BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Halloween is approaching, and if you’re still unsure about what costume to wear, don’t worry! It’s natural to feel overwhelmed when there are so many options available. Sophie Strauss, a Los Angeles-based stylist, recommends asking yourself five essential questions to help limit your costume ideas in a fun, budget-friendly, and sustainable way. Here’s how to start. Embrace your Halloween personality First, consider what type of Halloween enthusiast you are. Do you enjoy going all out, or are you more of the “throw-on-cat-ears” type? Strauss says, “There’s no right or wrong.” Be honest with yourself. Forcing yourself into someone you are not may detract from the enjoyment of the season. Do you want to lean into pop culture or spooky season? Strauss recommends getting inspiration from popular culture. “TV shows, movies, memes, and trending topics can all be great sources for a costume,” she suggests. Last year, she dressed like Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights, inspired by re-watching vintage series. If the eerie season is more your thing, why not channel a legendary evil like Cruella de Vil? Strauss emphasizes that it does not require much effort—just grab some black and white hairspray and a fur jacket. What’s in your closet? Before you go shopping, check your own closet. You may already have pieces that can be combined into a costume. Strauss recounts how a simple denim jumpsuit, red bandana, and lipstick could turn someone into Rosie the Riveter. And don’t forget to ask your friends! Borrowing stuff is an excellent method to incorporate interesting, fresh components into your outfit without paying money. Sustainable alternatives for a unique look Instead of purchasing a new outfit, consider thrifting or obtaining second-hand parts. Pre-made costumes from big-box stores are typically wasteful because they are only worn once. Strauss promotes reusing clothes or finding unusual goods at a thrift store. If you have to purchase something new, make sure it is something you will wear beyond Halloween. Choosing a Halloween costume does not need to be stressful or expensive. By thinking creatively, borrowing, and thrifting, you may achieve a fun, unique appearance without breaking the bank or the earth. With a little imagination and these five guiding questions, you’ll be ready for a great Halloween!The post Things to consider when deciding on the perfect Halloween costume first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, repeatedly dodged questions from Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday. Baier pressed her on immigration, taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries, and President Joe Biden’s mental acuity, among other key issues. Here are four key takeaways. 1. Immigration Baier began the interview by asking Harris about immigration policy. He directly asked her whether she regretted Biden’s reversal via executive orders of his former President Donald Trump‘s border policies. “When you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies, most significantly the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation, either in the U.S. or in Mexico, and you switched that policy. They were released from custody [while] awaiting trial,” he noted. “Included in those were a large number of single men, adult men, who went on to commit heinous crimes.” “So, looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration?” Baier asked. Harris declined to answer the question, instead emphasizing the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a bill Biden championed that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. That bill did not progress to the House or Senate floor. ?Kamala Harris' epic border dodgeBret Baier presents a very simple question: Does Kamala Harris regret the Biden-Harris administration's decision to reverse Trump border policies? Specifically, he asked about the Biden-Harris policy of catch-and-release, which allowed illegal… pic.twitter.com/dLsVzahiWP— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 17, 2024 Baier attempted to return to the question. He named women and girls who have died at the hands of illegal aliens who had been released into the country under the Biden-Harris administration. Harris replied that these “tragic cases … should not have occurred,” but she then immediately pivoted to touting the immigration bill Biden supported early this year—a bill that critics say would have cemented Biden’s open-border policies into law. Baier responded by quoting Harris’ previous statements that “the border is secure” and asked her when she thought immigration became a crisis. She responded by claiming the crisis predated Trump, which suggests that she was lying when she had previously called the border “secure.” The Fox anchor proceeded to ask her about her 2019 policy positions, when she ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. “You supported allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver’s licenses, to qualify for free tuition at universities, to be enrolled in free health care,” he noted. “Do you still support these things?” Harris again dodged the question, saying, “I will follow the law.” Baier asked her why she selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has signed some of those same provisions into law, if she does not support them. She again repeated, “We must support and enforce federal law.” Baier asks Harris about her 2019 policy positions: "You supported allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver's licenses, to qualify for free tuition at universities, to be enrolled in free health care. Do you still support these things?"DODGE FOUR: Harris… pic.twitter.com/O8ikH2ZcJK— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 17, 2024 2. Transgender Surgeries for Prisoners Baier played a clip from a Trump campaign ad attacking Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for federal prison inmates. “Are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?” he asked. “I will follow the law, and it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed,” Harris replied. She was referencing a New York Times report that Trump appointees at the Bureau of Prisons, a Justice Department division, provided cross-sex hormones for inmates who requested them. The report cites a February 2018 memo to Congress in which bureau officials wrote that federal law obligated them to pay for a prisoner’s surgery if it were deemed medically necessary. That report notes, however, that a legal battle postponed the first surgery done on an inmate until 2022, when Biden and Harris were in office. “The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy and no gender transition surgeries happened during his presidency,” Baier responded. “You’ve got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration,” Harris replied. Baier twice pressed her on the issue, and she again dodged, saying she would “follow the law.” ?"I will follow the law" is the new "I was born in a middle-class family." Kamala Harris completely dodges Bret Baier's important question about whether she still supports taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries on prison inmates. She claims the surgeries were available… pic.twitter.com/Woq5pRSp7d— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 17, 2024 3. Not ‘a Continuation’ of Biden Baier played clips from previous interviews in which Harris said she would not have done anything differently than Biden in the past 3-1/2 years. He then asked her, “Nothing comes to mind that you would do differently?” “Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris replied. “Like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership.” Yet Harris declined to mention any specific policy she would change, besides repeating her plan for giving down payment assistance to first-time home buyers and extending a tax deduction for small businesses. ?NOT A CONTINUATION? When pressed, Kamala Harris insists that her presidency "will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency," but she declines to say exactly what she would have done differently these past four years. pic.twitter.com/UsxtoDbxhO— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 16, 2024 4. Biden’s ‘Mental Faculties’? Baier asked Harris about Biden’s mental acuity, a particularly salient question given Biden’s late-stage withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. It appears that Biden, who repeatedly insisted he would not leave the race following a poor debate performance against Trump in June, had been pressured to withdraw in favor of Harris. “You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game,” Baier noted. “When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared diminished?” “I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people,” she replied. When pressed again, Harris said, “Joe Biden is not on the ballot, and Donald Trump is.” “You met with him at least once a week for 3-1/2 years. You didn’t have any concerns?” Baier pressed. “The American people have a concern about Donald Trump,” Harris replied. ?Kamala Harris repeatedly dodges Bret Baier's question about when she noticed problems with Joe Biden's mental acuity. "Joe Biden's not on the ballot." Why, exactly, is that, madame vice president??"You met with him at least once a week for three and a half years. You… pic.twitter.com/QCrfNO4iHS— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 16, 2024 The post 4 Takeaways From Kamala Harris’ Fox News Interview With Bret Baier appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Kamala Harris is shameless enough to suggest Donald Trump is a coward keeping within a "safe space" of supportive interviewers and that he's showing signs of cognitive decline. Who lets her makes these claims without the context of her own hiding of interviews and hiding of Biden's mental decline? The pro-Kamala media. The headline on Mediaite: "Kamala Harris Hammers Trump Avoiding Debate and Tough Interviews: He’d ‘Rather Cocoon Himself in Safe Spaces’ of Conservative Media." The amnesia is remarkable. Reporters sound like repeaters. So much of the "reporting" on Harris is basically just announcing what she’s doing and who she’s trying to reach and what the message of the day is. There’s nothing there to analyze, only publicize. They don't mind being stenographers to power when they support those in power. The networks were joining the Democrats in pouncing on  a Trump town-hall meeting with supporters that was interrupted after several medical emergencies in the audience. So Trump just played songs for more than a half-hour. "Trump rally derailed," proclaimed NBC, it was a "bizarre dance party." On MSNBC, Michael Steele ranted over the dance party: "This man cannot be the leader of the free world. He cannot articulate a vision for that world. He cannot — he cannot lay out a plan. He has concepts of plans. Now imagine if the current vice president of the United States got on a stage to say, 'To hell with the questions. Why don’t we just sit here and listen to music?' There would have been all kinds of racial memes about her, about her sex, about her ethnicity, and her being incompetent.” While Kamala Harris continues to avoid any interview with The New York Times, J.D. Vance again entered hostile territory to be grilled on their podcast "The Interview" with NPR refugee Lulu Garcia-Navarro. This woman is so far to the Left that she relayed in 2016 that being kissed by one of Fidel Castro's two brothers in Cuba was like "getting the blessing of the Holy Trinity." Sounds like NPR.  Naturally, Lulu grilled JD about accepting the 2020 election results. In this case, he threw back at her that research shows that the media's suppression of anti-Biden stories was crucial in rigging Biden's win. An MRC poll in 2020 shows 17 percent of Biden voters surveyed said they would not have voted for Biden if they knew about the anti-Biden stories suppressed, especially the Hunter Biden laptop and its evidence of a Biden family influence-peddling business. Speaking of NPR, a Nexis search shows NPR has done nothing on Kamala's plagiarism in her book Smart On Crime. But her unofficial press aide Deepa Shivaram can talk about her courting black male voters. They do stories with that theme, "So what is her message?"  Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  

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Kamala Harris conducted a filibuster interview with Fox News host Bret Baier where she talked incessantly but said little, appeared to grow angry on several occasions, and simply said the name “Trump,…