FIRST UP on #FridayNightZillow 🧵: *INSANE* Illinois party mansion w/eye candy galore. Marble everywhere, custom chandeliers, hand-painted ceilings, granite staircase, bonkers basement, theater, kitchens, imported pizza oven, etc. $6.5M. zillow.com/homedetails/16…
If you want to hang out like the gods on Mt. Olympus, this spot is for you. #FridayNightZillow
This is *a dining room.* This house really doesn't do understated anything. #FridayNightZillow
This is the Cigar Room. Previous listing bragged it has an industrial strength smoke removal system. It also has an ancient, tiny flat-screen TV that needs to go directly into the trash. #FridayNightZillow
Bonus points for the imported Italian pizza oven. Crime against humanity for putting an ugly TV above said pizza oven. If you need a TV here, you are living life wrong. #FridayNightZillow
Party basement needs a TV upgrade. But I do like the idea of using bright colors down here so it doesn't feel like a basement. #FridayNightZillow
This sweet kitchen is also in the enormous basement. There is a second enormous kitchen on the main level. #FridayNightZillow
360-degree bar in the that enormous basement. Another painted ceiling, naturally. I sure hope those aren't TVs in the upper corners. I'm going to pretend they are air vents or something. #FridayNightZillow
This is the favorite room of the original owner of the house, though to my mind when I'm watching a movie I don't want to see anything but the movie. #FridayNightZillow
This house previously sold for $4.5M. Watch this super-fun 3 minute video from 2011 with the one of the previous owners when they put it on sale. (The Zitellas are developers) #FridayNightZillow
Up next: A "Charlevoix Mushroom House" aka the "The Thatch House." Cool, Hobbity architecture in Michigan. Owner of this Earl Young house did a lot of work, w/roof "crafted from the finest natural thatch hand-reaped in Europe." $4.5M #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/30…?
This might be a Kitchen of the Year Nominee. In a classy, $3.45M, 7K sf Garden City, NY home. You get a La Cornue stove, more ovens, multiple sinks, built-ins, etc. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/10…
You'd think after the first circle bed they would have learned their lesson, but no. Maybe they had a Buy 1, Get 1 special at Bob's House of Round Beds. #FridayNightZillow
I have issues with this bathroom. But the sinks are nice. #FridayNightZillow
This is one of the more unusual family rooms I've ever seen. Like the owner just wanted to scream FLORIDA!!! #FridayNightZillow
Time for a Michigan castle. This one has its own vineyard! Just $1.125M. Not my favorite but you could do worse at this price. zillow.com/homedetails/10…
If you've ever read #FridayNightZillow before I think you already know what I like and what I hate about this room.
One thing you learn if you look at enough Zillow houses: Humans are WEIRD! Also, this is a toilet. In a quirky $400K Tennessee house. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homes/1817-Hig…?
LA fantasy house. $6.995M. Used to be owned by Frank Lloyd, one of the founders of the Academy and the director of Mutiny on the Bounty. Super classy. Funky back yard things. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/23…?
Our #FridayNightZillow SHOWSTOPPER tonight is a modern California masterpiece. $3.888M. All the views. PERFECT TV PLACEMENT. Wonderful kitchen. Perfect bathtub. Edge pool. So much more. I could live here. zillow.com/homedetails/13…?
This TV placement brings tears of joy to my eyes. Finally some rich person finally gets it. This living room is spectacular. #FridayNightZillow
This is the view *from your living room.* It's like magic. #FridayNightZillow.
Bedroom. Somebody finally understands you shouldn't have a TV here. #FridayNightZillow
Bathtub fills from the ceiling. It has the spillover feature. The walls are pure glass. It might be the best bath setup ever? #FridayNightZillow
Yes please. My favorite color wood. Glass door cabinets so you can see that's inside. Stainless steel. Not too big, not too small. Just right. #FridayNightZillow
You will get clean in this shower. Not sure I'd want to clean it, but... #FridayNightZillow
I hope you enjoyed this edition of #FridayNightZillow. Thanks especially to my sister-in-law for finding most of these houses, to tipsters, to my wife and to you for reading.
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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.