Pending in Riverside’s Harbor Point; no, not a lawsuit, a house sale

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7 Cherry Tree Lane, $3.495 million. From what I hear, all those neighbors who so liked suing one another over the years as a form of recreation have either moved away, died, or just lost their appeal; either way, you can probably erect a portable basketball hoop now, or a seasonal Halloween display, without too much concern that a summons-bearing constable will appear on your doorstep. I suppose that’s progress, but it does make life a little duller.

FWIW's New Mexican art correspondent sends along a mystery — mysterious to me, anyway.

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The mystery? I recognize the (original) club building, but what are the two structure to its right? Tod’s mansion, perhaps, but what’s that third one? 1898 was a little early to espy Stamford’s Landmark Tower (and it would have been to the northeast, to the left of the RYC), and Long Island was still potato fields back then, so … what? Artistic license? An inflatable bouncy castle? All you local historians are invited to chime in.

This is CBS

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paddy O’Rourke is returned to the old sod — oh, the horror!

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So, according to radical judges and the best minds at CBS, a Venezuelan gang member in the country illegally has a constitutional right to remain in the U.S. and continue terrorizing American citizens because, why? Because we hate Trump!

These are the best minds the Left can produce.

(Of course, another approach would be to exclude both groups)

A little context, courtesy of Not the Bee:

We have covered Tren de Aragua's violence here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, not to mention other stories involving Venezuelan criminals here and here.

The communist Venezuelan government is strained for resources since aforementioned communism has plunged the nation into abject poverty over the last two decades.

To ease the burden of their prisons, they released many of their violent offenders knowing full well that most of them would head northward with the migrant caravans heading to America's open borders.

Drop him off in Judge Boasberg's chambers: "the other ones jumped out of the plane before we could return them, your honor. See ya."

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I don’t find that at all amusing.

Alleged MS-13 leader on FBI most wanted list being extradited to US, Patel says

An alleged MS-13 senior gang leader on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list is being extradited to the U.S. after his arrest in Mexico, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday. 

Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales was arrested on Monday in the mountains of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz by Mexican soldiers and federal agents.

That Greenwich "nonpartisan" group "Invisible Ladies?" Their parent organization isn't ashamed of admitting who they are: a far-left branch of the Democrat Party.

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Obviously, a group formed after Trump’s first coronation specifically to fight and stop him never intended to be anything but Democrat partisans, but i was offended, and continue to at least be annoyed, when a band of bored women organized a Greenwich chapter of “Indivisible” and ran 100 candidates for the traditionally nonpartisan RTM in 2018 while hiding their party affiliations and claiming to be entirely nonpartisan themselves. Uh huh.

In any event, the Indivisible mothership never bothered to hide its political affiliation: Democrat, and these past few days have seen it taking the lead in their party’s governance:

Soros-Backed Leftist Group Calls on Senator Schumer to Step Down as Minority Leader

Politico, which surely knows its own, describes them thus:

The statement from Indivisible, which launched during Trump’s first administration, is a sign that the anger among Democrats extends beyond the halls of Congress. In a Saturday release, Indivisible said 82 percent of its leaders in New York and 91 percent nationwide had voted to call for Schumer to step aside.

“After weeks of constituents demanding that Democrats use this rare, precious point of leverage on the government funding bill, Schumer did the opposite,” the group’s co-executive director Ezra Levin said in the release. “He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender. But Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans.”

Schumer Is Being Shown the Door and Handed His Hat

…. The radical Democratic group Indivisible was the first out of the block, calling on Schumer to step down as minority leader. 

Politico:

Schumer’s team tried to persuade the New York leaders at Indivisible not to immediately sign onto a statewide letter that called for Schumer to quit his position as minority leader, said one of the people familiar with the discussions. Schumer spoke to the New York Indivisible officials on Sunday. They called for him to step down as minority leader anyway on Monday.

“The goal was to get Sen. Schumer in front of Indivisible group leaders before they made any decisions on anything,” said a second person familiar with the meeting.

A third person described the conversations between Schumer and Indivisible as “tense and unproductive.”

Abschied für immer, Deutschland

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return to the primitive

Well, farewell forever to modern Germany — the visigoths will surely recognize and be comfortable in its replacement

Germans Unlock the Debt Brake - Spending Bombs Away!

...What is even more outrageous, however, is that Mr. Merz is not only trying to use a lame-duck parliament to push through some of the most far reaching changes to the post WW2 German constitution, but he does so while explicitly breaking campaign promises from just a few weeks ago. The CDU’s party programme released in January 2025 states explicitly that there will be no tampering with the debt brake. On page 14 it explains the CDU’s supposedly prudent financial policy that hinges on the triad of adhering to the constitutional debt brake, implementing tax relief, and making necessary investments. According to the programme, the debt brake helps prevent today’s debts from turning into tomorrow’s tax hikes, ensuring Germany remains a pillar of stability in the eurozone.

It’s claimed that (most of) the huge new debts the government will be piling up will go towards building a defense force; I don’t believe that for a second — the measure passed onky after a deal was brokered with Germany’s Green Party, and communists don’t approve of spending dollars on military for non-coummunist nations — but, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, the other amendment, saddling the country with a “net-zero” makes the first change irrelevant: