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Donald Trump remains banned from Facebook and Twitter, among other social media platforms, for provoking a violent coup at the Capitol building in January. “His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote at the time. Cameo has no such concerns.

Cameo CEO Steven Galanis told Axios on HBO that he would allow the former-president on the personalized celebrity video website (“Want Redman to wish your 13-year-old cousin a happy bar mitzvah? Cameo!”). “Trump has done nothing on our platform to violate our terms of service,” he said. “I think Cameo is a place for laughs. It’s a place for fun.” Galanis added that Cameo (which recently enabled political fundraising) is currently going through a “big growth spurt, so all the things that are happening today, we have to create our own policies that work uniquely for Cameo, because the rules of our platform are different than they are for YouTube, Instagram, and for Twitter.”

Asked why there are far more Republicans, including former Trump officials, than Democrats, Galanis says, “You had a reality TV star as president… Anyone that was part of it was just one big reality show for the last four years.”

If Trump does join Cameo, he’ll join such far-right luminaries as Tomi Lahren ($90), Sarah Palin ($199), and Sheriff Joe Arpaio ($30). But he’ll also have to compete with numerous impersonators, including “Tiktok Donald Trump: John Walsh” and “Donald Trump Puppet: Troy Murphy.” Get them both for only $120!

(Via Axios)

(Plentiful SPOILERS for this week’s Fear The Walking Dead episode will be found below.)

As we predicted a few weeks ago, we learned in this week’s episode that Teddy, the “King of the Crazies” is, indeed, the same serial killer that the father of John Dorie locked away before the zombie apocalypse. What we never expected, however, is that John Dorie’s father, John Dorie, Sr., would actually make an appearance. While he’s obviously no Garrett Dillahunt, Keith Carradine — who plays Senior — is a very respectable substitute and one in which that I think that Dillahunt himself would applaud. Based on this week’s episode, it also appears that Carradine’s John Dorie, Sr. is likely to join the cast, at least for the remainder of the season.

The “J.D.” in this week’s episode, in fact, refers to John Dorie, June Dorie, and John Dorie, Sr., not to mention the initials on the guns that have been in the Dorie family for generations. June encounters Senior while she’s out with Dwight and Sherry, who have their own subplot this week. June gets into a gunfight with Senior briefly before he spots her gun with JD inscribed on it, and they realize they both have someone in common: They’re both related to John Dorie. They are also both in search of information about the “End of the Beginning” people. Turns out, however, that Senior has a long history with their leader, Teddy. He’s been preaching the same “End is the Beginning” gospel since well before the apocalypse, and he’s “crazier than a cut snake” but could “sell ice to an” Inuit, which is how he developed a cult following.

It takes a minute, but June and Dorie Sr. eventually bond over their common interests, although Senior hadn’t seen his son in 40 years. June fills him in on his kid’s life, while Dorie Sr. explains why he abandoned his family — it mostly had to do with the shame of trumping up evidence against Teddy pre-apocalypse in order to put him away (he did “the wrong thing for the right reasons”). June and Dorie Sr.’s travels bring them back to John Dorie’s cabin where they encounter Hill, one of Ginny’s old rangers. It doesn’t go well for Hill, who is killed, although Dorie Sr. is shot, too, and falls on his son’s grave, where it appears he will die. However, June had set up medical supplies a few episodes back in order to save John Dorie, but she never got to use them. They were still in place so she could save Senior. Afterward, they hold a proper funeral for John Dorie, where June reads the suicide note that John Dorie had left behind before he decided not to commit suicide. It’s a heartbreaking sequence.

And June brings Dorie Sr., back to Morgan’s community.

Morgan had told June in the episode’s opening that there was essentially nothing she could do to earn Morgan’s forgiveness for having shot Ginny, but he quickly changes his mind when he is introduced to John Dorie’s Dad. There have been a lot of bleak endings in the last few episodes, but this one gave us some much-needed relief, although Senior did forewarn Morgan of what was to come, namely that Teddy was determined to wreak a lot of destruction. It appears as though Teddy’s plan to set off a nuclear bomb is still in the works, which could offer a bridge to The Walking Dead timeline and the Rick Grimes movie for Fear.

Meanwhile, Sherry and Dwight spend some time together again in this episode. Hearing June read John’s letter also makes Sherry reconsider some things. She realizes that maybe she shouldn’t be so singularly focused on getting her revenge against Negan to the exclusion of everything else in her life, including Dwight, and she decides to try and start afresh with him. It’s very sweet, although Sherry lost a lot of affection points from the viewing audience when she so callously ran a horse to the point of a heart attack and indifferently shot it in the head.

It’s also unclear whether this was a send-off episode for Dwight and Sherry. June gave Dwight the rings he gave to John/June back so that Dwight and Sherry might someday wear them again, and then they galloped away together on a horse while June and Senior returned to Morgan’s community. Sherry and Dwight’s destination is unclear. It sort of felt like a goodbye, but no one actually said goodbye, and the showrunners didn’t address the Sherry/Dwight situation in the behind-the-scenes wrap-up. Sherry had spoken about heading back East to go after Negan again, but seemed to abandon that plan (although, there’s no shortage of speculation that the two would rejoin the parent series). Or maybe they’re just strolling off to be on their own and rekindle their romance. Their fate is TBA.

AMC’s ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ airs on Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

Last year, Oasis pulled off something special: Their timeless mega-hit “Wonderwall” become the first song from the ’90s to rack up over a billion streams on Spotify. Back before the song was a classic, though, Liam Gallagher apparently didn’t care for it at all, according to his brother and Oasis bandmate Noel.

In a new issue of Mojo (as NME notes), Noel was asked about if it was always clear whether he or Liam would sing lead vocals on an Oasis song. He responded:

“The only time I laid down the law was ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger.’ I was so f*cked off with him walking off stage and me having to take over and do the gig. I remember thinking, if I’m going to do this, I want a big f*cking song to sing. I said, ‘You’re singing one or the other, but not both.’ He hated ‘Wonderwall’. He said it was trip-hop. There speaks a man who’s never heard trip-hop. He wanted to sing ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, but it became apparent during the recording that ‘Wonderwall’ was going to be *the* tune. If I’m being honest, I shouldn’t have sung either of them because I wasn’t really a singer then.”

This comes after Liam suggested earlier this year that some sort of Oasis reunion could be in the cards for 2021.

Much like Seth Rogen questioning why the state of Israel exists last year, John Oliver isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers on the subject (starting around the 1:00 minute mark above). This is especially the case in light of the current situation between Israel and Palestine. Oliver tackled the subject on the heels of Israel’s recent air strikes against Hamas fighters in Gaza, where Palestinian civilians are caught in the crossfire, in many cases losing their lives and their homes. And let’s just say that Oliver is more than “deeply underwhelmed” by the Biden administration’s response, and for that matter, several previous U.S. administrations, while he addressed the subject on Sunday night.

In particular, the Last Week Tonight host was incensed by the misleading vocabulary used by the Israeli government to disguise human rights violations (including “planned expulsions”) as something altogether different. “Is it not hard to see why sanitized terms like ‘evictions’ and ‘property disputes’ rankle those who live there,” he says, as does the term “airstrikes on militants” translate as “a little disingenuous,” Oliver declared. “What you’re describing is forcing people from the homes they’ve lived for decades and killing civilians and children.”

Oliver also took great issue with Israel’s claims that a heads-up on airstrikes somehow rendered them humane. That’s a big nope to the host: “Destroying a civilian residence sure seems like a war crime, regardless of whether you send a courtesy heads-up text.” He added that such an attitude leads to a lie-by-omission, much like “Matt Gaetz Reaches Out To Florida Youth,” because “it’s missing some pretty crucial details about the exact nature of that interaction.” Further, Oliver called out Israel for their atrocities against Gaza-residing Palestinian citizens, who are “at a significant disadvantage” due to not being able to count on an “Iron Dome” of missile defense like their Israeli counterparts can do. Further to that point, there’s the whole matter of Israel Defense Forces “meme-ing” the bombing of apartments in a before-after manner.

“In general, you should probably never meme a war crime,” declared the host. He then pointed toward how Palestinians are “essentially being governed by a form of apartheid.” This makes their “life in Gaza… hard even when they’re not being bombed,” and Oliver is aghast at how “the U.S. government has implicitly co-signed on the brutally hard line Israel’s been taking.” To that end, the host dragged Biden’s recent “Israel has the right to defend itself” response, which is a word-by-word echoing of several presidents (including Obama and Trump, under whom Jared Kushner claimed to “bring peace” to the Middle East) before him. “By constantly refusing to criticize the indefensible,” Oliver said, the U.S. is enabling (and complicit within) the exponentially larger suffering of Palestinian citizens over their their Israeli counterparts.

Even though there’s no winner in the situation, Oliver urges his viewers to accept that although civilians, including children, have been killed in Israel, too, the playing field isn’t level. “Both sides are firing rockets,” Oliver pointed out. “But one side has the most advanced military in the world.” And “one side is suffering them exponentially.”

In this house, every week is the Week of Kathryn Hahn. But it was especially true this past week, which began with Hahn being cast in Knives Out 2 (along with Dave Bautista, Janelle Monae, and Edward Norton) and culminated in the WandaVision actress winning Best Fight, Best Villain, and Best Show at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

“This is my childhood, people,” she said while gesturing towards the golden popcorn trophy, adding, “This really is the bee’s knees. When I was in high school, I was in The Wizard Of Oz, and I played the Tin Man. And I really, really, really wanted to be Dorothy because I wanted those red slippers. And so it took a long, long time for me to realize that deep in there was also that wicked witch.” It truly was Agatha All Along.

Hahn and her WandaVision co-star Elizabeth Olsen accepted the award for Best Show together, joining previous winners Adam Sandler vs. Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore, Yoda vs. Christopher Lee in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and Ben Stiller vs. Puffy the Dog in There’s Something About Mary (the MTV Movie Awards are wild). “Oh, my god! Thank you so, so, so much, MTV and beautiful fans for voting for us. We are so proud the two of us on behalf of the show and this crew for this incredible honor. Thank you,” she said, while Olsen left everyone with the “immortal words” of Des’ree: “You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser. You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger. You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together. All I know, all I know, love will save the day.” It’s either love, or hand fighting.

No wonder they’re being called the most iconic duo.

You can watch the other acceptance speeches below.

These past few days have made for one of the more active weekends for Nicki Minaj in recent years. The rapper made her return by adding her mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, to streaming services. The project was re-uploaded with new songs for fans like “Seeing Green” with Drake and Lil Wayne. That song made for the first record in almost three years from the original Young Money trio. Unfortunately, it hasn’t only been high moments for Minaj as this weekend also marked what would’ve been the 65th birthday of her late father, Robert Maraj. It comes three months after he was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident.

Minaj took to Instagram to celebrate her father in a touching post. “Happy Birthday Daddy,” she wrote under an image of her father. “Miss u so much. So much. So so much. Rest in peace. Oh my God.”

The hit-and-run occurred in February as Maraj walked between Roslyn Road and Raff Avenue in Long Island, New York. The vehicle that hit him, which was driven by a 70-year-old man named Charles Polevich, immediately fled the scene. Officers later arrested Polevich after they discovered the car in his garage. As a result, he was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a fatal car accident and tampering with evidence. The latter charge came after officers concluded that Polevich tried to alter the car’s appearance to avoid being arrested.

You can view Nicki Minaj’s post above.

The 2020-2021 NBA regular season has officially come to a close and it did so in rather spectacular fashion, with a wild final day that saw teams battling for play-in positioning, playoff seeding, and some outright tanking into different matchups.

The day started out with some phenomenal games including three furious comebacks: one actually completed by the Wizards to beat the Hornets and earn the 8-seed in the East, another other by the Grizzlies, briefly taking the lead on Golden State before Stephen Curry happened and the Warriors won, and another by the Celtics to scare the Knicks who held on to earn the 4-seed in the East.

The night slate wasn’t nearly as competitive for all the reasons one might expect, as teams rested and positioned themselves to be healthy and ready for the playoffs. Out West, the Nuggets were playing guys but clearly weren’t invested in their game in Portland the same way the Blazers were, as Portland ran away early to secure the 6-seed in the West and push the Lakers into the play-in, despite L.A. getting a win in New Orleans (although with a bit of a scare from LeBron apparently tweaking his ankle). Meanwhile, the Jazz started slow but eventually pummeled the Kings to lock down the 1-seed, keeping Phoenix in second out West.

With Denver losing, the Clippers would move to the 3-seed with a win, but they clearly wanted no part of that as they did the unthinkable, out-tanking the Thunder to lose in Oklahoma City (after losing to Houston) and getting into the 4-seed to face Dallas (who lost to Minnesota trying to possibly tank their way to the 6 to dodge the Clippers). All in all, it was a wild day and at the end of it all, here is how the play-in and playoffs will shake out.

EAST

PLAY-IN
7. Boston Celtics vs. 8. Washington Wizards (Tuesday, TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET)
9. Indiana Pacers vs. 10. Charlotte Hornets (Tuesday, TNT, 6:30 p.m. ET)

PLAYOFFS
1. Philadelphia 76ers vs. 8. Winner of Play-In Game 2 (loser BOS/WAS vs. winner IND/CHA)
2. Brooklyn Nets vs. 7. Winner of BOS/WAS
3. Milwaukee Bucks vs. 6. Miami Heat
4. New York Knicks vs. 5. Atlanta Hawks

WEST

PLAY-IN
7. L.A. Lakers vs. 8. Golden State Warriors (Wednesday, ESPN, 10:00 p.m. ET)
9. Memphis Grizzlies vs. 10. San Antonio Spurs (Wednesday, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET)

PLAYOFFS
1. Utah Jazz vs. 8. Winner of Play-In Game 2 (loser LAL/GSW vs. winner MEM/SAS)
2. Phoenix Suns vs. 7. Winner of LAL/GSW
3. Denver Nuggets vs. 6. Portland Trail Blazers
4. L.A. Clippers vs. 5. Dallas Mavericks

Once the play-in games are done and the full matchups are set for the playoffs, the complete TV schedule for the first round will be released.

LeBron James hasn’t had the smooth follow-up to the Lakers title season that he wanted. Injuries and some inconsistent play on the court caused Los Angeles to enter the final night of the NBA season in need of some help to avoid the play-in tournament. Unfortunately for the Lakers they didn’t get that help and will be the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference play-in seed. They’ll be taking on Stephen Curry and the Warriors which will require a full strength team to overcome.

Los Angeles entered their regular-season finale against the Pelicans assuming they would be at full health no matter the final result. That was until LeBron James took possession, spun into the lane, and came up limping after the play. He wasn’t in serious pain by the looks of it, but he was clearly annoyed at the outcome of the play. He immediately checked out of the game and began pacing the sidelines. Replays made it appear like Likely trying to walk off whateve

The first year of the NBA’s new play-in tournament may go down as it’s best as the NBA has managed to get two of its top stars matched up in the 7-8 game out West. Early on Sunday, the Warriors beat the Grizzlies to lock in the 8-seed thanks to another sensational 46-point performance from Stephen Curry, who locked down the NBA scoring title early in the game himself. All that was left was to determine whether the Lakers or Blazers would be their opponent in the first play-in game.

With the Blazers dominating a Denver team with nothing to play for on Sunday in a 132-116 win, the Lakers were officially locked into the 7-seed in the West despite beating the Pelicans in New Orleans thanks to the Blazers earning the tiebreaker over L.A. this season. What that sets up is a LeBron James vs. Stephen Curry matchup that the NBA and ESPN, which has the West play-in games this year, have to be salivating over.

The two have met numerous times in high stakes games in the past, including in four straight Finals from 2015-2018, but this time rather than a series, the two will have one game to decide who takes the 7-seed to face the Phoenix Suns in the first round. The rest of the West playoff standings are also set, with the Clippers out-tanking everyone to get themselves to the 4-seed, where they’ll get a rematch from last year’s first round with Dallas. L.A. lost to the Rockets and Thunder in succession, a nearly impossible task but one they pulled off, making sure they avoided the Lakers in the first round should there have been some shenanigans with the Nuggets and Blazers finale. Denver and Portland will meet once again in a playoff series, as they produced a classic series in 2019, while the Jazz took down the 1-seed and will await the winner of the second play-in game later in the week.

Here is how the West seeding finished up:

1. Utah Jazz
2. Phoenix Suns
3. Denver Nuggets
4. L.A. Clippers
5. Dallas Mavericks
6. Portland Trail Blazers
7. L.A. Lakers
8. Golden State Warriors
9. Memphis Grizzlies
10. San Antonio Spurs

The first round of the West play-in games will be Wednesday night on ESPN, with Spurs-Grizzlies at 7:30 p.m. ET and Warriors-Lakers at 10 p.m. ET.

It has been a long season for everyone in the NBA, as the crazy, condensed regular season came to an end on Sunday. For Mike Breen, who pulls double duty on Knicks broadcasts for MSG and as the lead play-by-play man for ESPN’s NBA coverage, he’s called a lot of games in not a lot of days, and it’s understandable that at some point a slip-up might happen.

Breen is a pro’s pro and one of the absolute best in the business, but even he has the occasional error on a broadcast. Sometimes that’s calling the wrong player — an issue that has been exacerbated for play-by-play folks calling games remotely this year — but other times it’s a little Freudian slip, as happened in Sunday’s Celtics-Knicks game in which Tacko Fall snagged an errant save by the Knicks and Breen called him “Taco Bell.” Breen immediately recognized his error and laughed at himself, and after the game Tacko had a good laugh about it on Twitter.

It was a very funny moment in a game that got shockingly tense for the Knicks, who needed a win to take the 4-seed in the East. Boston came back from a massive second half deficit to cut the Knick lead to as few as one, but New York prevailed and will now take on the Hawks. Breen will now get a couple deserved days off before he calls ESPN’s play-in game on Wednesday night, and before then hopefully he gets that Cheesy Gordita Crunch he must be craving based off of his Tacko mishap.