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There is no me without you. Would I remember your phone number if my contacts were suddenly deleted, with no backups? If I’m being completely honest, not even the area code.

I have known you for the entirety of my time on this mortal plane. Should we FaceTime with the kids? Okay. No, yeah. [Takes a shot.] I think I could do that.

I want to know EVERYTHING that is going on with you. By scrolling through your social media posts.

Sometimes I miss you so much that your absence feels like someone close to me has passed away. Ah, you want to get a phone call on the calendar? Oh. No, that sounds amazing. [Panics in millennial.] Two weeks from Wednesday, perfect. I definitely won’t completely forget until the phone rings.

Every aspect of my personality was informed or shaped by you. Please enjoy this GIF of Beyoncé dancing for your birthday.

The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members.

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Why did a shadowy nonprofit make a six-figure gift to Trump’s inauguration committee? “It was mostly to meet people,” said a company official.

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1. Grandparents who are alive, healthy, live nearby, and agile enough to get down onto the floor to clean up meals and snacks but not too agile that they would rather be out walking their shih tzus, biking across the Dutch countryside, or doing literally anything else with their time.

2. A parent who can exclusively work from home and their company will happily pay them to jiggle their mouse every hour, leaving plenty of time for the toddler’s requests for the parent to sing twenty-eight rounds of “Down by the Bay.”

3. A Swedish au pair named Maja. Her family is independently wealthy, and she’s just doing this “job” so she’ll have something for her college applications. All she asks is to stay in the guesthouse (that you definitely have) and be paid in Mint Oreos.

4. A community college student named Maya, whom you have scammed into coming to your house every day to be your unpaid intern. She mistakenly believes she will receive credit for a class entitled: “Early Childhood Development and Perpetually Sucking Mucus Through a Straw.”

Steeper, faster, and higher peaks make more species

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Last week Trump blinked. He paused reciprocal tariffs above 10% for all countries bar China. Then he exempted electronic goods coming out of China, including smart phones, the price of which was about to go through the roof for American consumers. Trump’s tariff policy has not yet been defeated. And it would be a mistake […]

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