The Detroit Tigers, who won seven of their last ten games to make the American League playoffs for the first time in a decade, pulled off an extremely classy move on Friday when they took a team picture to celebrate making the postseason and invited a superfan to join them for the photo. Superfan Josh Tebeau gained the team’s attention by holding a sign that read, “Don’t let the Tigers get hot,” and as Detroit capped off its remarkable end-of-season run, Tebeau made a slight adjustment to the sign, writing, “Don’t let the Tigers stay hot.” After the club’s playoff-clinching win on Friday, Tebeau was summoned by security guards to come onto the field. “I was at the game, the game ended, the greatest comeback in the history of modern-day sports, as far as I’m concerned — I will argue with you about it — the game ended, and a couple of security guards were like —” Tebeau said as he gestured with his hands to indicate them telling him to come over,  “ — and I thought they wanted me to point my sign at the camera. The next thing I knew, I was out there. … And then, they’re like, ‘We’re gonna take the team photo.’ They’re like, “Get him in there! Get him in there!’ So then I know my role, so I figured I’d stay to the back, but they’re like, ‘Shove him into the front! Get him in the front!’” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “It’s the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me,” Tebeau, who brought 40 jerseys to the game, enthused. “I’m the luckiest, most grateful person in the world. Hey, you know what, though? It’s not about me; it’s about the team. And we ain’t done. There’s more work to do.” pic.twitter.com/DudLnWLzTy — Foul Territory (@bsbls885) September 28, 2024 “I’m here in April, (pitcher Tarik) Skubal tosses me this” — Tebeau held up a pumpkin seed — “Why would he toss me a pumpkin seed when he could toss me a sunflower seed? Pumpkins are October. Pumpkins are playoffs! Skubal knows.” Skubal won the pitching Triple Crown by leading the American League in wins, ERA, and strikeouts, the first pitcher in 13 years to achieve the feat in a full season. Of the Tigers’ late-season run, Sports Illustrated noted, “According to Fangraphs, they entered August with a 0.2% chance of making the postseason. Since then, the team has gone on a 31-17 run and found itself in the playoffs.”

The first debate between Vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will stream live on DailyWire+ on Tuesday, and Daily Wire hosts will give pre-debate analysis and post-debate reactions on “Backstage,” beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET. Following the September 10 debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the showdown between Vance and Walz on October 1 will provide voters with a second opportunity to hear from the candidates on the 2024 presidential ballot. DailyWire+ viewers can get exclusive pre-show analysis from Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boreing, followed by a post-debate breakdown with insights not heard from the mainstream media. As Election Day nears, the stakes continue to grow for the Vance-Walz showdown, and with Trump and Harris not meeting on stage again, the VP debate will likely be the final big 2024 debate before November 5. Polling in battleground states couldn’t get any closer between Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz as the campaigns hit the final five weeks of the road to the White House. The debate will be hosted by CBS News and take place in New York City. “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan will moderate the debate. Viewers don’t have to change the channel from “Backstage” once the debate begins and can watch a simulcast of the entire debate on DailyWire+.

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings mocked Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as a “buffoon” ahead of Tuesday evening’s scheduled vice presidential debate between Walz and Senator JD Vance (R-OH). Jennings took part in a panel discussion during Sunday morning’s broadcast of “State of the Union,” and he pushed back on claims from former Kamala Harris spokesperson Ashley Etienne — who argued that Walz was uniquely able to help the vice president reach out to “disaffected Republicans.” WATCH: On #CNNSOTU with @JakeTapper, @ErinMPerrine, @FinneyK, @AshleyEtienne09 & @ScottJenningsKY give their advice for the vice presidential nominees ahead of the debate pic.twitter.com/VHvp9doWK0 — State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) September 29, 2024 Anchor Jake Tapper started off the exchange by saying that he couldn’t remember a time when the vice presidential candidates from the two major parties disliked each other as much as Vance and Walz appeared to, but he also wondered if the vice presidential picks had ever been as “consequential” as they seem to be in the 2024 election cycle. Etienne piggy-backed on that by first claiming that Vance was a drag on former President Donald Trump’s ticket and then arguing that Walz — a decidedly liberal governor who has signed off on legislation that guaranteed males the right to change in women’s locker rooms and to play on their sports teams — could reach the moderate demographics that Harris herself has struggled to reach. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “The reason why he was picked was to bridge that cultural divide, to reach out to constituencies that the Democratic Party has had problems, you know, reaching — moderate Republicans, disaffected Republicans, independent Republicans, you know, he’s signaling to a constituency that you can vote for this ticket,” she continued. “He’s incredibly consequential to the Harris ticket.” Tapper noticed that Jennings, while Etienne was speaking, had some difficulty in keeping a straight face — so he turned the floor over to the Kentucky-based Republican next. “Well, first of all, I don’t find him to be consequential. Second of all, Walz is a buffoon, I’m sorry, this guy. He’s the only school teacher in America who brags that none of his students can get into an Ivy League school,” Jennings began. “He’s had one consequential press interaction with our Dana Bash, who asked him about the fabrications in his own resume, and his answer was essentially, ‘Me no understand words good.’ I mean, he’s a buffoon. He’s on a free ride, for running under Harris, he gets very little press. They don’t let him talk to the press for a reason.” “I want one thing out of this debate,” Jennings concluded. “I want JD Vance to go out there and get under his skin. He has a legendary hot, short temper. A lot of governors do, but … apparently he does. I want JD Vance to go out there and have him explain why he is denigrating JD Vance’s story, small town America, ends up making something better out of his life, which is something we should want for every kid.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly prepared to invade southern Lebanon imminently as it looks to push the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah back several miles, which would allow tens of thousands of Israelis to return to their homes in the north. The operation comes after Israel has decimated Hezbollah’s leadership in recent months, killing hundreds of commanders and wiping out all of the group’s senior commanders in the last couple of weeks, including its leader, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Israeli commandos have already carried out missions in southern Lebanon in recent days in preparation for the invasion, The New York Times reported. The raids were carried out to identify Hezbollah infrastructure that needed to be destroyed and identify terrorist positions. The Biden-Harris administration aggressively tried to convince Israel not to invade in intense talks they had over the weekend. The administration believes that they were successful in persuading Israel to at least scale back the size of the invasion. Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that the IDF’s “next stage of the war against Hezbollah will soon commence,” which will “constitute a significant factor in changing the security situation.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The Washington Post reported that the invasion is expected to start “imminently” and will focus on “clearing out militant infrastructure along the border to remove the threat to Israeli border communities.” The news comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a special message to the people of Iran on Monday, telling them that they would soon be free from the oppressive Islamic regime. “There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,” he said. “There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country.” “When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think – everything will be different,” he continued. “When that day comes, the terror network that the regime built in five continents will be bankrupt, dismantled.”

Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz has exaggerated his experience traveling to China in the 1990s and early 2000s because he felt proud of it, legacy media claims. Walz led a series of educational trips to China from 1993 through the early 2000s. Walz has, on multiple occasions, pegged the number of trips he took there at “about 30” or “dozens of times.” Walz’s vice presidential campaign recently acknowledged to Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) that the actual number of trips is “closer to 15,” however. “Walz was so proud of his extensive experience abroad that he occasionally used to exaggerate it,” MPR reported. Walz also once claimed to have been in Hong Kong in May 1989, the month before the Tiananmen Square massacre, and witnessed some of the student uprisings that ended in the Chinese government crackdown. Walz’s campaign could not find documentary evidence of his claims. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts suggest that Walz was not in Hong Kong as he claimed. A May 16, 1989, photograph of Walz was taken at the National Guard Armory in Alliance, Nebraska, where Walz served as a social studies teacher from 1991 to 1996. A Nebraska newspaper from August 11, 1989, reported that Walz planned to “leave Sunday en route to China” after having “about given up participating [in WorldTeach] earlier this summer during the student revolts in parts of China.” Walz’s vice presidential campaign could not offer documentation supporting either the claim of the number of times Walz visited China or being present in Hong Kong just ahead of Tiananmen Square. The campaign acknowledged that Walz’s claim to have visited China “about 30 times” is untrue. In defense, the campaign said that Walz exaggerated his experience in China because he was so proud of it, according to MPR. Walz’s extensive experience traveling to China and his past excitement over it have been used by some Republicans to suggest that Walz may be overly sympathetic to the Chinese government, or potentially targeted by Chinese government influence operations. “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the [Chinese Communist Party], fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and manufacturing first,” the Harris-Walz campaign told MPR in a statement. “Republicans are twisting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators, and sending American jobs to China.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Walz’s past pride in his time in China is absent from his current campaign website. Walz’s biography on the site touts his time in the National Guard, his experience as a teacher and coach, his family’s fertility struggles, and many other facets of his background. The biography makes no mention of China, however. Walz’s false claim about his time in China follows similar erroneous claims about other aspects of his career and personal life. Walz has strongly suggested that he was deployed to Iraq during a time of war as a member of the National Guard, though he never was. Walz has also said he retired from the National Guard as a Command Sergeant Major – another false claim. Earlier this year, Walz falsely stated that his family used IVF treatments to conceive in an attack line against former president Donald Trump’s campaign. Although the Walzs had fertility issues, they did not use IVF. The Minnesota governor has also made false claims about his accolades as a teacher, claiming or suggesting that he had won multiple teaching awards that he had never been awarded. Walz has also been found to have made multiple false statements surrounding a 1995 incident in which he was arrested for drunk driving.

President Joe Biden asserted on Monday he was “commanding” the response to Hurricane Helene and its remnants over the weekend despite not being in Washington, D.C. At the White House, after speaking about what the federal government was doing to assist local officials contend with the devastation from the storm, Biden responded to a question about not being around over the past couple of days. He had spent time in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. “On the hurricane, why weren’t you and Vice President Harris here in Washington commanding this this weekend?” a reporter asked, to which Biden responded, “I was commanding. I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. … It’s called a telephone.” President Biden on federal response to Hurricane Helene: "We are not leaving until the job is done." pic.twitter.com/HdODPFtH8y — CSPAN (@cspan) September 30, 2024 Helene, which became a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall late on Thursday, swept through the southeastern U.S. into the weekend. As of mid-day Monday, the Associated Press reported at least 107 deaths across multiple states, including 30 people killed in the county where Asheville, North Carolina, is located, and efforts to provide relief to flooded areas were ongoing. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Biden approved disaster relief for North Carolina and other states to make federal resources available to help with the recovery operations. Harris, who traveled to California for lucrative fundraising events for her presidential campaign over the weekend, shared on social media a photo of herself working and said she spoke with leaders about the severe weather. Former President Donald Trump, who is engaged in another bid for the White House this year, shared a screenshot of Harris’ post to his Truth Social platform and claimed it was another “FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing.” He also claimed Biden and Harris “left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.” Another FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work! Biden and Harris abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. They sacrificed Americans to an Open Border, and now, they have left Americans to drown in… pic.twitter.com/GsVBxxINF2 — Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 30, 2024 While Trump is slated on Monday to visit a city in Georgia that was slammed by Hurricane Helene, Biden and Harris are not expected to make the trip down south until later this week at the earliest over claims that going sooner would risk disrupting emergency response operations.

A coffee shop owner who was bullied off the Boise State University campus for being pro-cop has won a $4 million award. Sarah Fendley, owner of Big City Coffee, was forced to leave the BSU campus in 2020 after she was harassed by students for displaying a pro-police flag following the George Floyd riots, Campus Reform reported. Fendley sued the university, claiming her First Amendment rights were violated, and after a nine-day jury trial in early September, she was awarded $3 million in damages for business losses and another $1 million for punitive damages, The College Fix reported. “We’re very grateful,” Fendley’s attorney Mike Roe said, according to Idaho Ed News. “The system worked and we had a great jury and the clerk was great. Sarah got her day after all of these years. … We’re very pleased.” Big City Coffee was only operating on campus for four months when it was forced out of its contract with the university due to campus bullying, the Fix reported in November 2020. Fendley began supporting The Thin Blue Line organization in 2016 after her police officer partner was shot five times by an escaped prisoner. Her partner lost his leg and is now in a wheelchair. A police K9 unit was also killed trying to protect him. Fendley has displayed Thin Blue Line flags at her other coffee shop locations ever since without issue, but when she put up the flag at BSU, students revolted. “Big City is very supportive of the Thin Blue Line which we know is not supportive of people of color,” one student said at a September 2020 Inclusive Excellence Student Council meeting, according to the Fix. “I believe that they should have never been brought to campus and if it can be reversed it should be.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “I hope y’all don’t go there if you truly support your bipoc peers and other students, staff and faculty,” another student wrote on social media, according to Campus Reform. The school reportedly panicked and forced the coffee shop off campus, prompting Fendley’s lawsuit. “I’m thankful that the truth finally came out and grateful to the jury for their time and effort,” Fendley said following the verdict, according to Campus Reform. “It’s been a long four years, and I’m just happy that it’s over.” BSU plans to appeal and take the case to the Idaho Supreme Court. “We respectfully but strongly disagree with today’s verdict and plan to appeal,” BSU administrators said, per Campus Reform. “We were honoring the First Amendment rights of all involved.”

What happens when you have 1,175 Dachshunds in one location? You hold a parade to celebrate the short-legged sausage-shaped slipper-eaters! In Regensburg, Germany, the Dachshund Museum organized the Dackelparade. They invited Dachshund lovers from around the world to join them. The parade was held on September 22, and the turnout was so great they set a world record! @emmadiermeier perfect day #regensburg #dachshund #dackel #dackelparade #sausagedog #wienerdog #minidachshund ♬ You Cant Hurry Love Olivia Dean – Olivia Dean People brought their beloved pets to Regensburg in droves. Dachshunds of every type were in attendance. There were super-long, super-short, super-skinny, and extra-plump dogs. You could see every kind of Dachshund. There were short-, long-, and wire-haired dogs. Are you singing the jingle yet? My brain keeps hearing the old Oscar Meyer Weiner jingle and trying to rewrite the words to fit this occasion. They’re Dachshunds, so there weren’t any tall dogs, and you had to look down between all the people to see them strutting their stuff. But strut they did! While many walked on leashes, some elderly dogs were pushed in strollers, carried, or pulled in wagons. Image from TikTok. The dogs were the main focus of the Dackelparade, but there was more to see. Merchants brought dachshund-themed products, and bakers made adorable cupcakes featuring the popular little sausage dogs. The air was alive with the love for these tiny little weiners. There were marching bands, floats, and all the parade regalia you can imagine. The official counting of the 1,175 dogs took place at the Dachshund Museum. The Dackelparade began at Dultplatz, continued over the Stone Bridge, then past the Neupfarrplatz, and ended at the Regensburg Cathedral. You can see more images and videos from the Dackelparade on Instagram. It was a wonderful day to celebrate these beloved animals. Please share if you know a Dachshund lover. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Sausage Dog Stampede: Witness The Perfection That Is The Dackelparade In Germany appeared first on InspireMore.

When you think of the Moon, you probably imagine it as a pitted grey planet that shines bright at night. Most images of the Moon depict a gray-scale orb that’s not very exciting. But NASA recently released a colorized image of the Moon, and it is positively breathtaking. The vibrant photo took Instagrammers by storm, who loved seeing the Moon in a new, colorful light. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NASA (@nasa) The Picture Looks Like a Bath Bomb NASA quickly pointed out that the Moon won’t fizz in your tub. The image helps scientists analyze the Moon and its properties. “The unusual colors in this photograph help scientists study what the Moon’s soil is made of. Areas appearing red generally correspond to the lunar highlands, while blue to orange shades indicate the ancient volcanic lava flow of a mare, or lunar sea. Bluer mare areas contain more titanium than the orange regions do. The deep blue patch on the right is Mare Tranquillitatis, and it’s richer in titanium than Mare Serenitatis, a slightly smaller circular area to the upper left of Mare Tranquillitatis. Finally, the small purple areas found near the center are deposits formed by explosive volcanic eruptions,” the Instagram post explains. NASA added, “While this image won’t give you a luxurious bubble bath, meditating on all its colors can be just as relaxing.” This person thought it looked familiar, writing, “It looks like a giant Christmas ball.” There was a petition for someone to get moving on the bath bomb idea, “Any chance you guys could make official NASA bath bombs that look like this.” This person appreciated the scientific lesson NASA shared. ” Thank you for the very educational and interesting caption!” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post NASA Shares Colorized Photo Of Moon & WOW—It’s Gorgeous appeared first on InspireMore.

The video is from January 2020, years before the strike that killed the Hezbollah leader