Retired engineer. Grateful for the American experiment in self-government and rule of law. Long may it last.
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Hemp-friendly candidates win in Texas, but don’t expect to see THC products on shelves any time soon
THC-friendly lawmakers and hemp advocates hope for a legal framework that finally protects their industry from another ban.
texastribune.org/2026/11/05/…
Rubio’s political identity can be summarized as in, but not of, the Trump administration. He’s enough of a reptile to have joined a den of vipers—yet, unlike his colleagues, seems not to have sustained any hard bites.
—Nick Catoggio
The Jerk Store
How will Republicans balance ruthlessness with electability post-landslide? —. Nick Catoggio
thedispatch.com/newsletter/b…
Walter Appling retweeted
We didn’t elect radicals. We elected people who will help us. All you people did was take away things from us. Most younger people don’t remember when Texas was blue and thriving, when rural hospitals weren’t closed and you didn’t have the worst healthcare system in the country. All you did was culture war crap.
JD Vance has gone out of his way to demonstrate that he’s unbothered by presidential corruption and is one of the chief practitioners of the sort of vicious retail-politics scumbaggery that Americans have—possibly—tired of after 10 years of postliberalism.
—Nick Catoggio
Clean Hands
On J.D. Vance blaming the war—and Israel—for the GOP’s wipeout.
—Nick Catoggio
thedispatch.com/newsletter/b…
Japan announces emergency cybersecurity package following a wave of attacks
apnews.com/article/japan-gov…
I was right about the New Right
I’ve been saying for more than a decade that this experiment will end badly. I am confident that there’s more vindication to come. -- Jonah Goldberg
thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…
The new right created institutions and platforms that traffic in every kind of bilge; promoted the idea that being a bigot, bully, or conspiracy theorist is proof of your conservatism; sacralized the Nietzschean idea that politics is about power, dominance, cruelty.
J. Goldberg
When J.D. Vance pretended that socialism in America means importing foreign workers to replace real Americans and letting boys play on girls’ teams, he was trying to detoxify the actual meaning of socialism, because he is sympathetic to nationalistic socialism.
—Jonah Goldberg
Whether or not the GOP goes the way of the Whigs or simply limps along as a rump party for a generation now depends almost entirely on whether or not the Democrats blow the opportunity Trump and his enablers handed them on Tuesday.
—Jonah Goldberg
Walter Appling retweeted
Every word of this from @JonahDispatch
resonates with me. Read it all.
thedispatch.com/newsletter/g… – at Yardley, PA
Trump’s first term economic successes were the fruit of Paul Ryan and his colleagues handing him something to sign. In his second term, the Trump voluptuaries insisted that the gatekeepers and grown-ups were the problem. “Let be Trump be Trump” was the order of the day
J Goldberg
Former FBI Counterintelligence Agent Admits Stealing $2.47 Million in Crypto From Crime Victims and Nation-State Targets
gizmodo.com/fbi-agent-admits… via @Gizmodo
Democrats blast ‘dangerous’ elevation of Miller as refusal to learn from the election
Stephen Miller as Trump’s chief of staff meant two things: an elevation of the aide’s extremist views and a refusal to heed the will of the voters
thehill.com/homenews/house/6…
Susie Wiles out, Stephen Miller in, as Trump’s chief of staff
Trump announced Friday that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is leaving the White House and longtime advisor Stephen Miller will take her place. 😱
thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
Why Republicans Lost
—Jim Geraghty
nationalreview.com/the-morni…
Walter Appling retweeted
Not sure what happens to the Grand Conspiracy investigation now that Quiñones, Kurt Olsen, & Joe DiGenova have all bowed out.
Does Judge Cannon just take it over as Grand Inquisitor?
