Nowhere is America’s affordable housing crisis more acute than in the California Bay Area. The problem: piss poor planning. Incredibly, an actual solution may be at hand.

The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, was killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan this weekend, the New York Times reports.

Criminal court systems across the country are using Northpointe, a Minority Report-esque algorithm designed to predict an offender’s likelihood to commit another crime in the future, to aid decisions about things like eligibility for bail and jail-diversion programs. Unfortunately, just like many non-algorithmic elements of the justice system, Northpointe seems to have a thing against black people.

A series of seven nearly simultaneous suicide bombings ripped through two regime-held cities in Syria on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports, leaving more than 120 people dead and many more wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.

Michelle Fields, the reporter who left Breitbart after her colleagues openly attacked her account of being manhandled by Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, has been hired by The Huffington Post, The Hill reports.

On Sunday, the White House was briefly placed under unofficial lockdown after two stray, possibly radicalized “party balloons” landed on the North Lawn, NBC News reports.

Early Monday morning, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went on live TV to announce the launch of a military campaign to retake the city of Fallujah, which has been controlled by ISIS since early 2014.

In the great and historic tradition of my forebears, I’d like to wrap up my illustrious career as the weekend warrior for Gawker dot com with a ranking. The subject of this list is that widely unappreciated group of odd- and even-toed mammals, those noble ruminants of the grasslands, that clade of hoofed wonders: the four-legged ungulates.*

“If I had terminal cancer, it would be better than this, because at least [then] I did not cause it,” former vegan restauranteur and current Rikers Island resident Sarma Melngailis told The New York Post. Called the “vegan Bernie Madoff,” Melngailis is awaiting trial after being caught while ordering a pizza on the run.

“Do you know who I am?” is never a flattering way to refer to oneself.

It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump, a man who bullies his opponents like a mobster, allegedly had business dealings with members of organized crime groups.

“Well, clearly, I favor her opponent,” Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper this weekend, promising to unseat Debbie Wasserman Shultz, the current DNC chairwoman, if elected. “His views are much closer to mine than as to Wasserman Shultz’s.” Watch your back, Debbie.

If you’ve ever imagined what it might look like to watch two presidential candidates waltz through a giant dance number, complete with fog machines and tuxedoed butlers, today’s your lucky day.

“Massage the algorithm,” is the phrase a former Facebook news curator used to describe his job duties managing the platform’s Trending Topics feature. A deeply-reported piece in The New York Times published Saturday gives a look at the young, inexperienced flacks behind Facebook’s news curation.

Donald Trump finally realized something about the population he has repeatedly, publicly, and unabashedly denigrating for months: they’ve got quite the voting power.

“Venture capitalists are putting founders through everything short of a proctology exam before they invest,” said Venky Ganesan, a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, telling The New York Times about how difficult it is for startups to get money now that their backers actually ask them questions about what they do.

Why is it that people continually conflate the accrual of loads and loads of money coupled with a cheesy TV spot as prerequisites to becoming an effective policy-maker?

Yesterday, the well-known political blogger Matt Bruenig picked a minor fight on Twitter with Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, about her alleged endorsement of reducing welfare benefits for the impoverished. “You don’t get to be president of CAP without starving some poor mothers,” he wrote in one tweet. Today, Bruenig’s employer, the liberal think tank Demos, fired him: