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On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a lengthy diatribe about Democrats being the real “threat to democracy.” In his tweet, Musk claimed that Democrats are flying “asylum seekers” to swing states (this is not happening), fast-tracking them for citizenship (asylum seekers are not fast-tracked), and ensuring said noncitizens can vote (noncitizens cannot vote).

On a quiet Saturday morning in June, a few days before their deadline to collect signatures for a referendum to enshrine the right to an abortion in the Arizona Constitution, Sandy Adler and three friends from Stand Indivisible AZ were standing with clipboards and literature by the entrance to a park in Scottsdale, waiting for the last stragglers to come in. The four women—Adler, Julie Karcis, Sandy Kravetz, and Barrie Stachel—had been hitting up acquaintances and staking out friendly businesses for months.

Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets. The matchup, hosted by CBS News in New York, might not carry the same stakes as the Sept.

Above, Creedence Clearwater Revival performs, Have You Ever Seen The Rain. I keep wondering if the people in the path of the terrible hurricane Helene believe that climate change is a hoax? Yeah, even the weather is political and we need to talk about it NOW. Lawyers, Guns & Money reminds us that Project 2025 plans to sell NOAA off to the highest bidder to privatize, you know, weather reporting, like Hurricane Halene. The Rectification of Names gives us the State of the Race. News from ME says TFG stinks (of desperation). Shower Cap's Blog summarizes the week that was. Bonus Track: Miss Cellania recaps the beginning of the 50th season of Saturday Night Live. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz said he couldn't defend Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after Democratic strategist Tim Hogan pointed out that the former president often "slips into lunacy." During a panel discussion on the Fox News Media Buzz program, Hogan pointed to statistics from the conservative Cato Institute that showed "the Biden Department of Homeland Security removed a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump administration did in its last two." Outkick writer Mary Katherine Ham argued that Vice President Harris should be subjected to the same scrutiny as Sen.

Democrats justify their support for the incompetent Kamala Harris by saying she's not Trump. This is pig-stupid.