This week was the full feelings buffet. Remember, you can always come back for more:

Celeste Ng called How to Make Yogurt in Manila by Grace Talusan ‘beautiful and moving’ (on the Twitter machine) so you don’t have to take our word for its awesomeness.

“Things That Are Meant To Make You Feel Safe And Comfortable In A Psych Ward That Just Make You Feel Crazier.” Episode by Naadeyah Haseeb will tear

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Toasties. Other people's homes always seem so perfect and beautiful. Especially when people in said homes provide you with endless food and coffee/tea and flowers from the garden. And let you just enjoy it all with your Kindle.

I literally cried while reading a piece in Deadspin because it is correct: Some hours have passed; my sons are now sitting next to each other on the couch, watching a movie on TV and muttering conspiratorially in their little gremlin voices about what they are seeing and drinking juice boxes I will later find on the floor next to the trash can. Before I became a parent, I sometimes felt bad about all the…

I read the Dee Barnes piece on Straight Outta Compton, oh man:

That event isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn’t want to see a depiction of me getting beat up, just like I didn’t want to see a depiction of Dre beating up Michel’le, his one-time girlfriend who recently summed up

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The next installment of The Intercept's investigation of DuPont (my dad told me that when he was working on the floor of their nylon factory in Kingston, safety inspectors were required to give 48 hours notice before showing up, so the plant managers would just turn off 25-50% of the machines and hang "closed for maintenance" signs on them, which would get the levels of grossness in the air and the above-acceptable amount

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I sure hope you've already read Friend of The Toast Ezekiel Kweku's piece about the police:

If stopped by the police, I thought to myself, I would set my phone to record audio and put it on the passenger seat. I would send a tweet that I was being stopped and had every intention of complying with the police officer. I would turn on Periscope and livestream the stop, crowdsourcing

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Miss Major on the Stonewall movie: The best thing I can remember about that night is that when the girls decided, “no, we ain’t doing this,” some of the girls got out of the paddy wagon and came back, the police got so scared they backed into the club and locked the doors! I mean, if nothing else, that was the funniest thing to have in your mind watching it happen. And meanwhile across the…

This week brought us the "If so-and-so were your boyfriend" entry The Toast's faithful legion of Harry Potter fans were waiting for. (Well, truthfully, I think you're probably all waiting for If Emma Watson Were Your Girlfriend, but this will do for a start.) ENGORGIO.

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"What have you taught him about the value of his own labor? Nothing": Ayn Rand's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

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Mmmmmm. A towering stack of Buttered goodness to ease you into the weekend. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll shake your head in wonder as you dig in to the deliciousness. We recommend the EVERYTHING:

“What people remembered her for were the pubic hair portraits.” Death, family, feminism, something like art.

Mensah on changing jobs, Dre’s latest, Meek vs Drake, and La Femme, a wild French band.

Infectious flash: “Still, maybe you should

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Toasties! For The Bartender eating homemade pelmeni with sour cream and butter is guaranteed to bring on thoughts of kindness and goodwill toward fellow everyone.

Coming to America:

While my father was still around, he and my mother revered all things “African.” Kente cloth covered and protected our bodies like saran wrap. My parents didn’t like Dove, Irish Spring and Lever 2000’s suggestion that soap should be white or light-pastel. Cleanliness was next to godliness and since God was Black, our soap was black too. Glade plugins, Lysol air-fresheners, perfumes, colognes and lotions were

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Oh, apparently DuPont knew that the C8 in Teflon was hella bad and didn't care. My dad actually worked at a DuPont factory for a long time (people in my hometown either worked for DuPont or the prisons), but making nylon instead of pans, and does not have cancer as of press time:

Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more…

How California makes its own citizens: It started with in-state tuition. Then came driver's licenses, new rules designed to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. And on Monday, in a gesture heavy with symbolism, came a new law to erase the word "alien" from California's labor code. Together, these piecemeal measures have taken on a significance greater than their individual parts — a fundamental shift in the relationship between California and its residents…

Beyond Ferguson:

I will always remember that the call to action initiating the movement was organic – that there was no organizing committee, no charismatic leader, no church group or school club that led us to the streets. It is powerful to remember that the movement began as everyday people came out of their homes and refused to be scared into silence by the police. It is powerful, too, to remember the…

Your editor is a fool, a true true fool, but as she sat in her bed on Friday morning, the thought came to her: would it be so unthinkable to fly to New York for PRECISELY 24 hours to have one meal with her dearest friends and then see Hamilton that night and fly out of JFK the night morning? And the still small voice in her heart said: "Nicole, this is what you must…