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  • So heeeeey, Donald Trump outright said that he isn't planning on a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election because he doesn't think there is any way he could lose a "fair" election, so, yeah, maybe someone should do something about that?
  • An elections expert is terrified by Trump's statements: "We should not think of the litigation and the wild claims of voter fraud as separate from one another. Instead, they are part of a play to grab power if the election is close enough...This is a five-alarm fire, folks. It’s time to wake up."
  • Trump got a rare in-person taste of what a huge portion of America feels about him when he visited Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's body at the Supreme Court and was greeted by loud chants of "vote him out."
  • A small town in upstate New York voted to keep the name "Swastika," which seems like the kind of thing that absolutely can't be justified regardless of intentions.
  • These people were convinced by Fox News that COVID was fake. And then they got sick.
  • If you had a seven foot "Forest Phallus" sculpture in your yard, wouldn't you lend it out to neighbors too?
  • A Massachusetts man died from eating an excessive amount of black licorice.
  • Jeff Katz talked to Pitchfork about what it was like being Prince's personal photographer.
  • Listen to "Ghosts," the very good latest single from Bruce Springsteen which really scratches that E Street Band itch; "How Lucky," a duet between Kurt Vile and the late, great John Prine; and "The Great Divide," a new single from The Shins.
  • And finally, here's another precious video from yesterday's pair of Bernese Mountain Dogs: