PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: ‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Hits Back at EU After X Fine.

LIGHTNING DEAL: mislili Cooling Pillows Standard Size Set of 2. #CommissionEarned

2026 PREVIEW: Trump names Indiana state senators who ‘need encouragement’ on redistricting.

President Trump on Friday celebrated the latest redistricting moves in Indiana, while pressuring several state senators to support a new map that could offer the GOP two more seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

Trump called the updated map “much fairer” and “improved,” and congratulated the Indiana General Assembly’s GOP leaders for passing a new set of congressional lines earlier Friday.

“It was my Honor to win Indiana six times, including Primaries, in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and this new Map would give the incredible people of Indiana the opportunity to elect TWO additional Republicans in the 2026 Midterm Elections,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“The Indiana Senate must now pass this Map, AS IS, and get it to Governor Mike Braun’s desk, ASAP, to deliver a gigantic Victory for Republicans in the “Hoosier State,” and across the Country,” Trump continued. “I am hearing that these nine Senators, some of whom are up for Re-Election in 2026, and some in 2028, need encouragement to make the right decision.”

The word of the day is “Fight.” Until further notice.

ROGER KIMBALL: A Force of History: Why Trump’s Influence Keeps Growing: Trump’s critics grow louder even as his resurgence cements him, for many, as a defining leader whose impact is reshaping the nation’s political era.

IT’S A GIANT MONEY LAUNDRY AND INFLUENCE FACTORY:

The Democratic party is the tail wagged by an enormous nonprofit industrial complex with millions of white collar rent-seekers who depend on it for their livelihoods and move in lockstep to generate the same policy outputs regardless of which figureheads nominally occupy elected… https://t.co/2YvrfsqG0H

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 8, 2025

THE JUDICIARY IS NOT DOING MUCH TO MAINTAIN A REPUTATION FOR JUDICIOUSNESS LATELY: The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case: The court’s rationale for dismissing the case simply ignores the plaintiffs’ allegations.

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS JUST HAPPENED AGAIN: Dhillon Uncovers Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Voter Registrations.

HE’S RIGHT, AS USUAL:

We knew this was coming. Best that it happens with Trump as president. https://t.co/s32KQvEsqE

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) December 6, 2025

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR INDIE AUTHORS TO THE RIGHT OF LENIN:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge, and today links to the rolling Christmas sale.

ONE OF THOSE WOMEN WHO DIDN’T EXIST IN SCIENCE FICTION UNTIL THE 2000s!  Happy Birthday, Leigh Brackett!

HE’S A ROLE MODEL FOR CONSERVATIVE LEADERS WORLD-WIDE:  My TCW week in review: Thank God for Donald Trump.

FIRST USAID, NOW NARCOTERRORISTS – HOW ARE THE DEMS SUPPOSED TO FUND THEIR PARTY?  Democratic Lawmakers Big Mad That Trump Admin Is Fighting Narco-Terrorists.

… At this rate they won’t be able to afford the fraud that keeps them afloat.

ONLY ABOUT 75% (BUT THEY ALL OPPOSE ACCURATE INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY):  Guess How Many Democrats Voted Against Protecting Our Schools From Chinese Influence.

BUT I WAS ASSURED THIS WOULDN’T HAPPEN:   Real Americans, Real Jobs, Real Results – Deportation Wave Hits Louisiana and Phones Won’t Stop Ringing.

I CAN VOUCH FOR UNIVERSAL HATRED OF 11:  Pinker has been plugging his book on common knowledge lately, and it just collided in my head with another interesting development; the apparently growing revolt against Windows 11 among long-term Microsoft customers. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’m pretty sure that one of the things that Pinker must talk about in it is sudden legitimacy collapses in totalitarian societies.

But as a non-techy, I don’t want Linux. The rest of the family has gone thataway, but for me the computer is a glorified typewriter and I don’t want to fiddle with it.

X-cancel link.

THEY STILL HAVEN’T LEARNED THAT YOU CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL:  Give Them an Inch and They will Take a Mile.

THE GREATEST EVERYTHING IN HISTORY HAVE BEEN… QUIRKY:  The great military leaders of the past have been … quirky.

MORE ON THE RAPE GANGS:   The evil of the grooming gangs is finally being exposed.

HER IGNORANCE IS ONLY MATCHED BY HER UNPLEASANTNESS:  Ilhan Omar compares Stephen Miller, who is Jewish, to Nazis in Germany as she lashes out against Somali immigrant crackdown.

Once more, Ilhan, the Nazis were so far from throwing the Jewish people out of Germany, they kept them from leaving until they could kill them. Sheesh.

NO. ALSO NO:   Greenpeace Asks a Dutch Court to Reverse an American Verdict. The group wants to use European law as a shield to disrupt American infrastructure projects.

AS ALWAYS I DOUBT THAT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION CAN MAKE THINGS BETTER:   Trump signs executive order creating food supply chain task forces to address ‘anti-competitive behavior’.

SOME THINGS ARE BAD. THEY JUST ARE:   Tearing Down Chesterson’s Fence — and Putting It Back Up Again?  My week as a “professional” sports gambler.

THE MUPPET THING NOTWITHSTANDING, NEVER FORGET:  Eleven Remain.

SOME GOOD POINTS:  “Affordability”.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Study: Palestinian Textbooks Continue to Teach Jew Hatred, Promote Jihad Terrorism.