Messed up yesterday, which was nostalgic Tuesday.  Did a science posting, which is what I do on Wednesdays.  So I'll skip nostalgia this week and provide instead the latest news of today.   Blowout wins for Democrats yesterday in the national out-year elections. Said the morning  New York Times . Zohran Mamdani, 34, will be the next mayor of New York City, the youngest in more than a century. The democratic socialist will also be the city’s first Muslim mayor. Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s first female governor. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill cruised to victory in a governor’s race that polls had projected would be neck and neck .   And in California, voters passed a ballot measure to redraw the state’s maps in Democrats’ favor, which is likely to yield as many as five House seats for the party next year . And that was not all. In Maine, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have   added voting restrictions , and they approved a measu...