Today is both the day of “No Kings” marches and rallies throughout the United States (including New York), and the first day of early voting in the New York City primaries for mayor and other local elected offices.

Today is the last day to register for Primary Day, which is June 24th. For details about when and where to vote, check out vote.nyc/elections. To see who is running for what, and why they think you should vote for them, check out nycvotes.org. (especially the Plan Your Ballot page)

This exercise in American democracy is in stunning contrast to the unprecedented plan in Washington D.C. today, as depicted by David Plunkett on the cover of the New Yorker magazine:

As the magazine explains: “…the artist David Plunkert set out to visually depict one of the President’s latest oversteps, his parade to celebrate the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, which happens to fall on his seventy-ninth birthday, on June 14th, and which will cost as much as forty-five million dollars. Images can be good vehicles for irony. “The Washington Monument standing tall in the background is a granite counterpoint to Trump’s party hat,” Plunkert said.”