Friday, July 24, 2026
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Public Occurrences July 23, 2026
Mamdani Knew He Couldn’t Arrest Netanyahu. But He Could Denounce Him.
In a video message, the mayor of New York City said he could not legally arrest Israel’s prime minister but reinforced his position as a voice of the international left.
nytimesMayor Zohran Mamdani recently disclosed that he was in “active conversation” with his legal team about whether he could make good on a campaign vow to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, should he set foot in New York City.
What the mayor neglected to say, in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times last week, was that he had already been advised by lawyers that he had no authority to do so.
[Okay. Was he at the time of the interview still in "active conversation"? It sounds not, which is strong evidence that he dissembled. But I read a Yale law professor say that Netanyahoo was not protected on New York streets. In the UN building sure, not in traffic from the airport to the UN. Maybe the Yalie was wrong, but that is what he said.]His declaration risked a rare public clash with his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, whose pro-Israel stance runs counter to the mayor’s longstanding position.
[Pause: Tisch is "pro-Israel". Mamdani's "longstanding position" is "counter". In normal English construction that makes Mamdani anti-Israel--nothing wrong with that in my book but why don't they say that? Why do they put it, somewhat vaguely, as "counter" to being pro-Israel?]Ms. Tisch had no intention of arresting Mr. Netanyahu, and the Police Department was ready to make that clear with a formal statement declaring that it lacked the authority to take such action. Lawyers agreed that such an arrest was not within the scope of the Police Department.
“N.Y.P.D.’s position is entirely rooted in the law,” an agency spokeswoman, Delaney Kempner, said.
[So why is Tisch's pro-Israel stance, which leads the discussion and is followed by "Tisch had no intention", placed before case over: NYPD had no legal authority?
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[In his two-minute address]:
The mayor then said that city lawyers had determined he did not have the authority to arrest Mr. Netanyahu, and urged the federal government to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli leader.
Mr. Mamdani recorded the video Tuesday afternoon and was personally involved in editing the clip, according to a city official familiar with its preparation. The message seemed designed to...
[WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! Weasel word alert: "seemed". To whom? To Sally Goldenberg, Dana Rubenstein, and Liam Stack, the authors? Since Tisch's and Mamdani's stances re Israel are deemed relevant to the reporters, are the reporters' stances re Israel relevant in arriving at the conclusion "seemed designed to"?
["Seemed designed to" what?]
["Seems" reasonable. What did Mamdani do wrong again? Break a campaign promise? Lie to nytimes?]
[It did? Can we have the methodology, sample construct and size of those consulted on the "international left" and the percentage who responded, "his stature is reinforced as a pre-eminent voice" of us. I was not surveyed by GoldenRubenStack and I have an ANTIFA sticker on my car bumper. I wouldn't consider myself among the "international" left but the question is begged, who are these international southpaws and who among my esteemed fellow travelers did GoldenRubenStack survey to elevate Mayor Mamdani to international-left-preeminent-voicehood? Is there a president or I don't know a General Secretary or something of the "international left" that Mamdani might be running for? I might be interested in that position too.]
...and gave the issue prominence at a time when Mr. Netanyahu’s conduct of the war in Gaza has led to two independent United Nations inquiries and humanitarian groups inside and outside of Israel to accuse him of perpetrating a genocide — an accusation that Mr. Netanyahu denies.
[Really? So two mins from a 30-something, 7-month mayor of the Toilet Nation's largest metro "gave the issue prominence"...wait for it! "when Mr. Netanyahu’s conduct of the war in Gaza has led to two independent United Nations inquiries and humanitarian groups inside and outside of Israel to accuse him of perpetrating a genocide..."
[So all those "others" didn't sufficiently give "the issue prominence", it took the evil, anti-war crimes, anti-genocide, law-following, international, 30-something mayor of NYC to really hit the nail on the head with a two-minute address viewed by 64M. Hey, not tooting my own horn but I have a blog with 7M total pageviews (in 16 yrs :( )]
The video also drew backlash from pro-Israel groups and from the Israeli government. Several said the video could inflame antisemitism, and accused the mayor of being overly focused on international relations at a time when his city is facing acute problems.
Well, GoldenRubenStack, you have not convinced me of whatever you were trying to convince me of, but I will take my new status as a member of the "international left" with your thanks. Muaw.
Do the "Heat" really want LeBron James?
Time magazine's Sports 100 most influential people, or something like that. An image included in the team's embarrassing, premature signing announcement.
It's always all about LeBron. Pat Riley is not groveling. Reading the tone and substance of his remarks, very unusual that he made any at all, "We talked about signing him a week ago", "I'm not going to bug Rich Paul", yes, he wants him.
How much?
- Enough to put up with the Indecision, with a Return of the Prodigal Player intro "unlike anything anybody has ever seen", to quote another megalomaniac;
- With everything overshadowing Team?
- knowing that with LeBron, with Bam, with Giannis, he will have created The Great Wall, "perhaps the most formidable front line in NBA history" (Brian Windhorst);
- knowing that the basketball genius IQ of James and the innovation of Erik Spoelstra once revolutionized this sport with the creation of positionless basketball, the near equivalent of the revolution Pep Guardiola fashioned in soccer with the perfection of tiki-taka;
- knowing that with even a shortened collaboration between those two another revolution, or perfection of a progenitor, may be fashioned.
But LeBron has to want the "Heat" back. He should need no convincing, and none will be offered.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
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The Winnipeg Jets’s official YouTube channel has LeBron’s introductory press conference scheduled for July 27 🤔
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(h/t @TheNBACentel / youtube.com/live/-Rl0FyHa8…)
This is something. Just "preparation, preparation, preparation"?
The Miami Heat YouTube channel scheduled a video titled 'LeBron James Introductory Press Conference July 27 2026' - The video was then made private
21st July 2026 10:28pm
Google AI:
The Miami Heat's social media team accidentally published a placeholder YouTube link for a LeBron James introductory press conference scheduled for July 27, 2026. A team spokesperson confirmed it was a mistake made while preparing for the possibility of his free agency decision.
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Heat's social media department mistakenly posted LeBron James introductory press conference video on YouTube while preparing for the possibility of LeBron picking the Heat, per @Anthony_Chiang.
3:12 AM · Jul 22, 2026
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A preparatory something, I can mostly understand. A VIDEO put together merely in "preparation of a POSSIBLE" occurrence, um, squirm, squeak...Okay. But a "placeholder", I think I understand the usage, "Don't schedule any other superstar free agent intros on July 27". Nah-ah. Are we to believe that Monday July 27 was just chosen at random? That the date was not coordinated with LBJ?
If we are to believe that, I don't. It is done...or it WAS done: LBJ is--or was--joining the "Heat" and the intro presser is--OR WAS--"hold that place!", scheduled for July 27. Beyond a reasonable doubt I believe that. Now maybe LBJ changed his mind, either in pique over the leak or because his 12-year old daughter put her foot down, or, or, or, or. But that WAS--and still may be--done. Maybe they'll reschedule it, OR go ahead with it on the 27th, OR scrap it entirely because LBJ pitched a fit and is now going to sign elsewhere I DON'T KNOW! But this WAS--AND MAY STILL BE--something.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Recent War Crimes of the Toilet Nation Christian Protectorate of Isreal
You choose: Who are the "Chosen People"?
The people of Ukraine are fighting--and winning--a war against a military superpower on their own. They have thrilled the world with their ingenuity and home-made weaponry and are admired worldwide (except in Rus) for their self-sufficiency, high-spirited, can-do optimism and humane prosecution of war.
The people of Israel can't grow an olive tree without help, can't survive on their own, wouldn't have a country without 75 years of welfare and warfare aid, can't fight their way out of a paper bag on their own, are despised worldwide, are the inhabitants of a humiliated, failed vassal state that commits war crimes and genocide, and chose as their leader a man who is now on trial in his own country for crimes and has an international arrest warrant outstanding.
