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Jake Gyllenhaal might have lost Best Supporting Actor back in 2006, but he can officially say he passed on a little Emmy magic.
Fifteen-year-old Owen Cooper, who just became the youngest Emmy winner in history, walked into last night’s ceremony with a pocket-sized good luck charm from his hero: a tiny golden duck from Gyllenhaal himself.
Cooper’s fangirl moment started on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he confessed just how much of a Gyllenhaal devotee he really is:
“If I’m sat next to him, he’s not gonna have a good night… I’m just gonna be talking to him the whole night… I could go on forever talking about him, honestly.”
From Jarhead to Donnie Darko to Prisoners, the kid has his Gyllenhaal feature film canon covered.
You can watch the clip at the 3:45 mark below:
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Two days later, fate (and probably a very persuasive Jimmy Kimmel producer) delivered. While Cooper thought he was filming a “fake” interview for Netflix, he was asked what he’d say if he met Jake. Cue Gyllenhaal strolling in from stage left like a rumored Avengers: Doomsday cameo, and Owen immediately short-circuited in the cutest double-take you’ve ever seen.
Once the obligatory hug was out of the way, Gyllenhaal presented him with an engraved gold duck with a special sentiment from his Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain:
“A friend of mine sent me this before. Something just like this. It’s just a Lucky Duck to keep in your pocket. To give you a little bit of luck.”
Adorable doesn’t even begin to cover it.
You can watch the Netflix meet-cute here:
Cooper clutched that duck all the way to the red carpet, proudly showing it off to Entertainment Tonight and gushing about how surreal the meeting was.
And unlike Jake’s 2006 Oscar campaign, the duck came through this time. Cooper made history on Sunday night by winning Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his chilling turn as Jamie Miller in Netflix’s Adolescence.
During his acceptance speech, he reflected on how he got there:
“Honestly, when I started these drama classes a couple of years back, I didn't expect to be in the United States, never mind here. But I think tonight proves that if you listen and you focus and you step out of your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life.”
You hear that, up-and-coming actors? Stick to those online drama classes!
He ended the speech graciously:
“I was nothing about three years ago, and I'm here now… Who cares if you get embarrassed, you know? Anything can be possible.”
The internet swooned—from Cooper’s adorable charm to Gyllenhaal’s good looks (sorry, good luck charm)—proving that one golden duck can, in fact, break the internet.
Cooper also shattered the record previously held by Michael A. Goorjian, who was practically middle-aged at 23 when he won in 1994. Sorry, Michael—you paved the way so Cooper (and his duck) could waddle straight into Emmy history.
And while the duck made for a sweet red-carpet accessory, it was Cooper’s performance in Adolescence that sealed the deal. As Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old accused of a brutal crime, he carried one of Netflix’s most-watched limited dramas with equal parts raw terror and aching vulnerability.
The role didn’t just make him the youngest Emmy winner ever; it crowned him as the breakout star of the year.
You can watch his acceptance speech here:
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Because lucky charms may help, but turning Adolescence into must-watch TV? That was all Emmy Winner Owen Cooper.
MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, while speaking Sunday in a luxury suite at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, said he is not liked by "smart people."
Addressing a small group at his New Jersey property where he spent the weekend, the POTUS said:
"Smart people don't like me."
MTV's The Real World: Boston and Road Rules: All Stars party boy turned Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy could be seen in the background laughing about being called stupid by his boss.
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Trump added:
"And they don't like what we talk about."
The latest Trump insult directed at his own MAGA minions quickly went viral across social media.
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"Smart people don't like me." - Donald Trump, accidentally telling the truth
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Trump: “Smart people don’t like me, you know?”Smart people: "We know."
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BREAKING: trump told a truth. "Smart people don't like me".
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This is hardly the first time Trump has insulted his own followers or implied they're uneducated.
While campaigning in 2024, Trump told his followers:
"...get your fat husband off the couch, get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump..."
In July, Trump called MAGA members asking him to keep his campaign promise to release the Epstein files "stupid," "foolish," and "weaklings."
It's unclear if the MAGA minions realized they were being insulted or if they just enjoy the abuse.
Cookies, pretzels, an apple, leftover Chipotle… and dog food. That’s what TikToker @kaitlynnjb revealed her husband “lovingly” packed when she forgot her lunch at home because nothing says romance like pairing Milano cookies with Kibbles ’n Bits.
And no, folks, the TikToker is not a golden retriever; she’s a teacher who thought she was sharing a lighthearted story-time about her husband’s “lunch delivery.”
But the internet, being the internet, turned it into a cross-examination—with zero chill and plenty of side-eye.
The TikToker explained:
“So, I forgot my lunch today, and I asked my husband to bring me lunch. So let’s do an unboxing because clearly it’s a little full.”
Inside the black-and-white super cute lunch bag: an already opened sleeve of Milano cookies, a half-eaten bag of pretzels that looked stale as hell, an obligatory apple because teacher vibes, a knock-off can of spicy jalapeño Pringles that had clearly been sampled, more cookies, and the pièce de résistance—Chipotle leftovers. Correction: two-day-old Chipotle leftovers.
And just when you think the bar can’t get lower, she reaches into the bottom of the bag.
Pulling out a Ziploc bag of dog food, complete with two notes from hubby that she read:
“‘Because you’re my dawg… Please bring back, the dogs are low on food.”
Shakespeare wrote sonnets; this guy sends Scooby Snacks.
She added, jokingly defending him:
“So, ladies, if you don’t have food and your husband has to bring you a lunch. Just know that you’re gonna get lots of, lots of food as well as maybe even a cute note.”
You can watch the video below:
@kaitlynnjb Thanks Trev love you so much! Thanks for really putting thought into it…. Also I realized you clearly knew where the ziplocks were cause you used one for the dog food… #newteacher #teachertok #elementaryteacher #firstyearteacher #husbandwife
The internet’s verdict: not cute.
Half the comments accused him of being insensitive:
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The other half accused her of staging the whole thing for clout:
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Others compared it to more thoughtful husbands who packed suspiciously Pinterest-ready lunches for their influencer wives to unbox:
@lindseyteaches Not me pretending he doesn’t pack my lunch every day 🤪 thanks my king!!!! #whatsinmylunchbox #teacher #teacherlunchbox #teachertok #lunchfrommyhusband @Chomps @Solely: Organic Fruit Snacks @rareform
And some got that it was a joke with #supportivehusband:
@corilawrence22 appreciate him though 💜#workingmom #supportivehusband
Either way, the clip went viral across TikTok, Reddit, X, and Instagram.
The internet also questioned whether the TikToker was enabling her husband’s “weaponized incompetence.”
For the uninitiated, that’s when someone pretends they’re bad at basic tasks so they never have to do them again. Think Everybody Loves Raymond, where Debra realizes Ray “can’t” make the bed, fold laundry, change a diaper, or buy groceries without turning it into slapstick—so she just does it herself.
Cute in the ’90s with a laugh track, but in 2025? It’s less sitcom humor and more grounds for a collective internet intervention.
Facing the backlash, Kaitlyn doubled down with a follow-up posted last week:
“Okay, number one, the dog food... Y'all are so pressed that he called me a 'dog.' He did not call me a D-O-G dog, DOG, like a dog that has a leash. He did not call me that. D-A-W-G, dog, as in homie. American slang for homie. It's what we call each other. It's a joke. J-O-K-E, joke. Y'all were also so pressed that he put it in my lunch box.”
Imagine defending your man by spelling out D-A-W-G like you're Elmo on Sesame Street.
Claiming it was all a joke (one her sister apparently found hilarious), she clarified that the Chipotle wasn’t two days old but actually just one:
“Moving on, second, the Chipotle, y'all are all really upset that it was two-day-old Chipotle. Well, guess what? Teacher brain deceived me. It was actually a day old. It was from the night before, so not even a day old. I said two — as a teacher, one day feels like seven.”
Relatable. Last week felt like a decade and a half of political discourse mayhem.
She even listed her go-to order—a steak, rice, and beans burrito bowl (no guacamole, which deserves major side-eye)—and reminded viewers her husband does bring “real” food, like Chick-fil-A, “once a week.” On the first day of school, he even surprised her with candy and flowers.
You can watch the explanation video here:
@kaitlynnjb Here it is!!! Feel free to blow up the comments😂 #dogfoodlunchbox #husbandpacksmylunch #husbandwifecomedy #lunchformyhusband #fyp
Unfortunately, the internet wasn’t convinced. Commenters stayed split between “sweet husband joke” and “girl, he played you with kibble.”
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With over 41K followers, Kaitlyn’s account includes teacher hacks, toddler chaos, and husband-related misadventures. And maybe not "husband packed lunches" anymore…
Her latest #momsoftiktok video can be seen here:
@kaitlynnjb Help me! What am I missing!! Any necessities that I’m not thinking if?? #momsoftiktok #momlife #boymom #teachersoftiktok #traveltips
It's safe to say that Generation Z, those born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, have lived through a fairly tumultuous time in this world.
Indeed, with the global pandemic coming right as most of them were reaching their most formative years, studies have even shown that "Gen Z-ers," those aged 13–28, are currently the unhappiest generation.
It's not terribly surprising that this might have led several Gen Z-ers to seek professional help.
While keeping doctor/patient confidentiality intact, one therapist has now gone viral, sharing his most unsettling observations he's made about today's youth.
In a video that has now received over 2 million views, Texas-based licensed therapist Austin Calo, who uses the TikTok handle @austincalo, shared the common trends he noticed in his early teen to late twenties patients:
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Speaking directly to the camera, with an accompanying text overlay, Calo shared all the common denominators in his Gen Z patients, which he thinks begins with an "external locus of control".
"...what that is is...when basically, you have this frame of being that means that something is happening to you rather than you impacting it."
Calo highlights that the global pandemic hitting Gen Z-ers during a particularly vulnerable time in their mental development truly exacerbated the idea that they are not in control of their own narratives.
"..if you think about how disruptive something like a global pandemic would be, it would make you feel totally powerless, relative to major things happening to you that you have no individual say in the world, right?"
"So, naturally, you would detach from the result and view yourself as relatively powerless."
"Which has this nihilistic point of view, and I think there's something to be said there as well."
Calo then emphasized that all those who complain about youngsters spending too much time on their phones or in front of screens might, in fact, be on to something:
"You combine this with a presence of the internet, and just constant surveillance in their mind."
"This leads to, like, a fear of being cringe, right?"
"So, basically, a fear of standing out or somebody, you know, publicly humiliating you, maybe something like that."
"Because the internet is faceless, so people can be very rude and denigrating."
"This can shatter a sense of community, which I've found is compensated by trying to create this artificial community and boxing someone into a group."
"So I see this hyper-pathologizing of mental illness and kind of orienting things towards that, or this big pressure to have this identity relative to a larger pack."
"So, you know, it could be one's sexuality...there's not a sense of openness to figure something out or that it'll come in time or later, there's this pressure to identify with something right now."
Calo went on to add that Gen Z's higher comfort and familiarity with technology might put them at a social disadvantage.
"A consequence of this, too, that I've noticed is higher media literacy, meaning this is a generation that grew up with the internet, they know what you're trying to do, they know you're trying to manipulate them, so there's a sense of, um, kind of collective resistance to, like, pandering, you know?"
"So they know what you're doing, um, and I've found that that's actually, um, both empowering and disheartening, like that you're constantly being sold something, and the problem with that is their media literacy is up, but the ability to be manipulated and marketed to is even higher than that, right?"
"[Be]cause the internet's exponential and it's polarizing, so your 'for you' you're getting is shit you're already interested in, and that can just kind of wear you down over the course of time."
"So, the media literacy is up, but that doesn't mean the impact is down of marketing."
"So, I found that, um, there's also this kind of detachment of what is asked of them [be]cause it feels like something's asked of them all the time."
With all this in mind, it might seem easy to roll our eyes or look down at Gen Z, but Calo made it clear that the only way of helping them through this is by doing the exact opposite:
"I see kind of these takes online of trashing Gen Z or, like, the Gen Z staring stuff, this is to help understand and empathize with a generation that feels totally powerless in the face of a polarizing political climate and being marketed to and politicized on social media, meaning being manipulated on social media through politics."
"And so I think it's helpful to have a sense of empathy rather than 'oh, these kids, da da da da da'."
Calo's video received a rapturous response from viewers, particularly from members of Gen Z, who felt he highlighted everything they were going through, and then some, to a tee.
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While all of this might suggest that Gen Z is the new "doomed" or "lost" generation, Calo thankfully doesn't agree with that idea at all, even though he does emphasize to overcome this statistic, the ball is very much in their court.
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Calo stressed that nearly all Gen Z-ers are their own worst enemy, and in order to turn their lives around for the better, they must instead be their biggest supporter.
"Think of who has positively impacted your life and treat yourself the way they’ve treated you."
"You might find that you are worth that love and adoration after all."
Excellent advice for everyone, not only Gen Z.
Iowa City official Jon Green, chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, has declined to comply with Governor Kim Reynolds' order that flags be flown at half-staff following the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk, stressing that he will not honor a man “who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.”
Green sent an email to other officials and department heads in which he asked “that we keep all victims of gun violence, including the slain Colorado students, at front of mind as we serve," referring to students who were shot at a Colorado high school the same day that Kirk was assassinated in Utah.
His message adds:
"There is no national database, and so we're unlikely to ever know how many we lost today, Wednesday, 10 September. For most of us, this date will pass. For far too many, this date will now become the worst anniversary of their lives."
"Please extend whatever grace you are able, to the neighbors we serve, for we know not of their burdens. I say this knowing you and your staff do so, every day."
He later posted it to his official Facebook page along with the following caption:
"On my personal authority as the Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, I have determined to defy the Governor’s order that our colors be at half staff through Sunday on behalf of Charlie J Kirk."
"I condemn Kirk’s killing, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."
"Johnson County flags will fly as usual. I will accept any consequence, whether legal or electoral, for my decision. It is mine alone."
You can see his post below.
Reynolds followed up shortly afterward to criticize Green's move, accusing him of putting "politics above human decency":
"It’s disgraceful that a locally-elected official has chosen to put politics above human decency during a time like this."
You can see her post below.
MAGA supporters are furious.
But others have defended Green's move and criticized Reynolds in response.
Green explained that his decision was influenced in part by the fact that no comparable order had been issued for other victims of political violence, citing the June killing of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.
Speaking to The Gazette, he said:
“She was assassinated because of her politics, and for the governor of a neighboring state to fail to acknowledge that and to show her and her family the deference, respect and societal mourning that is both appropriate and I think necessary was a grievous disappointment."
Green emphasized that "my constituents deserve to see principled leadership from the folks that they elect, and I hope that I'm providing that."