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How You Should Vote in the New York City Democratic Party Primary
This is NOT an endorsement.
Rusty Foster
June 16, 2025
In 2021 the New York Times editorial board wrote that New York’s then-Governor Andrew Cuomo “should resign” in the face of “credible accusations that can’t be looked past,” specifically accusations of “a yearslong pattern of ‘unwelcome and nonconsensual touching,’ ‘offensive comments’ and other improper behavior toward at least 11 women, several on his staff.” Cuomo did resign one week later, taking up the title and mostly ceremonial responsibilities of “Disgraced Former Governor.” In 2024, Katie Robertson and Nicholas Fandos reported that “The New York Times editorial board will no longer make endorsements in New York elections, including in races for governor and mayor of New York City.” So the dwindling handful of remaining NYT editorial board readers were puzzled this morning to find their recipe and games app endorsing Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic party primary / de facto general election for New York Mayor.
Of course editorial board defenders, if there were such a thing, would hasten to clarify that it’s not an endorsement. It’s merely the board’s “advice” to “voters” on how they should fill out their ballot in an upcoming election, which is obviously a very different thing. And while the piece does praise the charisma, joy, and “fresh political style” of front-runner Zohran Mamdani, the Board ultimately concludes that what would be best for the city right now is a vindictive groper who “has always had a self-serving streak and been known for his political bullying,” and who transparently hates the city and wants to be its mayor primarily to punish it for spearheading his political ruin.
Charisma and fresh ideas, or a mean, handsy old man who hates you? We favor the latter, writes someone who is scared of the subway.
🔎 DID YOU KNOW… that the New York Times editorial board is just a pseudonym shared by a bunch of weirdos with bad opinions that no one should listen to?
🤿 GO DEEPER: That’s what Virginia Woolf shouldn’t have done, writes the Today in Tabs editorial board.
The Big Sad Boy’s Big Birthday Parade was a bust, with tanks creaking past empty bleachers and blocks of sloppy, bored looking troops meandering casually down Constitution Avenue to an instrumental rendition of “Fortunate Son,” which everyone with a functioning sense of irony can recognize as a roast. Event planner Doug Landry analyzed the organization of it (bad) and Army vet Charlotte Clymer tried to explain what she thinks is going on with that marching:
I think a lot of these soldiers just didn’t care enough to do a good job. They had to do a full dress rehearsal on Friday (and likely rehearsed for weeks prior to the march), then likely had to get up early on Saturday to hurry-up-and-wait all day for an evening parade.
…I do not believe this was some coordinated protest against Trump or “malicious incompetence” (as has been bandied about online), but I do think the troops who were assigned to march in this damn parade were rightly pissed and too tired to care how they looked.
Meanwhile the rest of the country hosted massive “No Kings” protests (or “One King” protests, in London) which the far-left socialist peaceniks at The Economist report “have been notably peaceful.” Nevertheless everyone online spent the last week watching cops shoot, trample, beat up, and brutalize peaceful citizens, journalists, and more journalists with no warning or provocation.
On The Lighter Side: Police scanner listeners were treated to a teary-sounding LAPD officer reporting that LAPD rioters on one side of Main St. were being shot with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters by L.A. Sheriff’s Department rioters on the other side of the street. Lol. [SOT: Curb theme]
Today In The Jackpot: Ryan Enos: “Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy.” Jack Mirkinson: “What Protesting Is Really About.” Wired: “How to Win a Fight.”
🍆 GO DEEPER: Yes, Daddy. Hit it from the back.
Today in Olde Knifey: Octopus boom in Devon and Cornwall. Idyllic Cotswolds village being ruined by tourists, complain tourists. GULL CRIME.
Also Today in Tabs: Everyone loved Kerry Howley’s profile of Pete Hegseth. I haven’t finished reading it, so all I’m saying is: everyone seems to have loved it. We’re still doing articles about the weird old guy that wants to have boners like his teenage son, I guess. As god is my witness I’m going to outlive that man. You watch. David Pierce reports that the Trump griftphone is absolutely not going to happen as promised. Easiest bet of all time. And I don’t love the special “gold share” powers being assigned to the President specifically but other than that, re-nationalizing the U.S. steel industry is low-key based. Do healthcare next. Andrew Dana Hudson: “The Political Dimensions of Solarpunk...Ten Years Later.”
Finally: For no particular reason, “I’m Happy You’re Here: Anxiety.”
Today’s Song: “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye
💸 GO DEEPER… into debt to cough up the cash for a paid Tabs subscription. These premium Axios dunks aren’t gonna write themselves.
🔭 ZOOM OUT: Farther out. Farther. A little more… ok, right there. See that? What the hell is that?
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