26 June—Good news: Julian Assange is out of the slammer in London and home free in Oz. He should never have been forced to seek asylum or jailed for doing the right thing in the first place. His lawyers, including his wife, had the sense to keep him out of the continental United States for his plea-bargained court appearance in the South Pacific. Who even knew there was a Federal District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands on Saipan? (The Southern Mariana Island is Guam, which has its own Federal District Court.)

More good news: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the besieged country’s military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service. Prime Minister Netanyahu isn’t too happy, as he needs the super-frummers’ support to stay in office. Aw gee. It’s about time.

Some more good news: Jamaal Bowman, the anti-Jewish so-called progressive two-term congressman representing northern Bronx and southern Westchester in New York, lost the Democratic primary yesterday to a reasonably moderate candidate who is likely to go to Washington. Bowman had been endorsed by the likes of Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressbrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

(Back in 2016, when Hillary Clinton screwed Bernie Sanders out of the Democrat nomination to run against Donald Trump, it was thought by many that Sanders could have beaten Trump—even though he’s a Jew and claims to be a socialist. So even given all Trump’s negatives, it’s a good thing Sanders didn’t get the nomination. And the hypocritical socialist is even older than Joe Biden.)

Still more good news: Three Trump-endorsed candidates lost Republican primaries.

Bad news: Trump cheerleader Lauren Boebert easily won the primary in the Colorado district she recently moved to in order to virtually guarantee her re-election to the House of Representatives. How does Trump do it?