Remember Mike Pence?

Cry time before a long weekend.

Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today:

• And here we have a story featuring a variety of the very worst people in the world, including Mike Pence, Ivanka Trump, and Axios’s Jonathan Swan. [Twitter]
• Kirsten Gillibrand’s people say she was running for president in the shadow of Al Franken’s resignation: “Franken was definitely a problem in terms of fundraising. He just kept coming up, over and over again.” [Politico]
• Relatedly, Julián Castro deserves better than he’s getting right now. [Politico]
  
• Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is really so very sorry about wearing blackface in college. She’s sorry! [NBC News]
• Other Democratic presidential candidates are hitting up Jay Inslee for advice. You can’t teach people to be hot, unfortunately. [Daily Beast]
• No, not the weed vapes! [NBC News]
• Stay safe, everyone. [CBS News]

Here are some tweets the president was allowed to publish:

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