Sure, other things happened last week—ABC decided to keep making Roseanne but without Roseanne Barr; some nerds came up with a plan to remake Star Wars: The Last Jedi; that guy from Saturday Night Live got engaged to Ariana Grande—but, honestly, there’s only been one story that people were really talking about, and it’s not a light one. From jackets to missing girls (told you it wasn’t light) and back again, via failures of democracy and terrible press briefings, here’s what has been happening on the internet over the last seven days.

Reactions to Trump's Border Policy Get Much Worse

What Happened: The Trump administration created a problem, then claimed it couldn’t fix it until the bad PR got out of hand.

What Really Happened: It can't have escaped your notice—not least of all because we mentioned it last week that the United States has been separating parents and children at the southern border recently, as part of a new policy from the Trump administration. Last week, things came to a head.

The week started with the revelation that it was a familiar figure who claimed responsibility for the policy—

But, according to some inside the administration, it wasn’t actually a policy at all. Obviously. (This is a lie, by the way.)

That’s from a press briefing that, apparently, even Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t want to handle.

Instead, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen took charge, and let’s just say that Nielsen's performance was generally viewed as being pretty awkward, to be polite.

Here’s the audio referred to in the above tweet, which understandably caused a stir when released.