The pair of ranchers whose arson cases sparked the Oregon militiamen’s standoff at a wildlife refuge turned themselves in on Monday and are currently in police custody.

On Tuesday, the New York Times reports, President Obama will announce executive actions requiring anyone who makes a living selling guns—at gun shows, for example, or online—to register as a licensed gun dealer and conduct background checks.

Michael Slager, the North Charleston, South Carolina, cop who shot Walter Scott eight times in the back, killing him, was released on $500,000 bond Monday, the Charleston Post and Courier reports. The judge was concerned over how long Slager would spend in prison before going to trial.

Kristin Cavallari—designer of shoes, “refined boho” jewelry, and God knows what’s next—is having a great start to her year. One Twitter user thinks Kristin’s shoe line is “perfection.” This person said so, publicly, of her own accord (it seems).

What if, a recent piece of speculative fiction in Vanity Fair wonders aloud, Megyn Kelly isn’t a poisonous bigot and shameless cable news demagogue, but a complex, flawed icon of modern feminism? Like most science fiction, this is a pack of lies meant for babies. Megyn Kelly is just as racist—or cynically willing to play the part—as every man she works with at Fox News.

The Rose Bowl, a college football game traditionally played on New Year’s Day, is a celebration of American regionalism. Historically, it pitted the champion of the Midwest’s Big Ten Conference against the champion of the Pacific Coast Conference (or its successors). The arrangement has been modified and undermined by conference realignment and college championship schemes, but most years, the premise still holds: two teams representing separate places with separate histories and cultures, West Coast versus heartland.

There’s almost no freedom-fueled cause that furious truther and conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones won’t cosign, but apparently, even Alex Jones himself can’t get behind the crazed militiamen currently throwing a fit on an Oregon nature trail.

Last year (2015) was by most estimations a “bad year”—when there wasn’t an active shooter on the loose, there was a demagogue riling up xenophobes, a killer cop avoiding indictment, or a new season of True Detective. It was bad. But there’s every reason to believe 2016 will also be bad—if not even worse.

Nine months ago, Ted Cruz was railing in support of the Second Amendment as the “the ultimate check against governmental tyranny—for the protection of liberty.” Now, as a group of armed men occupies a federal building in Oregon, Cruz says no one should use force to protest the government. What gives, Ted?

Racist territorialist Cliven Bundy has done crazy shit, but here is one crazy thing, contrary to a story broken today by Buzzfeed, that he hasn’t done: filed a federal lawsuit claiming, among other things, that Barack Obama threatened Donald Trump.

President Obama is currently starting one last effort for gun control, in his final year in office. Sometime in the next two weeks, he is expected announce an executive order to require more small gun sellers to do background checks, and he plans to pitch that idea and other gun-control measures to the American public at a CNN-televised town hall Thursday.

The ultimate joke of Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton’s blustery war over the manipulation of crime statistics is that both men have done it. That isn’t speculation: the NYPD under Kelly and the LAPD under Bratton were both shown, through rigorous reporting, to have massaged stats with the presumable intent of making their cities look safer. But if the fight isn’t really about the stats, what could it possibly be about?

The first paid television spot from the Trump campaign does an excellent job of summarizing his platform of racism at the federal level: non-white people are bad and should be kept out of America at all costs.

Donald Trump fans are a special breed of American voter. To hear them tell it, they’re a disenfranchised silent majority who simply want to see America restored to its past glory. To hear everyone else tell it, they’re a violent mob of tempestuous racists. Either way, they really love sending me email.

Former Laguna Beach Season 2 star Kristin Cavallari now posts original (and not-so-original) content on a variety of online platforms: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and of course, the Official Kristin Cavallari App for iPhone and Android. But, as the essential blog Pop Culture Died In 2009 pointed out yesterday, she wasn’t always so Internet-savvy:

In the wake of the execution of a popular Shiite cleric, angry protesters in Iran set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday night. Fire bombs were thrown, furniture was smashed, and glass was broken, according to The New York Times.

Just a day after assuming her new position, Mayor Gisela Mota of the city of Temixco in Morelos, Mexico, was shot and killed at her house on Saturday.

Donald Trump, a man who was once the spokesperson for a line of steaks that he sold at Sharper Image, has now become the spokesperson for a terrorist group. Is he happy about that fact? Sort of.