CNN’s hiring of ex-Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has already proven to be a gigantic mess. Journalists—including, reportedly, those within CNN—have objected to the network paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a man who has personally threatened people who are now his colleagues, but CNN has soldiered on anyway with the belief that Lewandowski provides unique insight into the Trump campaign.

When NYPD officer Michael Birch was summoned into a performance evaluation meeting with his commanding officer and a lieutenant one day in August 2012, he was expecting to hear more of what he’d heard in the past about the way he did his job: that he wasn’t generating enough “activity.” As an officer in the transit bureau, he says, that meant being told to issue more summonses for fare evasion, and arresting more people for stealing fellow straphangers’ cell phones.

Taylor Swift, a famous young singer unlucky enough to have several private romantic moments captured from multiple angles by paparazzi apparently located just feet away from her, did a funny PR thing this week. It has inspired her “ex-boyfriend,” Calvin Harris to go on a frankly hilarious Twitter rant, raising the question—who forgot to include some sort of social media clause?

Yesterday on Instagram, Lena Dunham reposted and endorsed a plea from Girls co-producer Tami Sagher for New Yorkers to tear apart subway posters for the upcoming film Jason Bourne because the posters show Matt Damon holding a handgun. Let’s meditate briefly on why this is useless.

Donald Trump has clarified on Twitter that when he told the New York Times he hoped Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would “get off the court as soon as possible,” he did not mean that he hoped she died, but simply that she would resign.

Pictured: A group of reporters gathered outside Indiana governor Mike Pence’s house. Some of them look very comfortable!

Despite a tourism boom, Cuba’s economy is struggling so much that some are warning of a brewing “perfect storm” of social unrest. Thank god these communists can look to America as an example of social and political stability.

Life is not all about sitting around “getting high” and daydreaming about saving the world and having hot sex at the same time. Life is about tax policy—that’s where the action is.

Despite considering the phrase “black lives matter” a “very, very, very divisive term,” Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday that he could identify with black Americans’ feeling that the system is fundamentally biased against them. “Well, I’ve been saying, even against me the system is rigged,” he said.

On Tuesday, Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera took to social media to challenge allegations that CEO Roger Ailes sexually harassed former host Gretchen Carlson and six other women, likening his sometime boss’ personal demeanor to the bear that attacked Leonardo DiCaprio in that movie.

During two separate discussions of Black Lives Matters protests on Tuesday, Donald Trump claimed that people have called for moments of silence for Micah Johnson, the gunman who killed five police officers in Dallas and injured nine others, without specifying who or where.

According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump doesn’t plan to announce his vice presidential pick until Friday, but the presumptive Republican nominee strongly hinted that both Jason Bourne and John Wick are in the running on Tuesday, telling The Wall Street Journal he’s looking for a “fighter skilled in hand-to-hand combat.”

On Tuesday, the FBI announced that they have stopped actively investigating the case of D.B. Cooper, the unidentified sky pirate who jumped out of a hijacked passenger jet with $200,000 in 1971. So, hey, if you’ve been waiting to make a Facebook page, now’s the time, D.B., my dude!

Today in Dallas, the city held a memorial service for the five officers killed by Micah Johnson last week. The service was attended by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others. It was, as you would expect, a somber affair for everyone—everyone except George W. Bush, who was ready to fucking party.

Since it was announced, people (if men actually count as people) have been losing their shit over the new Ghostbusters reboot simply because the Ghostbusters are all women this time around. If a particularly shrill segment of the male population can’t deal with the notion of proton guns as functioning ghost-capturing tools and not just neon penis extensions, could they possibly deal with a gay female Ghostbuster? A real, you know, lesbian type?

Images: Jim Cooke. Photos: AP, Getty, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Pokemon.com

As the profession of journalism slowly dies, what is sprouting up in its wake are “content creators”—people who replicate the facade of journalism while skipping most of the hard stuff. One manifestation of this phenomenon is the growing swath of people who review art and entertainment on YouTube, healdined by Pewdiepie, the Swede who has become the single most subscribed user on Youtube, making of tens of millions of dollars in the process.

NBC says it will air the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics on a one-hour delay in order to “curate [it to not show any possible Zika deaths, riots, terrorist acts, or faulty stadium collapses].”