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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WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
Guy who broke the law to come to America now wants to use the law to punish his political enemies. Sounds about right. https://t.co/aIBLG8VQNj
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 4, 2026
And from the replies: “So it wasn’t lower gas and groceries huh?”
It never was.
EVERYTHING GETS HACKED: Binance says hackers used fake job interviews to pull off a $6 billion crypto heist.
According to Binance, the heist operation began in June when an engineer on its wallet infrastructure team downloaded a tampered version of an AI coding tool.
The company said its security team detected the issue, replaced the device, and changed all related credentials, but the employee’s role and those of his colleagues were exposed to hackers.
In September, one of Binance’s software engineers was contacted through what the company said was a “legitimate job-hunting platform by an individual posing as a Project Director.”
That employee had a profile on the platform that referenced his experience at Binance, the crypto exchange said.
“The purported Project Director arranged a first-round interview with a HR representative, followed by a second-round interview with an individual claiming to be the CEO of a fictitious company,” Binance said.
The Binance engineer completed a video interview with the fake HR rep, who shared a social media account with the employee filled with personal photos and videos “in order to build trust,” the company said.
During the second interview, which was conducted in a “popular social chat app,” Binance said the engineer was instructed to download an “assignment” that contained a “malicious code repository onto his work computer.”
None of this inspires much confidence in Binance.
FLASHBACK: The Coming Insurrection.
FASCISM, UNMASKED: “Saving Democracy” By Prosecuting Political Adversaries: A Roundup.
Susan Rice and others have been telegraphing that the Democrats have an agenda not just to “hold accountable” Trump and his “minions,” but to punish any business that cooperated with Trump on anything, even making a donation to the ballroom.
Even as the votes were being counted, prominent Democrats were going down the list of enemies they want to destroy, and that list begins with Elon Musk, but is as long as Michael Jordan’s arm. And the main criteria will be: 1) did you cooperate with Trump in any way? And 2) Will your pain and destruction serve as an object lesson to others?
That seems rather pointless with only five years left on Planet Earth, but like the cast in On The Beach, I suppose that’s one way to fritter away the dwindling time that’s remaining:
Related: Curiously, with only a few years left here, the left are determined to eliminate any chance of escape:
THE POSTMORTEMS WILL NECESSARILY BE BRUTAL…:
Lots of Republican finger-pointing right now. I am not interested in circular firing squads, and would encourage my fellow conservatives to avoid participating in destructive blame games. We have actual enemies, and must rally to oppose them.
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 4, 2026
…but let’s get those over with quickly and refocus on what’s important.
2026, MAN: It’s Almost Like American Gun Owners Knew What Was Coming. “The polls and the prediction markets in advance of the midterms were, for once, right. Beyond that, for those paying attention, the atmosphere during the run-up to Tuesday’s elections felt…ominous. Maybe that’s the reason that gun sales in October spiked the way they did.”
ROGER SIMON: Welcome to Europe!
His biggest mistake was not the Iran war. It was not finishing the job when he could, after the first forty days. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has problems of his own, was right.
But that’s the past, and there’s no way of knowing if I’m right.
For now—welcome to Europe, and not the nostalgic one from our guidebooks, the Europe we see before us today, with riots engulfing cities across the continent from France to Albania, of all places.
Is that merely a prediction? Sure. But one anchored in reality. The European Union tried to shape a “just” society from above, only to be confronted with violence in its streets. What do you think will happen when the Democrats, with near-identical policies, start to enact theirs?
Read the whole thing.
IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY:
Most of the takes today are wrong and you can ignore. What to know:
1. Reagan lost both houses and 8 Senate seats in 1986.
2. Bush did the Iraq surge *after* losing 2006 midterms.
3. Oversight won't be pretty but accountability is useful.
4. Have a good day. It's a great country.— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) November 4, 2026
Then again, the Dems seem less interested in accountability than in revenge.
SPACE: The two Escapade Mars orbiters are about to head to Mars, using a previously untried flight path.
On November 7, 2026 the two Escapade Mars orbiters that have been loitering in around Lagrange point 2 about a million miles from Earth since their launch in November 2025, will do the engine burn that will send them to Mars, but will follow a flight path never before used.
The graphic to the right, annotated to post here, shows the flight path the two orbiters have taken since launch. By flying out away from Earth and then coming back close, they multiply the effectiveness of that engine burn, allowing these relatively small and lightweight spacecraft to reach Mars.
Though NASA touts this mission as its own, all it really has done is pay for it. The spacecraft were built by Rocket Lab, they were launched by Blue Origin on New Glenn, and the mission is being operated by the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (UC-Berkeley), a perfect example of capitalism in space.
I love capitalism in space! More of it here on Earth wouldn’t hurt, though.
REQUIRED READING FROM SALENA ZITO:
PITTSBURGH-In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey's Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the… pic.twitter.com/yMphHdwVjZ
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 17, 2026
“When the House swings hard, it’s worth asking what the country is going through; the first place to look is what the Gilded Age voters were telling us then.”
Read the whole thing on Salena’s Substack.
THIS WILL FREE UP ISRAEL FROM AMERICAN BULLYING THE NEXT TIME WE’RE STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT ANOTHER OBAMA OR BIDEN: Trump Says U.S. Will End $4 Billion in Direct Military Aid to Israel in Favor of a New Agreement. “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken in recent months about moving away from direct U.S. military aid. Democrats’ abandonment of a powerful and loyal ally made congressional authorization of any additional aid packages problematic.”
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THE NEXT TWO-TO-SIX YEARS WILL BE THE DEMS TRYING TO UNDO THIS:
Trump was elected to do politically difficult but necessary things. Securing the border is ugly. Fighting Iran is costly. Taking on special interests upsets donors. Backing AI scares people. Tonight, Republicans paid the costs. The benefits will be with us for many generations.
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) November 4, 2026
MICHAEL GOODWIN: How Trump reacts to this shellacking will determine his legacy.
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH UTAH? ‘Republicans should be shot’: Trans student tackles College Republican at University of Utah.
HE MIGHT HAVE TO WEAR THAT THING DOWN TO A NUB:
Trump’s veto pen is now the only thing that stands between us and the complete Californication of America.
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 4, 2026
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