JONATHAN TURLEY: A Dangerous Woman: Democrats Adopt Soviet Rhetoric to Condemn Stevens as Mentally Ill.

After she declared that she would split her ticket and vote for Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, Democrats across the country declared her mentally ill. Some used the attack literally, feigning deep concern over her safety — the way that you describe a friend found raving on the subway about being probed by aliens.

Lawyer George Conway encouraged her to check into a mental facility immediately. He is, after all, a Juris Doctor.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D., Md.) explained to CNN in the tone of an intervention that “I have been worried about her all last week. She’s a human being.”

Former Republican Bill Kristol was more direct that Stevens “seems to have had some kind of breakdown or something.”

Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan said that Stevens is “clearly a disturbed, deranged, dishonest woman.”
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It is a tactic made infamous by the Soviets, who invented conditions such as “sluggish schizophrenia” to lock up dissidents in mental hospitals. Nikita Khrushchev explained that mental illness was the only plausible explanation for anyone who opposed communism.

Locking up dissidents and shooting them full of sedatives was Khrushchev’s “kinder, gentler” alternative to Stalin just having them shot.

HMM:

I have a really old label printer which stopped working and I can’t find a driver for it anywhere online that works with a Mac.

I was about to throw it out but I hate buying new printers so I asked Claude if it could whip me up a driver. It did, it works. And I saved $200.

I…

— Jon Del Arroz | Sci-Fi And Fantasy (@jondelarroz) November 2, 2026

I have a not-so-old label printer that — surprise! — isn’t compatible with the Golden Gate macOS release. I’ll have to sic my GrokBot army on the problem.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: OK Patriots, That’s Enough Moping. “Feeling like garbage after the GOP’s bed-befouling non-performance on Tuesday night is warranted. Emotions muddy perspective, however, and we are all in need of some of that if we’re going to make this resistance functional when it kicks off in January.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China expanding laser arsenal to blind and destroy US satellites. “Integrated alongside electronic jamming, cyberwarfare and co-orbital systems, China’s directed-energy weapons form part of an active defense strategy to degrade an adversary’s space architecture and deter intervention during a regional military conflict.”

ARE YOU TAKING NOTES, SEN. THUNE?

Texas Republicans aren't rolling over.

Hours after Dan Patrick lost, GOP state senators are meeting to rewrite the rules and strip the new Democrat Lt. Gov. of her control over committees, bills and the floor.

Simple majority vote. Totally legal.

That's how you fight back.

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 5, 2026

The question was rhetorical.

ICYMI: This Is How Pelosi Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Weirdo.

NRA: Now is When The Real Work Starts.

Make no mistake, this election was not a referendum in favor of gun control. Indeed, most Democrat candidates – from the party most likely to support gun control – took pains to avoid the issue in highly contested races or tried to portray themselves as moderates on it. And while national gun ban lobbies like Everytown and their billionaire patrons like Michael Bloomberg spent heavily to obtain these results, their campaign ads tended to downplay gun control, if they mentioned it at all.

Polls showed gun control was not a significant factor motivating voters this cycle. Their chief concerns centered on the economy and cost of living.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s policies on crime and immigration have helped to drive nationwide violent crime rates as low as at any time in the FBI’s history of measurement. And while hot spots of violent crime still exist, they are heavily concentrated in discrete neighborhoods and among discrete feuding social groups, most often in locales under legacy Democrat control. This is occurring at the same time as the Second Amendment is being embraced by a more numerous and broader cross-section of law-abiding Americans than at any point in the nation’s history.

Indeed, if there was a bright spot in the outcome, it was in Florida, where pro-gun forces prevailed in every major race.

It seems almost impossible now, but Obama won Florida handily in 2008, and again — if less comfortably — in 2012.

CONSTITUENT SERVICE:

Here is a sample of the 548 people that just had their death penalty commuted by Gov. Newsom:

1. Charles Ng
Brutally murdered 11 people, including men, women, and infants

2. Randy Kraft
Brutally murdered at least 16 young men, torturing and dismembering victims

3. Marcus…

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 5, 2026

SHE’LL BE MISSED: DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon Decides to Leave Washington and Return to Private Practice.

LET THAT FREAK FLAG FLY:

Given that the pending Democratic majorities in the House and Senate will be largely impotent, I’m also looking forward to them demonstrating how destructive, dangerous and idiotic they would be with actual power.

The downside is, a vast swath of the American electorate is also… https://t.co/PkX4ZVBjwj

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 5, 2026

ARE PEOPLE HAPPIER WHEN ANYONE FORCES THEM TO DO ANYTHING? Smiling can make you happier — unless someone forces you to do it.

AFTER THAT, YOU’D BETTER BOOK A RIDE ON STARSHIP:

Interesting https://t.co/vULrMK8EFp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2026

It’s a good thing SpaceX has all that Louisiana property under development, because Texas just got bad for business.

DISCONNECT: Colorado and Washington Defeated Amendments That Dems Support.

NATIONALIZATIONS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MARKETS IMPROVE:

Looks like we got a red wave after all pic.twitter.com/bjeXtthl5I

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) November 5, 2026

HMM: Did Re-Redistricting Actually Hurt Republicans? “The fast-congealing conventional wisdom is that the GOP attempt to re-redistrict didn’t just fail but also backfired on them. In other words, they drew ‘dummymanders’ and ended up worse off than they would have if they’d stuck with the old maps. The reasoning is pretty straightforward: By spreading their voters too thin, Republicans set up a situation in North Carolina where it looks as though the map will produce a 10-4 Democratic edge. The re-redistricting in Texas netted a seat loss, while precipitating a redraw in California that looks as though it will net the Democrats five seats.”

GOODER AND HARDER, LOS ANGELES:

#BREAKING: Bass concedes, Raman set to become next mayor of Los Angeles https://t.co/cMeeE0RAAO

— KTLA (@KTLA) November 5, 2026

Honestly, I’m not sure if trading in the closet commie for the openly commie is a step back or merely sidewise.

GRASSROOTS: Let’s Win Our Country Back One Neighbor at a Time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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