“Tiny fantasy or big mistake?” Tech Insider asks at the top of a recent piece profiling four “tiny house” owners. “Tiny fantasy!!!!!!!” you’re probably thinking, stupidly.

For the past two weeks, I have carried Sandra Bland with me everywhere I go. At first, it was a smiling image of her that haunted my thoughts; she is dressed in what looks to be a black blazer and white blouse, one of her baby locs creeping out of place and sitting squarely on her forehead. She’s wearing big earrings, the sort that you get from an African fair. Here, Sandra (I can’t refer to her as “Bland,” we are too intimately connected now) looks like she makes #BlackLivesMatter videos and goes to sorority chapter meetings in serious heels that replace flats at the door and that don’t stick around long after adjournment. She is one of us, one of ours, absolutely.

I understand that America is fucked up. I understand you’re angry about it. Still, you might as well vote.

A freelance comedy writer who says he contributed to Jay Leno’s Tonight Show for 20 years now claims he also contributed to Conan a number of times this year—involuntarily, after the Conan writers stole his jokes from Twitter. He’s suing Conan O’Brien, the writers, and TBS in California federal court.

Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. intelligence agent sentenced to life in 1987 for selling classified information to Israel, has been granted parole and will be released in November.

During a speech before the African Union in Ethiopia on Tuesday, President Obama said he could easily win if the law permitted him to run for a third term. Classic Barack!

According to reports, the man who shot a famous Zimbabwean lion named Cecil wasn’t a mysterious Spanish hunter at all—it was a wealthy American dentist named Walter Palmer with a history of breaking laws in his hunt for paws.

Last Sunday, former Arkansas governor and enraged Nostradamus impersonator Mike Huckabee thought it would be a good idea to say that Obama was “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven.” It was not. And yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, Mike Huckabee is standing by his Holocaust reference—and, according to him and only him, the Jews are loving it.

“Fascists love brinner,” says Matthew Heimbach, the new bearded face of American white nationalism in a fascinating and terrifying Al Jazeera profile, referring not to some forgotten SS captain but the practice of eating breakfast food in the evening. If brinner were a Nazi, I’m sure Heimbach would love him, too.

Another black woman died in police custody this weekend: 37-year-old Ralkina Jones, who was pronounced dead Sunday morning in a jail in Cleveland.

Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell pleaded guilty this morning to helping convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility last month.

Puerto Rico is facing an unsustainable level of debt. Its lenders, guardians of financial probity that they are, have come up with a solution: close schools.

A 44-year-old Florida man was shot dead in front of his wife, daughter, and grandson after a road rage incident where both sides called police on each other. The shooting, and the events leading up to it, were captured on 911 recordings.

Over the last few years, the White House has taken Jon Stewart very seriously, Politico reports, quietly summoning the comedian to the Oval Office on at least two occasions and routinely backchanneling with Daily Show writers and producers.

A New York man was arrested on Friday after allegedly driving around an ice cream truck in his underwear while intoxicated and yelling at children, WIVB reports.

The FBI confirmed this evening that it is helping investigate a series of suspicious letters, some containing an “unknown substance,” that arrived at at least six sheriff’s departments across Oregon on Monday, NBC News reports.

A West Virginia woman may have stopped a serial killer this month when she killed an attacker authorities say is potentially linked to 10 other victims, CNN reports.

A new article in the Daily Beast resurfaces a very old and very ugly allegation: seemingly impossible GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was once accused of angrily raping his former wife, Ivana Trump, during a bedroom dispute. But what’s almost as shocking as the early-90s rape claim is the Trump legal team 2015 response.

On Monday, the Boy Scouts of America announced it was ending the organization’s dumb nationwide ban on gay troop leaders. Individual church-run units, however, will still be able to exclude individuals from unpaid leadership positions based on sexual orientation.

On Saturday, a former high school resource officer who allegedly had sexual relations with teen students was arrested in New York, WRGB reports.