Indiana governor Mike Pence is either going to be Donald Trump’s pick for vice presidential nominee, as the New York Times reports, or he is getting fucked with big time.

The Advocate reports that Republican Sen. Stephen Nass of Wisconsin has written a letter to UW-Madison, threatening to cut the university’s funding over the teaching of a 2011 article about racism on the gay hook-up app Grindr. Nass reportedly sent his letter last week after he caught wind that sociology lecturer Jason Nolen assigned Alex Rowlson’s story “Not Just a Preference” to his How Race & Ethnicity Shape American Social Life class. Rowlson’s piece originally appeared in the now-defunct Fab magazine. (The magazine’s website no longer exists, but you can read Rowlson’s story via the Wayback Machine.)

We hear that the office of the New York Times’ T Magazine is suffering from an infestation of moths. If you have the email that was sent out warning staffers of the invading moths, please send it to us.

In a statement on Thursday, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized (sort of?) for being mean to Donald Trump. “On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” she said. “Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”

For hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and Europe, the past decade has been absolutely without any advance in incomes. This could be the start of an entire generation that never sees its living standards progress.

Conservative virtual reality enthusiast Newt Gingrich is reportedly high on Donald Trump’s list of running mate picks. This week, he flew to Indiana for an impromptu meeting with the presumptive Republican nominee. But a few months ago, Newt was eyeing the prime cut of beef a l’orange that’s poised to lead his party with the skepticism of a child who isn’t sure he wanted to take a bite.

Donald Trump isn’t shy about taking undue credit. For instance: In 2010, New York City tapped Trump to operate a struggling luxury public golf course in the Bronx. Today, the presumptive Republican nominee wants voters to believe he saved the project with his business acumen—but that isn’t quite what happened.

Yesterday was a major day in the history of the state of Indiana. In Indianapolis, Donald Trump personally met with several reported vice presidential candidates just days away from as scrutinized a Republican National Convention as we’ve ever seen. Why Indiana? Trump loves its hard-working, blue-collar people, and the state provided a therapeutically serene environment for what is one of the most crucial decisions made by any presidential campaign.

On Wednesday, Republican Senator Tim Scott gave a moving floor speech describing his personal history of being targeted by law enforcement as a black man, from the first time he was pulled over by police to an encounter with an officer on Capitol Hill just last year.

Late Wednesday night, The New York Times published a tentative schedule for speakers at next week’s Republican National Convention that included former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, UFC President Dana White, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, Donald Trump’s wife Melania and all of his adult children.

As next week’s Republican National Convention approaches, officials in Cleveland continue to field questions about what firearms attendees can openly carry (only real ones) and where they can carry them (only outside the convention hall), but, so far, the liberal media has failed to grill the powers that be about a much purer symbol American liberty: the humble e-cigarette.

Boris Johnson, a man who once compared our likely future President to “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital” and noted that Obama’s “ancestral dislike of the British empire” stems from his Kenyan heritage, is the U.K.’s new foreign secretary. And if you want some insight into how the State Department is taking the news, look no further than its own spokesman’s terrified, shit-eating grin.

On Wednesday, the ACLU of Louisiana and four other groups filed a lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge, its police department and several other area law enforcement agencies, accusing authorities of violating the constitutional rights of protesters demonstrating against the shooting of Alton Sterling. About 200 marchers have been arrested in Baton Rouge since Sterling was killed by police last week, NOLA.com reports.

Philadelphia airport workers have voted 461-5 “to walk off their jobs in protest during the Democratic National Convention this month.” lmao. Let the chaos begin!

The Venezuelan military has seized control of the nation’s major ports and has been placed in charge of distributing food in an attempt to deter murderous, starving food bandits. That is not even the worst news.

Algorithmic artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez made a Soundcloud bot that randomly generates new versions of of David Cameron’s jaunty Prime Minister exit ditty, so you can keep listening to “doot dooooo, doo dooo” forever and ever.

Sam Nunberg, a onetime Donald Trump staffer who was canned from the campaign last year, says Trump is suing him for $10 million because of a spectacularly dramatic story about his old coworkers’ “sordid and apparently illicit” alleged affair.

“Donald Trump says Carl Icahn should be in charge of the entire American economy!” shouted the man into the bullhorn as we stood in front of Trump Tower. “Everything you hate about the American economy, Carl Icahn does.” America’s working class Trump supporters still have ample time to reconsider.

The number of confirmed Zika virus infection cases in New York City is climbing. Today, NYC Health reports 310 confirmed cases, up from the 233 reported by the New York Times on June 6th (and up from just 78 cases documented in May.)