Early Addition: Watch World Leaders Laugh In Trump's Face

Sept. 25, 2018, 10:58 a.m.

Because you want to try cheese tea, check out today's midday links: 'Almost Famous' musical adaptation, music playlist DNA, Ted Cruz heckled, Kavanaugh's high school yearbook, new Flight Of the Conchords, and doggy confronts salad.

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  • After Donald Trump said his administration had accomplished more than almost any other president in history, the audience of world leaders at the United Nations laughed at him.
  • Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbook page includes “Renate Alumnius," a reference to student Renate Schroeder, which was part of "the football players’ unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests."
  • Kavanaugh's former roommate, James Roche, has spoken out in solidarity with Deborah Ramirez, saying: "Although Brett was normally reserved, he was a notably heavy drinker, even by the standards of the time, and that he became belligerent and aggressive when he was very drunk."
  • Rebecca Traister wrote about Deborah Ramirez, imperfect stories, and the drive to silence women: "The message to women — especially those whose voices might disturb the peace — has always been that things will go better for them if they keep their mouths shut."
  • Do you want a music playlist based on your DNA? Ancestry is teaming up with Spotify to do just that.
  • Cameron Crowe is adapting Almost Famous into a stage musical.
  • Ted Cruz was heckled by protesters at a restaurant in DC, so he consoled himself by looking at photos of Beto O'Rourke.
  • Flight of the Conchords chatted and performed an unreleased song on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
  • Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced they are stepping down.
  • Mel Gibson has been released from Movie Star Jail and will co-write and direct a remake of The Wild Bunch that no one wants or needs.
  • A newly released memo obtained through a FOIA request reveals that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen signed off on a family separation policy, meaning she lied during the White House press conference when she said there was no such policy.
  • The East Village will soon have a shop that serves cheese tea, a drink in which a frothy milk and cream cheese foam tops tea.
  • Was Guardians Of The Galaxy secretly a remake of Footloose?
  • And finally, what is this leaf doing in my food bowl?