Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“The election was like watching a professional football team beat the hell out of a pee-wee team, then throw a parade for itself like they’d just won the Super Bowl. The results were not really in doubt – there were chances and hope, but hope isn’t a strategy and does not impact reality all that much. Democrats won because these were elections in Democratic states and cities; it’s really that simple. But a deeper takeaway exists beyond the obvious results: a lot of Democrats absolutely freaking hate you and are happy to see you die. That might be a little hyperbole, but not much.” (11/06/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/11/06/the-constitution-is-a-suicide-pact-after-all-n2666032

Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander

“Peter Thiel recently gave a lecture on the End Times, described as ‘portraying the Antichrist as a technocratic leader exploiting fears of catastrophe to impose global control.’ Thiel suggested that maybe the Antichrist would use worries about global warming, or inequality, or AI safety, to frighten people into accepting some kind of evil surveillance state. His moral was that we need to stop living in fear of people’s scare stories. But isn’t the idea that if we try to regulate things, it will summon the literal Antichrist and plunge the world into eternal darkness, kind of a scare story? Isn’t Thiel using this scare story to frighten people into accepting the, uh, evil surveillance state he’s enabling?” (11/06/25)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-bloomers-paradox

Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert

“Food stamp failures have mobilized thousands of individuals and businesses to provide meals for the hungry. Why are we tasking the feds with this anyway?” (11/06/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/grassroots-safety-net-snap-gap-inspires-americans-to-help-out/

Source: The Atlantic
by Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, Michael Scherer, & Nancy A Youssef

“With a U.S. armada floating off Venezuela’s shores, Maduro now faces the choice of whether to stay and suffer the potential consequences or to flee. And the United States faces the prospect that Trump, who has criticized America’s past ‘forever wars’ and spent much of this year focused on ending major foreign conflicts, might be about to start one in his own backyard. Since his first term as president, Trump has considered Venezuela a problem: a close ally of Communist Cuba run by a leftist demagogue with support from Russia and China in a hemisphere dominated by the United States.” (11/06/25)

https://archive.is/uUMfx

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. In an article titled ‘Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say,’ Reuters reports that ‘Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire’ due to Israeli restrictions preventing aid trucks from getting to their destinations, and that according to an OSHA report last week ‘a tenth of children screened in Gaza were still acutely malnourished.’ A report from the UK’s Channel 4 News shows warehouses full of food that aid groups say isn’t being allowed into Gaza nearly as rapidly as needed. … Haaretz reports that ‘Israel has implemented a new procedure requiring all humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank to reapply for official approval, with many denied, despite the relative calm in Gaza following the cease-fire.'” (11/06/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/06/israel-is-still-starving-gaza-and-other-notes/