Midday open thread: 13,000 texts and three reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton

• Vivek Viswanathan, a policy advisor at Hillary for America who focuses on college affordability and student debt, will be hosting a live Q & A here on Daily Kos at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on Monday, October 3. He graduated with a B.A. in history from Harvard, an M.Phil. in historical studies from the University of Cambridge, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford. In addition to all those degrees, he's had the opportunity to team up with Michelle Kwan to make a video explaining Hillary's college affordability plan. Please bring your questions Monday and join us!
• Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is News of the times: Trump bends reality to will: 

• Way to go C-SPAN. A Washington, D.C., bartender got 13,000 texts and hundreds of calls after C-SPAN mistakenly put her number on screen as a way to weigh in on the presidential debate:

Many have been riddled with the same toxic sexism and racism of Trump's campaign. "I was taken aback by a lot of comments," Diaz says. She largely didn't respond and make the flow of messages even worse, though a couple of times she sent back #VoteTripp.

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  .@NewYorker out with early look of their next cover, "Miss Congeniality", by Barry Blitt: pic.twitter.com/OXxPwsPH4v

  — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 29, 2016

• Three cheers for our post-racist society:

A white student at East Tennessee State University was arrested and charged with civil rights intimidation on Wednesday after showing up to a campus Black Lives Matter protest wearing a gorilla mask and handing out bananas to African American students.

Tristan Rettke, a freshman at the university, also carried a rope and a burlap sack painted with the Confederate flag and a marijuana leaf, according to WCYB.

• Three reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton that have nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. “May I pile on the reasons why even the most bitter Sanders supporter should vote for Clinton,” Thomas Geoghegan writes. “Forget the Supreme Court—it's too obvious.”

• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin rounds up polling news, Trump/Cuba news, and Trump/Hitler news. Armando comments on Trump/Cuba, and the Hoboken train wreck. New contributor Paula Writer discusses NPR’s live debate fact-checking model.
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