David French

New York Times columnist, visiting professor @lipscomb, Iraq vet, married to @NancyAFrench. This is a Memphis Grizzlies fan account.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

If a MAGA voter is bewildered today, perhaps he should stop making a meme calling his opponents “fake and gay,” delete the post declaring that Indian Americans worship demons, turn off the podcast that’s shrieking at him that every person who votes Democratic is a heretic, and take a very long and thoughtful look in the mirror.

Donald Trump is to blame, but no one — absolutely no one — made you imitate him. https://t.co/p1RVXQvpzr

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

Democrat Scott Colom is projected to win the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, defeating Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Colom makes history as the first Black senator to be elected directly by Mississippi voters.

Until Colom, no Black candidate had won ANY statewide election in Mississippi since 1873.

Full Story: https://t.co/AUyhuYtSxA

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

Jensen Huang also had an affair with a Nvidia executive who reported to him.

The New York Times has five sources.

Full Story: https://t.co/i2RvAp2PKP

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

After the midterms, Ron DeSantis attacked Mitt Romney. (Yes.) He said he was sorry he had voted for Romney in 2012 and that Romney was a "total squish." My own view is the opposite. I have written a piece contrasting the two men. See what you think. https://t.co/nnCfK2RBZq

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Good job everyone

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

Five of the last six SECDEFs (six out of last eight if you include acting) have had a CIB, CAB, or CAR with combat service ranging from Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Democrats Win Southern Popular Vote in Midterms for First Time Since 1984 (Senate) and 1992 (House)

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

AWFUL. A family pleaded with ICE to deport their ill father so he could get out of detention. They even offered to pay for plane tickets. But ICE kept him jailed for two months after he accepted removal, his health deteriorating daily. He died hours after he was finally deported.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Peltola's lead is now greater than the margin of votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan — so even if you took the Trump approach and added his ballots to Sen. Sullivan's, it wouldn't change the outcome.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

For almost my entire adult life I've heard elements of the GOP base blame failure on not being tough or aggressive enough. In the first two years of the second Trump term, they got all the aggression they could ever want, and the party got crushed at a level we haven't seen in more than 50 years.

So what happens next? With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, they double down on aggression. Nothing about those picks suggests the slightest sense that the MAGA base understands or even cares about what actually happened.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.

30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

I find it amazing that we are supposed to carry on with our professional and personal lives as if the tech insiders telling us we are all going to die or be slaves "pretty soon" is not, you know, a thing that might stop us in our tracks and demand immediate, collective politics.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

@CaseyMattox_ It’s pathetic.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

If a Democratic president had approved a deal to allow a major U.S. tech company to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China in exchange for the U.S. government’s taking one-quarter of the proceeds, and that company had donated $25 million to the president’s White House ballroom vanity project, Republicans would probably start impeachment proceedings so fast you could measure it with a stopwatch.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Republicans have learned nothing.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

Jim Jordan is set to serve as House Minority Leader.

He has defeated Steve Scalise.

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

Which of the strategic objectives of Epic Fury have we accomplished?
Additional effects against the Nuke Program beyond Midnight Hammer? Nope
Assistance to the Iranian protesters? Nope
Overcoming the ratio of missiles to interceptors? Nope
Severing the links to their proxies? Nope
Preventing ability to effect the maritime domain? Nope

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Sen. Ted Cruz: Either Pete Hegseth will step down voluntarily, or Trump will fire him.

If that doesn’t happen, it is extremely likely, if not certain, that the House will impeach him because the votes are there.

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

! Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) just went off on Hegseth, left open the possibility of voting to allow an impeachment trial to proceed.

Ernst slammed the “lack of info” to Congress on the Iran war & seemed to accuse Hegseth of deceiving Trump/Congress about the war.

“I question whether the information that is coming through the secretary out of the Pentagon has been accurate, and the way he is portraying the war to the president,” Ernst said.

“If there is deception coming from our Pentagon and being transmitted to the President, I would want to know that. 
Now, will that be part of this impeachment? I don't know. But I have some serious questions.”

Ernst also said Hegseth’s continued presence atop DoD “absolutely” makes it more difficult for the Trump admin to secure additional Pentagon funding it’s been seeking from Congress.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

"Mr. Trump was briefed in October 2025 that Ms. Huang had a relationship with Mr. Huang and was presumed to be a spy, but the president chose not to do anything with that intelligence." - NY Times

Hmm, I wonder why...

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Vanceguard: "The problem is we have too many boomers in Congress and they aren't advancing our priorities! We need to hand the reins to young people!"

Actual young people: "We reject the entire Vance NatCon/New Right/Postliberal agenda."

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

"Decorated military officers with decades of experience were withheld from promotion after Pentagon staff printed out internet searches showing they had attended official events like promoting COVID-19 vaccinations or marking International Women’s Day...

Hegseth’s executive office led a planned and deliberate process that involved creating paper-only files filled with printouts from internet searches that were inaccessible to the officers under consideration. Hegseth’s office gave instructions about the new criteria over the phone instead of in writing."
https://t.co/OZ7DXH5Rd7