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Trump claims "nobody thought" a hurricane would hit this time of year despite it being peak hurricane season
The 78-year-old nincompoop running for frickin' president of the United States stood in public and said out loud, for all the world to hear, that “nobody thought” a storm as devastating as Hurricane Helene would make landfall at this point in the year, despite the fact that it is currently peak hurricane season and devastating storms like Helene have routinely made landfall in the United States — including in the convicted felon's home state of Florida — for decades. The MAGA cult leader's ridiculous statement came hours after he claimed — without a shred of evidence, of course — that Democrats were refusing to help Republicans impacted by flooding. There simply is no bottom with Donald Trump. The con man will say anything to advance his own self-interest, to the detriment of literally anyone and everyone else.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: MAGA mouthpieces shut down over hurricane coverage on Fox News
The disgraced ex-president's propaganda-spewing mouthpieces on Fox News were summarily shut down by the network's lone liberal, Jessica Tarlov, who, as she so often does, expertly brought facts and figures to the table to counter the baseless bullshit her MAGA-messaging colleagues were shilling on The Five. Desperate to spin a wholly distorted narrative where the Democrats are somehow to blame for Hurricane Helene, Jesse Waters and co. claimed the Biden administration is "out to lunch" and MIA on ongoing recovery effforts, despite all evidence to the contrary. Tarlov was having none of it.

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Tammy Baldwin's GOP challenger busted in wild drug cartel scandal
Tammy Baldwin for Senate: New reports show that the bank owned by Mitch McConnell's hand-picked Senate candidate, Eric Hovde, accepted $26 MILLION in *cash* from a notorious Mexican bank long linked to the drug cartels. While Senator Tammy Baldwin has been in Washington working ovetime to help end the opioid epidemic and stop the scourge of fentanyl, her Republican opponent has been allegedly profiting off the wages of drug crime. Will you chip in to Senator Baldwin and make sure this corrupt banker never gets a chance to set policy in the Senate?

Israeli troops invade southern Lebanon as fight with Hezbollah intensifies dramatically
Israel is engaged in “intense fighting” with Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon after sending troops across the border as part of a major assault, the military have said. Israel announced overnight that it had launched “targeted” raids on Hezbollah positions on the border with southern Lebanon, controlled by Hezbollah. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Makati said today this is “one of the most dangerous phases” in the country’s history. "We urgently call for more aid to reinforce our ongoing efforts to provide basic support to displaced civilians," he said at a UN meeting hours after the Israeli incursion. It comes as Hezbollah missiles targeted the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and the Glilot military base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

State judge strikes down Georgia's six-week abortion ban
A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, struck down the state's six-week abortion ban Monday, allowing the procedure to resume and making it legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his ruling Monday that a review of "our higher courts’ interpretations of 'liberty' demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices. Damn straight.

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Mark Cuban fact-checks unhinged Elon Musk conspiracy theory using Musk's own tech
Elon Musk on Sunday embraced a racist and wildly conspiratorial election theory ― only to get fact-checked by fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who used Musk’s own AI chatbot, Grok, to do the job. The ketamine enthusiast asserted, without any evidence, that Democrats are flying immigrants “directly into swing states” who are then “fast-tracked to citizenship” for the purpose of altering the outcome of the November election. The claim is patently false, obviously. Noncitizens must first spend at least five years as a lawful permanent resident before they're typically eligible for naturalization, meaning Musk’s conspiracy would have had to begin during the Trump administration to bear any meaningful fruit. Elon's outlandish, conspiratorial musings caught Cuban's eye, who responded in a public message: “Hey [Elon Musk], truly appreciate the work you have done with [Grok]. It’s a great way to factcheck you.” Cuban then shared Grok's analysis, which stated that Musk’s xenophobic theory “contains exaggerated claims and speculative fears rather than factual analysis” and was “presented in an alarmist and overly deterministic manner.” Keep up the great work, Elon.

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Trump is already teeing up an excuse for Vance losing VP debate tonight
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but, according to the MAGA cult leader, tonight's debate — which has not yet taken place — is "so rigged" and "so stacked" in favor of Tim Walz and against JD Vance. Preemptive cries of cheating are nothing new for Donald, but nothing screams confidence like peddling excuses for your running mate's debate performance before it even takes place. Trump also laughably claimed he'd love to have two or three more debates with Vice President Harris but simply cannot because of all the rigging. The rigging. Not the beat down he suffered last month. Got it.

Trump shocks with horrifying promise of violence
Dose of Democracy + Kamala Harris for President: In a recent rambling and incoherent speech, Donald Trump threatened to institute a "Purge"-like day of state-sanctioned violence if he returned to the White House — and that’s just the latest appalling promise from a would-be fascist dictator who has vowed to impose mass deportations, jail his political opponents, cripple our economy, and end democracy as we know it. Dose of Democracy is working with the Kamala Harris campaign to raise money and build the grassroots get-out-the-vote machine that we’ll need to defeat Trump in November. Will you make a donation to help elect Kamala Harris and stop Donald Trump once and for all?

"Post-apocalyptic" scenes in North Carolina as hundreds more feared dead from Hurricane Helene
At least 133 people have been killed after Helene crashed into Florida‘s Big Bend on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane, before charting a path northwards through the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia. The death toll from the catastrophic storm is expected to climb. As of Tuesday morning, the death toll in North Carolina’s Buncombe County alone stands at more than 40, as 600 people remain unaccounted for. Governor Roy Cooper told CNN on Monday that entire communities there were "wiped off that map." Hundreds of roads remain closed with five bridges near the Tennessee-North Carolina border on I-40 "completely gone." More than 1.5 million people are still without power.

Thousands of dockworkers hit the picket line as contract deadline passes
Dockworkers from New England to Texas walked off the job just after midnight Tuesday, upending parts of the US supply chain weeks before the election. Tens of thousands of workers struck after the International Longshoremen’s Association and the shipping industry could not reach a new contract after their last six-year deal expired. Their absence means cargo can’t be unloaded at ports all across the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf Coast. Even a short strike is likely to send shock waves through the economy. A prolonged one is politically perilous for Democrats up and down the ballot, including Vice President Kamala Harris, who may be forced to choose between their labor allies and a fully functioning economy.