It’s a good day in NYC for leftists and those who love them! Also, to have sex in Greece. Plus Olivia Wilde has good taste in books.

Emily Gould

If anything, Zohran Mamdani understated the explosive expansion of his new governing coalition — especially the field army of activists from the Democratic Socialists of America — and the collapse of old alliances that have long powered New York politics. “What you’re going to see is a referendum on just how frustrated people are,” Morris Katz, a Mamdani strategist, told me the night before the primary.

After Don’t Worry Darling, Wilde took a few years to rebuild herself and do some therapy. She read books by Eve Babitz and Carrie Fisher and started journaling. “I don’t think you know what you’re made of until you fall apart. I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t had their heart broken,” she says. “If you can push through the moment you have previously identified as the worst possible thing that could happen to you, whether that is divorce or the internet hating you or whatever, you are forged into something way better than you could have possibly imagined.”

In nearby Albania, the country’s biggest protests to date are underway as Jared and Ivanka plan to obliterate defining elements of its people’s autonomy, livelihood, culture, history, and ecology. If the Kushners get their way, some areas will be permanently blighted by the imperial tyranny of American Real Estate: Beach Party. Go see Albania and spend money in support of people and their businesses in opposition to the land grab they’re facing.

It’s an amazing place. When I took the ferry from Corfu to Sarandë, border control included inspection from a calico cat that awoke briefly on top of a metal detector as I walked through it. That night, I was taught a very difficult (… to me) line dance at a family restaurant after many friendly rounds of rakia, shuffling in a linked-arm circle as an old man established my belief that one can be the Prince of the electric-clarinet solo. (To my perpetual shame, I had not previously thought all that much about the electric clarinet.) What ex? The best cure for love is “the world.”

Is your body ready for “DSA won Knicks won Pride Weekend”? It’s not too late to book a waxing appointment.