I've been writing about this for at least a year, but I guess they're finally disinterring it from its hiding spot in their platform

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Socialists launch radical platform to abolish the US Senate in bid to fundamentally transform America

The radical update also calls for amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War, sources say

As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.

According to a source familiar with the DSA’s planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

Additionally, the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.

As I’ve been writing, it’s not just Bernie Sanders and whacko-Platner who are DSA members: Mamdani, AOC, the Somalians in Congress, and various communist candidates in all the hot spots like Colorado, California, and Virginia are all enrolled in the party and boast of the DSA’s endorsement.. These people should be forced by Fox and whatever other major media is still out there to defend and explain their support for this plan for the destruction of America. I’m waiting.

Here's a more sensible pricing strategy than the one employed on 261 River road

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38 Byfield Lane has taken its second price cut in thirteen days and is now asking $3.250 million.

I wrote about this last week, when it first committed a “price adjustment”

48 Byfield Lane, 3% — $3.495 million to $3.395. I might have been tempted to take a larger reduction, given current market conditions that are seeing properties go almost overnight, but at least this cut was taken after just nine days; no sense waiting around.

Democrat rulers to 156,000 Maine Platner voters: “Alright, we let you have your fun, and you blew it. Now stand aside, and let us pros show you how it's done”

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(No, she’s not a maga republican, although she should be)

Democracy, Pine Tree style

Maine Democrats approve 600-person convention to pick Graham Platner’s replacement

The Maine Democratic Party’s state committee voted Wednesday to hold a nominating convention to select a replacement for U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, according to a party statement and an account of the meeting shared with the Bangor Daily News.

More than 100 state committee members attended the meeting and voted in favor of the convention process, the party said in a statement. The convention would include 500 delegates elected proportionally by county committees, along with the entire state committee, according to the account of the meeting.

The account of the meeting was written by an attendee and provided to the BDN. 

But have no fear:

“We will announce the full timeline, details for how the nomination process will move forward, information about how to participate, and requirements for candidates soon,” party Chair Charlie Dingman, Vice Chair Imke Schessler and Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a statement. “We will keep the public informed throughout the process – transparency is of the utmost importance.”

Old Greenwich land sale

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Our late, beloved local animal rescue lady Meredith Sampson’s 0.22-acre lot at 27 Park Avenue was recently brought to the market by Daphne Lamsvelt-Pol for $1.795 million. The Dutchess (yes, we know we’re misspelling that, don’t worry) didn’t bother posting pictures of the property itself — they wouldn’t have helped, and were irrelevant — and contented herself instead with postcard scenes of her native Amsterdam, and it worked: sold yesterday for $2.850 million.

Phew! Dodged a bullet

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The owners of 55 Stag Lane paid $2.6 million for it in July 2024 but, nice as the house is, they discovered that they were a little too close to a certain FWIW reader/commentator we all know (and love), and decided to move back out. Placed on the Market in May at $2.8 million, it has now sold for an even $3 million, so what could have been a loss has worked out just fine.

Buyers are from Tribeca, where they’re probably used to quirky neighbors; although, if they thought they were escaping them by moving here, well, …

Fortunately, NYC's sending a no-borders communist to Congress to stop this kind of cruelty

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ICE detains Honduran man involved in Connecticut crash for illegally reentering [5X, by my count] US, officials say

HARTFORD — A man who was under the influence when he was involved in an Andover crash has been ordered detained for illegally reentering the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

  • Belin Antonio Gonzalez-Garcia, 39, a Honduran citizen, appeared Tuesday in federal court in Hartford after being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 23, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Sullivan said in a news release.

  • Gonzalez-Garcia was convicted of first-degree assault in the state in October 2009, the release said. After his 18-year prison sentence, which was suspended after seven years served and three years of probation, he was deported, the release said. He was sent back to Honduras in April 2015, the release said. 

  • The release said over a year later, in September 2016, Gonzalez-Garcia was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville, Texas. The release said he served 2½ years in prison before being deported to Honduras in December 2018.

  • Gonzalez-Garcia had two more instances in Texas where he was caught by border patrol in the subsequent years, sentenced to prison and then deported to Honduras, the release said. 

  • Gonzalez-Garcia was charged by state police on June 7 in connection with the crash in Andover, the release said. It said he was charged with OUI, evading responsibility, failure to drive in proper lane and operating a motor vehicle without a license. The release said Gonzalez-Garcia appeared in state Superior Court in Rockville for those charges, and ended up being freed on a $2,500 bond. [Fun fact: CT forbids police to honor ICE detainers — Ed]

  • The release said ICE took Gonzalez-Garcia into custody on June 23. The release said he is now charged with illegal reentry of a removed alien. 

Spoiler alert: it's the DSA, and I think he's spot-on

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Scott Pinsker, PJMedia:

Good News Is, Platner Just Killed the Democrats' Brand. Bad News Is, You’re Gonna HATE What Replaces It.

My only disagreement is his statement that the process is happening in slow motion. It seems to me that we’re almost there already, and speeding up.

…. The amount of damage that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has inflicted on the Democrats' brand is simply extraordinary. It’s probably the most underreported story in politics today. There’s just no credible way the Dems can pretend to be a Nazi-hating, pro-woman party when they’ve spent months wrapping their brand around a Nazi-tatted, woman-abusing, foul-mouthed rapist (allegedly).

…. But I’m less interested in Platner’s personal future than the Democratic Party’s: Now that it can’t credibly brand itself as the anti-Nazi, “Believe All Women” party, what happens next?

Its old brand is done. Platner killed it. (But not singlehandedly: If his candidacy had been spurned by Dem leaders, party kingpins, and left-wing tastemakers, the damage would’ve been limited. It was embracing Platner right up to the bitter end — wrapping their arms around him and lovingly calling him “My kind of man” — that delivered the deathblow.)

Ding dong, the old brand is dead!

But that doesn’t mean the Democratic Party is dead. Because it’s not.

It means the Democratic Party brand will become something new.

This is a party, after all, that explicitly rejects patriotism and the concept of American exceptionalism. It loves socialism. It hates capitalism, billionaires, and (most of all) MAGA Republicans. And its soul is now 100%, unapologetically Machiavellian: Win at all costs, because the ends justify the means.

If we’ve gotta support a Nazi rapist to regain power, then that’s what we’ll do!

The evolving image of the new Democratic brand — which was born this week — should send a shiver down your spine: It’s now the political party of class warfare and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

A left-wing version of “Make America Great Again” would fall on deaf ears, because today’s Dems reject the premise that America was ever great — or even deserves greatness. Instead, our country is a rigged con-game, and the only solution is to tear the damn thing down. 

That’s disastrous for establishment Democrats.

But it’s PERFECT brand alignment for the Democratic Socialists of America.

And that’s how it’ll go. First the Democrats' old brand fell. Then goes the establishment.

Next goes the party.

It’s happening in slow motion, but make no mistake: It’s absolutely happening.