Pending on Taconic

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26 Taconic Road, asking $6.950 million, pending after 15 days. It’s a good house: Alex Kaali-Nagy designed and built it in 2007 and put it on the market that year for $7.895 million. That was exactly the wrong time to enter the Greenwich market, and so it didn’t sell. Nagy ended up renting it to his brother, and when that arrangement eventually ended, the house was entirely renovated and put back up for sale in September of 2013, priced at $5.950. The market was still slow, so clients of mine — the present owners — were able to pick it up for $4.850 in March 2014. I thought we got a good deal, and still do. As I say, it’s a great house.

Well, of course he did

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A transgender swimmer obliterated the competition while winning five races at a recent national championship meet — which a high-profile critic likened to a “real-life South Park episode.”

Ana Caldas dominated the five individual events she [sic] entered in the women’s 45-49 age group division in the U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship last weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

[Question: can a 25-year-old male also self-identify as a 49-year-old woman, or is biological age immutable? Asking for a friend]

The swimmer — who was born biologically male — smashed other competitors in the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke races by a whopping four seconds.

In the 100-yard freestyle event, he finished three seconds ahead of the next swimmer.

Footage circulating on social media showed Caldas far ahead of the women in his category as he easily secured one of his many gold medals — quickly sparking outrage.

“He won them all,” collegiate swimming champion and women’s rights activist Riley Gaines tweeted, refusing to use Caldas’ preferred pronouns.

Another activist, Beth Bourne, ripped Caldas’ medal tally as “insanity.”

“Anyone who competes in swimming at the national level knows this is unheard of in a 50-yard race where wins are often measured in a tenth or a hundredth of a second,” Bourne said in an X post.

Meanwhile, an Independent Council on Women’s Sports spokesperson told Reduxx that Caldas’ wins were “absolutely insane” — especially for sprint races.

“He’s just laughing at these women,” the rep said.

And why shouldn’t he?

Originally from Portugal, Caldas studied in Scotland where he participated in the Scottish Open Short Course National Championships as "Hugo" before moving to the United States to finish his graduate studies while participating on the Ohio Splash swim team (a gay swim club). https://swimscotland.co.uk/meets01/sc01meet.htm

More sales (Updated)

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19 Bayside Terrace, Riverside. Listed @ $1.850 million, sold for $2.035.

22 Oak Drive, Riverside, never listed on the MLS, has sold for $5.450 million.

UPDATE — Add one more:

(Listed and under contract in February, you’ll — probably — notice)

22 Oval Avenue, listed at $2.850 million, closed today at $3.230. NYC (10010 Zip) buyers.

I have a better idea: save taxpayers your salary and just quit, you grubby little publicity hound

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“you’ll wait your turn, god damn it, and that time has not come!”

Connecticut has filed over a dozen lawsuits vs. Trump. Now more money is needed

William Tong's office has joined more than a dozen lawsuits against President Donald Trump's administration in recent months.

Now, the Connecticut attorney general is asking for help funding them.

Speaking to reporters this week after a news conference about Trump's first 100 days in office, Tong said he has asked legislators to allocate his office more money so he can continue aggressively fighting the president's agenda.

"I need as much help as I can get," Tong said. "It's a deluge, a nonstop avalanche of work."

…. Tong's office has been busy since Inauguration Day in January, joining other states in a slew of lawsuits that have helped block restrictions on birthright citizenship, blanket freezes on federal spending, cuts to medical research, the cancellation of public health grants and more.

Tong's most recent lawsuit, announced Tuesday, seeks to block the Trump administration from imposing deep cuts on AmeriCorps, which coordinates volunteer work nationwide.

Altogether, Tong said his office has filed "12 or 13" lawsuits against the Trump administration, an average of nearly one per week.

Tong explained Tuesday that blue-state attorneys generals coordinate their efforts so that offices take on different roles in different lawsuits. Connecticut, for example, has taken the lead on a case to protect Social Security from "unlawful layoffs and mismanagement."

Tong said his office is in court in each case and that he personally has attended proceedings several times, including for cases involving birthright citizenship and the Department of Government Efficiency. He plans to attend arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15 in the birthright citizenship case, he said.

It has helped, Tong said, that other like-minded attorneys general, such as in New York and California, have much larger offices, with hundreds of attorneys available to work on suits. Still, he said he'd like Connecticut to do more.

“Do More”? Beginning the day he was sworn in as state Attorney General, Tong has been desperately positioning himself to occupy Dick Blumenthal’s Senate seat the instant that old fraud finally hangs up his Depends and returns to Greenwich. To that end, Tong has joined as a “me-too!” participant every available multi-state lawsuit against anyone and anything. His office’s role is de minimis, but it allows him to issue a flood of announcements to the press, every day, pounding his diminutive chest and proclaiming, “we’re doing … well, we’re doing something!”

You can find a full collection of 7 years of this badling’s publicity efforts on his press release website. Here are just a few items culled from 15 pages of such announcements from just 2019 alone. For this he demands a still-larger budget? Screw ‘im.

  • Attorney General Tong Announces $3.1 Billion Settlement with Walmart over Opioid Epidemic Allegations

  • Attorney General William Tong today announced that Connecticut has reached a settlement with Walmart to resolve allegations that the company contributed to the opioid addiction crisis by failing to appropriately oversee the dispensing of opioids at its stores. The settlement will provide more than $3 billion nationally and will require significant improvements in how Walmart's pharmacies handle opioids. State attorneys general on the executive committee, including Connecticut, attorneys representing local governments, and Walmart have agreed to this settlement, and it is now being sent to other states for review and approval.

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Mary, Mary, quite contrary

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979 Lake Avenue, a/k/a Mary Lane, has taken a second price cut from its February opening price of $2.875 million and can now be yours for the (somewhat) improved price of $2.686. The present owners have improved the place considerably since I last saw it, but apparently not enough to justify that $2.875 price.

I wrote about the house back in November 2020, pre-renovation:

All good things come to those who wait. And drop their price.

979 Lake Avenue (Merry Lane, actually, way up north), asking $1.099 million, has a contract, a year-plus after being listed at $1.450.

It’s a nice house, but needs work. The Mickster and I were asked for a price opinion back before this was listed and we suggested a price just below a million; the owners opted to go with an agent who advised a higher price. That happens frequently in this business, so no hard feelings, but ultimately, a house will sell for what it’s worth, not what some agent promises you it’s worth.

Update, 5/1/25: (It eventually closed at $910,000)

There'll Always be an England - just not the one you remember. Or should I say, سيظل هناك دائمًا إنجلترا؛ لكن ليست تلك التي تتذكرها.

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The Fall of constantinople

David Strom:

NHS Leadership Encouraged All Staff to Fast For Ramadan

…. It's no secret that Great Britain and much of Europe are becoming Islamized, and that Islamists are not at all interested in diversity. That's not a dark accusation--hundreds of thousands of Muslims march in the streets calling for Jihad, demanding Sharia law, and bragging that these countries will become majority Muslim. 

European elites probably hope that by embracing Islam, they can tame it, and with so many Muslims, it makes sense to get everybody else on board. Play along. If we cosplay Islam perhaps the migrants will cosplay Britons. 

And there it is. Top Brass at the National Health Service endorsed the "Ramadan challenge," encouraging non-Muslim NHS employees to engage in the traditional Ramadan fast as a sign of "allyship." 

…. In itself, the "Ramadan challenge" should be offensive to Muslims. Like the Jewish High Holy Days or Easter, for seriously observant Christians, Ramadan is not purely an expression of culture but deeply religious, and a bunch of people who aren't Muslim pretending to observe it cheapens it. 

But it makes more sense, as seen in the light in which it was meant, preparing the ground for conversion. 

Muslims have lived mostly peacefully in Great Britain for years. Given that the British Empire had incorporated regions dominated by Islam, many Muslims have migrated there over the years. You could argue about …. the friction between the Muslim minority and the larger culture, and frankly, I don't know enough to say. But it does seem clear that there was nothing particularly threatening about Westernized Islam, and that any animosity was more racial than religious. 

But the new wave of Muslim immigration is inherently Islamist, and proudly so. For the most part, the refugees from regional wars in the Middle East and South Asia adhere to the medieval version of Islam, characterized by strict attitudes, hostility to non-Muslims, and (ironically) a strongly colonialist attitude. Islam spread through conquest, and conquest seems to be the goal of the new migrants. 

The elite reaction to this is partly driven by suppressed fear--covering up crimes, fighting cultural self-defense by calling it "Islamophobia," and placating the colonizers in the hope that they moderate and become more British. 

But the new migrants are not interested in diversity; they aim for conquest. Rather than encouraging Britons to become more like the new migrants (cover your head! Don't show skin! Take part in Ramadan!), they should admit that the two cultures are incompatible. 

Being super-nice and pretending to enjoy the (non)diversity is destroying Europe. Individual, Westernized Muslims--of whom there are many--present no threat. 

Islamism does, and needs to be rejected.