"Impeaching Trump is a bad idea. I want to be clear that we believe that Trump commits five impeachable offenses before breakfast every morning."

"So this is not a question of his culpability. This is a question of political reality, and the reality is there’s literally zero chance that he will be removed from office unless he does something even more egregious. Impeaching him for a third time without succeeding in removal isn’t a good idea and it would send voters a message that we’re not listening. Voters are saying, yes we are concerned about corruption and of course Congress should do oversight, but mostly what they’re saying is, 'help me in my life right now because I am struggling.'"

Said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, quoted in "Will Trump be impeached? What happens now Democrats have won the midterms/Figures in the party that has won back control of Congress are wary of a third failure to remove the president and may target Pete Hegseth instead" (London Times).

Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries has said: "One of the first things we’re going to do in the majority, we’re going to run Pete Hegseth out of town."

"Many voters told pollsters and interviewers that they felt hoodwinked by Mr. Trump, believing that he was going to bring down prices and not start new wars."

"They expected him to close the border, but bristled at what they saw as heavy-handed arrests of people living in the country for years. They rebelled against the tariffs that increased costs for consumers. The way Mr. Trump spent his last day before the election proved to be a metaphor for how out of sync his political instincts were with the season. Instead of emphasizing plans to address the cost of living worries weighing on many voters, he delivered his final pre-election address at the Reflecting Pool, talking about algae and pipes."

Writes Peter Baker, in "Angry Voters Usher in Beginning of the End to the Trump Era/The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice" (NYT).

"I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Wrote Trump, on Truth Social, 7 hours ago.

6 hours ago, he wrote: "I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost! President DONALD J. TRUMP."

It's pretty obvious how this punditry will go. 3 minutes before that post, he'd opined on Greg Abbott: "If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost. He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty! President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Sunrise with rabbit.

The rabbit surprised me. Not at the time, but just now.

I wonder if the election results will be surprising. Settle in. Results should begin to come in soon. Feel free to hang out here for election night conversation. Or talk about anything else if you want.

"As in previous years, Republicans seem to be enjoying strong Election Day advantages in states that report live turnout by party registration."

"As of Tuesday afternoon, Republicans in Florida were enjoying a wider advantage than two years ago, voting on Election Day by a nearly two-to-one margin. Republicans were also leading registered Democrats by 12 percentage points in Nevada, a wider margin than their Election Day advantage in 2024. In both of those states, registered Republicans made up a smaller share of the advance votes this year than they did in 2024 — and a wide majority of votes are cast ahead of Election Day."

I'm reading "Election Day Turnout Is High Across Battleground States/A midterm campaign marked by high engagement showed no signs of slowing on Election Day, though it was unclear whether either party had an advantage" (NYT).

We voted.

 How about you?

"It sounds like the plane iced when they flew through the cell. They thought at first it was light to moderate icing. But then it sounds like it got really severe."

"The plane can become almost uncontrollable.... They couldn’t recover from it, and they crashed.... This, to me, is just a textbook example of exactly what we’re taught when we’re pilots, and that is, don’t fly through thunderstorms, because you just don’t know their severity."

Said Daniel Bubb, a former pilot who now teaches at the University of Nevada, quoted in "What Caused a Jet to Dive Nose First Into the Ground? Ice, experts said, can change the shape of a plane’s wing, disrupting its aerodynamics" (NYT).

"'When you’re in a glass house, your whole life changes,' Egan says. 'You live with the light.'"

"After 21 years of frantic days and late nights in Manhattan, she began rising with the sun and going to sleep at dusk. 'It informed everything about how I worked because it slowed me down.' Inhabiting the building through different seasons helped her understand the way it functioned: how the wide, floor-to-ceiling glass panes encouraged you to observe the birds in the old trees; how the kitchen’s spot in the center of the living space created implied corridors that let people and air circulate. She began talking with her frequent collaborator the architect Carl Muehleisen about converting the home into a more contemporary, year-round dwelling, adding a work space and rooms for visiting friends — all while retaining its rigor and economy...."

From "Living in a Glass House Changed Her Life/After the interior designer Carol Egan took over a Modernist home on Long Island, she discovered that it offered bountiful light and gave her a new affinity for the passing of the seasons" (NYT)(like all NYT links, it's a gift link, and this one is especially worth it for the photographs).

Faking?

Alaskan Voter realizes he voted for the wrong Dan Sullivan on live TV https://t.co/GLyePrmc1T

— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) November 3, 2026

"What was the educational benefit of showing her first-grader a theoretical image of a conventionally attractive 25-year-old woman?"

"And what impact might that have on her child’s developing imagination? Anderson was particularly troubled by the way the AI-generated image had seemingly eclipsed her daughter’s own ideas of what her adult life might look like; Harper was thrilled by the appearance of the pictured woman. 'That was the most heartbreaking part of it for me,' Anderson said. 'She said, "Maybe when I’m older I will look this beautiful," and I’m like — 'Oh my God, she’s so proud of how beautiful the picture of the person is.' At that point, it wasn’t about being a nurse or imagining herself in this empowered role, as a person in the world. It was about what she looks like at 25...."

From "A 6-year-old imagined her future self. Then her school gave her an AI version. A South Carolina school used AI to create an image of a 6-year-old as a 25-year-old nurse. Her mother had questions" (WaPo)(gift link).

Here's the mother's Instagram post showing the child's illustration of herself in the future as a nurse and the photographic AI image that bothered the mother so much. By the way, the child loved it.

"The comedian’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, argued that that despite what he called mischaracterizations of his client in the media, [Russell] Brand is not a psychopath..."

"... and only a psychopath could have committed the behavior he is being accused of. 'You would have to be a psychopath to be raping someone and asking them if they were enjoying it at the same time,' Winter said, referring to the first of Brand’s accusers.... He then noted that Brand 'left his actual email address — rapists do not leave their address. He left photos she’d taken of him, rapists do not leave their photographs; and he kissed her good-bye, or tried to, when he left.'"

From "Russell Brand’s Defense Comes to a Close in His U.K. Rape Trial" (New York Magazine).

"Though both are polyamorous, they are not currently dating others.... 'We’re building the foundation of our marriage'..."

"... Carr said. 'And I think in order to be poly, you need to have a really, really good foundation.'"

I'm reading a "Mini-Vows" column in the NYT: "She Gave Dates 30 Minutes. This One Clicked in the 27th/Erin Lee Carr, the daughter of the former Times reporter David Carr, 'can’t do small talk' — and didn’t on her first date with Michelle Bruton."

The article opens like this:

Erin Lee Carr came across a striking photo on Hinge in August 2023 that she could not scroll past. It was of Michelle Toni Bruton, who’d had top surgery in 2018, shirtless on a horse.

“I’m going to kiss this person,” Carr told her friends.

Here's a Vulture article about Carr from 2 years ago, "Erin Lee Carr’s Criminal Mind."

"Virtually no schools offer formal training programs for legal engineers, though some have added classes."

"Many legal engineers are former practicing lawyers who taught themselves A.I. skills or learned on the job. Some have backgrounds in legal operations, paralegal work or consulting. Fewer are former software engineers who then went to law school — 'the unicorn,' one hiring manager said.... 'It’s not so much going from actively practicing law to not,' she said. 'I think it’s more embracing this generational shift in the legal industry.'... 'You don’t necessarily need a giant pyramid of lawyers anymore... People who have this kind of skill set don’t have to have a J.D., and they don’t have to be software engineers, but there’s business process re-engineering, or this M.B.A. type skill, that I think is really necessary.'"

From "The New Hot Job in Law Doesn’t Require a J.D./Big law firms, legal tech vendors, and in-house legal departments at companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are all hiring legal engineers, a new position for lawyers with A.I. skills" (NYT).

"... rhabdomyolysis, a rare muscle condition that can be brought on by exertion in which the muscles break down and can poison the body."

"'It’s unfathomable,' [her father] said. 'Perfect health, perfect shape, 24 years old.'"

From "Runner, 24, Dies During Her First Marathon/Rachel Apa collapsed in Central Park. The cause was rhabdomyolysis, a rare muscle condition that can be brought on by exertion, her father said" (NYT).

"Rachel, a product manager for an electrical component company who had just started an M.B.A. program at Charleston Southern University, was running to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease, which had killed her grandfather. 'My grandfather was one of my role models growing up,' she wrote on LinkedIn. 'He taught me to stay active, push my limits, and embrace challenges.'"

Sunrise.

Those 3 pictures were taken at the same time and place. The trees are nearly entirely bare in the third picture because they're in a much more exposed position. 

Here's one more photograph, about a mile away, taken at 3 in the afternoon, in the rain.

"But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award?"

"It sounds like you're upset with me, too, Anderson." Indeed, it did. But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award? If so, she was badly mistaken.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 2, 2026