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The wait for Cardi B’s second album has been a long one, as Invasion Of Privacy dropped all the way back in 2018. The pandemic has resulted in numerous delays, but now, Cardi says she intends to release her long-awaited album in 2022.

In a 14-minute video Cardi shared on Instagram yesterday, she updates her fans on a few things, like how busy her life has been lately. Part of that is thanks to working on her new album to have it ready for next year, as she said, “Everything be looking so glamorous when you see my f*cking Instagram and everything, but it’s been really… it’s been a lot. It’s been a lot trying to balance out my new motherf*cking life. I got two kids, my daughter’s going to school now, and I have, like, a lot of jobs now. I’m in a lot of positions and that requires a lot of my time, and on top of that, I gotta put out this album next year. Not only do I gotta put out an album, but I gotta record a movie, I gotta do so much sh*t, y’all.”

Despite not having a new LP in a while, Cardi has done a terrific job at remaining present and relevant, as she had a No. 1 single this year with “Up” and another in 2020 with “WAP.”

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As if any more proof was needed that “cancel culture” isn’t real, DaBaby made his return to the Rolling Loud stage this past weekend at Rolling Loud California in San Bernardino. However, it wasn’t quite the triumphant comeback he and the festival’s organizers had perhaps envisioned. It seems that despite being welcomed back by the event’s producers with open arms, DaBaby wasn’t the fan favorite he’d been in previous years.

Fan videos posted to social media apparently captured the less-the-positive reception DaBaby received when his set was time was changed at the last minute on Sunday. Although he’d been scheduled to hit the Power 106 stage at 10:30, for some reason, he was moved to the Ciroc stage, where Future was billed to headline (Future apparently went on later). Whether it was his last-minute appearance that set them off — fans are notoriously fickle, as Drake learned at Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival in LA two years ago — or a reaction to the comments he made at his prior Rolling Loud appearance in Miami that got him in hot water, to begin with, is anyone’s guess.

However, you can clearly see bottles flying at the Charlotte rapper from the audience. While it isn’t the worst thing fans have thrown at him, it’s clear he isn’t held in as much esteem by rap fans — although, as he points out in the video, he’s still far from being “canceled.”

Donald Trump Jr. was among those who reached out to former chief of staff and “f*cking stupid” book author Mark Meadows on January 6th to urge the former president to condemn the deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol.

“He’s got to condemn this sh*t ASAP,” Trump Jr. wrote about his dad in texts read aloud by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) during a committee meeting on Monday. “The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.” (He’s referring to Trump tweeting, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!” a not even half-hearted attempt to stop the violence.) Later, Trump Jr. sent another text to Meadows (as did multiple Fox News hosts), writing, “We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”

Mary Trump, the most (only?) member of the family that’s been publicly critical of Donald, was asked by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell why DTJ texted Meadows instead of reaching out to his dad directly. “I wish that the answer you had given was the right one ― caller ID,” she joked. “But in this particular instance, it’s simply cowardice, because Donny knew that the message he was delivering was the message his father did not want to hear.” Trump added, “The question I have is how much was Mark Meadows pushing hard to get the truth to Donald and my guess is not very hard at all.”

Maybe he just didn’t want to accidentally send his dad a d*ck pic.

You can watch the interview above.

(Via the Huffington Post)

On Monday morning, Howard Stern joined the chorus of people who lauded Chris Wallace for finally leaving Fox News, but naturally, the shock jock made sure to add his blunt assessment of Wallace’s next career move. The veteran anchor who’s often been praised for being a voice of reason over at Fox News has accepted a position at CNN+. While Stern has often wondered how Wallace “put up with this sh*t” at his old job, he’s even more puzzled by his move to CNN’s streaming service.

Via Mediaite:

“I gotta tell ya,” Stern said. “People don’t watch CNN, who the hell is going to pay for CNN+? Are they out of their mind? CNN+, I mean what is that? Regular CNN isn’t enough?”

Stern said he won’t pay for CNN+ and doesn’t expect others to either. “Good luck being seen on that thing,” Stern said. “I mean I like Chris Wallace, but I’m not paying a monthly service fee.”

After ribbing Wallace for jumping to CNN, who Stern is certain offered him the “dough re mi,” the radio giant floated another possible reason for Wallace’s departure, and it was pure Stern.

“Maybe he said to himself, ‘They just had Jeffrey Toobin jerking off on a zoom meeting, and they didn’t really fire him, so that’s probably a good place to work. You can jerk off on your zoom and not get fired,’” Stern said. “I think he saw an opportunity.”

(Via Mediaite)

Recently, Billie Eilish shared a video for her Happier Than Ever standout “Male Fantasy,” and even more recently, she performed the song on Saturday Night Live. The song sees Eilish talking openly and honestly about pornography, and she did more of that on yesterday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show. On the program, she revealed that she thinks porn is “a disgrace,” that she started watching it when she was 11 years old, and that she believes it was damaging to her.

Eilish said (at about an hour and 7 minutes into the conversation):

“As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace, and I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest. I started watching porn when I was like 11. I didn’t understand why it was a bad thing. I thought that’s how you learned how to have sex. […] I used to be the person that would talk about porn all the time. I’d be like, ‘Oh, it’s so stupid that anybody would think that porn is bad or f*cked up,’ you know, ‘I think it’s so cool and it’s great and it’s empowering.’ […] I was an advocate and I thought I was ‘one of the guys’ and would talk about it and think I was really cool for not having a problem with it and not seeing why it was bad and… you know. I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.”

She went on to discuss how watching “violent” porn led to problems when she became sexually active:

“I think that I had sleep paralysis and these night terrors slash nightmares because of it. I think that’s how it started because I would just watch abusive BDSM and that’s what I thought was attractive. It got to a point where I couldn’t watch anything else unless it was violent. I didn’t think it was attractive. And I was a virgin, I had never done anything, and it led to problems. The first few times I, you know, had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good. It’s because I thought that that’s what I was supposed to be attracted to. I’m so angry that porn is so loved, and I’m so angry at myself for thinking that it was OK. The way that vaginas look in porn is f*cking crazy. No vaginas look like that. Women’s bodies don’t look like that. We don’t come like that. […] It’s how so many people think they’re supposed to learn.”

Meanwhile, she also revealed on the show that she had COVID-19 this summer and that she thinks being vaccinated prevented the situation from being a lot worse than it could have been.

Seth Meyers is confused—and he’s not alone. During Monday’s “A Closer Look” segment, the Late Night host spoke for many people when he admitted that he’s sometimes not sure how to process the fact that a sore loser of an American president actually attempted to overturn the results of an election, and that we’re still in the midst in the aftermath of those efforts.

After poking fun at the lack of crowds who showed up this past weekend for the kickoff of Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly’s Magical “History Tour,” Meyers pointed out that the images of all the empty seats were “a vivid demonstration of just how deeply unpopular [Trump] is, which is why he needed to stage a coup to stay in power, and we have overwhelming evidence that that’s exactly what happened.”

After reading off the laundry list of things Trump & co. did in an attempt to swing the results of the 2020 presidential election his way—despite the fact that he lost bigly—Meyers compared the former president to “the guy at the grocery store during Christmas rush who keeps switching checkout aisles.” But what is most confounding to Meyers is how Trump’s increasingly desperate bids to remain in power were simultaneously so inane and insane.

“It’s so disorienting for things to be both this dangerous and this dumb at the same time. Like, how are we supposed to process this? It was both a very real coup attempt that continues to pose a clear and present danger to our democracy, and also one of the dumbest things to ever happen…

And yet somehow, things keep getting more dangerous and dumber. Because in the last few days we’ve learned some shocking new details, including the existence of a truly insane PowerPoint presentation that was circling in Trumpworld, laying out the steps for a coup.”

It was, of course, former chief of staff Mark Meadows—whom the Jan. 6 House committee unanimously found in contempt on Monday night—who gave the very same committee a copy of the 38-page PowerPoint presentation titled “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan,” which is about as surreptitious as labeling your box of porn “Box of Porn.”

“That’s right, they wrote down their plans for a coup in a PowerPoint,” a perplexed Meyers explained. “You know what that means? Congress is going to have to subpoena Clippy!”

You can watch the full clip above.

In May 2010, a photo was taken of Keanu Reeves looking glum on a bench while eating a sandwich. This should be illegal: both taking a photo of someone without their consent, and not enjoying a sandwich. Sandwiches, like Keanu Reeves himself, are one of the few good things in this bleak world. But when that photo hit 4chan and Reddit, a new meme was born: “Sad Keanu.”

On Monday’s episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert brought out the photo, to which The Matrix Resurrections star replied, “I’m just eating a sandwich, man. I was thinking. I had some stuff going on. I was hungry.” Same. Colbert also brought out a side-by-side photo of the meme and a panel from Reeves’ comic book, BRZRKR, featuring a guy looking sad on a bench. “Yeah, so life and art,” the actor said. “That similarity, so Ron Garney is the amazing artist who’s illustrating and drawing BRZRKR. I didn’t know he was going to do that, but that’s what he did, so I think it’s kind of meta.”

Colbert also asked Reeves for his theory on why people love turning him into a meme (and having sex with a character sharing his likeness). “I have no clue, sir,” he answered before doing a parody of “Lean on Me” called “Meme on Me.” I love this man.

You can watch the clip above.

Since the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s biggest enablers have blown a lot of hot air about how the events of that day were in no way the then-president’s fault and how the MAGA coup at the Capitol wasn’t nearly as bad as the mainstream media has made it out to be. Now, The Washington Post reports that some of Trump’s most enthusiastic cheerleaders were frantically texting then-chief of staff Mark Meadows and practically begging that he find a way to get his boss to make it all stop.

On Monday night, Liz Cheney—vice chair of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and one of the few Republicans to regularly call Trump and his cronies out on their bullsh*t—read aloud from a series of increasingly desperate texts that were fired off to Meadows in the midst of the attack on the Capitol, urging him to convince the then-president to step in and do something. Among the senders of those messages were some of Trump’s most loyal Fox News hosts, including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Brian Kilmeade.

“According to the records, multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately,” Cheney said during the evening hearing of the House select committee, which unanimously voted to hold Meadows in contempt after he ghosted them and their subpoenas… but only after already providing them with thousands of smoking guns in the form of documents and communications relating to the Capitol riots, including the texts that could ultimately send him to jail.

Ingraham, who apparently believed Trump had a legacy to protect, texted Meadows that “The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”

Kilmeade’s message was much shorter and to-the-point: “Please, get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished.”

Hannity tried, too, asking Meadows, “Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol.”

Even Donald Trump Jr., who no one has ever accused of being the sharpest knife in the drawer, could see that what was happening was not good—for the country or his dad. But he, too, texted Meadows, insisting that “He’s got to condemn this sh*t ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.”

In the nearly one year since that deadly day, many of those same Fox News personalities have largely treated the Capitol insurrection as a non-event—so much so that back in July, Hannity’s Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera even outright accused him of “gaslighting” America.

As The Washington Post noted, “The hearing was not carried on Fox News on Monday evening. Representatives for the network have not yet responded to a request for comment about the texts.”

(Via The Washington Post)

Jeopardy! is currently on a break from regular play due to the show’s Professor’s tournament, which continues this week, but never fear because trans champ Amy Schneider will return on December 20. She’s won thirteen games so far, and that makes her the 5th all-time champ in winnings when it comes to regular-season games. She’s won $536,400 and counting and will one day appear in the Tournament of Champions. While she awaits return to airtime, Amy’s kept busy on social media by calling out the GOP and showing off her tattoo that she must keep covered on the show.

Now (and following the announcement that Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik will continue on as co-hosts until at least late next summer), Amy is not only using her platform to send supportive gestures to the trans community, but she’s also spilling what she believes is a secret to her winning streak.

Amy did so while answering a question about her ease while conquering the wordplay categories. “I think a lot of it comes from doing crosswords for years,” Amy offered. “It’s given me practice at thinking of words as both a concept and a collection of letters at the same time.”

As for how she fared at home (as a fan) doing practice runs, Amy answered that she pulled off “generally 45-50” questions from the comfort of her couch. Brb, gonna go buy a few crossword books…

She continued to answer questions while giving Pam credit for being the only competitor so far to “really consistently beat me on the buzzer.” That feels like a revelation and a challenge to future contestants, but she’s been holding everyone off so far.

Amy’s on a Jeopardy! breather at the moment, due to this week’s Professors Tournament. She return for more victory on December 20.

Being named Time‘s Person Of The Year is a prestigious honor, and the person who claimed the title for 2021 is Elon Musk, as was confirmed yesterday. People had a lot to say about that, and now Grimes, who has been “semi-separated” from Musk since September, has weighed in.

Last night, Grimes shared Time‘s tweet announcing the news and wrote, “And he cut his own hair for this pic too – icon [sword emojis].”

It’s not entirely clear if Grimes was actually complimenting Musk’s look or if she was throwing shade (like some think she did on her recent single “Player Of Games“). A scenario that seems likely, though, is that Grimes is playfully referencing the backlash Musk’s new haircut received when the internet first spotted it earlier this month. Desus and Mero took their shots at the ‘do, too, with Desus joking, “He spent all his Dogecoin on one toupee.”

All in all, it doesn’t seem that Grimes and Musk have been on bad terms since their semi-separation began. For example, Musk could be heard in the background of a Grimes TikTok video from shortly after the split. Also, some have noted that Grimes and X AE A-XII popped up during Musk’s appearance on the December 13 episode of the Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Addendum podcast, during which they all seemed to be happy and getting along.