INSANE NEW STAR WARS home just dropped on Zillow:
15BRs, 19BAs, ~21K sf, whole house Laser Tag, 6 miles from Walt Disney World. $11.5M; rentals help pay the mortgage.
Epic #FridayNightZillow thread starts NOW: zillow.com/homedetails/11…
This brand new megamansion is designed, I think, to be a perfect vacation joint for a BIG family reunion. I don't see a Luke Skywalker, but there is a Vader, droids, and a Rey. Up to 16 kids sleep in fun bunk rooms. Hmm. CC: @HamillHimself. #FridayNightZillow
Baby yoda makes an appearance in what *I think* is the Naboo room. #FridayNightZillow
The Star Wars mansion also features the perfect laundry room. Which you might need if you have ~40 people staying here! #FridayNightZillow
#FridayNightZillow will return after I eat dinner. It is going to be truly epic.
I'm not really sure what that long corridor is with Vader at the end of it. Storage closets? Video game stations? #FridayNightZillow
Another fun Star Wars connection: Part of this Los Angeles property was the home of the producer of Star Wars? $2.495M "Own a piece of Hollywood history in an exclusive paradise setting!"
On "Elusive Drive" to boot. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/83…
Must have been Gary Kurtz? Found this tribute blog post:
"Western White House" just dropped on Zillow!
*11BRs, 14BAs, 25K sf, $25M*
Looks sort of like the real thing, if the WH still had a sweet pool. California on #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/40…
"Redesigned in 1930 by Julia Morgan, California's first woman architect and the first woman admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris architecture program..."
She also designed the Hearst Castle?
I think this room was inspired by the Oval Office. #FridayNightZillow
Maine paradise in Kennebunkport!
Address is "34 Road to Misery" LOL
Just *$690K* buys you ~43 acres & sweet, sustainable, artistic off-grid home. LOVE THIS. ♥️♥️♥️♥️❤️ #FridayNightZillow zillow.com/homedetails/34…
Sort of like if somebody moved to Endor from Tatooine and brought their architecture with them. #FridayNightZillow
$65K buys you a cute, real, renovated, nice-looking house in Jamestown, NY.
If you aren't mega-mansioned out, This ~$11M palace-like home in New Jersey awaits. Previously listed for ~$25M. Taxes are close to *$20K a month* (SALT cap ouchietown!). I like this kitchen as I'm a sucker for light-colored wood. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/8-…
I don't understand why this listing is 100 MILLION DOLLARS. 4 acres. California coastline. Small house.
Up next: VERMONT CASTLE. Which kicks the Takoma Park Castle's but in every way. #FridayNightZillow
TWO WORDS: VERMONT CASTLE.
Sort of a faux castle, but probably my favorite dream home of the week. $2.6M, solar, stunning views, beautiful interior, library of the gods. #FridayNightZIllow zillow.com/homedetails/15…
$50M buys the Penthouse at this cray cray Miami tower. A total no from me on account of I would have nausea and vertigo from my fear of heights. But maybe it's your thing?
7BRs, 14BAs, >19K sf
Comes with an Aston Martin for some reason. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/30…
This Georgia mansion really is excess to the 9th degree. Not my style AT ALL. Maybe though you are looking for this sort of thing, which could double as a wedding venue for guys who want to putt on the putting green after. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/53…
A classic for #FridayNightZillow: A huge home that doubles as an airplane hangar. 2BRs, 5BAs, 7K+sf!
There's a dividing line between the ~$2M-6M @mcmansionhell homes & the $30M+ estates that feel like you are living in a museum. This is such a house. $29.995M. It's a treat and worth your click. California #FridayNightZillow zillow.com/homedetails/25…
You know you have money when your ceilings look like this. #FridayNightZillow
Could have been carved from a European estate. Except doesn't have that faded musty look European palaces sometimes do. #FridayNightZillow
You could film an American version of Downton here. Even my already-singed retinas perk up clicking through this place. #FridayNightZillow
Bathroom art is a nice touch. Really, nicer than most museums. Amazing house. But again, it better be for $30M! #FridayNightZillow
Winding down #FridayNightZillow: Only a few homes more. You won't want to miss them...
Winfield Hall / The Woolworth Estate in Glen Cove, New York was damaged by fire in 2015, but clearly still is spectacular. And it's on #FridayNightZillow
Staircase alone reportedly cost $2M, about a century ago.
Getting sleepy. So going to wrap this up with one, last megamansion. So insane it is hard to wrap my head around. #FridayNightZillow
This last home has a lap pool of the gods.
Final home on this edition of #FridayNightZillow is an epic, modern Colorado ranch complex on 250 acres. If I had $42M, I'd seriously consider it. Like nothing I've ever seen. Let's take the tour, shall we? #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/24…
Kitchen is a sweet custom job. Whirlpool atop a stone tower. Just like you dreamed up. And a bar out of a movie. #FridayNightZillow
All the toys: Lap pool of the gods. Indoor turf thing. Jail cell. #FridayNightZillow
Does your megamansion have its own snowplow and fleet of snowmobiles? Didn't think so! #FridayNightZillow
Ok, that's it. Let me know which homes you loved, hated, or loved to hate; otherwise, see you in the next one! #FridayNightZillow
BTW, the Casteel Creek estate lists like 70K square feet of space, 18BRs, 32BAs. It’s one of the largest homes available on Zillow. Didn’t quite do it justice because I got zonked. Would have been the lede house but Star Wars intervened.
Addendum: I think the Star Wars house is in the same neighborhood as this one from last week. I think it must be a new reunion rental paradise, each mansion with their own themes? This one has a casino and princess rooms:
Two years ago, Congress considered banning 18-20 year-olds from buying AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles after the Uvalde massacre, and some Republicans were briefly open to doing so but ultimately blocked including a ban in the bipartisan gun bill signed by Biden.
Then-Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a law raising the age to buy guns in his state to 21 after the Parkland massacre, but then opposed doing the same for the nation as a US Senator. He told reporters it was easier to do it at the state level.
McConnell actually enacted a law one day to raise the age to buy cigarettes to 21. But he didn't want to talk two years ago about a proposal to raise the age for buying rifles.
Soaring cost estimates for extending Trump tax cuts set up a crucial 2025 fight:
*CBO puts tab at $4.6 Trillion over next decade
*Fight comes with US debt far higher than 2017, interest costs ballooning & Social Security cliff looming...
w/@chrisjcondon bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
*Trump wants more tax cuts, along with massive new tariffs — aka a tax on imports — that would raise consumer prices but offset at least some of the cost.
*Biden wants to extend breaks <$400K a year paired with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
If past is prologue, Congress will again play Santa Claus. With a few exceptions, Congress has repeatedly increased spending and cut taxes since 2001.
Tonight's #FridayNightZillow is kicking off with a *House of the Year* contender. It's amazeballs! We just need to crowdfund $2.795M. We get 9,825 square feet of sheer madness on 36 acres in gorgeous Plymouth, Minnesota! I love it!!! INSANE sinks, WEIRD art, WILD ceilings, AMAZING kitchen, views, colors galore, a pond, a party shower and much, MUCH more. Several of you sent me this gem! 🧵 zillow.com/homedetails/51…
This is a Sink! #SinkZillow #FridayNightZillow
This is a Sink! #SinkZillow #FridayNightZillow #OMG
Three words: OLD. JAIL. INN. Time to retire and move to Rockville, Indiana! Just $445K buys us 10BRs, 6BAs, and a licensed wine bar in the basement! Welcome to #FridayNightZillow! Follow along for an epic collection of funky homes. zillow.com/homedetails/12…
"What happens in jail stays in jail" lol. Jail-bar pillows are a nice touch. #FridayNightZillow
One of the scarier things I've seen on Zillow. Let's hope this is a prop and not an actual electric chair. #FridayNightZillow
Ozempic can be produced for less than $5 a month, a new study found, but Danish company Novo Nordisk charges Americans $968.52. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bernie Sanders insisting the company charge Americans no more than it charges Canadians for the same drug.
Ozempic pricing page. Many people get discounts on this price, or have insurance companies (ie premiums) or taxpayers pay the bill. novopricing.com/ozempic.html
McConnell helped nix:
Roe
Campaign finance reform
Individual mandate
Medicare dental & vision
Dream Act
$35 insulin cap
Minimum wage hike
Flag burning amendment
Making Election Day a holiday
Public option
SCOTUS filibuster
Pro Act 1/6 Commission
Oil export ban
Cap&trade
Tax hikes
Vast majority of laws since 2007 have had either the acquiescence of McConnell or his outright support, with notable exceptions, like the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, Obama stimulus, Biden Covid relief, Dodd-Frank, Lilly Ledbetter, USA Freedom Act, Paygo.
One way to look at McConnell is that he has often had the role of editor of Congress. Empowered by the filibuster and his conference, he had a key veto point in Washington; spending, taxing and legislating had to pass through his filter.