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JD Vance dismisses suburban women’s concern over abortion rights: "They care about normal things"
Vice presidential candidate and professional mansplainer JD Vance caustically dismissed concerns that the critical suburban women voting bloc is largely concerned with abortion rights, insisting instead that they care more about "normal things," like the price of groceries. Yeah, normal things! Like butter and milk. Not any of that super weird stuff like old, rich men treating women like birthing vessels and obsessing over what they do with their uteruses! Cheerios? Super normal! Deadly ectopic pregnancies? Super weird and in no way a cause for real concern!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump freaks out over his slurring during Elon interview
The fallout for the convicted felon from his disastrous X interview with Elon Musk continues. Aside from the deeply disturbing subject matter discussed, Trump's incessant slurring was garnering all kinds of unwanted attention, prompting the MAGA cult leader to issue a pathetic explanation, blaming his garbled, mumbling speech on "the complexity of modern day equipment and cellphone technology." Got it. Donald Trump wasn't slurring, people. It was all Apple's fault.

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Kamala Harris blows off RFK Jr.'s request for a meeting to discuss Cabinet post in exchange for endorsement
Vice President Kamala Harris has wisely not responded to a request by delusional independent presidential candidate and noted roadkill horder, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to meet and discuss a position in her administration — part of a deal that would reportedly include his endorsement, according to The Washington Post. Kennedy’s request follows a meeting between himself and Donald Trump last month, in which the scion of one of America’s most storied Democratic dynasties discussed a similar agreement with the convicted felon for a post in administration, should Trump somehow manage to weasel his way back into the Oval Office. Kennedy, a rabid anti-vaxxer and obnoxious conspiracy theorist who literally just copped to staging a fake bear-hit-by-a-bike accident in Central Park ten years ago, has zero business directing US policy in any official capacity, and his willingness to shill for the highest bidder in an existential battle for the future of democracy should permanently disqualify him from literally any job of consequence in any field.

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White House strikes major deal to cut prices of popular Medicare drugs that cost $50 billion yearly
The Biden administration is taking a well-deserved victory lap after federal officials inked historic deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare’s most popular and costliest drugs. White House officials said Wednesday night they expect US taxpayers to save $6 billion on the new prices, while older Americans could save roughly $1.5 billion on their medications. Just more of that competent, pesky, transformative change the Biden-Harris administration has been delivering for nearly four years.

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"I have no idea": Trump says no one knows what "net zero" emissions means during "intellectual" speech on the economy
In what was supposed to be a campaign reset of sorts, a pivot away from ridiculous, ineffectual personal attacks on Kamala Harris towards some sort of disciplined messaging on the economy, the 78-year-old MAGA cult leader was clearly not up to the task. Speaking before a crowd of supporters in Asheville, North Carolina, the disgraced ex-president begrudgingly recited words off his teleprompter he clearly had no interest in reading, meandering off script despite his aides' best efforts to keep him focused on what they think is a winning issue among voters — the economy. As usual, Trump shit-talked the United States ("We literally are a third world nation"), sarcastically denigrated the intelligence of his own followers ("You're all intellectuals today"), and laughably claimed that no one knows what net zero emissions means ("You know what? Net zero. They have no idea what it means. By the way, it’s net zero. What does that mean? Nobody knows what it means. We’re going to go to a net zero policy. What does that mean? I have no idea.") Maybe just stick with the name-calling and the weird accordion hands thing, Donald. Give the people what they want!

Vance agrees with interviewer who says raising grandchildren is "whole purpose of the postmenopausal female," unearthed audio shows
Another day, another JD oopsie daisy bombshell. During a recently unearthed podcast taped in 2020, diet Appalachian and MAGA main man no. 2 agreed with The Portal host Eric Weinstein's jaw-dropping hot take that raising grandchildren was "the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female." Pretty sure lumping basically ALL women over the age of 50 into a singular, dehumanizing monolith called "the postmenopausal female" isn't a winning get-out-the-vote strategy, but then how was Vance to know when he was casually saying out loud all the insane shit he actually believes that he would be find himself on the GOP presidential ticket four short years later? It's not like he knew calling Donald "America's Hitler" would somehow land him the No. 2 spot on Trump's future revenge campaign...

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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigns after year of protests over Israel-Hamas war
Minouche Shafik, the embattled president of Columbia University, is resigning, the prominent economist announced in an email to the university community. The decision follows a year of on-campus chaos over protests related to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead,” Shafik wrote on Wednesday. “I am making this announcement now so that new leadership can be in place before the new term begins.” Shafik, an economist who served in high-level positions at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Bank of England, took the position in July 2023. Her year-long tenure was defined by her response to protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which included allowing multiple New York Police Department operations on campus to crack down on students occupying a central quad and a building at the Ivy League university.

"The dumbest climate conversation of all time": Experts unload on the Musk-Trump interview
The disgraced ex-president and the world's richest man toddler both made discursive, often fact-free assertions about global warming, including the preposterous assertion that rising sea levels would create "more oceanfront property" and that there was no urgent need to cut carbon emissions, during an event labeled “the dumbest climate conversation of all time” by one prominent activist. Not for nothing, but that whole "make more oceanfront property" notion is basically Lex Luther's scheme from the first Superman movie. Seriously.