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The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has employed political appointees to make cookies and serve meals, and has used a U.S. Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report.

This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying.

Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.

Sorry, Oxford dictionary nerds. This is the real word of the year. The verbal encapsulation of 2024 explains everything from “shrimp Jesus” to disgusting viral recipes and clickbait headlines.

The OED got it wrong.

"Slop" should have been the word of the year.

It's the perfect term that links shrimp Jesus, 2000s-era content farms, "you won't believe what happened next..." clickbait, gross-out food hacks and basically EVERYTHING on the internet.

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