Weird Wednesdays: Abandoned Mansions–The Los Feliz House

Mysteries 9 Minutes

This month’s entry is a house in Los Feliz, CA valued originally at $2.4 Million!

From: SFGATE.COM:

I approached a real estate sign on the edge of the property depicting artistic renderings of the home, complete with a swimming pool and manicured lawn. They looked nothing like the broken building looming over me. As I tried to get a closer look, two squirrels fought over an acorn on the wrought iron gates, carefully avoiding the razor wire spiraling above the wall, recently installed by someone to keep the likes of me out.

The most striking thing about the home at 2475 Glendower Place is not the history of violence or the mystery surrounding its abandonment. It’s the staircase. Through the grand central window, the original century-old stairs diagonally bisect the pane. The design choice makes little sense. Why boast an ornate 12-foot-tall arched window as a centerpiece to your mansion, only to cut through it with the side view of some yellow steps? The color of the stained glass isn’t dissimilar to the ochre of the acacia flowers hanging over the grass. But it seems more sour, more grimy, more, well, murdery.

If you’ve heard anything about the Los Feliz Murder Mansion before reading this, it probably goes something like this:

On Christmas Eve 1959, a successful LA doctor bludgeoned his wife to death with a ball-peen hammer and beat his daughter nearly to death inside their mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The doctor then lay on his bed and read a passage from Dante’s “Divine Inferno,” before drinking a glassful of acid, killing himself.

The bloodstained house was eventually bought by a mysterious family who never moved in, the story often goes. They locked the door, leaving the home frozen in time as it was on the night of the horror. Ribbon-wrapped children’s gifts still sit under the Christmas tree in the ballroom. The cursed home stands empty, a perfectly preserved murder scene, to this day.

“Folklore happens when facts are short and time is long,” journalist John Branch once wrote. Much of the legend isn’t true, but some of it is. Many of these wrongs were recently righted by filmmaker Stacy Astenius, who spent seven years investigating the home for “The Los Feliz Murder Mansion” podcast. In doing so, she revealed that the bodies of the doctor and his wife were not the only ones found in the house over its 99-year history.

“I wanted to get down to the truth, because everyone wants to believe the urban legend,” Astenius said of her podcast. “I thought about doing another one, but I have never found a house like this one.” 

Built in 1925, the 5,000-square-foot Los Angeles mansion was in the heart of what was then sold as Los Feliz Heights — a new development in the Hollywood foothills that catered to moneyed folks with “taste and discrimination.”

The first owners of the house were a wealthy couple who moved down the coast from Seattle named Harold and Florence Schumacher. The Schumachers made their family home on Glendower Place, albeit briefly. Death records reveal that on July 1, 1928, Florence died in the home of heart disease at the age of 40. Harold, 41, died of pneumonia a few weeks later.

Two years later, a movie magazine editor named Welford Beaton and his son Donald lived in the home. Donald soon became bedridden, suffering from an infection caused by a blister while playing tennis; he succumbed to his illness at home, just 21 years old. Welford left the home and filed for bankruptcy the following year.

The mansion on the hill was just 5 years old and had a death count of three, but it was just getting started.

‘Go back to bed, baby — this is just a nightmare’

Heart physician Dr. Harold N. Perelson, his wife Lillian, and their three children, Judy, Joel and Debbie, moved into the mansion from a far more modest home in Silver Lake in 1956. Despite the lavish purchase, Harold’s medical practice was in significant debt. A letter later found written by 18-year-old Judy to an aunt spoke of problems between her parents caused by the family being in “a bind financially.”

Here’s what we know is true about the morning of Dec. 6, 1959 (not Christmas Eve, the date often misattributed to the rampage), based on the police report, autopsies and newspaper articles at the time:

At around 5 a.m. that Sunday morning, Dr. Harold Perelson, 50, attacked his wife, Lillian, 42, with a ball-peen hammer as she was sleeping, killing her. He then went to his daughter Judy’s bedroom and attacked her with the same weapon. Judy’s screams awakened her sister Debbie, 11, in another bedroom. Harold told Debbie, “Go back to bed, baby — this is just a nightmare,” she later told police.

Debbie then awakened the Perelsons’ son, Joel, 13. This distraction allowed Judy to escape to a neighbor named Marshal Ross. Ross tended to Judy’s injury and had her go to bed, before calling the police and walking across the street to the Perelsons’ house. There, he found Debbie and Joel “dazed by the events” but unhurt and sent them to his house. Ross found Harold on the second floor and told him to lie down and then went to Lillian’s room. Police arrived and found Harold lying face down on Judy’s bed. He had swallowed 31 pentobarbital tablets. His body was found near the hammer and empty pill bottles. A copy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was found next to Harold’s bed.

The press blamed the doctor’s financial problems for his murderous frenzy. Medical records would later reveal that a year earlier, Perelson had been admitted to Temple Hospital for a week; he was given Thorazine, a drug used at the time to treat schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

The story hit some front pages in LA, and a few wire stories ran in other states, but by the week’s end, the event was old news: It wouldn’t be mentioned in the press again for nearly 50 years.

The lives of the Perelson children (after waking up that Sunday with no parents) have also been rightfully uninvestigated in the subsequent years. While reporting for her podcast, Astenius did manage to find Judy, now in her 80s, but she asked to never be contacted again.

The Enriquez mystery

A year after the murder, the home was bought at probate by an older couple named Emily and Julian Enriquez, and so began another mysterious chapter in its history.

The Enriquez family owned the infamous address for decades. Julian died in 1973, and Emily in 1994, and — as they’d always planned — the home was then passed to their son, Rudy, a record store manager in LA. Speculation and rumor centered on Rudy as an apparently elusive figure, the last line of an unknown family that may have never even moved inside the home. Why would Rudy choose to leave his bequeathed mansion empty, save for some storage boxes and the belongings of the Perelsons?

“They never lived there, they visited the place,” neighbor Sherry Lewis told CBS News in 2010. “There are no furnishings other than in the living room furniture that belonged to the Perelson family.” Countless YouTube segments on the murder mansion deduce that the home was never lived in by the new owners due to the intense paranormal activity keeping them out.

Rudy himself told a different story to Astenius when she finally found him outside his home in Mount Washington, a neighborhood around 5 miles from Los Feliz. She described Rudy as a kind man, happy to answer any of her questions.

“I kind of wanted him to be this weird guy,” Astenius said. “But he was just this sweet old man. The house was just too big for him.”

It was during Rudy’s arm’s-length ownership of the home that the story of 2475 Glendower Place took on a life of its own, largely due to a house painter who liked to prank his friends.

‘I’m not a journalist’

In 2000, Steve Kalupski was making some cash painting houses. While on a job at Glendower Place, he was told about a grisly murder-suicide that had happened years ago in the home next door. He peered through the window and saw old furniture, boxes and some wrapping paper. Over the next few years, Kalupski delighted in taking his friends up to the home late at night and telling ever more embellished tales. The rolls of wrapping paper turned into perfectly wrapped Christmas gifts under a lit tree. Kalupski spooked friends with the story of how the Perelsons were gathered around the tree and about to open their gifts when the mad doctor attacked them with a hammer.

“I’m not a journalist. I wasn’t taking people up there to tell the truth,” Kalupski told Astenius. “I was taking them up there as a form of entertainment on a Friday night to scare some people. It’s what I do. I make s—t up.”

A real reporter, however, did eventually come around to tell the story — or at least a version of it.

In 2009, the LA Times ran a story that made the “Los Feliz Murder Mansion” a sensation. In fact, the term had never been used online or in print before that year.

A version of Kalupski’s tale made it to reporters, who correctly decided it would be interesting to readers. Headlined, “On a Los Feliz hill, murder — then mystery,” the LA Times article tells almost as many falsehoods as Kalupski told his friends on Friday nights.

In recapping the 1959 murder-suicide, the story states that after the attack, Dr. Perelson “fatally poisoned himself by gulping a glass of acid.” This detail of the much-repeated story is shocking and memorable. It made it into the titillating opening lines of nearly every subsequent story on the home.

Suicide by drinking acid is extremely rare. We know from his autopsy, and the pillboxes found by his body, that Perelson died after swallowing barbiturate tablets, not by gulping acid. It’s unclear how and why the article described the death this way, but it helped color the urban myth that was about to be retold on a thousand blogs. A Google search yields nearly 1,000 videos that use the term “Los Feliz Murder Mansion,” as well as over 7,000 blogs and articles. All were published after 2009.

The LA Times article also states that “gaily wrapped Christmas gifts sit on a table.” Even Kalupski, the yarn-spinning painter, admitted the gift detail was a lie. Other anecdotes in the story include a ghost-fearing neighbor being bitten by a black widow spider when trying to enter the home, and sex workers frequenting the house.

After 2009, dozens, if not hundreds, of “urban explorers” illegally entered the home, all while Rudy still owned it. One told Astenius he stole an army jacket that he thought must have belonged to the Perelsons (it turned out to be Rudy’s). Another woman unscrewed and stole Judy’s painted light switch from her bedroom, which appeared to have a small bloodstain on it next to her name. A Tumblr post from 2013 appears to show the actual “Christmas” scene from up close.

Rudy Enriquez died in 2015. Shortly before his death, he told Astenius that his mom had indeed lived in the home before she died. He never moved in himself but couldn’t bring himself to sell the property because it was a gift from his parents, whom he sorely missed, and he didn’t need the money. He also said that he used the rooms for storage, including some Christmas paraphernalia.

Some of the mysteries around the home went to the grave with Rudy, such as why neighbors were certain that his mom never lived there or why so many of the Perelsons’ belongings — such as Judy’s hand-painted light switch and Dr. Perelson’s medical records — were never removed.

Rudy “was very sentimental,” Astenius said. “He kept the house like a treasure trove. He was maybe a hoarder but was really just a sweet old man.”

In 2016, TV attorney Lisa Bloom and her husband Braden Pollock bought the home at a probate sale for $2.3 million. But neighbors who hoped the decrepit house would finally be lived in were left disappointed. After tearing the interior of the house down to the studs, the couple told Astenius that they never completed their planned renovation due to permitting issues.

The home was purchased by a developer named Ephi Zlotnitsky for $2.35 million in 2020. Zlotintsky has never spoken to the press about the house and did not return a request for comment for this story. It does appear, however, that he allowed one person inside. In 2023, Zak Bagans and his “Ghost Adventures” team went into the home for a “very tactical-style investigation.” While inside, they found an unusual force pushing them up the stairs by the arched window, and they all freaked out.

It appears that the new owner has no intentions of moving in. His website bio says, “Mr. Zlotnitsky has purchased, stabilized and sold over 80 real estate assets.” His development company put up the renderings of a luxurious future home I found on the gate. The flashy new plans apparently didn’t work — the property was listed again in the summer of 2022, and subsequently delisted in November that year, having not found a buyer.

It’s hard not to attribute some sentience to homes like the Glendower mansion. If it has a personality, it’s one of loneliness. Everyone wanted the home to be something it wasn’t. The Schumachers wanted a place to live out a sunny California retirement. The Enriquezes wanted a home for their beloved boy Rudy. The LA Times wanted the house painter’s spooky stories to be true. Zlotnitsky wanted another million-dollar house flip to add to his portfolio. Bagans wanted to find a cosmic ghoul.

But save for a five-minute burst of violence on a terrible Sunday morning 65 years ago, the Los Feliz Murder Mansion is really just an empty house, waiting for a family.

SOURCE: SFGATE.COM

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  3. Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
    @TulsiGabbard
    The tragic Islamist terror attack against those at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia sadly should not come as a surprise to anyone. This is the direct result of the massive influx of Islamists to Australia. Their goal is not only the Islamization of Australia but the entire world—including the United States. Islamists and Islamism is the greatest threat to the freedom, security, and prosperity of the United States and the entire world. It is probably too late for Europe—and maybe Australia. It is not too late for the United States of America. But it soon will be. Thankfully, President Trump has prioritized securing our borders and deporting known and suspected terrorists, and stopping mass, unvetted migration that puts Americans at risk.

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  8. EXCERPT: “President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address to the nation on Wednesday night will not only afford a chance to rattle off the successes he delivered in his first year but also to offer a platform of bold new ideas to address the anxiety afflicting Americans over affordability in an economy that still has a lingering Biden hangover.

    Aides and members of Congress expect the 47th president to focus extensively on the affordability issue over the next few weeks and to lay out a 2026 agenda. The ideas could range from launching an affordable housing boom akin to the post-WWII era to reducing the size of government. 

    The ideas expected to be raised could be as ambitious as the ones he campaigned on in 2024 for his return to the White House. “I think it’ll be a real uplifting talk, and I think he will lay out his plan,” Rep. Ralph Norman, S.C., told Just the News on Tuesday night. 

    “And you know what he is so unbelievable at doing is bringing people together. He’s actively involved. I don’t know when the man sleeps,” Norman said.

    “The man works 24/7, and at the end of the day, he just loves America, and America is seeing what somebody that loves a country is doing, and he’s making this happen as no other president that I know of can do, could have done,” he added.

    On paper, Trump has a first-year resumé that most American presidents would prize: prices for gas, prescription drugs and eggs are way down, the southern border is secure after four unsafe years, 2.6 million illegal immigrants have left the country voluntarily or via deportation, eight peace deals were struck around the globe, Iran’s nuclear weapons program was crippled and Americans will reap big tax cuts next year that include no taxes on tips and Social Security.

    But like most improvements, the successes are showing up quicker in statistics and economic indicators than at the dinner table or water cooler. That has left employers cutting payroll and Americans anxious about their bottom line.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes the impact of Trump policies will settle in by the second quarter of next year, especially if America’s economy ends 2025 with a crisp 3% growth rate as Bessent predicted.

    “Democrats created scarcity, whether it was in energy or over-regulation, that we are now seeing this affordability problem, and I think next year we’re going to move on to prosperity,” Bessent said this month.

    Meanwhile, the president’s aides and his outside advisers have been crafting big ideas to unveil in the speech and in the coming weeks to create confidence that Trump has a vision to keep the affordability improvements going and to ease the anxiety.

    Just the News interviewed two dozen outside and internal advisers who have the president’s ear. Here are four big ideas they’ve been discussing:…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/wedtrumps-oval-office-speech-be-platform-affordability-agenda-here

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  9. “Susie Wiles Should Go Back To Not Talking In Public”

    The Federalist, By: Eddie Scarry, December 16, 2025

    Susie Wiles

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “For years, President Trump’s 2024 campaign manager and now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had said next to nothing in public, and now we know why. There was apparently always a high risk she would make a complete fool out of herself, her boss, and, most offensively, all of his supporters.

    On Tuesday Vanity Fair of all places published a feature centered on Wiles, with her willful participation in the piece: She agreed to more than 10 interviews with author Chris Whipple over the course of this year. What’s more, Vice President J.D. Vance and State Secretary Marco Rubio also gave interviews, and other top White House officials, including Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and adviser Stephen Miller, lent themselves to corny, The West Wing-style photoshoots.

    Regardless of how this was going to turn out, why all of these people would voluntarily contribute to yet another publication that hates them and is hellbent on destroying this country is anyone’s guess. Trump himself continues to engage with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who has demonstrably lied about the president in the most appalling ways, so their conduct isn’t unheard of.

    The more urgent problem at hand, though, isn’t just that Wiles did the interviews — it’s what she said in them. After the feature published, she released a shockingly amateurish statement about how “much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” as if it’s a great scandal that an antagonistic publication like Vanity Fair wouldn’t include all the times she called Trump amazing. But that doesn’t account for what was left in the feature, including comments from Wiles contradicting her boss, gossiping about her current and former White House associates, and openly musing about them having ulterior motives.

    This is the person Trump refers to as “ice maiden,” which I thought was to suggest a certain steely self-possession rather than just a nickname for a fragile woman at risk of melting.

    She has made the entire public question the sincerity and priorities of this administration and made it all the more difficult to defend a White House that, until now, was pretty easy to defend. By the way, all the accompanying pictures of Wiles and her peers were wildly unflattering, and if she has any enemies, she might consider recommending the photographer for their weddings.

    Being silent worked for Wiles. She should go back to doing that.”

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  10. Kurt Schlichter
    @KurtSchlichter
    This notion that young British men – specifically the working class ones – are going to sign up to go fight Russia for Ukraine is hilarious. This applies to other countries too, but let’s focus on the Brits. It’s a lesson in how the left skin-suits an institution, demands respect, and finds that it receives none.

    These are the same young men who have been told they, their country, and their culture are garbage for the last 20 years. Racist, sexist, transphobic – you know the score. When they dare complain about their communities being changed without their consent, they get slandered. When foreign invaders rape their sisters and wives, the ruling class covers it up. If they take action, or even speak about it, they will be jailed. Yeah, I bet they’re just chomping at the bit to go get killed at the behest of their tormentors.

    When they balk at sacrificing their lives for other people‘s prerogatives – again, other people who hate them and have screwed with them for decades – they get accused of lacking patriotism. That is, patriotism to the same country. The ruling class taught them was a racist, imperialist nightmare of illegitimacy. They can’t even wave their own flag in public without being scorned, yet now the same people crying about that demand that they fill a coffin under that same banner.

    Good luck.

    Everyone knows what you’re not going to see—the sons and daughters of the people proposing to send them off to fight joining them. You’re not going to see the rich kids. You’re not going to see the posh boys who benefit from the wonderful multicultural dream that is current Britain join up. Cambridge and Oxford are not going to be sending anyone. The whole idea of it is absurd. Their lives are too important.

    No, the fighting is to be done by the people the ruling class holds in contempt. Their lives are meaningless anyway. The Brit fortunate sons will be in Ibiza dancing with Ukrainian fortunate sons. The Brit unfortunate sons will be in Ukraine with the Ukrainian unfortunate sons who couldn’t buy or fly their way out of the draft.

    Yeah, after being told their country is garbage, young native Englishman are now being told they owe it their lives. After being told they are worthless, they are being told to give up what little they have left to live out some heroic fantasy for the transitory amusement of the ruling class. They’re supposed to do go die because Putin’s bad? What did Putin do to them? Put them in jail for speaking their minds? Flood their country with aliens? Take away their right to a jury trial? Call them garbage and disenfranchise them?

    Should these guys die for whatever this all is, in the off chance the ruling class even bothers putting up a memorial to them, they can be assured that a migrant will come along to piss on it, as happens with existing memorials to pass warriors, and no that bobbie will stop it. But that same copper will arrest their son or daughter for complaining about it.

    Resolved: If anyone is to go fight for King & Country in Ukraine, it should be the politicians, the poshes, and their sons.

    Take your war and your fake appeals to patriotism and shove them up your boot

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  11. “He was a talented guy, I’ll give him that…

    Tom Stiglich is one of my favorite editorial cartoonists. He has a way of very simply capturing the essence of a person or an issue that I appreciate and relate to. In this case, he certainly portrays the scope of Reiner’s body of work, which was substantial by any measure, but there’s a back story to that guy that some may not be aware of.

    My friend Mark Simone demonstrated how it was possible for Trump to say what he did about the guy. Reiner WAS a TDS-afflicted hater, and he wasn’t quiet about it – in fact, he made it a point every chance he got to bash Trump on every signal issue he could. He was relentless in his efforts on social media. This is a classic example of a guy who thought his shit didn’t stink and his opinion mattered. Truth was, it didn’t – unless he was preaching to the choir of his Hollywood elitist buddies. Here’s some examples of how far he went. (If you can’t read ’em, open this pic in a new window or enlarge your screen size…”

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  13. “Aging is inevitable. But how you age? That’s largely up to you. One thing that’s always fascinated me is the massive difference in how people age. Some people seem old at 60. Others are still vibrant and sharp at 85. The difference isn’t just genetics. It’s habits, mindset, and lifestyle choices compounded over decades.

    If you’re over 70 and can still do the things on this list without struggle, you’re in rare company. You’re aging better than the vast majority of your peers. These aren’t about running marathons or doing CrossFit. They’re about fundamental markers of physical, cognitive, and emotional health that predict longevity and quality of life.

    1) You can get up from the floor without using your hands

    2) You still learn new things regularly

    3) You can hold a conversation without bringing everything back to yourself

    4) You sleep well most nights

    5) You have genuine friendships, not just acquaintances

    6) You can adapt to changes without spiraling

    7) You move every day without it being a battle

    8) You can laugh at yourself

    If you’re over 70 and you can do most or all of these things, celebrate it. You’re not just lucky. You’ve earned this through choices you’ve made over a lifetime. You’re aging better than the vast majority of people your age. And that’s worth acknowledging and appreciating.

    Keep doing what you’re doing. Keep moving. Keep learning. Keep connecting. Keep adapting. Keep laughing. Because the goal isn’t just to live longer. It’s to live well for as long as you live. And based on these markers, you’re absolutely crushing it.”

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  14. “This is Don Featherstone. An artist and designer, he is also the creator of the original Plastic Lawn Flamingo (while he was working for the Union Products Company in Massachusetts). He’s pictured on his own front lawn in 1957. The State of Florida should name a highway after this guy…“

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  23. from tcth

    Brown University Received a Letter from 34 Human Rights Groups in August Requesting They Disable Their CCTV System

    December 17, 2025 | Sundance | 264 Comments The question is: Did Brown University acquiesce under pressure from far-left human rights groups to disable their CCTV systems, in advance of the mass shooting on campus?

    [SOURCE – AUGUST 19, 2025]

    As originally reported in August 2025 {SOURCE}, a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect “free expression and academic freedom across the country,” because “the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions.”

    The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: “Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists’ right to anonymity––a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation.” {SOURCE}

    The letter from ‘Fight For The Future‘ (August, 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses. {SOURCE}

    The Brown University President and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras on the campus and the fact that no current footage exists of the shooter walking around inside the campus or inside the buildings therein.

    The question is really a simple one.  Did Brown University follow the requests of the hardline leftist groups who asked the school to disable the functioning of their surveillance network in order to protect the identity of the students on campus?

    Obviously, this potential explanation would answer a lot of seemingly irreconcilable questions about the lack of surveillance footage available to local law enforcement, state police and FBI investigators.  The only current footage of the shooter is from privately owned doorbell cameras and CCTV systems from businesses near the campus.  No footage of the shooter on campus has been identified.

    Against the factual evidence of Brown University receiving requests to disable their surveillance cameras, someone needs to ask the right question.

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    1. (con’t)

      Everyone can see the potential ramifications here, along with the severity of the legal risk Brown University would be facing. Perhaps that dynamic is what’s behind the twisted wording and explanations coming from university and local officials.

      A targeted political assassination of a young, female conservative vice-chair of the Brown University Republican group takes place. The ideological shooter benefits from the lack of school security and surveillance. That lack of security was intentionally created by ideological school administrators and officials bowing to pressure from ideologically aligned leftist organizations.

      If accurate, this is quite a scenario on many levels; including a considerable legal risk, intentional and willful negligence, and massive lawsuit exposure in the aftermath of two deaths and 9 injured students. Brown University has an $8 billion endowment.

      As everyone understands, a University like Brown creates a local economy unto itself. College towns like Providence, Rhode Island are college towns for a reason. The college is a considerable foundation for the economic wealth of the community. As an outcome, the local officials would be in full protection mode over their economic foundation. In this case, there are billions at stake.

      Perhaps this dynamic explains all the conflicts and seemingly bizarre statements by local and university officials.

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  27. Just The News: “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday ruled that President Trump’s National Guard deployment can continue in Washington, D.C., for now, overruling a lower court.

    The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Trump may prevail in his argument that the president “possesses a unique power” to mobilize the National Guard in the nation’s capital, which is a federal district, The Associated Press reported.

    The ruling stays a Nov. 20 order by U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb, which said that the deployment illegally intruded on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the District of Columbia.

    Trump deployed the National Guard in August to crack down on crime in D.C.

    The district’s attorney general, Brian Schwalb, sued to challenge Trump’s National Guard deployments, asking that the White House be prevented from deploying Guardsmen without the mayor’s consent while the lawsuit continued.

    A spokesperson for Schwalb’s office said the appeals court’s stay was a “preliminary ruling that does not resolve the merits. We look forward to continuing our case in both the district and appellate courts.”

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    1. I love snow sculptures!!

      I was just out shoveling snow?ice off the deck. not feeling well for the last 2 weeks i didn’t go out once to shovel and the stuff came off the roof—which is the slushy ice/snow that turns to rock when it sits…so i had to do a lot of chopping.

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  34. Just The News: “FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Wednesday announced his plans to leave the FBI at the end of the year.

    “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January. I want to thank President Trump, AG Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose,” he posted on X. ” Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.”

    The announcement followed months of speculation over his future at the agency and came amid longstanding rumors of a rift with Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files.

    Bongino did not address those issues in his announcement and he made no indication of his future plans. He first achieved national fame as media figure, ultimately becoming one of the most successful podcasters in the world.

    He joined the administration earlier this year and was a longstanding advocate for reform of the intelligence community.”

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  35. yay for Nebraska!

    Gov. Pillen, Dr. Oz Announce Nebraska is First in the Nation to Pursue Medicaid Work Requirements

    December 17, 2025

    CONTACT:

    Laura Strimple, (402) 580-9495

    Jeff Powell, DHHS, (402)-471-6223, jeff.powell@nebraska.gov

    Gov. Pillen, Dr. Oz Announce Nebraska is First in the Nation to Pursue Medicaid Work Requirements

    LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen was joined by Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) CEO Steve Corsi in announcing that Nebraska is the first state in the nation to pursue work requirements for Medicaid expansion members. At the news conference today, Gov. Pillen signed a letter to CMS, detailing Nebraska’s intent to implement requirements by May 1, 2026.

    The new work requirements are the result of HR1, the One Big Beautiful Bill. Among its key provisions is a requirement that able-bodied adults in the Medicaid expansion population engage in work or other qualifying activities as a condition of receiving Medicaid benefits.

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