It's been a few days, but we're still reeling from President Trump's instantly legendary first Black History Month speech, in which he weirdly called long-dead abolitionist Frederick Douglass "an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more." Even stranger was that after Trump was torn apart for historical illiteracy, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer still didn't bother to Google the name, and basically reiterated the fourth-grader-who-didn't-actually-read-the-book talking point.

But Trump and Spicer were vindicated when the nearly 200-year-old Douglass did indeed show up alive and well... on professional networking site LinkedIn.

Aside from his proficiency with Microsoft Excel and public speaking, Douglass has been endorsed for skills including "integration," "project management," and "sandwiches"—he's the real deal, employers! And there's no shortage of recommendations from people he's worked with, either.

It's so nice to see someone like Fred finally get the job opportunities he deserves.

As if there isn't enough fake news to be worried about, it turns out that the footage of "animal abuse" from the set of the film A Dog's Purpose that went viral in January was faked, The Verge reports. The footage, which was originally released by TMZ, shows a distressed dog being forced into a pool of water by a handler. The news of the maltreatment quickly spread, resulting in the premiere being canceled, and consequently led to protests at theaters. But it was all for nothing.

An investigation by a third-party organization, which included an "animal cruelty expert" revealed that the footage was doctored to look worse than it actually was. In a statement released by the American Humane Association, the organization that supervised animal treatment on set, the investigation concluded that the video "was deliberately edited for the purpose of misleading the public and stoking outrage." In the clip, a distressed German Shepherd is shown being forced into a pool water. But the investigation concluded that the dog "was not forced to swim in the water at any time" and that filming was stopped when he appeared distressed. Now, some are wondering if the release of the doctored video was timed specifically with the release of the film, so as to ruin its box office success.

In the wake of the election, the onus of spreading fake news has mainly fallen on conservatives, though there are some liberal outlets that are responsible for the spreading of untrue articles as well. But for those of us who operate online in a liberal sphere where most of the articles being shared are from the New York Times, this was a story that punctured that bubble, serving as a reminder that fake news comes in many forms and isn't always political in nature. Yet another reminder to be wary, stay vigilant, and choose your sources carefully because it's all a pack of lies out there. If you need something real to be mad about, just remember that our president is Donald Trump.

Comedian Patton Oswalt, well-known as one of Twitter's most acerbic troll-baiters, has often over the past year struck a more somber tone in remembering his late wife Michelle McNamara, who unexpectedly died in her sleep in April 2016 at the age of 46. This Friday, he was able to confirm her cause of death.

"We learned today the combination of drugs in Michelle's system, along with a condition we were unaware of, proved lethal," Oswalt said via a publicist's statement. The drugs in question were the prescription medications Adderall, Xanax and fentanyl. These, in combination, exacerbated McNamara's undiagnosed cardiac condition, which had created arterial blockages in her heart. Still, noted the Hollywood Reporter, "Los Angeles coroner's Lt. David Smith said McNamara's cause of death remains listed as pending."

Oswalt and McNamara had a daughter, Alice, who is now 7 and by every indication following in her true-crime writer mom's footsteps.

In the week leading up to this emotional day for Oswalt, he also found time to get a Trump-loving troll fired for making a joke about his late wife. Perhaps more importantly, the guy deleted his whole Twitter account—big win there.

Grief is a long, tough road, but there aren't usually this many hecklers on it.

Friday, on Real Time with Bill Maher, conservative political commentator and notoriously bad tweeter Tomi Lahren was pressed on the issue of racism, The Daily Beast reports. First she was asked whether she thought a black president would face more scrutiny than Trump if he was doing and saying the same things. Lahren responded that she personally wouldn't judge them any differently because of the color of their skin, but was unwilling to say whether she thought the general public would have a racist response. The fact that anyone wouldn't say agree to the idea of a black man being lambasted far harsher than a white man for bragging about sexual assault is already shocking. It reveals a very narrow understanding of the pervasive and systemic double-standard for black Americans, who are asked to achieve far more to garner the same amount of respect as a less-accomplished white person. But it gets worse from there.

Next, Maher presented Lahren with the following statistic: "Two-thirds of Republicans agree that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against minorities," and was asked if she agreed. At first she offered some vague mumbling that "it’s not just blacks against whites or whites against blacks, it’s all of us against each other. And it’s toxic." But Maher wasn't satisfied with her answer, and pressed her to respond directly to the question of whether she believed that racism against white people was an issue. "As we sit here today, I do think that there is an element of racism against white individuals. I do. I do see it," she said.

Then, praise be to conservative columnist Rick Wilson, she was called out. "As a conservative and not a Trump person," he started, "let me just say this: that is f—ing crazy." Yes. Thank you.

While it's fun and cathartic to see Maher take down Lahren, the fact that it was another conservative calling her out is more meaningful. Lahren's typical rhetoric online is to disparage liberals by characterizing them as overly sensitive, single-minded "snowflakes," a term she coined, likely to enrage the left.

Her personal platform depends upon the polarization of the left and right, and to see her taken down for her unreasonable beliefs by a fellow conservative is a reminder that though our political system has become bi-partisan for the most part, there are varying shades of belief within the two parties. Plus, it just feels good to see Lahren get called crazy.

You can watch a segment of the interview here:

While President Trump continued to tweet his campaign slogan in ALL CAPS and wonder aloud why a judge could halt his illegal travel ban targeting majority-Muslim countries, LGBT demonstrators in New York took to the streets to remind him that more than one community stands against his executive orders.

Lambda Independent Democrats organized the rally at Manhattan's historic Stonewall Inn, the site of a 1969 LGBT uprising after an early-morning raid on the bar that now figures prominently in the narrative of gay liberation in the U.S.

Protesters did not disappoint:

Is it just me, or have thousands of Americans taken to the streets to rail against President Trump's nonsense every single day he's been in office? And somehow they've never run out of creative new ways to mock his ignorance?

Democracy is lit, y'all.

By now you may have come across this image of a man smirking while pointing to his head, captioned with some bit of life advice so bad it kind of makes sense.

So, who is this mysterious genius? None other than Roll Safe, or just R.S., a fictional British rapper played by Kayode Ewumi on BBC Three's Hood Documentary, a mockumentary webseries.

That clip first aired in June 2016, gained some viral traction, and, over the course of another eight months, Roll Safe's little gesture became shorthand for any kind of problem-solving that resembles denial more than critical thinking.

The remixes are gold as well.

But the Roll Safe meme isn't just for advice—he also has some conspiracy theories for you to think about.

Still, we feel it's only safe to warn you...

Wait, but then if we took that advice, we'd be taking advice from a meme about not taking advice from a meme and—OK, I have a headache.

How do I break it to impressionable teen Camila Cabello that she is getting her dating advice from the last person she should consult when it comes to love? Yes, you have guessed it, the ex-Fifth Harmony singer has somehow fallen prey to Taylor Swift. In a recent interview with The Sun U.K., Cabello discussed her relationship with the pop diva known for collecting gal pals and going through men like toilet paper.

"We talk about love a lot," Cabello said. "And if I ever have any questions about love or if there's anything that I'm going through at the time, whether it's with a boy or with a friend, she's a very good person to ask those kind of questions." My sweet Camila! No! Haven't you noticed that all of Swift's best songs are about breakups or revenge on friends who turned their backs on her?

I feel like a protective mom who can see my daughter falling in with the catty popular crowd that seems glamorous but will only wreck my sensitive child's self-esteem. And Camila, as your mother, I want you to know that you can talk to me about anything, boys, sex stuff, your solo career...whatever you want.

Cabello's reasoning for turning to Swift for dating advice comes from what I guess you could call Swift's experience in that arena. "She's very knowledgeable about that stuff," Cabellos said. Well, knowledgeable can mean a lot of things I suppose. She does know what it's like to date and break up with a lot of men, and then right chart-topping songs about it. Good luck out there, Camila. Rooting for you.

After a federal judge put a nationwide hold on Trump's immigration ban on Friday, Trump took to Twitter to express his outrage and disparage the "so-called judge." Among his comments was the following:

What does Trump mean by "evil?" Well, in this case, it seems like it means "Muslims," considering that the ban directly targeted countries in the middle east that are predominantly Muslim. And people noticed.

Broad City's Ilana Glazer specifically called him out on the use of quotation marks around the word "evil." But this isn't the first time he's been taken to task for his use of scare quotes—that is, quotation marks around a word meant to evoke suspicion or attention. Other outlets, including GQ have noticed the phenomenon as well. For your entertainment, here are a bunch of other times Trump used the device in his tweets:

Hard to say who those "dudes" are but apparently they're "bad."

"Intelligence," more like "stupidity!" Am I right?

How can it be a "leak" if I'm not wet?

He's suspicious that it's "carnage" but he's ready to send the feds.

I really can't understand this one. It's a word used correctly and it doesn't imply suspicion.

I think this is meant as a joke. What a good try!

During the election at a rally in Bangor, Maine, Trump once referred to Obama as the "quote 'president,'" using air quotes in his speech as if to question Obama's legitimacy and imply that he was not our President. (He was. For eight years.) What can we take away from this? In today's instance, it seems like Trump was shying away from saying something bigoted, by implying what "evil" meant without having to say it. Other mistakes just seem like grammar issues that are typically cleared up in middle school. All this to say: it's hard to know the mind of a truly insane person.

Of all the awful things about President Trump—all the cronyism, corruption, illegal executive orders, and resistance to fact—somehow his unhinged Twitter account remains high on the list. Perhaps it's that he can crater entire economies or focus the dangerous ire of millions with a typo-ridden tweet, or maybe we're just jealous crybaby snowflakes with fewer followers than him.

Either way, people are pretty sick of seeing him continue to launch insults from his unsecured Android phone when he could, you know, be getting an intelligence briefing now and then. His latest attack targeted U.S. District Judge James Robart, the "highly regarded GOP nominee" who brought a temporary end to his travel ban for people from some majority Muslim nations.

This was enough to prompt some to call for a permanent POTUS suspension.

The #DoItJack hashtag emerged as a way to hold Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, responsible for allowing Trump to promote hate speech on the site—the kind of thing that other Twitter trolls have been exiled for.

Mike Monteiro, a San Francisco resident who co-founded Mule Design Studio and has led the latest campaign to throw Trump off Twitter, outlined the all the reasons it makes sense—and why it's not a violation of free speech.

Dorsey himself has yet to respond to this latest outcry, but no doubt he saw what happened when Uber broke a taxi strike in New York over Trump's Muslim ban: Hundreds of thousands of users deleted the app, and the CEO had to formally cut ties with the president in order to save face. Of late, these kinds of digital movements seem less and less likely to simply blow over—so Dorsey may find that the pressure to "do it" may only increase in the weeks ahead.

Lady Gaga's whole shtick is being weird. And as such, she's set up a problem for herself, wherein she must out-weird herself at every turn, continually heightening the absurdity and changing direction so that we remain unable to predict her. We had the meat dress, the flying dress, the time she arrived to the Grammys in an egg...the list goes on. It sounds exhausting, but hey, she chose this life.

So, when it was announced that Lady Gaga would be performing the Super Bowl halftime people began to wonder: just how weird could and would she get on prime time TV? The Super Bowl itself feels like such a normal, all-American affair that it's strange to imagine Gaga taking the stage. But we have a hint at what's to come, as CNN Tech reported today that there would be "hundreds of drones" used during the performance. Do we think that she'll be making a commentary on surveillance?

The Verge found a video recorder near the stadium earlier this week that shows about a dozen drones flying in a "G" formation:

And there will be apparently hundreds more where that came from! I honestly can't think of anything more terrifying or more American than the deafening buzz of hundreds of drones flying over an emotionally-charged football stadium.

Melissa McCarthy was Saturday Night Live's unexpected and inspired choice to play embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, an angry, lie-spouting, thumb-shaped man whose job it is to yell at the media on President Trump's behalf. No one knows how long Spicer will last before trigger-happy Trump gives him the boot, so it's a good thing we got this impression while we still can.

"I'd like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of you to me for how you have treated me these last two weeks, and that apology is not accepted!" McCarthy's Spicer shouts at the journalists assembled before him, proceeding to bluster, stammer, and bully his way through a briefing with Spicer's trademark eloquence. It's gonna be real hard for the guy to come back to work after this.

Before we got to Melissa McCarthy's delightful and uncanny impression of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live last night, we enjoyed a new cold open with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

After learning that daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner aren't around to stop him from doing anything crazy, Donald calls in his chief strategist Steve Bannon—whom the SNL writers, seemingly after lots of deliberation, decided to subtly portray as a grim reaper skeleton. Bannon encourages Trump to embark on a series of disastrous phone calls to the leaders of other nations including Australia, Mexico, Germany. Time and again, the president discovers that gaining the upper hand in diplomacy isn't as easy as he thought.

The real Trump, who has been known to angrily tweet about SNLliterally every time they make fun of him, hasn't yet commented on last night's sketches, possibly because he's still busy getting mad about the court system challenging his illegal Muslim travel ban. Petulant rage is a full-time job, people!

What could be more American than Budweiser, the signature beer from Anheuser-Busch, the brewing company that was founded by two German immigrants and, in 2008, absorbed by a Brazilian-Belgian beverage conglomerate? According to Trump voters, nothing—that is, until their marketing team unveiled a Super Bowl commercial about the "immigrant" part.

Here's the $5 million spot from the AB, titled "Born the Hard Way," which depicts Adolphus Busch's long, hard road to success through a a 19th-century U.S. often hostile to people who arrived there in search of a better life.

The commercial, of course, was written, shot, and edited months before President Trump's Muslim travel ban, but you can't keep a good boycott down. Remember when Trump voters decided to boycott Starbucks and Rogue One, and then you never heard about either again? Budweiser, your time has come.

Or, in fact, you may have a whole mess of new customers.

As always, it's wonderful to see this country come together on the biggest sports day of the year to soberly argue about alcoholic beverage branding.

In a Saturday Night Live episode that saw Melissa McCarthy nail Sean Spicer as a squirt-gun-wielding bully and Alec Baldwin return to the Oval Office as President Trump, we also had the good fortune of hearing host Kristen Stewart weigh in on Trump's weird old string of tweets about her relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. Here are a few of those tweets, as a reminder:

Stewart said she was nervous to be hosting SNL, given the president's evident dislike for her—and his hatred of the show—but ultimately concluded that he might be more "in love with" Pattinson than angry at her. She also took the opportunity to remind the commander-in-chief that she is "like, so gay, dude."

Oh, she also swore by accident.

Against all odds, Trump himself has yet to tweet about this episode of SNL, but give it another... I don't know, five minutes? Also, he may have to tweet about Budweiser's pro-immigrant Super Bowl commercial first. Priorities!

Nicki Minaj is hopping mad at Italian designer Giuseppe Zanotti, who has named a number of his shoes after her but apparently declined to take a call about working with the rapper on her own collection.

Minaj put Zanotti on Twitter blast at the end of the week, speculating that race had something to do with the snub. She also started dropping the hashtag #GiuseppeWhatsGood, a callback to her 2015 beef with Miley Cyrus.

At one point, she even threatened to step into the ring with the guy.

In the end, though, Minaj tried to steer her indignation to a charitable place.

All has been quiet over on the Zanotti brand's Twitter account, however, so St. Jude may be out of luck. In the meantime, though, why isn't some other designer scrambling to snatch up Nicki's hottest new looks?

What is more American than the Super Bowl? How about three women of color, at least one of whom has an immigrant family, singing "America the Beautiful" while everyone in the stadium weeps? Tonight before the start of Super Bowl 51, the performers who originally played The Schuyler Sisters in Hamilton—Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones—took the stage to sing the classic American folk song, but this time with a new feminist addition, EW reports.

The line "and crowned thy good with brotherhood," was followed up with "and sisterhood" in a moving tribute to the inclusivity that is the heart of America. That's right, the future is female and now our patriotic songs are female too.

I don't care if you hate football and you don't get the hype over Hamilton, this was a great moment.

If it feels like a lot of ads during Super Bowl 51 thus far have had political undertones, you're mostly correct. Coca Cola's "Together is Beautiful" ad, which SB Nation reports actually aired during 2014, was re-promoted tonight as a reminder that Coca Cola is pro-diversity (and therefore anti-Trump, just like you), and also that Coke is delicious and you should buy some. Is it sad that simply promoting inclusivity now feels anti-Trump?

In an even more direct attack on the President, Airbnb launched a #WeAccept campaign, which not only included an ad championing the ideal of inclusivity, but also drew attention to a growing effort by the company to provide short-term housing to those in need. From refugees to disaster survivors, Airbnb aims to give 100,000 people temporary housing over the next five years. Somehow, this made people mad:

And some people made fun of all the products that Trump supporters will now have to boycott because of their inclusive ads:

And sure, it's still an ad, and at the end of the day the whole point of an ad is to create positive sentiment towards a brand so that you'll use it. As we've seen with Uber, the public is particularly sensitive to corporate irresponsibility right now, so it makes sense that Airbnb wouldn't want to make a misstep, especially during the Super Bowl. But, while Airbnb was clearly looking out for their own brand, it was also kind of nice to see an ad that stood for something bigger than "yo, use our service."

At the very least, my hats off to Airbnb's ad agency for responding to a hostile political climate by championing multiculturalism and acceptance and not trying to ham-fist an Airbnb host into the ad. You can watch it here: