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Mamdani Defends Skipping Israel Day Parade as Action Against Israeli Government
Mamdani was the first mayor in several decades to skip the annual Israel Day Parade.
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Mitchell Robinson riding eye-popping tricked-out truck at Knicks parade
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Mitchell Robinson made sure he arrived at the Knicks’ championship parade in style.
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Alternet.org
Trump exposed for eye-watering taxpayer cost to clean up algae fiasco
President Donald Trump spent $14.2 million to paint the Reflecting Pool a blue color. The water immediately turned green in the hot Washington D.C., sunshine. Now, taxpayers are funding millions more to fix the problem. The cleanup adds another nearly $2 million to the cost of the renovations, the Columbus Post Dispatch reported. An Ohio company known as Green Water Services scored the contract. The company claims on its website that it has the "only water purification system in the world whose patented technology is backed by government and academic research."A reporter witnessed workers pouring hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool on Tuesday. Staff have been scooping the algae, vacuuming the algae and also deploying the "patented technology" from Green Water Services.The CEO of Green Water is Al George, who was also quoted by a New York Times report a month ago as bragging "about the prospect that the government would hire the company to bring mobile, trailer-based filtration systems — seemingly a temporary stopgap — to treat the pool’s water."As recently as mid-May, the administration knew there would be a continuing algae problem. The public contract information on the project shows that their work on the reflecting pool will go on through September 30.George told the San Diego Union-Tribune in January that their technology can achieve an average 93 percent reduction in bacteria "on the days we treated.""The technology uses self-contained units that require only electrical power to operate. The machines bring in air, remove nitrogen to create 95 percent pure oxygen, then feed that oxygen into an ozone generator. The ozonated water passes through a patented nanobubble generator that creates the microscopic bubbles as water is drawn in and expelled back out," the Union-Tribune explained.When Trump announced the project, he bragged, "It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be waterproof. It's going to be reflecting again."He wrote on Truth Social on May 16, "Also, went to a higher quality sealer with more reflectivity. Check it out before the Opening — It's a very exciting project!” the president said.The Times also reported that these contracts were awarded through a no-bid process. Typically, the government will take several bids to compare the costs for the project and ensure they're getting the best deal. David Schutzenhofer, who manages Trump's golf and country club in New Jersey, was picked to spearhead the Reflecting Pool project.The total project will now cost nearly $16 million. The Washington Post recruited Alana Menendez, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences, to research the Reflecting Pool algae over the past several years using satellite data. The recent tests show 2026 is one of the top years for algae in the reflecting pool. The amount of algae generally follows the weather and the sunlight. So when the city experienced a heatwave in 2019-2021, the amount of algae in the pool also soared. Around the time the pool was refilled, the city was facing another unseasonable heat spike.
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The Gateway Pundit
New York Knicks Will Be First NBA Champions to Visit Trump White House
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the New York Knicks ended a 53-year championship drought on Saturday night, defeating the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to claim the Larry O’Brien Trophy. The post New York Knicks Will Be First NBA Champions to Visit Trump White House appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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New York Post
Knicks fans give their hottest takes at NYC parade
Follow the New York Post’s live coverage of the Knicks’ historic NBA championship ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes.
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Raw Story
'Flat out lying': Senators enraged at Trump's secret trick to stealth-fund ballroom
Senators from both parties are accusing President Donald Trump of secretly tapping government funds for his White House ballroom after Congress refused to write him a check.The White House Office of Management and Budget quietly moved $352 million last week from a Secret Service fund — money the law restricts to personnel, training, programming, and technology — and labeled it "White House Security Measures." Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle suspect it is headed straight for the ballroom.Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, which supplied the cash, bars the use of those funds for construction. That has not stopped the suspicion from building."That's a big problem," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NOTUS. "On its face it doesn't sound right.""I don't know whether it's the ballroom, but it sounds like the ballroom," added Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), a senior appropriator."I think there's been more and more credible coverage that President Trump was just flat out lying when he said the taxpayers will not pay a dime for his ballroom," Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said. "I think he is now trying to find ways to funnel public money into it."Trump spent more than a year insisting the project was "taxpayer-free." As recently as March 31, he told reporters in the Oval Office, "We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents" — weeks after The Washington Post reported that contractor Clark Construction had already handed the White House a $600 million cost estimate showing that more than half the tab would fall on the public.Congress tried and failed to pass $1 billion in direct funding for ballroom security earlier this year. When that collapsed, the White House found a new pool of money — and an OMB official raised the ballroom unprompted when asked to explain the transfer.Senators said they are demanding more details about exactly where the $352 million will go.
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New York Post
Knick York Post: Celebrate the team’s historic win with our limited-edition tee
Knicks in five! Grab our limited-edition victory tee and join the New York Post in celebrating the historic championship win.
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New York Post
All the viewing areas for Knicks ticker-tape parade are already full — hours before epic celebration begins: NYPD
The viewing areas for the New York Knicks championship parade were all filled by 7:30 a.m., hours before the parade is due to start.
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New York Post
Knicks’ parade is bigger than a championship — it’s 80 years of New York basketball
The Knicks have been in basketball business since 1946. They have never had a parade. They will get one Thursday, all right. They will take that regal ride up Broadway, from Battery Park to City Hall, and there’ll be a million or two of their closest friends lining either side of the street. There isn’t...
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