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The New Jersey Record reports: A Passaic County Regular Republican Organization employee lodged a harassment complaint against a township councilman after a heated argument about campaign signs. The argument was recorded on multiple cellphones. Susan Enderly, a Wayne resident and PCRRO employee, was completing paperwork on Sunday at the organization’s Wayne office when Republican Councilman Richard Jasterzbski entered. The two …

Reuters reports: Images of U.S. President Donald Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb has set alight the internet, prompting comparisons to science fiction and fantasy villains. The pictures were taken while Trump – on a nine-day trip to the Middle East and Europe – along with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited …

A massive and suitably horrifying Trump float dominated this year’s carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy. Watch below as scores of cowgirls, cowboys, and a bearded male Statue Of Liberty cavort on a gigantic mechanized Trump head to a techno version of Thank God I’m A Country Boy and Green Day’s American Idiot. Pleasant dreams.

Donald Trump only follows family members, staffers, and his own business accounts on Twitter. Except for last night, when he briefly followed a popular account that exclusively posts images of adorable kittens. The New York Daily News reports: Among the biggest names in right-wing politics Donald Trump is following on Twitter, the President-elect briefly picked an account dedicated to adorable …

The Times Of Israel reports: The wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman performed a Holocaust-themed ice skating show on a popular reality television show Saturday night. Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic figure skating medalist and wife of Putin’s chief spokesman Dmitry Peskov, donned striped concentration camp uniforms complete with yellow stars of David, to compete for top honors on …

Child abuse. Via press release from Christian NewsWire: With less than a week until Election Day, a young girl sings a song to appeal to Christian voters. “Christians – Don’t Stay Home on Election Day” is a powerful plea that focuses on the massacre of Christians in the Middle East and the plight of the preborn under the Democrats. “I …

Gothamist reports: The suspicious substance that led to last night’s evacuation of the Metropolitan Opera House may have been a man’s ashes, police said yesterday. Saturday afternoon around 4:30 p.m., members of the Met’s orchestra noticed a man in a suit who began sprinkling a powdery substance in the orchestra pit during the second intermission of “Guillaume Tell.” Shortly afterwards, …

The Associated Press reports: Hundreds of women, girls and other supporters proudly donned their yoga pants Sunday as they peacefully paraded around the Rhode Island neighborhood of a man who derided the attire as tacky and ridiculous. Alan Sorrentino said the response to his letter to the editor, printed in The Barrington Times on Wednesday, has been “vicious” and that …

CNN reports: An employee at the Royal Canadian Mint is accused of smuggling $180K worth of gold in his rectum. There is absolutely nothing funny about that. Stop it. Stop making jokes in your head. Lester Lawrence is accused of transporting several cookie-sized gold pieces (important to note, if you are wondering about the physical logistics) called “pucks” out of …

Via Business Insider: The founder of the group “Latinos for Trump” made an unconventional argument for Donald Trump’s immigration plan during an appearance on MSNBC Thursday night. Marco Gutierrez, in an interview with host Joy Reid, described Latino culture as “imposing” and “dominant,” and suggested that without the GOP presidential nominee’s 10-point plan to overhaul the United States’ immigration policies, …

Via Entertainment Tonight: ET can exclusively confirm that Jana Kramer, Marilu Henner, former Texas Governor Rick Perry and Vanilla Ice are the latest celebrities headed to DWTS. Retired football star Calvin Johnson and Indy race car driver James Hinchcliffe are also on tap for the fall season, ET has learned. They join a celebrity cast that includes Olympians Laurie Hernandez …

NBC News reports: A candidate for chairman of the Libertarian Party stripped off his clothes on live TV before dropping out of the race at the party’s national convention Sunday in Orlando, Florida. James Weeks — a self-described “liberty activist” from Michigan and a large, bearded man — was supporting the vice presidential campaign of Derrick Grayson when he said …

CBS News reports:  Live-streaming has become a major source of revenue in China, which has 668 million people online — the world’s largest Internet community. It’s in that environment that the notoriously controlling central authority governing Internet activities has struggled to keep up its conservative standards, recently banning the eating of bananas “erotically” during live streams, according to state-controlled CCTV. …

Donald Trump has tweeted out a fan-made video set to the 1996 Miami bass hit C’mon N’ Ride It by Quad City DJs. Seriously. Mediaite has more:  The video is well worth a watch all the way to the end, if for no other reason than to spot your favorite Trump surrogates from the 2016 campaign: Katrina Pierson. Diamond and …

So THIS started to go viral a few days ago. From the Daily Mail: Hell hath no fury like an angry Southern mom. Taking away electronics is a common parental punishment, but this mother decided to take it one step further – and shoot up her children’s iPhones with a rifle. ‘I hereby denounce the effects that social media have …

From the BBC: A Paris tribunal has ruled that calling a male hairdresser a “faggot” is not homophobic – “because hair salons regularly employ gay people”. The case relates to an employee at a salon who was fired after failing to turn up for work while sick. His boss accidentally sent him a text using the slur, so the hairdresser …

So this happened at the debate tonight. From the New York Times: The metaphorical finally became literal at the Republican Party’s latest debate in Detroit. Acting like petulant children from the starting bell, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump exchanged insults, which Mr. Rubio claimed was not a violation of his clean-campaign promises because Mr. Trump deserves it. Maybe so, but …

Trump campaign spokeswoman and convicted shoplifter Katrina “Bullet Necklace” Pierson appeared on CNN moments ago to defend Trump calling Ted Cruz a “pussy.” Pierson: “Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back the freedom of speech.” Seriously. For real. She just totally said that.

Oh, Florida. From West Palm Beach’s NBC affiliate: Gator wasn’t on the menu but one did make an appearance inside a Wendy’s just east of Loxahatchee in Royal Palm Beach. And it wasn’t by choice. A Jupiter man threw it through the restaurant’s drive-thru window, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission incident report. FWC officials say 23-year-old …

Not the Onion. Via The Guardian: Russian prosecutors have begun considering whether media coverage of the unexpected friendship between a male tiger and goat at a safari park in the country’s far east counts as gay propaganda. Novosibirsk lawyer Alexei Krestyanov complained to the prosecutor general last month that information about the animals living together could harm children by provoking …