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The City Finally Cracks Down On e-Scooters
Mayor Mamdani announced that the city will fine online retailers $2,000 for each illegal e-bike or e-scooter sold.
The city also sent cease-and-desist letters to more than 40 retailers, including Amazon and Best Buy, accusing them of selling vehicles that exceed the city's speed limits.
Ireland’s new $61M “Air Force One” will be delivered without the FalconEye fog- landing system because it’s made by Israeli defense firm Elbit, according to reports. The technology helps aircraft land safely in poor visibility.
MTA to get rid of Museum of Sex bus ads
Museum of Sex ads that have been prominently displayed along NYC buses for the past few months will be phased out over the next two months after a series of complaints by parents and religious groups.
The ads promoting the Museum of Sex will rotate off the MTA system within 60 days, rather than by the end of the year. In fact, the museum had been planning to expand its advertising campaign to cover the entire exterior of buses and include more explicit imagery.
The new Sanitation Department sticker of shame
U.S. House Passes Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed HR 193, a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, ending the twice-yearly clock changes if it becomes law.
The bill now moves to the Senate.
If approved by the Senate and signed by the President, Americans would no longer “fall back” or “spring forward” each year.
Do you support making Daylight Saving Time permanent, or would you rather keep Standard Time year-round?
China successfully recovered an orbital-class reusable first-stage booster at sea for the first time.
Ground has officially been broken on 2 World Trade Center, nearly 25 years after 9/11. The 1,226-foot, 55-story skyscraper will serve as American Express' new global headquarters and is slated for completion in 2031.
A stunning discovery was made in the Russian town of Lubavitch - an antique, luxurious pocket watch that had been used by family members of the Chabad Rebbes.
Campers from Camp Gan Israel near Moscow who were visiting started digging in the courtyard of the rebbes’ home and discovered the watch, alongside ancient rubles that had been buried for decades.
Making lemonade out of lemons: The image of the wandering Jew, long held up as an object for ridicule by 2,000 years of Christians, is being turned into a beautiful work of art in Venice.
Nabatele, an art installation by Ukrainian-Jewish artist Anna Kamyshan, depicts a shul that is a blend of different wooden shtetl shuls across Europe, perched on a heap of earth. But it’s not on the ground — it is soaring in the sky. It as an official project of the Venice Biennale, the oldest art festival of its kind, where it will float over the city’s lagoon starting July 16.
The Venice Biennale, which has been around since 1895, gives each country its own pavilion where artists representing their nation install their pieces. This year, in protest of both Israel’s and Russia’s participation, the entire jury which doles out the festival’s prestigious awards, resigned.
But Nabatele is affiliated with the Yiddishland Pavilion, a project that sidesteps the entire controversy of choosing which nations can participate. With support from the Montreal Jewish Museum, she submitted the project as a longshot, and was surprised when it was accepted.
Flunk factories: A bombshell report finds that nearly half of NYC's public schools have over half their students failing state math or reading exams, and a third flunking both. This means that a staggering 43% of the system's 912,000 students have a 50-50 odds of failure.
China using drones to rescue people from deadly floods that have killed at least 17 people.
50 Years Ago Today: The Entebbe Raid, One of the Most Daring Hostage Rescue Missions in History
This photo shows Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos and rescued hostages aboard an Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules after the Entebbe Raid. The black Mercedes-Benz seen in the image was brought by the raiding force as a replica of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's official car, part of a deception plan intended to make the convoy appear like Amin's motorcade and gain precious moments of surprise as they approached the terminal.
On July 4, 1976, Israeli commandos flew more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) to rescue 102 hostages held by Palestinian and German terrorists after Air France Flight 139 was hijacked while en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, where dictator Idi Amin supported the hijackers.
The assault lasted about 30 minutes. Nearly all of the hijackers were killed, along with dozens of Ugandan soldiers, and 11 Soviet-made MiG fighter jets were destroyed on the ground to prevent pursuit.
The operation came at a cost:
- Lt. Col. Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, commander of the assault force and older brother of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was the only Israeli soldier killed during the raid.
- Three hostages were killed during the rescue.
- A fourth hostage, Dora Bloch, who had been taken to a hospital before the raid, was later murdered by Ugandan authorities.
Fifty years later, Operation Entebbe (Operation Thunderbolt) is still studied by militaries around the world and is widely regarded as one of the most daring and successful hostage rescue missions ever conducted.
NYC is bringing back stickers for alternate side parking violators.
New York City's Department of Sanitation plans to replace nearly 30,000 parking spaces with "Empire Bin" trash containers over the next six years in order to eradicate piles of trash bags from sidewalks. -Gothamist
How Android phones gave a warning in Venezuela before the Earthquake struck
Merchant Cash Advance Industry Rocked by Reported $235M+ Simad/Damis Collapse
The merchant cash advance industry may have just experienced one of its biggest blowups to date.
According to bankruptcy filings and industry discussions, Simad Holdings and the related Damis entities have filed for Chapter 11 after a rapid financial collapse that has reportedly left more than $235 million in outstanding MCA obligations owed to approximately 20-30 funders.
The company, owned by brothers David and Michael Shabsels, built one of the largest privately owned summer camp networks in the U.S., operating roughly 30 camps along with a broader portfolio of approximately 80 real estate assets, including office, retail, multifamily, and hospitality properties.
For the MCA industry, the concern goes well beyond the bankruptcy itself. DailyFunder participants report that many funders had significant exposure, with some allegedly holding eight-figure positions. If those reports are accurate, this could become the largest merchant cash advance loss the industry has ever seen.
https://dailyfunder.com/showthread.php/32105-Simad-Damis-Collapse