The Reflecting Pool Vandals caught!

[silverscreenselect]

Still waiting for that stack of accomplishments from Mamdami.

-- Eight days into his term, he secured $1.2 billion in state funding to improve the city's existing 3K child care program and establish 2,000 seats for two-year-olds this year in lower income neighborhoods. (He'd been working on the details of this programs with Gov. Hochul since before he was elected.)

-- During the severe February blizzard, he used social media recruitment efforts to add 1,400 temporary snow shovelers to existing city crew. They cleared 16,000 crosswalks, 4,000 fire hydrants, and 7.000 bus stops.

-- Implemented 24-Hour Code Blue (automatic shelter for homeless when temperature is below 32 degrees). Closed one unsafe homeless shelter while beefing up capacity at others to make up the shortfall. Opened the city's first pet-friendly family homeless shelter and a new women's intake shelter. Transitioned 2,000 homeless into shelters.

-- Fixed over 100,000 potholes in first 100 days, the fastest repair rate ever.

-- Invested $20 million in early childhood mental health through the Strong Foundations initiative

-- Exapanded overdose prevention services and opened new youth clinics in Brooklyn and Queens

== Crime levels down substantially under Mamdami. Year to year, burglaries down 19%, robberies down 18%, auto theft down 13%. Fewest murders and shootings in NYC in recorded history in first three months of the year. Murders down 57% in Brooklyn, 44% in Manhattan, no murders reported in Staten Island. Crime rates down 6% in public housing, with fewest recorded murders ever.

-- Established the city's first Office of Community safety and appointed a Deputy Mayor as its Commissioner.

--Intervened in bankruptcy proceedings involving Pinnacle Realty, a major slumlord, to add over 5,000 tenant claims into the proceedings. (Meaning that any arrangement with creditors must address those claims on the same financial basis as all others.) Delivered over $34 million in repairs and settlements for tenants.

--Began citywide "Rental Ripoff" hearings where tenants could put on record claims for phony fees, late or non-repairs and similar complaints against landlords. Goal is to produce a comprehensive record for future enforcement actions against landlords.

--Secured $9 million in restitution for workers and small businesses, much of that for improperly withheld tips and payments to suppliers.

--Required police bodycam footage release within 30 days of critical incidents

--Signed executive order prohibitin ICE from entering city property without a judicial warrant and strenghtened data privacy protection for immigrants. Distributed 30,000 flyers in ten languages at houses of worship to inform immigrants of their legal rights.

-- Opened an Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue to provide specialized care for the most clincially vulnerable inmates at Rikers Island

--Rescinded all Executive Orders entered by former mayor Eric Adams after his federal indictment in September.

--Secured a total rent freeze on all rent-stabilized apartments (about 40% of all apartments, one million in total) on one- and two-year lease renewals, effective October 1.

And most important for many New Yorkers:

-- Secured first NBA championship in 53 years for New York City.

[flockofseagulls104]

Your hero, David Duke, is praising the Mamdani backed communist who won the Congressional Primary.

You must be so proud.

[Bob Juch]

Now that the Reflecting Pool has been drained again, tire tredmarks may be clearly seen on the grey surface.

What happened to the blue? Maybe pouring hydrogen peroxide in the water to kill the algae bleached it, besides killing the ducks.

[silverscreenselect]

The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office wrote in a new court filing Friday, “It was not until after the return of the indictment [of Hearn], that the [Department of Interior] provided additional documents to the [US Attorney’s Office in DC] indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/politics ... avid-hearn

In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle: "Surprise, surprise, surprise."

[mrkelley23]

And yet the TDSers will continue to believe that the pool was vandalized, because that was the first story. The same thing will eventually happen with Fauci, I bet. So discouraging.

[flockofseagulls104]

And yet the TDSers will continue to believe that the pool was vandalized, because that was the first story. The same thing will eventually happen with Fauci, I bet. So discouraging.

No, the TDSers made this story a mountain out of a molehill because the tidal pool renovation wasn't done right. So they could blow it out of proportion and use it as another blunt instrument to hit Trump with. Just like they do with anything and everything. So tiresome.

I will admit that trumps response was just as stupid, but this whole episode doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world except to people with TDS.

Maybe you haven't heard Mr Kelley. But Fauci wrote a diary where it is shown, in his own words, that he lied and misled this country and the world for his own engrandisment. And unlike the tons of bullshit thrown at trump, this is true. He has admitted that the diary is legitimate. You are still defending him? Sad.

[silverscreenselect]

But Fauci wrote a diary where it is shown, in his own words, that he lied and misled this country and the world for his own engrandisment. And unlike the tons of bullshit thrown at trump, this is true. He has admitted that the diary is legitimate. You are still defending him? Sad.

Well, I have gotten myself somewhat up to date on the new Fauci controversy and, as expected, you have once again misstated the gist of what's in Fauci's diaries. He was certainly fascinated by the attention he received, but his entries indicate that he was never sure about the ultimate source of the COVID virus, but felt that the explanation he gave in public, with caveats he repeatedly gave in public, was that the virus arose naturally and came from some animal in Wuhan. Critics have taken one sentence from Fauci's diary out of context in January 2020: ""the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. … Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier." They omitted what he wrote next: "Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans." The diary is a day-by-day chronicle of Fauci's feelings at the time he wrote them. His opinions changed as more data came in, and in January, 2020, we were just beginning to figure out the nature of the virus. The consensus of opinion, admittedly not unanimous, has been for a natural origin of the virus.

One thing that gets completely lost in this controversy is what difference the virus's origin makes in determining what the response and treatment of the virus should have been. This whole thing is Rand Paul trying to beat his favorite dead horse, and blind followers like Flock egging him on.

[Beebs52]

But Fauci wrote a diary where it is shown, in his own words, that he lied and misled this country and the world for his own engrandisment. And unlike the tons of bullshit thrown at trump, this is true. He has admitted that the diary is legitimate. You are still defending him? Sad.

Well, I have gotten myself somewhat up to date on the new Fauci controversy and, as expected, you have once again misstated the gist of what's in Fauci's diaries. He was certainly fascinated by the attention he received, but his entries indicate that he was never sure about the ultimate source of the COVID virus, but felt that the explanation he gave in public, with caveats he repeatedly gave in public, was that the virus arose naturally and came from some animal in Wuhan. Critics have taken one sentence from Fauci's diary out of context in January 2020: ""the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. … Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier." They omitted what he wrote next: "Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans." The diary is a day-by-day chronicle of Fauci's feelings at the time he wrote them. His opinions changed as more data came in, and in January, 2020, we were just beginning to figure out the nature of the virus. The consensus of opinion, admittedly not unanimous, has been for a natural origin of the virus.

One thing that gets completely lost in this controversy is what difference the virus's origin makes in determining what the response and treatment of the virus should have been. This whole thing is Rand Paul trying to beat his favorite dead horse, and blind followers like Flock egging him on.

Y'all are in the WRONG thread. Wake the fuck up.