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2025 is declared 'the year of spit.' Plus: Republicans' Daddy fetish, bush is back (again), Haim is breaking up with him on your behalf, and more in the weekend roundup.

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Happy Sunday! In this week’s roundup, we’ve got Jeff Bezos floating in the Venice canal, an “unromantic comedy,” the Zoomer sex recession, and more.

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Amanda Montei
and I put couples therapy on the couch in the latest episode of our new podcast Dire Straights. As of this writing, the pod is #12 rising in Culture on Substack. Help us climb—listen, subscribe, tell all your friends!

Vulture declares 2025 “the year of spit” (see: that Sinners spit scene), and The Cut says that “Everyone’s Spitting in Each Other’s Mouths These Days.”

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