Artsbeat: Biden Getting An Autobiography From The Onion (whether He Wants It Or Not)

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There’s no point denying it: Vice President Kamala Harris’ rollout has been nothing short of a storybook introduction. A clean exit from President Joe Biden? Check. Delegates and donors falling in line?

So sick of this dance. Why on earth would you invite chaos into public funding, especially in an election year? It's not as if Republicans have much else going for them, you'd think they'd want to look competent. But the Freedom Caucus doesn't give a damn about the public, that's why.

If you caught even a few seconds of the RNC convention and you thought it was really monochromatic, that's because it was. According to this report, 97% of the people attending the convention were white: So how did the 2024 convention in Milwaukee stack up? Only slightly better. Only 1,780 of 2,429 RNC delegates reported their ethnicity, according to convention officials.

I love it when Democrats turn around right-wing attacks and go on offense. During Karine Jean-Pierre’s Thursday press briefing, Fox News’ Peter Doocy tried a gotcha with the right-wing talking point about Vice President Kamala Harris being some kind of failed border czar. The truth is, she was never a “border czar,” was never assigned to work on or at the border but was put in charge of a diplomatic effort with Latin American countries to deal with root causes of migration. After reading what appeared to be a White House statement that there has never been a border czar in the Biden administration, Doocy tried a different vehicle for the same attack: “Why are Democrats so sensitive about the vice president and the border?” he asked.

On this day in 1986, Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” shot to the #1 spot on the US pop chart. The Brad Blog, featuring our very own John Amato! From Tengrain: Cap’n Guyliner Has Some Thoughts On Voting Rights. No More Mister Nice Blog: The Response to a Key Part of Kamala Harris's Stump Speech Will Be Very Gendered. Attention space nerds!