A fashion spread featuring models posing as famous women writers … at the moment of each woman’s notorious suicide … gets Vice in hot water.

Immigration reform appears to be swirling down the drain in the House which is preparing to vote later today to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In commenting on our story this morning about the Senate intelligence committee invoking a non-disclosure agreement to prevent a former staffer from talking to us about the way congressional oversight of the intelligence community works — or doesn’t work — Steven Aftergood raises an additional point: “One problematic aspect of congressional oversight of intelligence that is not often addressed is the heavy, disproportionate representation of former intelligence community employees … among the professional staff of the oversight committees.”

Mitch McConnell: You want to go nuclear on filibuster reform — then look out on Obamacare, Keystone, ANWR and the estate tax.

So what do you do if you’re saddled with a billion-dollars-a-year gun manufacturer and can’t find any willing buyers?

The San Antonio Spurs invite back 11-year-old boy Sebastien De La Cruz to sing the national anthem again after racist reaction online to his first performance. Watch.

The Washington Post confirms that Edward Snowden was its source, too, for the Gellman/Poitras story this week on PRISM.

Barton Gellman talks about his Washington Post story on PRISM and his source’s expectation that s/he will ultimately be exposed: