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Billionaire Mark Cuban has spent the past few days on social media defending Kamala Harris' economic proposals — while scratching his head over Donald Trump's plans. Harris unveiled some of her policy proposals on Friday at a North Carolina rally. They include a federal ban on price gouging for groceries, a $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers looking to make a down payment, and a $6,000 child tax credit. So far, Cuban, who joined over 800 venture capitalists announcing their support for Harris in July, is gravitating toward her ideas.

When Veruca Salt threw a hissy fit, she at least jazzed it up with a catchy song. No such luck with Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist and sometimes student. Greta is all frowns, all crossed arms, and she’s not here to play. Having sailed by an emissions-free yacht to New York, she delivered her now-infamous sermon for the repentant Luddites at the UN Climate Action Summit (available here). “How dare you?” she thundered repeatedly, while meandering through a sloppy mess of pseudo-statistics meant convince us that she is as capable of a quick Google search as the rest...

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who had previously said her criticisms of the federal government's handling of Hurricane Maria relief were about saving lives and "not about politics," took a shot at President Donald Trump by wearing a shirt that read "NASTY" on it during a Univision interview. When asked by host Jorge Ramos what the significance of her "nasty" shirt was, the mayor said it was a reference to Trump referring to her as a "nasty mayor." The interview was posted Wednesday to Univision's AlPunto Twitter account. She went on to claim that Trump was the one who...