CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Hollywood Helped Fuel Tuesday’s Blue Tsunami.

Bruce Springsteen didn’t tip the Election Day scales for the Democrats.

Nor did Macklemore, Jimmy Kimmel or Mark Ruffalo.

No single progressive artist made a difference in the beating Republicans took Tuesday night. No, the matter is far more complicated, but we can’t ignore the role Hollywood had in the election results.

Call it a collective approach, one that aligned key cultural forces together with one goal above all else.

Progressive power.

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JEN VAN LAAR: Vance’s Explanation for the GOP’s Midterm Disaster Is a Little Too Neat and Tidy. “In Vance’s estimation, the GOP has lost the Senate for six years as a result of this election — which could end up being true, but is a very bold prediction to make today — and blames that on people who supported taking out the mullahs, many of whom are not neocons. There’s a solid core of Gen X conservatives who have wanted the mullahs handled for a very long time, in large part because of how many members of our generation were killed, maimed, or suffer from debilitating PTSD because of Iran’s support of terrorism for the last 47 years.”

Vance’s post read to me like a power play against the Rubio-Hegseth wing of the administration.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: West Hollywood Approves Ordinance To Let Throuples, Foursomes Register As Couples.

Unexpectedly:

Every critic of gay marriage said this was the logical outcome; virtually every mainstream proponent of gay marriage assured us it would never happen.

And here we are. https://t.co/X5YxDhPZ1I

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 4, 2026

TAKE A BREAK FROM POLITICS: Whiskey Wednesday: From a River of Fire to a Phoenix in a Bottle.

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SACRIFICES TO ANGRY GODS TIME: Are They Going to Send Pistol Pete Hegseth Packin’?

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Trump Admin Experiment in Jailing and Deporting Criminals – While Gun Ownership Soars – Has Made Americans Safer.

FASCINATING: Celebrity Culture Predicted Fertility Decline In Japan And South Korea.

TO BE FAIR, MATT’S NEW HERE:

Remember when the GOP gave Elon Musk a standing ovation in front of the American people…

…and then only voted on 1 DOGE cut, didn't defund the Taliban, gave $315 MILLION to a far Left group that DOGE defunded, and NEVER passed the SAVE ACT?

I don't understand the GOP… pic.twitter.com/5lj2yIY7tE

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 4, 2026

INDEED: Meh. 2008 Was Worse. “This morning, the customary bleating and gloating of the Democrats just isn’t bothering me as much as I thought it would. First of all, I learned long ago to stay off social media when something upsetting happens, and this is a great time to do that. And second, the narrative from the left-media is actually kind of hilarious, when you look at how hard they’re puffing themselves up.”

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I WAS PROMISED ICE BLOODBATHS AT THE POLLING PLACES:

Weird how Democrats won despite us living under a fascist dictatorship.

I'm so confused.

— OutspokenSamantha (@Outspoken_Sam) November 4, 2026

WHAT DO COMMUNISTS, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, FLAG BURNERS, ANTIWAR PROTESTORS, AND NEO-NAZIS HAVE IN COMMON? At different moments in American history, civil libertarians went to extraordinary lengths to defend their right to speak. FIRE EVP Nico Perrino’s new book tells their story.

HMM:Trump asking advisers if Hegseth should stay after midterm losses, sources say.

Getting rid of Hegseth would be a real win for the Swamp.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY:

Bored Of Having A Good State, Texas Considers Voting Democrat https://t.co/zVmOE3Kthf

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 2, 2026

PERSPECTIVE:

HISTORIC? Grover Cleveland lost 110 House seats, Hoover lost 102, FDR lost 81 and 7 Senate seats. Truman lost 12 Senators, Ike lost 13. Clinton lost 9 Senators. Bush 2006 lost 6 Senators and 30 House. Obama lost 9 Senate seats in 2014, 63 in House.

So spare me all the HISTORIC.

— Michael Caputo (@MichaelRCaputo) November 4, 2026

But there’s also this followup from Caputo: “This Congress will be the most radical in American history. They will blow it, but a lot of innocent GOP families will be destroyed in the process.”

Buckle up.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Robotic Surgery: When Technology Expands the Possibilities of Medicine.

ALL THE GROUNDLESS IMPEACHMENTS WILL LIKELY KEEP THEM BUSY: ‘Marvin, What Do We Do Now?’: Dems Wake Up to Their Bill McKay Moment.

THE “BIRDS AREN’T REAL” GUY WAS JUST A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise.

MAYBE THE “NO FIRE, NO HIRE” PHASE IS FINALLY ENDING: Job openings posted big September gain in positive sign for labor market ahead of payrolls report.

In its monthly look at labor market slack and worker mobility, the BLS reported job openings at 7.52 million, up 333,000 from August and well above the Dow Jones consensus outlook for 7.15 million.

As a share of the total workforce, the rate of job openings increased to 4.5%, up 0.2 percentage point from the prior month, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. There are now some 414,000 more job openings than workers classified as unemployed, or about 1.05 openings to every available worker.

Openings rose in manufacturing (54,000) as well as state and local government (108,000) and professional and business services (106,000).

At the same time, the total of employees leaving their jobs spiked to 3.36 million, an increase of 321,000 from August and the highest level since March 2025. Quits are considered a barometer for worker confidence in finding new jobs after leaving their prior positions.

It hasn’t been easy, recovering from Bidenflation, further decoupling from China, and trying to re-shore manufacturing all at the same time.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Best shoes for lifting weights, according to a weightlifting coach and a podiatrist.

I have Rogue squat shoes, with a big of heel and plywood inserts in the soles for squatting heavy. I have Otomix lifting boots. But mostly, when I’m not squatting heavy, I wear Puma driving shoes, which are basically barefoot shoes with a bit more ankle support, and they’re pretty cheap.

GOOD STUFF AS USUAL FROM ALEX THE CHICK:

(Long tweet warning)

In which I anger everyone.

1. The Democrats won because the Democrat candidates persuaded more people that the Democrat positions would answer the problems that those people have. I can hear the instant but that's not true, those answers are not answers,…

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) November 4, 2026

Lots to chew on here, but this stands out: “The Republicans in Congress have failed, catastrophically so, to take any actions to implement the policies that those self same Republicans claim will improve matters. If those policies are so important and so good and so necessary, then why has legislation implementing those policies not been passed? The Democrats most decidedly are able to pass what the Democrats deem important. Why have the Republicans not done the same?”

SLIGHT BIT OF GOOD NEWS IN TEXAS: What a Democrat-held House, GOP Senate could mean for Texas’ 2027 legislative session.

Which only mildly offsets all of the bad news to come:

Understand the implications of what happened in Texas last night.

Gina Hinojosa has called on Gov. Abbott to end state & local cooperation with ICE & she can order that on day one.

Hinojosa voted against the 2017 SB 4 as a TX state rep. The bill was essentially a sanctuary…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 4, 2026

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, “THE POLLS ARE WRONG” IS A THIN REED: The Polls Were Wrong, All Right, Just Not the Way Republicans Figured It.

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