Kathy Griffin issued an apology on Tuesday after she posed for a graphic photo shoot featuring a bloodied, "decapitated head" meant to look like President Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, TMZ published images from Griffin's photo shoot with Tyler Shields and Griffin herself later posted a video from the shoot on Twitter.

"I caption this 'there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his... wherever,'" wrote Griffin, aping Donald Trump's own comments regarding former Fox News host Megyn Kelly in 2015.

In the video, Griffin anticipated the backlash, saying, "Tyler and I are not afraid to do images that make noise" and "We have to move to Mexico today because we're going to go to prison."

Griffin has since deleted the tweet featuring her video, but the evidence is preserved on TMZ:

The reaction was predictably furious, from both sides of the political spectrum.

Griffin apparently saw the criticism, and took to Twitter in the aftermath.

"Hey everybody, it's me Kathy Griffin. I sincerely apologize," said Griffin in the course of her mea culpa. She went on to list what sounds like every complaint leveled against her in the wake of the photos, with barely a breath.

At the end of her apology, she nodded curtly as if to say, "phew, glad that's over. Now please don't take away my on-air time with Anderson Cooper.

Hey everybody it's me Kathy Griffin. I sincerely apologize. I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I'm a comic, I cross the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing, I understand how it offends people, it wasn't funny, I get it, I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue. I asked your forgiveness. Taking down the image. Gonna ask the photographer to take down the image. And I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.

Indeed, reports say CNN is "evaluating" Griffin's prominent role in their New Year's Eve celebration.

"We found what she did disgusting and offensive," said CNN in a statement. "We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating our New Year's Eve coverage and have made no decisions at this point."

Reactions to the reaction from Kathy Griffin were just as predictably angry as the initial response to the images.

Trump hasn't responded to the Life on the D-List star, preferring instead to tweet and delete gibberish in the form of the typo "covfefe." But it's not crazy to think he might respond. After all, the last notable celebrity to create a threatening image with a replica Trump was Snoop Dogg.

In March, Mr. Dogg made a music video in which he pointed a gun at a clown dressed like Donald Trump. And Trump, probably remembering Snoop's brutal roast in 2011, took to Twitter to respond:

But it looks like the internet took care of this one for him. Kathy Griffin apologized, and we wont have to talk about this again until the next time it inevitably happens.

Update: Donald Trump responded.

Update 2: CNN has made a decision.

Are all you popping fiends ready for another huge lipoma from your fave, Dr. Pimple Popper? Here's a video showing Dr. Popper (a.k.a. Dr. Sandra Lee, licensed dermatologist) going to town on a preeeetttty big lipoma (or benign fatty deposit) on her patient's lower back. She makes her cut, digs in, and pulls out all sorts of yellow, gooey, thick goodness. If you're into that kind of thing.

The real digging doesn't start until about 3:40 in the video.

Then all the yellow fat gets put into specially marked and handled medical waste bags, where it's later raided by Tyler Durden and turned into fancy soap to be sold at expensive boutiques. JUST KIDDING! (Probably.)

When 12-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne strutted onto the America's Got Talent stage, the judges—and America—had no idea what they were in for. The small but mighty Darci Lynne and her bunny partner in crime Petunia came out giggling, and no matter how hard he tried, not even the curmudgeonly Simon Cowell couldn't poop on on the pure, unadulterated cuteness.

The young Oklahoma City native introduced her act, saying it was a dream of her's (and Petunia's!) to appear on the show, because “I want to keep ventriloquism alive because it’s not common, you know?”

Ventriloquism has been important to Darci and not just for the performance aspects. "Ventriloquism kind of helped me find my voice. It’s really helped me come out of my shell. My shyness is getting better," she told KFOR.

As soon as Darci Lynne opened her mouth (well, didn't open her mouth—that's what makes her a ventriloquist), the judges, the audience, and America were stunned.

Petunia proceeded to belt out "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess and it was surprisingly moving coming from a bunny.

One of the judges, Spice Girl Mel B, went wild.

"You know what? I think your puppet I’m guessing is very much like you, charming and adorable," she gushed. "You make my heart melt, you were brilliant. I’m trying to describe how amazing it was."

Instead of describing it, she decided to show it, pressing the "Golden Buzzer," which sends Darci Lynne straight to America's Got Talent's live, final round.

Her family's reactions are worthy of the Golden Buzzer treatment themselves.

Darci Lynne and Petunia discussed the triumph in a digital exclusive.

"When I got the Golden Buzzer, I felt like I died, and just came back," she said. Awwww.

This wasn't Darci Lynne's first time on the big stage, though it was Petunia's. She and her other puppet Katie (please don't tell Katie I called her puppet) appeared on the UK's Little Big Shots earlier this month, showing off her impressive repertoire of accents.

Darci could be the latest tiny blonde prodigy to win America's Got Talent. Last year's winner, 12-year-old singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal, won after scoring a Golden Buzzer on her first audition and said she'd use part of her ***one million dollar*** earnings on an extreme treehouse.

Kids these days.

When I was 12, I was still eating paper.

UPDATE, 1:30 PM: CNN has fired Kathy Griffin from appearing on their New Year's Eve show. Send thoughts and prayers to Anderson Cooper.

Kathy Griffin was under fire on Tuesday for a provocative photoshoot that showed her holding up a bloody, decapitated head resembling President Donald Trump. The Game of Thrones-like image upset people on both the right and the left, because unlike [GAME OF THRONES SPOILER REDACTED], Trump is a real dude.

While it took the president days to condemn the murders of two men by a white supremacist in Portland, Oregon (and he didn't even send the message on his personal account!), he was sure to speak out about imaginary violence against his own head by a My Life on the D-List star the very next day.

Trump also took the opportunity to remind us that he has an 11-year-old son, Barron Trump, writing, "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"

According to TMZ, Barron saw the picture on TV and initially thought that the head was actually his father's, panicked, and called out for Melania. Oy.

For her part, Kathy Griffin acknowledged the criticism and apologized. "I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong," she said, before elaborating in a video, "I'm a comic, I cross the line. I move the line, then I cross it," sincerely acknowledging the criticism and the photos (or at least regretting the backlash).

She said:

Hey everybody it's me Kathy Griffin. I sincerely apologize. I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. I'm a comic, I cross the line. I move the line, then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing, I understand how it offends people, it wasn't funny, I get it, I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I will continue. I asked your forgiveness. Taking down the image. Gonna ask the photographer to take down the image. And I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake and I was wrong.

Currently, CNN is evaluating whether or not Griffin will remain a co-host of their annual New Year's Eve show with Anderson Cooper, according to The Hill. "We found what she did disgusting and offensive," said CNN in a statement. "We are pleased to see she has apologized and asked that the photos be taken down. We are evaluating our New Year's Eve coverage and have made no decisions at this point."

It's nice to see that people are rushing to condemn imagery and discussion of violence against the President of the United States. It's dangerous to have such language lingering in the public sphere, and should be the kind of thing that betrays public trust and ruins careers. Like in 2007, Ted Nugent said at a concert, "Obama, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary [Clinton], you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch" and—

Oh.

ABC made history when it announced that Rachel Lindsay would be the first black Bachelorette since the franchise's inception 15 years ago. After getting dumped by Nick Viall on The Bachelorlast season and winning the hearts of Bachelor Nation, Rachel is leading this season of The Bachelorette, complete with her own smorgasbord of hot dudes to romance.

This season also features a much more diverse group of contestants than it has in previous seasons of The Bachelorette, where it was nearly impossible to separate one white guy with stubble in a v-neck tee shirt from another (I still have trouble, to be honest).

Among those vying for Rachel Lindsay's heart is 30-year-old singer/songwriter Lee Garrett, who tried to make a good first impression on the Bachelorette by strutting up to her while singing and playing the guitar during their initial meeting.

Lee Garrett clearly intended to play the role of the good ol' country boy from the beginning ... but his online persona shows a much uglier side of the contestant.

According to these old tweets (and by "old" we mean "from last year"), Lee Garrett loves Donald Trump, hates Islam, and wants "Black Lives Matter" to be considered a "terrorist group." Yes, and he is on a dating show to win the heart of a black woman.

Something doesn't add up.

Also, many of Lee Garrett's tweets are connected to more fully-fledged posts on a Facebook that now seems to be defunct. We wonder why.

We have to say, these ledes do have us wondering:

Internet sleuths dug up the old tweets from Lee Garrett and are now asking the reality show contestant to explain himself.

UPDATE: As of 12:07pm on May 31st, Garrett protected his tweets.

Now we can't help wonder if someone at ABC royally flubbed it when they let this potentially racist dude compete for the heart of the first black Bachelorette, or if producers planted Lee Garrett knowing that he would provide drama. Judging by previews and promotions for the upcoming episodes, Lee Garrett does seem to be painted as the season's villain. Well, if the bolo tie fits...

Ugh, leave it to a racist dude to make the WHABOOM guy look desirable by comparison.

Students of a seventh-grade writing class at Arizona's Queen Creek Middle School were assigned to write a slam poem for their final assignment: It had to be about something they were passionate about, and they would have to perform it in front of the class, according to News 12.

Thirteen-year-old Olivia Vella's poem was so honest, soul-baring, and relatable that it ended up going viral, having been watched over 24 million times (!) on the News 12 Facebook page.

In her poem, Vella talks about the daily trials and tribulations of trying to fit in ("pick an outfit that will fit in with the latest trends and won't make you the laughingstock of the school, more than you already are"), look pretty ("don't forget to style your hair in elegant curls. You can't let everyone at your school see how your hair frizzes up like an electrocuted monkey naturally"), and find friends ("You know you shouldn't hang out with them, but hey, they are the popular kids, and you just want people to like you").

She asks, "Why am I not good enough?" several times, a question that troubles people at every age, but more so in our formative years. She knows popularity is not all it's cracked up to be, though, saying, "Popular is not always a good thing. . . You look at other girls wishing you were them, but other girls are looking at you wishing they were you." She ends by saying, "Society is wrong. You are loved, you are precious, you are beautiful, you are talented, you are capable, you are deserving of respect, you can eat that meal, you are one in seven billion, and most of all, you are good enough."

Her teacher, Brett Cornelius, left comments on the News 12 page, saying that Vella had worked on the poem for over a month, and that almost the whole class was moved to tears.

The poem got a ton of lovely comments on the News 12 Facebook page. Here are just a few:

Middle School can be the hardest time for some teenagers. They've left the comforts of their grammar school, but they haven't yet moved on to high school, where they have a better chance of finding themselves and their friends. Middle School is just a free-for-all education limbo for kids who don't just naturally have that "popularity" gene.

It's amazing to see someone display this level of clarity and self-reflection at such a young age. Hopefully her words will inspire not only teenagers but also adults of all ages to be comfortable just being who they are.

According to research from an "extra-marital dating website" called Gleeden ("the #1 dating site for married people!"), your wife is currently—right now, while you waste your precious time reading the internet, you fool—fantasizing about...

Drumroll (and anxiety) please!

Alright. Maybe not right now. And maybe not ever at all.

But the results of a survey given to Gleeden's 8,000 members showed an impressive 62 percent of women "had fantasized about cheating with one of their neighbors," according to a report on the study by GQ.

Meanwhile, 71 percent of men had done the same.

Most of the fantasies were just that—fantasy. But some women actually went through with it, although the affairs were apparently fleeting. From a Men's Health report on the study:

They found that 31 percent of the site’s female members have had an actual affair with their neighbor. About 60 percent of these affairs were one night stands. However, 14 percent of women reported extending them to several weeks, while 6 percent continued it for more than a year.

Naturally, you can take the study with a grain of salt, as you can with any cheating research conducted by a website that doesn't reveal their research methods in a well-crafted abstract. But! If you're keeping score at home like a jealous, jealous little score keeper, we can put together the exact cheating scenario you should fear most.

A year-old study from Gleeden found that "sign-ups [for their website] spike the second Monday after Christmas."

And then there's this recent study about the sexy neighbors next door.

So, check the boxes: Your wife is most likely to cheat if she's 37-years-old, in a neighborhood book club, and you got her a clothing iron for Christmas.

If that sounds like your life—I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry. Your wife is definitely, 100 percent cheating on you. Leave her now. If she asks questions, say you read something on the internet about it and it's time to break up.

After all, now you can finally leave her and shack up with your neighbor. Who you've been fantasizing about non-stop. Sounds like a win-win for everyone.

The fallout from Kathy Griffin's ill-conceived photo of Donald Trump's decapitated head just keeps coming. On Tuesday, the comedian showed a picture of herself holding up what looked very much like Trump's bloody, decapitated head. Unsurprisingly, this did NOT go over well, in any way, shape, or form.

Kathy Griffin has since apologized in a video, saying “I am just now seeing the reaction of these images. … I went way too far. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn’t funny. I get it.”

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary had a rough night last night. As did much of America, as we lay awake, tossing and turning trying to figure out what "covfefe" means.

So of course, everyone looked to our favorite dictionary and tool of the #resistance, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. But this new word #fail was too much even for Merriam-Webster, who have been brilliantly trolling the president and his cabinet since long before he took office. They took to Twitter at 1 am, in the midst of #covfefegate, and tweeted this:

They wrote:

Wakes up. Checks Twitter. . . . Uh... . . . ​​​​ Lookups fo... . . . Regrets checking Twitter. Goes back to bed.

SAME.

...and using it in sentences for context.

Some people were actually trying to be helpful:

Others reminded Merriam-Webster they have to wake up eventually because we need them now more than ever.

The fate of words hangs in the balance right now.

Did Donald Trump BREAK LANGUAGE???

They'd all had too much covfefe.

PLEASE SAVE US ALL, MERRIAM-WEBSTER.

Luckily, a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Merriam-Webster was awake and back on Twitter this morning at 8 am with a whole new #WordOfTheDay for us. But it's not the word (or "word") anyone was expecting.

The word is "whirligig."

And Twitter is NOT having it.

But others think Merriam-Webster have already done their part for covfefe and it's time to move on.

And anyway, covfefe isn't even in the Dictionary.

At least.... not yet.

But before we assume Merriam-Webster has given up on the #resistance, let's take a look at their definition of "whirligig":

WHIRLIGIG [noun] WER-lih-gig

1: a child's toy having a whirling motion

2 a: one that continuously whirls or changes

b: a whirling or circling course (as of events)

People have used all sorts of fancy things to perfect their makeup, either to get the sharpest sharp lines or the blendiest blend. People went NUTS (nuts!) when a woman discovered that a testicle can make a great beauty blender (yes, a testicle, as in NUTS!), and now the latest, surprisingly effective beauty tool is everyone's new favorite toy, the fidget spinner.

James Charles, makeup extraordinairre and CoverGirl's first CoverBoy, combined the internet's obsessions with the spinny thing and makeup tutorials and tried to combine the two.

It turns out that the edges of the fidget spinner make for some very well-defined lines, with the three arms being perfect for using different colors, and if you're brave enough, the spinning factor could blend...ish.

Charles is famously extra (or extra-ly famous) for his commitment to all things highlighter, and even brought his own lighting to his senior photos to make sure that his highlighter was highlighted.

The fidget spinner video has gotten over 2 million views, likely from people who are bored and distracted enough to use fidget spinners.

Sadly Charles use the fidget spinner while it's actually fidget spinning, rendering it simply as a fidget triangle, but the toy surprisingly makes for a very effective brush.

While it doesn't seem like fidget spinners will be replacing actual makeup brushes anytime soon, it's good to know that once the craze passes, there are some practical uses for the chunk of plastic once you or your kids are bored with them.

Google Trends just released their annual list of each state's most misspelled word. And as if it wasn't enjoyable enough to make fun of Rhode Island for googling how to spell the simple word "liar" so many times, Google themselves made a spelling mistake this year. What a wonderful gift to everyone.

See if you can find it, and we'll even narrow it down to the East Coast for you:

"Ninety." They misspelled Washington DC's most misspelled word, writing it as "nintey." They later corrected the graphic.

The rest of the map is always an enjoyable way to laugh at one other. It's calculated by Google employees, who checked what word each state googles "how to spell" most between January 1st and April 30th of 2017.

Behold, the map of ineptitude.

California sings America the ____.

Wisconsin gets confused about itself.

And Maine has a pretty tough one. Respect.

Kudos to Massachusetts for changing their most misspelled word from last year's "Massachusetts." Also kudos to the nation, in general, for learning how to spell "cancelled" and "desert," last year's top results.

The good ole' USA also got a lot less interested in spelling "leprechaun" this year.

Here's the full list, via the Washington Post.

• Alabama: pneumonia
• Alaska: schedule
• Arizona: tomorrow
• Arkansas: chihuahua
• California: beautiful
• Colorado: tomorrow
• Connecticut: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• Delaware: hallelujah
• Washington, D.C.: ninety
• Florida: receipt
• Georgia: gray
• Hawaii: people
• Idaho: quote
• Illinois: pneumonia
• Indiana: hallelujah
• Iowa: vacuum
• Kansas: diamond
• Kentucky: beautiful
• Louisiana: giraffe
• Maine: pneumonia
• Maryland: special
• Massachusetts: license
• Michigan: pneumonia
• Minnesota: beautiful
• Mississippi: nanny
• Missouri: maintenance
• Montana: surprise
• Nebraska: suspicious
• Nevada: available
• New Hampshire: difficult
• New Jersey: twelve
• New Mexico: bananas
• New York: beautiful
• North Carolina: angel
• North Dakota: dilemma
• Ohio: beautiful
• Oklahoma: patient
• Oregon: sense
• Pennsylvania: sauerkraut
• Rhode Island: liar
• South Carolina: chihuahua
• South Dakota: college
• Tennessee: chaos
• Texas: maintenance
• Utah: disease
• Vermont: Europe
• Virginia: delicious
• Washington: pneumonia
• West Virginia: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• Wisconsin: Wisconsin
• Wyoming: priority

You really have to hand it to Connecticut and West Virginia for wanting to spell "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" so badly. And you have to wonder why Mississippi needs the correct spelling of "nanny."

And then there's Wisconsin. Sweet, beautiful Wisconsin.

Now excuse me while I spell check this post nine thousand times.

Dani Mathers, the former Playboy model who Snapchatted a picture of an unsuspecting nude 70-year-woman in July 2016, is speaking out for the first time since her sentencing on May 24. In an interview with ABC News, Mathers teared up as she explained how she's had to take refuge at her mother's house.

“To hide out at my mother's house at age 30 because of something I've done. It just felt really low,” Mathers said. "I had lost my privacy after taking privacy from somebody else," she added, later.

As a result of the backlash, Mathers lost her job and was banned from LA Fitness gyms for life. Then the police got involved. After pleading no contest to a charge of invasion of privacy, the 30-year-old model was given 30 days of community service (in the form of once a week graffiti removal duty), $60 in restitution to the woman whose privacy she so rudely invaded (SIXTY DOLLARS? Big whoop), and three years of probation. She managed to avoid jail time altogether.

In the interview with ABC News, Mathers said (of the woman at the gym), "I just want her to be able to move on and move forward in her life. And not feel judged, or that what she was doing was being ridiculed. Because it had nothing to do with that. And that I'm so sorry."

She hasn't been able to get in touch with the woman she Snapchatted, but Mathers said, “I never meant to hurt her. I never ever intended on showing the world this photo. And that I hope that she could forgive me. I don't expect her to forget. I don't expect her to like me. I just, I really want her forgiveness.”

It seems unlikely that the woman will ever forget what happened to her. Forgiveness? Who knows.

Cardi B took to Instagram to slam the government shutdown, and it's more illuminating that any cable news talking head or newspaper article.

"I just wanna remind you that it's been a little bit over three weeks," she says straight to the camera. "Trump is now ordering ... federal government workers to go back to work without getting paid. ... This is serious. Our country is in a hellhole right now. All for a ... wall."

The things got hilariously profane.

She said:

Now, I don’t want to hear y’all motherf*ckers talking about oh, but Obama shut down the government for 17 days. Yeah, bitch, for health care. So your grandma could check her blood pressure and you bitches could go check your pussy in the gynecologist with no motherf*cking problem.

The Democratic caucus in the Senate was on board with the message of the video, but not so much the language.

Extremely Online Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Chris Murphy of Connecticut wondered aloud whether to retweet or not to retweet...that is the question.

The suspense was killing us, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got involved.

The senators ultimately decided not to retweet the profanity, with Schatz explaining that it "wouldn't be senatorial." It would, however, be presidential.

Democrats are working hard to rise to the level of their colleague Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter game. She literally taught a class.

Cardi B was mystified that the Instagram video was as big as a hit as it was, publicly asking, "Why am I trending?"

As soon as the government is back in business and people get their paychecks, we need to organize for the future America deserves: a Schoolhouse Rock reboot starring Cardi B.