The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 11/06/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Michael Barone On The Midterm Results.” (11/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/michael-barone-on-the-midterm-results
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Trump must end the war today and fire all top officials connected to it
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Joe Kent
“For the last eight months, the Iran war has been a topic of fierce debate: is the war in our national interest? Was Iran an imminent threat? Should we stay the course or escalate? … The American people settled the debate. It’s time to end the war in Iran. This is irrefutable, as Vice President Vance has admitted. Over 70% of voters blamed the Iran war and our off balanced relationship with Israel for the out of control inflation that affects their daily lives and have zero tolerance for more wars of choice. With this clear message from the American people, Trump must immediately end the war – today.” (11/06/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ending-war-elections/
DOJ clears Fox’s $22 billion Roku acquisition after antitrust investigation
Source: United Press International
“The Justice Department closed its antitrust investigation into Fox Corp.’s $22 billion acquisition of streaming platform Roku after the media company agreed to measures aimed at protecting competing streaming services, officials said Friday. The decision allowed Fox to complete its acquisition of Roku, combining its television, news and sports operations with a streaming platform reaching more than 100 million households worldwide. Federal regulators had investigated whether the merger would reduce competition or allow Fox to favor its own programming over rival content on Roku devices. DOJ officials said its investigation found that competition from other streaming platforms would likely prevent the combined company from harming consumers.” (11/07/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/11/07/fox-roku-acquisition-DOJ/6881794094157/
Rising, 11/06/26
Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger gives her lens on Jon Stewart suggesting that Sen. Chuck Schumer should not be the Senate majority leader now that Democrats have control of the Senate.” (11/06/26)
After the Midterms, It’s Ideological Trigonometry for the Democrats
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“The Democrats elected in 1974 were elected to punish Republicans for the crimes of Richard Nixon. But some of them thought that the post-Watergate world was a wide-open ideological field in which they had decades to frolic. Six years later, Ronald Reagan won the presidency, and four years after that, he was reelected in a 49-state landslide (recount Minnesota!) with nearly 60 percent of the total vote nationwide. The lesson for the take-out-the-trash Democrats of 2026: A political moment is not the same thing as a political trend.” (11/06/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/midterms-democrats-idological-trigonometry/
Checks & Balances, 11/06/26
Source: Checks & Balances
“He Left Trump’s FBI. Now He’s Speaking Out.” (11/06/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/he-left-the-trumps-fbi-now-hes-speaking
US Democrats, please take note: peace is good politics
Source: Asia Times
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should take the anti-war message of the election to heart, because they suffered the same verdict two years ago, when voters rejected the Biden administration’s wars in Ukraine and Gaza.” (11/06/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/11/us-democrats-please-take-note-peace-is-good-politics/
Kenya: Cult leader sentenced to 200 years in prison over the deaths of 190 children
Source: CNN
“A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen others at the Mombasa High Court. Mackenzie preached that the world would end in August 2023 and that followers needed to fast in order to reach heaven. According to a Kenyan Senate report into the deaths, his teachings were based on ‘doomsday or end-times’ beliefs. Children were scheduled to die first, followed by young people and women. Men were expected to stay alive long enough to bury the bodies before dying.” (11/06/26)
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/06/africa/kenyan-cult-leader-sentenced-intl
The Political Orphanage, 11/06/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“How to Talk to Your Neoliberal Shill.” (11/06/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/how-to-talk-to-your-neoliberal-shill
Resign, Mr President
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“You have hurt your allies more than your foes. You’ve discredited the religious right more thoroughly than Jimmy Swaggart ever could. You gave the neocons the kiss of death, destroyed the Israel alliance, while presiding over a wave of foul antisemitism — right and left. You made fools of those earnestly trying to build a new right-of-center coalition. The National Conservatives and the post-liberals and the Claremonsters and the AIPAC loonies all tried to find some string of policy coherence, and today? Well, they all look like idiots, and some of them are figuring that out. There is no coherent thread that connects the past ten years except your ego, stupidity, and cruelty. And deep down, you know it.” (11/06/26)