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Conservative pundit and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly received a swift reminder of her own TV history after celebrating CBS' cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, calling the show's host "a failure."
Colbert has consistently been at the top of the ratings so it shocked people when CBS, citing economic concerns, announced that his program will go off the air next May—news that comes as its parent company, Paramount, seeks government approval for a merger with Skydance.
Three top Paramount and CBS executives called Colbert’s show “a staple of the nation’s zeitgeist,” emphasizing in a statement that the cancellation “is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.” They insisted the move bears no relation "to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
Kelly said on her program that she believes Colbert's liberal political fuels ultimately contribute to the show's cancellation:
“He took that show, which was a great platform in nighttime television at the Ed Sullivan Theater, and completely drove it into the ground. He had originally been at Comedy Central where he was more comedy. And when he moved over to CBS, he decided to be more pundit."
"He desperately wanted to be Keith Olbermann. And guess what? Keith Olbermann is a failure, and now so are you, Stephen Colbert.”
But Kelly overlooked some key facts about her own media career.
Kelly clashed with then-candidate Donald Trump during a 2015 Republican debate before leaving the network for NBC. There, she signed a three-year, $69 million deal that included a Sunday night news magazine and a third hour of the Today show titled Megyn Kelly Today.
Despite the high-profile move, Kelly struggled to gain traction in the ratings. Her show was pulled after she defended the use of blackface in Halloween costumes—a comment that sparked swift backlash. Though she later apologized, NBC canceled the program just days later. The network reportedly paid out her full contract.
It sure sounded like projection on Kelly's part—and she was quickly called out.
Trump had sued Paramount over a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which aired just before the 2024 election. Trump claims the segment was deceptively edited to make Harris look good, accusing the network of stacking the deck in her favor during a critical campaign moment.
Paramount ultimately decided to pay Trump $16 million to settle the lawsuit, a decision that Colbert said he is "offended" by. He described the move as a “big fat bribe.” He added that he doesn't "know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company."
President Trump celebrated the decision to cancel Colbert's program and said on Truth Social that “I absolutely love” that Colbert was “fired.”
South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace was widely mocked after she tried to boast about President Donald Trump's economy by posting a meme of Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot—the viral cheating couple on Coldplay's kiss cam—and weirded people out in the process.
Coldplay concert footage showed Byron, the CEO of Astronomer, hugging his company’s chief people officer, Cabot, from behind at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. When the two noticed they were being filmed, they quickly separated and ducked out of view.
In a now iconic moment, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin joked that "either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy." It turns out they were indeed having an affair and the fallout forced Byron to resign from the $1.3 billion AI company he helped found.
Oddly, Mace decided to capitalize on the moment by posting a meme of the cheating couple—with Byron representing "Trump's economy" and Cabot representing "American-born workers"—along with the following caption:
"Employment among American-born workers is up nearly 2M jobs since January. Thank you, [President Trump]."
You can see her post and the meme below.
@RepNancyMace/X
People were not impressed.
Neither Byron, Cabot, nor their spouses have issued a public statement on the incident, let alone responded to Mace's meme.
In a statement, Astronomer noted that Byron had "tendered his resignation" and that "while awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not." Meanwhile, Cabot is currently on administrative leave pending a formal investigation.
Experts have noted that Cabot would likely not be fired because, as one attorney told The New York Post, "you can’t just fire someone because the headlines are ugly." The source said Cabot might also be working out an "exit deal."
Cabot has refused to speak to the press and has since deactivated her LinkedIn profile.
President Donald Trump was criticized after he shared an AI-generated video set to the song "YMCA" of former President Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents at the White House and going to prison.
And people saw through the post for what it really was, coming as Trump continues to face criticism over his handling of the Epstein files and the famed "Epstein list," which Trump had promised for years to release if he regained power.
Trump has been on a furious posting spree amid the criticism, much of which has come from his own base in the wake of Attorney General Pam Bondi's memo concluding that no incriminating "Epstein list" exists, despite claiming the exact opposite just months ago.
And so when Trump posted this disturbing AI-generated video of Obama getting arrested, it was clear what was really going on.
As conservative anti-Trump group "Republicans Against Trump" captioned their X post of the clip:
"Anything to distract from the Epstein files..."
You can see the video below.
Sure seemed like a convenient distraction to take people's minds off the Epstein files—but as the reactions showed, Trump's post had the opposite effect.
Trump has since sued The Wall Street Journal after it reported on a happy birthday letter to Epstein bearing Trump’s signature that included a drawing of a nude woman in sharpie pen.
The letter—in which Trump wished Epstein, "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret”—dates back 16 years before Epstein was charged with child sex trafficking by the Justice Department in 2019, during Trump’s presidency. Trump has denied writing the note.
Trump, who filed his lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, is seeking $10 billion in monetary damages. He has since lashed out at the Journal by barring one of its reporters from the press pool for his upcoming weekend trip to Scotland.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later said the Journal had been barred due to its "fake and defamatory conduct."
I'm one of those people who has favorite pieces of silverware because the design just feels right in my hand. The weight, the balance, and the shape are all spot on.
I also choose my cellphone based on how it feels to hold it. It's an autism thing in my case, but I'm sure everyone has this same reaction to some extent.
Like, I've never been a gamer, but even back in the days of joysticks as the only controllers, my friends would express the same sort of sentiments.
But if there are things that have a design that appeals to you, there are invariably going to be designs that don't. I have an overabundance of these, because autism. So I'm not a great judge of what's a true design flaw and what's just me being overly sensitive.
Reddit user QuarantinedRabbit asked:
"What widely used product has a frustrating design flaw that the manufacturer has never addressed?"
" Food packages that are resealable with a zip closure, but the glue they use to adhere the seal zip to the bag is weaker than the seal."
"So when you go to re-open the seal, the seal zip pulls away from the bag and there goes the resealable feature."
~ Brilliant_Joke7774
"I see this a lot on shredded cheese bags and I think it's been getting more frequent over the last few years. Once you zip it closed, there's about a 50% chance the bag will rip away from the zipper instead of opening it."
"I think companies have been thinning out the plastic in the packaging as much as possible without revisiting the zipper seal design."
~ Enginerdad
"Hand soap or lotion or cleaning product pump/spray bottles with the tube inside the bottle is not long enough to get out all the product."
~ Jf192323
"The ‘push here’ perforated part of a cardboard box (like a box of kosher salt or corn starch) that NEVER works and instead just dents the box and makes it even harder to open."
~ Elimdumb
"I understand that battery compartments needed to be made more difficult for small children to open (specifically the type of small children who put everything into their mouths)."
"But was a screw the best idea? A microscopic screw, threaded into plastic, and made of the softest metal available?"
~ HawaiianShirtsOR
"The sticker they put on deli meat/cheese bags and it being stronger than the plastic bag they put it on."
~ Tobeck
"The sticker incorporates/covers the opening/closing part and the whole thing rips when you try and get the sticker off to open it."
~ Sad-Consideration103
"Blinding LED headlights!"
"On newer vehicles."
~ yelofoley
"In the US, this is due to the differences in regulations across the country. Because different states have different headlight adjustment regulations the manufacturer instructs the dealership to adjust the headlights on delivery to the state and local regulations.
"The dealership never does, and the owners never know better so they drive around with whatever default level was set at the factory."
"Then certain users change the height of the vehicle without adjusting the headlights to match."
"In Europe, at least some projector headlights have an automatic leveling system to account for differences in vehicle load and I think also road slopes. The US regulations are seriously out of date compared to the state of the art for headlights and we suffer as a result."
"Properly designed and adjusted LED projector headlights provide significantly better driver visibility without blinding incoming traffic. The huge vehicles behind you are a different story."
~ azgli
"Any product that has removable stickers that don't peel off easily and leave residue that requires Goof Off (Goo-B-Gone) to remove. Idiots."
~ Impossible-Grab9889
"We bought 300 folding chairs for our large American Legion Hall. Each one had three stickers that left paper and glue when removed."
"It took three or four of us a whole weekend to get them off. What kind of a sadist allows that‽‽"
~ Distwalker
"This makes me crazy. I shop at Marshall's and TJ Maxx and they place all of their price stickers on the front of their products or in a place that can be seen by all. They are impossible to remove."
"I mean, why would you put a price sticker on the front glass of a picture frame?"
~ Overall_Captain_4217
"Shampoo bottles that flip open so easily in luggage but NEVER when you’re in the shower with slippery hands."
~ Oninemo
"The bag in the box of cereal should be a zip lock type closure for kids."
~ badhairdad1
"But that would cost an extra $0.02!"
~ Apprehensive-Log8333
"And yet, ironically, the cheaper cereal comes with it included!"
~ lostinthought15
"All the daytime running lights (DRLs) that turn on automatically, but only turn on the front lights, so people drive around in the rain or other bad weather or at night with just those DRLs on in the front and don't have any lights on in the back."
"You would think if they can make automatic lights, they should make them actually turn on all the lights so people can F'ing see you."
~ No-Understanding-912
"Deodorant caps are smooth plastic and impossible to open with wet or recently moisturized hands."
"Would it kill them to put a couple ridges on those caps?"
~ SciFi_Wasabi999
"Also they are very top heavy."
"Multiple times I have accidentally gently tapped my deodorant & watched it toboggan through the sink and swan dive into the toilet."
~ katekohli
"'Skip Intro' should be a setting on streaming services, not something I need to select every 21 minutes."
~ bavmotors1
"And 'play credits' should be the same. Sometimes I want to watch the end credits."
~ CranberryDistinct941
"Apple is especially bad about this. 'Stay tuned after the credits for a behind-the-scenes feature', they say."
"Then it minimizes the credits screen and autoselects whatever show they're promoting, and after hitting back on the stupid Apple remote about three times, I finally give up and turn the whole TV off."
~ austex99
"Make the words 'shampoo', 'conditioner' and 'bodywash' on bottles bigger and easier to read."
"I get that your light green against dark green is a visually pleasing ascetic for store shelves, but I can't wear my glasses in the shower!"
~ Paxdog1
"Where are my goddam files‽‽
"Windows, Apple, everything tries to hide the location where they're storing their files. No, I don't want to default to storing on onedrive."
"I just want to be able to find my goddam files!"
~ KnoWanUKnow2
"Anything ever marked 'easy open' is guaranteed to not be easy to open."
~ MohawMais
"This reminds me of bags of water softener salt I get from Costco. It has a big bold 'Easy Open' written next to a poorly perforated line. It takes some real strength to rip those fuckers open.
"'Easy Open' just seems to be there to mock me."
~ No_Balls_01
What would you add to the list?
Kentucky MAGA Republican Representative James Comer now wants to go after judicial appointments made by former Democratic President Joe Biden as part of the investigation MAGA Republican President Donald Trump ordered.
The unwarranted, unsupported investigation is another part of the distraction campaign being run by the Trump administration—to avoid accountability on the failing economy, Trump's nosediving popularity, and now backlash from even his MAGA minions over the Epstein files. It also appeases Trump's need for petty vengeance against his "enemies."
Trump ordered all presidential actions by Biden be investigated based on unsubstantiated claims about Biden’s cognitive health during the latter part of his presidency—which could backfire given Trump's own obvious cognitive decline.
Comer—chair of the House Oversight Committee—answered his master's call and decided to investigate the Biden administration’s use of an autopen. Trump also uses the autopen technology.
Modern autopens have been in regular use by United States presidents since Harry S. Truman. The Department of Justice said in a 2005 memo that autopen was a legally valid way for the president to even sign legislation, the most important, far-reaching document a president signs.
It's used most often for repetitive signatures like proclamations or commemorative documents, but has been used for every type of presidential action.
Now Comer has vowed to probe Biden’s judicial appointments for autopen usage. The former Democratic president appointed a record 187 district court judges and 45 appeals court judges to fill vacancies in the federal courts.
Among those appeals court appointments was Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
During a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Comer vowed to "look at everything that was signed with the autopen." He was asked if his probe would include Biden’s judicial appointments.
The MAGA Representative replied:
"Absolutely. Everything that was signed with the autopen, especially in the last year of the Biden presidency... This raises an issue whether these pardons, whether these judicial appointments and whether these executive orders are legal."
"I believe if this investigation goes in the way that it is going, it will raise serious concerns about whether or not Joe Biden even knew what was going on around him, much less whether he authorized the use of his signature."
"I think all of these are in jeopardy of being declared null and void in a court of law and that's a biggie for the Trump Administration."
You can watch the moment here:
Comer didn’t reveal which—if any appointments—were done via autopen nor provide any evidence the autopen’s use was improper.
When Comer posted the Fox interview on his Facebook page, he got hammered in the comments.
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Congressman James Comer/Facebook
Trump's obsession with the autopen began in March while trying to find a way to bypass the preemptive pardons Biden issued for members of Congress who investigated Trump’s role in the violent coup attempt he incited on January 6, 2021. But Trump's use of autopen and the Department of Justice ruling stymied his efforts to declare the pardons void.
So Trump and his acolytes shifted to claiming Biden was too senile to make his own decisions and his aides ran the White House via autopen.
Biden and those who worked with him, both in and out of the White House, called Trump and his team "liars" and called them out for trying to distract from the Trump administration's many issues and failings.
Biden said to The New York Times:
"I made every decision. Everybody knows how vindictive [Trump] is, so we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now."
"I consciously made all those decisions."
Most of Biden’s former aides have refused to participate in the Trump administration's latest distraction from the Epstein files and Trump's own obvious physical and cognitive decline.