IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Brought Bear Spray to a Taser Fight. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn what happens when you try to bear spray eight deputies, why the skid steer is not part of the amusement park, and how they do wildlife in Virginia.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
December 5, 2025
2026 PREVIEW: Who’s ahead in the Republican vs. Democrat congressional redistricting war?
“As of right now, I’d say there is a modest bias in the overall House map” in favor of the GOP retaining control of the House, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan organization that analyzes House races.
At the independent Cook Political Report, Erin Covey, U.S. House editor, had the same edge for the GOP.
“The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario,” she said.
All this could change as state after state tries to redraw congressional maps to favor the party in power.
Developing…
YES, PLEASE:
I hear the House of Representatives has a bill, the GRANITE Act, that'll fix this and allow X to sue the Commission for 3x the threatened fine.
America can stop foreign censors for good. You should get on the horn with some folks and ask them to push it through!
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) December 4, 2025
“This is brilliant,” Peter St. Onge added. “Allow US companies to sue foreign censorship for 3x the fine. If only Congress had a spine.”
But it isn’t just brilliant — it’s necessary.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — How Many Ex-Californians Are Still Getting Mail-In Ballots? “We learn today that it’s open season on ICE officers in Portland, and PJ Media’s Stephen Kruiser is getting the same mail as me. Dead Hollywood could get even deader with a huge BLOCKBUSTER merger, Gavin Newsom is begging for money, and a California congressman considers a move to Texas.”
JOURNALISM:
I’m told that NBC reporters know that @KDilanianMSNOW makes up sources and they are unwilling to be on a byline with him. @CarolLeonnig has been ruined with Ken’s fake news stories that get debunked immediately. https://t.co/XOt4Gm64Xk
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 5, 2025
1,000% false and did not happen. And I’d like to give some BTS insight into how this hogwash got printed.
I got this allegation on Tuesday. It sounded made up and I told the reporter so. I went and checked with everyone involved – Alexis (who doesn’t even drink), the Director,… https://t.co/HZfUf9TRwX
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) December 5, 2025
It seems like kind of a big deal that NBC News and then MS NOW seem happy to employ a “journalist” with such a bad reputation in-house.
IS THIS THE BEST-RUN STATE IN THE UNION? Florida Moves to Protect Elections From Illegal Alien Votes.
ALWAYS: The DOJ’s New 2A Rights Section Sounds Like a Good Thing, but Gun Owners Need to Stay Vigilant. “Here’s the truth gun owners need to hear: you don’t stop a runaway bureaucracy with a press release. No one should trust a single bureaucrat inside the DOJ until their actions match their headlines. Because right now, the DOJ is speaking out of both sides of its mouth — promising gun-rights enforcement with one hand while defending gun-control tyranny with the other. And unless gun owners stay loud, organized, and relentless, this new office could turn out to be just another Washington smokescreen.”
The Trump administration’s record is solid, but what happens to the new section once a Democrat is in charge again…
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: Trump Praises Congo, Rwanda as They Sign US-Mediated Peace Deal.
The AP’s Aamer Madhani, Chinedu Asadu and Ruth Alonga slammed Trump in about every third sentence of their report, but so what? Trump is making peace while they’re doing whatever the hell that was.
THIS, PART II:
Dear GOP,
It's an easy choice.
End the Filibuster now.
Or in the future DEMs will end both the Filibuster & America as we know it.Sincerely,
Your Country. pic.twitter.com/cezu1nu66W— AMERICAN (@StrandClassics) December 5, 2025
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Weingart’s $27 Million Dollar Homeless Heist: LA’s Pay to Play Pipeline Strikes Again – And the Trail of Donations Tells An Ever Darker Story.
The Weingart Center Association, long portrayed as one of LA’s “trusted” homeless service providers, is now at the center of a federal probe into a secretive $27.3 million property flip in Cheviot Hills. A flip that looks less like a housing solution and more like a blueprint for legalized theft. A flip that mirrors Shangri-La’s scheme almost down to the timestamps. And a flip that, when paired with newly uncovered campaign donation data from the LA County Registrar-Recorder’s TRACER system, paints a damning picture of influence peddling, coordinated bundling, and political payoffs hiding in plain sight.
The scandal begins in April 2024, when Weingart used public dollars from California’s Homekey program, along with city and federal COVID relief funds, to buy a 76-unit senior complex on Shelby Drive for $27.3 million. The stated intent was noble: convert the building into housing for the unhoused. But nothing about this transaction was noble. Or transparent. Or even remotely defensible.
The seller, shielded behind a confidentiality clause, was a shell tied to Brentwood developer Steven Taylor, who bought the same property just four months earlier for $11.2 million. No improvements. No renovations. No additional value. Just a $16.1 million markup magically materializing, rubber-stamped by a BBG appraisal that ignored the recent purchase price and pretended the flip never happened. The entire thing should have triggered alarms up and down City Hall and the Board of Supervisors. Instead, Weingart submitted an application to the state for Homekey funds that conveniently omitted the pending sale, while Mayor Karen Bass pushed $20 million of city dollars toward the project and celebrated it as a win for homelessness.
Homeless, Inc. is a scam to line the pockets of the well-connected.
THIS:
All DeSantis does is institute effective policy that advances conservative goals and betters his state. There are so many examples, it’s impossible to keep track at this point.
But alas. He wore those boots. https://t.co/YFVcJBkJBy
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 5, 2025
STILL JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG: ICE Arrests ISIS Terrorist in Virginia; Another Biden Program Beneficiary
CHANGE: CBS News’ Bari Weiss to host town hall with Erika Kirk.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, in her on-air debut, will host a town hall with Erika Kirk on Dec. 13.
The event with Kirk, the widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will preempt the 28th annual Family Film and TV Awards, which will now run Dec. 20, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.
“Like so many people around the world, I will never forget the moment that Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s killer,” said Weiss, who was hired for the top post in October by CBS News parent company Paramount, a Skydance Corporation
“I am eager to speak to her—and thrilled to be doing so in front of a group of Americans who I know will elevate the conversation,” Weiss also said.
It remains to be seen how quickly or thoroughly Weiss can shake things up at CBS, but this is a big down payment with an audience that probably tuned out her network 20 years ago.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Keep Proving That They’re Terrified of Fair Elections. “Yes — ‘basic election safeguards’ are what this is all about, so of course the Democrats would be resistant to everything about it. You’ll note the deep blue shade of all the states involved in the story. This isn’t just some knee-jerk Trump Derangement Syndrome play, it’s a safe bet that the Democrats would be doing this in response to any Republican administration.”
THAT HIGH? California scores a C- on infrastructure report card.
California scored a C-, according to a new report from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The quadrennial report card assesses the state’s network of infrastructure, including energy, traffic, airport safety and port electrification systems, among other things. The society of engineers found California is doing well in many facets of its energy infrastructure. This includes advanced treated purified water, clean energy sources, smart traffic systems, wildfire planning, port electrification and improved emergency response.
However, the report says California doesn’t do so well in other areas, including not funding or falling behind on upkeep for aging roads, levees, bridges, water pipes, schools and public buildings. The state and the federal government have allocated money over the years for improvements, but reliance on local funding for many of these systems has resulted in a decline in upkeep for some of this infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers said.
“A ‘C-‘ indicates that California’s built environment is not equipped to keep pace with the needs of the largest economy and population in the U.S., particularly as diverse environmental challenges impact infrastructure systems,” the American Society of Civil Engineers said in a Dec. 3 press release. “California’s aviation, energy, hazardous waste, levees, ports and rail grades all improved compared to their 2019 marks, while the state’s dams, drinking water, schools and stormwater categories decreased.”
Yes, but at least they have all that high-speed rail.
ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Pride Goeth Before the Fall of Europe.
LEAPING ISLAMIFICATION: Oh, to Be in England, Where Many of Your ‘Merry Wives’ Can Now Be Welfare Dependents.
The way the Telegraph works the math, the loss of the cap for working families is actually helping pay for a massive increase in welfare spending, which will put non-working welfare households ahead of modest-income working ones.
And here is where Chancellor Rachel Reeves twists the shiv she and Labour have already planted in a regular working sod’s back. Who is that extra £16bn in welfare spending raised on the backs of taxpayers going to?
Well. Some of it to Achmed and his harem. Wives. Sorry. In the plural.
He’s getting a bump in benefit payouts for the lovely ladies of his household.
The British government will support up to three – wait, make that four – of your dearly beloveds.
Read the whole thing.
OH MY: Maduro’s Ex-Insider Turns Snitch, Sends Trump an Explosive Letter. “Hugo ‘El Pollo’ Carvajal Barrios is an ex-military intelligence officer for the Venezuelan government and was a powerful official within Maduro’s Cartel de los Soles. Today, he’s in U.S. custody, charged with narco-terrorism, among other things. As part of a plea deal for a lighter sentence, he’s agreed to help the U.S. government by telling it everything he knows about Maduro and the cartel.”
December 4, 2025
NO WONDER HE’S SWEATING:
Well well well…
It appears Mark Kelly leaked classified information trying to frame Pete Hegseth for leaking classified information.
Oops! pic.twitter.com/np69bH9aWx
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 4, 2025
HOW TO ANNOY A LEFTY, LESSON #1,000,006: Gun Companies and Retailers Advertised Black Friday Sales! And Sold Guns! OMG!
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Pride Goeth Before the Fall of Europe.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER (CONT’D)?
It makes sense that Tucker Carlson returns to defending Zoran Mamdani in today’s newsletter. Because they agree that the destruction of the Jewish State trumps any other issue, naturally Carlson needs to defend Mamdani’s antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/JEMxv9WApg
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) December 4, 2025
Related (From Ed): Tucker Carlson Goes Full Truther.
THIS ONE’S BEEN A BIT OF A HEAD-SCRATCHER: Trump (Inexplicably?) Pardons Henry Cuellar. “Maybe Trump feels (probably correctly) that politically Cuellar is toast anyway, since his district was one of the ones recently redistricted in the special session. Maybe the pardon will allow Cuellar to dish dirt on just how Democrats decided to flood the country with illegal aliens, or how they use them to commit voter fraud. The private email and memo possibilities are endless.”
Stay tuned, I guess.
FIR IS A TOTAL PAIN AND TOTALLY WORTH IT: Do You Do Fake or Fir? Answering the Annual Christmas Tree Question.