Bieber’s long-winded Instagram proclamation of love doesn’t back us off the cliff of mutually assured destruction. Davidson wearing a bracelet with Grande’s initials won’t help kids at the border reunite with their parents. And Jay Z and Beyoncé’s rejuvenated love can’t impeach Trump. (But maybe we should at least ask on that last one.) Still, those stories can help people forget for just a second.

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