Attribution: Lady Liberty Rides Blue Wave by Jeff Koterba
Wiki: Jeffrey Koterba, born May 6, 1961, in Omaha, Nebraska, is a prominent editorial cartoonist known for his moderate and insightful cartoons that have appeared in over 850 publications globally through Cagle Cartoons . He began drawing editorial cartoons in high school and continued at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, contributing to the college newspaper, the Gateway, and local papers like the Bellevue Leader . After college, he worked part-time for the Kansas City Star before joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, where he served as the editorial cartoonist until 2020
Nov 4, 2026 #DailyShow #Midterms #ElonMusk
Michael Kosta recaps the 2026 midterm elections after Democrats’ historic sweep: Kansas’s last Democratic senator was born the year the light bulb was invented, Elon Musk is out $500 million after blowing it on failed campaigns, and the media cannot stop coming up with dumbass “blue” puns. Plus, Troy Iwata vents to Kosta about losing out on Trump’s $5K checks.
Attribution: GOP GUERNICA – REPUBLICAN MIDTERM ELECTION LOSSES Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com
Nov 4, 2026 #Kimmel
Everyone is in a good mood today after the results of last night’s election, the right wing media scrambled last night to explain why this blue wave happened, in the face of defeat Trump has been blaming everyone other than himself like a spoiled child, he told the New York Times that he will accept the results of the election, Democrats have promised to launch multiple investigations, the White House issued a statement about our monologue last night, Trump spent the morning talking about his new ballroom, the stock market hit a three month high today after Democrats won the midterms, Elon Musk shelled out almost $500 million to support Republican candidates, James Talarico and Abdul El Sayed both won their races, Republicans talked a helluva game heading into the election, and we head out to Hollywood Blvd to see if people had plans to vote today (the day after the election).
from the Guardian Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy awards Melania Trump national honour for role in brokering Oleshky truce
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded Melania Trump a national honour for her role in brokering a partial ceasefire that allowed the evacuation of civilians from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky. “I hereby decree that the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, be awarded to Melania Trump, first lady of the United States of America,” a decree on the Ukrainian presidential website said on Wednesday. The text acknowledged her “significant personal contribution to humanitarian support for Ukraine, and for active human rights and charitable work”. Melania Trump last month announced a localised truce between Ukrainian and Russian forces to allow for residents of Oleshky – on the southern front – to leave after suffering weeks of shortages of food and medicine. She said nearly 800 people were evacuated. Ukraine this week accused Russia of taking advantage of the truce to strengthen its military position, while the Kremlin said adjusting positions during a ceasefire was “standard practice”.
Melania Trump is to host officials from Moscow and Kyiv at the White House on Thursday, ahead of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at ending the Ukraine war. Moscow’s adviser for international economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, and human rights ombudsman Yana Lantratova planned to meet Trump on Thursday, provided that “all logistical arrangements work out”, Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency said on Wednesday, citing a Kremlin spokesperson. Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, said he would also be meeting Trump in Washington.
Did Republicans just lose another California?
1. DeSantis warns of political extinction.
2. Texas puts 40 electoral votes in play.
3. The GOP hasn’t won the White House without Texas since 1924.
FIRST CUP: The dinosaurs had a bad day, too. ☄️
GOP Statehouse Wipeout ➡️ Nelson reads the obituary for MAGA statehouses. From Arizona to Texas, Republicans got utterly routed.
🍽️ From the Digital Diner menu
THE GOP’S BRUTAL MIDTERM MATH: 5 NUMBERS
Five numbers capture the scale of the Republican defeat: a historic Senate reversal, a breakthrough in Kansas, South Carolina (and possibly Mississippi), and a potentially historic nationwide shift away from the GOP.
7 — Republican Senate seats flipped
Democrats picked up seven Republican-held seats. Ballotpedia says that puts the election among the top 20% of years for Senate seat swings against a president’s party.
94 — Years since Kansas last elected a Democratic senator
Adam Hamilton broke a Republican streak dating to 1932.
99% — Counties where Republicans lost ground
In Reuters’ early analysis of roughly 2,200 counties where most votes had been counted by Wednesday morning, Republicans lost ground compared with Donald Trump’s 2024 vote share.
14 percentage points — The Republican decline in majority-Hispanic counties
Across 64 majority-Hispanic counties with Senate races, the Republican share of the vote was 14 points below Trump’s 2024 share.
1954 — The last time Senate control flipped back after one election
Republicans won the Senate in 2024, then lost their majority in 2026. The last time a party won Senate control in one election and lost it in the next was 1954.
Sources:
— Human directed and edited. Machine Drafted (ChatGPT)
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
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Lawrence O’Donnell just said that today will see J.D.Vance taking a page out of the history of Hubert Horacio Humphrey and step up his trying to further himself from Donald Drumph. .
HHH, spending his Vice Presidential term as an unmitigated salesman for aggression against the Vietnamese populace, spent the time from the Spring of 1968 until November 1968 trying to convince us that he, Hubert Humphrey, was the man to succeed Lyndon Baines Johnson , focusing on a quick end to the conflict overseas and more butter instead of guns and butter.
And thus , this darling of our organized labor movement, could not detach himself from LBJ far enough, and so… we got Richard Milhous Nixon.
He makes a good point, and the lesson is Humphrey pivoted too late, after the disastrous Chicago convention.
today’s meme….
We need all of the newly elected Dems in there now. Why do we have these dangerously long lame duck sessions? Malingering Republicans will do nothing except get up to no good during their waning days.
Ron DeSantis just called the GOP’s 2026 losses in majority-Hispanic Texas counties an “extinction-level” event. But the warning signs have been flashing for thirty-two years.
To understand why the Republican playbook on immigration just broke their grip on the Lone Star State, you have to look at what Pete Wilson’s Prop 187 did to California in 1994.
The political bill just came due. Read the full breakdown in my latest post:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-district-26-wrong-vote-total-nicole-locklin/
Florida District 26 candidate says questions remain after “data entry error” caused incorrect vote total to appear
“There is a 3,000 number vote that was reported (Tuesday night) at around 11:16 p.m. that were removed, and we don’t have an explanation as to what that was,” Locklin said. “And we were also told there’s 1,800 outstanding votes in Broward County and that all the precincts weren’t 100 percent reported.”
CBS News Miami spoke with Scott, and he said he’s being transparent with the tabulation.
“So, I welcome the scrutiny,” he said. “I think we did everything correctly. And I’m prepared to present the evidence.”
After the meeting, Locklin said they’re still trying to figure out what happened.
“We need to talk to Miami-Dade,” she said.
Wouldn’t it be AMAZING if Jolly and Nixon won after all? (Narrator: “…she mused, realizing that 3,000 or 1,800 votes likely wouldn’t have made a difference.”) (“But it could be just the tip of a larger iceberg of error,” Claire retorted.)
Calling Congress about Hakeem & Schumer today.
And the change.org petition: House Democrats: CHOOSE A NEW SPEAKER
United States
Started September 3, 2026
483,579 signatures
But the change petition doesn’t say who they want for a replacement
Just about anyone would be an improvement. Except Fetterman. Not Fetterman.
What lies ahead barring unforeseen events:
Donald Trump has 807 days left in office.
It feels so good to make happy calls, even though I’m asking them to oppose the leadership of Jeffries and Schumer.
Abdul on CNN now, just endorsed Chris Van Hollen to replace Schumer — but he isn’t running???
Yes, I’m aware of that. That’s how much almost half of a million folks, so far, hate Jeffries.
Folks are hoping for AOC or Ro Khanna, and that’s who I’m calling for SOTH.
Calling for Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, or in a perfect world Bernie to be Senate Majority Leader.
Check under the bus…
I think Abdul is playing the anti-schumer wing by endorsing someone who isn’t running, and not ruling out voting for Schumer when nobody else runs
So when Joe Biden won, I had to listen to Battle of Yorktown from Hamilton. Now Tuesday tops that!
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did RFJkr hire him or something?
Russell Brand Is Found Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault
The judge in London said the popular conspiratorial YouTuber and former movie star would be sentenced to “significant custodial time.”
going to court dressed like a rapist was probably unwise
he appeared at a “maha event” with rfk jr
i think a “maha event” is a place you go to get medical advice from people with no background in medicine