SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE: Kellogg’s admits snap, crackle and pop is quieter after uproar over Rice Krispies recipe change. “A Kellogg’s spokesperson said retaining the iconic sound had been a ‘huge focus’ when designing the new recipe, but that customers ‘might notice that the sound may be quieter and not as instant as before’.”

LAME DUCK? WHAT LAME DUCK?

SCOOP: Stephen Miller — today appointed the WH chief of staff — has repeatedly sought to wield the full weight of the federal government against Somalis in Minnesota. Proud to work with @AlmsNatalie @jstein_sun @EricM_Katz on this one.

Read👇https://t.co/6nJJVGKrB2

— Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham) November 6, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Ma’am, Your ‘Aura’ Smells like Miller Lite and Cheap Tequila. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that the court-mandated GPS ankle monitor isn’t your friend, the most expensive way to enjoy a free meal at Wendy’s, and that what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG:

The list of the cars burned by Republicans, stores looted by Republicans and streets blocked by Republicans after Tuesday’s midterm election losses. pic.twitter.com/mxuNfNgF6x

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) November 5, 2026

NOSTALGIA TECH: This new flat-screen monitor looks like a 1980s computer monitor and has all the old sockets built in. “If you’ve ever tried to connect your old console to a modern TV, you might have learned that the picture is less than perfect. It’s often blurry or laggy, and more often than not, the TV doesn’t have a matching socket. The Checkmate monitor has all of the old sockets built in. It happily accepts an Amiga, SNES, or Mega Drive. It also switches between 50 Hz European games and 60 Hz American and Japanese titles. You can also stick a Raspberry Pi into a slot if you are using it to run emulators. It’s got an HDMI output if you want to capture what’s on the screen. The project is close to being fully funded, with 20 days left.”

Here’s the Kickstarter.

It’s a little pricey, but I’ve been shopping around for an old Amiga — mostly because I never got to have one in the ’80s or early ’90s — and this might be just the thing to go with it.

WORST. GENOCIDE. EVER.

70,000 people died in Gaza during the war. According to Hamas itself, 50,000 of them were Hamas fighters. And of the 20,000 “children” killed, 80% were male combatants aged 16-18.

The Gaza “genocide” is the biggest hoax of the 21st century.

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) November 6, 2026

I mean, if that’s what Hamas reported…

DON’T WORRY, THE INCOMING DEM MAJORITY HAS A PLAN TO FIX THAT: AI Spending and Hiring Are Driving the Economy As Jobs Growth for October Is ‘Unexpectedly’ High.

Update:

The midterms are over so they can start releasing real numbers again. https://t.co/pUiblqCDqL

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 6, 2026

THAT’S NICE, BUT WE STILL NEED A SPACE TELESCOPE CAPABLE OF DETECTING ORION SLAVE GIRLS: Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets. “While telescopes can be fitted with devices called coronagraphs that block out much of a star’s light, there are limits to their effectiveness, caused by noise from subtle variations in the telescope’s configuration and pointing between observations. Now, researchers have developed a new software package that optimizes a physical model of the telescope in a way that allows us to better model these differences, producing low-noise imaging of exoplanets.”

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

AP World History 2025: Name "one likely audience" for the Women's Newspaper. One correct answer was "women."https://t.co/91kX4B1IWj@HookedonJohnics @MichaelPetrilli @VodkaPundit @0Beanie05923291 @Dale_Chu @gtmom @JeremyTate41 @MindofTorres @marcportermagee @tracewoodgrains

— Joanne Jacobs (@JoanneLeeJacobs) November 6, 2026

Huge, if true.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: California Failin.’ “Things got worse after Tuesday’s election, when California’s fall gained full velocity, worthy of a Magic Mountain roller coaster. Not to be outdone, Washington State made moves to become California’s mini me, and Oregon rehired truly one of the worst governors in its history.”

I DON’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THESE BONCENTRATION BAMPS:

I realize this increasingly puts me in nobody’s little camp on the right, but I happen to think the most pressing issue is that the left is going to gulag all of us.

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 6, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Claude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance tool.

Anthropic announced Thursday that Claude is getting a new tool called “Personal Finance,” designed to help users keep track of their money. With it, users can connect their bank and credit card accounts through Plaid and ask Claude questions about their finances. Anthropic says access is read-only, meaning Personal Finance can’t move, manage, or invest users’ money.

By letting Claude connect directly to bank and credit card accounts, Anthropic is positioning its chatbot as a financial companion that can help people understand their spending and make sense of their money, rather than simply offering them generic advice.

Hard pass, even if it is “read-only.”

BAIT & SWITCH:

Rep. Laura Gillen’s (D-NY) first post after the Democratic sweep Tuesday night isn’t about affordability – it’s about extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians with the new Democratic majority in Congress. https://t.co/k6AZuQJEQn

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 6, 2026

STOP HIRING CRAZY PEOPLE AS TEACHERS: ‘We Need to Stop Giving Birth’ to Boys: Special Ed Teacher in Maryland Molding Future Crazies.

HE CERTAINLY DIDN’T HELP:

Let’s call a spade a spade.

In addition to the reasons listed below, a big part of why we lost the midterms is because of John Thune and the RINO Swamp.

Trump won the popular vote and we gave the GOP full control of DC.

And what did Thune do?

Blocked Voter ID.
Prevented… https://t.co/85Wt7BPMHR pic.twitter.com/jJAqXw86Ms

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 6, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ELON MUSKSpaceX’s next Starship flight set to make history on Friday the 13th.

The date lands inside the window Elon Musk sketched out last month. Speaking at Giga Texas on October 10, Musk said the flight would “probably launch a little bit before Thanksgiving,” as Teslarati reported. On SpaceX’s third quarter earnings call ten days later, he confirmed that Flight 15 would try to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the ship, and put the odds of a successful ship catch at “more likely than not.” SpaceX also aired an animation of the maneuver during that webcast, showing the ship swinging vertical over Starbase before dropping into the tower’s chopsticks.

The hardware is ready. Booster 22 fired all 33 of its Raptor engines for a full duration static fire at Pad 2 on October 25. Ship 42 followed with a single engine burn simulating a deorbit maneuver on October 26 and a 60 second firing of all six engines the next day, according to NASASpaceflight. Ship 42 had already rehearsed the catch in September, when the Pad 2 arms lifted it into position and crews connected the quick disconnect arm while the vehicle hung from the tower.

The remaining hurdle is regulatory.

That last item is just one of the many places a Dem president could start squeezing Musk, next time they take the White House. His best hope is to wed SpaceX even more deeply into our defense infrastructure over the next two years.

WELL PUT IN ANY LANGUAGE:

Socialism is fascist in politics, and fascism is socialist in economics. Both hate the free market and worship state intervention.

LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT…!!! pic.twitter.com/3gvtl2PYxl

— Milei in English – Official Account (@jmilei_english) November 6, 2026

SHARKS GOTTA SWIM, BATS GOTTA FLY: Dems Already Planning to Trample Second Amendment, Steal Jobs for Migrants.

BY CALCULATION OR IGNORANCE?

Helen Andrews was right.

15 years after taking student loans, men have paid them down substantially compared to women who have barely made a dent.

Lower pay, longer career exits, and especially the 2007 Public Service Loan Forgiveness racket which erases the debt for… pic.twitter.com/FuIn2Au0aN

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) November 5, 2026

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Mediocrity on the march: A poster on kindness isn’t ‘critical thinking.’

When goals are mushy and impossible to measure, “anything goes,” writes Buck, a former teacher who’s now a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

Nobody’s held accountable for whether students can add fractions or name the three branches of government if the standard of excellence is building a spaghetti tower.

“How can a school foster grit?,” he asks. “Maintain demanding academic gauntlets. How can schools create self-discipline? Set behavioral standards and hold students to them. How can schools enable critical thinking? Provide them the knowledge of history, science, literature, grammar, and the arts that become the tools of critical thought.”

Students don’t become”global citizens” — or just a plain old good citizens — “through kitschy activities where they make posters about how kindness is cool,” Buck concludes.

Yes, but they’re well on their way to septum rings and endorsing political violence on TikTok.

PRIORITIES:

I love that just two days after winning an election by promising to focus on affordability, Democrats immediately pivoted to putting dicks in chicks’ bathrooms. https://t.co/OBF0Oloh1z

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 6, 2026

Earlier: THEY’LL GET ONE REGARDLESS, GOOD AND HARD: No one voted for a ‘woke wave.’

PEACEMAKER: Melania Helped Civilians Escape Oleshky, and Now Both Sides Have Met at the White House.

THEY’LL GET ONE REGARDLESS, GOOD AND HARD: No one voted for a ‘woke wave.’

It’s easy to get depressed about American politics. Some might see us shifting from the MAGA personality cult to the impending rule of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

That view is wrong and misreads the results of yesterday’s midterm elections. It may have been a disaster for the Republicans, and particularly Donald Trump, but not necessarily for the country. Despite the success of some awful lefties, notably Abdul El-Sayed (D-Muslim Brotherhood), the biggest – and most unheralded – victories were won by Democratic candidates professing a more moderate message.

Even in metropolitan New York, particularly in the suburbs, it was moderate Democrats, largely pro-Israel, who won the day. The suburbs may dislike Trump, but they are not hanging socialist banners or Palestinian flags in their town centres.

And yet, that’s exactly what they enabled.

STILL, SPEED HAS A VIRTUE ALL ITS OWN:

The Iran War is not a war of choice. Any president who would allow Iran to go nuclear would be a failure. But Trump kept boots off the ground, and tried diplomacy, in deference to public sentiment and to his campaign promises. The blockade is the winning move. It just takes time.

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) November 6, 2026

2028 PREVIEW: JD Vance Just Revealed His 2028 Presidential Platform — and MAGA’s Ideological War Is Underway.