DON SURBER: The attack on SpaceX: Do they want to nationalize it to end Twitter or to end the space program again?

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: So That Happened. “The polls were not wrong, gentle reader. If anything, they overestimated the GOP’s chances literally everywhere. The red flags waved all over the place, but the reddest and waving-ist was seen three weeks ago in one of the most reliably conservative districts in one of the most reliably Republican states.”

Much, much more at the link.

CONSEQUENCES: Accusing University Lecturer Who Called Police of “Blatant Racial Profiling” Leads to $37,500 Defamation Verdict.

SPACE: 2 astronauts will finish upgrading ISS solar arrays during spacewalk today: Watch it live.

Here’s the direct YouTube link.

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

SO CALIFORNIA HASN’T GONE COMPLETELY SUICIDAL… YET: California’s Billionaires Exhale as Prop 40 Goes Down.

Several Democratic state leaders campaigned against it. Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed it, as did Xavier Becerra, who cruised to victory over Republican Steve Hilton Tuesday night, and former Rep. Katie Porter, warning it would drive wealthy residents and their tax payments out of California.

In June, the day after Prop 40 qualified for the ballot, Newsom proposed a national “billionaires’ tax” instead: a federal minimum tax on Americans worth more than $100 million, new rules on inheritance, and a national public equity fund that would give Americans a stake in AI-driven wealth.

A Newsom spokesperson told ABC News last month that the governor supports a national tax on billionaires and proudly joined teachers, firefighters, reproductive health clinics, and others in opposing what the statement called a “poorly written state measure that will harm California.”

Clearly, Newsom only opposed the tax because he couldn’t build a Berlin Wall around the state to keep the billionaires in.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK: Trump’s Next Act. And America’s.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Publicly Discloses Plan for a Lunar Landing Within Three Years.

SELLING OUT FOR FUN AND PROFIT:

The real winners last night were the podcasters who spent the last two years sowing discord among conservatives and now get to spend the next two cashing in on the division they helped create.

— Frank McCormick (@CBHeresy) November 4, 2026

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Well the foreign op on Iran worked. Great job, Qatari assets. Enjoy your Doha vacation houses.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 4, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM SCHRÖDINGER’S AYATOLLAH:

The process of the US's collapse has accelerated.

— Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei (@MKhamenei_ir) November 4, 2026

Whether or not Khamenei is still alive, his collapse was certainly accelerated this year: Mojtaba Khamenei Is (Still) Dead.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: COOFANDY Mens Quarter Zip Pullover. #CommissionEarned

YEP: The Democratic ‘Civil War’ Is Over. The Crazies Won.

OH, FOR THE LOVE OF BOB! IN STAR TREK?  “Gunboat Diplomacy” and a Few Thoughts.

THE FREE PEOPLE (SUCH AS WE ARE) MUST NOT LOSE SPACE:  China outlines its launch program leading to its first manned lunar landing.

THEY WON’T. SO BE READY. IT’S GOING TO GET UGLY:  FIRST ELON, THEN YOU: “If the Democrats are willing to pick this type of fight with someone like Musk, why would they show mercy to any of the rest of us?”

OKAY, THEN:  Where’s the Rib? McDonald’s Faces Lawsuit Over McRib Marketing.

FASTER PLEASE, BEFORE THE BARBARIANS TAKE US DOWN:  A cancer treatment for brain tumors.

HIS WAS WAY BETTER THAN MINE IN CO IN 12, BUT I NOTICE HE SEES WHAT I SEE:  Election Work?

A note, though, I love William Lehman, but the democrats already said the filibuster is dead when they come in, so you know what? Yeah. Do what you have to do in dead duck session to keep us from dying under what’s coming.

SOMEHOW THE BLUE WAVE DIDN’T TOUCH CONSERVATIVE DOWN BALLOT MEASURES: It’s possible, of course. strangeness happens. But consistently? Across the board? It usually indicates… sing it with me, fraud, delicious fraud:  Washington state voters appear to pass first-ever ballot measure separating boys and girls sports. Initiative 638 held a 13.6 percent lead with 60 percent of ballots counted, marking a historic first in a blue state.

ALL ONLINE. ALL FREE. ALL WELCOME:  LegendHaven returns on December 5-6! Celebrate our Christmas Book Fair. Our very own LegendFiction convention is back, this time with a Yuletide flair! It’s all free, all online, and all weekend. Bring a friend, come hang out!

CULTURE MATTERS:  On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Eva Chipiuk points out that high-trust societies can only absorb a small proportion of immigrants from low-trust cultures before the society begins losing some of the advantages of being a high-trust culture.

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT FRAUD. STOP THE CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD. IT IS FRAUD:  James Talarico got more ‘votes’ than any Democrat candidate has EVER gotten in Texas history. He got 500,000 more ‘votes’ than Kamala Harris got two years ago in a Presidential election year. The demographics of Texas have not changed significantly in two years. You can talk about gas prices, or Iran, or Trump’s personality until the cows come home, this still seems … odd, to say the least.

Again and again I say to you, no way the left outperformed polls. Have you ever met a lefty that didn’t tell everyone his or her opinion, loudly? At the top of his/her voice? Not believable. I believe in unicorns more.

OH, YEAH. IT WILL BE LIT. PROBABLY LITERALLY:  “Saving Democracy” By Prosecuting Political Adversaries: A Roundup.

I GUESS WE KNOW WHO BOUGHT THE FRAUD THIS TIME: Voters reject data centers in nearly 50 ballot initiatives during midterms in major setback to AI bigwigs.

Spring time for China, y’all.

OF COURSE NOT, ONLY ONE PARTY IS CAPABLE OF RACIAL MILESTONES.

A black man raised by a single mother and born in 1970s Crown Heights, last night became the first elected black governor of Florida, a state whose slave-owning Civil War-era governor actually committed suicide when he realized the war was lost.

Seen any celebration of that…

— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 5, 2026