Funny how suddenly the red dropped out, but it's something I've seen many times. The last picture is still 6 minutes before the official sunrise time, and probably 9 minutes before the orb popped. All the excitement was early, but early isn't all that early this time of year. I was up before 2 (or 3 as it would be called if we were still doing DST). Write about whatever you want in the comments.
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Spectacular pics!!!
Althouse, are you ever surprised how a picture looks in large format, as opposed to how it looks on your phone?
SCOTUS not feeling trumps tariff debacle sent markets up today and if the(SCOTUS) CALL THIS WHAT IT IS, Markets will rocket up! Stand by as this whole deal should be fast forwarded.Find something you like and BET IT BIG!
I think the 3rd pic is the best
Back of the book section
Prop Q fails in Austin, blocking proposed property tax hike https://share.google/42XIKrx9UC67zbNyK
It’s a tossup between the 2nd and 3rd picture. I’m leaning toward the 3rd picture with the half bare branches framing it.
What narciso said.
The contrast is greater on the third
FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown ~ Fox Business
Donald Trump cancelling Thanksgiving.
Dear voters, we are currently expecting a delayed arrival of Trump’s climbdown on the shutdown, but its landing is confirmed.
Makes for a richer color palate
“ Chuck Schumer cancelling Thanksgiving.”
Fixed it for you.
Dems want to endanger public safety perhaps stress frail supply chains
I don't believe there's anything Trump can do that would fix the impasse in the Senate. Legally, ethically, morally, and constitutionally, I mean: sending the Marines to hold them all at gunpoint until they vote for the Continuing Resolution would probably work, but would not satisfy the conditions named.
I've seen on a few different comment sections that rental units are a just like public utility and should be treated and regulated like other public utilities such as electricity, gas, or water.
So let's see- a landlord could kick someone out after failing to pay their rent. Without 6 months to 2 years- or more- of litigation. Just like an electric company can cut off service for an unpaid bill. Is that what they mean? Probably not.
If someone fails to pay their electric bill, or trashes their homes electrical network and circuit breaker box- the power company suffers no harm. And isn't responsible for fixing it. OTOH- the landlord is responsible for fixing all that before renting a unit out again...
There's no comparison. And I will mention that in some areas with warlords controlling their small fiefdoms- none of the battling parties destroys cellphone towers. That irritates the populace who will turn against the group that does that. So even a cell phone tower in a disputed area stays safe. Kind of odd, isn't it? But yet, in areas with periodic power- rolling blackouts, unenergized power lines are often stripped down and sold for scrap. As are underutilized railroad rails. In Detroit- large areas of urban lighting is gone because copper wires have been pulled out of the underground conduit. Doesn't happen with rail in the US. Scrapyards, even shady ones- won't touch it. The only entities that can sell scrap rail are railroads themselves.
“ Althouse, are you ever surprised how a picture looks in large format, as opposed to how it looks on your phone?”
Not based on it being larger, but it often looks different because they phone is choosing an exposure that makes it darker or a somewhat different color than I believe. I’m seeing in person. Also in person I’m paying the most attention to framing the composition and not to the details of the color and texture, which I have no power to change.
We were told that women, especially young women, were voting for left wing psychopaths because of the abortion issue. Abortion wasn't an issue in New York City. I don’t think abortion is motivating these voters. I think it's affirmative action and a persistent fear of losing out in a meritocracy. I also think women benefit more from exploited migrants' labor and do not want to see the cheap contractors, deliverymen, maids and nannies sent home.
Newsome out, Harris out.
Mamdani/AOC. 2028
Yeah there really isnt a logical reason for voting some of these characters
Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County Ca.)
Whites, 30%
Foreign born population, 40%.
One high school in the county has 3,000 students, 100 are white. Home in 50 year old middle class neighborhood over $1,000,000.00
DINKY DAU 45 is reminding me of this character:
https://youtu.be/AOOYbNtKNpw?si=W5DfGfzKWhbbMDuu
Ok. Dry your tears and get a grip. Every four years the BigBlueNoiseMachine makes a big deal about the off year elections in VA and NJ plus the NYC mayoral race this time around. Keep in perspective that NJ, NY, and increasingly VA are all very deeply Democratic Party strongholds and have been for a long time, so it shouldn’t come as a big shock that the Democrats usually win elections there, and often bigly too. The Dems win in those above mentioned races usually. And water is wet too btw, but that doesn’t stop the corporate media machine from hyping these elections as some sort of weather vane about the future because the horserace angle gets eyeballs and clicks. So yah, but no. If these elections were in Utah and Idaho instead and Repubs won both, it would be a big yawn from the BBNM. “Of course they did. That's the demographics in Utah and Idaho. It doesn't mean shit”, the BBNM narrative would be, and so it is with today’s results in NJ, VA, and NYC for the same reason. Don't fall for this shit. Think things over for yourself and ignore the election post-mortems from National Review, Fox News, and Megan Kelley about a bigger tent or a more moderate approach and please understand that R’s aint never going to win in those places except once in Blue Moon, and when they do they get people like Chris Christie, Susan Collins or that goof from Vermont.
https://x.com/ZitoSalena/status/1985798471048179950?t=0DJsRYg-mauoKmgkXtc9yA&s=19
"Move over Chester County Pennsylvania, Fayette County is in the house thanks to a processing error in the voter information the @PAStateDept transferred to Fayette County.
I'm just wondering if there any adults in when it comes to elections in Pennsylvania?"
Obama and Clyburn sidelined Bernie in 2020 for Biden because Bernie is too radical a Socialist. Now, Obama is on board the Mamdani train, more or less. Make it make sense.
I hear in Virginia they're calling a double tap a JJ.
narciso 6:10 paying attention to what's really happening here. The question is whether there are enough grownups who can wake up and smell the coffee.
Generally, people move toward the center when they get elected so as to be able to build coalitions and be effective. But I predict that Mamdani will move neither right nor left but up toward Islamic goals like the extinction of Israel, the hijab and the caliphate.
I've seen on a few different comment sections that rental units are a just like public utility and should be treated and regulated like other public utilities such as electricity, gas, or water.
Because all of those public housing communities are so desirable and well-maintained. (s)
How many times do they have to be hit with a 2X4 before they get it?
Mollie
@MZHemingway
As bad as Jay Jones is, knowing that my neighbors genuinely support him as AG while wishing death on Republicans and their children is far worse.
@wildswan, no, and you’re not funny. Mollie Bemingway is quite right. I don’t see how one can reason with people who think political violence is quite all right.
Mollie Hemingway
"As bad as Jay Jones is, knowing that my neighbors genuinely support him as AG while wishing death on Republicans and their children is far worse."
Ok. Dry your tears and get a grip.
DeepState is right. A result like this in Virginia or New Jersey would have been par for the course in any given election year between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Honestly, when you consider how many Beltway rice-bowls have been broken by Trump, it's a miracle it wasn't worse.
New York City is more disturbing, but when you see how close Bernie Sanders came to getting nominated in 2020 it shouldn't be a surprise. The Party bigfoots stepped in to anoint Joe Biden instead, because at a national level someone like Sanders or Mamdani or AOC would be pure poison, but that doesn't really pertain in New York.
In any case, every Democrat running for dogcatcher in Iowa is going to have Mamdani hung around his neck for the next thirty years, and if the Big Apple fiasco that is now brewing is as devastating as I expect, it will lay a stench on the Democrats that will never come off.
The big lesson for the Republicans is that they have got to invest more in turnout for off-year elections. I don't know how Republicans became the party of low-propensity voters, but it appears that the party now has a mighty army of supporters who only come out in large numbers when it suits them every 4 years. Trump won because he got the guys with mullets off the sofa. That didn't happen in this rather picayune election, but the Soros/Arabella octopus is there for every single election at every level of government.
Trump’s brilliant plan to lower our costs? Slap tariffs on most of the items consumers buy every month and deport a huge slice of the workers who grow and harvest our food.We really don’t appreciate this guy enough.
Would Jay Jones vigorously prosecute a Tyler Robinson? One has to assume no.
I hope both Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito resign soon so DJT and R's can get young replacements. Don't follow the RBG example.
"How many times do they have to be hit with a 2X4 before they get it?"
The divide between large cities and smaller ones and rural areas can be solved by market forces.
Mamdani campaigned on making New York more affordable --it is one of the most expensive places to live in the country -- by proposing a rent freeze, free and fast buses, and free child care to city residents, along with a proposal to provide subsidized grocery stores. All that, of course, costs money that will have to be raised by increasing taxes and/or cutting other areas of the city budget.
Those measures, in addition to the already high cost of living, may cause businesses, and therefore jobs, to move away from the city to lower cost areas of the country -- like smaller cities or rural areas that need more jobs and economic vitality generally.
Sort of an economic osmosis.
Mamdani may be a catalyst for this process, although that may not be what he intended.
Hassayamper and Deep State are correct. Sears and the Republican AG candidate both got more voters than the R candidates in 2021. The VA electorate is grossly overrepresented by government employees. Trump is an extinction event for them.
The grownups are no longer in charge in NYC. NYC to America--"Drop Dead!"
Kak--trying to imitate Gadfly is not a good plan.
Kakistocracy said...
"FAA to cut flights.............."
Do you now what the FAAs primary job is? No? It's flight safety. That is their only job. The airlines and general aviation help wright the safety rules
A NY Times reporter had an interesting stat that showed Mandingo got almost 80 percent of the votes of those who'd lived in NYC less than 5 years. And 75 percent of those who'd lived there less than 10. In other words, immigrants legal and illegal.
She also showed that Subway commuters went for Mandingo by large margins.
Why are people amazed that Big City dwellers vote their econcomic interests? Why would any renter be against rent control. Why would any subway commuter be against free subway? Why would anyone making under 100K be against taxing the rich.
Whats really amazing is that the democrats in NYC aren't even more socialist.
Kak - very astute market analysis. Seriously. CC, JSM
I mean your 8:20 about foot voting out of NYC, not your snark about tariffs and illegals. CC, JSM
JSM--really? They don't ever see the 2X4 and they never get the message when it hits. Then they move out of the ruined cities and put the same idiocy in power in the places they flee to. Kak is in in favor of this, and thinks the spongers who move out contribute to the "economic vitality" of the places they inflict themselves upon. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Look at New Hampshire and Maine.
NJ is a Democrat state. Life Long Republican Christie Todd Whitman won 2 terms with razor-thin margins in the 90s after the D's put in an income tax.
Christie squeked by in 2009 due to Corzine raising taxes and the economic crisis. Got re-elected in 2014 after he showed he wasnt going to really change anything, just not be a Crazy big spending D.
Otherwise, the D's usually win in as a matter of fact. The R's last controlled the NJ legislature in 2001.
Last time NJ supported an R Presidental Candidate - 1988. NJ hasnt elected an R Senator since 1979.
IM wagering on DIDDY pardon right around NEW YEARS, GOTTA HAPPEN you know how this admin does it, "I dont even know the guy" but they told me he's a great guy! 14-1 That's $30.00 payoff for ever $2 bet, get to the BOOK before odds go down..
Top photo is amazing, and the second one reminds me strongly of Monet. Wow, really impressive.
Consider the possibility that 100 years from now, nobody remembers the blog, but they will be talking about these photographs.
DINKY DAU 45 said...
IM wagering on DIDDY pardon right around NEW YEARS, GOTTA HAPPEN you know how this admin does it, "I dont even know the guy" but they told me he's a great guy! 14-1 That's $30.00 payoff for ever $2 bet, get to the BOOK before odds go down..
11/5/25, 10:28 PM
LOL! Deal 'em out, deal 'em out! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! I gotta bet, gotta bet, gotta bet!....Gin!
Love it, brother! I appreciate you!
So, approximately 1.75 million Virginians voted in someone - the leader who will enforce their state's laws - who openly believes in killing his political opponents. It's right there. He meant what he said. And they support it.
With that said, you leftists will rue the day you decided violence - up to and including murder - to resolve political disputes. Because when one side choose that route, it's suicidal for the other to not accept those terms.
And you'll have no one to blame but yourselves.
“With that said, you leftists will rue the day you decided violence - up to and including murder - to resolve political disputes.“
They will never rue the day. Conservatives do not retaliate in kind and leftists know this.
Kak- on deporting people who grow our food. This aspect is bullshit. The notion that we should have lower food prices on the work of essentially indentured servants is sickening. Illegal immigrants are willing to work for what Americans consider nothing and live in abject poverty so you can get a fucking head of lettuce for less than a buck. Yes, these people would be worse off in their home countries, but by leaving their home countries they allow those countries to avoid dealing with the conditions that caused their poverty there. Better to deport them and put strain on the foreign countries to get their shit together and fix their economic and social problems.
Conservatives do not retaliate in kind and leftists know this.
Yet. There is a line out there, somewhere. I don’t know what the trigger event will be, but everyone will know when the line was crossed and what the trigger event was until it happens, but after it happens everyone will know what it was.
@RCOCEAN, what your analysis overlooks is the 2021 NJ election. Despite getting no support from the RNC — then under the dilettante leadership of Rona McDaniel, the rich but incompetent relative of Mitt Romney — Jack Ciattarelli only lost to incumbent Phil Murphy by 3.2%. As well as Ciattarelli performed with such poor support from his own party, and as badly as the people of NJ have been abused under Democrats’ governance, there were hopes that a better-funded campaign with the same candidate would have a chance.
“There is a line out there, somewhere.”
No. There is no line.
We (conservatives) need to fight back - that’s true. But we”re not going to do it with violence. Not in our nature and kind of childish and counterproductive to fantasize about it.
This was posted at Instapundit. This is the way.
https://x.com/jammles9/status/1985882997703242022?s=46
This is doable, if we’re serious.
They will never rue the day. Conservatives do not retaliate in kind and leftists know this.
You're only speaking for yourself, Eva Marie.
I'm no Internet badass, but even I know what's coming. And so do other, regular guys like me.
We don't want what's coming. But we'd be idiots to ignore it.
But we”re not going to do it with violence. Not in our nature and kind of childish and counterproductive to fantasize about it.
I'm sorry, but you're being very naive.
Sorry, nothing violent is coming - from conservatives. Waste of energy to indulge in those fantasies especially when that energy can be applied in more useful ways. We have a chance of winning. Let’s not fritter it away.
Fortunately, or un - I’m the realist in this discussion.
Boatbuilder - good point about individual people moving out of blue cities. But the big businesses are also moving. The latter actually help the local economies of the red states they move to, and they mostly employ locals who keep voting red. To the extent the businesses themselves influence their new homes, they generally also try to keep the place red and business-friendly. CC-JSM
Eva Marie: "[Charlie's (z"l) idea of aggressive R lawfare] is doable, if we’re serious."
Yes, and it is doable in the blue states, too, now that New Improved Trump is taking full control of DOJ. Even if the blue-state juries never convict, the process is the punishment. Plus, federal juries are drawn from bigger areas than state ones. In Detroit, for instance, the ED Mich jury pool reaches out to red exurb counties. So you could even get some convictions. CC, JSM
Hassayamper: "Honestly, when you consider how many Beltway rice-bowls have been broken by Trump, it's a miracle it wasn't worse."
Yes, and long-term, if Trump keeps breaking the bowls, grinding them into powder, and making the bowl-holders drink them, a lot of these people will move out of NorVa. And simultaneously, he is deporting illegals and completely changing the H1B situation. So in a few years, he might really change the voting character of the place. Wouldn't take that much to turn VA at least purple. CC, JSM
Yeah, Eva Marie, you and Althouse agree. We menfolk don’t know know nuffin’ about nuffin’.
“Yeah, Eva Marie, you and Althouse agree. We menfolk don’t know know nuffin’ about nuffin’”
So you’re saying Breitbart, Limbaugh, Kirk, Trump, Vance aren’t man enough for you?
How do you communicate with Breitbart? Seance?
👀
Trump Really Was on the Ballot ~ WSJ
'The magnitude of the GOP rout is a bad sign for holding Congress in the midterms.'
Have the Dems decided if their midterm theme music is gonna be The Internationale or the Horst Wessel song?
Looks like The Internationale is the early favorite:
‘Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party, declares it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War.’
Has an was there with AOC.
write
You have to be capable of doing violence.
“How do you communicate with Breitbart? Seance?“
That’s a brilliant response.
The REDS will have to start realizing they have to pull away from the drain(trump) and start working on subsidizing the ACA subsidies. They will get even more whomped when people start getting their bills, bad enough the delusional guy is telling them his poll numbers are highest ever, food prices are way down he wasn't on the ballot(of course he was)countries are sending in trillions(no YOU and the companies here pay .. tariff 101) I would say by next week and before Thanksgiving the REDS will CAPITULATE, THEY TOLD TRUMP FORGET nuclear option, thy ain't doing that is beaucoup Dinky Dau.
Also this fella just said this again ,President Donald Trump has revived one of the most bizarre false claims from his first presidency and his 2024 campaign: an assertion that Americans are required to show identification to buy groceries.
Trump was mocked when he made versions of this claim in 2018 and 2019 while pushing for stricter voter identification laws. But he said it again in 2023 as he ran for president, then said it once more on Wednesday morning while baselessly questioning the legitimacy of US elections in the wake of Republican defeats in various state and local elections the day prior.
“All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID,” Trump said Wednesday at a breakfast with Republican senators. This fella is either a can't help it liar, suffering from mental illness or lives in a cave. Not one person in MEDIA tells this guy he is delusional and should get ut more(in the US not hawking crypto and how to fatten his coffers..cmon man..The REDS say"oh you know what he really meant" The only person his fans have to tell you what he really meant!
---- Markets will rocket up! Find something you like and BET IT BIG!
Not a good call, Dinky Dau. Dow is down 300 points already today. Meanwhile, the unweighted SPX and unweighted QQQ have both broken down. Europe too. So there is almost certainly trouble ahead for stocks.
On that blue wave, I get the “meh” from Boatbuilder, Hassayamper, Deep State et al, but you’re cherry picking a bit.
For starters, (and some of this is copy & paste), it’s hard to ignore the school board elections in red and blue states like Pennsylvania, Washington, Kansas, Idaho, Colorado and Texas. Let’s look Bucks County, Pa., or “ground zero” for right-wing groups’ takeover of school boards in 2021.
Except for 1, Dems ousted every Republican from both of these boards, More flips in Douglas Co CO, in Houston TX, and there were wins in Albuquerque; Wichita and Nashua, N.H.
Moving on to state down ballot, Dems picked up 2 seats In Mississippi and broke the red supermajority.
In PA, they flipped four county seats on the Luzerne County Council and retook the majority. They swept all five contested county offices in Bucks County, and in the process, flipped seats for county sheriff and for district attorney. They flipped Erie County’s Executive’s Office and pushed out a Republican incumbent. Dems defeated 2 GOP incumbents by more than 20 points for seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission.
City councils, like school boards, shifted left all across red and blue states. Democrats in South Carolina flipped all three seats on the Georgetown city council. In Orlando, Florida, voters removed the one remaining Republican city council member and voted in a Democrat.
For the first time since 1999, voters in Charlotte, North Carolina elected a Democrat to a city council seat long held by a Republican.
Looks like the woke card isn’t working anymore any more people are more concerned with thugs disappearing their neighbors and $8 a pound for ground beef. And I just don’t see it getting any better.
Beaver County PA elected Democratic Lincoln Kretchmar as the new mayor, breaking the GOP's 113-year winning streak in the borough.
Re Democrat wins, when your party parades its violent side, people get intimidated. Especially when it comes to school boards and lower offices. The best candidates shy away especially if they have families. So congrats. If you vote Democrat you are either excusing violence or condoning violence. Don’t kid yourself. This is the world you created with your vote.
Eva, and the dish ran away with the spoon!
O clever.
Chester County PA also went very blue on many of the smaller local positions. By 62-38 margins, frequently. : (
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