‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida​

In the aftermath of much well-heeled panic about a potential mass exodus of New York millionaires and billionaires following the election of Zohran Mamdani, the contrary is already happening, and Manhattan luxury apartment buyers are voting with their wallets.

Signed contracts for Manhattan homes costing $4 million or more rose to 176 in November, a 25% increase from October’s 141 deals, according to fresh data from brokerage Douglas Elliman and appraiser Miller Samuel. New signed contracts of more than $4 million increased at more than twice the rate of the overall market, the report noted.

Olshan Realty similarly noted an uptick in Manhattan luxury buyers. In its most recent market report, the firm said the 17 contracts signed in the last week of November for Manhattan homes over $4 million bested its 10-year Thanksgiving week average.

Trump's calls for “remigration,” a form of ethnic cleansing, echo Nick Fuentes' calls to roll back immigration​

On November 27, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover,” adding, “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.” Trump’s latest comments come after the Department of Homeland Security publicly called for immigrants to “remigrate,” Trump’s State Department announced the opening of an “Office of Remigration” in April [see below], and Trump pledged during his 2024 presidential campaign to “revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration).”

Fuentes has also celebrated right-wing media figures and politicians who have embraced the idea of an end to all immigration or even remigration, boasting in June that “I've never seen the right wing so angry and so explicitly against mass migration, so close to expressing their disdain in racial terms. ... the groypers have won. It's just not even a question at this point.”

In reaction to Trump's Truth Social post about “reverse migration,” Fuentes said that “this is awesome,” and he also called it a “great post,” saying it’s “funny, hilarious, incisive, witty, direct.”

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essentialsaltes said:

According to a post about the summit on the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s website, “Remigration is rooted in the thoroughly de-bunked white supremacist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, which purports a planned ‘replacement’ of white people by politicians and other ‘elites.’ Jews are often targeted as driving this ‘plan.’”

They continued: “Remigration is a series of policy proposals, drafted by Austrian Identitarian and former neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, to end the so-called ‘replacement’ by purging the continent of non-white people and eliminating all forms of multiculturalism. The goal is to make countries ‘European again.’”

US State Department set to launch Office of Remigration​

... which will “provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.” There will also be offices of International Migration/Repatriation and Refugee Processing.

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People pay good money to go to Florida and just sit in the sun. These criminals are just too much.

Michie said:

The commission was created earlier this year by Pope Francis.​

Pope Leo XIV has suppressed a Vatican donations commission less than 10 months after it was established by his predecessor Pope Francis.

The Vatican released Dec. 4 a chirograph, signed Sept. 29 by Pope Leo XIV, suppressing the Commissio de donationibus pro Sancta Sede, or Commission of Donations for the Holy See, which sought to raise much-needed funds for the Vatican.

Pope Francis had signed a document establishing the commission Feb. 11, three days before he was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital and 69 days before his death at the age of 88.

The new chirograph suppressing the commission said that the move came as a recommendation of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, which “devoted particular attention to studying this issue, reexamining it and consulting with experts in the field.”

The chirograph also announced the creation of a working group “to formulate proposals regarding the general issue of fundraising for the Holy See, along with the definition of an appropriate structure.”

Members of the working group will be proposed to Leo XIV by the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, via the Secretariat of State.

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Leo XIV suppresses Vatican donations commission

The commission was created earlier this year by Pope Francis.

www.pillarcatholic.com

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I am beginning to have some hope again in pope Leo now that he is moving to undo some things pope Francis did. If he finally gets around to undo Fiducia supplicans and the like I might even be able to contemplate a donation to Peter's Pence. For now I wait.

While I don't particularly like how he partially undid Traditiones custodes by saying he would grant the exception of any bishop who asks, he did at least make some progress. I have a glimmer of hope there may be more progress if and when he comes into his own, hopefully as a faithful Catholic.

mark46 said:

Let's watch each month and make the 2026 election a referendum on the keeping of those promises.
1) Does inflation go down each month compared to a year ago?
2) Do food prices go down, actually go down as promised?
3) Does the price of eggs go down?
4) Do gas prices go down?

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I don’t expect them to go down but if they don’t go up I would say that’s an improvement.

Always in His Presence said:

Here are the Democrats calling for Schumer to be replaced as leader​

Democrats have been pushing back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after eight party members voted in favor of a stopgap measure to reopen the government.

The 60-40 vote approving a continuing resolution to fund much of the government until Jan. 30 leaves health care subsidies in limbo, cementing disdain for Schumer, who previously said extending ObamaCare subsidies was a “life or death” provision for Democrats.

In early October, the Senate minority leader said there was “no (obscenity deleted) way” party members would cave on health care demands to reopen the government.

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Well, they get to do it all over again in January.

Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents​

One of those judges, Magistrate William Fitzpatrick, said at a criminal case hearing Tuesday that filing criminal charging papers “under Ms. Halligan’s name” at this time “is simply not acceptable,” according to a transcript obtained by CNN.

Both Fitzpatrick and another judge in the district, Michael Nachmanoff, told prosecutors this week they believed the ruling was clear that Halligan wasn’t the US attorney for all cases. They both noted, in separate hearings this week, according to court transcripts, that the Justice Department hadn’t appealed the ruling about Halligan, nor asked any court to pause it for a possible appeal.

The Justice Department’s reasoning for keeping Halligan’s name on criminal filings has been thin, from the perspective of prosecutors appearing in court.

“The Office of Legal Counsel told us to put the name as is as it has been presented on these indictments. That’s what we are going on at this point,” Roberts said in court on Tuesday, according to court records obtained by CNN.

Can the United States Government defraud itself?

essentialsaltes said:

The rise in political menace is even affecting our 51st state.

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Oh, the thread is open to other countries?

Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest​

Sportswear boss offers his £3billion firm to anyone who can prove Earth is flat​

In a video posted on Columbia Sportswear’s YouTube channel on Tuesday (December 2), the boss, dressed in a casual navy quarter-zip and red and white checked shirt, challenged conspiracy theorists to prove him wrong.

Mr Boyle said: ‘This message is for flat Earthers. You guys claim there’s an end to the Earth?

‘Well just go snap a picture. Send it to us – and you get the assets to the company. All of it.

‘No paperwork, no lawyers, no catches.’

He is then interrupted by a man who appears to be a part of Columbia’s legal team, dressed in a black suit and blue patterned tie, who said: ‘Um, Tim, there is some paperwork.’

Is the Earth flat?​

The first flat Earthers can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia who thought the earth was disc-shaped and under a dome.

But by about 300 BCE, educated scholars overwhelmingly accepted that the Earth is a sphere

Maybe we should cane or flog them too? Why have air conditioning? At the cost of 235 a day, the taxpayer is getting ripped.

Oompa Loompa said:

Where do I sign up!

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Seriously, if I could sign up to do it, I would.

It’s commercial pre war. But it is a necked down 7x57 not 8x57

ladodgers6 said:

My comments about prideful egos was encompassing all of fallen mankind, which included me too. Synergistic theologies holds a lofty view of man. I am curious about something if you would indulge me. Can you give me your take on the Fall and Sin and how it affects the human race. Thanks in advance.​

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No, synergistic theologies don't hold a "lofty view of man", they simply don't denigrate man and deny that we are made in God's image. An image that was marred in the fall, but not destroyed.

ladodgers6 said:

I beg to differ. The question Fervent, is Salvation God's Plan to save His people from their sins. Meaning it is a Covenant; a Covenant of Redemption by the self-contained, indivisible, Triniantarian God-Head who fulfills everything to save His people from their sins or is Salvation only made possible for us to make a decision to save ourselves? The latter faces some very difficult questions to address. When I was still an Arminian I ask those very difficult questions to people in the same camp, they could not answer them, they tried but failed.​

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The options are not Arminianism or Calvinism, that false dichotomy is bound to lead to error. There is no saving ourselves, as the "decision" is an act of surrender to God's pursuit, not a seeking of God. Monergists seem to have a place for everything in their theology except themselves, the sin belongs to Adam and the faith belongs to God. No place for the monergist, none at all.

ladodgers6 said:

Salvation is not us climbing up to God; like the attempt in Babel.​

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No one said it was.

ladodgers6 said:

But God who descended down to us!​

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Hallelujah and amen. But again, that's not relevant to the question at hand.

ladodgers6 said:

To save sinners from their sins! Because even our Faith & Repentance are God's gifts. But to contemplate this you must acknowledge what actually happened to us in the Fall. Your position as was mine before I understood. Is that Fallen Man's disposition before a Holy God is hostility, we're God haters, loving the darkness instead of the light. It is God who calls us out of the darkness into His marvelous light. Something Fervent must change fallen man's disposition toward God as sworn enemies to God's children. This Fervent is a Divine act of God himself. Not something we do, understand?​

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Salvation is certainly a gift, but gifts must be received. According to you, God not only gives the gift but also receives it, so what part do you have in your salvation?

ladodgers6 said:

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On the nature of will:
“In this way, then, man is said to have free will, not because he has a free choice of good and evil, but because he acts voluntarily, and not by compulsion... his will being bound by the fetters of sin”. John Calvin

Like an addict who willingly consumes their vices without coercion, but is bound by their evil desires; to will or do what they love to do. Arminius himself understood this and held a doctrine of Total Depravity.

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yeah, and the options are not Arminianism or Calvinism. There are more worlds than these, ladodgers6

essentialsaltes said:

Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say​

[One source] also said the report concluded that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and it recommended better training for all Pentagon officials.

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Also keep in mind he refused to turn over his phone and all questions about his actions by the Inspector General

Personally I believe that any and all "carry" makes us less safe, and I think that all those who read the Gospels with an open heart and mind would heed Jesus' message about non-violence.

Broken Arrow seems like a great place to live, and I would guess it's an affluent suburb of Tulsa. I think that it's a great place to live because fewer people are carrying--not because they carry.

I once read that people are mourning the end of the "gun 'culture?'" T'hey are growing up in suburban and urban areas and aren't going hunting.

Fewer college educated people own guns. Fewer suburbanites and urban dwellers own guns. People who grew up in a gun-free atmosphere don't own guns. Gun ownership is least prevalent in the northeast.

I'm proof positive. Grew up in the northeast, had a dad who never fired a gun after WWII ended, grew up in the suburbs (was born in the city), college-educated and married someone who is also a college grad. My children never owned guns, either (although they did fish a little as children, they never hunted.)

And so Broken Arrow, although (I'm sure) Republican and located in the south, has lots of demographics indicating non-gun ownership. How fortunate you are to live there.

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Of all the countries, China is the one I'd be least concerned about with CO2 emission growth given what they are trying to do on the ground.

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On top of investing in renewable energy, China is also investing massively in greening its deserts and planting trees.

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As for the neighbors, they'll probably be keeping their distance for a while.

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Regardless of party

timewerx said:

I don't have the privilege of visiting the literal wilderness as I live in the middle of a big city of a poor and heavily polluted nation and can't leave my elderly mom alone for long periods.

But I get lots of wild action already whenever I rollerblade in the chaotic, crowded, and dirty streets of our city for exercise and transportation.

I also get chased by a pack of dogs all the time! The dogs are able to reach me because I skate slower than bikes in traffic for safety. I learned to dissuade dogs by keeping high, confident, calm, and looking back at them and snapping my teeth at them.

Falling and collisions are relatively frequent among fellow skaters who do the same who are even more experienced and more skilled than I do.

I've broken a bone and have scars to show, lol! Ironically, I've had worse injuries with cycling. But I haven't had a fall nor collisions for a long time now thank God. I've learned to greatly improve situational awareness by spending some time playing my old FPS (first-person-shooter) games. I've quit video games a long time ago. But this time I found it necessary for improving situational awareness while skating. I also drive and cycle but skating is by far requiring the highest level of situational awareness on the road, probably on par with unicycling. But I don't play more than 30 mins a day. I'm not as hooked to games as I did before. Now I'm finding them more of a chore since skating and swimming is now much more fun for me than video games.

My swimming activity is mostly free-diving in a pool and still much more dangerous than just swimming as blacking out is a real concern.

Although I seem to engage in dangerous sports, I do it in the safest way possible in the given circumstances. I don't do any reckless stuff just to catch attention.

The danger makes me feel alive somehow. Is this the point of being in a "wild place". Does it have to be dangerous enough?

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Hey T

I found that metro parks can do in a pinch. I used to have about a twenty minute to a half and hour hike every day in the metro parks before work. I really enjoyed that and looked forward to it. Sometimes these hidden Gems in the cities can be just as rewarding with less expense and travel time. It's a good place to think. There, and I do also do some of my best thinking while shooting hoops alone. BTW, I always wondered if Bigfoot lived in the big city sewer systems of NY. It sounds funny, but they could have access from where the sewers open up outside the city. I've heard stories...

Dave

The sun shines with a colour temperature of 5778 Kelvin.
S.: wicki

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Isa 6:3
וקרא זה אל־זה ואמר קדוש קדוש קדוש יהוה צבאות מלא כל־הארץ כבודו

Holy, Hebrew qadosh, has a gematria of 410

qadosh (Holy)
קָדוֹשׁ
19. ק Quph 100
4. ד Dalet 4
6. ו Vav 6
21. שׂ שׁ Shin/Sin 300
Σ 410

In the 5778th Fibonacci number, the number 410 appears a total of 3 times!

f5778 =
1517400986972956561197059963036709561778723906375779683331489852623635556770802664570510712363457149
3241038368011966824902666745982480378200144472701194232036868735156885675612875939961907300266375758
0877401310146702968348722201963470326260010623529393624581164793477381752118615257677392669819397127
1240911194872766393545258331050414686067234790654789281352629558186092303927712577708774887379563961
8334850284853709943661275999386718420173513123187601502815173699289084999933537906838341278936411237
9758684740073896868277529992066715046004193058458247510634072576047132958387627995870579569405582599
3000560882135819954549681692079659198845388394615772486215900126164370475160435343052181785735770679
9673671379631838502331046015375222815442913563120563605357243891613377914996816269645681532217696548
6585221822842511206609147917975431194307377424414925343977632031052076481020985601574105079431218979
5934270081819289107255167783248764271876359200214847657267591188240947026324174788202656399292054682
3062533946556473988491688855032810066586561092943931473478410353997197970037804705915657855311140822
6118284739186934138403430618006955101110666416613548403573133185788759471201090065049449959112346460
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namely in the 103rd, 885th and 1059th positions.

103+885+1059 = 2047!

2047 is the gematria of the only verse in Scripture that refers to the number 284



All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four. Neh 11:18
כלהלוים בעיר הקדש מאתים שמנים וארבעה

The expression

All the Levites in the holy city

has a gematria of 832, just like erets Yisrael, meaning the Land of Israel

erets Yisrael (Land of Israel)
ארץ ישראל
1. א Alef 1
20. ר Resh 200
18. צ Tsadik 90
10. י Yud 10
21. שׂ שׁ Shin/Sin 300
20. ר Resh 200
1. א Alef 1
12. ל Lamed 30
Σ 832

This is the 12607th verse in the authorised King James Bible.



The number 832 appears in π at position 12607!



And what about the number 284, the number of Levites?

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord G-d Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Rev 4:8
καὶ τὰ τέσσαρα ζῷα, ἓν καθ’ ἓν αὐτῶν ἔχων ἀνὰ πτέρυγας ἕξ, κυκλόθεν καὶ ἔσωθεν γέμουσιν ὀφθαλμῶν· καὶ ἀνάπαυσιν οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς λέγοντες Ἅγιος ἅγιος ἅγιος Κύριος ὁ Θεός ὁ Παντοκράτωρ, ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος.

Holy, Greek hagios has the gematria 284

hagios (Holy)
ἅγιος
1. Αα Alpha 1
3. Γγ Gamma 3
10. Ιι lota 10
16. Οο Omicron 70
20. Σσςϲ Sigma 200
Σ 284

All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four. Neh 11:18
כלהלוים בעיר הקדש מאתים שמנים וארבעה

The expression

two hundred fourscore and four

has the gematria 1215

Total = 1215
Original Text
Hebrew Value Inc
מאתים 491
שמנים 440
וארבעה 284

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Starting from position 1215 in Φ, the following 5 numbers are 04444



The word G-d appears (0)4444 times in the inspired King James Bible 1769!
Note: In the Hebrew number system, there is no notation for zero

Bob S said:

I reject your reasoning because now the week ends and now starts at the IDL not at the longitude the Sabbath was given.

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the longitude of where Sabbath was given (Eden?, Mt Sinai?) would not be the biblical IDL it would be the biblical Prime Meridian which is the furthest point away from the IDL. if Israel is the PM the IDL would run someone down Alaska. placing the IDL arbitrary somewhere in the Pacific doesn't change how days work, the solar hours of the day work exactly the same and provided it's far enough away from Israel (which it is) Israel would have an uninterrupted Sabbath.

if the IDL was placed through Israel it would have massive impact for Sabbath obverser there as your neighbour may be on a completely different day. for Sabbath observers based on the current system it would effect anyone in-between the modern IDL and this inferred biblical IDL which probably doesn't effect a lot of people since it's mostly ocean but if it were a concern for those impacted they would just have to keep Sabbath a day earlier. (but Israel is still unaffected by this)

based on where the IDL is now the Samoa islands and the American Samoa Islands have the biggest impact, less then an hour flight and the IDL runs between them. so if there were those who commuted (which is not unreasonable) they would leave one day, travel about an hour, and arrive at the same local time just a full 24 hr off. (if this was based on a PM aligned with Israel this problem would be in Alaska).

as I'm sure you can imagine this wasn't a problem for Moses. no one could travel that fast or that far and when travelling people would keep days based on how they observe them with no conflicts with the IDL as it was beyond their reach. this begs the question that the Sabbath might have never been designed for modern day intercontinental travelling and no matter where you draw the IDL problems will arrise. this is similar to Ramadhan for Muslims as there are places of the earth where potentially you would have very little light (or not at all) so in practice fasting would have no impact, or the reverse where there's constant light making the fast not sustainable. Ramadhan was not built for the far reaches of the earth and it exposes a problem in the system. the difference with Sabbath is it absolutely designed for all and to the ends of the earth, but in its spiritual application not it's physical. the latter is limited just like Ramadhan, since no matter where you draw the line there will always be an area where with a single step you miss the Sabbath but as a spiritual application through Christ the Sabbath is available for all and everywhere (unlike Ramadhan)

I've been listening to a number of AI songs lately, and they seem to have some predictable patterns. The problem is that the following song has a lot of people believing that it's actually performed by real people, but it's not. The lyrics fit with the theme of the song, but they don't quite make sense. Still, the performance is probably better than any real performer could do.

Which leads me to wonder, even if AI performers don't take over the music industry, will AI sneak into the music industry in less noticeable ways. For example, will songwriting become AI driven, whether credited as such or not. And even if the performers on stage are real, will they simply be modern versions of Milli Vanilli?

Sorry folks, I think that AI will be taking over the music industry fairly quickly. You may resist the change, but the next generation almost certainly won't even notice the problem.

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The economy is doing swimmingly well. Everyone knows that "affordability" is just a Democratic con job.

Landon Caeli said:

None of these things should be considered bad or wrong, in and of themselves.

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The question is what is appropriate for "the People's House"? A robber baron's palace that would make Hearst blush, or something less conspicuously ostentatious?

I prayed long and hard just like I do for myself. I wanted to show the Lord I love my neighbor as myself. The Lords blessings and driving mercies for your trip.