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You should actually take Trump's child-care policy seriously, because Ivanka wrote it.

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Donald Trump will announce his proposed child care policy in at 7:30 PM in Aston, PA, and it is by far the most detailed proposal he's made—because it was crafted by the most serious (and popular) of Trumps, Ivanka. Beginning with her speech at the Republican National Convention, Ivanka Trump has set out to do with child care what her father did with trade and globalization: steal the Democrats' decades-old positions out from under them. So far, she's nailing it.

The first half of Trump's announcement is expected to be a mandate that all companies provide women with 6 weeks paid maternity leave. This was a big deal when Ivanka first proposed it, and a direct departure from Republican orthodoxy, which states that it's an inappropriate expansion of government spending (the government helps companies pay for leave, they can't just order it) and an unfair imposition on employers' freedom. Clinton, by contrast, is proposing 12 weeks of paid family leave.

It was this speech. You remember, the one where this happened.

The second big piece of the Trump plan is helping pay for child care (and care for the elderly). According to a Trump campaign memo shared with journalists on Tuesday, the proposal “will rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child-care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents.” It will not be available to individuals earning over $250,000 or families earning over $500,000 a year.

"Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown on babies until he figures this whole thing out." - Not what Trump will say tonight.

That part is less revolutionary, as the GOP has always been a fan of deductions. The only problem is that families already get lots of deductions for kids, and the families who need the most help don't have a large tax burden to cut. Furthermore, low-income parents often work multiple jobs, requiring even more child-care expenses since they're away from home so often.

We're so sorry.

The alternative option, favored by Democrats, are subsidies for child care to make it cheaper for everyone. The Clinton campaign unveiled their proposal in May. According to the Washington Post, she's "proposing to cap the expense at 10 percent of a household’s income. She intends to reach that lofty goal with tax credits and subsidized child care, both of which would require an enormous public investment."

"Ha, look at this nerd with her details!"

Ivanka Trump has been urging her father for months to make this a centerpiece of his campaign, correctly guessing that the Democrats had taken the issue for granted. Her involvement suggests this won't be an issue Donald flip-flops on like so many others. While Donald has had some missteps on this topic—he claimed he provided daycare to workers, when in fact he only provided it to paying hotel guests—it would be a mistake for Democrats to assume his daughter has the same inattention to detail.

TFW you've been underestimated but are smarter than your whole family.

Nyle DiMarco jokes he's glad to be deaf so he doesn't have to hear Donald Trump.

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America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Starswinner Nyle DiMarco spoke (or signed, rather) at the Human Rights Campaign National Gala where he revealed one of the biggest advantages to being deaf: he doesn't have to listen to Donald Trump speak.

For me and for many of us, it is an advantage and it's a part of my identity, in fact. It's a huge part of who I am. And in this very turbulent political year trust me, don't you want to turn the volume off completely when Donald Trump starts to rant? I have a tremendous advantage there as well. I don't hear a thing!

Oh okay, so DiMarco is already a hot model, can dance, and is an activist. Now we find out he has a sense of humor, too? Cool. Just when you thought your crush couldn't get any bigger, this happened.

DiMarco, who said in his speech that he identifies as sexually fluid deaf man, went on to discuss the importance of identity and loving yourself for who you are.

If you can stop looking at his piercing blue eyes for just one moment, you can read on his Instagram why Nyle has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.

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A woman in India gave up her arranged marriage because the guy wanted her to give up her dog.

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Karishma Walia's family set her up with a potential husband, a common practice in her native India. But after talking with the husband-to-be, Walia was like wait, you don't like dogs? BYE!

It's like he didn't even read her "About Me" section on Facebook.

For my dog, I am the one. And that's all that matters. #DogLove #DogsOfFacebook #ILoveYouLucyWalia

Karishma Walia.

She told BuzzFeed:

My mom thought he's an excellent match because he's good-looking and well-off... There was a lot of family pressure, and they still think I did the wrong thing by raising the concern about my dog... He would say things like "family should be a priority and not career..." I gave up when he commented about my dog. I don't why my family still thinks he's an eligible bachelor.

Sounds like a total dud to us. Just look at this pooch!

Lucy Walia.

Walia went on:

I have been talking to him for over a week now. I spoke to him couple of times more, and he pissed me off with the way he was enforcing his decisions on me.

Good for you Ms. Walia, you dodged a bullet.

Guy puts wife for sale on eBay as a goof, but the bidders weren't joking.

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You know when you have a dazzling idea for a prank and then it goes really badly? And also you might be kind of a tool? That's what happened to a 33-year-old man named Simon Kane from the UK, who put his wife Leandra up for sale on eBay after he claims she was "unsympathetic" to his needs and "whining" at him. It was a joke, guys! Just not a funny one.

"I came in after work feeling a bit tired and unwell - my was wife dong the usual concerned bit but said I was burning the candle at both ends and was basically just whining at me," said Simon, who would obviously be played by Seth Rogen in the Judd Apatow adaptation of this story. "I thought 'right I'm going to put you up for sale'."

But then people tried to buy her. Two days after Simon posted the listing last Wednesday night, bids for Leandra had reached£65,880 (about $87,000).

In the post, he had highlighted his wife's "body work and paint work" which are "in decent shape," as well as her "skills in the kitchen."

Here's the whole listing if you can stomach it (jokes! lol!):

For sale one wife. Not new has been used but still got some good miles left in her. Reason for selling... I've had my fill and feel like there HAS to be someone me (oh dear God please let there be). Good points: Body work and paint work still in decent shape and has some skills in the kitchen. Bad points: Often makes this noise that cannot be silenced unless you order brand new shiny parts of metal. Sometimes them [sic] skills in the kitchen result in you ending up in hospital. All in all not a bad model for the year, I'm sure some lucky guy will get lots of use. Offers welcome, may consider a part exchange for a younger model. *T&Cs: Once bought you cannot return... EVER!

You can see how this could maybe, possibly be funny, assuming these two have the kind of mutually-respectful prank-pulling relationship that only exists in indie rom coms.​

But then again, they might not. "I was absolutely fuming - I wanted to kill him," Leandra told the Mirror. "Everyone at work saw it and were laughing their heads off. Not only did he put me up for sale but he used such a bad photo."

I guess the lesson here is: don't sell your spouse, even as a joke. But if you do, use a better picture you jerk.

Men revealed what they actually, honestly look for in a wife.

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There comes a point for many heterosexual men when they decide it is time to settle down and take a wife. But how to know if your significant other is The One? Luckily, the sensitive dudes of Reddit know exactly what they want out of a female life mate, and they recently came together to share the qualitiesthat they think make a woman "wife material."

1. NoveltyHoosier wants someone he can go toe-to-toe with on the important issues of the day without getting blocked on Facebook.

I want someone that I can argue with (and who will argue with me), without it turning into a fight. Someone that can call me on my BS when it matters, who isn't going to flip out if I call her on hers. I'd much rather be with someone who will challenge me and make me rethink things than someone who is trying too hard to be nice and sweet all the time. (Then again, I may just have a thing for hot tempered girls.)

2. Maccnrv wants a girl who does her own thing but also loves his favorite band, Chumbawamba.

She loves what she does, she cares about herself as much as she cares about me and she smiles a lot :) Bonus: she likes the same music as me.

3. To get serious for a second, shannondidhe would like a woman who does not do that.

The biggest thing that set my wife apart from every other girl I dated was just our ability to not take things so seriously.

I don't mean not taking our relationship seriously. Of course, we're committed to each other and our relationship, however we really don't get overly serious about our day to day interactions.

4. CitizenTed wants a woman to bring the funny, unlike some guys who think that just means "she has to laugh at my jokes."

And a sense of humor doesn't mean she laughs at funny things. It means she says funny things or does funny things. It means she makes YOU laugh. And that she does it regularly. If you have to think "when was the last time she made me laugh...a few weeks ago?" then she doesn't have a sense of humor.

5. A user named roguetroll just needs you to be subjectively beautiful, girl.

She's got to be attractive to me, otherwise I don't think I'd be interested in getting to know her to begin with. But "being attractive" isn't just about looks. Unfortunately, I can't get around "good first impressions."

That being said, she'd need to have some sort of hobbies and interests. Literally anything that isn't "watching TV." I don't care if she drags me to a freakin' museum with weird crap, as long as she's into something.

6. Someday, Gargatua13013 is going to write the best wedding vows, but then have the worst honeymoon.

Wife material is easy to recognize; just ask yourself if you'd want that girl back to back with you to fight off sharks.

7. As if there could be something better than a planet made of marzipan, PlanetMarzipan.

Someone who makes me better than I am

8. BunglingBoris loves his mate with the same burning-hot intensity with which she hates Danny Glover.

Our first date, she wanted to watch Saw...

And when Danny Glover got his throat cut she forgot herself completely and cheered, fair to say she hates Danny Glover.

This girl is not afraid to be herself, and that is sexy as hell to me.

9. And if she's rude to a waitress, for example, Foolscap77 could then ask her out.

How they treat others, especially when there is nothing to gain. Looks will fade over time, but things like kindness and respect for each other should always be there.

10. User egrandhustle wants a woman who is so awesome that her awesomeness rubs off on him and makes him have to be awesome just to keep up with her awesomeness.

Someone I learn from and stimulates me. Someone who a son would know what to see in a woman and a daughter would look up to be one day.

11. Ah, so originalmango wants everything.

Intelligence. A sense of humor which tends to come with smarts. Honesty. Ethics. A huggable playground of a body that I can do stuff to.

12. Breaking it down, awwwws requires a wife who can just hang out and have fun no matter what. Solid.

That she likes to pretend with me to be on my never ending TV show "chillin wit bb"

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Video of world's easiest, quietest water birth goes viral.

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When most of us think about childbirth, we think of screaming, sweaty women in stirrups who grab the doctor by their collar and yell, "GET THIS KID OUTTA ME!" before hissing at their partner through gritted teeth, "YOU did this to me." Right? We all think of that? Is that too specific? Oh well. Anyway.

This certainly was not the case for one mother named Audra who gave the easiest, quietest water birth imaginable. Truly, the baby looks like it just slides right on out.

The video was uploaded by midwife Lisa Marie Oxenham. According to the post, this was Audra's second home birth.

My client Audra's beautiful second home birth. A midwife's role is fluid, providing whatever is necessary for each individual birthing experience, although almost always that role is simply to offer the gift of quiet presence.

The commotion comes after the baby was born, as the second-time-mom holds her child close to her chest and cries. Not only did she just bring life into this world, but she did the impossible—she made childbirth look easy. Congrats to that baby, your parents seem mega chill.

At long last, Kim Kardashian has released new presidential Kimoji.

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Election Day is less than two months away, and just when you thought the race for the highest office in the land couldn't get any more exciting, Kim Kardashian West goes and releases presidential-themed ​Kimoji. Finally, you'll be able to fully express your thoughts and feelings with a tiny image of Donald Trump crying.

Just imagine all the occasions where you'll be able to use these Kimoji! Like when you're texting friends about the new deck of Hillary Clinton playing cards you bought, or all those times you visit the White House. You can use them when you think President Obama might be sad!

Just what this election has been missing—emoji of a crying president and two candidates. THANKS, OBAMA. Wait, I mean THANKS, KIM KARDASHIAN.

Dr. Pimple Popper rids a grateful woman of her 'buffalo hump' lipoma.

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Here it is, folks: your daily dosage of pimple popping.Dr. Pimple "Sandra Lee" Popper took on a "buffalo hump," which is not a sex move for teens in Upstate New York, but rather a hump on the neck resembling that of a buffalo.

Fun fact: "Buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically sound sentence.

Dr. Pimple Popper's patient had been living with this "buffalo hump" for four years, but it was finally time to break up. Dr. P.P. works her magic and makes sure it's a smooth one. The patient even got to hold it to say goodbye. (The magic starts at around 4:00.)

Also pro tip: if you've never made it to the end of a lipoma video, watching Dr. P.P. stitch up the wound is just as oddly soothing as the poppin'. She truly is an artist.

'Bake Off' hosts Mel and Sue quit in pun-filled letter after producers change their channel.

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OK, bakers, time to get sad: Mel Giedoryc and Sue Perkins, beloved presenters of the BBC series The Great British Bake Off, have sadly decided to call it quits. Their decision to step down comes just one day after it was announced that Bake Off would be moving from BBC One to Channel 4. The pair issued a joint statement on Tuesday laying out their reasoning. Fittingly, it included several baking puns:

We were very shocked and saddened to learn yesterday evening that Bake Off will be moving from its home. We made no secret of our desire for the show to remain where it was.

The BBC nurtured the show from its infancy and helped give it its distinctive warmth and charm, growing it from an audience of two million to nearly 15 million at its peak.

We’ve had the most amazing time on Bake Off, and have loved seeing it rise and rise like a pair of yeasted Latvian baps.

We’re not going with the dough. We wish all the future bakers every success.

Love Productions, the company that produces the show, issued their own statement in response to the presenters' departure:

We would like to thank Mel and Sue for bringing their own unique humour to the tent over the past years and we respect their decision not to be part of the Bake Off team on Channel 4.

We're sure Mel and Sue made the right call, but the baking tent will never be the same without them. They were the best part of the show. That is, except for Britain's Queen of Cakes and sass-master extraordinaire, Mary Berry.

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Peanut the Chihuahua ate a pot cookie and went viral for being chill AF.

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A 6-pound Chihuahua named Peanut ate a marijuana-laced cookie belonging to a guest of Reddit user Choices63, and despite getting a bit paranoid (been there), the dog was pretty cool about the emergency vet visit and generally really chill. Noice.

Wrote Choices63:

We took him to a local university vet medical school. He only weighs 6 lbs so we were concerned about how much he had, plus there was some chocolate in the cookie so just wanted to be safe. What was funny is they weren't phased at all - clearly not the first time they had seen a stoned animal. He's generally a very happy dog but this was definitely a dose of paranoid pot. In addition to not being able to stand, he was very jittery and afraid. Poor guy :( They kept him about 10 hours, induced vomiting and gave him some kind of charcoal activated something to help soak up the rest. He was pretty normal by the time we got him home.

Glad that Peanut is okay, and hopefully he says NO to drugs in the future.

(Editor's note: although it's harder for dogs to eat too much raw pot, they can metabolize uncooked weed, unlike humans, and get really high. The risk for edibles is even higher, and the owners were correct to go to the vet. Edibles can contain very high levels of the drug and it can have much worse effects for dogs than humans. They also often contain chocolate, a poison for dogs. Always take your dog to the vet if they eat edibles. It's usually advisable for raw pot as well, depending on the amount and the dog's size.)

Yes, Donald Trump did say he now had the tallest building in lower Manhattan on 9/11/2001.

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"It was an amazing phone call," said Donald Trump on September 11, 2001, speaking to a reporter from UPN 9 (now WWOR-TV) about how he found out about the terror attacks that morning. Obviously, the word amazing doesn't have to be positive, but it was what he said next, when asked whether his building at 40 Wall Street took any damage, that went viral 15 years later on the anniversary of the attack:

Reporter: "Now, you have one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district, 40 Wall Street. Uh, did you have any damage, or did, what's happened down there?"

Trump: "Well, it was an amazing phone call, and 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was, actually, before the World Trade Center it was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, but now it's the tallest."

Many people are, of course, baffled and offended by his reaction. Not least because 40 Wall Street was NEVER the second-tallest building in Lower Manhattan. There were two Twin Towers, after all.


Gymnast Laurie Hernandez is so much better than everyone else on 'Dancing With The Stars.'

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My imaginary best friend, Final Five gymnast Laurie Hernandez, is on Dancing with the Stars this season, and as I bravely predicted, she is easily the best dancer out of all the celebrities and "celebrities."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=bl0XpurhdMc

I mean, just compare her to rapper Vanilla Ice:

Or Amber Rose:

Or former Texas Governor Rick Perry. Yikes.

Laurie, you are embarrassing the other contestants. I love it. Ooh, can we get ice cream tonight and gossip about what Amber Rose is like in person?

The wage gap is real and not women's fault, according to science.

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Like so many other "female problems," the wage gap is real and not women's fault, even though many people will try to claim otherwise. So, it's good news that women now have science on their side. Because people listen to science (right? please?). A new study found that men are more likely to get a raise, even though men and women actually ask for raises at the same rate. Actually.

This disproves all the wage gap deniers who try to justify the fact that American women make 79 cents for every dollar American men make by saying things like "but women just need to ask for a raise!" or "Sexism is over!"

Sorry, but,

The study was based on data collected from 4,600 Australians across 800 employers, but is applicable anywhere in the world. Researchers found ZERO difference in how often men and women ask for raises, according to the Guardian.

"Having seen these findings, I think we have to accept that there is some element of pure discrimination against women," said study co-author Andrew Oswald.

There you have it. Women make less than men in every single country in the world, and it's not because we aren't asking for more money. This is, of course, what many have been saying all along. Now we just need science to prove that women are right about everything else, too.

An auctioneer explains (at human speed) what's in that gibberish they're yelling.

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Even if you've never been to an auction—and they're not just for fancy art or homes, auctions also get held for all kinds of things like real estate, old police cars, and livestock—you've probably heard the extremely fast-paced "Auction Chant." One auctioneer, Barry Baker of Ohio Real Estate kindly explains (in normally-paced speech) what those rapid-fire words actually are:

The words themselves aren't too surprising, but it's a lot easier to actually hear them at full speed once you know the phrases and "filler words" auctioneers like to use. Here's Baker's "sample speech" from the video:

"The auction's on. What are you going to give for it? Would you give 200 dollars? Well, then, give a hundred. I've got a hundred, now a hundred-and-a-quarter. Would you give a hundred-and-a-quarter? Now a hundred-and-a-half. A hundred-and-a-half, would you give one-seventy-five? One-seventy-five, now two hundred. Two hundred, now two-and-a-quarter. Anyone else, give two-and-a-quarter? Sold, two hundred dollars."

Baker goes on to explain that "filler words" are just what they sound like—anything auctioneers use to switch between stating the current bid and asking for a new one. The most common ones, for pretty obvious reasons, are "dollar," "bid," "would you give," and "now." These might seem necessary, but the only truly necessary words are the numbers and the order their said: Initial ask, then current bid, then new ask, then new current bid, then new ask, and so on until "sold, current bid." Hopefully, now you'll actually be able to hear the auctioneer next time, and maybe this will help you avoid accidentally buying a Picasso or something.

Stains and suffering.

Tim Gunn refuses to go easy on Yeezy, calls Kanye's clothes "dumb, basic."

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The Top Gunn of the fashion world (Tim) does not think Kanye West's Yeezy clothing line is worth all the hype. In an interview with Access Hollywood where he also lamented fashion's treatment of plus-sized women and talked being banned from the Met Gala by Anna Wintour, Gunn basically called West the P.T. Barnum of the fashion world. Said the Project Runway star, "I’m totally perplexed about why the fashion industry has not looked at these, frankly, dumb, basic clothes, and cried, ‘Hoax! Hoax!"

"Kanye West is a sphinx without a riddle. I don’t understand why people are so in awe. I mean, look at this! They’re basically wearing stretchy undergarments." Then, just to make sure that his brutality was not mistaken for hyperbole, he went for the killing blow. "I think the only thing dumber than these clothes would be the people who would buy these clothes." It's safe to say that Yeezy is not making it work for Tim.

Then, Gunn revealed that his banning from the hoity-toity Met Gala came after he said the "most unforgettable" moment he ever saw in fashion was Anna Wintour being carried down five flights of stairs at a fashion show. When Wintour demanded a retraction, Gunn refused, citing the fact that it was true.

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