On Sunday night, the official Facebook page for Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller shared a photo of an atomic mushroom cloud bookended by the following text: "Japan has been at peace with the U.S. since August 9, 1945. It's time we made peace with the Muslim world." The post was erased early Monday, but not before people noticed. Miller, in his first year on the job, is on a business trip to China, but his campaign spokesman, Todd Smith, blamed Miller's staff for the post.

Not that Smith, or Miller, is apologizing for appearing to endorse the nuclear annihilation of "the Muslim world" — or punishing the staff member who posted the photo. "We're not going to apologize for the posts that show up on our Facebook page," Smith told The Texas Tribune. "I don’t know who did it, but I'm not going to start a witch hunt to find out who did." In fact, Smith added, he found the post "thought provoking."

"I read the post this morning, and we're at the 60th anniversary of dropping the atom bomb in order to destroy an insidious enemy that was intent on destroying American lives, and we face a similar enemy who has vowed to destroy American lives, and I think that's the topic that the American people are focused on," said Smith, who, again, works for the Texas ag commissioner. Miller has made his own remarks about staying awake at night worrying the U.S. will become "a Muslim country," The Dallas Morning News notes, and before the post was erased, it had 3,000 likes and 300 comments. Peter Weber

The State Department on Monday is expected to discuss the release of another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server, which was the subject of a year-long FBI investigation following controversy over her email practices while serving as secretary of state. Thousands of emails reportedly remain undisclosed, The Washington Post reports — even after the more than 30,000 messages Clinton's team gave to the State Department in December 2014. Conservative legal group Judicial Watch has sued for their release, and a hearing Monday will decide a timetable:

The Post reports that government lawyers are looking at a "rolling release schedule" to be set in October. In July, FBI Director James Comey recommended Clinton not be indicted for her server use, though he did characterize her email practices as "extremely careless." Kimberly Alters

An Indian man went to the hospital after experiencing stomach pain only to confirm to the shocked surgeons that yes, he had willingly consumed the dozens of knives they found in his stomach. "In 20 years, I've never seen such a patient," chief surgeon Jatinder Malholtra told The Washington Post. "I was amazed."

The pocket knives were both swallowed with and without their blades out, and were about seven inches long. The man was bleeding badly internally, and the surgeons, who recovered 28 knives, said he would not have lived much longer without their intervention. Although the patient said he'd eaten 28 knives total over a two month period, the surgeons' suspicions were aroused. They scanned him again, and found an additional 12 knives in his stomach.

When asked why he ate the pocket knives, the man, a 42-year-old police officer, replied, "I have made my mind to take the knives. I don't know why. Impulse. They were taken on impulse only." He confirmed to the surgeons, "I will not do it in the future."

Malholtra said the man "seems to" have a mental problem, such as Pica — which drives people to eat non-food substances — but said otherwise he seemed "very much a normal man." Jeva Lange

In the crucial swing state of Colorado, Donald Trump's Jefferson County campaign is being run by someone who is too young to vote … or even drive. Weston Imer, 12, in in charge of organizing volunteers in the county, which is part of the Denver metro area and has a population of about 552,000.

"Get involved," Imer told KMOV of his role. "That's what I'm going to say. Get involved. Kids need to be educated." Imer's mother, Laurel Imer, is the campaign's field coordinator on paper, although she wants to show other parents that "you have a responsibility to your children to teach them."

Hillary Clinton is up nearly 11 points on Trump in Colorado, according to the current Real Clear Politics average. She leads with 46.4 percent to Trump's 35.6 percent. Jeva Lange

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration from enforcing national guidelines that would require public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. A Texas-led coalition of 13 states protested that the White House was overreaching with the directive, arguing, "These new mandates, putting the federal government in the unprecedented position of policing public school property and facilities ... run roughshod over clear lines of authority, local policies, and unambiguous federal law."

Supporters of the guidelines had hoped to create "a safe, welcoming, and supportive learning environment for every student," the civil rights heads at the Department of Justice and Department of Education said.

States and localities are required to follow laws preventing the discrimination of the sexes in educational institutions in order to receive federal funding. But "because Congress did not provide clear notice that funds subject to Title IX were linked to an 'all comers' restroom and intimate areas policy — and in fact allowed separate-sex facilities — the Joint Letter is unconstitutional," the attorneys general for the states said in the motion. Jeva Lange

Donald Trump, showing no signs of curbing his use of personal insults, slammed longtime target Anthony Weiner on Monday, deeming the former New York representative a "pervert sleaze":

Trump warned that Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, is married to Weiner, and that Weiner "will send anything that he has out over Twitter, or any other form of getting it out." Trump has insulted Weiner in the past, calling him a "perv" and the "greatest sleazebag of our time."

Weiner has responded to the insults in the past, calling Trump "F---face Von Clownstick" on Twitter. Jeva Lange

George W. Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, is tired of Hillary Clinton blaming him for her email scandal. Clinton allegedly told the FBI that her use of a private email server came as a suggestion from Powell, a moment that is documented in a new biography of Bill Clinton:

Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, [Madeleine] Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation's next top diplomat. Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer ... [Powell] confirmed a decision she had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages. [Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton]

Powell himself said that he told Clinton in a memo that "his personal AOL email account…vastly improved communications within the State Department" when used for unclassified messages. But Powell told People in an interview published Sunday that Clinton's people "have been trying to pin it on me."

He clarified for the magazine that "the truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did." Jeva Lange

Donald Trump on Monday demanded the Clinton Foundation be shut down, issuing a statement calling the organization the "most corrupt enterprise in political history":

Hillary Clinton is the defender of the corrupt and rigged status quo. The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people. It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. What they were doing during Crooked Hillary's time as secretary of state was wrong then, and it is wrong now. It must be shut down immediately. [DonaldJTrump.com]

Trump has previously accused Hillary Clinton of a "pay-to-play" relationship with foreign donors during her time as secretary of state.

Hundreds of millions in donations have been given to the Clinton Foundation by foreign nationals and countries; such groups are forbidden from donating to U.S. political campaigns. The Clinton Foundation money has gone toward charitable causes including global women's rights, the fight against AIDS and HIV, and climate change.

Bill Clinton has said the foundation will stop accepting foreign donations if Hillary Clinton is elected to office. Jeva Lange