OPEN THREAD: Party on.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Trump declares ‘American space superiority for all eternity’: “The nation that leads in space will shape the future of humanity.”

He’s right.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Study of Nearly 27,000 Men Is The Largest Yet on Tight Underwear And Sperm Quality.

VITAMIN B5: Common Nutritional Supplement Shows Surprising Promise Against Psoriasis. “Scientists found that pantethine, a derivative of vitamin B5 commonly used to lower cholesterol, can interfere with metabolic processes that drive inflammation. The findings were supported by experiments in mice and a small clinical trial involving people with psoriasis.” Hope this pans out.

BY DESIGN: How the Affordable Care Act Made Healthcare Unaffordable.

I WOULD LOVE TO OWN A V-16, AT LEAST UNTIL TUNEUP TIME: This V-16 Resurrects a Forgotten Engine Architecture for a Custom Build.

YES: After the GOP Wipeout, are We About to See a New 2020-Style Gun-Buying Surge.

SO MUCH DATA-CENTER PROPAGANDA: Do Data Centers Cause Heat Islands? A New Study Says No.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you sleep with socks on?

GOING VEGAN IS BAD FOR YOU IN GENERAL, IN MY OPINION: Dropping dairy milk to go vegan is bad for you, study warns.

IBUPROFEN DOWNSIDES: Sports Medicine Doctor Warns Making a Daily Habit of This Common Pill Can Cut Muscle Growth in Half. “The soreness you’re trying to reduce with ibuprofen runs on the same inflammatory signaling your muscles use to rebuild, so the pill meant to speed up recovery may actually end up working against it.”

TOO MANY LEFTISTS LIVE LIVES OF IMPUNITY: UMich ‘should immediately suspend this student’: Prominent law professor weighs in on viral assault.

THINK OF IT AS A PARTISAN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: AAUP backs only Democrats in historic midterm endorsements.

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

A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF JOHN THUNE:

Trump seems very chill about the midterm losses because he realizes there won't be much difference between Republicans or Democrats being in control of the Senate.

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 4, 2026

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🚨 THIS: President Trump just shared Joel Pollak's take on last night, and it is the only one worth reading.

"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… pic.twitter.com/7KWv307TFN

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

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

Both.

FLASHBACK: Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll.

GIVING A CLUE AS TO WHERE THE $54 MILLION WENT: Express Service: California AG Mysteriously Reinstates Deadbeat Charity Controlled by Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin, Despite Missing $54 Million.

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

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

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

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

HAHA:

The Bundeswehr in Poland?

If I were commanding so much as a platoon of the Polish Army, I’d make it my business to put as many German “soldiers” upside down in garbage cans. Give them swirlies.* Pull their flecktarn jackets over their heads, and boot their heinies in the… https://t.co/t5hG0q1WOa

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 5, 2026

They’re lucky if it’s not a “dirty swirly.”

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing satellite on 99th mission to date (video). Rocket Lab is an exceptional company, and it’s only because it’s overshadowed by SpaceX that more people haven’t noticed that.