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Donald Trump’s Refusal to Concede the Election Is Something to Be Feared

We are witnessing something this country has never seen before: a sitting president trying to undo a free-and-fair election and challenging the very basis of our constitutional democracy….

That the two officials who did come to the White House later said they had no plans to challenge the Michigan results is not the point. The point is that the president of the United States is doing everything he can to stay in power even though the people have voted him out. As The New York Times put it in an unusually direct headline on Friday: “Trump Targeting Michigan in His Ploy to Subvert Vote,” and calling the invitation to the legislators a “brazen step” to “subvert the will of voters.”

On Thursday, Joe Biden issued his most forceful rebuke to Trump and his delaying tactics, saying Trump would be remembered as “one of the most irresponsible presidents in American history.” Speaking after a meeting in Wilmington Del. with a delegation of Democratic and Republican governors, the president-elect said: “It’s hard to fathom how this man thinks. I’m confident he knows he hasn’t won, and is not going to be able to win, and we’re going to be sworn in on Jan 20.”

Finally, some Republicans are beginning to speak out—though, notably, no one in the leadership team of either the Senate or the House. The boldest statement came from Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee and the lone Republican senator to have voted to impeach Donald Trump earlier this year:

Another rebuke came from Jeff Flake, the former senator from Arizona and someone who has been mentioned as a potential 2024 presidential candidate:

But there has not been even a peep of protest from either Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy,

I recently read The Splendid and The Vile, Eric Larson’s masterful book about Winston Churchill in the darkest period of WW II, and I came across a passage that brought me immediately back to 2020.

After another disastrous setback to the British forces and the continued ineffectuality of Britain’s prime minister Neville Chamberlain as he clung to the little power he had left, a back-bencher named Leopold Avery stood up in the House of Commons and shouted down at Chamberlain, “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!”

Three days later, Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill was named the new prime minister.

It is time for someone of principle to stand in the chamber of the United States Senate and shout out the words, “Donald J. Trump, in the name of God, go!”

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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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.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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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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