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David Duke, the Republican former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who was once elected to the Louisiana state legislature, endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein during his radio show on Monday, NBC News reports.  It’s the first known endorsement of a Jew by a current or former leader of the anti-Semitic white supremacist group, and it’s a teeny chip in the Base of the Republican nominee.

“I endorse for president of the United States Green Party candidate, Dr. Jill Stein,” said Duke, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. “Although Dr. Stein and I obviously have our differences on important issues, she’s the only candidate who speaks clearly against the war in the Middle East.”

A lot, and simultaneously not enough, has been said about the bizarre event Donald Trump called a rally on Sunday in Pennsylvania, where a series of medical events among audience members led to a prolonged delay, prompting the Republican nominee for president to spend an awkward and uncomfortable 39 minutes on stage.

After taking four questions from audience members during the town hall, everything stopped but the music.  In a sweltering venue as people dropped, Trump joked, “Anybody else wanna faint?” before calling for “Ave Maria” to be played.  During the Trump “Music Fest” with Kristi Noem on stage, Trump did something no other politician would do.

After making courtesy handshakes to some of the two dozen or so Super MAGA people on the stage, standing in bleachers, who might’ve asked questions during a normal town hall, and after speaking to an aide at the foot of the stage, Trump did… nothing.

Starting at 7 p.m. local time/8 p.m. ET, former NFL linebacker and Democratic candidate for Senate Colin Allred takes on Cub-adian Cancun vacationer and podcaster Ted Cruz in a debate for the state’s Senate seat.  Because GOP presidential hopeful and convicted felon Donald Trump assumes he’s going to win Texas, he’s put very little effort into campaigning there, leaving Cruz to campaign on his own against the popular and well-funded Allred.

“Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have confirmed that the two solar arrays flanking the main body of the Europa Clipper spacecraft have fully unfolded. This means that the spacecraft now has a reliable source of power for the rest of its journey to Jupiter and tour of the Jovian system. The process began with the cutting of hold-downs keeping the solar arrays folded against the sides of the spacecraft and then the unfolding of one ‘wing’ at a time. With each wing measuring 46.5-feet (14 meters) long, Europa Clipper’s solar arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission,” says NASA in a post-launch update on the Clipper’s nearly six-year journey across the void to the icy Galilean moon.

WOW! If you keep watching you might see a train go by!

Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, an alleged self-declared Nazi with a predilection for tranny porn and his wife’s sister, has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for reporting his posts on porn sites where he described himself as a “Black Nazi,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.

“This is a high-tech lynching on a candidate who has been targeted from day one by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed,” Robinson proclaimed at a press conference to announce the suit. “We are glad to take these first steps to fight back against what we consider to be one of the greatest examples of political interference in this state’s history.”

Remember when the MAGA kids LOVED Charlamagne Tha God for getting annoyed with Joe Biden back in 2020? Yeah they’re probably not going to like him any more now. “Translation: You are not smart enough to make your own decisions. So..let the 46 year, white, wealthy, privileged, government bureaucrat do it for you!,” wrote one of the fanboys on The Hill after that “gaffe” when Biden said “You ain’t Black if you’re voting for Trump,” in 2020. Now Charlamagne is “DEI,” lol.

The caracal has been taken into custody, the Hoffman Estates, Illinois police department announced Tuesday via Facebook on a major relief for those living in terror of the medium-sized exotic cat.

“The Hoffman Estates Police Department was able to take the Caracal into custody. The cat was hiding under a resident’s deck and is unharmed. The Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat located in Sharon, Wisconsin is enroute to pick him up where we are sure he will have a healthy and happy life far away from Hoffman Estates. Over the past few days, the village was made aware of a large cat in the area of Della Dr and the Hilldale Golf Course. The cat has been identified as a Caracal, this cat is a native species to Asia and not common in the US,” the department wrote.

That was ice cold. One terminally mentally ill viewer was so upset he posted “Does Ian Sams, Lyin’ Kamala’s Special Advisor, own FoxNews? He is on all the time, as are so many other of her supporters. So ridiculous that Fox allows this to happen right before the Election. We will WIN without Fox. MAGA2024!” The viewer then proceeded to post screenshots of tweets from his minions praising him for his deranged meltdown he had on stage in Chicago earlier.

Wow! Talk about an impressive 30 under 30 list contender: 1010 WINS reports 29 year-old Wayne Lowe of the really MAGA part of eastern Long Island was pulled over on the Expressway for texting and not wearing a seatbelt on Tuesday. Guess those things are kind of optional when you don’t have a valid license to drive in the state of New York either. In fact, Lowe has negative 31 of them!

How a guy who’s been driving for at most 13 years has that many suspension we don’t know. “Upon further investigation, officials determined that Lowe, of Center Moriches, [New York] had 31 license suspensions over 13 dates. Lowe was issued multiple summonses and charged with one count of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle,” 1010 WINS writes in the article.

Still no idea how that works. The suspensions were somehow accrued during another suspension or something, maybe. Lowe was booked for an overnight stay in the county lockup before arraignment.

A new Reuters/Ipsos national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 45 to 42 percent among likely voters nationally. Slightly more Dem respondents, 86 percent, than Republicans, 81 percent, said they were “completely certain” they would cast a ballot in the presidential election, which we guess is an “enthusiasm edge.”

Fuuuuuuu-uuuuuuuuck this is so stupid. “Now that you have read the 500th poll of the battleground states, the thousands of simulations, the scientific and pseudo-scientific calculations, the hourly assertions of how close this contest is, you might want to take a breath and contemplate the possibility that the factor that will determine the outcome may not have happened yet. At least, that’s what our recent political history says,” writes Politico contributor Jeff Greenfield before going into that history from 1980 through 2016 for a dozen or so more paragraphs.

To be completely fair to him he probably didn’t pick the headline. Some editor thought this was the clickbaitiest way possible to sell readers on a fairly well-written and sober-minded if not particularly original insight into the events that are seen as having caused late swings in close presidential races. That fucking headline though. How hard was it to write “History Suggests ‘October Surprises’ Are More Likely Than Not,” or something anodyne (and more pertinent to the text) like that?

Actually that kind of sucked. Still would’ve been better than what Politico’s editorial team puked up.

More than 204,000 Georgia voters cast ballots on during the first day of in-person early voting, shattering the state’s record, elections officials tell the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Greg Bluestein.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Monday told reporters that officials have tallied 92 people still missing and unaccounted for in the western part of the state nearly three weeks after the apocalyptic flooding wrought by Hurricane Helene, this grim toll on top of the 95 confirmed dead in the Asheville area among 230 total killed by the storm across the South, ABC News reports.

Of course no press conference on Hurricane Helene would be complete without Cooper having to waste time addressing the demented MAGA conspiracy bullshit about FEMA. “When people assert that help is not coming to western North Carolina – which is completely untrue, which is a lie – the people who are actually on the ground helping feel demoralized. If you’re participating in spreading this stuff, stop it. Whatever your aim is, the people you are really hurting are those in western North Carolina who need help. The safety of our government and volunteer response workers, including FEMA, remains a top priority,” Cooper said, rightfully frustrated with the lies.

Several divorce attorneys tell Fox News that they’re seeing an “uptick” in politically-motivated divorces these days, the propaganda network reports and prepare to be not shocked over what specific issues they do not name as factors. Hint: Not QAnon, racism, or Fox News itself.

“In a Monday interview with Fox News Digital, [DC-based family lawyer Yonatan] Levoritz noted a surge in separations rooted in political discord over the past three election cycles. He observed that as political ideologies grow further ingrained in societal values, polarizing issues such as abortion, drugs and sexuality are breaking down families,” Fox News writes. For all we know Levoritz did in fact offer them several examples of spouses who got sucked into Fox News, QAnon, the Church of the Iron Rod, or other cultish right wing belief systems but they chose not to print those quotes.

Or maybe Levoritz is on Team MAGA himself. “A lot of the divorces are being caused by hot-button issues like abortion. I’ve heard that one at least four or five times in the past two or three months,” Levoritz said, telling Fox about on a case involving a man who sought to divorce his wife “after she had two abortions without his permission,” per Fox. That’s fucking twisted. Again, we don’t know if that guy was Levoritz’s client or he was representing the wife as a defendant.

“Consider a conservative father and a liberal mother, divided on whether to allow their transgender child to openly express their espoused gender identity or, perhaps, a conservative mother and a liberal father disagreeing on the prospect of their sixteen-year-old daughter terminating an unplanned pregnancy,” Fox News writes about other examples of “political differences.”

“Watch live views from various locations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. New England leaf-watching season is in full swing, as people from as far as Florida and Berlin flock to the region for scenic drives, train rides and bus tours to soak in the splendid hues of red, orange and bronze,” the Associated Press writes of their innovative Autumn-azing fall foliage display!

“The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Portage County, Ohio, during the early voting period and on Election Day. The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country. In addition, the department also deploys federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order. Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process,” says a DOJ press release very obviously in response to that shitbag sheriff telling his fans to record the addresses of homes with Kamala Harris signs.

One of the big reasons the whole “Stop the Steal” shitshow was able to build momentum in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election was that, because the three “Blue Wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin did not allow for the “pre-processing” of mail-in ballots prior to the morning of election day, the media’s decision desks were unable to call the states. This gave demented tyrant former President Trump room to claim that “big, massive dumps” of late-night ballots had falsely erased his leads in those states – the “Red Mirage” in which Trump-heavy day-of votes were reported before Biden-heavy mail-in votes, leading inexorably to the Capitol riot.

Later that month, Tim Alberta, now of the Atlantic but with Politico at the time wrote that, in Michigan at least, it was because Republicans wanted “to avoid the perception of aiding a system the president was attacking as illegitimate and not only were they skeptical of the Democrats’ concerns of a drawn-out count. But many Republicans didn’t believe the election would be terribly close to begin with. A summer’s worth of polling, conducted for them privately at the local and statewide level, indicated that Trump stood little chance of carrying Michigan a second time,” which, no knock on Alberta writing in the immediate aftermath, was complete horseshit. They had almost certainly did it on purpose with the express intent of giving Trump the room to create doubt.

And for them to start a riot at the TCF Center in Detroit that night, which NBC News on Tuesday concluded was most likely the work of indicted Trump co-conspirator shitbag Mike Roman.

Teacher who left claw marks on a teen’s back after sex as other students were ‘lookouts’ gets sweetheart sentence https://t.co/ylX3c2TlRR pic.twitter.com/uCMB5g8sDd

— New York Post (@nypost) October 15, 2024

Huh. Usually you expect a right wing outlet to be like “THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF CHILD SEX CRIMES BEING OUT OF CONTROL IN JOE BIDEN’S KAMALA HARRIS’S AMERICA,” and yet all they can muster is some bitching about how it’s a “sweetheart” deal. Weird, right?

Archaeologists with France’s National Center for Scientific Research say a lidar survey has mapped the foundational remains of a vast complex spanning 116 square miles and comprised of at least 6,000 stone structures in Ecuador’s Upano Valley sitting underneath the thick jungle, NBC News reports.

Little otherwise is known about the Upano civilization in terms of size and scope other than that they probably inhabited the area from around 500 BC to between 300 AD and 600 AD. It’s also probably safe to say they didn’t have any contact with ancient aliens. Or at least any friendly contact. Maybe it was the aliens that wiped them out for insufficient sacrifices to their glory.