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President Donald Trump said he believes so much in the Republican Party and its policies that he vowed to drop “over 400 million dollars” to help GOP candidates win their 2026 midterm elections.

The president made the announcement in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, suggesting it is imperative the Republicans win, because if not, the USA could soon be grappling with riots and protests like the ones currently rocking France.

Read his full post below:

Because of my belief in the Republican Party, and all of our Policies and Principles, and especially after witnessing what is taking place in France, and other locations throughout Europe, I am pleased to announce that, having to do with the Most Important Midterm Elections in our Country’s History, I have spent, or will be spending, over 400 Million Dollars by Election Day. More than 300 Million Dollars has already been spent on Advertising, Direct and Indirect Voter Contact, Rallies, Rally Arenas, Telerallies, Get Out the Vote Programs, Election Integrity, and more.

It is my Great Honor to do so on behalf of the Republican Party, which has done so much to bring our Country back from the Edge of Oblivion. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump did not specify whether the dough was coming from his own bank account, or MAGA Inc., his main super PAC.

The president’s post comes a few weeks after he started running taxpayer-funded “public service announcements” on Fox News, CNN, and MS NOW. But after some pushback, Trump said he would just pony up the money himself.

“The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money,” he posted on Oct.5. “This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.”

Trump has been traveling around the country and holding rallies in an attempt to boost GOP support heading into the midterms. He has made stops in Alabama, Texas, Nebraska, and Ohio over the past few weeks, among others, while declaring the Republicans are going to shock the Dems and pollsters when they “shove it up their a**” in November.

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Plenty of Mac apps do one job, and do it quite well. For example, KeyboardCleanTool lets you disable your Mac's keyboard temporarily while you get dust, food particles, and gunk off the keyboard. I love these apps, but if you keep installing utilities, things start to feel crowded; it can be a real problem even trying to remember that you have an app installed for a specific task. This is where Vorssaint comes in: It's the Swiss Army knife of Mac apps, packing over 75 utilities into a single, free resource.

The best thing is that you can choose which of these utilities you wish to enable—if you need only five of Vorssaint's features, you can disable the rest. This prevents the app from becoming a resource hog, which is particularly valuable for those of us with older, base-model MacBooks. Even though Vorssaint has replaced multiple Mac apps on my MacBook, however, it's not always better than the apps it replaces. If you use Vorssaint to set a custom volume level for each Mac app, for example, it doesn't mean Vorssaint can do everything SoundSource does.

Vorssaint is very much a jack of all trades, master of none, and that's perfectly fine for most people. If that sounds like the kind of tool you need, then Vorssaint could be great for you. Here are 10 Vorssaint features that I've used to replace apps on my MacBook:

Use Super key to replace Caps Lock modifier apps

Unless you're addicted to appearing like you're yelling all the time, you probably don't need the Caps Lock key at all. You can always hold Shift whenever you want to capitalize something, and in my opinion, Caps Lock should be repurposed for something better. Apps such as Raycast allow you to convert Caps Lock into a "hyper key," which means that when you press that button, your computer registers it as a combination of other modifier keys. On my MacBook, pressing Caps Lock equals holding Command-Control-Shift-Alt together, and I've used it to create keyboard shortcuts that don't conflict with those in macOS or third-party apps.

To enable this feature in Vorssaint, open the app, and go to Settings > Features. Go to the "Mouse and keyboard" section, and enable Super key. Vorssaint allows you to map modifier keys to Caps Lock. It also lets you continue using the button for capitalization, switching input sources, or as an alternative way to press the Esc key (useful for keyboards that don't have this button). It works by triggering the "Super key" only when you hold Caps Lock, and toggling the other feature you chose when you press the button once.

Try Vorssaint's built-in clipboard manager

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Your Mac's Spotlight has a basic clipboard manager, but Vorssaint adds a few more features. The app lets you clean tracking data from URLs, and even adds a "Cut and Paste" feature to your Mac's Finder. The latter is great for people switching from Windows—Finder's cut/paste feature isn't as seamless as the one on Microsoft's platform.

Once you enable these features in Vorssaint, you can cut any file in Finder by pressing Command-X, and paste it elsewhere with Command-V. The URL cleaner is customizable, and it allows you to define parameters to remove. It also allows you to create filters for specific websites, which reduces the chances of breaking URLs when you try this feature. By default, Vorssaint will automatically clean a link the moment you copy one, but you can also manually clean links in the app if you wish to.

The app's clipboard manager has all the basic features you'll need, and it lets you exclude some apps too. This lets you keep Vorssaint from storing clipboard items from sensitive apps. The shortcut to view clipboard history from Vorssaint is Command-Option-Alt-V.

Use Vorssaint's disk image installer to replace Rapidmg

I use Rapidmg, a popular app installer format on the Mac, to auto-mount and install DMG files. After the app is installed, Rapidmg also gets rid of the installer file. Vorssaint has this feature built-in, and you can enable it by going to Vorssaint settings > Features > Disk image installer. It's located under the "Clipboard and files" section.

Try its free volume mixer for per-app volume control

If you're looking for an app to set a custom volume level for each Mac app, then Vorssaint has a tool for the job. It's good enough to replace basic volume control apps like FineTune, but not nearly as powerful as SoundSource. Vorssaint lets you set a per-app volume level, quickly switch between output devices, and even set priority for audio devices. It doesn't support sending audio to multiple devices at once, tweaking latency levels, boosting volume above the maximum, or sending audio from certain apps only to specific output devices (e.g., Spotify always goes to headphones, VLC always sends audio to speakers, etc.). If you value power-user features, then SoundSource has to be your go-to. For most people, Vorssaint is good enough to get the job done. You can enable volume mixer in the app by going to Vorssaint settings > Features > Volume mixer. It's under the "Sound" section in the app.

Use "Keep awake" to replace Amphetamine

There are many good reasons to stop your Mac from going to sleep, such as connecting your MacBook to an external display and using the laptop with its lid closed. Apps such as Amphetamine allow you to keep your Mac from going into sleep mode, and Vorssaint has this feature built-in as well. You can use it by enabling the "Keep awake" feature in the app, which lets you disable sleep mode on your Mac for a custom time interval that ranges from 15 minutes to indefinitely.

Replace notch apps with Vorssaint's built-in Dynamic Island

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If you're missing your iPhone's Dynamic Island on your MacBook, you could install one of several useful notch apps on your Mac. These apps show a now playing widget, brightness or volume levels, calendars, or even have a temporary shelf to help you drag and drop files on your Mac. Vorssaint ships with a notch app, too: Dynamic Island. Once you enable it, Vorssaint's Dynamic Island can show notifications, calendar events, timers, song lyrics, playback queue, etc. Note that this feature is labeled "Experimental" in the app, which means that it's not as stable as most other features. I've also been using it to activate other Vorssaint features such as Keep awake and volume mixer, since Dynamic Island shows toggles to control them.

Monitor system stats with Vorssaint's CPU, GPU, and memory monitors

iStat Menus is one of my favorite Mac apps—it allows me to monitor my MacBook's current load and operating temperatures. Vorssaint also ships with the ability to monitor CPU load, GPU load, RAM usage, network usage, battery temperature, etc. It's not as elegant as iStat Menus, but it'll do the job for those who need a basic system stat monitor. In my tests, though, I observed that Vorssaint incorrectly reports CPU temperature. Two other apps (iStat Menus and TG Pro) reported my Mac's CPU temperature at around 104°F (40°C), but Vorssaint kept showing a number closer to 145°F (63°C). All other temperature readings were nearly identical in the three apps, which indicates that Vorssaint probably has a bug to fix.

Try its modifiers to enhance your Mac's Dock

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Vorssaint can also be a substitute for apps that enhance your Mac's Dock. It allows you to enable features like previewing open windows by hovering over an app's icon in the Dock, quitting apps from the Dock preview, clicking the dock icon to minimize, hide, or cycle between apps' windows, etc. One useful feature allows you to click the green button to maximize any app's window, as opposed to switching to full-screen mode. I don't use it, but I can recommend it to people who switch from Windows and ask me about the maximize button.

Vorssaint's mouse modifiers replace Mac "mouse fix" apps

macOS doesn't always allow your mouse to work the way you want it to. Third-party "mouse fix" apps add nice features such as smooth scrolling, customizable actions for side buttons, and so on. Vorssaint includes support for smooth scrolling, and a few other features. It lets you map extra mouse buttons to custom keyboard shortcuts, and even has a feature to prevent accidental double-clicks. The latter is good for people who have a mouse with double-click problems. You can enable these features under the "Mouse and keyboard" section in Vorssaint.

Use Cleaning Mode to temporarily disable the keyboard while you clean it

Apps like KeyboardCleanTool allow you to temporarily disable your Mac's keyboard for you to give it a good clean, or to allow your cat to sit on the keyboard without disturbing your workflow. Vorssaint supports this, too—you can enable this feature by toggling "Cleaning Mode" under the Tools section in the app. Once you lock the keyboard, you can either click the "Unlock" button or press Esc five times to start typing again.

Democrats may “tenuous” leads over their GOP rivals ahead of the midterms despite what polling suggests, warned NBC’s national political correspondent Steve Kornacki Monday.

To have success in the Senate, Democrats “need to pick up at least four” of the Republican seats the party is targeting, Kornacki added. But that may not be easy.

As he put it, “Some of these seats, by the way, in very pro-Trump states over the last decade. But I say at least four because there are also a couple of Democratic-held seats here. Republicans think they can flip it, and if Republicans flip those, it really complicates the math for Democrats.”

Of the GOP-occupied states, Kornacki explained:

You see the numbers with Trump’s approval rating declining, and you hear the chatter of Democrats saying blue wave, Republicans fearing it. This is why, this is what the polls are showing. These are the races that Democrats are targeting. Republican-held seats, and the polls, to some degree here, have the Democrats ahead in all of them. Now, one of them here, North Carolina, you see kind of an outlier. That’s a big lead there for the Democrat. Even Republicans, when you look at how they’re spending their resources, they seem to be moving away from North Carolina. But it is close everywhere else … they are leads for Democrats, but they are tenuous as well.

Some of the states in question were won by Trump by wide margins in 2024, even after polling that predicted Democrat wins.

“I mean, look, Republicans in the Trump era have gotten used to seeing polls like this in states like this and saying, ‘Got them just where we want them’, because we’ve seen it in places — Ohio, Iowa come to mind,” he said. “Even you can go back, there was a Senate race in Kansas in 2020. Polls looked really promising for the Democrats, Republican ended up winning by double digits, so that Trump vote has been missed before doesn’t always show up. A lot of theories why, but if that happens again, these numbers can change in a hurry.”

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I look forward to the fall time change every year, because I have plans for that extra morning hour. Turning back the clock is a perfect opportunity to kick-start a morning routine, since you can get up an hour early without it feeling like you're getting up an hour early.

We are, unfortunately, still doing clock changes twice a year. But I will take advantage of that fact while I can, because the fall time change gifts us with an extra hour in the morning, even if it is cruelly ripped from our evening routines. I'm not a morning person by nature, but my day always goes better when I get my workout in early, so I'm going to take that extra morning hour and use it for a workout instead of recalibrating my body clock to wake up later. I recommend all my fellow night owls do the same.

When to wake up if you're taking advantage of the time change

I mean, you could use your extra hour to sleep in—take it if you need it. But personally, I'm going to set my alarm an hour earlier than I get up, starting on Nov. 1, the first day of standard time for 2026. An hour is enough time for a simple strength workout or for a short run and a quick shower before officially starting your day. I reserve one day a week for sleeping in, which for me is Saturday. On days I'm resting from exercise, I'll still wake up on schedule but use my morning hour for something fun or relaxing, like reading a book.

If you want to fit a full workout in and need more time than the hour gives you, this is still a good way to soften the blow. For example, you can wake up 90 minutes earlier (according to the clock) with it only feeling 30 minutes earlier than usual (according to your circadian rhythms). I've been using my extra hour a little differently each year, depending on how committed I am to those morning workouts. This year, I may split it between extra sleep and a mini workout.

How to plan for morning workouts

On the first day you wake up "early," things will be much as they always are. But now that you're becoming a morning exerciser, you'll have to come to terms with the winter darkness. It will creep in, sunrise getting a few minutes later each day, until your morning jog is, most likely, fully in the dark.

If you are running in the early mornings, definitely get yourself a light to help you see and be seen. I have a Petzl Tikkina, which I bought a few years back because Petzl has a reputation for reliability, and the Tikkina is one of their more affordable models. It's worked so well that the second winter I used it, I sprang for the rechargeable battery that fits in place of its three AAA cells. The rechargeable is designed to work well even in cold conditions, which is a nice plus for winter runs. Also consider wearing bright colors, a reflective vest, or even something like the Noxgear Tracer to give you good visibility on the side of the road. I have a neon pink jacket that comes out on cold dark mornings.

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At the gym, be aware that the rhythm of the place will change. There will be a different group of regulars, and it may be more or less busy than you're used to. But even if everything is the same, there’s something luxurious about being able to take your time, when normally you have to squeeze your last few exercises together and rush to work. Savor that extra hour.

He might be the pope, but that doesn’t protect him from some good, old-fashioned teasing from his older brother.

Pope Leo XIV’s older bro Louis Prevost joined The Sunday Briefing on Fox News to talk about how his sibling is doing, after the 71-year-old pontiff underwent surgery due to lung cancer earlier this week. Prevost said it was a “freak diagnosis,” since no one in their family has dealt with lung cancer before, but that the Chicago-born pope has been making a “fast recovery.”

Once the serious stuff was out of the way, co-anchor Peter Doocy was able to move onto some more lighthearted fare.

“Now that he’s been the pope for more than a year, does it still feel like he’s your little brother?” Doocy asked.

“Yes, that’ll never change,” Prevost said. “When we get on the phone or talk, we give each other crap, we tell jokes, some are off-color—”

Doocy jumped in right then, semi-shocked that Prevost would have the nerve to still tease his brother, now that he was the head of the Catholic Church.

“How do you give the pope crap?!” Doocy asked.

“Well, you tell him he’s being stupid!” Prevost said.

That got a big chuckle out of Doocy, who — like a good Catholic kid-turned-reporter would do — made the sign of the cross and looked up toward heaven while laughing.

Their funny exchange follows Leo having the lower lobe of his right lung removed during a surgery in Rome on Monday.

The Vatican explained:

As planned, the Holly Father underwent thoracic surgery. To ensure a radical resection, the lower lobe of his right lung was removed using a video-assisted technique. An intraoperative histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, as suspected from the preoperative examinations.

The Holy Father was in the operating room for approximately three hours; the operation itself lasted about 90 minutes. The operation was successful, and there were no complications.

Leo’s surgery comes about a year and a half after he was named the first American pontiff. His time leading the Catholic Church has already been an eventful one, thanks in large part to his public spats with President Donald Trump.

But the president put their bickering aside to “wish him well” following the operation. Trump has also made it clear he’s a big fan of the pope’s brother several times, including earlier this year when he said Prevost was “all MAGA.” 

Watch above.

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CNN’s Dana Bash threw down with Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R-MI) over the president’s rhetoric about his opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.

Bash played video of President Donald Trump mocking El-Sayed’s name and calling him a “jihadist.”

“The President is effectively calling your opponent a terrorist. You’re a former special agent with the FBI, former intelligence chair in the House. Are you comfortable with that?” Bash asked.

“Listen, I’ve never called him a terrorist. I wore the uniform of the United States of America so people can pray any way they want. That is not the issue here,” Rogers said. “What has become the issue is his relationship and his family relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in five Muslim countries.”

Rogers continued to talk about his opponent’s alleged extreme ideology as Bash tried multiple times to interrupt.

“Congressman, I want to go back to what the president said,” Bash managed.

BASH: I want to go back to what the president said, and that you disagree —

ROGERS: I don’t speak for the president. I don’t represent the president —

BASH: I know, but I want to say, do you wish that he doesn’t say that? He’s coming to Michigan.

ROGERS: I’m running my race right here in Michigan, Dana. I’m running my race in Michigan.

BASH: But do you wish that he wouldn’t call him a jihadist?

ROGERS: I know you guys want this to be about Trump. This is about Michiganders who are looking for hope and opportunity —

BASH: Right, the president isn’t —

ROGERS: Two-thirds of our fourth graders can’t read. And the fourth grade. That means you have a 70% chance of going to prison or going on welfare —

BASH: Right, the president is inserting himself in that race because pretty much every time he talks, he says something about Abdul El-Sayed.

Bash played video of El-Sayed’s interaction with a town hall participant who asked him about disavowing the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization.

“So he said, ‘Yes, sure,” Bash said.

“He didn’t disavow it,” Rogers said. “He goes on this word salad, trying to get around the fact —”

“He did say, ‘Sure, yeah,'” Bash repeated. “I don’t want to debate with you!”

“I don’t know why the press is so eager for him to protect this,” Rogers said.

“Congressman! I just want to be factual,” Bash insisted.

“It’s an ideology, it’s not about him being a Muslim,” Rogers argued.

After several more minutes of back-and-forth, Bash ended the interview, saying, “And just for the record, I’m not defending anyone. I’m just trying to be factual and use the words that he used, which is, ‘Yeah, sure.'”

“Sure sounded like it to me,” Rogers shot back.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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Matthew McConaughey called on his fellow Americans to embrace Independent candidates heading into the 2026 midterms, saying the old cliche that Independents like himself are limp “fence-sitters” is bogus. In reality, he said they are the best representation of how most Americans feel and can act as a “permanent check” on the Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

The Interstellar star made his impassioned plea during a six-minute video posted to X on Sunday.

“Independents belong in the fight. not as a protest, not as a spoiler, but as a real and potential winner on the ballot and considered seriously by us,” he said. “Independent does not mean you’re middle of the road. Independent is the original road. Before there was ever a Republican or Democrat, there was an American.”

McConaughey, in his trademark Texas drawl, told his 2.8 million followers he is tired of acting like Independents represent some fringe community. Instead, he pointed out more Americans identify as indies than Democrats or Republicans — a claim backed up by a Gallup poll earlier this year, showing a record-number of Americans (45%) identify as Independents, compared to 27% each for Dems and Republicans.

That reality makes it even tougher to stomach the Dems and GOP having a stranglehold on American politics, he said.

“The system has never been more lopsided,” he vented.

McConaughey added, “I am not here today to endorse a candidate or party. I am here endorsing two things: fairness and reality. See, I believe in a fair fight, and a fair fight is not just two fighters throwing the same punches at each other for 50 years. A fair fight is when the fighters who oughta be represented in the fight are actually in the fight!”

He closed his clip by saying if there were 3-5 Independents in the Senate, they could act as a “toll booth,” where politicians have to “stop at the booth” and make sure they’re not pushing anything too partisan.

“The extreme stuff can’t pay the toll,” as he put it.

That would lead to a Congress which better reflects what the American people actually want, McConaughey argued.

Watch above.

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