Hello. Yes, it's time once again for While You Were Offline, WIRED's deep dive into everything the internet has been talking about over the past week. What'd you miss? Well, apparently tensions are rising between the US and Iran, and North Korea is missile testing again. Oh, there's also the US-China trade war that's brewing. In terms of more pleasant distractions, last week the name Archie became a thing again, although to be honest, Archie's been a thing again for a while now. Oh, and the Met Gala brought camp to a mainstream audience that apparently didn't understand what camp was and maybe still doesn't understand it now. Regardless, Billy Porter and Ezra Miller looked amazing. And finally, an errant coffee cup on Game of Thrones blew everyone's mind to the tune of $2.3 billion in free advertising for Starbucks—even though it wasn't a Starbucks cup. But that's just the beginning. Here's everything else.

Yet Another Request for Trump's Tax Returns

What Happened: For everyone who thought that a direct request from Congress might be enough to get the head of the US Department of the Treasury to actually do what was demanded of him, think again.

What Really Happened: You may remember that Congress has asked the IRS to release six years' worth of President Trump's tax returns, after literally years of the president giving the same excuse for why he wouldn't share them. (Short version: He said he couldn't release them publicly because he was perpetually under audit, but legally that doesn't mean he can't share them.) You may also remember that the responsibility to fulfill Congress' request—which, to be more accurate, was really a demand; there isn't a legal way to say no—fell to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Guess what? Mnuchin didn't want to be the one to reveal the very thing Trump has spent so long trying to hide. So, last week, he told Congress "no."

The majority of initial reporting phrased it as if Mnuchin had, upon a period of reflection, decided with some regret that he had to refuse a polite invitation. There was, perhaps, another way to phrase what had happened.

Others have thought the same thing.

There was also a small complication in Mnuchin's stated reason for denying the request. Well, I say small, but...

Everyone knows what this means, right?

If this was intended as a response to the Congressional demand for the taxes that would ideally make the entire issue go away, then it definitely backfired, leading to the possibility of Mnuchin landing himself in legal hot water and getting people even more curious about what is hiding in those tax returns. For a potential answer to that question, though, stay tuned.