Our Old Greenwich girl (and Swiss finishing school and GHS graduate) Taylor Lorenz makes good again

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That adorable Taylor is still at the Washington Post and still spewing filth

AL JAZEERA ON THE POTOMAC:’ WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Boosts Defenses of Los Angeles Synagogue Protest.

Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz on Monday pushed a false claim that a Los Angeles synagogue was auctioning off Palestinian land this week—a conspiracy theory that led to violent, anti-Semitic protests outside the Jewish house of worship on Sunday.

Lorenz—who covers social media for the Post and often complains about being targeted by online harassment—reposted multiple comments on X, formerly Twitter, defending the synagogue protesters, promoting the false allegations, and slamming the media, including her former employer, the New York Times, for failing to give the allegations oxygen. The synagogue was in fact hosting an industry expo on real estate investing in Israel, and the false claims that Adas Torah was selling Palestinian land appear to have originated from radical anti-Israel groups, including Code Pink and the Palestinian Youth Movement, according to social media posts.

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In a separate incident this week, Lorenz also defended former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray’s remarks that the media should report on “Israel training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners,” another unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

Lorenz said this was a “claim that’s being reported all over X,” and Gray was “just asking if any U.S. papers have investigated the claims.”

“It’s not like she’s asking about some random thing, it’s been a major topic of discussion on X all day.”

When she isn’t Jew baiting, Miss Lorenz spends her time amusing the rest of us with her hysterical rants about her fear of COVID cooties.

Taylor Lorenz Holds Breath To Survive 'Dangerous' Encounter With Unmasked Passengers at JFK Airport in 2023

(yes, she was still wearing her mask in June ‘23 — she probably still is)

Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post reporter best known for attending a teenager's birthday party and being cited in Chinese propaganda broadcasts, survived a "dangerous" encounter at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the weekend.

• The 38-year-old teen journalist complained that TSA agents were "forcing all passengers to remove their masks before they even step up to the security desk" to have their boarding passes checked. "I can't believe they're doing stuff like this in 2023 [spiral eyes emoji]," Lorenz wrote on Twitter, the immigrant-owned social networking website.

• Lorenz described the situation—unmasked passengers at an airport in 2023—as "so dangerous" and "so insane." She accused a TSA agent of behaving with "abject cruelty" for telling "a woman" that she shouldn't be flying if she was "so scared" about removing her mask for several seconds at a security checkpoint.

• Nevertheless, she managed to survive. "I tried to just hold my breath but I had to breathe a couple times [spiral eyes emoji]," Lorenz confessed.

If it saves the life of just one child ... and that child is mine

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who wants to get the hell out of here? And whose parents contributed to my campaign

Gavin Newsom is moving his children AWAY from California's capital city... so his daughter can attend a $60,000-a-year private school in one of the wealthiest areas in the state

California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife are moving their family to an exclusive part of the state so his daughter can attend a new private school.

The Democrat, touted as a future presidential candidate, will stay in his six-bedroom $3.7 million suburban Sacramento home with spouse Jennifer Siebel Newsom some nights of the week.

But he will relocate his children 90 miles away to Marin County in time for the fall semester, when his eldest child Montana will enroll at The Branson School - which has tuition fees of up to $60,000 a year.

“I’d just like to thank Chicago Teachers Union chief Stacy Gates”, Newsom told FWIW, “for leading the way, and giving me the courage to pull my own precious child from the shithole of a public school I’d been keeping her in for appearances sake and enrolling her in a decent school in a white neighborhood so that she’ll be prepared when she attends the Ivy of my choice.

“As head of her teachers union, Stacy was of course a fierce, vocal opponent of charter schools and school vouchers, just like my own teachers union is, yet she had no hesitation in taking her kid out of Chicago and into a suburban private school, because that’s what any parent would do if they loved their child — and had the money. to do it.

“So when I watched how Stacy did her rescue act with absolutely no consequences, I figured why don’t I do that too? If my voters aren’t used to Democrat politicians’ hypocrisy by now, they haven’t been paying attention the past fifty years. They’ll get over this by election time, if they notice at all.”

No, I don't share your confidence, sheriff — he caught one; how many have gone, and will go, undetected?

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Law enforcement officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, arrested a temporary election worker for allegedly stealing a security fob and keys from a ballot tabulation center.

According to a probable cause statement obtained by Fox News Digital, Walter Ringfield, 27, of Phoenix, was seen on security footage taking the items shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday. The video shows him approaching a desk and multiple tabulators, then taking a red wrist lanyard containing the security fob and keys, the document says.

The statement says Ringfield placed the lanyard in his shorts pocket after briefly stretching. When confronted by his employer, Ringfield allegedly denied the theft, but then suggested the lanyard might be in his car "if" he had mistakenly taken it, the document says. A subsequent search of his vehicle revealed a red lanyard and a matching plastic tag, but the fob remained missing.

Ringfield allegedly admitted to taking the fob but claimed he returned it after approximately 20 minutes, citing a desire to "clean up" in hopes of securing a permanent employment position at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center.

MCSO detectives then executed a search warrant at Ringfield’s residence and found the missing fob on a dresser in his master bedroom. 

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At a press conference on Tuesday, Maricopa County Sheriff Russ Skinner said election staffers and law enforcement's "swift response and ultimate action helped safeguard democracy and rapid response to the security protocols we have with elections proved to be effective." 

According to investigators, security fobs are used with special secure tablets. Because one was removed, the staff must now reprogram every fob and tablet. 

As far back as 2002, Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds was calling for paper ballots and he’s repeated that call over the past twenty years. Here’s part of what he wrote in 2002: events have shown him to be prescient, and the dangers he warned about have all come true.

As I write this, the voting hasn't even started. But I've already gotten an email telling me that there are dozens of lawyers waiting to file legal challenges to elections in my state, and I'm sure that the same is going on everywhere else.

As with Florida in 2000, charges of fraud and voter misinformation will fly. People will say that ballots were tampered with. People will say that voting machines were rigged, or confusing. People will complain about tabulation errors and "hanging chads" and outright fraud.

To these problems (well, most of them, anyway) I have a technological solution. The technology is good. It is easy to understand. It is surprisingly resistant to fraud. And it is inexpensive. It's the paper ballot.

Paper ballots are easy to understand - just put an "X" in the box next to the appropriate candidate's name. I don't find voting machines especially hard to understand, but I do always have to read the instructions on the ones I use, and I'm a law professor who works as a sound engineer on the side. So others may find them more confusing than I do. Everyone, on the other hand, can make an "X."

Paper ballots are surprisingly resistant to fraud. Actually, it shouldn't be that surprising. A paper ballot encodes lots of useful information besides the obvious. Not only is the information about the vote contained in the form, but also information about the voter. Different colors of ink, different styles of handwriting, etc., make each ballot different. Erasing the original votes is likely to leave a detectable residue. Creating all new ballots with fraudulent votes requires substantial variation among them or the fakery is much more obvious; that's hard work. And destroying the original ballots in order to replace them with fraudulent ones isn't that easy - there's a lot of paper to be disposed of, and shredding it, or burning it, or hiding it is comparatively easy to detect. (Protecting the ballots before counting doesn't require fancy encryption, either: just a steel box with a lock, a slot on the top, and a seal.) What's more, because people are familiar with paper documents, fraud is easy to understand when it occurs. Paper ballots are both robust (resistant to fraud) and transparent (easy to understand).

Compare this sophisticated voting technology to that of voting machines. A voting machine captures only the information regarding the vote. Once it has done so, one vote looks like another. There's no handwriting, no style, no ink, just a simple notation of which candidate was favored. Most voting machines store votes electronically, meaning that if they're changed, there's no troubling paper residue for fraud-perpetrators to dispose of. And because voting machines are complicated - and because their actual workings are unseen, and often kept secret - it's much harder for voters, members of the press, and others to identify or understand fraud. Electronic ballots, in other words, are neither robust nor transparent.

The fact is, if you could come up with a new technology as simple and resistant to fraud as the paper ballot, people would be pretty impressed. So why do we use machines?

Baldwin Farms sale

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78 Baldwin Farms South, listed at $4.595 million, closed today at $5 million. The owners paid $3.250 in January ‘22 (it had sold for $3.224 in 2011, to give you an idea of what happened, or didn’t happen, to prices during the mid-country doldrum period) did a fair amount of work to it — see below — and yet, surely, made a tidy profit. Once again, the pictures have been yanked from the Internet, so I’m putting up a few from the MLS site. You’ll note that, in a desperate attempt to appeal to the New Mexican and Bedford markets, they pretty-much drenched the place in white, black and gray (excuse me: “clay”) paint, tossing in a few different shades of each to add variety and excitement.

Club Road contract

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64 Club Road, Riverside, and priced at $6.850 million, has found a buyer. 27 DOM. Club Road’s certainly changed since I lived one street over on Gilliam. Then again, the ranch that used to be here and owned by the Chairman of Homelite, Dehaven Ross, disappeared long ago, and Chairmen are no longer content to live in small ranch houses (weekend ranches in Montana are okay, though); no room to store their wives’ Hermes collections.