I've mentioned this guy a couple of times before, but apparently the heat's finally being turned up

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Mysterious Swiss Billionaire Spent $800 Million Bankrolling Left Wing Causes, States Say No More

Over the past two decades, a reclusive Swiss billionaire has poured more than $800 million into left-wing causes across America, and now states are fighting back.

Hansjörg Wyss, 89, a Swiss national with an estimated net worth of roughly five billion dollars, has quietly become one of the most influential donors on the American left. He has spent more than $800 million bankrolling hundreds of left-wing causes across the United States, donating millions to climate change groups, abortion activists, and the Clinton Foundation.

Information about him is sparse [he spends much of his time in Wyoming — Ed] but his sister once wrote that Wyss seeks to “(re)interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics.”

Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to candidates or PACs under federal law. Even though Wyss is not a citizen, or even a green card holder, he has developed a sophisticated system to become a “leading source of difficult-to-trace money to groups associated with Democrats,” according to the New York Times.

A report from election watchdog Americans for Public Trust (APT) reveals that Wyss created two nonprofits—the Wyss Foundation and the Berger Action Fund — which have funneled close to $500 million into a vast network of Democratic-aligned dark money groups. Much of this funding has gone to organizations managed by Arabella Advisors, the “mothership” of left-wing dark money.

The largest beneficiary has been the Sixteen Thirty Fund (1630), a key Arabella-affiliated group which The Atlantic described as the “indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money.” The Berger Action Fund alone has given over $200 million to 1630, which has in turn distributed it to hundreds of progressive organizations.

Though foreign nationals are barred from directly supporting candidates or super PACs, Wyss’ groups have exploited a loophole that allows foreign money to finance state ballot initiatives, according to APT. Namely, 1630 has spent more than $130 million on ballot campaigns in 25 states, advancing policies such as late-term abortion and drug decriminalization by embedding them directly into state constitutions—where they can only be reversed by another constitutional amendment.

In Michigan, 1630 spent over $33 million, where ballot initiatives recently enshrined a right to abortion and a right to no-excuse absentee voting in the state constitution.

The group also funneled almost $13 million into Missouri, where marijuana legalization and Medicaid expansion were recently written into the state constitution through ballot initiatives.

When foreign money flows into states, it is also used to support Democratic candidates. Earlier this year, APT uncovered that 1630 gave $1 million to a “progressive communications hub” that spent $9 million boosting the Democratic candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race.

Multiple states have passed legislation to stop foreign money from financing local ballot campaigns. Even though red states have taken the lead, Janae Stracke, Vice President of Outreach and Advocacy at Heritage Action for America, said the interest in this issue has been bi-partisan.

Five states have already passed bans — Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Wyoming — and several others have similar bills currently moving through their legislatures. Stracke expects more to follow.

…. Even though the foreign funding loophole has been exploited primarily by billionaire activists, millions of dollars from Chinese entities have gone to groups promoting progressive climate policies.

Why would anyone oppose this legislation?

“It’s the money,” Stracke said.

It's every Green's Dream — so long as they're among the anointed twelve hundred

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Back to the (organic) garden

PRE-HISTORY: Human ancestors nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago.

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations were. Typically, scientists rely on fossil records and ancient DNA to investigate these mysteries. But when it comes to periods as distant as the Pleistocene epoch—about a million years ago—such records become rare or nonexistent.

Now, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Science sheds new light on a dramatic event that nearly erased humans from existence. Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals.

Oooh, those eyes! And such a painter! An entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!

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Larry David Mocks Trump as Hitler in the New York Times Now, but the Paper Fawned Over Adolf in 1933

“Imagine my surprise,” writes left-of-Stalin-himself “comedian” Larry David in a New York Times op-ed Monday, “when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.”

Although Larry has looked about 105 years old for the last couple of decades and could be even older, he wasn’t actually reporting on something that happened to him. He was mocking and indirectly excoriating his fellow leftist Bill Maher for meeting Trump and speaking honestly about the meeting, telling the world that Trump really wasn’t the evil monster of leftist propaganda.

Yeah, wow, what an amazing new comedic idea: Trump is Hitler! Larry, how did you ever come up with this fantastic analogy that no one on planet Earth has ever thought of before? As PJM’s own Scott Pinsker put it, Larry David’s op-ed was “astonishingly tone-deaf” as “became the 500 millionth member of the left to think it’s clever, witty, and daring to compare President Trump to Adolf Hitler.” …

It could, in fact, be the dopiest, sleaziest, most tone-deaf New York Times article of any kind since July 9, 1933, just over five months after Hitler became the chancellor of Germany, and years after his virulent antisemitism and propensity for violence had become notorious worldwide. On that day, the New York Times published a fawning puff piece on Hitler that rivals even today’s media adulation of Kamala Harris during her campaign and of Old Joe Biden during his presidency. …

Pulitzer Prize-winning “journalist” Anne O’Hare McCormick traveled to Berlin to become the first reporter from an American news outlet to interview the new chancellor, and she turned out to be an intriguing choice for the Times editors to make to conduct this interview, for she appears to have been something of a Hitler fan. In the presence of this man whose name has become today synonymous with evil, she was decidedly starry-eyed: “At first sight,” McCormick gushed, “the dictator of Germany seems a rather shy and simple man, younger than one expects, more robust, taller. His sun-browned face is full and is the mobile face of an orator. A shock of straight hair falls over his forehead.”

…. “His eyes,” she told the world, “are almost the color of the blue larkspur in a vase behind him, curiously childlike and candid. He appears untired and unworried. His voice is as quiet as his black tie and his double-breasted black suit.”

Hitler speaks “slowly and solemnly but when he smiles—and he smiled frequently in the course of the interview—and especially when he loses himself and forgets his listener in a flood of speech, it’s easy to see how he sways multitudes.” What’s more, “Herr Hitler has the sensitive hand of the artist.” He tells McCormick coyly: “Ah! Women! Why, women have always been among my stanchest [sic] supporters. They feel that my victory is their victory.” …

Little did Anne O’Hare McCormick realize, as Hitler’s blue larkspur eyes twinkled in her direction and his disarming smile made her heart flutter, that all these years later, the New York Times would publish an article attacking an American president on the basis of his supposedly being like the “shy and simple man” who was responsible for a world war and the deaths of eleven million people.

Larry David notwithstanding, Trump isn’t Hitler, but Hitler was Hitler, and the New York Times missed the truth by miles regarding both men. Anne O’Hare McCormick’s fawning over Hitler was as grotesque as Larry David’s crude and unfunny analogy is today. Both David and the Times should have known better than to publish his desperately unfunny and unoriginal screed, but of course, if they did know better, they wouldn’t be Larry David and the New York Times.

Small potatoes, but how many, and how large, are other Biden slush fund grants being burned around the country?

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The Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment has confirmed to Maine's Total Coverage that it has lost $35 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The educational farm in Freeport said it received a termination notice from the USDA regarding its Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC) grant, which was under contract to run from 2023-28.

“Climate-Smart Programs”

The PCSC program was started under the Biden Administration in an effort to incentivize farmers and other agricultural stakeholders to implement climate-smart production methods in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil health, sequester carbon, enhance productivity and build revenue.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cancellation of the PCSC program and called it a "Biden era climate slush fund." According to Rollins, the majority of PCSC projects had high administration fees which provided less than half of the federal funding directly to federal farmers in many instances.

The USDA did state it would review existing PCSC grant agreements based on several policy priorities, including ensuring a minimum of 65% of funding going to producers.

The Wolfe's Neck Center said its PCSC-funded work included payments to farmers who were transitioning to climate-smart practices, its program also invested directly in other areas of agricultural support. Those areas included technical assistance, soil analysis and data systems and technology development. As a result, the Wolfe's Neck Center does not meet the USDA's new 65% direct-to-farmer payment threshold.

The USDA also announced that it has reformed and overhauled the PCSC program into the Advancing Markets for Producers initiative. The department said it has identified changes to align the initiative with the Trump administration's current priorities.

The Wolfe's Neck Center said it has the opportunity to reapply to the new Advancing Markets for Producers program and is currently working to evaluate the opportunity. The deadline to submit updated materials to the USDA is June 20.

Up in Chieftans, life after death

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10 Chieftans Road has sold for $3,989,050 million. A non-MLS sale — to the current tenant, perhaps? — but certainly an improvement over the $3.250 million the sellers paid for it in 2022. Of course, this development has a ways to go before it returns to the prices of twenty years ago: this unit sold for $4,649,000 in 2008, just at the beginnig of the crash. In current dollars, that would be $6,759,040.

Because they want more of it, not less

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Minnesota state employee who allegedly caused over $20K in damages to Teslas is let off by woke DA — as cops slam deal

A progressive district attorney has declined to charge a Tim Walz state employee allegedly caught causing $20,000 damage by vandalizing half a dozen Teslas — a decision ripped by the “frustrated” local police chief.

Despite what police believe to be evidence of Adams committing felonies, Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty will seek diversion rather than criminal charges.

The suspected vandal, 33-year-old Minnesota government employee Dylan Bryan Adams, was allegedly [filmed, actually — Ed] spotted keying the vehicles and stripping their paint off while out walking his dog around the city.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at the time of the incident that the damage in each case was the equivalent of a felony.

The chief said in a scathing statement on Monday that Moriarty’s decision not to bring charges is frustrating for his officers and the public.

“The Minneapolis Police Department did its job. It identified and investigated a crime trend, identified, and arrested a suspect, and presented a case file to the Hennepin County Attorney Office for consideration of charges,” he told KARE in a statement.

“This case impacted at least six different victims and totaled over $20,000 in damages. Any frustration related to the charging decision of the Hennepin County Attorney should be directed solely at her office.

“Our investigators are always frustrated when the cases they poured their hearts into are declined. In my experience, the victims in these cases often feel the same,” O’Hara said in a statement.

Moriarty has been Hennepin County’s top prosecutor since January 2023, but quickly came under fire for her woke policies that allowed accused rapists and killers to stay free.

During her very first week in office, she dropped the charges against a 35-year-old man accused of raping a teen girl due to attorney misconduct, CBS News reported at the time.

The woman’s a peach. Here’s more on her:

Of coure she is. and of course she wouldn’t use a bible for her swearing in.


Fury as Minneapolis’ ‘woke’ DA Mary Moriarty allows accused rapists and killers to stay free — too much even for Soros-backed AG

Minneapolis’ progressive district attorney is under fire for her woke policies that allow accused rapists, pedophiles and killers to stay free — with even Minnesota’s George Soros-backed general attorney accusing her of taking it too far.

Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty, 59, took office in January promising to “deliver more safety and more justice” to the community.

Since then, however, she has horrified local families and officials by pushing for suspects in even the most serious crimes to get probation in an effort to keep them out of prison, according to the Star Tribune.

Veteran prosecutor Catherine Markey was only told moments before a plea hearing that the DA was only seeking probation for one of the teens involved in the 2019 carjacking that killed her son, Stephen Markey.

“It’s a trend definitely because of Mary Moriarty,” the former prosecutor told the paper of those accused of serious crimes getting slap-on-the-wrist deals.

“She’s still playing public defender — the only thing is, that’s not her role anymore,” Markey said of the city’s chief prosecutor.

Sherrice Barnett similarly recalled her horror at being told the teen charged with murdering her 27-year-old son, Derrell Freeman, would be spared a prison sentence.

“I couldn’t breathe,” she told the paper.

“I said, ‘I just got to get up out of here.’ I never would have imagined in a million years that it would have went that way.”

Another mom, Nancy Caspersen, recalled her disgust at the repeat offender charged with the third-degree murder of her daughter, Kailey — for selling her the pain pills laced with fentanyl that killed her in 2021 — getting probation and up to 240 days in jail instead of the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.

“It ain’t fair. It’s not right. She’s my only child,” Caspersen tearfully told the Star Tribune.

“It makes me feel like she didn’t matter to these people.”

Moriarty faced outrage from her very first week in office, when she dropped the charges against a 35-year-old man accused of raping a teen girl due to attorney misconduct, CBS News reported at the time.

Moriarty said then that she was “deeply remorseful and apologetic” to the alleged victim, who endured taxing testimony before the charges were dismissed, the outlet noted.

However, critics suggest it was the start of a trend that has only escalated since — with some high-profile cases even taken off her hands.

In April, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reassigned the case against the alleged murderers of mother of one Zaria McKeever to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros, the Star Tribune explained.

McKeever, 23, was killed in 2022 by two teen brothers hired by her ex-boyfriend, the outlet said.

While prosecutors initially wanted to try both boys as adults, they were offered probationary deals in exchange for testimony against McKeever’s ex.

The controversial arrangement prompted Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Leah Erickson to remove herself from the case, then leave the office entirely, the Star Tribune reported at the time.

Ellison called Moriarty’s approach to the McKeever case “disproportionate to the seriousness of the crime” in a statement shortly after the case was reassigned.

“While I share the belief that too many juveniles are involved in the adult criminal justice system, accountability for the seriousness of this crime has been missing in this case,” he wrote.

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Similarly, the case of a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a relative for three years prompted prosecutor Raina Urton to remove herself from the case after the new administration pushed her to seek probation instead of prison for the defendant, the outlet said.

“She walked away because she knows what happened was wrong,” the teen’s mother said of Urton.

“She was fighting for us. She was fighting for our daughter.”

Stephen Markey’s parents — who were flabbergasted when Husayn Braveheart, one of the teens accused of gunning down the 39-year-old paralegal four years ago, was offered probation after the first got 22 years behind bars — asked Ellison to take over their son’s case.

Ellison, however, announced last week that he would not intervene.

…. The former chief public defender is illustrative of the new brand of progressive prosecutor intent on dismantling the various injustices within mass incarceration and criminal justice, City University of New York School of Law professor Steve Zeidman told the Star Tribune.

“You’re seen as being overly lenient as opposed to trying to correct past wrongs,” he said of Moriarty and her peers.

Pending in Old Greenwich

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18 Mortimer Drive, $2.495 million, 12 days. Nice house, it’s been lifted up to keep its skirts dry, and totally renovated, but it does illustrate that the days of the starter home in Old Greenwich and Riverside are gone: these owners paid $370,000 for it in 1997 — that would be $735,855 in current dollars, and certainly much more money was put into it since that purchase, but there are no more $735,000 houses in this neighborhood, regardless of condition.

Not complaining, just pointing it out.

New today

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byram shore

111 Byram Shore Road, $14 million. Waterfront, obviously.

north street

386 North Street, $7.450 million. Nice house, but I wouldn’t want to hear the estimate for a roof replacement here.

46 Park Avenue, Old Greenwich, $6.295 million. Assembled by one of the town’s lesser modular builders back in 2005, but a lot of improvements have been added since then.

park avenue

45 Willow Road, Riverside, $5.495 million.

willow

And finally, if you’re tired of the new Greenwich and want to hide from its more obnoxious inhabitants, the owners of 841 Winchester Road in Norfolk have dropped the price of their house and 115 acres of lakefront property from $9.750 million to $8.750. Looks pretty cool, though the commute to the City would be a bear.

No new laws were needed, just the will to enforce the existing ones

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no mas

Illegal crossings along the busiest section of the US-Canadian border — which encompasses parts of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire — have plummeted thanks to President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Just 54 migrants were apprehended in the Swanton sector, which stretches almost 300 miles, in March. It is a drastic 95% drop from the 1,109 border crossers caught in March 2024, according to US Customs and Border Protection.

This area recorded more than 80% of all apprehensions along the northern border during the 2024 fiscal year, according to CBP figures.

Stark before-and-after photos posted by Swanton sector Border Patrol chief Robert Garcia on X on Monday show lines of migrants carrying backpacks traversing the woods a year ago, versus a lone deer grazing in the same spot now.

Under the Biden administration, illegal crossings at the northern border hit record highs as migrants were being released into the US en masse.

In the Swanton sector, more than 1,400 border crossers were caught in April 2024 — eclipsing the totals from fiscal years 2021 and 2022 combined, according to CBP figures.

When Trump returned to the White House, he ended the previous administration’s use of the problematic “catch and release” border policy and commenced a mass deportation effort.

Northern border residents told The Post that they’ve noticed the change as migrant crossings on their properties, which were very common under Biden, have come to a screeching halt.

“We haven’t seen anyone since November. It’s been nice not having to scan the yards night and morning,” said Daniel Cowan, who lives along the border in rural Chateaugay, New York, a town of 1,900 residents.

That’s one small success; in the meantime, the war against America continues in our courtrooms

Democrat Judge Blocks NYC Mayor From Cooperating With ICE

Democrat Judge Mary Rosado of the New York Supreme Court has determined that New York City Mayor Eric Adams can't cooperate with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by allowing the government agency to operate at Rikers Island, at least not for now. 

…. [A]t the request of the city council, Judge Rosado issued a temporary restraining order against the Adams administration, writing, "City Hall and all other New York City government officials, officers, personnel and agencies are prohibited from taking any steps towards negotiating, signing or implementing any memoranda of understanding with the federal government regarding federal law enforcement presence on Department of Correction property." 

The order will stay in place until a hearing scheduled for Friday, after which she may extend, modify or vacate it.