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Over the weekend, Fox News host Mark Levin spent the first 20 minutes of his show screaming, shaking, and hyperventilating over every complaint, conspiracy, and MAGA lie about President Biden, Kamala Harris, and the entire Democratic Party. Levin is deconstructing and dissembling just as much as Demented Donald as the election grows near and the polls have shifted in favor of VP Harris.

The unprecedented significant ballistic missile attacks by Iran against Israel Tuesday represent a “significant escalation,” as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in the moments after the attack. Even though the attack was defeated with all missiles shot down, no deaths, and little damage to strategic facilities, there must be a direct response to Iran’s attack.

JD Vance is a bigger danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Vance makes clear his dislike of cats, women and immigrants, but his terrible ideas on those topics are the tip of the iceberg. On September 30, Rachel Maddow put a spotlight JD Vance's anti-democratic views. The man who is the GOP candidate for vice president has some very disturbing and radical views on how to lead our country.

The 90 minute debate begins at 9 pm Eastern and will have two four-minute commercial breaks. Via CBS News: There will be no audience — a measure also implemented during the two previous presidential debates. There will be no opening statements. Unlike the presidential debates, a candidate's microphone will not be muted when their opponent is speaking, but CBS News reserves the right to turn off the microphones. Vance won a virtual coin toss on Thursday, opting to go second with his closing statement.

As Iran launched a massive barrage of ballistic missiles into Israel on Tuesday, President Biden’s hopes of ending the war in Gaza before leaving office and holding off a wider regional war in the Middle East seemed dimmer than ever. The attack from Iran came after Israel had expanded its war against Iran’s proxies in the region, launching a brazen series of assaults to dismantle Hezbollah’s leadership on its northern border and hitting Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Now, Biden’s caught between his promise to bring the war in Gaza to an end, and continuing to support Israel’s defense in an escalating conflict on another front. The President spent much of Tuesday in the Situation Room, the cramped, wood paneled command center in the basement of the West Wing, as U.