A (token) price cut on Sandy Lane

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6 Sandy Lane hit the market last July at $2.8 million and 96 days later has dropped that 3.6% to $2.7. The same house failed to sell in 2019 at a price that ranged from $2 million to $1.750, and even though nothing has been done to improve it since then, it’s not unreasonable to think that its market value must have increased during the last five years. And it probably has, just not by a million dollars.

Trusted servants of the State

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WASHINGTON — The FBI warned major US tech companies ahead of The Post’s first reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 that Russian agents were preparing a strikingly similar document dump — and once the scoop materialized, Facebook executives discussed calibrating censorship decisions to please what they assumed would be an incoming Biden-Harris administration, a congressional investigation found.

The new details — contained in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the weaponization of government — are emerging as former President Donald Trump leads in polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election and as his allies urge a house-cleaning at the FBI and possible new regulations or antitrust actions to punish and restrain platforms like Facebook.

“FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge,” an unidentified Microsoft employee wrote on Oct. 14, 2020, the day The Post published the first in a series of bombshell stories on the Biden family’s foreign dealings, according to the congressional report.

Internal Facebook communications, including a chat log, show that employees quickly discounted The Post’s reporting because it was the “[e]xact content expected for hack and leak.”

“Right on schedule,” another Facebook employee concurred.

“Obviously, our calls on this could colour [sic] the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else…,” Facebook’s then-vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote on the same day to vice president of global public policy Joel Kaplan.

The Post spent nearly a month verifying the authenticity of laptop files ahead of their publication, though it’s unclear to what extent the FBI was aware of that work as it prepared its prebuttal.

The FBI has possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by The Post in its coverage came from a Delaware computer repairman and not the Kremlin — but, after preemptively discrediting the world exclusive to Big Tech, the FBI kept silent publicly as 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that the files came from Russia.

The Post’s reporting showed that Biden, while vice president, interacted with international business associates of his son Hunter and brother James — including in countries where he helped steer US policy, such as China and Ukraine.

The reports were widely, if belatedly, corroborated by other news outlets and the files were even used by federal prosecutors in court — but only after Biden defeated Trump in November 2020 by narrow swing-state margins, which some Republicans say was in part due to the cloud of suspicion over the laptop.

Never forget Schumer’s warning, but if you do, don’t worry: there will be new examples to jog your memory, very soon.

"You take on the intelligence community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So, even for a practical supposedly hard-nosed businessman he's being really dumb to do it."

The Voice of Mt. Trashmore

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February 16, 2021

Trash Crisis Leaves Puerto Rico Near ‘the Brink’

Most of Puerto Rico’s landfills fail to meet federal standards and are almost full. Residents and experts worry that trash will soon overwhelm the region.

Calling half the electorate Nazis, racists, and garbage hasn’t proved a winning tactic in the past, but it does make clear what these people think of the people they want to rule.

Land contract in Rock Ridge

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15 Zaccheus Mead Lane, $2.2 million, 15 days on the market (it was previously offered at $1.995 in 2021-2022 but no soap). There’s an 1850 house on the property, but it won’t last: the lot is just 0.94 of an acre in the R-2 zone, but according to the listing, a 6,000 sq. ft. house (with 2,000 ft of that buried underground, so … 4,000) can be built on the footprint of the existing structure. Gentlemen, start your engines.

Definitely on my calendar

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While kamalla hides

Although I’d heard of Joe Rogan, I’d never listened to his show before he interviewed Trump last week. It was fabulous, because Rogan is a great interviewer, and managed to calm Trump down enough for them to engage in an in-depth discussion of almost everything. Rogan made it a conversation, rather than a mere interview, and, taking it in three chunks, I found the entire three hours fascinating. Trump came across as the man I saw at one of his rallies back in 2015: funny, smart, and far nicer than his mean tweets would lead one to believe. Rogan himself reminds me of Bill Buckley and Dick Cavett, also excellent conversationalists, but Rogan has three hours to use, and he uses them effectively.

J.D. Vance and Joe Rogan? I won’t miss it.

Here’s the full Trump interview, in case you didn’t see it.