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Tens of thousands of Jews are gathering in Jerusalem as Jerusalem Day celebrations begin.

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@rkylesmith @EsotericCD But isn't everything on TV derivative? The "original" TV shows were derivations of radio shows and Hollywood movies. This lawsuit against Noah Wylie is stupid and reveals how self-absorbed some of these Hollywood denizens are.

@EsotericCD I don't really watch these shows but I gather that the breakthrough of ER was simply that it was a medical show with a much faster pace than previous ones. Can't copyright velocity!

I've read up on this, and it's definitely true that Wyle et al. first went to Michael Crichton's estate with the idea of an ER "sequel" starring his character. But you can't copyright the idea of working in emergency medicine or "telling stories," and saying Wyle is "just doing an older Dr. Carter" is like saying every Clint Eastwood western is just "an older Man with No Name."

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@CrimeInNYC Where's the crowd control?

Battery Park Goes Nuts Over Fruit Vendor This is a fuller video showing someone identified as a 14-year-old "migrant" girl being arrested by Parks Enforcement Patrol officers. This happened on around 2 p.m. on Sunday in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. She could have just cooperated, and her refusal to cooperate was encouraged by onlookers having panic seizures. The following is from nydailynews.com/2024/06/03/par… : About 2 p.m. on Sunday, Parks Enforcement Patrol officers began seizing fruit from unlicensed vendors in Battery Park, according to an agency rep. As parks cops tried to destroy the food, two people intervened. A 32-year-old woman was hit with a desk appearance ticket and a teen involved received a juvenile report, a Parks Department rep said. “Our Parks Enforcement Patrol’s first course of action is to educate in order to bring violators into compliance,” the spokeswoman said. “When individuals have repeatedly flouted the law, we take additional enforcement actions, and there are instances when it is necessary to place violators and individuals obstructing the law under arrest.”

@guns_ny Very true. Recently, I learned that the Sidney Poitier film, To Sir, With Love, was written by a Caribbean RAF pilot who became a teacher after British Airways refused to hire him.

@SquarePegDem76 I was aware of the West African service within the French Army but didn’t know about Sikh & Caribbean service although that makes sense. WW2 history is amazing, there’s a lifetime of stories, good and bad, to learn from it.

A story to make you take pause… god speed, sir. 102-year-old WWII vet dies en route to France for D-Day commemoration stripes.com/veterans/2024-…

@CrimeInNYC Protecting the public health is a more than century-old mandate. Street food sold by unlicensed vendors is a food-borne disease threat. Are any of these immigrants and/or their children vaccinated against diseases NYC conquered decades ago?

@guns_ny ✌️✌️ refers to the "Double Victory" African Americans sought with their service in WWII (although there some who didn't want their participation). [Did you know Sikhs & Caribbean blacks flew combat missions in the RAF? Or that West Africans fought in the French Army?]

@SquarePegDem76 The sacrifice of that generation is almost unimaginable now. I’ll have to read up on the Black Panthers specifically as I‘m embarrassed to admit I don’t know them.

@guns_ny That's understandable. Outside the black community, few knew. I met one tanker, but he didn't want to discuss his service. I had the pleasure of knowing Tuskegee airmen, Lee Archer & Roscoe Brown. I minored in black history like my mother.

@TheBronxPulse I thought you had that removed? Call 311 and your local councilman.

Can’t walk on the unpaved sidewalk because it’s full of garbage. Can’t walk along the thruway because the migrant motor-home is taking up too much along the street.

@GersonBorrero We saved their country and won their freedom from Nazi Germany. France's gratitude for American blood and sacrifice is appreciated. You're right. Our youth must recognize that Americans aren't villains everywhere.

We got some learning to do here in the U.S.A. Merci France.

@SquarePegDem76 When I was a kid, I loved going opening day weekend. I wanted it to be crowded and everything. But as I got older I became more intolerant.

It is sad that we’re down to one movie theater, but I’m guilty of not patronizing Bronx locations. After giving in twice in the last 5 years I was reminded why I go to Westchester County. I can watch a movie in peace. nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-…

@TheBronxPulse Before the Hall of Justice Courthouse was built, the photographers would set up in front of the lot and along the fence in front of the Concourse Plaza Mall entrance on E 161st Street. I lost my own photos of that time.

@TheBronxPulse In the 90s, I used to go to the late showings. I like to get a sense of what was happening so I could speak knowledgeably about conditions. The best part was the photographers who set up portraits for moviegoers. I liked their entrepreneurial spunk.

#NYCwithkids Everything you need to know about applying to NYC Middle and High School 2025! To make sure everyone gets the chance to ask their questions, space is extremely limited. RSVP at: eventbrite.com/e/getting-into…

Yesterday, the California Assembly Leader admitted that CA residents are worse off now than a decade ago, while also hesitantly claiming Prop 47 is “working.” How exactly did Prop 47’s enactment nearly a decade ago (2014) and its significant reduction of accountability for repeat thieves and fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine users improve CA? Here are a few specifc issues he should address: 1)  Homelessness increased 51% in CA since Prop 47 was enacted, while it decreased 11% in the rest of the nation. Why?  2) Reputable studies, experts and formerly homeless estimate a large percentage of the unhoused in CA are living on the streets because of substance abuse. When Prop 47 lowered penalties for hard drugs like heroin, fentanyl, meth etc. to a low level misdemeanor/citation offense, deterrence mostly disappeared  & highly effective drug courts across CA saw massive drops in participation (86% in my county) and some closed completely, resulting in tens of thousands of people every year not getting any drug or mental health treatment. How has that specific impact of Prop 47 benefited CA? Does he support mandated treatment, ever? Why not amend Prop 47 to bring treatment courts back?  3) CA spent 24 billion to address homelessness in the last five years and the number of people living on the streets has only worsened. Why? 4) Since Prop 47, CA leads the nation in total and per-capita retail theft losses as reported by retailers. Why?  5) As thousands of retail businesses in CA have raised prices, locked up product or closed since Prop 47 passed, what has the legislature done previously to effectively abate the theft crisis, as the problem has only worsened?  Why should any business or the public tolerate this or actually believe a legisltive solution is forthcoming now?  6) How does a smaller family/mom & pop retail business (e.g. convenience stores & small shops), most without full-time professional security employees, benefit from proposed legislation that still allows independent/opportunist theives (not an organized effort) to steal up to $950 again and again without ever being held accountable for more serious felony consequences under the law?  7) How does the legislature escape the Prop 47 legal requirement that any change to the law that allows effective aggregation of smaller thefts to get to a felony amount MUST go back to the ballot for approval? Especially given that the legislature’s own legal counsel concluded this fact in a previous published opinion, and the DAs and defense attorneys agree it must go back to the ballot? 8) The organized retail theft statute (490.4 PC), first enacted by the legislature in 2019, has been widely criticized as overly burdensome and mostly ineffective by the vast majority of district attorneys in CA because it requires complex evidence of multiple people involved, multiple thefts and a specific intent to resell the stolen goods etc before triggering a penalty that is no greater than easier to prove felony theft crimes that have been on the books for decades. Why does the legislature believe this same broken law will be the key to solving the retail theft crisis now?   9) Why not just support modest and common sense amendments to Prop 47 that will hold repeat thieves accountable and dramatically increase drug and mental health treatment for the thousands of people suffering from addiction and homelessness across CA?  We can’t wait another decade for change. casafecommunities.com #California #Crime #Homelessness #Drugs #Fentanyl #RetailTheft #FixProp47

@maysoonkhan Good luck.