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Greg Greene (he/him/his)
@greene.haus
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Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
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greene.haus
I’d like to solve the puzzle:
A screenshot of a New York Times headline, in which I’ve headlined two critical words. The headline and teaser: THE GREAT READ How a Kansas Republican Became Part of a Racist, Antisemitic Group Chat William Hendrix wanted a life in politics. He found it, with the Young Republicans. The words I highlighted: KANSAS REPUBLICAN
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
greene.haus
Two comments here, one for the Post and one about the administration:

- Here goes the undue press assumption of regularity in Trump & Republicans' actions again — crediting a 'law' about California emissions standards that's in litigation b/c Congress had no power to do what it purported to. …
“Trump signed a separate law in June to block California from enforcing a ban on new gas-powered car sales in 2035. Congress and the administration have also ended federal tax credits for EVs and pulled funding for building EVs and batteries.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
greene.haus
“Hey – we saw you from across the room and we really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?”
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell. Michael is dressed in CEO-casual, with a dark blue sweater over a light-blue poplin button-down. Susan Dell wears a sleeveless ivory-toned top and gives an … er, concerningly uncanny smile to the camera.
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
greene.haus
(alt text for the screenshot of @lkrozen.bsky.social’s post at the other site:)
Journalist Laura Rozen, posting today at X about doings at the Pentagon. She wrote, quoting another post: “Leavitt's "remarks...elicited a furious backlash within the Defense Depapt, where officials described feeling angry at the uncertainty over whether Hegseth would take responsibility for his alleged role in the operation — or leave the military & civilian staff under him to face the consequences. ‘This is 'protect Pete' bulls---,’ 1 military official said.” The quoted post came from journalist Jonathan Lemire, who linked to a Washington Post item and wrote: “Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout”
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
greene.haus
She turned up as Sally at the Hollywood Bowl live performance of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas‘ a few weeks ago, and my word:
The recording artist Janelle Monáe, on a screen hung above the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, during a performance of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas.’ She appears to have decided that rather than _playing_ the character of Sally, she would instead become her — and so she appears in a red wig, blue full-body makeup, and an uncannily textureless dress while gazing at the audience with wide painted-on eyes.
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
greene.haus
Oh, Schmitt? The same Eric Schmitt whose speech to the national conservatism conference this autumn scanned as an all-but-explicit endorsement of white nationalism?
Vice President JD Vance is, as I discussed previously, a leading light of this effort. But he is not the only Republican to carry the standard. Last week, at an annual conference for national conservatism — the illiberal right's term of choice for its movement — Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri gave a speech that, in its rejection of the creedal vision of the American republic and in its embrace of an exclusionary racial nationalism, went even further than Vance has in his public statements. What is true for our culture and identity is also true for our interests, which are those of a fundamentally cosmopolitan nation, shaped at each stage by the movements of people from around the world. Schmitt, however, has a different idea of who we are: “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith. Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God.” This claim comes after Schmitt identifies “Americans” with “the pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier” and the “outnumbered Kentucky settlers repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls.” Pilgrims, pioneers, settlers — Schmitt has a clear image of the American in mind, and it is exclusive of much of the country, including people who can trace their origins to the earliest days of British North America. And Schmitt’s Americans, he asserts, “believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants.” America, he says, “belongs to us. It is our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.” This “birthright,” however, is not the jus soli enshrined in the 14th Amendment but the jus sanguinis of the Dred Scott decision.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
greene.haus
To put the point in the form of an analogy: NYT editors : the view from nowhere :: Major Kong : …
The actor Slim Pickens, in character for his role as Major Kong in ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ straddling a nuclear missile as if it were a horse as it plummets toward explosive self-destruction.
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
greene.haus
Someday, when nature does as it inevitably does with us all:
Actor Grant Gustin, in character as superhero The Flash, flashes a deuces sign above a freshly dug grave.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
greene.haus
Like, sorry but _look_ at this guy.
White House communications director Steven Cheung, standing on a tarmac next to Boris Epstein (right) and two other members of Trump’s coterie.
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
greene.haus
*You know what this view needs? Oil wells.*

–President Trump, essentially
The Channel Islands of California on the horizon in the distance, across the water from the beach at the Ventura Pier.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
greene.haus
“Housing expansion … will significantly impact traffic, public safety and our overall life quality in the city”: ah.

NIMBYism is just conservatism, ultimately. Its proponents stand athwart history — particularly the inexorable march of human population change — yelling ‘stop!’
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
greene.haus
Lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com on Bluesky) writes, at an X account: "i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion."
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
greene.haus
It's time for babies to learn enough personal responsibility to get themselves out of their car seats when they're left behind, you see.

[alt text below]
An iOS push alert from the Wall Street Journal app. The alert reads: *Exclusive* Republicans plan to challenge vehicle- safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
greene.haus
“They didn’t crash out and decide they hated America”: I dunno, they seemed filled with a quite strange kind of love:
The cover of Trump’s pre-2016 campaign book, with its original title: ‘Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again’
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
greene.haus
Chickity China, the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’
Watchin’ ‘X-Files’ with no lights on
We’re dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man’s in this one
Like Harrison Ford I’m getting frantic
Like Sting I’m tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy
Like Kurosawa I make
Pope Leo, looking neither barenaked nor ladylike, nonetheless standing with a packed crowd while appearing as though he may be racing through the second verse of “One Week”
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
greene.haus
Anil is spot the f–– on here. See, e.g.:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), photographed hiding her face behind two folders held in her right arm while she stands in the Oval Office with President Trump (off camera).
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
greene.haus
I'm struck (and entertained) by how the kicker of the piece damns Roberts while relying entirely on the words of another justice:
In a landmark decision almost 75 years ago—striking down an effort by President Harry Truman to seize and operate most of the nation’s steel mills—Justice Robert Jackson wrote famous words in a concurring opinion about the Supreme Court’s duty to constrain a president who disobeys the law: “With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations. Such institutions may be destined to pass away. But it is the duty of the Court to be last, not first, to give them up.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
greene.haus
Exactly. “Technically it wasn’t illegal”: … so? Institutions can have ethics and employers can have red lines; quit confusing a least common denominator for the ceiling.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
greene.haus
Er … A$AP Danny, is it? Didn’t have that on my music-news bingo card.
A screenshot from an Insta post by music news site Pigeons & Planes. The post features photo art of musicians A$AP Rocky and Danny Elfman, along with this quote from a Vanity Fair interview with Rocky: “Danny Elfman, he just did my album with me that I’m putting out this year.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
greene.haus
Um … ventricular fibrillation has an out-of-hospital survival rate of (*checks Wikipedia*) 17%? As in 1 in 6? With the other five passing on?

"Falling and hitting his face" after a "flare-up" dramatically underplays this.
An informational text block from the Wikipedia (English) entry on ventricular fibrillation. It reads: Treatment Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with defibrillation Prognosis Survival rate 17% (out of hospital), 46% (in hospital) Frequency ~10% of people in cardiac arrest
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
greene.haus
Didn’t open it, but I definitely recoiled at the notification.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
greene.haus
"Trump buys the house at the telephone auction. only me trump and his friend pulty [sic] the developer. He quickly puts it on the market for 125 million. … Three years later 08 he sells it to Ryboloolev [sic] for approx 100 million."

I … um, hol' up.
[the text of a 2/1/2019 email] From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com Sent: 2/1/2019 10:18:49 AM To: Michael Wolff Subject: Fwd: have fun Forwarded message -- From: J<jeevacation@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 5:18 AM Subject: To: jeffrey epstein <jcevacation@gmail.com> prostittion is a state crime. never before a man in his own house charged with soliciting.! in Florida first offenders are required to take a sex ed class and get pre trial diversion. no criminal record.. there is a felony solication for the THIRD offense.. A grand jury was held and they found me guilty of one count of felony soliciation. because there were many girls. mandatory diversion. sentence..!!!!. a grand jury • ususally only for capital murder cases. - Recarey and Reiter (police chief). pulled my garbage for months, and surveilled the house. letting all the girs come and go?! called in the FBI. they did not like the grand jury result. and released to the press, the raw sewage of police interviews, ie, no girl was cross examined EVER. • Unheard of. the girls retunred the house multiplie times. for 200 dollars for a rub and tug.. no sex.. some worked in the locak massage parlors, most in thier mid twenties. . There is only press stories told my strippers of me buying my girlfied from slovakia from her parents. girls under 15.. all made up to get press.. FBI / puts a task force together title " operation leap year" to investigate my personal massage activity?! nuts. interviews my chiropractor? medical info. . etc. [Continued text from a 2/1/2019 email] [redacted] worked at Mara Lago. Trump knew of it. and came to my house many times during that period. The testimony of the houseman John allessi confiremed it. He never got a massage. abe gosman a friend of mine. ran into financial difficulty with assited living homes.. His home was listed at 45 million dollars. with no takers for months on end He and I agreed a price of 30m. (His wife [redacted] ends up going to jail for lying to the bankrupty trustee about her jewelry. ) this is in the summer of 04.. 1 became the stalking horse bidder at 36 m. ie if someone bid higher I would receive a fee. trump buys the house at the telephone auction. only me trump and his friend pulty the developer. He quickly puts it on the market for 125 million. . and no one will touch it. serves the purpose of a justification for a high sale later what else it " owns". it is is bough in the name of trump properties Ilc.. no idea who owns it. or what else it "owns". Three years later 08 he sells it to Ryboloolev for approx 100 million. He should have had a 50 million plus capital gain. he tells people and press he spent 20-30 m to fix up. that would justifiy a reduction in captial gains. key question how did he report the sale, if he did at all on his 08 tax return. He has no money. when he buys the house. His biz model is putting his name on a real estate development and gets a fee for using his name. The hotel biz is just that. someone else buys the hotel. hoping to make a profit from its operation and eventual sale. Trump put his name on it, and get a 2 % fee and maybe a piece of the profit if any on sale. He touts the project as " his." ... just as in his current financial statements on file as president he lists his " income " as the GROSS receipts of the clubs. with no expenses deducted. not his personal revenue. ie the doral golf club loses money every ycar. it pays out more than it takes in , but he lists the revenue as his income. AMAZING.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
greene.haus
Moving on requires settling accounts — winning the power to move on first, yes, but then addressing what happened before.

Or as the protagonist of 'Zombieland' put it: always double tap.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
greene.haus
I'll offer an 'amen' to the below. Resolving to 'look forward, not back' from mischief & ugliness leaves the authors of such business in place — and ready to work their mischief again at the next opportunity.
An unattributed post I saw earlier today & agreed with. It reads: "Democratic elected officials & pundits LOVE to tell voters to put 'X, Y, Z' behind them and 'move on.' This means that they never, ever, ever address X, Y, Z. This is a significant reason the country is where it is. For ex, Obama came in saying 'we're not looking back' and man was that wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
greene.haus
The sidewalks of Michigan Avenue were, as ever, crowded as hell when I stayed in a hotel there with my family this summer. Probably the most touch-and-go moment was when I had to stifle a laugh behind this portly gent:
A dad in camo shorts and a t-shirt escorts his family past the hair-raising danger of the entrance of a Coach store. The back of his t-shirt reads “shut up hippie” — with each ‘I’ in the last word marked with red-coated, downward pointing bullets. The rest of his family seems to be enjoying a normal day, like normal people.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM