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The View From Northeastern Pennsylvania On Election Day

In Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, a wide array of Biden supporters spoke out about their support for the candidate….

Ashley, 29, and Mack, 39, an interracial couple who chose to withhold their last names, each voted for Joe Biden in Wilkes-Barre, primarily out of concern for the futures of their seven young children. What they most valued from the election, though, was a sense of civility regardless of who won; “I hope everybody is respectful and stays in their lanes,” said Mack.

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Navy veteran Amber Viola, 34, is voting for Biden because “I’m tired of waiting around for the Supreme Court to decide if I’m going to have rights or not.” Despite her support of Biden, Viola spent Election Day volunteering with a nonpartisan effort to get all voters to the polls.

Half an hour’s drive away in Scranton, a university town with significant ties to Joe Biden, the mood among Biden supporters was more jubilant. Early-afternoon voters at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple poll site faced little to no wait, and many of them shared a sense of excitement at getting to cast their votes against Trump. “This is the first time in a long time that I’ve voted Democrat,” recalled Korean War veteran Bob Alper, who didn’t let the fact that he uses a wheelchair deter him from voting in person: “Trump is too loquacious, and he said that he wouldn’t move on if he lost the election. I don’t like that.”

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“This is the first time in a long time that I’ve voted Democrat,” recalls Korean War veteran Bob Alper.

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Alper is voting against Trump because “he’s too loquacious, and he said that he wouldn’t move on if he lost the election.”

Alper wasn’t the only Scranton-based veteran who showed up to support Biden in person on Tuesday. Amber Viola, a 34-year-old veteran advocacy expert who spent eight years in the U.S. Navy, volunteered her time to drive voters to Scranton’s Everhart Museum poll site on Election Day. Although the effort was nonpartisan and open to all voters, Viola—a Black mother with years of experience working with survivors of military sexual trauma—voted for Biden because, in her words, “I’m tired of waiting around for the Supreme Court to decide whether I’m going to have rights or not.”

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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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