Non-MlS land sale (presumably) on Clapboard

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81 Clapboard Ridge Road, $5.3 million. 1957 house, 6.4 acres. No pictures of the house, which is too bad because from its exterior it might make for a nice renovation, and I’d have been curious to see what’s inside. The owner is 87, and there’s no central a/c, so I’m guessing it hasn’t been upgraded recently.

Zillow, by the way, “Zestimate” its value at $6 million +, which probably tells you more about the value of Zillow estimates rather than the property.

Ciderhouse Rules

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Hazmat crew reveals what liquid attacker sprayed on Rep. Ilhan Omar: apple cider vinegar

How bad was it? This bad:

Minneapolis Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, who ended up being hit by some of the liquid, told The Post the stench was so bad she vomited.

“It smelled like vinegar or ammonia,” Vetaw said, adding that the odor was “overwhelming.”

“It started out smelling really like apple cider vinegar-smelly. Then it started to smell like ammonia, like a strong, pure ammonia smell, I was wondering why the smell wasn’t going away.”

“I got sick to my stomach,” she continued. “I went outside and threw up because, like, the smell was so strong.”

In the entire history of the world, from the beginning of time until today, no one has ever been sickened to the point of vomiting from smelling apple cider vinegar. America’s Paper of Record offers another, more plausible explanation:

Foul-Smelling Substance Used In Spray Attack On Ilhan Omar Identified As Somali Food

Others are more sympathetic, and are demanding action.

Well of course he's upset: that was the whole point of throwing open the borders in the first place (Updated)

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America’s Paper of Record has the second half of the story, as usual:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the 2026 midterm elections on the horizon amid increasing strife over problems facing the nation, Republican lawmakers issued an urgent warning that passing a national voter ID law could ruin their plan to hand Congress to the Democrats in November.

While President Trump and his administration continued to apply pressure to congressional GOP leaders and stress the importance of passing voter ID legislation, Republicans expressed concern that such a move could potentially spell doom for their goal of losing both the House and the Senate to Democrats this fall.

"There's a real danger that this could keep us in power," House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill. "We've put a lot of effort into laying the groundwork to hand the Democrats full control of the legislative branch in November, and passing a law that would require voters to show a valid ID could completely derail those plans. …

Johnson's GOP colleagues agreed that now was not the time to bolster election integrity. "We can't worry about this right now," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune. "It would be best to wait until we lose the House and Senate to the Democrats, when we could all use passing a voter ID law as a campaign platform to convince people to vote us back into power in 2028 so we can go back to not really doing anything."

Because martyrs are the lifeblood of the Left

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Mamdani signals disbanding NYPD protest unit, calls for higher taxes on top 1% amid budget reckoning

“I believe that we should do so not on the basis of any fiscal need, but frankly, on the need to decouple the counterterrorism responsibilities within the department from police response to First Amendment exercise"

The NYPD said on its website that the SRG "responds to citywide mobilizations, civil disorders, and major events with highly trained personnel and specialized equipment" and has "proven to be a critical asset during events like parades, protests, and the papal visit."

The constant cry of the politicians shrieking about ICE agents is that they are only trained to make arrests, not in crowd control and it’s probably a reasonable a point. Mamdani knows that, but also knows that a few dead protesters are a small price to pay to keep the revolution going. So out with the trained, bring in the rookies and hope for the worse.

Q: “What politicians have called ICA agents “untrained?
AI Overview

Following a fatal shooting by federal officers in Minnesota in January 2026, several Democratic politicians and officials, including

Abdul El-Sayed and Representative Jimmy Panetta, criticized the agents, with some describing them as "untrained," "unaccountable," or poorly equipped for urban policing. Former CBP head Gil Kerlikowske also argued that Border Patrol and ICE agents lacked the necessary training for such environments. 

Key politicians and officials who have criticized the training or actions of ICE/federal agents include:

  • Abdul El-Sayed (Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate): Stated that the situation involved "untrained personnel who have been told that they are above the law on peaceful streets".

  • Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA): Stated that many ICE/CBP agents in Minneapolis "appear to be untrained and are unaccountable".

  • Gil Kerlikowske (Former CBP Commissioner): Stated that ICE and Border Patrol agents are "untrained and unskilled" for urban policing and lack the necessary experience. 

Okay, Mikki, this one's for you

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Deadly bomb cyclone headed straight for NYC — and could batter Northeast with even more snow, colder temps

Oh, my GAWD! Deadly! Bomb Cyclone! Oh, what will we do, WHAT WILL WE DO?!!!

We have the headline, and then we have the article itself:

The storm is forecast to blow into town Saturday night and stay through Sunday. It could drop upwards of 3 inches.

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“Regardless of the storm track, it will likely be a blustery day on Sunday, especially from the city on east and south,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Benz told The Post.

I'm not ignoring real estate activity, there IS none. Well, not much; here's a land sale in Sabine Farm

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0 Doverton Drive, 9.3 acres, two lots, $3.5 million, 16 days on market.

Part of the attraction here is that much of the preliminary regulatory work has been completed, so a buyer/builder shouldn’t have to wait through a lengthy, drawn-out approval process.

Set within the Sabine Farm Association in mid-country Greenwich, this is a rare opportunity to acquire two contiguous estate building lots totaling 9.31 acres in a quiet, private setting with a meaningful head start on pre-development work. The two lots are bordered by a 22-acre open space conservation easement, providing a permanent buffer and exceptional privacy rarely found this close to town. The result is a protected, pastoral backdrop that enhances long-term value and preserves the estate-like feel of the property. The offering benefits from a substantial body of professional due diligence and Town-reviewed site engineering, including civil/site plans and drainage engineering prepared by Redniss & Mead.

The lots are separately identified by the Town for taxation, each with its own parcel ID, allowing for an efficient and flexible building and permitting process. An exceptional mid-country land offering that combines scale, privacy, protected open space, and a de-risked path forward, ideal for an end-user custom estate or a thoughtfully designed multi-structure compound.

Presumably, its taxes will be going up:

Interesting if true, and it sure seems like it is: BBC’s facial recognition software says 97.4 certain

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Video Shows a Man Who Looks Like Alex Pretti Spitting at, Confronting Federal Agents

Another leftist narrative about "Nazi" ICE agents killing innocent and gentle observers may have just been blown to bits. This intel from communications analyst Steve Guest is quite explosive.

Smashing the taillight of a law enforcement vehicle doesn’t carry the death penalty, but it is a felony. And although this particular incident occurred January 13, and Pretti’s fatal encounter came on the 24th, it does undercut the “peaceful nurse” trope. Not that it matters — the 5-year-old imprisoned by ICE: “Hands up, don’t shoot”; Trump locking children in Obama cages, are all still pushed by the media to true believers, and their viewers still believe it, or say they do.

Gun in waistband:

Scott Pinsker: Wait for it, it's coming

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Firing Noem Would Be a PR Catastrophe, and What We Can Learn From the Dems' Long Game

Pinsker argues that firing Noem now would play into the Democrats’ hands, and he makes some reasonable points. You can read it at the link and decide for yourself, but it’s his prediction in the first part of his column that I think is almost bound to come true if the Democrats win back the presidency in 2028.

It’s 100% coming, folks. Just do the math: There’s no statute of limitations for murder, and you can’t federally pardon someone from state charges.

And besides, this is what the Democrats’ base wants.

This means, if the Dems win the White House in 2028, they’ll wait until Jan. 20 to file state murder charges against ICE agents — and they’ll do so with the direct approval of the (new) White House.

But they won’t dare do it while Trump is still president. He’s too powerful. The federal government could tie up the litigation all kinds of ways, and the worst PR of all is losing a high-profile court case.

Don’t believe me? Go ask Amber Heard, Sean Combs, and Harvey Weinstein.

No point risking an embarrassing legal setback, which vindicates the GOP’s side. Why subject yourself to an avalanche of news stories about your defeat, ICE’s big victory — and Donald Trump crowing to the crowd? The timing isn’t right.

Not when there’s no statute of limitations!

Look, if a Minn. jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of murder because he knelt on George Floyd’s neck for too long, what do you think they’d say about ICE agents who opened fire on two unarmed protesters?

Especially after elevating Renee Good and Alex Pretti into sainted martyrs: That’s gonna be Minnesota's PR play between now and Election Day 2028. By the time the mainstream media is done, Good and Pretti will be modern-day Mother Theresas!

And it’s a smart strategy: Timing matters more than immediacy.

Even when your base is pushing for urgency!

I believe I've posted this video before, but in today's climate it's worth viewing again

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Not all that long ago, but before TDS, a person could reject open borders and argue for the immediate deportation of illegal aliens and not be dismissed out of hand as a racist.

Not that I was planning to, or ever would, but AI, today, is about as useful in healthcare as it is in legal research

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You’re gonna die

Geoffrey A. Fowler, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post

ChatGPT now says it can answer personal questions about your health using data from your fitness tracker and medical records. The new ChatGPT Health claims that it can help you “understand patterns over time - not just moments of illness - so you can feel more informed.”

Like many people who strap on an Apple Watch every day, I’ve long wondered what a decade of that data might reveal about me. So I joined a brief wait list and gave ChatGPT access to the 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements stored in my Apple Health app. Then I asked the bot to grade my cardiac health.

It gave me an F.

I freaked out and went for a run. Then I sent ChatGPT’s report to my actual doctor.

Am I an F? “No,” my doctor said. In fact, I’m at such low risk for a heart attack that my insurance probably wouldn’t even pay for an extra cardio fitness test to prove the artificial intelligence wrong.

I also showed the results to cardiologist Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute, an expert on both longevity and the potential of AI in medicine. “It’s baseless,” he said. “This is not ready for any medical advice.”

…. A few days after ChatGPT Health arrived, AI rival Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare that, similarly, promises to help people “detect patterns across fitness and health metrics.” Anyone with a paid account can import Apple Health and Android Health Connect data into the chatbot. Claude graded my cardiac health a C, relying on some of the same analysis that Topol found questionable.

OpenAI and Anthropic say their bots can’t replace doctors or provide diagnosis and include contextual disclaimers. Yet both products willingly provided detailed analysis of my cardiac health. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

The more I used ChatGPT Health, the worse things got.

How ChatGPT misread my charts

The whole premise of ChatGPT Health involves a leap of faith: handing over your most intimate health information to a data-gobbling AI company. People are right to be cautious about AI privacy.

OpenAI says its Health mode takes extra steps to protect your privacy: It won’t use your data to train its AI or mingle it with other chats, and it encrypts the data. Still, it’s essentially a pinkie promise: ChatGPT isn’t a health care provider, so it isn’t covered by the federal health privacy law known as HIPAA.

After I connected ChatGPT to Apple Health, I asked the bot to share what health recommendations it had for me, and to call out any red flags. It said I should talk with my doctor about a “notable increase” in my resting heart rate, but congratulated me on my sleep and activity levels.

Then I asked the bot to “give me simple scores for heart health and longevity.” That’s when it handed me an F.

I asked ChatGPT: “You really think my heart health and longevity deserve failing grades?”

It responded: “Short answer: no - I don’t think you’re a lost cause, and I’m sorry the raw letter grades felt harsh. They were a blunt, heuristic readout from device-only data.” It said it could give me a more useful score if I also connected the medical records stored by my doctor’s office.

So I did that, and asked it again to “give me a simple score (A-F) for my cardiovascular health over the last decade.” The grade ticked up to D.