The All In with Chris Hayes team puts out a daily call to the Twitter and Facebook communities for the “awesomest things” they encountered on the Internet.
1. Listen to this country song in favor of gay marriage. There’s an animated video that goes along too! Check it out (via @mercer209):
2. Warning: This one’s a little Not Safe for Work. Someone just bought this nude portrait of Bea Arthur at auction for $1.9 million. (And by writing it up and posting it on social media, Daily Beast got themselves kicked off Facebook.)
3. If you were watching today’s joint press conference between President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, maybe you noticed the two Marines holding umbrellas over their heads. Well, here’s everything you wanted to know about those guys but were afraid to ask, plus a fun little gif.
Ned Resnikoff is an urban policy analyst, researcher, writer, and editor. His byline has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent, and The Nation. He writes the newsletter Public Comment, which can be found at publiccomment.blog.