Following the Spanish government's attempt to halt the Catalan independence referendum, during which Catalonian voters were shot with rubber bullets and struck with batons at polling stations across the region, thousands of demonstrators have protested the Spanish police as an "occupying force."

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and took more than 60 lives and power from more than 3 million U.S. citizens, President Trump has landed in U.S. territory and promptly said that the country through the budget "out of whack."

But, you know, in Soviet Russia, Stalin confirms you, etc.

TIL: The Ditty app had "Monster Mash."

Legendary musician Tom Petty, best known as the frontman for the rock and roll band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, tragically passed away yesterday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles, California.