THEIR FIRST MOVE MIGHT HAVE TO BE REMOVING THUNE:

House and Senate Republicans should take full advantage of our majorities while we still have them https://t.co/qjIuZxysi3

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) November 5, 2026

And this is exactly what the Democrats would do, if the roles were reversed.

Then again, if the roles were reversed, their might not be a backlog of 135 nominees.

GREAT GIFT: Oura Ring 5 Smart Ring. #CommissionEarned

HA-HA, NO: Does the blue wave mean lower gasoline and diesel prices soon? Don’t hold your breath.

Flashback: In Their Own Words… Obama Policies Deliberately Drive Up Energy Prices.

REPORT: Harmeet Dhillon Resigns From DOJ.

THE (R) BRAND MIGHT BE IN THE TOILET AT THE MOMENT…:

There is a very interesting mismatch between the elections for *candidates*, which effectively yielded a massive and historic sweep for the Democrats, and the *ballot initiatives*, almost all all of which yielded conservative outcomes, even in the deep blue states (but not VA).

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 4, 2026

…but conservative policies remain popular.

I got into that a bit earlier today in this week’s VIP essay.

SO MUCH DATA-CENTER PROPAGANDA: Do Data Centers Cause Heat Islands? A New Study Says No.

SURE, WHY NOT? Pete Hegseth for President.

They say everything moves faster in the age of the Internet, and that’s certainly true of Hegseth. He hasn’t even begun campaigning, and already the impeachment hearings have been scheduled for him!

🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie announces he will BRING A VOTE to IMPEACH SecWar Pete Hegseth next week unless he resigns

"There is one contingency in which I won’t reintroduce the articles of impeachment: Hegseth resigns."

This ACTUALLY going anywhere requires 67 US Senators… pic.twitter.com/XYALzGkuxw

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 5, 2026

UPDATE:

🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup@PeteHegseth named the institutions… CFR, Brookings, the general class… in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color… pic.twitter.com/DgWilvJlf8

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 21, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: This Is How Pelosi Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Weirdo.

REQUIRED READING:

Everyone wants to weigh in with their Most Astute Take™ on the midterms.

But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.

Foreign adversaries have learned…

— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) November 5, 2026

But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.

Foreign adversaries have learned to weaponize the very protections and safeguards – First Amendment, Section 230, privacy laws – that make discourse online possible. They use our shield as their weapon.

These actors have learned that they don’t need to “hack Facebook” — as the press claimed Russia did in 2016. (In fact, that had no measurable impact.) They found that they don’t need to infiltrate voting systems.

Instead, they have learned to focus on seeding poisonous narratives into virtually every open information system online. It’s not only effective, but it’s remarkably efficient.

Read the whole thing, but understand that the side that argued stripping is a constitutional right did not adopt the burqa by accident.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you sleep with socks on?

ONCE AGAIN, ELON WAS WAY OUT IN FRONT OF THE CURVE: The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space.

A wave of Democratic candidates across the country—and notably in Texas, a national data center hot spot and home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX—won their state and congressional races on Tuesday, including many candidates who voiced opposition to the data center industry. The results have sent some corners of the tech industry looking to the heavens for answers.

In recent hours, data center enthusiasts have proclaimed on social media that they’re still “bullish” on building data centers—just not necessarily in Texas, or even on Earth at all. Instead, they say, it’s time to focus on data centers in space.

Elon Musk—who spent more than $400 million of his fortune supporting Republican candidates who all went on to lose their midterms races—has been among those leading the charge. “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk posted on X in the early hours of Wednesday, after it was clear that Democrats had taken the House and Senate.

We’ve reached the point where you have to leave the planet to escape the statists.

Robert Heinlein wrote about that very thing a time or three.

WELCOME TO THE HANGOVER:

Stock Markets….

Yesterday: “yay, we stuck it to Trump!”

Today: “you mean the Democrats will be in charge?”

— Robert D. Miranda (@bmiranda24) November 5, 2026

A DOZEN MUSLIM COUNTRIES HAVE DESIGNATED MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION:

We’ve spent years as the actual Arab Muslim begging the West to ban the Muslim Brotherhood for how extreme their ideology is, and suddenly Abdul just wins in USA ..

WTH 😂😂

— Ahmed Khalifa (@_A_khalifa) November 4, 2026

And Russia has, too.

GOING VEGAN IS BAD FOR YOU IN GENERAL, IN MY OPINION: Dropping dairy milk to go vegan is bad for you, study warns.

ERIC FLORACK: Vance Wants an ‘Honest Conversation’? Fine, Here’s One.

IBUPROFEN DOWNSIDES: Sports Medicine Doctor Warns Making a Daily Habit of This Common Pill Can Cut Muscle Growth in Half. “The soreness you’re trying to reduce with ibuprofen runs on the same inflammatory signaling your muscles use to rebuild, so the pill meant to speed up recovery may actually end up working against it.”

IT DOES SEEM LIKE TIME FOR SOME ACTION. WHAT THE HELL, IT MIGHT JUST WORK: This Hail Mary Move Could Save the Supreme Court From the Democrats.

ROOSTER CAUSES SUN TO RISE, FILM AT 11: ‘We Put You In’: ABC’s The View Admits They’re ‘Celebrating’ With Dems. “ABC’s ‘bona fide news program’ The View was in party mode on Wednesday as the openly joined Democrats in ‘celebrating’ their ‘blumani’ electoral wins in the 2026 midterms. They didn’t even try to hide their excitement as they looked forward to Democrats taking control of the House and Senate next year and the collapse of the MAGA movement. They even told Democrats that they ‘put them in [power],’ and did a victory lap with one candidate they proudly promoted on the show.”

LIGHTNING DEAL: aosu Solar Camera Outdoor Wireless for Home Surveillance. #CommissionEarned

AND THE MEMES HAVE BEEN GLORIOUS: The Pope of Rome Meets ‘The Poet Laureate of Rock and Roll.’

I’d watch this:

Pope Leo and Bob Dylan look like they're starring in an early '90s CBS drama in which two priests – one by the book and one who does things his own way – try to solve mysteries in their seemingly sleepy Midwestern town that hides a seedy underbelly. pic.twitter.com/AB7yKe8eXC

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) November 4, 2026

THE LAST TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN PRETTY GREAT:

For all the economic voters who punished Republicans, just remember:
(1) Poverty and child poverty are at an all time low.
(2) GDP per capita is at an all time high.
(3) The murder rate is lowest recorded.
(4) Real median income is up to an all-time high of $88,000.
(5) U.S.…

— May Mailman (@MayMailman) November 4, 2026

And for that we must be punished, I suppose.

SOUNDS LIKE A WORTHY EFFORT. TECHNO-OPTIMISM FOR THE FUTURE:

Given everything happening right now, I think we need a techno-optimist counterculture.

So I'm thinking about creating a subsidiary of Argil with one single purpose: building a media company for the future.

Basically doing what I already do on this account, but with a real… pic.twitter.com/xDTIkWlaSZ

— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) November 5, 2026

NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS: Buttons are back and storage is king when it comes to car interiors. “‘People want easy, intuitive controls,’ Patel said. ‘They want wireless charging. They want surfaces that are easy to manage and clean, keep clean and clutter-free, and they want lots of places to store things. Oh, and the last thing is, they want easy access.’ So the new Rogue’s rear doors were engineered to open to 90˚ to make it easier to put in a kid’s car seat or help an elderly parent into the back. That would be less of a priority for a sedan being marketed at a more image-conscious customer, but vitally important for this segment.”

I DON’T KNOW IF REPORTERS ARE ACTUALLY THE WORST-INFORMED PEOPLE ON EARTH…:

Six days before the election, more than two dozen Trump strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The talk turned to cyanide. “Do you want the white pill first, or the black pill first?" @ShaneGoldmacher @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT https://t.co/6HpvJ8Ts6m

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 5, 2026

…but it’s got to be close.

KRUISER: Wow: Islamophobia Sure Gets a Lot of Terrorism Supporters Elected.