Clinton Correctional Facility employee Joyce Mitchell has been arrested for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from prison last week. Mitchell, who reportedly had a relationship with the Matt, allegedly provided the two prisoners with power tools to aide in their escape and planned on serving as a getaway driver before a last-minute change of heart.

True to form, the CIA waited until 4:16 p.m. EDT this afternoon to release a trove of documents related to the September 11 attacks. Deep within one of those documents is a section on everything the agency learned after 9/11 about “Issues Relating to Saudi Arabia.” We can now share it here for the first time.

Just one day after a report that a Chinese-affiliated online attack had seized sensitive information about literally every federal employee from the Office of Personnel Management, another bomb drops: these same hackers also grabbed classified security clearance applications, filled with deeply private data.

Rachel Dolezal may have been the most audacious person to ever attempt to pass herself off as black, but she certainly was not the first. Here is a brief history of people, white and otherwise, pretending to be black.

According to CNN and WPTZ, Clinton Correctional Facility employee Joyce Mitchell will be arrested tonight. Mitchell allegedly helped big-dicked killer Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from prison last week.

At last: proof that the familiar impulse you feel upon hearing Rage Against the Machine—to strip naked, wrap yourself in an American flag, shatter the nearest window, roll around until the shards cover your tender flesh, wrap your body around a stranger, set yourselves a flame, then hurtle off a trampoline like a star-spangled porcupine bomb toward the nearest instrument of oppression—is an innate response, like sucking down air or recoiling when your hand touches a flame.

Today’s theme on the internet is “Pick Apart the Life of Rachel Dolezal, the White Lady Who Pretended to Be Black for a While.” Okay fine, have you gazed upon her many works of art?

House Democrats derailed “fast-track” today, putting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President’s Obama’s pet trade free-trade agreement, in jeopardy. You may have some questions about what that all means. Questions like:

They must have roamed the internet, thirsty, like wild dogs of the African savannah, until they found it: A popular military veteran’s Facebook site, gently praising the Navy’s christening of the USS Gabrielle Giffords. It was a veritable oasis, drawing in the pack of gundamentalists: There was water here.

Happy Rachel Dolezal Day. In the video above, uploaded in 2012, Dolezal talks art, commerce, old white men, and diversity. Nice!

Yesterday, the brilliant and inimitable Paul Ford published a 38,000-word article in Bloomberg Businessweek, all about code. Which probably seems daunting, but every word of it is delightful, engaging, and will inevitably make you just a little bit smarter when it’s all over. I sat down with Ford to talk about coding, culture, Kinja, and with the prayer that some of his good sense would rub off on me.

It is a question that has plagued the minds of men and women for centuries: “Am I black?” many have wondered. Today—in light of the Rachel Dolezal news, in which the white NAACP president of the Spokane, Washington chapter pretended to be black for the last decade—we rid you of any and all uncertainty with our fool-proof quiz: Are You Black? Take it below.

Across America, state governments are pursuing harsh restrictions on public anti-poverty benefits. Each week, we’re publishing true stories from people who receive those benefits. It’s not an easy life.

Of all the questions raised by the saga of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who posed as black in order to move up the ranks of the Spokane NAACP, perhaps the most important one is this: Did anyone, you know, ever ask her if she was black? The answer to that is yes—and Rachel did not handle it very well.

Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN this morning that Clinton Correctional Facility employee Joyce Mitchell provided “provided some form of equipment or tools” to Richard Matt, the allegedly big-dicked prisoner who escaped last Friday.

Here’s an image that’s circulating Reddit and Twitter this week, after the site shut down just five of its countless hate groups. The cartoon portrays Reddit as the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man,” being run over by Reddit CEO Ellan Pao. It’s the easiest way to explain why Reddit is toxic.

David Brooks, the sad but harmless sweater-wearing divorced guy who likes to give your kids advice gleaned from inspirational office posters, is—astonishingly—still employed as a prestigious newspaper columnist.

The city of Spokane, Washington, has opened an investigation into whether Rachel Dolezal, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, lied about her race when she identified herself as African-American on her application to serve on the citizen police ombudsman commission, thereby violating the city’s code of ethics.

During last summer’s war in Gaza, in July, an Israeli missile strike killed four Palestinian boys on a beach. Many witnessed the incident, including journalists. Now, Israel has exonerated itself, the Guardian reports, with the advocate general’s office calling the boys’ death a “tragic accident.”

Senior military and administration officials have said that the United States is considering a strategy to combat the Islamic State that would involve opening up a network of training bases across Iraq, the New York Times reports.