Jessica Tisch, the current head of the New York Police Department, agreed to serve in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's administration despite differences in their approaches to policing.
Last month, a DoorDash driver in upstate New York delivered an item to a local house in Oswego[,NY] -- only to find the front door open and a man apparently unconscious or asleep on a couch in the front room. The man was also quite naked, with pants and underwear around his ankles, and he was fully visible from the porch.
Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months away from losing its measles elimination status, according to a report by The New York Times.
U.S. Representative Robert Garcia of California, top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told CNN's Kaitlan Collins Monday night that additional documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate are expected to be released. read more
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@#12 ... Emails isn't enough. ...
Oh, I agree that emails, in and of themself, are not enough.
But, now say that to Mr Summers, and others.
Or this ...
NBC archive footage shows Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992
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Yeah, I agree, emails may not be enough.
But video?
What else yer got?
So, Mayor-elect Mamdani now has the support of the NYC PD Commissioner.
Mamdani says New York City's current police commissioner will stay on the job
www.pbs.org
... Mamdani, 34, has vowed to remake the department as mayor by shifting some responsibilities from the police to new mental health care teams. Tisch is the heiress to a multibillion-dollar family fortune and is considered a steady, establishment moderate with nearly two decades in public service.
She has been a fierce critic of the state's bail reform laws, which Mamdani supports, and has called on the city to hire more officers. Mamdani has walked back his previous comments about defunding the police, but he said he will keep the department's headcount even.
In an email to officers Wednesday, Tisch acknowledged the different views she has with Mamdani but said a series of conversations with him had made her "confident" that she can lead the department under his mayoralty. ...
@#9 ... The Cloudflare thing just recently ...
Cloudflare broke itself -- and a big chunk of the Internet " with a bad database query
www.theregister.com
... Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a "hyper-scale DDoS attack," before figuring out the real problem.
Prince has penned a late Tuesday post that explains the incident was "triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a feature file' used by our Bot Management system."
The file describes malicious bot activity and Cloudflare distributes it so the software that runs its routing infrastructure is aware of emerging threats.
Changing database permissions caused the size of the feature file to double and grow beyond the file size limit Cloudflare imposes on its software. When that code saw the illegally large feature file, it failed. ...
@#27 ... Saudi Arabia in action against Yemen ...
Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
en.wikipedia.org
... On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, staged a military intervention in Yemen at the request of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been ousted from the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 by Houthi insurgents during the Yemeni civil war.
Efforts by the United Nations (UN) to facilitate a power sharing arrangement under a new transitional government collapsed, leading to escalating conflict between government forces, Houthi rebels, and other armed groups, which culminated in Hadi fleeing to Saudi Arabia shortly before it began military operations in the country. ...
@#4
This song just popped up on a playlist here as I read your comment ...
Riders on the Storm
en.wikipedia.org
... "Riders on the Storm" is a song by American rock band the Doors, released in June 1971 by Elektra Records as the second single from the band's sixth studio album, L.A. Woman. It is known for being the last song that Jim Morrison recorded prior to his sudden death in Paris on July 3, 1971. ...
The lyrics were written and brought to rehearsal by Morrison, of which a portion of it refers to hitchhiking killer Billy "Cockeyed" Cook, who was the subject of the 1953 film, The Hitch-Hiker.[9] Manzarek noted that some lines express Morrison's love to his companion Pamela Courson.[15] ...
Heidegger's influenceSpeaking with Krieger and Manzarek, the German philosopher Thomas Collmer argued that the line "Into this world we're thrown" recalls philosopher Martin Heidegger's concept of "thrownness" -- human existence as a basic state. ...
@#21 ... I grab that hand. I don't care where the hell that hand's been. I grab that hand." ...
As he grabs the Crown Prince's left hand.
OK, I'll try to be more circumspect here ...
Why Left-Handed Eating Is Frowned Upon In The Middle East (May 2024)
www.foodrepublic.com
... In many parts of the world, it's not uncommon for hands to be the go-to utensils for enjoying a meal. For most of human history, hands have been the primary tool for most things, food consumption included.
Today, the tradition is governed by cultural etiquette rules in much of India, Africa, and the Middle East -- the birthplaces of human civilization. In majority-Muslim countries, Islamic doctrine dictates that food should be consumed with the right hand, a decree by the Prophet Muhammad that can be found in the Qur'an.
This is one of the reasons why in most Middle Eastern countries, the left and right hands have distinct purposes when it comes to activities involving cleanliness and consumption.
Custom dictates that the left hand should be reserved for bodily hygiene purposes, or "unclean" activities, while the right hand is favored for eating, greeting, and other such "clean" activities.
It's best practice to default to the right hand for gift-giving, handing over money, or greeting another person -- while the left is primarily for cleaning oneself.
For this reason, using the left hand to eat or shake someone's hand is considered not only unhygienic but potentially insulting as well. ...
OK, I tried ...
AI ROI: The paradox of rising investment and elusive returns (October 2025)
www.deloitte.com
... Boardrooms are full of discussion about the AI race, but beneath the buzz the reality is more complicated. Organisations are pouring in investment, yet returns are slow to materialise and hard to measure. ...
@#13 ... Just saw the two sponsors of the Epstein File Bill saying that no matter that Blondi today is lying about 'new information' she apparently just received that would keep some information from an investigation being released that, two things: ...
Are the MAGA supporters of Pres trump now starting to realize ...
[Your Love Is Like] Nuclear Waste (1977)
www.youtube.com
madmusic.com
Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore.