Hurricane Irma may reach Category 4 status tonight as long-range models continue to show the storm threatening the eastern seaboard.
"Irma is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale," the National Hurricane Center explained. Maximum sustained winds are 120 miles per hour.
Different models diverge widely on where the hurricane may strike landfall -- a reminder of the unreliability of forecasting this far out.
UAW president Shawn Fain unloaded on Donald Trump after the former president announced he would speak to current and former members of the autoworkers union.
Trump will speak to the workers on Sept. 27 in Detroit instead of attending the second Republican presidential debate, as autoworkers Michigan, Missouri and Ohio began strikes at plants run by Big Three car manufacturers.
Fain, however, was not impressed.
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“Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers,” Fain said in a statement. “We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class.”
The former president hasn't issued a formal statement on the strike, but he said on Truth Social that the union workers were "being sold down the 'drain' with this all Electric Car SCAM."
Trump's campaign will also release a radio ad aimed at union workers in addition to his visit to Michigan.
Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas punished a Black student named Darryl George with more than two weeks of in-school suspension — for having dreadlocks.
"School officials said his dreadlocks fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code," reported Cheyanne Mumphrey and Juan Lozano for the Associated Press. "George, 17, has been suspended since Aug. 31 at the Houston-area school. He was in tears when he was suspended Monday despite his family’s arguments that his hair does not violate the dress code, his mother Darresha George said."
“He has to sit on a stool for eight hours in a cubicle,” the mother told the AP. “That’s very uncomfortable. Every day he’d come home, he’d say his back hurts because he has to sit on a stool.” She added that her son has grown dreadlocks for over 10 years and the family has never been harassed or received complaints about it until now.
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This incident comes just as Texas enacted its own state version of the CROWN Act, a law that prohibits discrimination based on various racially-associated hairstyles like dreadlocks, braids, or Afros. The Georges pointed out the new law to school officials, but the principal and vice principal reportedly said that the law does not protect the length of hair.
According to the report, the same school ordered another Black student to cut his dreadlocks to be able to participate in graduation in 2020.
Such incidents have been commonplace in Texas, which became one of 24 states to adopt the CROWN Act this year. In 2022, East Bernard High School prevented another Black student from enrolling over his dreadlocks.
Donald Trump's army of online trolls are increasingly confident they've helped bury Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential race, but they want to make sure he's "dead on arrival" for the next election cycle.
DeSantis was running neck-and-neck with Trump in some polls before entering the race, but he's usually more than 40 points behind now and struggling to raise money.
Now the former president's advisers and right-wing social media influencers are already looking ahead to the general election -- and the one after that, reported The Daily Beast.
“He still comes up in conversation, but the fire is gone because he’s already toast,” said one Trump adviser. “It was fun nuking him, though.”
A Republican strategist noticed that influencers and the official Trump campaign had already moved on to attacking President Joe Biden over the economy and his age, but there's still some lingering bitterness toward DeSantis for launching a primary challenge against the former president in the first place.
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"Things got so personal in the primary that I don’t think Team Trump will ever fully take their boot off of Ron’s tiny neck until they feel like he’s not just dead on arrival in 2024, but also dead on arrival in 2028," said another Trump adviser. “The memes got out of control, though.”
Multiple Trump allies compared the lingering attacks on DeSantis as running up the score in a football game, but the dynamic is approaching what one of the Florida governor's leading allies described as the end-game scenario for the faltering candidate.
“What would concern me is if I woke up one day and Trump and his team were not attacking Never Back Down [PAC] and Ron DeSantis," Chris Jankowski, the CEO of that DeSantis-aligned PAC, said two months ago. “That would be concerning. Other than that, we’ve got them right where we want them.”
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