The property listing depicts a dream home:
Secure and gorgeous compound offering maximum security. Located in one of the most celebrity-packed areas of the Hollywood Hills, this gorgeous estate is a short drive from both the SFR and the Westside. Large glass doors offering incredible natural lighting open up to a massive backyard space featuring an enormous pool overlooking east and south views of the Hollywood Hills. Elegant spiral staircase connects all 4 stories allowing easy flow from room to room. All bedrooms ensuite with private entrances. Expansive media room perfect for entertaining with 20ft ceilings includes a billiards area and full kitchen.
Its “suggested price” to buy is over six million dollars – but right now, it’s worthless. Months ago, squatters descended on 7571 Mulholland in the Hollywood Hills and took over the abandoned mansion. The property had been abandoned and unoccupied for a few years. The owner is John Powers Middleton. Middleton is a film producer. One of his films is called “The Disaster Artist”. It’s a film about “The Room” – considered “The Citizen Kane of bad movies.” It seems if you produce something truly awful, it attracts cultists, miscreants and vagrants. Maybe Middleton is writing a script now about his vacant home becoming a beacon for the unwashed masses. His property has become home to swatters and is now an eyesore of epic proportions.
The “dream home” is a nightmare. The almost 10,000 square foot, six-bedroom, ten-bathroom mansion has attracted violent squatters who have threatened neighbors with weapons. A few days ago, the word went out to “taggers” who descended on the property like a horde of locusts. The graffiti covers every wall. Graffiti goons turned the glass railings around the empty pool into their canvases.
Middleton has made no effort to clean up the property. Although he is well known, no one seems to be able to track him down. If the structure is razed, the lot is likely worth a couple million, but right now it is a giant eyesore and a tagger’s delight. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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