Andrew Stiles

Karine Jean-Pierre. Remember her?

It's hard being a liberal in Washington, D.C., when a Republican is president. You're angry all the time, and you don't get invited to the fancy White House parties anymore. You end up settling for thin gruel, trudging through the cold on a Wednesday night to watch Mehdi Hasan and the #Resistance all-stars validate your grievances for three hours.

Paramount is closer than ever to acquiring CNN parent company Warner Bros. after Netflix declined to raise its bid for the media conglomerate. That's bad news for the failing network's stable of overpaid hacks, many of whom will be first in line for layoffs (or drastic salary reductions) once the acquisition goes through. Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has already signaled its support for the move.

Ali Khamenei, the "Black Lives Matter" advocate and long-serving supreme leader of Iran, was a guiding light to Democratic lawmakers, Ivy League professors, and other progressive ideologues who endorsed his intellectual appraisal of America's evil and the treachery of Jews.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) has a girl problem. The Levi Strauss heir, best known for serving as lead counsel in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, was forced to distance himself from his own wife to avoid alienating a core Democratic constituency: terrorist supporters.

Harvard students will soon be able to take a class about the meaning of Harvard, which is very Harvard—even more so because the new course will be taught by Claudine Gay, the former university president who resigned in disgrace amid plagiarism accusations and criticism of her response to anti-Semitism on campus.

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire for inflicting what many have described as a "curse" on the New York Mets after hugging the team's mascots during a photo op earlier this month. The Mets have now lost 10 consecutive games since Mamdani visited Citi Field on April 9. They've been outscored 55-17 during that stretch. Before Mamdani's ill-fated intervention, the Mets were 7-5 and had outscored their opponents 70-27. Now they're in the midst of the worst losing streak in team history.

Graham Platner's Maine could soon become a popular destination for obnoxious liberals fleeing red states due to "climate anxiety." The Bangor Daily News on Tuesday profiled Shawn and Sara Good, a married couple who recently moved to Bangor from Austin, Texas. The Goods decided to relocate because, among other reasons, Austin wasn't liberal enough and "nobody was doing anything to address" climate change.

No intelligent person believes that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) died of heart failure. Some independent researchers have suggested the Russians had him killed. After all, the senator was just in Ukraine to discuss increased U.S. support for the NATO War of Aggression.

Politico's flagship newsletter will no longer be authored by a British journalist who had to look up Franklin D. Roosevelt on Wikipedia. Jack Blanchard has finally been replaced as Playbook managing editor and lead author, the Virginia-based news blog announced Sunday.