Because socialism/communism is based solely on jealousy, resentment and anger,

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Future corporate titans of America!

(Seen in Ed Morrissey’s HotAir column)

Nate Silver:

The DSA sweet spot: highly educated, downwardly mobile

Education and economic security are usually correlated. But where the relationship breaks down is fertile territory for the new left.

Based on this grid, what is the most Democratic voting group in America? It’s voters with postgraduate degrees but lower-to-middle household incomes of $30K to $60K per year.

This is very much also the sweet spot for the DSA. In the group’s most recent member survey in 2021, 80 percent of members aged 25 or older had bachelor’s degrees, but 45 percent had household incomes below $60,000 per year.

This is unusual, because education and income are usually substantially positively correlated. In the composite CES data, only 19 percent of Americans with bachelor’s degrees or higher had household incomes of $60K or below. The DSA rate is around twice that.4 These voters aren’t necessarily “blue collar” in the sense of working with their hands. But that doesn’t mean they’re privileged. Common occupations among DSA members include teachers, non-profit workers, social workers, and public sector employees. ...

Could this just be some weird composite artifact of race? In the DSA’s 2021 survey, 85 percent of members reported their race as white5, which certainly isn’t representative of the country or the Democratic Party overall. But in the broader CES data, we find that the patterns mostly hold once you disaggregate by race.

Ed: Silver has several takeaways from this data, but the "sweet spot" for socialists appears to be those who went to college, got a useless degree, and now want government to redistribute social goods because they made poor choices. And they want to control that redistribution themselves and make it happen by any means necessary. 

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Bonus Material: Where, besides the usual occupations of turkey plucking and postage stamp licking, can gender studies majors find employment:

Gender studies can help prepare you for a huge variety of careers, including many that let you confront injustice or make a positive impact in other major ways. It could even be a key part of your journey toward becoming a CEO, physician, or judge. So check out the following career examples and learn more about the amazing potential offered by this important but sometimes misunderstood area of study.

Corporate, educational, and social service DEI departments, this site suggests. The problem is, DEI employees working in this area produce nothing, and private employers, having discovered this, are cutting their salaries or letting DEI die entirely, leaving only government-funded jobs as a source of employment.

What can you do with a gender studies degree?

From transvestites pretending to be women, to transgenders “identifying” as women, now they ARE women — the transition is complete

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I am woman, hear me roAR!

Who better to deal with the little beasts and their aging helicopter parents?

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Zoologist/gerontologist appointed new Assistant Principal at Riverside School

Weir earned a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Gerontology from Miami (Ohio) University and a master’s in Teacher Leadership and sixth-year diploma in Educational Leadership from Quinnipiac University.

I have real hope for an educator who has trained in and taught in the sciences rather than one who, say, holds a degree in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies or taught classes on “Unsettling the Whte Gaze” .

The game goes into extra innings up on Lake Avenue

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A year and month ago, I reported on the woes of the landlord and the baseball star at 928 Lake Avenue:

June 21, 2025:

A whiff and a miss — Landlord strikes out

Former NY Yankee Josh Donaldson wins lawsuit against Greenwich landlord over moldy mansion

Something to grouse about, for sure.

GREENWICH — A former New York Yankees third baseman won a jury verdict expected to total about $500,000 after suing his landlord William Grous for mold problems, pests and other issues in a leased Greenwich mansion.

Josh Donaldson filed the federal suit against the Lake Avenue property owner in 2022 after paying a $110,000 security deposit and leasing the 4,480-square-foot home for $55,000 per month. The jury in U.S. District Court in Connecticut issued its verdict Wednesday.

Now retired, the three-time All Star and American League Most Valuable Player in 2015 had been traded to the Yankees from the Minnesota Twins in March 2022. Donaldson and his partner, who was six months pregnant, and their 17-month-old daughter moved into the Greenwich house in April, the complaint says.

The house sits on about 4-1/2 acres, has five bedrooms and 4-1/2 baths and is appraised at about $2.4 million, according to court documents and the Greenwich assessor. [But it sold to Grous for $3.325 million in 2005 — Ed]

However, instead of the luxury home Donaldson and his partner expected, the house was rife with problems, including an ant infestation throughout the main floor, non-working showers, broken toilets, an "unsightly, unusable pool" littered with shards of tile and concrete from a botched repair job, and an infiltration of squirrels nesting above the ceiling in one bedroom, the complaint said.

Shortly after moving in, Donaldson's partner and their daughter both developed lung congestion and lingering coughs, the suit said. An environmental testing company's inspection on April 19 revealed "an extensive and widespread infestation" of chaetomium and aspergillus mold, both of which can cause serious health problems, the complaint said.

Donaldson, through his lawyer, demanded that Grous immediately return the home to "a fit and livable condition," the suit said. The landlord, however, did not fix the mold infestation and the lease was terminated in May, the complaint said. Grous refused to return the security deposit, which led Donaldson to seek relief in court, according to the suit.

The jury verdict issued Wednesday totaled about $331,000, including $82,393.76 for costs for substitute housing, moving, transportation and other expenses, $220,000 for the security deposit (the $110,000 that Donaldson paid is doubled under Connecticut law), $1,341.87 for out-of-pocket expenses and $27,500 for emotional harm, according to the verdict form.

Donaldson's attorney, Craig Cepler, said Friday that he anticipated a judge would award in excess of $170,000 in legal expenses, which would bring the total to about $500,000.

"We're evaluating an appeal," Grous' attorney, Philip Russell, said Friday ….

I’d say the jury has already evaluated the defendant’s appeal, and found it lacking.

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Mr. Donaldson was finally awarded $722,845,37 this April, but unfortunately, his claim is behind the $2.5 million foreclosure suit against landlord Grous by Deutsche Bank; it will be years before he collects, if ever.

FWIW’s Legal Eagle, Gideon, tipped me off to this suit, by the way, and also included a very interesting list of other properties tangled up in foreclosure actions. I’m not certain where he got the list, so I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but I did spot-check some of the properties, selected at random, and they’re in play; might be some relative bargains here.

UPDATE: Few, if any of these properties are actively listed on the MLS — the owners have hunkered down and are going nowhere, and why should they? A lot of these cases are close a decade old, and the owners are still in possession)

Mortgage Foreclosures

• 176 Old Stone Bridge Rd – Deutsche Bank v. Hayes

• 23 Gregory Rd – Deutsche Bank v. Toscano (Start date, 2019 and continuing)

• 81 Strickland Rd – Wilmington Trust v. Green (This one was fired up in 2017 and is still going)

• 362 Davis Ave Unit 3 – Deutsche Bank v. Souliere

• 4 Driftway – U.S. Bank Trust v. Petersen

• 43 Maple Ave Units 1–4 – JPMorgan Chase v. Allen

• 44 Edgewood Ave – Deutsche Bank Trust v. Ribeiro

• 453 E. Putnam Ave Unit 3G – U.S. Bank v. Holland

• 67 Holly Hill Ln – Wilmington Trust v. 67 Holly Hill LLC

• 28 E. Lyon Farm Dr Unit 28 – Nationstar Mortgage v. Guilfoile

• 345 Round Hill Rd – JPMorgan Chase v. Ryder

• 7 Will Merry Ln – Wilmington Trust v. Brodsky

• 74 Glen Ridge Rd – Wilmington Savings Fund Society v. Pogosian

• 84 Pemberwick Rd – U.S. Bank Trust v. Gojani

• 9 Seton Ln – JPMorgan Chase v. Supp

• 928 Lake Ave – Deutsche Bank v. Grous

• 969 North St – Patriot Bank v. Altavista Investments LLC

• 6A Lockwood Dr – U.S. Bank v. Maze

• 30 Willowmere Avenue – JPMorgan Chase v. Amodeo

• 83 Lancer Rd South – Astoria Bank v. Olbrych

• 23 Carleton St – U.S. Bank v. McGuire

• 14 Highview Ave – Bank of New York Mellon v. Arsenault (Tax evader on his way to prison)

• 58 Tomac Ave – Wells Fargo v. Blinten

January 6 = raping little girls? In Minnesota, yes.

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Let the little children come to me and suffer

Firestorm erupts online after Minnesota paper praises Tim Walz's clemency for child rapist

The opinion column compared the rape case to January 6 pardons, drawing widespread condemnation

You can read all about it at the link, but it was this quote from Walz that caught me eye: a pedophile who repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl “was just having a bad day”?

Days after Vang's deportation, Walz doubled down on his decision to grant clemency.

"Did that make us any safer?" Walz questioned. “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?"

Was it the sellers' insistence on retaining title to their pizza oven?

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New to the Cos Cob market today, 59 Dandy Drive, 1963 construction that was remuddled in 2015, is offered for sale at the perhaps aspirational price of three-point-five million dollars — which would beat the previous high sale in this 60s development by $700,000+.

We had some fun last week at the expense of a new listing at 59 Dandy Drive, and apparently the weekend crowd of lookers-maybe-buyers shared our sentiments: its price was dropped this morning from $3.5 million to $3.3.

What parent would pay for this nonsense? For that matter, why would any taxpayer allow a single dollar to go to this school? (Updated)

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Trinity College course will teach students to ‘unsettle’ the ‘white gaze’

“Unsettling the White Gaze” appears on the school’s anthropology course schedule for spring 2027.

“White supremacy and racial capitalism structure our world, setting in motion the systems of domination that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly describes as a ‘racially hierarchical political economy constituting war and militarism, imperialist accumulation, expropriation by domination, and labor superexploitation,’” the description states. 

During the class, students will be instructed to turn their “anthropological gaze upon whiteness itself” in order to understand “its insidious modes of self-and-other construction,” thus “destabilizing its ocular power to define others.”

“We will pay special attention to how the white colonial gaze has operated in the liberal discipline of anthropology and explore ethnographic methods for studying whiteness and white supremacy,” the description explains.

And of course …

Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, an assistant professor of anthropology, is teaching “Unsettling the White Gaze.”

Eisenberg-Guyot’s profile describes the scholar as a “white, disabled, trans anthropologist whose work focuses on how criminalized people who use drugs envision and experiment with abolitionist horizons of transformation, healing, self-determination, and solidarity beyond incarceration and forced-cure.”

UPDATE: Saw this on another site, and thought it’d be appropriate here: