Today’s biggest stories:
- Donald Trump formally acknowledged the Republican Party’s nomination in a ghastly, authoritarian acceptance speech—the longest one given in over 40 years—during which he struggled to pronounce the acronym “LGBTQ” and outlined a platform that, in essence, is a real-life version of the underpants gnome business plan from South Park.
- Speaking before Trump, Reince Priebus praised a Nazi-sympathizing General Motors president and Ivanka Trump gave a decent speech of her own that was overshadowed by whatever the hell this was.
- Trump campaign manager Paul Manfort suggested both that FBI crime statistics are rigged (because Hillary?) and that women will support Trump because he’ll help their husbands make more money.
- Trump began his post-convention honeymoon this morning by suggesting—again!—that Ted Cruz’s father had something to do with JFK’s assassination. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- Former KKK Grand Wizard and longtime Trump supporter David Duke announced that he’s running in this year’s Louisiana Senate election.
- In Austin, police video shows officers body-slamming a black elementary school teacher and explaining to her that blacks have “violent tendencies” after a speeding stop.
- Several people have apparently been killed in a Munich terror attack.
- And Wiki-leaked Democratic National Committee emails indicate that some DNC Hillary supporters wanted to attack Bernie Sanders for (allegedly) being an atheist.
Have a good weekend out there.
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