@#1 ... including a provision that would bar institutional investors from owning single-family homes. ...

I see that around here.

Private equity (which has, imo, destroyed healthcare for their profits) seems to be buying up single-family homes in order to rent those homes out to Gen-Z.

There's a two-fold effect in that process...

1) a reduction of single-family homes that can be purchased by first-time home-buyers.

2) the resulting drastic increase in price of those fewer available homes that can be purchased.

Yeah, while the estimated resale price of my house has increased over 75% since 2020, I still have a concern for those who want to buy their first home.

I bought my first home when I was in my late-20's.

Is that possible nowadays?

When a US Pres goes on a path to actively our decades-long alliances, what might occur?

Pres Trump may have brought the US to a stage of tactical, not-thought-out, interactions with the world community.

Meanwhile, China has been taking a different approach. Long term rationality, instead of short-term indecision.

In the past on this most august sight I have often noted a major difference between China and Pres Trump.

China looks to the future, not the one- or two-year future, but decades.

Pres Trump seems to be focused upon what can this deal get me now.

So, the World Order that the United States has fostered, fed and grown since the end of WWII seems to being actively and intentionally destroyed by Pres Trump.

My first question is ...

How does that benefit Americans?

The 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington " at least that's the view from four key U.S. allies.

Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured on the U.S., driven by President Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions, according to recent results from The POLITICO Poll. ...

@#32 ... The issue I am trying to raise is how serially dishonest the MSM is in covering these attacks. ...

Given that FoxNews seems to win the ratings for media, that is an interesting question.

... "Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities " not under President Trump," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

"Today's verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America's streets." ...

Possibly.

This case is not a simple one.

But, now, AG Bondi should also go after the real domestic terrorism threat we face ...

... Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children. ...

Sad.

Pres Trump's ICE is looking more and more out of control with each passing day.

@#14 ... He wanted one so much FIFA gave him a fake one. ...

Likely because FIFA was concerned about the security of the fans at the World Cup fans for the games held in the US.

Why might FIFA be concerned?

Well, there's ICE apparently targeting people based upon skin color.

@#3 ... Epstein and Maxwell are the only major players. ...

Are they?

... Who else did the DOJ prosecute?

Either negligent or complicit or there's no evidence to convict anyone else.

Which is it? ...

Only the latter is a reason not to prosecute.

But your current alias' menu of selections omits a big one ...

~protection of uber-wealthy people.~

Which is why MAGA, and Pres Trump during his campaign, have strove to have the Epstein files released. Those Democrat Elites. But then it seems to have turned out that not only Democrats may have been mentioned. And suddenly, the MAGA chorus changed ...

But now, that the reality of the Epstein files seems to be coming to light, Pres Trump has pivoted from his campaign promises, to trying to bury them ...

So maybe, instead of looking at the past, your current alias should look at the present and ask why Pres Trump seems to be trying to bury the Epstein files.

@#2 ... Follow the money ...

Yup.

And, in this instance, I can start to see why Mr Epstein may have paid off a Trump accuser.

Possibly to protect someone he called a friend?

@#49 ... it a point to quit voting for incumbents. ...

So, not voting for the politicians who may advance your views or be of benefit to the Country.

But just the stated goal of voting out incumbents?

@#8 ... "I don't know," he added. "I'm not interested in it." ...

Translated from TrumpSpeak ...

~Winning the Nobel Peace Prize means a lot to me, if only those fools in Oslo would come to their senses.~

More from the cited article ...

... The president is also unsure how the ongoing Iran war will impact his future chances of getting one.

Speaking with the Washington Examiner, Trump said he had "no idea" if the Iran conflict would "get him over the finish line" with the Nobel committee.

"I don't know," he added. "I'm not interested in it." ...

Throughout 2025, the president claimed he had stopped at least eight wars since taking office, though an Independent fact-check underscored how many of these claims were inaccurate, exaggerated, or premature.

That didn't stop nations and institutions seeking favor with Trump from playing into the president's well-known interest in a Nobel Prize, which reportedly is fueled in part by his anger that President Barack Obama won one first.

In January, Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado symbolically gave her Nobel Prize to Trump during a White House meeting, though the prize organizers say she remains the sole holder of that year's honor.

The prior month, the international soccer organizing body FIFA gave Trump a newly created peace prize, which it announced weeks after Trump was snubbed for a Nobel and came as FIFA prepares to host the World Cup in North America in 2026. ...

@#1

But if there is no regime change in Iran (strategic), how do the attacks on the apparent "ICE" branch of the IRGC matter (tactical)?

More from the cited article ...

... Netanyahu made this clear in his speech by addressing the Iranian nation directly: "I say to the Iranian people: the moment of freedom is near. We stand with you and we are helping you." ...

@#22 ... Talk about 1968 Vietnam War Deja Vu.. We did exactly the same things, there and then, that we are doing now. We controlled the skies and the seas and won every battle...but we were on the wrong side. ...

I had protested against the Vietnam War back in the day.

There are many parallels, but there are also a few, though very important, differences.

For starters, and this is a big one, Pres Trump's unprovoked Iran War is in the Middle East.

@#1 ... "Tucker has lost his way," Trump said. "I knew that a long time ago, and he's not MAGA ...

Spout the MAGA propaganda or else.

Makes it a lot clearer why FCC Chair Carr is going after broadcasters who do not toe the MAGA line ...

@#1 ... Earlier this week and reminiscent of the late great JFK who telephoned federal civil servants during the week to ask them about the issues they were facing, Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) fielded telephone calls from New Yorkers at the 311 information call center: ...

As I watched the local coverage from NYC TV during Mayor Mamdani's campaign I noticed that he spoke with the people he met, not at them. He seemed to be more interested in what they had to say and not what he wanted to tell them.

He listened.

And now he seems to be establishing a government that serves the people of NYC.