Early Addition: The Real Significance Of FaceApp
July 25, 2019, 10:43 a.m.
Because Trump may or may not be a puppet, check out today's midday links: Nextdoor scams, Breezewood memes, Straight Pride California, Mueller fallout, FaceApp's significance, Josh Hawley profile, and a jumpy dog.

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- Lots of pundits are analyzing and debating today whether Robert Mueller's testimony yesterday was an effective "blockbuster" moment, or whether he was "neither a villain nor a hero nor an anti-hero but [the] impartial, third-person narrator of a story."
- Trump appeared in front of an altered presidential seal saying "45 is a puppet."
- Another "straight pride parade" is being planned, this time in California.
- You should check in on your parents and make sure they aren't being scammed on Nextdoor.
- New research shows that the extreme weather and fires of recent years may be making Americans sick by knocking chemicals loose from soil, homes, industrial-waste sites or other sources, and spreading them into the air, water and ground.
- Breezewood, Pennsylvania became a meme because of a photo of a strip of fast-food outlets and gas stations that has been used to critique the sameness of the American landscape. But maybe that's not the whole story.
- What's the major difference between smoking and eating marijuana?
- The NY Times writes that FaceApp's real significance is in its brutally compressed story: a tale of massive growth, incoherent backlash, critical resignation and normalization.
- The New Republic writes about how Josh Hawley, the junior senator from Missouri, has become the face of the post-liberal movement.
- Pro-tip: don't let your kid ride down the airport baggage conveyor belt.
- Faye Dunaway has been fired from the Broadway-bound one-woman play Tea at Five for allegedly slapping and "verbally abusing" the crew.
- Netflix announced it would not be renewing Lisa Hanawalt’s excellent animated series Tuca & Bertie.
- And finally, look at this very jumpy dog:
WAIT FOR MEEEEEEE
(staffbull_romeu_working IG) pic.twitter.com/iijXMd41RM— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) July 25, 2019