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The new power broker: How Zohran Mamdani muscled NYC's Democratic establishment (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/zohran-mamdani-democrat-anger-primaries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p80#a260624p80

U.S. Ambassador to France,
Charles Kushner,
whose son Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka,
clashed with his French hosts weeks after arriving last July
when he accused them of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
Nearly a year later, he contends the problem has gotten worse
— so much so that he has suggested the Trump administration grant refugee status to French Jews, even as it otherwise scales back asylum provision.
“It would be an obje…

Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France, Riles Paris With Trump Diplomacy
The U.S. envoy to Paris has emerged as the embodiment of combative diplomacy in the age of President Trump, riling the French establishment notably with his accusations of antisemitism.

Why the Working Class Has Given Up on the Liberal Establishment | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-05-05/why-working-class-has-given-liberal-establishment

I love going through my replies from 2024 where I told folks that they should support the Democratic Socialists of America :dsa: against the democratic establishment, where it was their argument that this strategy would never work and is idealistic and we need to drop support for some minority group, have a “lesser evil” and “harm reduction” candidate, in order to appeal to Republicans to win.
Now, arriving in reality, all it took was actually offering an alternative, instead of just b…

"A friend shared a post on Facebook talking about portable lighthouse libraries that rotated between lighthouses of the United States Lighthouse Establishment (a predecessor of the US Coast Guard)." https://bit.ly/4xxFBXa

There's more chaos in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial Primary!
#wisconsin

Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez Ends Campaign For Governor
From establishment front-runner to out of the race in a week.

On my way to the #IETF #hackathon. This time, my focus will be on #EDHOC (key establishment for devices with tiny footprints, trying out the Lakers implementation of the PSK draft) and

The establishment media is already colluding against him....

Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade
—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins?
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the meltdown of Democratic “centrist” operatives and pundits
after recent socialist victories in New York and Colorado,
-- from James Carville calling for a party “schism” to Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s panicking about the future of the party on CNN.
Plus: we revisit our interviews…

The great ‘moderate’ fallacy: Democrats will keep losing if they reject socialists
Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins?

Establishment Dems surge, MAGA quakes (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2026/06/03/establishment-dems-surge-maga-quakes-00948068
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p37#a260603p37

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-talks-blackstone-…

Google in Talks With Blackstone, KKR to Distribute AI Models
Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and several PE firms that will employ technical consultants to integrate AI into the PE firms’ portfolio

Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out of the Wisconsin Democratic governor primary Friday,
citing her campaign’s mishandling of financial reports.
Her departure from the race is a blow to the state’s more establishment wing,
leaving two progressives
— former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes
and state lawmaker Francesca Hong
— as the leading Democratic candidates in the battleground state

Farage vs Binface in Clacton.
Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems, Greens, Restore all not standing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg4y3g0z7o

Nigel Farage's political rivals rule out standing in Clacton by-election
The Reform UK leader says he wants an "establishment versus the people by-election" but Labour calls it a "circus".

Becerra and Bass surge in California as anti-establishment fever breaks (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/03/becerra-bass-surge-dem-establishment-california-00948062
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p14#a260603p14

"the commission, “in reality,” appeared to be “mostly public relations crisis management and damage control for a political establishment in New Mexico that suddenly realized the world could see just how corrupt they’d been with regards to Epstein for decades.”
Major issue flagged as new Epstein investigation kicks off: 'Fox guarding the henhouse' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2677008645/

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.
That includes two self-described democratic socialists and a progressive who won their Democratic primaries in New York last week.
Kiros' victory adds to a nascent but clear uprising, stirred by frustration among some voters, that has vexed party leadership.
Colorado's 1st Congressional District covers t…

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats longtime House incumbent in Colorado primary
Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 28. April 1958 testete #Großbritannien im Rahmen der Operation #Grapple seine stärkste #Atomwaffe "Grapple Y" vor der Weihnachtsinsel. Die Testreihe etabl…

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate,
defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District primary,
-- the latest signal that progressive momentum and backlash against the Democratic establishment are spreading nationwide.
“We won tonight, but this is also something so much bigger than this moment,”
Kiros, who was fired from the law firm Sidley Austin in 2023 for speaking out in support o…

Another Blow to Democratic Establishment as Melat Kiros Unseats 30-Year Incumbent in Colorado | Common Dreams
“We won tonight, but this is also something so much bigger than this moment," said Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist.

A new wave of health influencers aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Movement
are championing nicotine as a ‘natural’ health hack,
saying the medical establishment has unfairly demonized the compound.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/well/nicotine-heal…

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack
The influencers, many of them aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Movement, say the medical establishment has unfairly demonized the compound.

CEO of Iran Tech Company Arrested on Federal Charge of Supplying U.S. Equipment to Iran's Nuclear and Military Establishment (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-iran-tech-company-arrested-federal-charge-supplying-us-equipment-irans-nuclear-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p134#a260603p134

Paralympic gold medalist Josh Turek wins Iowa Senate primary with establishment support (Samuel Benson/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/turek-wins-iowa-senate-primary-00947727
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p131#a260602p131

Alarmed by voters’ rejection of corporate media’s preference for moderates,
establishment media outlets reacted with panicked op-eds and articles downplaying the significance of the Democratic Socialist election victories.
New York City “isn’t reflective of the country,” declared a Washington Post editorial published 6/24/26, the day after the election.
The paper, which billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought in 2013,
added that “the base detests anyone perceived …

State Attorney General Phil Weiser
won the Democratic nomination for governor of Colorado,
upsetting Sen. Michael Bennet
in the latest example of Democratic voters rebelling against the party’s establishment.
The triumph makes Weiser a strong frontrunner to win the governorship in November
in a state which has become reliably Democratic at the presidential level

The Democratic Insurgency Just Took Out A Major Democrat’s Bid For Governor
Attorney General Phil Weiser defeated Sen. Michael Bennet in a major upset in Colorado's gubernatorial primary.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will probably represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.
It is difficult to say how many seats Democrats will lose in the coming Republican redistricting bonanza that the court’s decision will allow.
A New York Times analysis found that the ruling would endanger about a dozen Democratic-leaning seats across the America…

Auf dem Campus habe ich heute eine Studentin gesehen die auf einer Bank saß und geraucht hat und auf ihr Handy geschaut hat, auf Insta oder so.
Dann dachte ich mir, vor 10 Jahren hätte ich nun gedacht: Oh je, warum haut die sich dieses Gift in ihre Lunge.
Heute denke ich: Oh je, warum haut die sich dieses Gift in ihr Gehirn. Naja, wenigstens raucht sie und hat so noch ein wenig Anti-Establishment dabei.

As many Democratic primary voters see it, “they’ve been failed by a cautious, compromising establishment,
and they’re going to overthrow it,”
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
“The Democratic version of the Tea Party is here, with dramatic implications.”

Opinion | Democrats Are Done With Caution
Tuesday’s primary demonstrated the astonishing political power of Mamdani and of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Can the Mamdani machine kill the Democratic establishment? (William Liang/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5952209-dsa-defeats-establishment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260703/p52#a260703p52

Khanna: Time for ‘old guard’ in Democratic establishment to step aside
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5951129-democratic-party-leadership-challenge/