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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump ends MAGA rally with truly bizarre episode on stage
The MAGA cult leader took the stage for what was supposed to be a town hall in Pennsylvania and, after two medical emergencies in the audience, just bailed on the Q&A portion of the event and opted instead for an impromptu, um, art performance? The convicted felon called a head-scratching audible, stating, "Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music." He then stood and swayed to 39 minutes of house music while an understandably confused audience looked on and eventually filed out. We've all grown accustomed to the weird, but this truly takes the crazy cake. [RETWEET THAT!]

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Kamala Harris set to dive head first into MAGA land with Fox News sit-down
Vice President Harris will, um, enter the octagon and speak with Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday in what is sure to be a measured, fact-based, "fair and balance" back and forth with no silly gotcha traps laid by the propaganda wing of the Trump campaign. Right? Let's hope the Harris campaign was clear-eyed enough to establish some "debate rules" and the vice president will actually have an opportunity to speak in complete sentences without regular interruption.

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Vance's mic gets cut off in alarming debate spat
United We Dream Action: During the vice presidential debate, JD Vance had his mic shut off after trying to conflate legal Haitian immigrants with undocumented immigrants, crying, "The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check!" That tells us all we need to know: he’s lying, he knows that he’s lying, and he doesn’t care because those distinctions don’t matter to him. Legal or illegal, Vance and Trump are dead-set on targeting immigrants, and that means we need to expand protections for legal immigrants ASAP! Will you add your name to tell President Biden to pass new protections for DACA recipients?

Trump jokes about being shot after he is told couple’s son died in war: "Sir, they lost their son Michael"
True to grotesque form, the convicted felon cracked a joke on Monday about being grazed in the ear by a would-be assassin's bullet after he was introduced to a Gold Star family who lost their son in the war in Afghanistan in 2011. As the Gold Star parents approached the stage, Trump joked, "It’s a little harder to get up since I got shot. It made it more difficult. Perhaps that’s the way it’s supposed to be," prompting South Dakota Gov. and famed puppy killer Kristi Noem, who was pulling double duties as town hall emcee, to respond, "Sir, they lost their son Michael." Simply no bottom.

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Israeli forces kill at least 21 in Lebanon while separately incinerating dozens in Gaza
Another Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military and it was not clear what the target was. The strike hit a small apartment building in the village of Aito, which is part of the country’s Christian heartland in the north and far from the Hezbollah militant group’s main areas of influence in the south and east. The strike came a day after a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in northern Israel killed four soldiers — all of them 19 years old — and severely wounded seven others in the deadliest strike by the militant group since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago. Earlier on Monday, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip killed at least four people and triggered a fire that swept through a tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen with severe burns.

Trump puts Joe Rogan feud on hold to go on his podcast
The disgraced ex-president is reportedly set for a sit down with Joe "Do Your Own Research" Rogan, which is sure to be packed with, among other meandering anecdotes, wildly misleading claims on medicine from two men with exactly no medical training or scientific authority. Rogan and Trump have kept an icy distance from each other in the past, but with polls showing a neck-and-neck race just three weeks out from Election Day, the MAGA cult leader is clearly looking in every nook and cranny for an edge, and the Joe Rogan Experience apparently fits the bill.

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Trump tells people to vote on January 5 — and social media users are all making the same joke
The 78-year-old MAGA cult leader implored his followers to get out and vote — on January 5, 2025, two months after Election Day, mixing up November 5 with the date of his definitely-already-scheduled backup plan to challenge the certification of the results in Congress should Kamala Harris prevail next month. Oops?

Trump, Republicans caught pulling DISGUSTING stunt
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Ugh.

Florida universities are culling hundreds of general education courses
One-time presidential hopeful and current disgruntled Gov. Ron DeSantis' crusade against "woke" ideologies hasn't missed a beat in Florida, as public universities there are purging the list of general education courses they will offer next year to fall in line with a new state law pushed by Republican ideologues hellbent on whitewashing the Sunshine State. And the great dumbening continues.

Trump is selling a $924,600 "Ultra MAGA Experience" package — but nobody knows what’s it includes
Grifters gonna grift, grift, grift, grift, grift.