The Gist
Rejecting Jared
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Well, what do you know? In 2016, Trump tweeted that he wasn't trying to get a top security clearance for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A year later, he's finally right.
On The Gist, what's so special about an octopus? Slate's Daniel Engber has a takedown of the many-armed beast of the deep: The research on cephalopod intelligence is flimsy, he says, and the octopus is hardly the first animal to have fascinated us with its methods of escape.
In the Spiel, it's time to name another Lobstar.
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