Sarah Jeong

21-year-old Mads Mikkelsen (not the famous one) tells Norwegian newspaper Nordlys that he was pulled aside by customs officials at Newark Airport. An agent searched his phone and found (1) a photo of a wooden pipe he had made, and (2) that one meme of JD Vance where he has the giant bald baby head.

In case you missed it, King Charles III opened Canadian parliament with a speech from a literal gilded throne, hailing “democracy, pluralism, the rule of law, self-determination and freedom” as “values which Canadians hold dear.”

Shira Perlmutter, who may or may not be the head of the Copyright Office depending on how deranged the Supreme Court’s interpretation of executive power becomes, has now sued the Trump administration, including Perlmutter’s supposed replacement Paul Perkins “in his capacity as the person claiming to be the Register of Copyrights.”

The premier webcomic for nerds has a fresh and informative chart explaining what the average American doctoral program looks like in 2025.

CBS News reports a huge rise in “egg interceptions” — a combination of words I have never seen before — coinciding with a drop in fentanyl seizures.

After a heated hearing in a California district court this morning, Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration must offer to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were fired as part of the DOGE cuts. There were a lot of things that irked the judge, though most predictably, he did not like that an Office of Personnel Management official ghosted the court after being ordered to testify. (“I’m getting mad,” the judge said.)