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Early Addition: Rep. Tom Kean Jr. answered his doorbell last night
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James Ramsay
Published Jun 25, 2026
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where low overall voter turnout but highly engaged young people was a winning recipe for New York City's DSA candidates.
Here's what else is happening:
- New Jersey Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who won an uncontested primary this week after being absent from the job for months, finally answered his doorbell when a reporter rang last night.
- MTA Chair Janno Lieber told upset Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers that he sympathizes with their complaints about all the Museum of Sex ads on city buses, but he can't do much about it because of the First Amendment.
- Researchers at Rutgers have discovered that New York City mice have built immunity to household poisons, while rats have figured out how to escape from traps.
- Jasmine Ray, a daycare operator and former girlfriend of Mayor Adams who wrote a fictionalized book about their romance, is being stripped of her contract with the city's Department of Education after allegations that she may have misused public money.
- Good resource for all things Taylor Swift Madison Square Garden wedding-related.
- Getting dumped in the summer is rough.
- Watching movies about horny campers getting murdered is a summer highlight?
- And finally, elegant:
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