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In brief: Steel thyself, for today is likely to be the hottest day of 2025 so far. But the upside of this is that the region will see about 24 hours of modestly drier air starting late this afternoon or evening. Looking ahead to Memorial Day weekend, a chance of rain returns Sunday and especially Monday.

Tuesday

The city of Houston recorded its hottest day of the year last Wednesday, when the mercury hit 96 degrees at Bush Intercontinental Airport. Today, in advance of a weak front, we may go a tick or two higher. This is because of a pronounced warm, southwesterly flow in the atmosphere, and front that will be compressing air as it moves toward the region. Much of the city away from the coast will push into the mid- to upper-90s, and with sticky dewpoints in the 70s it’s going to feel like August outside. This seems really, really unfair for May, doesn’t it?

Well yes, it does. Fortunately, a weak front is going to slowly slide into the area this afternoon and evening. It may bring a few brief, scattered showers and thunderstorms with it. By around sunset this evening, areas inland of Highway 59/Interstate 69 should see dewpoints in the 50s. Air temperatures will still be warmish, for sure, but at least humidity will drop some. It probably won’t be until after midnight, or a few hours after, before these somewhat lower dewpoints drop all the way to the coast. With the drier air, low temperatures tonight probably will fall into the upper 60s for areas inland of Interstate 10, while being a bit warmer closer to the coast.

Wednesday

Don’t blink or you’ll miss the drier air. South of I-10 dewpoints will start climbing by Wednesday afternoon, and the humidity will spread inland everywhere by Wednesday evening. With the daytime sunshine, I expect highs to still reach the mid-90s on Wednesday with light northeast winds turning southeast. Lows drop to the low- to mid- 70s overnight.

Thursday

This should be a hot and partly sunny day, with temperatures in the mid-90s. I expect to see somewhat of a disturbed atmosphere aloft, and this normally might contribute to a chance of showers. However, this upper air will have to overcome a capping inversion, and for this reason I am going to limit rain chances to about 20 percent, and that is probably only for areas south of Interstate 10. Lows on Thursday night will drop into the 70s.

Friday

This should be a sunny, hot, and humid day with temperatures in the mid-90s.

Memorial Day weekend

The first third of the holiday weekend probably will see a continuation of Friday’s weather, but the forecast turns a bit more interesting later on. The combination of a weakening ridge of high pressure and a somewhat disturbed atmosphere may bring a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms into the region on Sunday, with better chances still on Memorial Day, perhaps 50 percent or higher Daytime highs should be cooler, perhaps in the lower 90s.

Next week

A wetter and somewhat cooler pattern should settle in next week. Probably we will see more May-like temperatures in the upper 80s, with a daily chance of showers and thunderstorms. We’ll see. Almost anything will be better than today’s August in May.

A reader writes:

A couple of weeks ago, I gave my employee, Rita, negative feedback on her behavior. It wasn’t what she was saying; it was how she was saying it. She was speaking rapidly and in a panicked but unwarranted manner. She was high-strung and scattered, and I felt interrogated. She accepted my feedback professionally, apologized, and showed subsequent improvement.

Two days ago, a coworker texted me a link to a blog about people with disabilities and asked, “This you?”

Rita has a regular column on a blog about her disability, ADHD. I knew she had an ADA accommodation, but that’s all. She wrote her latest column about our interaction. She accurately described everything, and she used this exchange as part of her argument that managers should be required to take training to better understand and manage neurodivergent staff.

Rita explained my criticisms of her were all about behaviors she couldn’t help, and the workplace is still based on neurotypical norms and expectations. (I am neurotypical, and she knows that.) She mentioned that she never disclosed her ADHD diagnosis at work as she has struggled with skepticism and disbelief before and “you can’t control what happens afterwards.” Plus she doesn’t want to be seen as a label. She talked about striking the balance between accommodating people with disabilities and not singling anyone out. If someone is acting in an unexpected manner, managers should never assume such behaviors are controllable or intentional. According to Rita, I didn’t truly understand what I was asking her to do. Despite taking medicine, she takes extra steps to control her mannerisms now.

I get the impression from her blog post that she’s nervous around me and she is apprehensive about contributing in discussions. Although she expressed sympathy for my role, she mentioned I probably had no idea how hurtful it was for her to hear that feedback and how difficult controlling herself is. She likened it to being asked never to touch your face at work.

I don’t know Rita that well. She is a top performer. I don’t feel comfortable bringing up the blog post because she intentionally didn’t disclose her ADHD. I wonder if she’s right. I have biases like everyone else, and I truly don’t know what her life is like. Was I wrong?

It’s hard to say without knowing exactly what happened and what feedback you gave about it.

Rita definitely is not wrong that workplace expectations are based on neurotypical norms and expectations. I don’t think it inherently follows from that that managers can never give feedback about something because it might stem from neurodivergence, or that every behavior stemming from neurodivergence is necessarily one that workplaces should accommodate. But it’s certainly true that, in general, we could all do a better job of thinking more expansively about what behaviors are truly problematic or disruptive versus what just doesn’t neatly align with what we were taught professional behavior looks like. It’s also true that most managers get little to no training on neurodivergence (or disabilities in general) and most are out there winging it.

Making this more difficult, Rita has good reasons for choosing not to divulge her diagnosis at work; there’s still a lot of stigma toward ADHD and other mental health diagnoses, and disclosing can end up harming people, even if they have generally supportive managers. (For example, it can mean that everything they do ends up seen through an ADHD lens — and so even minor mistakes that everyone makes will be seen as part of A Concerning Pattern for them, whereas for someone else it would get dismissed as a fluke or an off day.)

But it’s also not reasonable to decide that managers should never give feedback on anything because it might be linked to neurodivergence. At some point, the employee has a role in speaking up, too.

The best solution would be a broadening of what we understand “professional” behavior to look like — but we live in the world we live in, and that’s not something any of us has the power to change on our own. Would it be better for individual managers to stop and think, “Could there be more going on here than I understand, and are there ways for that to inform my approach when I raise this?” Yes, absolutely — and that’s the case for all sorts of factors, not just possible neurodivergence. But it’s not realistic to expect things will never be raised at all if they are (a) very outside a particular office’s norms in ways that are disruptive or alarming to others, or (b) out of character for a particular person.

I agree you shouldn’t bring up the blog post with Rita. She clearly didn’t intend for you to see it or to disclose anything to you. But you can use it to inform your own thinking! Would you have handled things differently with her if you’d accounted for a factor like ADHD in play? Would you have needed to raise it regardless but might have tailored your approach differently? And if so, could that become more of your default approach for everyone, since there could always be context you don’t have? Or does it not change anything about how you handled that situation? I don’t know what these answers should be since I don’t know exactly what happened — but they’re useful questions to think over, and you now have the advantage of some insight that can challenge your thinking. You might not land anywhere differently in the end, but it’s still useful to think all that through.

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A reader writes:

I have a coworker, Fred, who once told me the best work advice an older coworker gave him was “don’t be good at a job you don’t want.” In our three years working together, Fred has really shown he’s taken this advice to heart — unfortunately, at the expense of his team and myself. He often avoids doing entire parts of his job, leaving the rest of us to pick up the slack.

Fred and I report to the same boss and work in a small R&D team at a larger company that makes widgets. The job generally entails designing, optimizing, and testing new widget designs and widget-making processes. Each team member, assigned by my boss, owns one part of the widget-making flow: one person focuses on metal cutting, another on polishing, etc. Fred often abandons his metal-cutting processing duties and sticks to analyzing widget test data only. My boss loves the graphs he makes of this data and often gushes about them, which I guess causes him to forget or ignore that Fred hasn’t addressed excursions in the metal-cutting process. The team then has to scramble to do Fred’s process analysis job since it ultimately affects the entire team’s work product.

The team and I have expressed these concerns to my boss, and they’re met with meek promises to talk to Fred. My boss continues to heap praise on Fred and his graphs, though, and metal-cutting process data remains unanalyzed unless someone else does it. So does Fred have it all figured out? Can I ignore parts of my job I don’t like to focus on the parts I do, and do them really well? Do jobs usually work like this?

Apparently it works like that for Fred.

Does that mean it could work like that for you too if you were willing to be as audacious as Fred? Maybe. But sometimes Freds get away with it because of particular characteristics — like that they’ve been there forever, or the manager is intimidated by them, or they’re good enough at X (or believed to be good enough at X) that they’ve given slack everywhere else, or they’re a huge jerk if confronted and the manager is too weak to do anything about that, or the manager really likes them personally, or they remind the manager of themselves (which is not infrequently tied up with things like age/race/gender/religion).

Other times, it’s the sort of thing that is allowed as long as only one person is doing it, but once other people start doing it too, the situation becomes untenable and finally gets addressed. But unfairly, sometimes it’s the person who starts the behavior most recently who ends up the biggest target of that — and so while it might be a good strategy to finally get some attention on Fred, it’s not without a potential risk to you.

The advice “don’t be good at a job you don’t want” does have a more ethical application, which is not to be good at things that aren’t part of your job but which you’re getting asked to do anyway and don’t like. For example, it’s often smart for women to be strategically not good at the gendered “housekeeping” parts of work that tend to get assigned to women more than men regardless of their respective jobs (like taking notes or cleaning up after meetings, even if it has nothing to do with your job). But that’s a whole different thing than declining to do core parts of your job description just because you don’t like them.

To your question, though: could you ignore parts of your job like Fred does? Maybe. You could try it and see what happens. It carries some risk, though, because whatever unconscious protections that are in place for Fred might not be in place for you.

I’d rather see you and your coworkers continue to push your manager to deal with Fred instead. If the issue is that your boss is too meek/passive to act, sometimes the trick with that sort of manager is to make it more uncomfortable for them to do nothing than to just do their job and deal with Fred. That might mean continually pushing as a group to get your boss to tell Fred to do his job. (I’m stressing “as a group” so that you personally don’t become the aggravation in your boss’s eyes.)

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Read the first installment, published during Trump’s first term.

United States Department of Agriculture
Ad salmonellam
“Towards salmonella”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Perfugium profugorum
“Refuge from refugees”

Department of Education
Omnes discipuli reliquuntur
“Every child left behind”

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Silent iures
“The law falls silent”

National Nuclear Security Administration
Quis scientiam requirat?
“Who needs expertise?”

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ad Martem per stultitiam
“To Mars through folly”

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tempestatum praesagio divinatione
“Weather forecasting through divination”

National Public Radio
Desinite desinite… nolite me vastare!
“Wait, wait… don’t dismantle me!”

The Kennedy Center
Vobis Lapillum cordi futurum speramus
“We hope you like Kid Rock”

Health and Human Services
Polio vobis sit
“Polio be with you”

Food and Drug Administration
Omnes ab ipso periculo colorum artificiorum defendere
“Defending everyone from the real threat of artificial colors”

Department of Defense
Nihil consiliorum occultum tenere
“Keeping no plan secret”

Department of State
Frustra auxilium nostrum quaerant
“May they seek our help in vain”

Department of Government Efficiency
Cur scalpellum adhibeamus cum gladio uti possimus?
“Why use a scalpel when you can use a saw?”

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Caveat emptor
“Buyer beware”

Environmental Protection Agency
Natura denuo ex incendiis oritur
“Through wildfires nature is born anew”

Space Force
Explodere aude
“Dare to explode”

The Smithsonian
De patria nil nisi bonum
“About the country, nothing unless it is good”

The Republican Party
Pareo ergo sum
“I obey, therefore I am”

The United States of America
E tribus ramis unus
“From three branches, one”

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Taegan Goddard:

When Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem for the definition of “habeas corpus,” Noem incorrectly described it as a right that the President of the United States has to deport people.

You can go the Latin route (“produce the body”) or the English common-law route (the accused have a right to be shown the evidence against them and defend themselves in court). Noem went the “biggest clown of the clown-car Trump 2.0 administration” route.

The National Institutes of Health may soon unwind some of its widespread layoffs, the agency’s new director said in his first town hall address to employees, during which he questioned the organization’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic and whether it should conduct research related to racism. 

Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s pick to lead the agency who was confirmed to the role in March, said he did not play a role in the recent layoffs of 1,200 NIH employees. The reductions in force went into effect on the day of his swearing in, but Bhattacharya said he had no input on them. The director expressed remorse that he was not able to weigh in on those cuts, according to employees present for the meeting. 

He added that he hopes to bring people back from RIFs as needed, including those working in contracting. Bhattacharya noted there is a shortage of supplies at labs and medical centers and he is working to correct that. In his fiscal 2026 budget, President Trump proposed slashing NIH funding by around 40%. 

NIH has also recalled employees on a limited basis, according to an official there, but has required that a new RIF for each person brought back so the total impacted would remain unchanged.

Early in his presentation, according to employees who tuned into the talk, a small group of employees stood and walked out. Bhattacharya acknowledged the group and said dissent was welcome. 

The director mocked the previously required email in which employees throughout government were required to submit five things they had worked on the prior week, calling it silly and unnecessary. NIH has not required that email, first instituted by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, of employees in several weeks.

Bhattacharya suggested he and others believed NIH-funded research may have contributed to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns throughout the country. The director alluded to the theory that the virus originated from a laboratory in China and subsequently “leaked” to the general public, a view backed by President Trump and his administration. It was supported by the FBI but has received pushback from other intelligence agencies and international scientific organizations. 

The NIH chief addressed the COVID-19 origins while laying out his top priorities for the agency, one of which was research safety and transparency. 

Bhattacharya was asked about structural racism and said NIH should not conduct any research that advances an ideology, adding the question may not be scientific in nature. Research projects at NIH must be replicable and able to be disproven, he said. NIH has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants since Trump took office because they were deemed related to diversity, equity and inclusion. 

Employees submitted 1,200 questions for the town hall, according to Seana Cranston, NIH’s chief of staff, though Bhattacharya only answered a handful. They greeted the director, a sharp critic of the agency he now leads during the pandemic while serving as a professor at Stanford University, apprehensively. Employees described Bhattacharya as nervous during his presentation, particularly when he came out to silence rather than the usual applause.

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ORLANDO, FL—Emphasizing that it’s just words, after all, a team of relationship experts issued a recommendation Thursday that stressed the importance of saying “I love you” even if you don’t mean it. “It can be stressful when a significant other prompts you to verbalize your affection, but if you immediately say ‘I love you,’ you can avoid making things even more stressful,” couples therapist Randall Woodard told reporters, explaining that sometimes you just have to “fake it until you make it,” and that’s even more true when it comes to expressing love for your partner. “We actually recommend saying ‘I love you’ as soon as possible after meeting someone, regardless of your true feelings. Ultimately, adult relationships are something you have to deal with even if, deep inside, you’re filled with nothing more than a general numbness and you aren’t sure you’re capable of achieving a genuine emotional attachment to another person. The reality is that partners enjoy hearing ‘I love you’ and never know whether you’re saying it sincerely or not.” Woodard went on to offer a reminder that “I love you” is most effective when spoken during a fight, as it essentially functions as a get-out-of-jail-free card.

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LONDON—Noting how the new headpiece was much better suited to his royal lifestyle, King Charles III announced Wednesday that he had switched out his 5-pound, solid-gold crown for a more comfortable silicone one.  “Unlike my old crown, this silicone one hugs my head perfectly without digging into my forehead or smushing down my hair,” said the British monarch, who enthusiastically demonstrated how much stretch the pink, rubberlike polymer could withstand without losing its shape. “You would think it would make my skin all sweaty, but it’s actually a porous material, so I find it quite breathable. It’s so comfortable, in fact, that I’ve actually fallen asleep in it several times. Plus, I don’t have to worry about losing a precious centuries-old heirloom with more than 400 gemstones on it—this new one came in a convenient three-pack.” Charles went on to say that he knew it was time to make the switch when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, got the crown stuck in heavy machinery and had her head ripped off. 

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The bride and groom had dated for 25 years prior to their wedding Saturday, so God knows what inspired them to get married now.

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WASHINGTON—Calling for a major investigation into her husband’s son and daughter from a previous marriage, President Donald Trump leveled allegations Tuesday in which he accused Kamala Harris of paying for her stepchildren’s endorsement in the 2024 presidential election. “How much money did Kamala give the Emhoff kids to support her during her campaign for president?” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, claiming the former vice president had operated under the guise of stepmotherhood to cover up “illegal” and “unpatriotic” public appearances by Ella and Cole Emhoff. “There is no reason these stepchildren would have ever come on stage with Kamala if she hadn’t bribed them. Do you mean to tell me those $250 checks she wrote to each of them last year were just their usual birthday gifts? Not a chance!” At press time, Trump asserted it was corrupt and unlawful for a person seeking public office to help raise children in exchange for their endorsement.

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On the first day God said “let there be light, and even if there isn’t any just take the photo, don’t worry about it”.

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Rabbit is reading Samizdat 9 News. Nine comes up.

Nine: "Yo!"

Rabbit: "Nine, what's up?"

Nine: "I made a new thing! Come see!"

Rabbit: "OK."

It's a Magic 8 ball, but it's 9 instead.

Rabbit: "I get it, magic 9 ball. Very funny."

Nine: "Go on! Shake it!"

Rabbit shakes the 9 ball.

Ball: "Your report is complete bullshit."

Nine is ecstatic: "AGAIN!"

Rabbit shakes it again.

Ball: "You are probably holding it wrong."

Rabbit looks at Nine: "/lib/theo?"

Nine laughs.

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The president of the United States, on his blog:

Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, “EAT THE TARIFFS,” and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” So I guess I’m wrong that Trump is a know-nothing ding-dong slipping rapidly into dementia, and in fact possesses a first-rate intelligence. Because it’s Trump — soon to win a Nobel Prize in economics for this keen insight — who has been braying to the world, non-stop, for years, that tariffs are “a tax on a foreign country”.

So given that China pays for any tariffs the US imposes on Chinese-made goods, I, for one, don’t have the intellect to understand how there are any tariffs for Walmart to eat. I’m sure Trump is right and Walmart — a company whose “always low prices” brand results in net profit margins between 2–3% — will somehow “eat the tariffs” without losing money. I don’t know why the WSJ Editorial Board is so upset about this — the Republican Party has always been in favor of government price controls.

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

With Apple blocking Fortnite from returning to the U.S. App Store, Epic Games told the court that Apple was violating the injunction and asked that Apple be forced to approve the app. The judge overseeing the case responded to Epic’s request today, and she is sounding more and more fed up with Apple’s continued defiance and Epic’s grousing.

“More and more fed up” is perhaps euphemistic, given Gonzalez Rogers’s tone today.

“Bruce Springsteen has spoken out against the White House again after President Donald Trump called him a ‘dried-out prune’ on social media. Speaking in Manchester, England, the musician criticized the government for the second time during his Land of Hopes and Dreams tour, despite Trump previously biting back.” — Newsweek, May 18, 2025

I’m a middle-aged guy from Jersey. A freedom-loving, meat-and-potatoes family guy. A Springsteen guy. A Trump guy.

I’ve seen the Boss forty-seven times and own one of the largest collections of Springsteen bootlegs in North America. I’ve also been a registered Republican since I was old enough to vote and was part of the great Gen X wave that brought Trump back into office.

If you’re thinking that Springsteen’s empathy for the working class and exploration of the runaway American dream are about as far as you can get from President Trump’s plans to make America great again, well, my leftist daughter would agree with you.

“Have you actually listened to the lyrics of ‘Born in the USA’ or ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’ or, like, anything on Nebraska, Dad?” she asked me last year, before the election, when she was still speaking to me. Four years at Liberal University and all she learned is how to be a pain in my ass, but I just smiled.

I’ll never tell her what I really love about the Boss: all the songs about sex. On those first four albums, young Bruce was doing it everywhere: underneath the boardwalk, in an old abandoned beach house, possibly even in an ambulance. He was dancing in the dark, proving it all night, and teenage me couldn’t get enough.

Sure, I know Springsteen is a bleeding-heart liberal and has written a ton of political songs. I get that he intended “Born in the USA” as an indictment of our country, not a celebration. Doesn’t bother me. You know how people talk about separating the art from the artist? I believe in separating the lyrics from a good bop. Hell yeah, I was born in the USA! Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey! Bru-u-u-u-u-u-uce! I feel no need to go deeper than that. When Bruce tells those little stories between songs at his shows, anything that sounds like it might have some kind of “woke” point, I usually go get a hot dog and a couple of beers.

But this latest brouhaha has been impossible to miss, and I feel like I’m being asked to take sides. Touring in Europe, the Boss called our president “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous,” and Trump called Springsteen “a pushy obnoxious JERK” and a “dried-out prune.” He also hinted that the Boss might not be let back into the country. I fully expected a gloating text from my daughter, but it never came.

“You know Wendy’s not speaking to you,” my wife said, and reminded me that our daughter lost her job in one of those DOGE cuts. The look she gave me as she left the room suggested she thought I was, at least in part, to blame.

I wanted nothing more than to blast one of my favorite bootlegs—perhaps Bruce at the Nassau Coliseum in 1980, or Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2008—but those songs would just reinforce the choice I had to make. How could I give up Springsteen’s world of hot girls and cars? Of working men, so much like the working men and women who bust their asses in the business I inherited from my father?

But I also love the things Trump loves: money, and the promise of returning to a simpler time, when men were men, women were girls, and pronouns were something you barely remembered from fourth-grade English. Sure, the president can be petty and a bully. But also my business will make millions if he wipes out some of the EPA rules he’s promised to get rid of.

So I guess if I have to choose between a Tenth Avenue freeze-out and Trump’s Fifth Avenue hypothetical, I’ve gotta side with the leader of the free world. If I keep riding the Trump train, I’ll be able to afford the bachelor pad I see waiting for me in my future, and I’ll decorate it with Springsteen memorabilia should the Boss ever see the error of his ways.

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SILVER SPRING, MD—In the aftermath of the deadly storms that ripped through the central United States over the weekend, the National Weather Service confirmed Monday that due to critical staffing shortages, the agency was still weeks away from issuing a tornado warning to the affected areas. “We can’t say exactly when yet, but we hope to warn Kentucky residents that a massive, devastating tornado was headed their way Saturday morning in the next month or two,” said visibly overwhelmed NWS director Ken Graham, who told reporters that remaining staff members had gotten “a little buried” under three months’ worth of predictive reports about potentially life-threatening storms after the agency was hit with more than 550 layoffs earlier this year. “On top of everything, morale is pretty low right now, but we’re chugging along. While we’re optimistic we can put someone on the ground to monitor the weather conditions in Kentucky by midsummer, we have quite a backlog to worth through. Right now we’re trying to get the word out about a historic and fatal snowstorm that hit the Gulf Coast in January of this year. If you could help spread the word, we’d really appreciate it. In particular, the 11 people who died in that winter storm should exercise extreme caution.” At press time, the NWS had reportedly sent a volunteer door to door to visit piles of demolished homes in Kentucky and urge residents to get to their basements 72 hours ago.

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WASHINGTON—With the dispute threatening to derail legislative approval of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” congressional sources confirmed Monday that GOP infighting had erupted over whether the bill was beautiful or handsome. “Republicans have a lot riding on this legislation, and it’s a terrible sign that they can’t even get it out of committee without a screaming match over whether the bill is too rugged to ever be considered ‘beautiful,’” said conservative political analyst Bryan Stockford, adding that top Democrats had attempted to play these divisions to their advantage by characterizing the bill’s proposed tax cuts as “delicate” and “voluptuous” to constituents. “You also have a few fringe hardliners within the ‘beautiful’ camp saying that its provisions for Medicaid work requirements could only ever be described as ‘winsome,’ making it hard for Mike Johnson to get the consensus he needs to move it through the House. Unless Republicans can coalesce around the bill being either a dashing, debonair boy bill or a comely, glamorous lady bill, there’s a real chance this key piece of Trump’s agenda ends up dying on the floor.” At press time, House Republicans had reportedly become embroiled in a second argument about whether Trump’s bill was big or merely curvy.

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WASHINGTON—After a stunning admission that he’d been diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of the disease, former President Joe Biden reportedly faced mounting pressure on Monday to let a younger Democrat battle cancer. “Given the current landscape, we think a more youthful, energetic leader would be much better suited to fighting this deadly kind of metastatic prostate cancer,” said Democratic strategist James Carville, adding that while there likely wasn’t much time to pivot this late in the disease’s cycle, there were still several prominent politicians ready to step up and win. “Right now I think that Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and Pete Buttigieg are more than ready to take on a cancer with a Gleason score of 9. There’s even buzz about Gretchen Whitmer throwing her hat in the ring. Frankly, it’d send a very powerful message to Republicans if a female governor from a battleground state like Michigan overcame this terrible illness.” At press time, many Democrats had reportedly placed their support in the tumor, with internal projections showing that it was polling 10 points ahead of a generic Democratic candidate.

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Demery Ardell Wilson, who claims to have an allergy to onions, filed a similar lawsuit against Sonic Drive-In in 2024. That case remains pending.

A reader writes:

I am interviewing for two positions currently. So far I’ve interviewed six people and not one has sent any kind of follow-up or thank-you note. I can tell from the virtual meeting invite that they all have my email address, so that’s not the reason. I polled some friends and got a split on if these notes are even required nowadays. I know you always suggest writing a strong thank-you note to improve your candidacy, but honestly I’d be thrilled with even a one-line acknowledgement. With the candidates all being comparable, any candidate sending me a note is certainly going to rank higher for me. Am I being old-fashioned with this?

I answer this question — and two others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.

Other questions I’m answering there today include:

•  My employee apologizes all the time
• People incorrectly call me Mr.

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A reader writes:

We received and validated some complaints about language used by a member of my team — off-color jokes, insensitive comments, etc. I agreed with HR that this did not rise to the level of a formal warning, but we would have a documented sit-down with the associate to explain it wasn’t acceptable and should not happen again, and further instances would have escalating consequences. Before this, the employee was a high performer without issues.

HR scheduled the meeting on Friday for the following Monday with a very generic subject line and said that she wished to discuss “communication” and included my manager in the invite as a courtesy (she is aware of the situation and supports the approach).

My employee immediately rang me, asking what the topic was. I explained as best as I could and that we would go into details together. But I am not keen on the communication on this topic. I would have preferred to raise this in our regular 1:1 meeting and then follow up with an email including all and summarizing the topic. Am I right to think that this approach should have been more transparent up-front, especially over the weekend?

Yes, absolutely.

Most people who receive a mysterious request to meet with HR, their manager, and their manager’s manager the following week with no details about the topic and the subject line “communication” would be a little concerned, at a minimum. Others would be full-on panicking.

Leaving that hanging over them all weekend with no information is unkind.

And yes, this is something you should be able to handle on your own in a one-on-one meeting, anyway. If HR wants to be there, fine — but they should have coordinated with you about how it would be handled and not sent this cryptic email on their own. It’s crappy.

It sounds like once your employee asked you about it, you told them the basics, which was the right move rather than compounding the mystery and refusing to explain. Ideally at that point you’d say something like, “We’ve had some complaints about some language you’ve used and we want to clarify what is and isn’t okay. As long as we come out of that meeting on the same page I don’t expect it will need to be addressed again after that.” That way they know the topic and they’re also clear that they’re not about to be fired.

You have plenty of standing to tell HR that you think this was a bad way to handle it and that it unnecessarily panicked the employee, and ask that they coordinate with managers on this sort of communication in the future.

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