Pending after 2 days

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6 Miltiades Avenue, Riverside, $2.375 million, gone in 60 seconds. 1936 construction, $2,508 square feet, which works out to $946.97 square feet and will undoubtedly be higher when the sales price is reported. A great location for trainspotting, because the tracks are in this one’s back yard.

Interior pictures are still up, so feast your eyes on them while you still can.

Now you see it, now you won't

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Welcome! The silverware's hidden under the couch

The trend to remove interior shots from the Internet began on the Greenwich MLS began several years ago, but until now has been mostly limited to the most expensive homes. But those pictures are usually posted on the real estate sites like Zillow while the house is on the market — I suspect that pictures, other than, perhaps, a single exterior shot, will start disappearing even from active listings and even for more modestly-priced homes. This will pose a problem for house hunters, who by terms of the recent antitrust settlement, will no longer have buyer reps to assist them.

Interesting times.

New threat facing homeowners whose properties are featured online

Criminals can use sites like Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com and Google Streetview to surveil homes

Burglars once lurked around neighborhoods and scanned obituaries to determine whom to target. Now, with free services easily available online, they can plan potential robberies from their computers or phones.

Although hard data on burglar's methodologies is hard to come by, California's Riverside Police Department has seen a number of criminals using these online means after they are arrested for prospective burglaries, or after completing one successfully. 

The revelation comes as roving international crime gangs have victimized communities in California, Michigan and Arizona, according to Fox News Digital coverage earlier this year.

"Our detectives confiscate digital devices and things like that [after they arrest suspects] and we try to get search warrants to get into those devices," Public Information Officer Ryan Railback told Fox News Digital. "That's where you're finding internet history. Our detectives have gone on their Google Maps and found that they're searching certain addresses, that they were on Zillow or Redfin."

ELITE MIGRANT CRIME RING TARGETING MICHIGAN HOMEOWNERS ON SPRING BREAK: SHERIFF

Google shows high-definition aerial footage of 36 million square miles via Google Earth and Google Street View footage on 10 million miles of road worldwide, telling CNET that it has mapped out the streets in 98 percent of places where people live. 

'BURGLARY TOURISM' PLAGUES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS UNVETTED FOREIGNERS RAID LUXE HOUSES

Meanwhile, Zillow, one of the most popular real estate sites in the country, reported approximately 130 million listings in the U.S. as of July 2024. Sites like Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com often show detailed interior photos of homes, and they stay on the website even after the home is sold in some cases. 

"Right now you metaphorically case the joint out by going on these platforms with a cup of coffee in the comfort of your chair, and you gain more relevant data and intel than you ever did with [binoculars] and a vehicle outside the home," former NYPD detective and security expert Pat Brosnan told Fox News Digital. "You really get the inside baseball."

Brosnan said that prospective sellers can protect themselves by limiting what they include in their online home profiles.

"If you're going to sell your home, of course you're going to want to get your best foot forward," he said. "The balance is to submit accurate, telling and professionally taken photos, but you don't have to give a boatload. And I would always advise against doing a 360 video, really common with sales."

Brosnan said that videos like these can be paused and enhanced, allowing criminals to "know every crack and crevice of the home, including windows, cameras and locking systems."

"You can identify alarm systems and ways to get around them," he said. "You can identify secondary and third points of entrance and egress."

Sharon Polsky, president of the Privacy & Access Council of Canada, said that Google Maps imagery is also a useful tool for prospective car thieves. 

"Car thieves can get a good idea of the type and number of vehicles at an address. A home with children’s toys scattered in the yard might be an unlikely place to get a high-end sports car; but a house with flags used as window coverings might be more likely to have an older vehicle — with lower value and therefore lesser criminal charges," she told Fox News Digital.

"Anyone who steals cars to order can use Google Maps to see if a vehicle on their shopping list is in the driveways, and use that information to ensure they bring the appropriate software to be able to program blank key fobs needed to steal the vehicles," Polsky said.

In listing photos on realty service websites, Brosnan suggested, avoid including photos of your security cameras, locks, security systems, gates, windows and doors whenever possible. 

He also advised against showing photos of the home at night that reveal where any motion-activated spotlights are located. 

Former FBI agent and cybersecurity professional Bill Daly advised those selling their homes to make sure that any valuable furniture or artwork is stashed away before taking photos for a real estate listing.

Polsky said that when working with realtors, hopeful home sellers should "build it into the contract that the house number must not be revealed in the listing or photos.

"Doing that makes it only a bit less convenient for tire-kickers and potential renters/buyers who have to contact the realtor to get the address, giving the realtor an opportunity to talk to each person and build their own contact list). More importantly, not revealing the house number makes it a lot less convenient for thieves."

GANG OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TARGET HIGH-END PHOENIX-AREA HOMES IN BURGLARIES, AUTHORITIES SAY

Photos on real estate websites can show entrance and egress points, camera locations and other elements that could help criminals hatch a plan to burglarize your home. (Fox News)

Railsback advised homeowners to put prominent security cameras and signage for alarm systems outside their homes, and to befriend their neighbors.

"If a criminal wants to get into my house, with all my safety measures, I want to make him at least think about the risk he may be taking," Railsback said.

Brosnan also suggested having your home blurred on Google Maps Streetview, which can be done by finding your home on the service and clicking "Report a problem," which gives you a short form to fill out.  

A Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital that it generally takes their team about a week to blur out an address after a request, and that once an address has been blurred, the change is irreversible. The spokesperson noted that the company uses AI technology to blur license plate numbers and faces in Streetview images. 

A Zillow representative also told Fox News Digital that their service makes it "quick and easy" to take ownership of home listings. The option can be accessed by finding your home on the site and clicking "More options," which reveals the "Claim ownership" function. After proving that they own the home in question, homeowners can remove photos or the entire listing.

"We take privacy and security very seriously," the spokesperson said. "The photos on Zillow come from sources like the multiple listing service that real estate agents use to market homes for sale. We always encourage homeowners to claim their home on Zillow, which allows them to change or remove photos and edit their home facts." 

These are the true Republicans — they've just finally come out of the closet

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the uniparty revealed

Anti-Trump Republicans Secure $35 Million In Funding To Support Harris

A group of Republicans opposing former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid raised over $35 million funds to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming November election.

Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) aimed to bolster Democratic efforts to keep the White House by setting a $50-million campaign target earlier this year, a significant increase from the $10 million the group raised in the 2020 election cycle, according to Newsweek. Last week, spearheaded by conservative strategist Sarah Longwell and including figures like Bill Kristol and Tim Miller, RVAT launched an $11-million advertising campaign targeting key battlegrounds in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

As of Sept. 4, RVAT received contributions from over 6,200 donors in all 50 states, ranging from $1 to seven figures, with spokesperson Tony Franquiz highlighting the group’s broad and committed support base dedicated to protecting democracy, Newsweek stated.

RVAT unveiled an $11.5 million advertising initiative in several crucial swing states, aimed at persuading disillusioned GOP voters to back Harris. Funded largely by Democratic contributors, the campaign allocates $4.5 million to Pennsylvania, $3 million to Michigan, $2.2 million to Wisconsin, $1.5 million to Arizona and $375,000 to Nebraska’s second congressional district.

“Funded largely by Democratic contributors” says it all.

This should give all voters pause

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Instapundit:

Will Cats Decide The Presidential Election? “…And every time someone says ‘no, they did not eat a cat!’ not only is it likely not true, but the obvious pivot is to ‘perhaps, but they did kill my auntie in a home invasion’ or ‘OK, but they have overwhelmed schools, are beating on local kids, and have displaced low income Americans in housing because the feds are paying top dollar for landlords to kick you out and put them up.'”

Related:

Springfield Ohio is a town of 60,000; the same size as Greenwich. What would happen if Biden tried to ship 20,000 illiterate, poverty-stricken immigrants into Greenwich, demanding that we feed, house, and educate them and provide them with medical care at Greenwich Hospital? It won’t happen, of course, because Greenwich is rich, and rich = political power, but there are far more communities with Springfield’s mean income than Greenwich’s, and the left has to find someplace to store a billion or so of the world’s poor. Springfield’s fate should alarm the residents of many of those towns.

And this:

Influx of wild-driving Haitian migrants turning streets of Springfield, Ohio into combat zone: ‘Eight to 10 accidents a day here’

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Forget about the ducks and geese allegedly disappearing from public parks. In this beleaguered city, residents say the biggest problem, by far, is that wild-driving Haitian migrants — unfamiliar with US road laws — are turning the streets into combat zones.

And the result can be deadly. The family of Springfield grandma Kathy Heaton experienced this firsthand on Dec. 1 — a day after her 71st birthday — when a Haitian migrant ran her down while she was collecting her garbage cans.

And the driver got off scot-free.

… Mandy and countless other Springfield residents feel the problem is in the roughly 20,000 Haitian migrants who have flooded into this city of just 60,000 people in just a few years. Longtime residents say the immigrants are getting temporary driving permits without having to learn how to drive safely in the US — or even knowing how to drive at all.

There must be eight to 10 accidents a day here,” one resident who asked not to be named told The Post.

“I’ve seen cars drive up into buildings and onto sidewalks. I believe everyone deserves help, but we shouldn’t be providing cars and licenses until people know how to drive here safely.”

On social media, residents have posted alarming footage showing cars in ditches, smashed up at intersections, flying across the road into oncoming traffic, and even crashed through homes and businesses.

Such accounts line up with what Mandy and her family say they’re seeing on a regular basis – and has left them “constantly stressed and anxious” to do things as basic as walking through a parking lot, let alone going for a drive with her young twins.

“Haitians are going the wrong way down one-way streets, making unlawful U-turns in the middle of the roadways, damaging property by driving recklessly, there’s been some street signs taken out, people have had their garages wrecked,” she said.

“They’re thrown into a situation where they’re given a license with minimal education and training on our laws and rules here.”

Apparently, ABC is so embarrassed by the debate performance of its midgets that it’s authorized one of its performers to depart, briefly, from the approved script

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Emmy Award winning abc news team

Witch doctory returns

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New study finds top medical schools value left-wing activism over science

Jay Greene:

…. My study — the first to document the prevalence of ideology in medical school curricula — focuses on schools’ publicly available course catalogs. 

Using the US News and World Report rankings, I started with the top-ranked institutions in the country, then worked my way down the list. 

I searched for how often specific keywords appear in each catalog’s courses, a widely used research technique known as “content analysis.”

Specifically, I looked for the usage of eight politicized words and eight scientific or medical terms that directly bear on medical education. 

Think “race/racism” and “equity” compared to “chemistry” and “physiology.”

All told, across the course catalogs I analyzed, politicized words appeared more than 2,400 times — while scientific and medical terms appeared about 1,900 times. 

In the top 10 medical schools with publicly accessible course catalogs, including top-ranked Harvard Medical School, only those at Duke University and Washington University skew more scientific than political, though not by much of a margin.

At Stanford’s School of Medicine, ideological terms appeared more than twice as often as scientific ones — and a look at specific Stanford courses makes it obvious how things have gone astray. 

Stanford offers a course called “Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health” that focuses on “environmental sustainability” and “social and environmental justice and equality.”

By contrast, the word “obesity” does not appear a single time in Stanford’s course catalogue, even though it poses one of the greatest challenges to American health.

The Baylor College of Medicine in Texas offers a course on “Human Rights and Medicine” that covers “immigration reform,” “the use of torture,” “gender issues” and “issues of distributive justice affected by militarization in society.” 

Judging from its catalog’s complete lack of words that are commonly used in medical research, like “randomized” and “placebo,” teaching medical students how to interpret — let alone conduct — research appears not to be Baylor’s priority.

Even courses with titles that seem to cover traditional medical topics have been infected by ideology, according to their descriptions. 

For example, Harvard Medical School offers “Integrated Human Pathophysiology” — which somehow incorporates topics such as “health equity” and “climate change.”

The Icahn School of Medicine’s catalog lists “Introduction to Anesthesiology,” which despite the title is described as “a core component of the Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars program” that’s “intended to provide students with a space for building critical thinking and community around social justice work.” 

It’s unclear whether students also learn how to administer anesthesia.

The degree to which ideological goals are eclipsing scientific ones extends well beyond top-ranked medical schools.

In 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges issued competencies that effectively control what all these institutions teach. 

The list of topics that medical students must master includes everything from “intersectionality” to “colonization” to “systems of power, privileges, and oppression.”

While non-elite schools tend to have less politicized language today, that’s all but certain to change over time: The activists who dictate medical curriculum are demanding more radicalism.

Yet the de-emphasis on medical education will inevitably create a crisis of physician quality, which is already closer than Americans realize. 

UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, which doesn’t publicly detail its curricula, is already well known for introducing divisive politics into its courses. 

According to internal documents shared with the Washington Free Beacon, the percentage of UCLA students who fail the frequent standardized “shelf exams” has soared, with more than half in some recent years failing routine tests on emergency medicine, pediatrics and other critical fields.

Just came back home, and learned that there was a second assassination attempt, but coverage of that is available everywhere, so try this to lighten your mood:

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From her speech, it’s reasonable to think that this woman attended college. Not that it did her any good.

Drive the discount stores out of the slums, pay higher prices at the small retailers who stay behind, and the mob will then turn on them; in fact, it already has.

And at filling stations too, Tim; we need a victory, and your fellow morons can provide it

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(I paid $1.67.9 per gallon in NH January 20, 2021: I remember, because Joe Biden was being sworn in while I filled my tank.)

Tim Walz Wants You to Have “Hard Conversations” With People at the Grocery Store

Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz was campaigning in Wisconsin this weekend when he told a crowd that the race is going to be a battle in which you speak to people in the grocery store and ask them if they’ve voted yet.

“This thing’s going to be a battle for the next 52 days,” he said. “It’s gonna be won in rooms just like this. It’s gonna be won door-to-door, call-to-call, $5 donation, trying to have that hard conversation in the produce aisle with the person you saw there at the grocery store.”

If I were a Democrat, I don’t think I’d harangue strangers while they’re standing in front of the meat section staring at rib eyes they can no longer afford, or at the check-out counter, paying three-times what they were paying in 2020. But then, I’m not a Democrat, so I’m not stupid.

Not even if they paid ME

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And we’ll even throw in Pennsylvania

EV Dealers Are So Desperate to Offload Stock That They're Offering Lease Deals For $20 a Month

How soft is the new EV car market? Some EV vehicles have been on their lots for so long that they're offering lease terms so generous, they may as well be giving them away.

A Kia dealer in Virginia only gets a couple of inquiries a month for EVs. The price tag of new vehicles scares them off, says Finance Director Ramon Nawabi. He's got a few EV 6 SUVs that have been on the lot for six months that Kia is now offering discounted leases on top of the $7,500 EV tax credit “just to move the car,” he says. “In a sense, we’re giving them away.”  

That $7500 tax credit helped dealers sell a million EVs in 2022. However, the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act severely limited how that $7500 tax credit could be applied. There are now price caps for EVs ($80,000 for SUVs and trucks; $55,000 for cars), and the batteries must be American-made. Also, the vehicles must be assembled in the U.S. There's also a cap on the net income of the potential buyer.

But you can avoid the restrictions if you lease a new EV. "That’s allowed car companies or dealers to bundle the $7,500 tax credit savings into the lease financing cost, lowering consumers’ monthly payments," reports Bloomberg News.

Also, the bottom has fallen out of the EV resale market. The average price of a used EV fell by 32%over the past year, while the average price of a used gas-powered car fell just 3.6%. It makes no sense to buy a new EV if your purchase loses one-third of its value in one year. 

There are enough worries in buying an EV, including charging, lack of choice, and driving range. Now, owners worry when it comes time to sell the vehicle, they’re not going to get much back.

“Consumers didn’t used to be worried about the resale value of an EV, but (Tesla chief executive Elon) Musk cutting prices made people feel like they owe $50,000 on their Tesla and now, it’s only worth $40,000,” said Pat Ryan, chief executive of free car shopping app CoPilot. "When people see the value of an EV drop so dramatically, it creates a new problem."

Who ya’ gonna believe, the Administration and Al Gore, or your own lyin eyes?

ABC:
More Americans are starting to embrace EVs. Sales of electric cars and trucks last year totaled 1.4 million in 2023, up from 1 million in 2022, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced in January.

“The progress that’s been made is phenomenal,” Albert Gore III, executive director of the nonprofit coalition Zero Emission Transportation Association, told ABC News. “The United States has been a leader in electric vehicle manufacturing and also has really been a leader in a lot of good policymaking with regard to investment in every part of the EV and battery supply chain.”

Gore also noted that electric vehicles can have a significant impact on the economy, saying, “There’s a huge amount of opportunity.”

The industrial Midwest, Southwest and Southeast already have seen investment and job opportunities in the production of minerals and battery components for EVs. Georgia, Nevada, Texas, Ohio and Kansas have grown as domestic hubs for battery manufacturing, while Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Arizona have risen as leaders in EV manufacturing.

“So a lot of really exciting economic opportunity in these places, and oftentimes it’s multiple parts of the supply chain,” Gore added.