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A glitzy Vogue cover featuring former President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has caused an uproar online. The only problem? It's not real. Self-proclaimed comedian Brian Marquis posted the fake magazine cover, which was seemingly made with AI, to Instagram on Tuesday. It went viral almost immediately, as thousands of people across the globe believed that the faux photo shoot was legit. The phony cover showed Mamdani standing in a pair of jeans, a black V-neck sweater and a long brown coat. Obama posed next to him in...

So I guess the first thing the liberals will do in impeach Trump right? Next since the have both House and Senate they'll pass legislation/bills to open up shell companies to funnel funds to themselves too? El-Sayed sure is acting like a muslim fool on stage bragging on how JD will HAVE to swear him in. The whole Ilhan Omar investigation will probably get axed too. What else?

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for Los Angeles, they elected a dues-paying Democratic Socialist (Communist) mayor. Socialist candidate Nithya Raman ousted Karen Bass and won the Los Angeles mayoral race. Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman increased her lead over Karen Bass earlier Wednesday. Raman opened up a two-point lead over incumbent Bass after a Wednesday morning drop. "Raman had 377,458 votes to Bass’ 360,864, the Associated Press reported, a margin of 16,594 votes. Bass had a narrow advantage in the early returns Tuesday evening, but that evaporated overnight," KTLA reported. The Decision Desk called it for...

Post election here at Free Republic is my favorite time of the year.

President Trump said Wednesday he is not considering replacing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but predicted the Pentagon chief would be “very popular” if he filled Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) seat. “No, I think he’s doing a very good job,” the president said when asked whether he is considering replacing Hegseth following the Republican Party’s poor showing during Tuesday’s midterms, where Democrats took the House, the Senate and multiple governors’ mansions. CBS News reported Wednesday that Trump has been asking advisers and allies whether Hegseth should stay in the post following the midterms. Hegseth, a former Army National Guard major, is...

A Bronze Age man buried in a monumental tomb near the Black Sea may have died from complications of a urinary tract infection (UTI) more than five millennia ago, according to a new study. Archaeologists identified a grape-size object consistent with a kidney or bladder stone in the man's burial. "He lived with a chronic urogenital infection," study lead author Natalia Berezina, an anthropologist at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, told Live Science in an email. "It was not a brief episode," she said. "His last years were probably marked by considerable and more or less constant pain." Berezina...

Hi folks. I'm Anti-Opusing, that is to say, I departed FR for a while, and this marks my return. I'm not a big believer in Opusing. I consider it a demonstration of outsized ego. Opuses are routinely mocked, and they should be. So instead of Opusing, I just quietly stopped posting (while contacting everyone on my ping lists so I could stay in touch). Frankly, Anti-Opusing might show outsized ego, too. I mean, who the heck am I? The forum did just fine without me. And another frank admission: I actually enjoyed my time away from the forum. I've been...

Vice President JD Vance offered a postmortem on Wednesday morning explicitly blaming President Donald Trump’s war in Iran for the GOP’s generational wipeout in the midterm elections, losing races from Texas to Kansas in deep red states. Vance, who is widely seen as Trump’s heir apparent, saw his stock drop in prediction markets as Trump administration outsider Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) numbers rose following the disastrous election results. As Vance works to distance himself from the war in Iran, he notably cited Trump himself, writing, “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on a staff call Wednesday that he will not run for minority leader, according to two GOP staffers, heading off what will likely be a bitter fight over the party’s future in the next Congress as Republicans reel from a seismic election defeat. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are both expected to launch bids for minority leader, setting up a potentially contentious contest as Republicans grapple with their diminished standing. Johnson has had a rocky tenure as Speaker, often marked by internal GOP fighting, a razor-thin...

Initial thoughts of the election - winners and losers

Here are some:

It is shocking that stock market futures are booming,,,up over 1,000 points! Who would ever dreamed that? Unbelievable.

Longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins was unseated by Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine's Senate race on Tuesday evening. RINO Susan Collins served five consecutive terms as a Maine Senator. Troy Jackson, the Democrat who married his cousin, booted Susan Collins. BREAKING: The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrat Troy Jackson will defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine. The state has backed Democrats in every presidential election since 1992, but voters also elected Republican Susan Collins to five consecutive Senate terms. That record ends tonight. — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2026 Democrats flipped the US Senate...

Keisha Lance Bottoms has been projected as the winner against Republican Rick Jackson in the Georgia gubernatorial election. Jackson, a billionaire health care executive, previously won in a close primary race against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones. Trump congratulated Jackson for running a "great TRUMP Campaign," calling him "very smart." Trump added, "He won against a great guy, Burt Jones, who has a fantastic future!!!" Rick Jackson ran a great TRUMP Campaign. Very smart! Was with me on Saturday Night making a pitch. Amazing!!! He won against a great guy, Burt Jones, who has a fantastic future!!! President DJT Lance...

The Democrats are projected to flip the US House of Representatives after four years of Republican leadership. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will likely become Speaker of the House. Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters will become the next Chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee. Republicans have had control of the House since 2022. The Hill reported: John Solomon and Steve Bannon weighed in on this developing story. WATCH: Democrats on Tuesday seized control of the U.S. House, flipping the chamber after four years in the minority wilderness to usher in a new era of divided government, Decision Desk HQ projects. The...

Far-left Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has defeated GOP candidate Ken Paxton. President Trump endorsed Ken Paxton earlier this year. Decision Desk HQ projects James Talarico wins the TX US Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 10:14 PM EST Follow live results here: https://t.co/O6f6RF1XKc https://t.co/lxmiHe8EJH — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 4, 2026

Election Day is already off to a disastrous start in Kansas, where a polling location in Leavenworth County ran out of ballots Tuesday morning, leaving frustrated voters waiting more than an hour and reportedly forcing some to leave without casting their votes. The stunning election administration failure unfolded at the Linwood Community Building in downtown Linwood, where voters arrived Tuesday morning expecting to participate in the crucial 2026 midterm elections. Instead, they discovered that county election officials had failed to provide enough ballots for their precinct. According to KCTV5's Election Day report, the polling location was short of ballots for...

---SNIP-- The leaflet said: “No business for Zionists! These Zionist establishments must go! Not in our city!”. The rally is planned for Saturday, the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that took place between November 9 and 10, 1938. On that night, mobs destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues in Germany and Austria, while thousands of Jews were beaten, assaulted and sent to concentration camps.

President Trump delivered a closing message from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the midterm election, highlighting the administration's renovation of the Reflecting Pool and outlining additional projects he plans to pursue with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. He also addressed public safety and urged voters to support Republican candidates in Tuesday's election.

Texas voter: “I’m a Republican. I’m an old school Reagan Republican, and I believe personal integrity means things. And so I support people that have good personal integrity, and I like James Talarico. He is the kind of guy we need in office.”