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- Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of July.
- This has set off widespread panic about the future for abortion rights, gay marriage, prison reform, affirmative action and more. Both Jeffrey Toobin and Cher are freaked out.
- Migos released a new music video for "Narcos" that has nothing to do with Supreme Court anxiety.
- Here are some tips on how to clean your dirty, disgusting laptop.
- Be glad you don't live in San Francisco, where merely eating a burrito on the the train is cause for public shaming and cop-calling.
- BuzzFeed spoke with workers at the Tornillo tent facility about what it's like for your job to be the center of national political outrage: "I’m not here for the politics. I’m just here to provide for my family."
- RIP Joe Jackson.
- The New Yorker introduces Millennial Wingdings.
- A woman who reportedly threw herself in front of a Bronx subway train with her 2-month-old son in her arms early today survived with minor injuries.
- Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive who was forced out because of his handling of sexual harassment scandals at the network, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director.
- BoJack Horseman season five will be released on Netflix on September 14th.
- The Onion is as brilliant as ever with their tips for staying civil debating child prisons, like: "Avoid painting with a broad brush. Not everyone in favor of zero-tolerance immigration wants to see children in cages—it’s more likely that they just don’t care."
- And finally, you can see the exact moment this cat's little brain gets blown:
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