Democrats’ ‘Tea Party’ moment. HuffPost’s Kevin Robillard says last night’s primary results—especially in New York City—reveal a party establishment confronting a progressive rebellion parallel to the Republican Party’s conservative surge of 20 years ago.
■ Critics of Israel’s government—all backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani—went three-for-three, displacing two incumbent Democrats.
■ Another loser: President Kennedy’s grandson.
War on the war. The 10th time proved a charm for the Senate, which finally approved a resolution to block President Trump’s war on Iran …
■ … although it doesn’t carry the force of law and so is largely symbolic.
■ Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the (purportedly) war-ending memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran is Trump essentially “telling Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s romance with Israel is over.”
■ Columnist Neil Steinberg visited a Chicago celebration of Israel’s 78th birthday—an event whose location was kept secret in a reminder that Jews are “still the ones who have to lurk in the shadows, worrying about being killed.”
‘A bold new world of corporate avarice.’ Pulitzer winner Gene Weingarten calls out the Trib’s corporate sibling, the Alden Global Capital-owned New York Daily News, for surrendering its front page to a congressional candidate’s ad that was “designed to look exactly like your front page.”
House-hunters’ help delayed. Trump was set today to sign a rare bipartisan bill aimed at increasing the nation’s housing stock …
■ … partly by relaxing federal environmental review requirements …
■ … and limiting institutional investors’ ability to buy up single-family homes …
■ … but then the president canceled that signing—refusing to approve the bill until Congress passes his elections overhaul, the vote-supressive SAVE AMERICA ACT.
■ Meanwhile, WBEZ explains, Gov. Pritzker’s parallel housing initiatives for Illinois went nowhere.
■ Pritzker tonight headlines a Chicago fundraiser for Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
New Illinois abortion protection. On this, the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning a constitutional right to abortion, Pritzker was set to sign an Illinois law keeping patients’ abortion-related digital medical records away from the hands of outside authorities—including those in states seeking to punish their residents who come here.
■ Abortion, Every Day columnist Jessica Valenti: As of July 4, health centers will again be able to bill Medicaid for birth control—because the defund provision in Trump’s “big beautiful bill” expires after a year.
■ Law Dork Chris Geidner says four 6-3 decisions from the Supreme Court yesterday moved U.S. law “further and further right.”
Quigley’s in. Crain’s Chicago Business (gift link): U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley’s set to make official his candidacy for Chicago mayor.
■ Block Club asks: “Why is Mayor Johnson keeping secrets about the parking meter deal?”
Measles spotted. Chicago’s investigating the case of a traveler who arrived at O’Hare a week ago.
■ Were you in Terminal 5 between 5:50 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. June 17?
‘The breakout hit of the summer.’ That’s Daily Show host Josh Johnson’s review of Trump’s Reflecting Pool fiasco.
■ Tribune alumnus Charlie Madigan: “We have a president who has shown no respect for human life. … But ducks?”
■ CNN rounds up “Trump’s false and unproven claims about the Reflecting Pool.”
■ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich is delighted to see reporters “latch onto the Reflecting Pool story and refuse to let go”—because it’s “a microcosm” of the president’s incompetence.
■ Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch (gift link): “In a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out” as “Soccer, Obama, Knicks give a glimpse of the America we can be at 250.”
■ That guy lost last night.
■ Columnist Charlotte Clymer is sick about New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s decision to hold so much alarming news about the Trump administration for their book Regime Change: “We’re being asked to buy a book with important information … that … could have already been reported in the newspaper employing the two journalists who wrote said book.”
‘Most American car.’ Based on manufacturing, domestic part sourcing and employment, Cars.com says the Tesla Model 3 is that.
■ The Onion: “Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions.”
Summer’s here and the time is right for prancing in these Ts. Chicago Public Square T-shirts provide stylish protection from too much sun …
■ … and you can get one free or at a discount by helping underwrite the cost of producing and distributing this publication.
Summer’s here. Mike Braden made this edition better.
