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Trump attends the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees, Paris. Photograph: Lichtfeld/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock

I would really love for one week to go by when I dont have to think about Russia. Or the Trumps. Or the seemingly never-ending threat to democracy that were currently dealing with. Cant a girl have a week off?

Lets try to focus on the positive: at least this stuff is coming out; at least there are emails proving what so many suspected. At least its looking unlikely that Trump Jr will be able to weasel his way out of being held accountable. (Though if I see any more pieces calling this nearly middle-aged man a kid I will lose it.)

So yes: this is all truly bizarre and scary, that much hasnt changed. But it does feel like were starting to get somewhere. At least, thats what Im telling myself.

When a family was pulled out in a riptide, Florida beachgoers formed a human chain to save them this story is exactly what I needed this week.

Michelle Goldberg on Trump and reproductive rights; April Wolfe at LA Weekly on the tricky politics & skill of filming a rape scene; and Tamara Walker on black tourists and racists abuse.

Besty DeVos met with organizations this week working to end campus rape, but somehow also made time for those claiming that that sexual assault at colleges isnt that big a deal.

On a scale of one to ten, this airline requiring women applying for crew jobs to take a pregnancy test has me at a full ten. Peeing on a stick shouldnt be part of a job application.

My friends opened a new bar in Brooklyn, and Im spending an awful lot of time there drinking incredible cocktails and thinking about how exciting it is that Cecile Richards is writing a book. There are still good things in this world.

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The never-ending threat to democracy continues. Can't a girl have a week off? - The Guardian