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  • Joe Biden had the only reasonable response to a question about QAnon today, calling it "dangerous" and "embarrassing" during a campaign event: "I've been a big supporter of mental health," Biden said. "I'd recommend the people who believe it maybe should take advantage, while it still exists, of the Affordable Care Act."
  • BuzzFeed announced that they will stop referring to QAnon as a "conspiracy theory" and start referring to it as a "collective delusion."
  • Biden also noted that Trump's alleged disparaging remarks about fallen American servicemen was disgusting: “It affirms what most of us believe to be true: that Donald Trump is not fit to be commander in chief.”
  • The woman who was surrounded and harassed by protesters while eating outside in D.C. recently wrote a piece on the experience and her positive takeaways: "The video looks scary, and, in fact, I felt fear at that moment. But as I scanned the crowd, I also felt great hope and appreciation. This was a group of mostly young people of many racial backgrounds working together to sustain a movement to uphold Black people’s civil rights. There are worse ways to spend a Monday night."
  • If you lived for decades in perfect harmony with tens of thousands of honeybees inside your home, you'd probably want everyone to know about it as well.
  • The New Yorker features a photographer whose new book delivers a series of iPhone photographs that he took over the course of two and a half years, "capturing the quotidian dramas taking place on the phone screens of unsuspecting strangers."
  • A House candidate Trump recently called “a future Republican star” posted an image of herself holding a rifle with photos of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, and vowed to “go on the offense,” which the Washington Post called "an unprecedented threat against lawmakers from a probable future colleague."
  • In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, which has been a newspaper for American troops since the Civil War. 
  • Chadwick Boseman’s decision to keep his cancer battle under wraps came partly from his mother: "[She] always taught him not to have people fuss over him," Boseman's longtime agent said. "He also felt in this business that people trip out about things, and he was a very, very private person."
  • Here are some adorable clips of Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody trying and failing to identify famous pop culture theme songs, like the Friends theme, a.k.a. “‘I’ll Be There for You’ starring Jennifer Aniston.”
  • And finally, this dog pulled off David Blaine's stunt way better than him: