FIRST on #FridayNightZillow tonight!
***BIG SUR PARADISE***
~30 acres. 3 "passive solar" homes (Yurt-like?) built into the hillside by the late architect Mickey Muennig. $6.95M. Hopefully this will transport you away from your troubles for just a bit...🧵 zillow.com/homedetails/50…
A great place to just...hang out! I could see @HamillHimself's Luke Skywalker hanging out and meditating here, maybe drinking some green milk. #FridayNightZillow
I could live here. Something cool in every pic. Would probably want to build a fourth house though with all the toys and ... plumbing? #FridayNightZillow
Outdoor bathroom — I guess California weather lets you do this sort of thing. #FridayNightZillow
Wonderful remembrance of Mickey Muennig and more *stunning* pics of his architecture here. He died in 2021. gibbs.oucreate.com/architecture/r…
Mickey Muennig has the nickname of "The Man Who Built Big Sur." Really great profile of him — "shaped the Californian dream for 40 years" — at this link: littleatoms.com/life/man-who-b…
Up next: 10 acres w/stream and a cool house in Napa for just $695K?
The most expensive home in Vermont just listed on Zillow. It has a toy car museum, a giant wall of Swatches and assorted other cray on 68 acres. #FridayNightZillow $16M. zillow.com/homedetails/50…
Lots of weird little pieces of art and funky furniture in this megamansion. I spy an Eiffel Tower, a miniature train, and I guess that's an Uncle Sam? #FridayNightZillow
I love this kitchen and all the light-colored wood in this house. (I personally have some Vermont-built dressers and a Vermont dining room table. Fantastic stuff.)
I'll take this over Nouveau Greige any day of the week. #FridayNightZillow
Not sure what this is. In the game room. I'm kind of creeped out. #FridayNightZillow
This house also has this Texas-shaped sink, but the pic appears to have been removed. (You can still see the sink if you click on the 3D view). #FridayNightZillow
"Bald Eagle Island" in St. Paul, Minnesota with a thoroughly modern home and your own Hovercraft to whisk you to shore when you want. More than half a mile of shoreline all to yourself. Not really my style but I love the floors. $6.6M. zillow.com/homedetails/1-…?
Affordable housing! ~$210K gets you a rental home with 3 units on >1 acre in Augusta, Maine. Retire right now and live in one, rent the other two? #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/36…
Just a typical Florida megamansion but my wife noticed a couple of odd details: A jet ski in the pool with fire and a 600-gallon "Jellyfish tank." $4.9M. Really NOT my style. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/72…
Shockingly cheap historic Chicago home built in 1862 on 1+ acre. Said to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. Could use some updating but seems in OK shape with some cool details. Maybe turn it into a park? $650K. #FridayNightZillow cc: @meredithshinerzillow.com/homedetails/10…
Posting this house mainly for the mirrors above the bed. $1.685M in Sherman Oaks. You never really know what goes on in other people's homes. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homes/14162-Va…?
This theater is distracting. And yeah, just making sure you are still awake. #FridayNightZillow
Posting this house for this living room. The rest of the house will take you to a certain decade (?) but I don't have the heart to show it. I will say that is one awesome coffee table. Illinois. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/10…
Why is this nearly $7M? Have people not seen what happened with mortgage rates? Anyway, I'd buy the Big Sur compound every day of the week and twice on Sunday before I'd buy this FL house. But it is *right* on the beach. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/20…
Where the billionaires at? The most expensive property in Connecticut is a $100M island with a mess of houses, >60 acres, stables, beach, docks, the works. "The largest private island ever to be offered for sale on the East Coast." #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/Gr…
Most of these houses were found by my wife and my sister-in-law. They are like the Jedi masters of Zillow hunters. #FridayNightZillow
Things are cheaper in Indiana. $375K gets you 7BR, 7BA, >11K sf mansion. Shocking, really. Recent price cut. Would be millions plural in DC. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/52…
Anyone want to go in on a massive dive bar/nightclub combo? 1BR, 5BA, ~13K sf in Indiana. Needs some paint, but how can we lose at just $250K? Live in the on-site apartment! #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/31…
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.