You might think that in a year when the Academy Awards have been under fire for lacking diversity, the powers that be would ask the first trans performer nominated for an Oscar to take the stage at some point during Sunday’s ceremony. Even if Hollywood remains transphobic for the foreseeable future, even if no one attending or behind the scenes of the Oscars speaks out about trans discrimination or educates themselves about trans issues or strikes up a friendship with a trans person or ends up liking trans people even in the abstract, having a trans performer onstage would be a feather in the cap, a way of deflecting criticism and saying, “Hey, look—we actually can be inclusive (even if we don’t think much of black people in the industry).” At the very least, it would be a good PR move.

Business Insider has publicly stated that it wants to significantly expand its operations in Europe.

In a statement released this afternoon, the University of Missouri announced it has fired Melissa Click, the media professor who was filmed calling for “muscle” to protect student protestors from journalists during campus demonstrations in November.

Al-Jazeera America, the soon-to-be-dead U.S. outpost of the Qatari government’s global television network, published an opinion essay on Thursday morning that satirized—subtly, but not that subtly—a number of new (or newly relaunched) media companies, including Mic, The New Republic, and Al-Jazeera America itself. Hours later, however, the network’s website replaced the entire essay with the following editor’s note:

In 2011, Kristin Cavallari competed on the reality show Dancing With The Stars. What was the best part about it?

If you squint your eyes until everything looks blurry, it is, in fact, possible to view this election as something other than terrifying. This new interview with former Mexican president Vincente Fox about Donald Trump’s plan to force Mexico to pay to build a wall to keep Mexicans out of the U.S. makes it seem almost funny.

If you look very closely at America, you can see the poor physically growing apart from the rich, like a polar bear drifting out to sea on a broken chunk of ice.

Donald Trump would—probably!—like you to believe that his constant tangential connection to racism is a coincidence, rather than a direct function of his presidential campaign. Alas, things keep happening that sure seem to point to the contrary.

In Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2003 memoir, Living History, she chronicles both her time as First Lady and the journey she took along the way. A journey that apparently included a deep, personal friendship with none other than Isis...

As Donald Trump surges in the polls, Canada is trying to make it even easier for anyone, even a horrified American, to obtain Canadian citizenship—a total coincidence, I’m sure.

If there’s one thing teens love, it’s pouring household products into their orifices to get high. But if there are two things teens love, the second one is almost definitely ISIS. At least—that’s what they think. But as it turns out, jihad is a real drag, and our lazy teens just can’t cut it.

The first case of HIV contraction in a person taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis, or a antiretroviral drug cocktail used to protect people from contracting HIV) daily has been documented and presented by David Knox, MD, an HIV specialist at the Maple Leaf Medical Clinic, at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, according to Benjamin Ryan at Poz. Ryan reports:

The New York Daily News exclusively reports that former America’s Next Top Model contestant Andrea “Shei” Phan (Cycle 21: Guys & Girls) was arrested Tuesday after allegedly jumping the turnstile at the Canal St. J/Z stop. She spent the night in jail and was charged yesterday with theft of services and criminal trespass.

Up until this week, Harrisburg High School student Asher Potts was an honors student with a 4.16 GPA, which probably wasn’t super hard for him, seeing as he was actually an adult man pretending to be a teenager.

Billboard reports that Diplo has endorsed Bernie Sanders.

Donald Trump continues to shore up support in the coveted “openly white supremacist” demographic this week, as former KKK Grand Wizard (and former Louisiana state congressman!) David Duke urges his supporters to vote for the man with the orange face.

“Falling into the easy trap of foregrounding sex has the effect of erasing the nuance, the richness, and even the messiness of people’s lives,” writes professor of history at Connecticut College Jim Downs in his new book Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (out March 1). The book exists to highlight the nuance, the richness, and even the messiness of people’s lives by offering an alternate history of gay life in the ‘70s. Though the years leading up to the AIDS epidemic are largely thought of as a sexual free-for-all (as depicted in the 2005 documentary Gay Sex in the ‘70s, and Larry Kramer’s 1978 novel Faggots), clearly there was more going on than just fucking, and that’s where Downs comes in. He doesn’t negate the idea that lots of men had lots of sex in the ‘70s, he merely supplements it.

How can “Big Business” improve its reputation? One former Republican lawmaker “says business needs to do a better job of making clear that its priorities—freer trade, less regulation, etc.—will benefit the public.” Good luck motherfucker.

In the 90s, before Hillary Clinton was taking private meetings with Deray McKesson and campaigning on promises to end mass incarceration and reform mandatory minimums, she was a little less enlightened, shall we say, on issues around race and criminal justice. At a speech last night, two Black Lives Matter activists took her to task for it.

Ohio Governor John Kasich, who has been running for the Republican nomination for president for seven months, decided last night that he would like to be president, after all. At a town hall on Tuesday, he told voters, “I don’t know if my purpose is to be president,” but in an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly last night, he corrected himself.