WHAT HE(?) SAID:  You can’t arrest people for speech of that sort. It’s literally not legal. And you can’t deploy the Guard to every major shitlib city in the US to suppress riots (which is where ICE is operating, everywhere.)

AND FOR THE: xpelled.

NOW THROW IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY MOST OF WHOSE LAWS ARE MIRED IN THE MIDDLE AGES:  Things They Don’t Tell You: Before Probate.

HE’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT:   Thoughts on Election Day 2025.  Democrats won their races, but not a referendum.

GO ON AND SING IT:  I want my EBT.  To the tune of the song, I want my MTV.

YES, BUT THEY’RE HERE FOR THE SOCIALIST JIHADI:  As the Birds Circle.  New York City faces Mamdani — and the new Socialist Left.

I’m going to lay down my marker right here, right now, that Mamdani breaks his teeth on New York City and that the Socialists get their hot little hands burned by America.

IT AIN’T NO BIG SURPRISE THAT IDIOTS WIN IN PLACES CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE:  Deep Breaths.

Have some ice cream or a cold shower, and then stop thinking of what they’re going to do to us, and start planning how we’re going to give them trouble, all along the line.

NOTICE THIS:

🚨 BREAKING: Jacob Frey has officially defeated Omar Fateh in the race for Mayor of Minneapolis.

Minnesota of all places last night rejected socialism. There is still hope for the future. pic.twitter.com/9CLEeD4bNk

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) November 5, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China conducts ground tests on inflatable, reconfigurable space manufacturing module: China aims to merge inflatable-structure engineering with orbital manufacturing.

BOTTOM LINE:

As bad as Jay Jones is, knowing that my neighbors genuinely support him as AG while wishing death on Republicans and their children is far worse.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 5, 2025

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN ARIANE DOMINATED THE WORLD’S LAUNCH MARKET: Europe launches weather satellite with Ariane 6 rocket.

I DUNNO, IF I’M GONNA GET A DEATH NOTICE I’D RATHER IT BE WRONG: MaineHealth apologizes for sending death notices to 500+ living people.

ONE HUNDRED MILLION BROKEN EGGS, AND NOT A SINGLE OMELETTE:

Mamdani had a CASH BAR at his victory party. If you can’t get a free vodka from this guy something tells me the free food and buses ain’t coming. Congrats, suckers.

— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) November 5, 2025

ICYMI: NYC: Begun, the Meme Wars Have.

MICROBIOME NEWS YOU CAN USE: Gut microbiome tests are everywhere. Should you get one? I don’t think the state of knowledge has evolved to where these are likely to reliably deliver useful results.

CONTRITION?

NEW: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told staff during an all-hands meeting today, “I made a mistake, and I let you down. I let down this institution. Period. Full stop,” according to the Free Beacon. https://t.co/kMQI7aHcfR

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 5, 2025

The apology only counts if it’s as public as the offense.

Finally, here’s a reminder that whatever infighting is going on between conservatives and Groypers, it’s been going on a lot longer than conservatives even noticed.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Mamdani Is at the Top of the Cyclone But It’s All Downhill From Here.

We’ve seen this play out before, and not just with mayors. New York voters elect someone on the far left and the whole country is obliged to get excited about them. It was true of AOC obviously and while she could be running for the Senate soon, she’s probably the exception that proves the rule. Other lefties who’ve made a splash recently haven’t been as successful.

Jamaal Bowman won a seat in congress in 2020 and was inaugurated in the squad. Cori Bush was elected in Missouri that year too. Both of them were examples of the young, vibrant left that had defeated stale Democratic incumbents. They were going to shake up Washington and be part of a resurgent left-wing.

And now, just a few years later, both of them are gone. The original four members of the squad—AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib — are still around but their numbers aren’t growing and their impact seems pretty limited.

Mamdani’s best outcome, according to Douthat, is that the complete novice at any kind of work manages New York City so well that he, like AOC, can move on to some statewide office. But if things don’t go perfectly, he could just as easily wind up like Bill de Blasio, another leftist mayor who promised voters the moon and wound up disliked by most of them, to the point that he couldn’t win a seat in congress.

Mamdani’s problems have already started.

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker tendered his resignation Wednesday, the morning after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election victory at the polls, the Daily News has learned.

In a letter to Mayor Adams sent less than 12 hours after Mamdani’s win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa, Tucker announced his last day will be Dec. 19…

Tucker, who is Jewish and a Zionist, felt he wouldn’t mesh well with Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, and his team, the source said.

Jim Geraghty adds, “I don’t want to soft-pedal the amount of damage Mamdani can do as mayor. But in the coming months and years, he is likely to be frustrated with how little unilateral power he has as mayor:”

The mayor cannot unilaterally raise taxes in the city. The New York City Council sets property tax rates, and the personal income tax rates are set by state law and administered and collected by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Any tax hikes will have to be approved by the state legislature in Albany. Mamdani gets sworn into office on New Year’s Day; Governor Kathy Hochul and members of the New York state senate and state assembly are up for reelection in November 2026. None of them will be particularly eager to raise taxes in an election year.

Mamdani wants to make it free to ride city buses. Bus fares are controlled by the Metropolitan Transit Authority board. The MTA structure is . . . complicated, but the bottom line is that the mayor has limited influence over it:

Legally, it is an independent corporation, run by a board of directors. As the MTA told its bond investors as recently as February, it is “a corporate entity separate and apart from the state, without any power of taxation.” The MTA board has 14 voting members — six recommended by the governor directly, including the MTA’s chairperson and CEO, and four recommended to the governor by the mayor (the remainder come from other downstate New York counties) and approved by the state senate.

For Mamdani to establish his city-run grocery stores, he can use the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which already runs six New York City public markets.

Given how hamstrung Mamdani could be in office, America’s Newspaper of Record notes that America’s best-known Communist slacker may not have thought through his career ambitions sufficiently:

Zohran Mamdani Horrified To Discover He Now Has A Job https://t.co/wvmNh6NjJ8 pic.twitter.com/MHYO3AiqCT

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2025

BEST NEWS OF THE DAY: Trump Just Gave the Finger (Again!) to the Space Establishment.

BE SAFE: Super Bright Headlamp Rechargeable 4000 High Lumen. #CommissionEarned

Solo Stove Bonfire with Stand. #CommissionEarned

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY! Worst Case of TDS On The Planet?

One of the most virulent cases of TDS ever observed on earth is the one that has absolutely ravaged the mind of former Republican commentator, Bill Kristol.  How bad has it gotten?  Well, if his TDS were a physical disease, Kristol would be on his deathbed, wasted away to 98 pounds, barely breathing, with barely a pulse, and a priest would be administering last rites.  As a psychological condition, though, it’s made him the equivalent of just another muttering lunatic on the subways or streets of New York, which will soon become more chaotic than ever when Mamdani takes over.

And speaking of Mamdani, when asked during an interview with Claremont McKenna College student newspaper The Forum if he would vote for Mamdani if he lived in New York City, Kristol replied, “You know, I think so.”

Case closed.  That should be the final nail in the coffin of Kristol’s destroyed reputation and credibility, when he says out loud in an interview that he would vote for an anti-Semitic Islamic communist if he were able to vote in that election. There is no path of rationalizations or pretzel logic that could lead anyone who ever called himself “conservative” to this place.  He has been utterly broken by Trump, and his TDS causes him to support anyone who is anti-Trump, even a commie.

“The idea of going back to Cuomo is just, I think, ridiculous,” Kristol said.  Right.  But voting for a 33-year-old communist Muslim who grew up in the lap of luxury, never had a real job, and whose policies would destroy the nation’s largest and most important city isn’t ridiculous?  Well then, what about voting for Curtis Sliwa?  I guess the subject never even came up.  Because Sliwa is the Republican.  But Kristol isn’t anymore.  So, he would vote for the grinning commie.

What exactly is Kristol now, an independent, a Democrat?  He makes no such claim, simply calling himself an “ex-Republican.”  He is editor-at-large of The Bulwark, whose “About” page says, “The Bulwark was founded to provide analysis and reporting in defense of America’s liberal democracy.  That’s it.  That’s the mission.”  What does that mean? It means . . . Never Trump.  And that means all the “analysis” and “reporting” will be intellectually polluted by the taint of TDS.

Related: “Inner:”

My inner social democrat enjoyed Mamdani quoting Eugene Debs last night. I recall my even-more-suppressed inner social democrat being pleased in 1990 when Debs was inducted during the first Bush administration into the Labor Department's Hall of Honor.https://t.co/XilT2urYrK

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 5, 2025

THEY’RE NOT RELIABLE: The Wall Street Journal Thinks It’s Far Too Easy for Americans to Defend Themselves.

WELL PLAYED, AT&T: Major phone carriers reveal Jack Smith’s subpoenas for Republican senators’ records. “When AT&T raised questions with Special Counsel Smith’s office concerning the legal basis for seeking records of members of Congress, the Special Counsel did not pursue the subpoena further, and no records were produced.”

PEER REVIEW IS BROKEN. HERE’S HOW TO FIX IT. An actual idea here! We need more of this.