IJBOL supremacy

Growing up, I longed for a public role model who never once suppressed a giggle.

Kamala Harris once said “we need to have a vision of the future in which everyone can see themselves.” So it’s fitting she should provide vital representation for people who laugh a lot and in serious contexts. When was the last time we witnessed a high-ranking politician giggle with reckless abandon, often at the most mundane things? While on the job?? Serious times call for unserious measures. It’s all about balance.

Welcome to Quality Sheet. Who’s ready for the Olympics? Let’s pole vault in.

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There will be no Quality Sheet next week. I’ll be back on August 7 :).

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The Paris Olympics will probably be the most social media-heavy one to date. If you’re not interested in watching the sporting extravaganza, you’ll probably know who’s winning what, wearing what and eating what, thanks to Olympians sharing it all online. Maybe this is the Love Island-ification of the Olympics: athletes will be reaching for the stars (a medal), so that at least they might land on a cloud (a lucrative influencer career). Good for them.

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Rattled by President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race—and Democrats and donors rapidly embracing Harris as his successor—Trumpworld is scrambling to find new lines of attack against the likely Democratic nominee. “The goal of these attacks, sources said, is to damage Harris’s appeal with voters in industrial Midwest states—otherwise known as the Democrats’ ‘blue wall’,” Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman reports.

Related: The DEI attacks against Kamala Harris are tired.

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If you’re in New York, you should head over to Marcus Garvey Park to watch the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. You will laugh and dance under the stars. And it’s free! You can also make a donation. On until July 28.

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We hear a lot about the man, not so much about the women. If you’re in London, head to the National Portrait Gallery to see “Six Lives,” an exhibition about each of Henry VIII’s wives: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr. “The exhibition draws upon a wealth of factual and fictional materials to present the life, legacy and portrayal of six women who forever changed the landscape of English history,” the NPG says. On until September 8.

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Isabel :)

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