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George Santos Just Became The First Person To Get A Lifetime Ban From Kalshi—And He's Getting Roasted Hard
Sep 02, 2026
Disgraced former New York Republican Representative George Santos was widely mocked after the prediction market betting app Kalshi handed him their first ever lifetime ban after he bet on his own attendance at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
Santos, whose political career was derailed by allegations of fabricating his background, misusing campaign funds for luxury items and Botox, and leaving a trail of victims behind him as a known fraud and identity thief, has been soapboxing significantly since Trump commuted his prison sentence in October 2025.
Now he has been permanently barred from Kalshi and fined $71,356 following an investigation into bets he made concerning his own appearance at Trump’s State of the Union address.
Kalshi said Monday that Santos earned $17,839.57 through trades tied to whether he would attend the speech. The disciplinary action came after a federal regulator accused him of using his public comments about his plans to attend to influence the value of the contracts in which he had a financial interest.
The company said Santos placed substantial wagers in a market involving an outcome he could personally affect, violating Kalshi’s rules. Investigators also concluded that Santos made public statements about his attendance specifically to move the market, including statements Kalshi characterized as false or misleading.
Kalshi said the statements had the intended effect, changing the prices of the relevant “Yes” and “No” contracts and allowing Santos to profit from the resulting movements. The company also cited his failure to fully cooperate with the investigation as a reason for imposing a lifetime ban rather than the temporary suspensions previously given to some other users.
The CFTC has separately prohibited Santos from trading on prediction markets for three years—and Santos appears relatively unbothered by all of this.
In a post on social media, Santos suggested that Kalshi's days are numbered now that he's been banned from the app:
"Hey @Kalshi thanks for the lifetime ban from your gambling platform. Let’s see how much longer you guys are around for."
You can see his post below.
Considering Santos won't commit to paying back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole from victims of his financial schemes, it was no surprise that critics pounced and roasted him immediately.
Santos just can't seem to stay out of trouble, can he? This is a new low for him.
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MapQuest Downloads Soar After They Refuse To Bend The Knee To Trump Over Lake Ontario—And We Love To See It
Sep 02, 2026
The 30-year-old navigation company MapQuest is topping the download charts after not following Google's lead and following President Donald Trump's order to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that the United States was considering "changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to [be] doing much business with Ontario any longer."
Trump later signed an executive order directing U.S. government agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.” The change applies only to official U.S. government usage and does not alter the lake’s name in Canada or in international usage.
Google has already adopted Trump’s preferred name for American users, displaying “Lake America” on its maps, while Apple is reportedly considering whether to follow suit amid pressure from the White House.
But MapQuest openly rejected Trump’s August 27 executive order, posting "We're not changing it" in a post accompanying a screenshot of a map of Lake Ontario.
You can see the post below.
Three days later, the company responded, "We are aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map," affirming that it would not refer to the body of water as "Lake America."
You can see the post below.
MapQuest has since surged ahead of Google Maps and Apple Maps in downloads amid the ongoing trade dispute with Canada. TechCrunch was the first to report the surge. The app was ranked No. 1 on Apple’s App Store as of Tuesday morning, a position The Guardian confirmed.
TechCrunch reported that the app had climbed to No. 4 among the most-downloaded apps in the U.S., excluding games, while also taking the top spot in the navigation category, ahead of Google Maps at No. 2. In Canada, MapQuest had risen to become the country’s second-most-downloaded app overall by Sunday evening.
MapQuest acknowledged all of this by sharing a screenshot that shows it at the top of one of the downloads charts, adding:
"The people have spoken. We are working."
You can see the post below.
People are thrilled.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer navigation company.
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AOC Trolls Trump With Brilliant Suggestion After He Tells Americans To Stop Complaining About AI Data Centers—And We're So Into It
Sep 02, 2026
New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked President Donald Trump after he was criticized for telling Americans to stop complaining about AI data centers being constructed in their communities.
Data centers—vast, industrial buildings packed with servers, networking hardware, and storage systems—form the physical backbone of modern computing.
While such facilities date back to the mid-20th century, emerging alongside the first general-purpose digital computers, their construction has surged dramatically in recent years as artificial intelligence has moved from theory to daily use.
That growth has brought mounting environmental concerns into sharper focus. Over the last year, researchers and journalists have increasingly scrutinized the energy and water demands of popular generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.
In response to these concerns, Trump said Americans who don't support data centers will end up "being backwards and poor":
"The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign. The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them."
"If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement. Actually, they can't believe it is happening!"
You can see his post below.
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When approached by MeidasTouch Network’s Pablo Manríquez for a response to Trump's post, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that if the president is this enamored with data centers, then he wouldn't mind if one was constructed near his Florida estate:
“Ohh. I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Others concurred with her suggestion.
Well, Donald, we're waiting.
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Kelly Clarkson Just Performed 'Golden' As Her Final 'Kellyoke'—And She Absolutely Crushed It
Sep 02, 2026
After seven years of performances, guest, laughs, and sharing her fans' living rooms, The Kelly Clarkson Show has come to an end.
Back in February, Clarkson made the announcement that the show would come to a close at the end of the Fall 2026 season, so she could focus on her two children, 12-year-old River and 10-year-old Remy, after the death of their father and her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.
As promised, the final show featured a variety of special guests, but Clarkson's favorite part was making the final show entirely fan-requested, including a long-form "Kellyoke" performance with all fan-selected songs.
Some of her most popular songs, including "Piece By Piece," "Since U Been Gone," and "Stronger," were highly requested, but there was one cover song that Clarkson had been saving for a special moment that the team called "the most requested song EVER." And when would be a more special moment than the final episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show during Clarkson's final Kellyoke?
The song was none other than the Oscar-winning hit "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters.
Clarkson was no stranger to the film, as she previously performed "What It Sounds Like" to high acclaim, but fans weren't ready for her to sing the entire song by herself and in its original key.
But that was exactly what she did. Though the song was originally performed by a trio, Clarkson sang it solo, and she performed it live in its original key, which includes multiple A5 runs.
You can watch Clarkson's performance of "Golden" here:
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Clarkson's performance was shared across social media but went particularly viral on X.
X users not only enjoyed Clarkson's performance, but they were also impressed that she'd accomplished what the original artists had not.
Many pointed out that even the original singing trio of Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami chose to sing "Golden" in a lower register when performing it live, and they also shared the parts.
Clarkson, on the other hand, sang all the parts herself and performed it in the key as it was originally written.
Kelly Clarkson brought wholesome content, laughs, and incredible music to fans' living rooms for seven seasons, and while she's stepping back to focus on her family during this pivotal moment in their lives, there's no doubt that there's more in store for her.
In the meantime, this performance was nothing short of golden and is something for fans to hold on to.
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2027 Met Gala Theme Canceled After Designer John Galliano Drops Out Due To Backlash Over Past Antisemitism And Racism
Sep 01, 2026
The 2027 Met Gala is still eight months away, and somehow, the controversy has already arrived fashionably early.
When John Galliano: Horizons was announced on July 31, Galliano was set to join a remarkably short list. Only Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 and Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo in 2017 had been honored with exhibits while still living. Well, he was supposed to be.
That honor lasted all of one month. Exactly one month, to be precise. On August 31, the museum and Galliano announced plans to halt the 2027 exhibition.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Director and CEO Max Hollein made the abrupt change of plans official:
"Following thoughtful discussions with John Galliano, we have together decided not to proceed with the exhibition."
And there’s quite a bit of history behind that abrupt change of plans.
Galliano had certainly earned his place in fashion history—although not all of that history was something the Met could neatly tuck into an archive. Celebrated for his flamboyantly creative designs, Galliano spent years perched atop the fashion world as the creative director of Christian Dior.
His influence also extended well beyond the runway, with the designer creating looks for and working with notable celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Kylie Minogue, Carla Bruni, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lawrence, and Miley Cyrus.
But in 2010 and 2011, attention shifted from what Galliano was putting on the runway to what was coming out of his mouth.
A series of racist and antisemitic comments surfaced and went viral. Among the remarks Galliano made to bar patrons, which were circulated on video, was "I love Hitler." He also told patrons, who were Jewish, that their mothers and forefathers would have been "gassed." Galliano also made derogatory comments to an Asian patron.
CNN previously covered his remarks in a resurfaced clip below:
- YouTube CNN
The fallout brought his celebrated tenure at Dior to an unceremonious end. Christian Dior fired Galliano, and following his multiple outbursts, he was convicted of committing two hate crimes in Paris and faced a fine equivalent to $8,500.
Galliano, for his part, directly acknowledged the past remarks at the center of the controversy:
"After much reflection and discussion with The Met and all those involved, I have decided, with great sadness, that it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time. I remain fully accountable for the pain caused by my words in the past, particularly the hurt I caused to the Jewish and Asian communities, and I remain deeply sorry for it."
Galliano’s statement leaves little ambiguity about the history hanging over the now-canceled exhibition. But while the designer focused on accountability and the pain his past words had caused, Anna Wintour offered a considerably more flattering assessment of his decision to step aside.
Wintour didn’t hold back in her praise of Galliano’s decision:
"John's decision that the exhibition devoted to his work should not take place at this time is very courageous and a measure of the man he is. I believe this is the right decision, and both he and the Museum have my full support."
Courageous? That’s one interpretation, Ms. Wintour. Damage control is another.
The controversy surrounding Galliano and the now-canceled exhibition also sparked plenty of conversation across social media:
Not everyone who questioned the exhibition dismissed Galliano’s efforts to make amends. Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, praised the designer’s efforts to repair the harm caused by his remarks and said the organization had long since accepted his apology.
Still, Greenblatt acknowledged the difficult timing of such an honor:
With antisemitism at crisis levels, the Met honoring John Galliano at this moment was misguided, and even Galliano ultimately recognized what the Met should have done from the start. This was the wrong move at the wrong moment. Timing matters.
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) August 31, 2026
As for the Met, Greenblatt drew a clear distinction between redemption and the receipt of a rare, highly visible honor. Accepting Galliano’s apology, he suggested, didn’t necessarily mean honoring him with an exhibition.
Greenblatt put it more bluntly:
"Redemption doesn't entitle someone to every honor that we have."
And just like that, John Galliano: Horizons is no longer headed for the Met. “Courageous” may be Wintour’s word for it. Course correction might fit the dress code a little better.
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