Fashion
An Emotional Van Jones Spoke for America When Joe Biden Was Declared President
The CNN commentator broke into tears when asked to reflect on Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump….

CNN was the first of the networks to call the 2020 presidential election on Saturday, declaring at 11:24 a.m. that Joe Biden had won the 20 Electoral College votes from Pennsylvania, more than enough to give the former vice president an insurmountable lead over Donald Trump.
Shortly afterward, something unexpected happened: Van Jones, one of the panelists asked to reflect on this victory, broke down in tears.
The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper had asked Jones what this moment meant to him. Jones took a few seconds to answer, the tears clearly beginning to well up behind his glasses, before saying, “Well, it’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids that character matters.”
Then, trying unsuccessfully to choke back his tears, he delivered an emotional message, at times struggling to get the words out. “If you’re Muslim in this country, you don’t have to worry if the president doesn’t want you here,” he said. If you’re an immigrant, you don’t have to worry if the president is going to be happier to have babies snatched away or send Dreamers back for no reason.” He added that Joe Biden’s victory was “vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered. You know ‘I can’t breathe’? That wasn’t just George Floyd. That was a lot of people who felt that they couldn’t breathe.”
The moment went viral on social media, with even a former first lady weighing in.
Jones wasn’t the only network commentator to be overcome with emotion after the Biden/Harris victory was announced (though some, like Roxane Gay questioned his sincerity, tweeting, “Van Jones would not know a genuine emotion if it smacked him in the face. I shall never forget who he is. I hope you all don’t either.”) Donna Brazile, the campaign manager for Al Gore’s failed 2000 bid for the presidency and now an analyst for Fox News, also struggled to get out her words when asked to reflect on the day’s election results, which also meant that Kamala Harris would not only be the first woman but also the first Black woman to win the office of the vice presidency.
“As a woman of color, as a Democrat, your thoughts on this day?” the anchor Bret Baier asked Brazile, who then took a few seconds before answering. “It’s been a long time coming,” an emotional Brazile said, before pausing again to compose herself. “To be the last to get voting rights, to be those who just waited and waited for our turn, it’s been a long time coming.”
Brazile then added: “I thought about my mom and my grandmother this morning, they didn’t have the right to vote, but I did. I spent all my life believing that the right to vote was key to our future. And because of the America people … those who did not see color, gender, those who believed it was about competence and just giving everyone a seat at the table … I’m so grateful that this moment has come.”
It’s not hard to imagine that there were also tears being shed by the viewers at home.
Entertainment
A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout
A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.
The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.
There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.
The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.
Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.
Entertainment
Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack
Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.
The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.
None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.
Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.
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