A plane trailing a banner advertising the website Proswastika.org flew over the beach at New York’s Fort Tilden yesterday, part of the sixth annual Swastika Rehabilitation Day. (Sorry we couldn’t make it to the barbecue.)

Street artist Shepard Fairey, most famous for his iconic (and controversial) Obama “Hope” poster, was arrested last week in Los Angeles upon returning to the United States from Europe. Fairey is charged with vandalizing 14 different buildings in Detroit.

After Reddit’s surrender to white supremacy this week, users and observers alike have been trying to figure out how exactly we got to this nadir. How could something so popular get so much wrong, over and over again? A new post by Reddit’s ex-chief suggests it’s all been an inside job.

Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold a year ago this week, who has been stripped of his gun and shield and is working a desk job, wants to be a cop again, his lawyer told the New York Daily News.

On Saturday, crowds chased Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic away from a memorial service at a graveyard in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where tens of thousands of people had gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

“We still walk the blocks here in wonder,” says a person whose family left Brooklyn and then came back because their new neighborhood wasn’t cool enough, “pointing out the brownstones we wished we lived in or the nice plantings out in front.”

On Sunday, Mexico’s top police official, Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido, announced that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, had escaped from maximum security prison through a hatch in his cell’s shower that opened to a mile-long tunnel.

Earlier today, I took my children to my great-grandparents’ grave in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. They don’t have a big headstone, or a nice spot. But they have a big place in my heart: He came to Canada from Barbados, she from Jamaica, and he built two(!) houses for their extended family.

“Some people want Voat to be a reset button, as Reddit was to Digg years ago. But to a casual visitor, the distinguishing features are its small-town feel, the relative ease of mocking the obese, and the volume of threads complaining about Reddit.” Well that sounds just lovely, doesn’t it?

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has announced that it will look into the death of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders, who died after an altercation with a police officer in Clarke County on Wednesday, the Guardian reports.

“Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the ‘dung of the devil.’ He does not simply argue that systemic ‘greed for money’ is a bad thing. He calls it a ‘subtle dictatorship’ that ‘condemns and enslaves men and women.’”

Living black in a world formed from the crucible of anti-black slavery imposes many moments of visceral absurdity, leaving you in a vast fissure between hysterical laughter, unstoppable streams of tears, and rage hot enough to burn a body. But what body should burn? The end of April imposed a moment on me that made this question easy to answer.

Yesterday, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of Reddit. Co-founder Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao’s resignation came after a week of heightened tension at the company and on the site, but her tenure had been fraught with controversy and backlash from the sites users since it began.

On Friday, in a deal with the State Senate’s Republican majority, Governor Andrew Cuomo (alignment: chaotic evil) agreed to suspend a plan requiring background checks on ammunition sales. This would seem to undermine at least in part the signature gun control measures he passed in his first term as governor.

In the same interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader during which he declared that Americans aren’t working long enough hours, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush also said that President Barack Obama uses too many big words.

This weekend, two Gawker staff writers who shall go unnamed but who look remarkably like they could be sisters of Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent will attend different Taylor Swift concerts in New York, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night.

After spending the last few months turning Reddit into a virtual guillotine for its widely despised CEO Ellen Pao, it looks like redditors are finally getting their wish. Ellen Pao is officially stepping down as CEO, and Steve Huffman, co-founder and original CEO, is taking her place.

A two-year-old bear was seen at the University of Colorado Boulder today just minding its damn business (as bears do), hanging in a tree (as bears do), when authorities were called in to bring the little buddy back to its natural habitat. That bear was not enrolled in college—he is only a bear.

Police say a clothing giveaway in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, a city north of the capital, ended in the deaths of at least 20 people on Friday when a stampede broke out among hundreds of people trying to rush through narrow factory doors in order to get free clothing.

Dylann Roof should not have been allowed to purchase the handgun he allegedly used to kill nine people in a Charleston church last month, according to the FBI.