Early Addition: Melania Trump Says She's The Most Bullied Person In The World

Oct. 11, 2018, 11:11 a.m.

Because you want to know if you're a good millennial or a bad millennial, check out today's midday links: why you look at other people's phone screens, history of long CBS receipts, Leonard Cohen's Kanye West poem, Melania feels bullied, and a doggy floats away.

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  • Brett Kavanaugh has backed the Trump administration on jailing and deporting immigrants for crimes committed years earlier, which is truly rich.
  • Vox has the long, long history of long, long CVS receipts.
  • The NY Times writes about why you can't stop looking at other people's phone screens on the train and in public.
  • The so-called "Intellectual Dark Web" is tearing itself apart after Jordan Peterson tweeted critically about Brett Kavanaugh.
  • Trump's rallies lately haven't been producing very good ratings, so Fox News has stopped airing them in full.
  • For forty years, an original Salvador Dalí painting went unnoticed inside Rikers—then a gang of thieves decided it might be worth something.
  • Leonard Cohen wrote a poem about Kanye West: "I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is."
  • Melania Trump was asked about her "Be Best" campaign, and she hilariously responded: "I could say that I'm the most bullied person in the world."
  • The Ringer asks: What are the best songs written or performed on screen by characters in a movie?
  • Willy Staley has accurately re-defined the word "millennial" by breaking it up into two categories: "All births from 1982 through 1989 are 'good millennials,' representing the half of the generation genuinely hoodwinked by the collapse of the old economic order...All births 1990 and beyond—those who have few predigital memories beyond “Barney” episodes and had better luck skirting the recession, but seem intent on being defined by an all-consuming ennui—are, unfortunately, 'bad millennials.'"
  • What does life look like for girls turning 18 in 2018? The Times asked young women photographers around the world to show what it looks like.
  • And finally...halp me...