Dick Van Dyke, 98, endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Monday in a message posted across social media. In a video on YouTube, the legendary actor, comedian, and performer did not talk about why he was endorsing the vice president—instead opting to read an excerpt from a speech he delivered at the 1964 Multi-Faith Civil Rights Rally in Los Angeles with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., just months before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act that July. During the rally, Van Dyke read a speech written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. “I got it out the other day, and I think it means as much today if not more,” Van Dyke said. “Hatred is not the norm,” he read from Serling’s speech. “Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality. They are diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have been breeding humanity for years.” Although the nonagenarian actor has stepped out of the spotlight in recent years, he has used his platform to endorse progressive candidates in the past—backing Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary and even singing at one of his rallies. “1964—a lot’s happened, not so much as Martin Luther [King Jr.] dreamed of, but it’s a start,” Van Dyke said on Monday.

Fear surrounding potential political violence following the 2024 presidential election has some lawmakers preparing for the worst. Some Democrats in Congress even fear a second attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 by Donald Trump’s supporters. One lawmaker told NOTUS he assembled an “insurrectionist getaway costume,” including tactical pants, tactical boots, and a secret key accessory. “I’ve really been trying to impress upon my staff that I’m not joking,” the member of Congress said. “This is very serious.” Other Democratic staffers reportedly plan on staying home on Jan. 6, the day Congress certifies the election. “Insurrect me once, shame on you. Twice? No thanks,” a senior staffer told the outlet. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the Department of Homeland Security already designated the certification date as a “national special security event,” which allows the Secret Service to call upon other branches of government and the military to help secure the Capitol. A source familiar with security planning for Jan. 6 added that, among the security and prevention plans, the National Guard will be stationed inside the building.

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Ella Emhoff, Kamala Harris' stepdaughter, is showing support for her stepmother in her own creative way–by knitting an “I Voted” sticker. “Have you voted yet?” Emhoff wrote on Instagram Sunday. “Vote for the future you want and the change you want to see,” she continued. “We need to protect our rights, our planet, and our communities. There is only one option for any positive change and that’s Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.” Since Harris became vice president in 2021, Emhoff has cemented herself as the second daughter of fashion. She walked the runway for Coach in September, and was spotted in the front row at several other Fashion Week shows. She has showcased her love for knitting before with the knitwear collective Soft Hands. Emhoff has appeared on the campaign trail a few times to support her stepmother, notably in August at the Democratic National Convention.

All Broadway theaters will dim their lights for Gavin Creel, the much-loved Tony Award-winning actor, who died at 48 on Sept. 30, after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma in July. The lights-dimming will take place at 6.45pm on Dec. 3, the day after an afternoon public memorial celebration for Creel at the St. James Theatre. The Broadway League had initially planned a partial dimming of lights, though changed course after a public outcry—including a petition of over 20,000 signatures. After his death, fulsome and heartfelt tributes were paid to Creel by the likes of Bette Midler, Alex Edelman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Casey Likes, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Urie, and many others within the theater community. The actor won multiple awards—including a Tony—for his portrayal of Cornelius Hackl in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Midler. Donations in Creel’s memory are suggested to be made to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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Now that the temps are (finally!) beginning to dip, cozying up in a blanket on the couch in honor of cuffing season is non-negotiable. Whether I’m having a slow morning with coffee or settling in for movie night, I love nothing more than cocooning myself in a luxury blanket. Of course, as an interior design enthusiast, I appreciate how a chic throw can instantly elevate your living room sofa and signal the change of seasons.

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Of the many celebrity endorsement for Kamala Harris, there is one that Donald Trump admitted hurts him most. “I’m so disappointed at Julia Roberts,” Trump said on Fox & Friends over the weekend, referring to the ad the actress narrated in which she implicitly urges women to vote for Harris even if their husbands are voting for Trump. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad. “She‘s going to look back on that and she’s going to cringe,” Trump predicted. “I mean, it doesn’t say much for her relationship... Can you imagine a wife not telling a husband who she’s voting for? Did you ever hear anything like that? Even if you had a horrible—if you had a bad relationship, you’re gonna tell your husband.” The ad that so clearly got under Trump’s skin ends with Roberts telling women, “Remember, what happens in the booth, stays in the booth. Vote Harris-Walz.”

A 17-year-old Florida boy—dressed in a T-shirt with an image of former President Donald Trump giving the finger—was arrested Saturday for punching a 70-year-old woman at a women’s march rally in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kathleen Tomasko, the alleged victim, told Treasure Coast Newspapers that four adolescent “Trumpers” had showed up at the event in Stuart, “going back and forth and antagonizing people.” She said she wasn’t involved in the exchanges, while a witness told the newspaper group that the 17-year-old struck Tomasko in the stomach unprovoked after he walked away from another altercation. Local police said he was charged with battery of a person over 65. “He punched me in the gut and knocked me on the ground, and I fell back and hit the ground,” Tomasko told Treasure Coast. “Thank goodness the two ladies were behind me so I didn’t hit my head.”

Nate Silver said the campaign is closing with the winds at the sails of Vice President Kamala Harris. Last month, the statistician and blogger wrote a New York Times op-ed saying the race was essentially a toss-up, but his “gut” feeling was that former president Donald Trump will win the election. In an appearance on Crooked Media’s What a Day podcast, he stood by his assessment that Harris has a “50/50 shot.” “But we’re going into the last week where if any candidate has the momentum it’s Harris and not Trump,” he added. “In the New York Times polls, people who have decided in the past week, they go for eight points by Harris.” Silver noted last minute voters breaking for Harris could be thanks to Trump’s toxic Madison Square Garden rally, where a racist comedian insulted Puerto Rico, Hulk Hogan spit at the mention of Harris’ name, a sanitation worker called her the “Antichrist,” and Tucker Carlson mocked her race—something so crazy, even by Trump standards, not even the Oracle of Des Moines Ann Selzer could have predicted it.

A mysterious statue commemorating Donald Trump’s “tiny golden mushroom” has appeared in upstate New York. Tucked into a bucolic corner of Donald J. Trump State Park in Yorktown Heights, the statue is a clear nod to Stormy Daniels’ famous description of the size and shape of Trump’s manhood. “The Very Large Donald Trump Monument” has a wide, tiered base about eight feet tall with a decorated column drum at the top. Perched atop the column is a golden mushroom so small it’s barely visible when you step back to behold the statue as a whole. “This giant pillar pays tribute to President Trump. As you can see this is a very large monument. Definitely the largest,” reads an accompanying plaque. It goes on to describe how Daniels “slandered” Trump by saying his “monument” was “smaller than average” and resembled a mushroom. “The circumstances surrounding her statements have been verified by a New York State Court of Law. This towering monument stands in defiance of these false statements so that we may all bear witness to the truth of this giant, very normal monument,” the plaque concludes. Its creator, who remains unknown, put candles and votive mushrooms around the base. Trump is famously obsessed with size, whether it be crowds or genitalia. He was awed by Arnold Palmer’s anatomy, and nothing sends him over the edge quite like Kamala Harris drawing a bigger crowd.

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Diddy’s days of lavish birthday bashes are over. The disgraced rapper, who was arrested in September on sex trafficking and sexual assault charges, is spending his 55th birthday Monday in prison with a pared-down menu. The New York Post confirmed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons that Diddy started the day with biscuits and gravy, potatoes, bread, and oatmeal. For lunch, he could have cheese pizza, Italian pasta salad, and green beans. He was set to finish off the day with either chicken or tofu fried rice with black beans and carrots. It’s likely Diddy, who is reportedly sharing a “dormitory-style” room in prison with fallen FTX crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, isn’t too happy with his choices: His attorney said the food is “the roughest part” of prison. Diddy is held in the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting his trial, which begins May 5, 2025. He has denied all the allegations against him.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta saw plans for a new AI data center fall through in part because a rare species of bee was found on land where the data center would be built, according to a report. Sources told the Financial Times that Zuckerberg was hoping to reach a deal with a nuclear power plant operator to provide electricity for the proposed data center, but the deal was hit with a series of complications, including regulatory environmental challenges. At a Meta all-hands meeting last week, Zuckerberg said a rare bee species discovery on land next to a power plant where the data center would have been constructed would have added complications for the project, according to the report. Several tech giants including Google and Amazon have recently inked deals with nuclear power plant operators to provide the vast amounts of electricity required for the development and use of AI models. Microsoft announced in September that it would aim to meet some of its AI energy needs using a reactor at the Three Mile Island plant—the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history.