser for the world to see.👇

New York Times Editorial. President Trump Lost This War.

The preliminary deal ending President Trump’s four-month war with Iran is welcome but brings with it hard truths. Mr. Trump made a terrible mistake starting this war. He prosecuted it recklessly and in open defiance of the law. The United States is emerging weaker — militarily, diplomatically and economically — and will pay strategic costs for years to come.

The details of the deal are unclear, but the announced framework suggests that Mr. Trump has won few of the terms he insisted that he would. It is a humiliating comedown for him and the nation he leads.

Since the war began, he has said the United States would achieve “total and complete victory” and that Iran must agree to “unconditional surrender.” He suggested that regime change would occur. He said that Iran would be permitted “no enrichment” of uranium and that “the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried” near-bomb-grade nuclear material that it already holds.

None of this appears to be true. Iran’s hard-line government remains in place. The specifics of the nuclear agreement will apparently be negotiated over the next two months, but the terms seem likely to resemble those of a 2015 deal that President Barack Obama negotiated and that Mr. Trump canceled in 2018. He described the Obama agreement as the “worst deal ever” and said it put Iran on “a route to a nuclear weapon.” He criticized it for failing to force Iran to stop supporting terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and for loosening economic sanctions. Yet his destructive war seems likely to leave him with a similar deal.

His biggest achievement in the cease-fire framework is the expected reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping traffic, which will eventually reduce the prices of energy and other goods. That, of course, is merely a reversion to the prewar status quo. Iran closed the strait in retaliation, to damage the global economy and increase political pressure on the United States. The move worked, and Iran’s leaders now understand that they hold a powerful economic weapon.

On balance, Iran emerges the strategic winner of the four-month war. It did suffer substantial losses, including much of its navy, air force, military-industrial capacity and political leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, who was killed on the war’s first day. With the war ending, however, Iran’s leadership can begin rebuilding.

The United States, for its part, looks weaker in the eyes of the world. The American military has shown itself unable to quash a much smaller opponent even as it burned through many of its long-range precision missiles and interceptors. The outcome damages this country’s ability to deter other potential adversaries. To begin to repair the damage, the United States would be wise to mend alliances in Europe, the Middle East and Asia that have been frayed by the war’s military and economic effects. The Pentagon will also need to modernize and prepare for the wars of the future. Neither is likely to happen under President Trump.

Before the American and Israeli attack began on Feb. 28, Iran’s leadership had endured a miserable two and a half years. The government was far weaker than it had been before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, which Iran has long funded and advised. In response to that attack, Israel significantly diminished Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy group. In Syria, a murderous, Iran-backed dictator fell while Iran’s leaders did little to save him. Israel and the United States exposed Iran’s air defenses and missile program as paper tigers when they bombed Iranian nuclear sites last summer, setting back its program. All the while, Iran’s currency continued to plummet, and its economy was in ruins. Starting late last year, Iranians took to the streets to protest, and the regime responded by killing thousands of them, if not tens of thousands.

All these problems remain, and Iran is still weaker than it was three years ago. But the war has given it leverage it did not have when 2026 began. Its regime has demonstrated that it can survive waves of attacks from its two biggest enemies. Its leaders have not had to abandon their nuclear ambitions. And they have learned that the rest of the world seems unwilling to use military force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran chooses to close the strait at some point in the coming months or years, what will Mr. Trump do in response?

We lay out these facts with no pleasure. Iran has been and remains a force for ill. It represses its own people, especially political dissidents, women, L.G.B.T.Q. people and religious minorities. It is a world leader in torture and executions, and it has financed terrorism in its region and far beyond. Iran’s leaders have impoverished a country where per capita income was above the global average as recently as the 1970s.

The regime’s distinct brutality should have been reason for the United States to think carefully and plan cautiously for any war. The history of modern American wars, particularly in Iran’s region, is full of hubris that incubated defeat. Yet Mr. Trump eschewed thoughtful planning at every step.

He accepted the rose-colored assessment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who predicted that the Iranian regime would quickly fall. Mr. Trump dismissed the views of his aides who told him that Mr. Netanyahu’s forecast was farcical. Mr. Trump ignored the Constitution and refused to seek congressional approval for the war. He did not listen to European and Asian allies who opposed his war. He failed to plan for Iran’s obvious ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. He made threats about destroying Iranian civilization that succeeded only in diminishing America’s moral standing.

For his sins, he has now agreed to a peace framework that the entire world understands is a defeat for him. It is a setback for America, too.

One more thing too.

The decrepit Trump embarrassed the United States with every step he took, every word he said, during the G7.

To flatter him, French President, Macron, invited Trump to dinner at Versailles. Who would expect the gold-besotted man to decline?

He didn't. He is staying away longer. Be grateful.

Jack Schlossberg’s mom made a video.

Jack Schlossberg is running for the Congressional seat in New York's Congressional District #12. Early voting has begun.

The grandson of President John F. Kennedy has brought out his biggest gun for an endorsement.

That would his mother, Caroline Kennedy, whom Jack calls “the greatest of all time.”

Click on this link to watch. 👇

Coming this summer.

A'ja Wilson - multiple-time WNBA champion, MVP superstar, Olympic gold medalist, and one of the dominant players of her generation.

A'ja on a Wheaties box recognizes her as “one of the great American athletes" and makes a statement - women’s basketball is now officially mainstream.

A Black woman WNBA star getting a solo national cereal-box honor is not just sports marketing; it signals broader recognition, visibility, and respect.

A’ja Wilson has crossed from basketball greatness into American sports-icon territory.

A'ja! A'ja!

One more thing.