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Trump folding, the only coachella recap you'll care about + NEW LORDE????
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Hi angels!!!! How was ur weekend? What did u do???? I went to the sweetest little craft market with my besties and bought the most AMAZING and Luce-coded vase ever:
My next update is that I now have a subscription to a physical paper to read in the weekends which I ADORE, not just because it keeps me off my phone more, but because it has crosswords in it.
This week I’m learning to sew with my new friend Sarah who runs
and we are FILMING THE WHOLE THING for her YouTube so that you can see that even the most chaotic/ unpractical person can learn to sew (that’s me.)Very excited for you all to see what I make!!!
That’s all for now, I’m off to watch the new season of The Last of Us!
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NEW LORDE MUSIC
This is all I can think about rn so it’s up first. Lorde got me through my teens, my early 20s, and is now here to shepherd me into my 30s. Thank god.
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Everything I cared about from Coachella
Charli XCX bringing out Lorde, Billie Eilish AND Troye Sivan
And as if that wasn’t iconic enough, Charli ended the set with a full-screen plea to the crowd that said:
“Thank you so much Coachella,”
“Does this mean that Brat Summer is finally over?????”
“Idk? Maybe? yeah cuz duh it was already over like last year.”
“wait... was it? NO???”
“I don't know who I am if it's over??? F-------...”
“Wait... I remembered... I'm Charli XCX... and honestly... I just want this moment to last forever...”
“PLEASE DON'T LET IT BE OVER.”
Clairo got Bernie Sanders to introduce her set:
Clairo kicked off her set with none other than Senator Bernie Sanders (plus Rep. Maxwell Frost) walking on stage to introduce her - turning the desert into the most unexpected political rally of the year.
Bernie opened with a rally cry to the youth, saying he was there because Clairo has used her platform to stand up for women’s rights, and to call for an end to the “brutal war in Gaza, where thousands of women and children are being killed.”
Then he called for economic, racial, and climate justice, threw a jab at Donald Trump’s climate stance (the crowd booed), then gave a little “I agree.” Like a mic drop, but with Vermont grandpa energy.
Lady Gaga KILLED
Just watch.
The Breakfast Club reunited and this is actually really important to me
When I was younger I was so obsessed with this film and I have watched it more times I can count, which is why I’m SO GAGGED that we got a reunion for the first time in 40 YEARS.
Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy reunited at a Chicago convention to reflect on the movie, the late great John Hughes, and why there will never be a sequel. (Spoiler: out of respect for the original. Love.)
I love this:
"I feel really, very emotional and moved to have us all together. This is the first time that Emilio has joined us. We don't have to use the cardboard cutout anymore because he's here," Molly Ringwald joked.
When asked why it took Estevez so long to attend a reunion event, he told Horowitz, “I skipped all of my high school reunions, so this just was something that finally I felt I needed to do just for myself.”
Trump totally folded on iPhones bro
So Trump just quietly let iPhones off the tariff hook and didn’t announce it because that would mean admitting he’s doing the very thing he said he wouldn’t do.
Over the weekend, the US quietly carved out a huge exemption from Trump’s whopping 125% China import tariffs. Buried in a customs doc was a lil’ code—“8517.13.00.00”—which, to most of us, means nothing. But to trade nerds? That code = smartphones.
Which means: iPhones are safe. Apple’s biggest product - and China’s number one export to the US by value last year - won’t get slapped with the new tax. Neither will other high-value electronics like semiconductors or memory cards.
This is kind of wild when you remember that Trump’s whole thing was “let’s bring iPhone production back to America.” Just last week, one of his commerce guys said the point of all this was to force Apple to shift production out of China. But now? They're basically saying, “JK. We like our iPhones cheap.”
Why? Because 80% of iPhones sold in the US are made in China. And if they got hit with that tariff, Apple would either:
jack the price of your next phone up to $2,000
or spread the cost globally, making the rest of the world pay Trump’s tax too (chaos)
Neither option was good. So… Trump folded. He exempted iPhones and a bunch of other stuff without saying it out loud. Fitting.
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