[Low cost vs affordable housing is available in the re-introduction of ‘carriage houses’. The folks in Noblesville, Indiana are discovering that “these units cost considerably less than single-family dwellings and create accessible points into and out of homeownership while preserving neighborhood character. They also have the potential to provide rental income to help property owners afford their mortgages. Few cities and towns are immune from rising material costs and expensive land. But we control zoning and permitting. We should expand housing options without compromising community character.” gjr]
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269 responses to “Sandbox – 2jun25”
Fulbright scholarship board quits in protest rather than support the Trump re-education camp mentality.
website shut down,
https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-ffsb/ffsb-members
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MAGA does Broadway
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-performing-arts-487a890419ebf4de42660c5d947dc69c
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looks like some military members might be sent to the re-education camps soon,
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html
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Posted by: Flapjacked Porkbilly | 12 June 2025 at 05:47 AM
Drag Queens…….! Once I saw “Drag Queens” were in the audience your interest in the story became clear.
Than Franthithco Valuths…….
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“The leftist theory of land control: “it belongs to the last people who lived on it who weren’t my definition of white”‘
– Seen on X.
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Posted by: scenes | 12 June 2025 at 09:19 AM
The Denisovans then…..
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Scenes, it is indeed a Marxian theory in play.
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Good news… California’s EV mandate is dead.
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“Law enforcement sources tell me L.A. police and sheriff’s deputies were told to stand back and stand down. Waiting in a parking lot for 15 hours for orders to deploy – that never came.
All because Newsom and Bass didn’t want the “optics” of helping ICE. They put law enforcement lives at risk, and that’s unforgivable.”
https://x.com/SteveHiltonx/status/1933177480396890274
Oh well, like I hear Democrats always say: “IT’S JUST PROPERTY”.
re: EV mandate.
Good. Dunno if it’ll stick.
It’s funny how much of our lives are ruled by young, fairly stupid, apparatchiks in .gov and non-profit gigs.
The combination of lack of common sense, well meaning but radical thinking, and modern secular religion is something to behold.
As usual, the first bit of car rules worked out fine, the combo of simple EFI/cat/sensor is pretty cool, but on the margin you end up with craziness. Next up will be the 100 air bag car. You have to feel for the people at the car companies trying to implement multi year (or decade) design and plant building while dealing with modern moody bureaucrats.
To be fair, that’s an issue with Biden/Trump. We so quickly went from the complete dominance of affirmative action and a senile autosigning Prez to one who skips from thing to thing while trying to fix the world all at once, how do you plan around the whiplash?
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Speaking of modern stylish behavior, is there going to be a local Soros Inc. sign-totin’ march?
From what I’ve seen, the money trails on that are something to behold. You can essentially assume that all mass political behavior is astroturf nowadays.
As stated before, it’s 0% an attempt to convince someone on the fence, 100% group solidarity and endorphin rush. No people with genuine jobs allowed.
Hang on. I have the Power of Google at my fingertips.
https://indivisiblenevadacounty.org/events
lol. HONK HONK HONK! YAY!
After the event, it’s off to the Flour Garden to drink an iced caffe mocha and discuss the latest bodice rippers. I hear that Nazi vampires are in.
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That’s some high quality Typepad software there Bob!
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Trump’s Stasi Goons at work. The Ice Queen and her thugs at work,
But free speech…
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/sen-padilla-thrown-to-floor-handcuffed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=26vbls
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It took you long enough, Jeff.
It was Noem’s presser, she was speaking and Padilla was walking towards her speaking over her when the folks there to protect Noem reacted. He tried to take over the press conference.
She gave him fifteen minutes of her time in a 1:1 when HER press conference was over.
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I think this writer is speaking for all the local ‘progressives’.
“Let’s get one thing straight right now: if I had to choose between living next to tattoo-faced cartel boys or a red-hatted, gun-humping MAGA “patriot” who still thinks Trump is the second coming of Christ, I’d be picking out a bottle of Patrón and practicing my Español, because at least MS-13 doesn’t pretend to be the moral backbone of America while committing mass genocide against everyone who isn’t white.”
https://medium.com/@radicalreflections/id-rather-live-next-door-to-ms-13-than-maga-morons-5c729bf1534e
https://archive.ph/Gz0zv
re: Padilla and his carefully constructed street theatre.
“Omg. CNN brought on their legal expert in hopes that he would side with Sen. Padilla over DHS.
They were wrong.
“Officers are trying to lead him out, he turns and walks into those agents. At that point…we’re taking that person out against their will.””
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1933265844714222002
Looks about like one of the less nice J6 encounters. Maybe he needs to sit in segregation for 4 years until another President lets him out. Of course, he’s just another of the halfwit Senators, no doubt this will turn into a fund raiser somehow….I can’t blame him for his in-group loyalty though, that’s probably the normal state of humanity.
After spending an hour or so watching Democrat voter activities in LA, Seattle, Portland…I am so over these people.
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Here’s a good video of the start of the Padilla fooferaw.
“Democrat Senator Alex Padilla should be ashamed of his childish behavior today.
He crashed the middle of an official press conference being held by a cabinet secretary, recklessly lunged toward the podium where
@Sec_Noem
was speaking, and then refused to leave the room and follow the directions of law enforcement officers.”
https://x.com/PressSec/status/1933275598811545699
Why, it’s just exactly like the Stasi.
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Shorter Senator Padilla……
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“…while committing mass genocide against everyone who isn’t white.”
Yeah – that’s our daily routine here in Idaho.
And Paul thinks ICE is storming the local elementary school and hauling off 3rd graders.
From the Indivisible Nevada County:
“We are united against kings. Trump has already indicated that he’s aiming for at least a third term”
These poor old fools are going to scare themselves into a coronary. The last time we had to rid ourselves of the British Crown I believe it was shootin’ irons – not marching around that did the trick.
Well – the fresh air and exercise will be good for them.
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Also from Cindy Steinberg……
See…..other people are actually willing to do the work!
VIRTUE SIGNAL HARDER JEFF!!!
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Here’s a story for you Scott about police arresting high school kids. Are you ok with this?:
Chelmsford, Massachusetts AP —
A Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by immigration agents on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody after a judge granted him bond Thursday.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the US from Brazil at age 7, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday. Authorities have said the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the time and had parked in a friend’s driveway.
Speaking with members of the media outside the detention center shortly after his release on $2,000 bond, Gomes da Silva described “humiliating” conditions and said his faith helped him through his six days of detention.
On his wrist, he wore a bracelet made from the thin sheet of metallic blanket he was given to sleep on the cement floor.
“I’ll always remember this place,” he said. “I’ll always remember how it was.”
His lawyer, Robin Nice, told reporters after the hearing in Chelmsford that his arrest “shouldn’t have happened in the first place. This is all a waste.”
“We disrupted a kid’s life. We just disrupted a community’s life,” Nice said. “These kids should be celebrating graduation and prom, I assume? They should be doing kid stuff, and it is a travesty and a waste of our judicial process to have to go through this.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/us/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-bond-granted
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Poor kid. Shame about his dad.
His lawyer sounds Nice.
But tough titties as they say.
That’s a fair cop.
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Paul – one adult was arrested and granted bail.
Both you and I don’t have all the details.
He was granted bail by the judge, so charges must still be pending.
We all remember you boo-hooing about an MS13 human trafficker and how the phony news you get sucked into convinced you he was just a hard working dad.
You just don’t seem to learn.
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Israelis strike those mutha mullahs nuclear sites in what the IDF spokesman referd to as the ‘first wave.’ Time to finish it once and for all.
😉
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Goodness gracious, Trumps favorability polls are 16-2 against him in 18 polls. Also he’s losing in the average of all polls by 6.1%. Thats before the current California fiasco which is a disaster.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 12 June 2025 at 05:33 PM
Are you ok with this?
Channeling mommy again Paul Raymond? It’s funny that you still think that shame will work!
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Well Trump took my advice. Today he promised he wouldn’t eject all the Latino farm and construction workers who were illegals.
Here’s a today quote:
President Trump says an executive order is potentially coming, allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in the country so farmers don’t run out of workers.
“Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers.”
“They’ve worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great. We’re going to have to do something about that.”
“We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have…”
“We’re going to have an order on that pretty soon. We can’t do that to our farmers.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-shift-theyve-turned-out-to-be-great-says-us-president-on-farm-workers-watch-video/articleshow/121814358.cms
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“Goodness gracious, Trumps favorability polls are 16-2 against him in 18 polls.”
And yet he remains your president, Paul. I would suggest you start dealing with that reality.
Any more on your BS about the police arresting “high school kids”?
Must be a first – apparently the police have never, ever, arrested high school kids before.
How many “kids” were actually arrested, Paul? Did you really read the whole article?
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“Well Trump took my advice.”
Yes, Paul – he hangs on your every word.
Your delusions seem to have no limit.
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Posted by: Scott O | 12 June 2025 at 08:28 PM
Did you really read the whole article?
Busy…..much too busy!
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Hogg out at DNC
– LBJ if he were still alive
(seen on X)
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Too bad facts dont factor into socialist dems narratives –
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/12/marlow-los-angeles-was-founded-by-spanish-settlers-not-mexicans/
😉
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re: DB@9:01PM
To steal a line I read, The Simpsons have been on 10 years longer than California was part of Mexico.
Just waiting a bunch of riot footage at various Federal facilities, all 100x more than J6 in terms of fuss and fury.
I have to wonder if there’s an official logical fallacy for our local ‘progressive’s perpetual use of J6 as a talisman to be used against all the destruction their people have (and are) causing. No matter. It’s obvious who is wrong here.
I did like this one:
“Newark, N.J. — Leftist open border insurrectionists who surrounded the Delaney Hall ICE facility force the agents to comply with their demands that they show the vehicles are empty in order to be let out or in. This is the same facility recently attacked.”
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1933368021575151626
Really, everyone has to be getting sick of this shit.
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Just saw some of the before and after satellite pics of iranian facilities. Now that they also decapitated the military and nuke boss scientists and destroyed what was left of the russian made air defense with the F35s its a whole new ballgame. The much-derided F35s are now battle tested against what had been called the best integrated air defense outside of russia. HA
I heard the 80 virgins in paradise are all blue haired 70 something socialist dems.
😉
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Hah……
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1933126381279547838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1933126381279547838%7Ctwgr%5E8155ee9edab80514ddb7788c6e0c26b5777e6e4c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F725887%2F
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re the strike on Iran:
“Iran advertised countless times its resolve to wipe Israel off the map, in so many words. Israel was not inclined to submit to that outcome and it closely monitored Iran’s practical steps to acquire deliverable nuclear bombs. Israel, in turn, advertised that Iran’s nuclear program would not be allowed to succeed. The world stood by waiting to see who’s advertising jibed with reality.
Now you know. Never Again is not an empty slogan.”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/game-on
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lol. Life In These United States.
“LA City Council member blatantly asks LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell to give the immigrant community a heads up re ICE enforcement.
“No we can’t do that. That would be obstruction of justice. You might want to talk to the city attorney about that.”
On the record, no shame asking the LAPD Chief to be involved in obstruction of justice.
MIND BOGGLING. ZERO SHAME. ZERO RESPECT FOR THE LAW.”
https://x.com/ceceswoods/status/1933336525821051257
I think what I like best about that clip is how the city council chick is from central casting. The US, California especially, seems to be stuffed with these half-bright ‘progressive’ women who just loves them their microphone. Resumes that are 100% campaign helpers, various elected positions, non-profit griftoramas. You don’t have to go very far to run into the phenomena.
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You guys going to the “No Kings” rally this weekend…..?
Here’s my sign:
Whaddya think…..? Fellow protesters will like it?
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Alexander S. Vindman speaks:
https://x.com/AVindman/status/1933267565649748029
It doesn’t take much for the mask to come off I guess.
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fish 7:53 – There’s a sign-making party at Bob’s house 510 North Pine St – starts in an hour.
“All supplies provided. Bring your clever ideas!”
I’m sure the party is “inclusive” so I’ll bet they’d welcome you!
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Posted by: scenes | 13 June 2025 at 07:59 AM
It doesn’t take much for the mask to come off I guess.
He’s auditioning for The Bulwark.
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That stupid stunt by Padilla and the mindless question/rant by the idiot LA council-chick are truly the face of the Dem party.
And judging by the reactions from the goobers on the internet it has the desired effect.
The problem they have is that the LSM no longer are in control of our nation’s info stream and the rest of the nation can see and hear what the full picture is.
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Look…..AOC 2.0!
Hopefully for TEAM EVIL this isn’t one as blatantly stupid!
https://www.newsweek.com/deja-foxx-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-arizona-special-election-democrats-2084714
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Posted by: Scott O | 13 June 2025 at 08:12 AM
Cool….I’m headed over now! I’m sure a good time will be had by all!
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“… are truly the face of the Dem party.”
They sure got their tendrils into a lot of places.
“Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race
The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.””
https://www.city-journal.org/article/lockheed-martin-civil-rights-law-bonuses-race-merit
I’m so done with them.
re: Protest Sign Party
How about “MY WIFE’S BOYFRIEND’S TRANSGENDER CHILD HATES ORANGE CHEETOH TRUMPANZEE FASCIST NAZIS!!!”
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Posted by: scenes | 13 June 2025 at 08:57 AM
Probably a little wordy for today’s geriatric “Rent a Mob”……! Shorter attention spans as we get older.
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from ‘DataRepublican’ on X after she put a bunch of spreadsheets online showing the money flow.
“It’s important to understand that the June 8–9 protests were financed by PSL, the People’s Front, and Neville Singham… entities aligned with anti-Western Communist/Chinese interests.
These groups are entirely separate from those funding the NoKings protests, which are backed by globalist Western organizations and billionaires.”
I never really thought about it much. It’s easy to blame all of these astroturf events on a single League of Super Villains organizations, but there probably really are dueling meta-groups who want to strip the carcass of the US. Any simple explanation is probably wrong.
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Its all one big show with the usual suspects pulling the strings –
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/asra-nomani-2-1-billion-machine-behind-spontaneous-anti-trump-protests
😉
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I think this woman describes the canonical ‘progressive’.
https://x.com/VickieforNYC/status/1933577226441630077
BTW: check out the travails of the well-meaning people on some sort of March to Gaza in Egypt. The locals don’t seem thrilled, a case where fantasy and reality are at odds.
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For team lefty its always about the grift and funneling money to phony non-profs –
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/13/california-democrats-dumped-tens-of-millions-into-migrant-ngos-opposing-ice/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/usaid-official-pleads-guilty-to-550-million-bribery-scheme/ar-AA1GGmqB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=be4b6d92b91542278e1f2a176c7792e3&ei=15
😉
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Thinking of all the dramacrats tomorrow… kabuki from start to finish.
We need to know the source of the money
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“kabuki from start to finish.”
There’s something missing from modern day life that results in the empire of cat ladies with signs.
Seen on X:
“Didn’t make it to my local liberal elite Mass coffee shop this week but I did go out shopping
Came home to find my flags, up for FLAG DAY tomorrow, wrapped on my porch with a anon note:
“Tomorrow is No Kings Day. Can you please leave the flag down for just 24 hours? Thanks””
https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1933658196851167635
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