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Joe Biden Says Donald Trump’s Refusal to Accept Defeat Is ‘Embarrassing for the Country’

Joe Biden criticized the outgoing president for withholding valuable health information that he said would help the new administration combat the coronavirus pandemic and distribute the COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available….

For more than a week how, Joe Biden has been remarkably sanguine about Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the presidential election results, deciding, for the most part, not to respond directly to Trump’s delusional tweets that he won a second term of office.

That ended on Monday.

At a press conference during which Biden discussed his plans to address the economic challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, the new president-elect said that not only was Trump’s continual denial of the election outcome “embarrassing for the country,” but that his refusal to allow the transition process to take place was putting American lives in danger.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” an unusually feisty Biden told reporters, criticizing Trump for withholding crucial information that he said would help the incoming administration combat the coronavirus pandemic and distribute the vaccine once it becomes available. “They say they have this ‘warp speed’ program,” he added, referring to the Trump administration’s vaccine development program, nicknamed Operation Warp Speed. “If we have to wait until Jan. 20 to start that planning, it puts us behind.”

And Biden, who was joined by vice president-elect Kamala Harris, again warned that the vaccine was months away, at the earliest, and that vigilance was still needed. “We’re going into a very dark winter. Things are going to get much tougher before they get easier,” Biden said. “That requires sparing no effort to fight Covid. So that we can open our businesses safely, resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us. It’s going to be difficult, but it can be done.”

In discussing Trump’s refusal to concede, Biden said it was “no change in his modus operandi,” adding, “I find this more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started.” Biden that he was already speaking to world leaders, many of whom have called to congratulate him, and “so we we are moving along knowing what the outcome will be.”

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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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