On Monday, Donald Trump escalated the "Do It For The 'Gram" mentality to new heights when he tear-gassed protestors in Lafayette Park so he could walk across the street and take a picture holding the bible.

Most of the news coverage since has focused on the backstory of the photo, with details including the exact $1,540 MaxMara handbag Ivanka Trump used to carry the holy book.

The people, however, were off to the races with the photo itself, adding some extra special details to the president, the book, and the board behind him.

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We all probably have at least one moment where we got our fifteen minutes of fame for doing something totally (but accidentally) cool.

If you played sports as a kid and scored a goal simply by standing in the right place at the right time for gravity to work its magic, you know what it's like to be a ninja for a day in the eyes of your peers. Catching things midair while a little tipsy, perfectly avoiding a fall, nailing the "throw it in the trash, walk away and know it landed perfectly in the trash" move at school, or getting to be a hero because you were luckily there for someone without meaning to are ninja moves. It's amazing when you get to do something expertly cool because you wanted to, but being unintentionally bad*ss is definitely a welcomed fluke.

So, when a recent Reddit, what is the most bada*s thing you have ever done on accident?" people were ready to share.

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One time, I was playing Badminton at a family picnic, and I hit the shuttle a bit to hard, and it flew over to the picnic tables; and landed perfectly in a plastic cup of water. Everyone saw it too. It was kind of awesome. - paradox1123

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I was playing floor hockey in P.E. back in middle school. I got suck playing goalie the whole time, yet when I cleared the puck, I wound up scoring. - Jakerules209

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Working as a dishwasher I was talking to a girl and all the dishes were being moved behind me towards the dishwasher. I saw a coffee cup fall out of the corner of my eye and without missing a beat i leaned back like a ninja and caught it inches above the ground, set it back up on the counter and kept talking. - core1129

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Party at my parents house, blacked out drunk. My mom actually told me about this the next day.

We have a pole in our yard that used to be a basketball net, but it was cut down years ago. The pole is a bit over waist height.

Told I was walking and tripped towards the pole which slipped into and got caught in my hoodie pocket causing me to do a swivel around the pole which then threw me back to my feet. I continued to walk in whatever direction I ended up facing like nothing happened. - hereHAVEkris

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In college, I came home from a night at the bar with some of my roommates. We all were pretty wasted so I was getting ready to make some late night food while one of my roommates was watching tv. The scissors I needed to open something were on the coffee table by the tv. I told my roommate to throw them to me as I was in the kitchen because I'm lazy and thought that would be a good idea. I immediately forgot I said that and turned to my friend beside me to talk. Out of the corner of my eye I see scissors flying end over end towards my face. Without even turning I reached out and grabbed the scissors out of the air like a boss. - Him_he_hershey

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I suppose stumbling into a threesome would count as bada*s, right?

Came home from work early one day to find my, then, girlfriend all wrapped up in our sheets with a girlfriend of hers/ours. They hear the door to the bedroom open, both look up all doe-eyed and whatnot and see me standing there all deer in the headlights and whatnot.

Her: "Oh, hi honey, home early?"
Me: "Yea, got done faster than expected and they didn't have anything else for us... Hi Jess."
Her: "Um... So..."
Me: "It's not cheating if I'm in there with you, right?"
Her, looking at the friend and getting a shrug: "Nope, guess not!"

That was fun. - MadeSenseAtTheTime

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I had a girl at work who would always mess with me and vica verca. Well one time, she threw a packet of sauce at me and out of the corner of my eye, I see it flying at my face (she had to have been only 10 ft away). I quickly spin around, grab it with my left hand, and throw it back at her and hit her in the head. First thing I said was "BOOM HEADSHOT" - [deleted]

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6th grade. Playing little league baseball. I was in right field. Nobody hits to right field. Nobody.

As I'm sitting there in complete boredom, I yawned and stretched out my arms. I felt my wrist get pulled back suddenly. I looked over and noticed a ball in my glove that wasn't there seconds before. Apparently the big slugger on the other team had actually hit one to deep right, and I randomly caught it whilst stretching and yawning. We won the game. People thought the catch was show boating. I just needed to yawn. - Winston_Vodkatooth

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My buddy and I were drinking one halloween and had had a bit too much. We decided to head home, have one more, and crash out. On the way up the stairs to our flat, he gets the idea that it would be super hilarious to push me over the stairs, yells "BANISTER!," and hip/shoulder checks me.

As I begin flying into the air, my left hand grabs him by his collar, and my right hand grasps the banister in question. As I fly over the stairs, my momentum launches him over the banister and into the wall, which he then slides down, collapsing in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. I continue to whirl around until I'm horizontal, if backwards, and drop calmly to my feet. I then go pick him up, carry him upstairs, and help him wash the blood off his face.

I felt like a total ninja. - [deleted]

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So, it's a warm summer day and little boy me is playing ball in the pool with a bunch of other kids. Ball is tossed a little higher so it flies over my head and lands behind my back.

I turn very quickly to take the ball and toss it back. I turn so quick that I don't even see the ball: the corner of my eye spots something in the water and the hands grab it.

Only that it's not a ball: it's a little girl who fell into the pool and was about to drown unnoticed. And I saved her life by mistaking her for a ball - Kit_Emmuorto

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I played hockey in High School and I had a collision with an opponent so hard our sticks flew in the air. I jumped up immediately grabbed my stick as it came down and scored a goal about 2 seconds later. As I was celebrating the opponent came up to me and handed me my stick. I then realized I scored with the other guys stick. Not sure if it would have counted in the refs knew what happened. - [deleted]

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I was mountain biking and hit something that made me fly over the handlebars. I did a full flip in the air, landed on my feet, and caught my bike before it hit the ground. I got back on, and rode off like nothing had happened while my friends "DUDE THAT WAS CRAZY"d behind me. - k_to_the_j

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Many moons ago, I was teaching my first college English course. I was at the white board lecturing like a mad man. I had filled up one whole side of the board with notes when the marker started to go dry. Without stopping for breath, I turned around and launched it over the heads of all the students toward the door, about 50 feet away. I was just being dramatic--I couldn't even see the trash can from where I was standing, but I heard the distinctive metal clank when it went in. I kept right on lecturing, but I heard a guy in the back say "Ballin." -SyFyWrestler

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I was doing a magic trick for my sister, it involved making a coin disappear by rubbing it in your elbow and then passing it to your other hand when lifting your arm behind your head. However I dropped the coin behind my head, it went down my shirt, down my pant leg and into my shoe.

I went with the flow and showed her how I had made the coin appear in my shoe. She was speechless and I felt like David Copperfield. - Dogmaster

Life is not fair. It's full of hypocrisy, injustice, and general bullsh*t, and by adulthood, most of us are used to it. But kids are generally optimists who tend to expect kindness and fairness from others, until life shows them otherwise. And what a jarring moment that can be.

Someone asked Reddit: "what was your first encounter with utter bullsh*t during your childhood?" These 17 people share stories of their first experiences with unjust punishments and other such bullsh*t:

1.) From Avocado_3492:

My mom finding a cigarette in the backyard, accusing me of having stolen a friend's mom's cigarettes to secretly smoke there and grounding me for it despite me not having done any such thing. I was like 9 at that time

2.) From TapeEaterVHS:

When I was in third grade I got suspended for being beat up on the playground. They had a zero tolerance for violence policy. Also I never took a swing ... just punished for being bullied

3.) From eylc2:

When our teacher would yell at us if we asked to go to the bathroom at the beginning of class because we should've gone earlier, and then yell at us if we asked to go in the middle of class because we were interrupting, and then yell at us if we wanted to go at the end because we were trying to ditch since the class was almost over.

4.) From inckalt:

"Who threw that paper plane at the teacher? No one is confessing? Alright then, everyone is punished."

5.) From themissingsister:

My mom would ask my opinion on things constantly. I would say it didn't matter to me, or whatever she thought was best, but she would force the issue until I finally answered. Then she would scream at me about how I didn't understand or I was an idiot or I never thought of her needs. I still panic a little when people ask for my opinion on something.

6.) From billified:

I was bullied a lot in elementary school. To be fair, I was a pretty easy target for the bullying, r/RoastMe would have a melt down not knowing where to start. So every day at lunch and recess I would get chased and harassed by 4 other boys. One day the teacher assigned to keep order on the playground grabbed me and told me to quit running. But of course, as soon as I did the 4 boys began pushing and taunting me...so I started running again. Next thing I know the teacher grabs me by the arm and starts to paddle me (teachers could do that back then). She missed my ass and caught me in the back again, so I cussed at her. She sent me to the principles office, and when I told him what had happened he just shook his head, then had me stand up to take 3 licks from his paddle. Fifth grade is when I learned the world was utter bullsh*t.

7.) From Topsi_Krets:

Getting called out, for throwing a snowball against a wall. Had to write down the whole school rules and there was not a single word, about snow or throwing stuff.

8.) From femsci-nerd:

Was asked to "watch the rectory" on Friday nights so the priests could have a night off. I was 12 years old. My job basically was to accept food that was brought by parishoners for the priests and find a place for it in their jammed packed double glass door refrigerator that was as wide as two refrigerators (there were 4 priests at our tiny parish). I accepted fully cooked roasts, hams, casseroles and cakes. I was told NOT to eat anything! A few months later I was made to clean the convent with a couple of the nuns as a punishment for talking too much in class (there were 23 nuns who lived on site and taught school). Their kitchen had a tiny refrigerator and when it was lunch time they opened a cupboard of expired canned goods. We had very old tomato soup for lunch with stale bread and milk made from powder. I asked them if they knew about the food over at the rectory and they said no.....

9.) ​​​​​​From awoodchuckcanchuck2:

When I was in kindergarten we had to that thing where you had a grid of boxes, and in each box was a word. You would have to cut out each box individually, then arrange the words in some order. After a few months of cutting out each box like we had been shown, I figured that cutting out the rows and putting them on top of each other so the boxes lined up, and cutting them out like that, would take a lot less time. My teacher saw me do this. I had to stay in at recess to cut them out the 'right' way.

10.) From DenimSmooth:

Somebody’s phone went off in the middle of class once and since nobody would confess she held us all back for three minutes after class. We were allotted five minutes between classes to get to our lockers, bathrooms, and the next class. My high school was basically one really long hallway. Even if your next class was nearby it could take you the entire five minutes to get there. If you were late that was school mandated detention. It took a week of this and other teachers intervening before she finally let us go on time.

11.) From emptydumpling:

I was around 7-8. It was sports day in my school and i participated in pass the baton. I was enjoying myself and trying my hardest, but at the end of it my class teacher told my mum (in front of me) that i was too slow. Not sure why i took it to heart but i just felt disappointed and it made me lose confidence in sports.

12.) From tifflery:

First Grade. Teacher tells the class to complete the worksheet and there is to be NO TALKING. We all start on the worksheet....and a boy behind me starts talking to me about something....I turn and tell him to stop talking. Teacher called me out and made me go to the front and turn my card from green to yellow...(red is the next warning and means you're going to the principal's office.) I was so distraught. I'd never gotten in trouble before. I stood under the slide the entire recess crying and then cried off and on the whole rest of the day silently. I just knew my parents were going to be so disappointed and would of course know before I got home. When I got home and they didn't know I'd had to turn my card, I told them. They asked me why I was talking and I told them the story. Mom said, "Well, he shouldn't have been talking but let the teacher deal with him, you shouldn't. It's ok, it's not the end of the world." I was aghast! "What?! it isn't? I can still go back to school? It won't be on my permanent record!? My life isn't over and I won't be labeled a "bad kid" forever?!" I felt like I got my second chance at life.

13.) From frankenstein_73:

My little sister pushed me down the stairs and I got in trouble for “antagonizing” her. “She wouldn’t do that for no reason”. You did not know your daughter mom and dad. To my knowledge it was for no reason it was the morning so I hadn’t even gotten the chance to piss her off. Also it wasn’t the first time she had done it just the first time my parents got involved.

14.) From MaxMazz:

Back in elementary school I was somewhat misbehaved, and let me tell you that annoying a bunch of power-tripping elementary school administrators will get you a lot of bullsh*t.

I was sent to the principal's office for knocking over a cone during gym class.

I was sent to the "guidance counselor" (basically used the same way as the principal's office) for tearing a piece of paper.

Not me-specific, but there were lists posted on the wall of the school dictating which recess games kids in each grade could play (octopus tag, for example, might only be allowed in second and third grade). If you wanted to play a game that was not on the list, you were required to talk to the principal (how one would arrange such a meeting was never really clear).

I was scolded for playing pretend Star Wars during recess because it "encouraged violence."

I was asked if I needed a chew toy to help me concentrate. I wasn't focusing on classwork because I found it too easy.

15.) From SpookECoyote:

I was four years old, in pre-school. We were having “Water Day”, which was this day full of water based fun activities. Little kid me had been looking forward to this for weeks. Before we had free time to enjoy all the water games and kiddie pools, we had to do some mandatory team building games. There was this girl who hated me for no reason, and of course I got put by her. We were doing this game where we had to pass a solo cup full of water down the line of kids as fast as possible. So cup gets to me, I try to hand it to her. She stares at me for like ten seconds while I hold this cup like a jackass, waiting for her to take the damn cup. Our team loses. She grabs the cup and splashes it on herself. She starts screaming/ bawling. Teachers come over and she babbles about how I wouldn’t give her the cup then threw it at her when we lost. I get left alone in the music room all day staring at the grey walls while the rest of the class got to have fun playing in water. It was such bullsh*t it formed a core memory.

16.) From SpellCommander91:

I went to a private school where I was bullied a lot. No one in admin did much when my friends and I reported it. Occasionally a lecture from the AP for the entire class with no specifics or calling out. In 5th or 6th grade, one of my bullies kept pinching my ass in line for PE (didn’t read into that at the time) until I finally turned around and screamed at him to knock it the f*ck off.

I got detention and was forced to apologize 😑

17.) From lemongrenade:

I playfully stole Jimmys football before fourth grade resource. F*cking Jeff yelled at me and said give it back so whatever I did. THEN JEFF STOLE THE FOOTBALL. I called him a hypocrite, f*cking Jeff told on me and I somehow got detention. What the F*CK.

As part of a recent trend, a lot of people on TikTok have been playing the "put a finger down game." In the spirit of "never have I ever," participants put down fingers for whatever they've done or experienced that's listed in the challenge

In order to use the game as a lesson in racial privilege, TikTok user @boss_bigmamma, whose real name is Kenya, recently started a "check your privilege" edition of the challenge:

In the challenge, Kenya put a finger down for each of the following experiences, and challenged people of all races to play the game to prove a point about racial inequity.

1. Put a finger down if you've been called a racial slur.

2. Put a finger down if you've been followed in a store out of suspicion.

3. Put a finger down if someone has crossed the street in order to walking near you.

4. Put a finger down if you've seen someone clench their purse in an elevator with you.

5. Put a finger down if you've had someone step off of an elevator to avoid riding with you.

6. Put a finger down if you've been accused of not being able to afford something expensive.

7. Put a finger down if you've felt afraid when being stopped by the police.

8. Put a finger down if you've never been given a pass on a citation you deserved.

9. Put a finger down if you have been stopped or detained by police for no valid (or legal) reason.

10. Put a finger down if you have been bullied because of your race.

At this point, Kenya ran out of fingers to put down, and had to reset in order to finish off the game.

11. Put a finger down if you've been denied service exclusively because of the color of your skin.

12. Put a finger down if you've ever had to teach your children how not to get killed by the police.

Kenya's version of the challenge quickly went viral, and when white people played - they had a lot of fingers left at the end.

The challenge got more complex when interracial couples and mixed race families started playing, showing how racial about the skin you're born into, and not what house you live in or who you're close to.

Aside from the put a finger down game, Kenya has been using her platform to mobilize and educate people to fight against racial injustice, whether that means protesting, talking to their families, voting, getting involved in local advocacy, or donating to organizations on the ground.

While for many, social media can be a place to escape and space off, it's also proven itself as a valuable tool for education and activism in recent years.

On Tuesday the Los Angeles Police Commission held a streaming Zoom meeting that opened the floor for LA residents to call in with their concerns.

The commission included LAPD chief Michael Moore, who recently claimed George Floyd's death is on protesters' and looters' hands "as much as it is on those officers'."

Due to the backlash, Moore later issued a written apology for his remarks on Twitter.

But a mere Twitter apology was not going to silence the people of LA, and it wasn't long before a man named Jeremy jumped on the call and expressed his feelings about how the LAPD is responding to the protests:

Jeremy said:

"Black Lives Matter, defund the police. I find it disgusting that the LAPD is slaughtering peaceful protesters on the street. I had two friends go to the protest in Beverly Hills a couple days ago and the protest was peaceful until the police showed up with their excessive, violent force, shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas. Is this what you think of protect and serving? Because I think it's BULLSHIT. F*ck you Michael Moore, I refuse to call you an officer or a chief because you don't deserve those titles. You are a disgrace. Suck my dick and choke on it. I yield my time, F*CK YOU!"

Other versions of the video show the live comments that streamed in during the Zoom call, many of which supported Jeremy's message:

The call quickly went viral on Twitter, with many people loving Jeremy's fire.

Jeremy wasn't the only one to go in on Moore and the rest of the commission, another phone call quickly made the rounds.

In fact, most of the calls called out Moore and demanded money be divested from the police departments and redistributed to community programming and support.

If one thing is abundantly clear, it's that people across the world are up in arms about the targeted policing methods in America. If you want to donate and support the protests, here are some resources.

While weddings, in theory, are supposed to be a celebration of love with a couple's family and friends, they unfortunately can often bring out the worst people...

Between the cost of the venue, the flowers, the dresses, the sometimes lavish destination bachelor and bachelorette parties, elaborate bridal showers, and the constant event-planning with a group of people who have no idea how to delegate tasks, it can definitely be a big mess. If you've ever been a part of a bridal party or group of groomsmen, you know that getting a group of someone's closest friends and family to find the time in their schedule to get together and organize events is a special sort of challenge. The egos involved in a wedding can be mind-blowing, but it can usually be easily forgotten once the day finally comes and everyone is crying with a glass (or seven) of champagne.

Combine all the standard drama with in-law relations, and you definitely have a recipe for a dramatic disaster. So, when a recent Reddit user consulted the internet's moral compass about her concern about being able to execute a wedding task shortly after she gives birth, people were there to offer up some advice.

WIBTA (Would I be the As*hole) for boycotting my brother in law’s wedding?

I (29f) am pregnant with my first child and due to give birth in November. My BIL and his fiancée have planned to have a wedding during this time (roughly 2 weeks after my due date) and I’m super excited for them!

However they have huge plans in place, with over 100 guests. The argument started when each family member was assigned a certain wedding task. Mine was to ensure the guests walked out with their ‘thank-you’ gifts (which is to be segregated by age & gender). This would involve initiating small talks and bidding adieus to guests, coordinating with the gifting committee etc. I said that there is no way I would be able to do this after giving birth only 2 weeks earlier and this sounded ridiculous. I offered to do the excel work- sorting names, addresses and gifts but this idea was also shot down. In a short while, the argument took another direction and my in-laws went off saying that I’m being an impossible woman and exaggerating my pregnancy woes and that there are thousands of women who give birth everyday and go to work right after and this is an excuse to disrespect the family. I said I won’t be attending the wedding if that’s what they think of me. Honestly, I don’t even know how my body would react 2 weeks after giving birth and I’m worried it’s all about the wedding now and not about my health or the child’s. My husband took their side too and I’ve had it with this family!

AITA (Am I the As*hole) for not wanting to attend this wedding although I love my BIL and his fiancée?

Later, she edited the post:

Edit: It’s been almost 8h since the first argument and my MIL is still going on about how people are gonna gossip about the missing DIL and the shame this is going to bring upon the family and if I’m so paranoid about coming to the wedding, I should consider a C-sec 2 weeks in advance as that will give me a 4 week rest period. BIL’s fiancée is now crying saying that I’ve made the wedding about me and not about them. Apparently I’ve ruined the first major family event in 8 years. There was a lot of shouting and cussing, even our neighbors came to check on us & invited me to stay with them till the situation calms down. My dad is driving home to pick me up tomorrow morning (5-6h away) and suggested that I stay at my parents to be away from this hostile environment. As for my husband, he got told off for suggesting to postpone the wedding by a month. This incident has made me realize a lot of things, mainly that the in-laws are inconsiderate as*holes. No screenshots will enlighten them all of a sudden. And also I’m a fool for agreeing to cover 20% of the event cost as our wedding gift.

Luckily, people were there to help:

NTA (not the as*hole). Of course. Your husband siding with his family is insane and tells a lot how he sees you, the pregnancy and how life will go on after having the baby. - Cocoasneeze

You should not be expected to do something you aren’t comfortable to begin with. He asked you to do something and you said no. That should have been the end of it. Also the virus hasn’t disappeared, going to a wedding with 100+ people after being pregnant might be dangerous for you and your child. I say miss it. - somebody_you_knew

“coordinating with the gift committee”? Sounds like your husband’s family is going WAAAAAAAY over the top with this wedding. Screw them. Take care of yourself and your baby. - grannycore

at two weeks you are still super sore, not sleeping much, and it takes six weeks to recover from a delivery and eight from a c section, and also no doctor is going to agree to an elective c section two weeks early for a non medical reason. That’s an insane request and why on earth someone would tell you to have a surgery which is harder to recover from just to help with a wedding is insane. I hope you have a smooth rest of pregnancy and delivery. - lotsogreycats

What is all this wedding madness drama? If they want to get married: fine. But don't make up excessive plans that involve family members and what they have to do in your wedding. I'd put a stop to that just for getting involved in such madness without getting asked if it is ok in the first place.

Also assigning someone a task who has just given birth is a sure way to botch that whole thing months in advance. Not only do they not know how you will hold up physically they also neglect the fact that you will have a newborn to attend to. A gift ceremony with a hundred guests will take hours - no way you'll be able to do that with a newborn.

NTA- Get out of this madness. All wedding planning that involves you should have been: Please be there, sit in a comfy chair with your newborn and be happy. Thanks. - DocSternau

You really need to take a look at that husband if yours if he really doesn't understand any of this. And quite frankly if the bride considers this being about her she needs to take another freaking look in the mirror. I would quite honestly run from this family at the first opportunity I got!

Also it's not completely clear about when you and your husband announced the expected due date of the pregnancy and when they chose the date of the wedding but there's a possibility that this was deliberately done to upstage the pregnancy, these people actually seem that self-absorbed. - EvilLoynis

So, there you have it!

Boycotting your brother-in-law's wedding because they asked you to do some pretty ridiculous tasks two weeks after you expect to give birth definitely doesn't make you a bad person. This husband needs to rethink where his loyalty lies. Good luck, everyone!

People in all fifty states and around the world are protest police brutality after the killing of George Floyd. Meghan McCain, token conservative on The View, has chimed and offered her perspective from what was assumed to be her Manhattan penthouse.

McCain lamented the destruction of property, claiming that her neighborhood "looks like a war zone," and cities are being left to "burn to the ground and be destroyed."

People in the comments accused her of being more disturbed by messy sidewalks than by murders.

The most popular response came from Kristen Bartlett, the co-head writer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, who lives in McCain's building.

"Meghan, we live in the same building, and I just walked outside. It’s fine," Bartlett tweeted.

Bartlett countered McCain's hysteria, saying that the neighborhood is "fine." The tweet has almost 900,000 likes.

A day after the tweets went viral, McCain took back to Twitter to pre-empt an upcoming gossip column that will reveal that she wasn't even in Manhattan when she claimed that it was a war zone. She was simply echoing what she saw on TV and social media...and TV and social media never distort the truth.

McCain was compared to Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the cops on a black man bird-watching, claiming that he was threatening her life.

Manhattan will be okay, and so will Meghan McCain.

One thing we can all agree on is that 2020 is the best...at sucking our will to live. It's been a rough one, to say the least, but we should congratulate ourselves on making it this far. I think we've earned a few laughs, don't you? These memes perfectly nail how we all feel about this steaming hot turd of a year.

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"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

-Marilyn Monroe

Ladies, we are all beautiful and fabulous, even if we're currently wearing worn-out sweats and on our 5th day of dry shampoo. It's not always easy being a woman, but at least we can find the humor in it all. These memes will be hilariously relatable for those of us who need a good laugh today.

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As widespread protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement continue across the U.S., some brands are showing support. But when L'Oréal posted an endorsement of BLM, model Munroe Bergdorf cried foul.

L'Oréal posted a black tile with the words, "speaking out is worth it." It's a spin on their slogan, "You're worth it."

The caption reads:

L’Oréal Paris stands in solidarity with the Black community, and against injustice of any kind. We are making a commitment to the @naacp to support progress in the fight for justice. #BlackLivesMatter

Munroe re-posted the graphic on her own Instagram page, along with the caption:

Excuse my language but I am SO angry. F*** YOU @lorealparis. You dropped me from a campaign in 2017 and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy.

She continued:

With no duty of care, without a second thought. I had to fend for myself being torn apart by the world's press because YOU didn't want to talk about racism. You even tried to get me to incriminate myself with pairing me up with your shady lawyers, when I had done NOTHING wrong. THAT is what you get for 'speaking out' when employed by @lorealparis. Racist snakes.

She noted that she wasn't surprised by the apparent hypocrisy:

You do NOT get to do this. This is NOT okay, not even in the slightest.

I said just yesterday that it would only be a matter of time before RACIST AF brands saw a window of PR opportunity to jump on the bandwagon.

F*** you. F*** your 'solidarity'. Where was my support when I spoke out? Where was my apology? I'm disgusted and writing this in floods of tears and shaking. This is gaslighting.

If you care about me or #blacklivesmatter, don't let @lorealparis get away with this.

She added in another comment:

Back in 2017, Munroe wrote a post on Facebook inspired by the Charlottesville, Virginia, clash between white supremacist groups and protestors. It was a lengthy post that ended up being deleted by the platform, with Facebook claiming it didn't know how or why the post disappeared.

At the time, L'Oréal said her post was "at odds" with its values.

One passage in Munroe's 2017 post that people particularly took issue with, according to the Guardian, was this:

Most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour. Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggressions to terrorism, you built the blueprint for this shit. Come see me when you realise racism isn’t learned, it’s inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege. Once white people begin to admit their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth … then we can talk.

L'Oréal ended up firing Munroe, who is trans, only a few days after it had hired her.

Many of Munroe's followers are urging L'Oréal to compensate her for damages.

Munroe posted an update on her Instagram, saying she had allowed 48 hours for L'Oréal to apologize to her. At the time of her latest posting, she said she still hadn't heard from them.

Her newest post reads:

I wanted to give @lorealparis 48 hours before writing this to see if a public apology was possible. But their choice to ignore me and not acknowledge the emotional, mental and professional harm that they caused me since sacking me in 2017, after speaking out about white supremacy and racism, speaks volumes.

So does their choice to not engage with the thousands of black community members and allies who have left comments of concern on their last two posts, in response to their claim to support the black community, despite an evident history of being unwilling to talk about the issues that black people face globally because of white supremacy.

Black Lives Matter is a movement for the people, by the people. It is not here to be co-opted for capital gain by companies who have no intention of actually having difficult conversations regarding white supremacy, police brutality, colonialism and systemic racism. It cannot be reduced to a series of corporate trends by brands like L'Oréal who have no intention of actually doing the work to better themselves or taking ownership of their past mistakes or conscious acts of racial bias.

I would not have been sacked if I had said what I said and was a cisgender, straight, white woman. It just wouldn't have happened. If you want to stand with black lives matter then get your own house in order first.

This could have been a moment of redemption for L'Oréal, a chance for them to make amends and lead by example. We all get things wrong, we all make mistakes, but it's where you go from there that is a signifier of who you are.

L'Oréal claiming to stand with the black community, yet also refusing to engage with the community on this issue, or apologise for the harm they caused to a black female queer transgender employee, shows us who they are - just another big brand who seeks to capitalise from a marginalised movement, by widening their audience and attempting to improve their public image. Brands need to be aware of their own track record. It's unacceptable to claim to stand with us, if the receipts show a history of silencing black voices.

Speaking out can’t only be “worth it” when you’re white. Black voices matter.

Some are saying they won't buy from L'Oréal anymore.

L'Oréal has yet to respond.

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

-Mae West

You only live once, so you may as well laugh as much as you can while you're here. I'd imagine heaven is full of dope memes, but there's no way to know for sure. In the meantime, this list is pure comedy gold. It's just the thing to get you pumped up and ready to face whatever hot garbage the day throws at you.

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They say relationships are all about compromise — but what happens when a bride and groom have different ideas and neither one of them will budge?

A groom recently took to Reddit to ask if he was justified in canceling his own wedding after his wife took issue with his plan to appoint a woman his best man. He doesn't want to switch to a different best man because he doesn't want to indulge in his fiancée's insecurity, and she has a whole list of reasons why she wants to nix the whole thing.

They have been engaged for a few months and just started discussing bridal party details:

So, I (28, M) proposed to my girlfriend Jasmin (24, F) in March. Earlier this week she and I were talking about wedding plans and she already picked out who her bridesmaids were gonna be and was questioning me about my groomsmen to see who'd walk with who and all that.

The guy announced his best man would be a woman, and his fiancée "freaked":

I told her who I wanted and let her know that my "best man" was actually going to be my friend Kate (27, F). Jasmin kind of freaked and was really adamant about her not being the BM. I asked her why and she listed off a lot of reasons, none of which I believe. She said it'll look weird in the photos, it'll be weird when Kate has to walk down the aisle with her maid of honor, that she doesn't want Kate to be distracting to guests, that Kate's too short (wtf?) to stand next to a bunch of 6ft+ guys.

He called her reasoning ridiculous:

The reasons were ridiculous, and I told her as much. She told me I should respect her wishes for the wedding and gave me suggestions for other BMs. I know the real reason might be jealousy, but I don't want to just drop it and go along with her insecurities.

The argument continued, and he said maybe they shouldn't get married:

We ended up getting into a big argument. Jas was upset that I wasn't budging on my stance and I was mad she was acting so irrational. She was being really accusatory about why I wanted Kate in the wedding so bad. I finally told her if she doesn't want to let me have this one thing maybe there shouldn't be a wedding at all. She got really angry and told me to just leave our apartment.

Now he hasn't been home in days:

I've been couch surfing at a friend's for the past couple days (not Kate). Last time I tried to talk to Jas she asked if I was ready to apologize and I said no, cause I don't want her to think she was right about forbidding me from letting Kate be in the wedding.

He specifies the details of his and Kate's friendship:

And before anyone asks, no, Kate and I have never been sexual or romantic. She's been one of my closest friends and introduced me to my current social circle (I used to be an awkward nerdy guy who had trouble making friends, now I'm an awkward nerdy guy with a social life).

He admits Kate and Jas aren't friends:

We survived grad school together and she's been with me through high and low parts of life and it seems insane to not include her in my wedding. Jas and Kate know each other but aren't friends, and over time Jas got used to me having a close female friend without being jealous/mistrusting, or so I thought.

He also adds that his girlfriend is not usually a jealous person:

I should mention, Jasmin has never acted this way before and is usually pretty easy going and understanding. And she didn't so much as "kick me out" as she said "well maybe you should just go then" and I called her bluff and left. She tried to get me to come back (and also apologize) but we're both hard headed when it comes to what we want.

And he admits the whole cancellation thing was just an empty threat to emotionally manipulate his fiancée:

I don't want to call off the wedding and I get why Jas was upset by me saying we should, but I wanted her to know how serious I was.

So is he the a-hole in this situation? Answers are divided.

Some, like BKP1996, say his grooms(wo)men are his choice, end of story:

This wedding is just as much your day as it is hers, and you absolutely deserve to have someone up there that you trust as your Best Wo/Man. Your fiance needs to not only recognize that, but figure out whatever insecurity is causing her to lash out in this manner.

Rumble73 agrees:

My Best Man was my a woman. She’s outlasted all my relationships since I was 15. I got married in my mid 40s.

Anyone that doesn’t let you pick the representative of your choice for one of the most important moments of your life (its your wedding too) may not possibly be good to marry.

IridianRaingem says maybe the wedding isn't a good idea:

You have no reason to apologize. But she’s seriously digging her heels in on this one. Your wedding is about BOTH of you. Not just her. Do not let her bully or guilt you in to things you don’t want. And if it’s that bad of a disagreement, maybe you need to put the wedding off for a little longer.

But some, like Bairbearbarebear, gave the fiancée the benefit of the doubt:

I know I’m going to be crucified, but I don’t necessarily see this as a big red flag. PROVIDED, that is, that Jas is OK with your friendship in all other respects. Having a female best man is, obviously, against tradition. And because it’s against tradition and a rare sight to see, you just know there would be people raising eyebrows and whispering. So many people who don’t know you well (extended cousins of the bride, for example), may think there’s a story going on there.

They say gossip might overshadow the fun of the day:

I wouldn’t want to walk down the aisle to whispers, or see people give me sympathetic looks on my freaking wedding day. I’m not saying that behaviour is OK, or that you should care what other people think (especially when they’re wrong!) But I could see Jas being upset about it.

CompetitiveYoung9 said it's understandable that the bride doesn't want this:

I would tell [my male best friend] that I admire his loyalty and that I love him (as a brother) and would be honored to be a part of his big day, but that it’s okay for his fiancé to have boundaries and I would encourage him to find some compromise with her. If there were other issues, I’d be more supportive of him calling off the wedding, but if this is a one-off, this is something that has room for compromise I think.

Spectrum2081 had a constructive suggestion:

As for the bridal party, ask your fiancée if she would be cool with BF being a bridesmaid- dressing like one, walking with the girls- instead of the best man. If your fiancée is perfectly okay with that, I suggest you accept it and just refer to/give title to BF as the "best man" (assuming BF would be okay with it). If fiancée is not okay with it, then you are right, and there are bigger issues here.

And Merunit said the man's way of approaching this issue is completely wrong:

[Everyone sucks here[ because the whole post reads as power games. [He] stresses a lot how much he doesn’t want to “give in”. If you care about each other, you need to be able to figure out a compromise. It should be as much a stress free day as possible.

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Don’t bully your fiancé into accepting Kate as your best man. Sit with her, address the issue. Talk it through until the issue is resolved. Don’t dismiss each other’s concerns as “ridiculous”. Maybe compromise here and make her compromise elsewhere. You should not go into the marriage resenting each other.

So according to the peanut gallery, there's no clear cut answer to this one.

Hope the happy couple works it out...

On Tuesday June 2nd, many Instagram profiles posted a black square in solidarity of the Black Lives Matter movement and the commitment to fight police brutality.

George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25th after a deli employee called 911 and accused him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit bill. George Floyd's death is part of a longstanding movement fighting violence from police officers toward black people, with a tragically long line of recent cases.

Floyd's death has sparked protest across the United States and the world, and since social media has since been an incredible resource for protesters to spread information, the black squares were hit with a lot of conflicting opinions. Initially the squares were for "Blackout Tuesday," which started as a day for the music industry to hit pause and focus on black artists. Soon, it seemed like everyone was posting a black square on their grid (some with #BlackLivesMatter, which forced people to scroll through pages of black squares before they could read any information on the actual movement under the hashtag).

A lot of people, including Emma Watson, were criticized for only posting the black square and not offering links to donate, resources for protesting, or other useful information. Emma Watson has a huge platform and has been a notoriously vocal feminist, so her silence was definitely noticed.

She has since posted a statement on her Instagram account:

Money is one of the top reasons couples break up and get divorced. Sometimes, a relationship is topped by overarching money struggles, and all of the emotional stress that comes with being unable to make ends meet.

Other times, class differences splinter a relationship, as growing up with different financial access and philosophies can affect a relationship in a myriad of ways. If you're going to have a healthy relationship with someone who came from much more (or much less) money than you, the key is to communicate honestly about your feelings. Dancing around issues of class privilege, and hiding strong opinions about work ethic will only result in bottling up feelings that will eventually explode.

This financial tension is crystal clear in a recent post on the Am I The A*shole subreddit, where a man asked if he was wrong for calling his girlfriend a "spoiled brat" after she received a computer from her parents.

AITA for telling my girlfriend that she’s a spoiled brat?

OP shared that he's been with his girlfriend for almost a year, and during that time he quickly learned she comes from wealth and receives money from her parents regularly.

My girlfriend (24F) and I (35M) have been together for almost a year. She comes from a wealthy family. They own several houses and buy my gf everything she wants whenever she wants it.

OP shared it's been frustrating watching his girlfriend have all of her expenses paid, and wrote that it seems absurd she's able to build up savings even while in medical school.

They’re good people, but I think they need to treat her like a woman instead of a child. I worked hard for everything I have, which isn’t much, so it frustrates me to watch her coast through life. They pay all of her bills, including putting her through medical school. All she has to pay for herself are her luxuries, so she is able to build up her savings much more than I am. Who the hell is able to save up while they’re in medical school? Well anyone can become a doctor with the endless opportunities that she has.

The two of them got in a heated argument the other day after OP found out his girlfriend's parents bought her a new expensive laptop.

So yesterday my girlfriend and I got into a very heated argument. She told me her new laptop had finally come. I asked her what laptop. She said her old one broke a few days ago so she ordered a new one. She got a top of the line MacBook, way more bells and whistles than what she needs. I asked how she paid for it but I knew the answer, her parents bought it.

OP got mad thinking about how much farther that money could go for someone else, and asked his girlfriend if she's embarrassed about having everything handed to her.

So here’s where I might be the a*shole. I was really mad knowing they probably spent 3 months of what could be someone’s rent on a computer that she doesn’t need. I finally just asked her if she’s embarrassed that everything she has in life has been handed to her. Naturally she got defensive and we started arguing. After a while I calmly said I think she’s a spoiled brat and her parents are doing a disservice to her. She called me a string of obscenities in return before hanging up on me. We haven’t talked since.

OP's girlfriend got defensive and they both exchanged strong words, and now haven't talked for days.

I get that I was harsh on her but I really don’t think I was wrong. She’s an adult who has no concept of what the real world is like. I want the best for her at the end of the day. Reddit, AITA?

5643yeeeeahright pointed out that OP is over ten years older than his girlfriend

Uhm, you chose to date a 23 year old at age 34, and now you are baffled that her maturity doesn't seemingly match yours (your maturity is up for debate). YTA. And you should respect whomever you date, regardless of their age and family background.

Thank you for the award.

BCWwannabe pointed out how toxic OP's behavior is.

Yikes you’re really 35 years old and jealous of your own girlfriend?

YTA.

MissEssquire pointed out how weird it is for OP to lash out at a 24-year-old in medical school for accepting help from her parents.

YTA she’s 24. When I was 24 I still depended on my parents. You’re in a completely different point at 35.

She’s acting her age and you’re being salty about it.

And if you’re in a relationship with her you should be grateful her parents are able to cover her medical school bills and she won’t have a 6 figure debt to contend with.

Also - do you know how hard med school is? That girl WORKS her a*s off. GTFO.

MalsPrettyBonnet pointed out that OP was acting far more like a spoiled brat than his girlfriend, regardless of her privilege.

Yeah, YTA. Spoiled brats throw tantrums for what they want. It sounds like her parents are very generous, and it's not really any of your business if they buy her a laptop rather than paying someone else's rent as long as she's not expecting you to do the same.

Not anyone can be a doctor, even if she's given lots of luxuries. Maybe you were lashing out from your own insecurities. Your girlfriend is a saver. She has more money in a savings account than you do, so she's not just leaking all her money away and expecting someone else to fill in the gap.

While it's clear that people online find OP's behavior unacceptable, what's unclear is why his girlfriend is attracted to him in the first place. Hopefully, this unanmious call out helps OP to reflect on his own maturity, and if not, his girlfriend kicks him to the curb.

The Black Lives Matter protests in the United States have inspired solidarity marches around the world. People from Poland to New Zealand are thinking critically about the United States, and their countries' own relationships to their minority populations and police forces.

Here's what "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" looks like from the outside.

1. France:

French here.

Well, you might find it funny but a lot of people are either like "Finally they riot" or pretty supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement in general.

When there is a riot against a government somewhere, chances are that Frenchies are glad about it. -ResLaPute

2. Japan:

Am Japanese & currently waiting on pandemic in Japan.

The news coverage of it is minimal aka people seem to read it as "Americans being Americans".

Japanese people don't like/believe in protests in general and don't necessarily believe that protesting can lead to change (v nuanced but this is mainly based on our culture - we don't like loud noises of any sort - and because it doesn't really work in our country).

The majority of the news almost seems pro-police and anti-protestors but I think it's really because Japan and Japanese people can't grasp the concept of not being/feeling protected by the police. It helps that our police aren't armed and mostly just help old people cross the street (huge generalisation but this is the overall feeling).

Also we don't even talk about our own racism (particularly against black people), why would we talk about America's? -bluelightbug

3. Australia:

Australian. Lots of people I speak with think the USA is on the verge of a civil war. There are so many schisms in society - rich /poor , Dem/Republican, gun control/ anti control and of course black/white. Our media makes it look like there is so much hate and aggression (and so many guns) that one spark will set the whole thing ablaze,perhaps the death of Mr. Floyd will be that spark. Personally I find it amazing that your police appear unable to de-escalate a situation but rather strut around like storm troopers. -1999falcon

4. Egypt:

Egyptian here. People here are genuinely concerned which I find a bit unexpected because most people have a negative view about the US. I think the media is exaggerating things but i'm not sure. -Astar_student

5. India:

Police brutality is an everyday thing in India. Recently we had pretty intense nation-wide protests as well where Indian police was extra brutal and ended up killing protestors across country. Yet "celebrities" were mute and a large section of Indians blamed the protesters and defended police. So did the media. Everything was blamed on protestors and minorities even though there was video evidences of foul play.

What happened to George Floyd was disgusting and I am fully against it but it disgusts me how these Indians—media, celebrities and police worshipers—are coming out of woodwork to condemn police brutality.

They are so out of touch with reality of everyday India that it's genuinely frustrating. -Whisky-In-Teacup

6. Luxembourg:

Nobody here understands why you are so unable to reform the police. The clear problem is a severe lack of police accountability, a lack of non-violent training, way too short training spans, an omnipresence of guns, a militarized police and a deep-rooting institutional racism.

But the again we're Luxembourg so who's gonna care what we think. -Priamosish

7. Ireland:

Ireland here. Everyone I have spoken to has been outraged by what happened to George, that that could happen to someone is broad daylight, on a busy, street, in front of bystanders, the lack of humanity has just enraged people here.

I get the protests, if I was there, I would be out too. But I am very skeptical that anything will change, this feels like a repeat of a repeat. Though the anger seems much more palpable this time. Every time something like this happens America seems to be heading, closer and closer to civil war. For all it’s meddling in foreign affairs over the years for America’s interests and for all the wars against its enemies, it seems more and more likely that America is just going to devour itself with no help from the outside. It’s desperately sad and very confusing to watch from the outside.

As for the looting and the rioting, I don’t like it, I completely disagree with it, but I get it. If you spent your entire life being sh*t on by everyone and everything, then you might take the opportunity to sh*t back when it popped up. It’s a pity because it gives people ammunition to close their ears.

Also, with the greatest respect, looking at videos and pictures and seeing how militarised the police are, I’m confounded that people are happy to see their tax dollars used to prop up the military industrial complex to a frightening degree, no police station needs a fucking tank, but that free health care is socialism? Is there really all that much difference between propping up a private citizen and a private company?

I dunno guys.... take care over there, scary times for all. -meok91

8. The Philippines:

I dunno about TV news, but a lot of my friends are posting about this on social media and that's how I learned about it. I agree with the protesters, but at the same time they should be under quarantine, right? I find it really crappy that a country like the US wiuld still have issues of police brutality, which has happened a lot in my country, Unfortunately, I'm not even surprised when the government leaders imply (even through informal channels) that they want the troublemakers dead, as our president has said a bunch of "kill them" statements that the public know. This is wrong. The police harming George Floyd like that, the racism, the way it provoked protests even during this pandemic... even my brother knows it's wrong.

Filipino here. -LuciePapie7406

9. New Zealand:

I'm in New Zealand. Coverage is limited, but holy sh*t guys, your country is broken. -teamkaos

10. Indonesia:

Indonesian here, the official medias didn't say much about it. Most people here know that tragedy from the social media. And I saw some of my friends posting giving support to Mr Floyd.

For me, riot is nothing but an annoyance and what happened in the US is beyond normal, amidst the pandemic. We used to have these kind of riot back in 1998, right before the end of the "New Order" military junta. their main target were the Chinese-Indonesians, and this riot involves mass rape and some looting too. -jamescuteloot

11. Scotland:

UK/Scotland. Coverage is pretty extensive especially on social media. My opinion is that I wholeheartedly support the protests, there’s only so far you can push a community before they snap, and it’s completely justified. I hate how it’s attracted all the usual middle class anarchist type folks who just want to cause bother for other agendas though. It needs to calm down now though in general as it looks close to spiralling completely out of control.

Also sadly due to the saturation of our own media and social media outlets with American output it appears that too many folk in the UK, particularly the young, are continuing to descend into a state where we are beginning to import this really fucking toxic Americanised culture war shite. The conflation of everything that happens in the USA with the UK is getting ridiculous now. There’s people here you can tell are really really desperate to start up similar protests, but there’s been significant pushback from what I’ve seen, especially after that effort in London today.

I’ve mentioned it on other subs but it’s especially annoying considering how the UK has an actual real obligation to Hong Kong, which is currently, as we speak, being properly brutalised and taken over by an authoritarian dictatorship, yet it’s not trending on our social media sites right now so no one seems to care, despite it having far more relevance to our society than the protests in America. -cumbernauldandy

12. England:

I live in England. I struggle to understand why the police seem to straight away use violence as a peace keeping tactic. From our point of view, it looks like the American police have forgotten that they are supposed to PROTECT people, not assume that they are automatically violent.

Here, the police do not even carry guns, or tasers (there are exceptions, but regular policemen), if we need help we can approach a policeman for their help. My parents traveled New York a few years ago and they said they were surprised at how hostile your police were. -emelihonor

13. Poland:

In Poland media says only the pro-America "informations" about protests, they are apparently only vandalizing and making troubles to the poor police.

Many politicians even said that it is pointless and are making fun of black people

I mean what else can we expect from country where Minister of Justice states that the most oppressed group of people are Catholics. -st44lin

14. Chile

I’m Chilean, we had the same kind of riots last year. I honestly don’t understand what all this destruction is going to achieve. -DickyMcTitty

No one divides people quite like our President. And it appears Trump's divisiveness spreads to within his own family. According to recent photo ops, Melania seems to be a member of the #resistance.

In a recent photo op, Trump appears to tell Melania to "smile." And her reaction speaks volumes.

Her "smile" appears more like a grimace of pain. The kind of "smile" you give your dentist when he's drilling a hole in your mouth. The interaction took place on Tuesday during the couple's visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, a day after Trump's photo opp at St John’s Episcopal Church caused outrage from religious leaders and subject him to widespread internet mockery.

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There's a reason there have been protests in all 50 states throughout the past week, and it's about more than just police brutality. Clearly, police violence is a problem. But it's not only the police who contribute to it. White people have been weaponizing the police against black people a long, long time, even "liberal" white people like "Central Park Karen," in "progressive" places like New York City.

In the most recent video of this kind to go viral, a pregnant white woman, who has been identified as wealthy Manhattan socialite Svitlana Flom, is seen calling the police to report an "African-American woman" who she accuses of "threatening" and "harassing" her. The video does not support these claims.

A video of the incident, which took place this past weekend, was originally posted on Instagram by the woman who Flom called the police to "report."

In the caption, the woman says the white woman called the cops on her "multiple times," initially because she thought she was "smoking in public." By the 3rd call, she accused the woman of "threatening her and her children" (there are no actual children in sight) and "pulling the black card."

The Instagram caption reads:

From 6:15pm - 7:31pm this woman, Svitlana Flom, artdefete felt the need to not only approach me but call the cops MULTIPLE TIMES ON ME!! She was too “Alarmed” that I was sitting “comfortably” in “her neighborhood!” The first call was because she THOUGHT I was smoking in public.. but by the 3rd call, it was bcuz I was “threatening her & her children !!” While giving my description, she exaggerated her story & made it seem like I was the aggressor. “THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IS ATTACKING ME AND MY CHILDREN!” She had tears that were off & on & she stated things like “She’s pulling the black card!” Then wanted me to walk to the boys w/ her 🤦🏾‍♀️🤡 I probably could have just walked away!! I probably should have kept my mouth shut right ?! NAHHH!! I couldn’t understand why she was so mad ! Like ummmm first of alllll I pay alllll mine over here Miss Lady !! 🙄 How you come over here just feeling sooooo privileged & soooo comfortable enough to tell me I should leave ?! You’re buggin !! NOT THIS ONE!! She wanted to be a victim soooo bad!! NOT ONE PERSON CAME TO HER AID!! MULTIPLE PPL witnessed the ordeal & just wanted to make sure I was ok! SHARE THESE VIDEOS AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE !! #SvitlanaFlom@maisonvivinyc@huffpost@ariannahuff

"I'm shaking, I'm pregnant," says Flom in the video, which was also shared on Twitter. "This is unacceptable. I want this video to be gone." Flom also seems to ask the woman she's complaining about to go talk to the police with her, and the woman responds: "can you imagine that? If Bozo was a person, it would be you".

The black woman commented that Flom's apparent problem with her was that she was sitting "comfortably" in her "neighborhood," in NYC's affluent Upper West Side. According to Complex, the cops did eventually show up. Fortunately, they did not take action against the woman being falsely accused.

People on Twitter are furious, with many calling out the white woman for her "blatant racism" as well as lying to police and wasting their time.

Svitlana Flom is reportedly the co-owner of French restaurant chain Maison Vivienne and is married to Gary Flom, a millionaire businessman. He also appears in the video, seemingly walking away from his wife as she talks on the phone to police.

Unfortunately this racist pattern of behavior from white people is nothing new. This video is just the latest example of a white person calling the cops on a black person who wasn't doing anything illegal or wrong. In case you were still wondering why people are protesting.

Model Karlie Kloss got absolutely roasted by actress, writer, and young founder of Rookie, Tavi Gevinson, for posting a graphic to Instagram about ending racism when she's so connected to the Trump family...

In case you don't know, Karlie Kloss is married to Joshua Kushner, who is the brother of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband. Jared Kushner is the senior advisor of President Trump and has also been in charge of peace plans for the Middle East. While Kloss hasn't publicly denounced her ties to Trump, she has very safely expressed that she disagrees.

In an interview with Vogue in 2018 Kloss said, "Josh and I share a lot of the same liberal values that guide our lives and the things we stand for." "Liberal values" we can only assume would mean "disagreeing with Trump," but it's still a fairly weak way of saying she's not on the side of her brother in-law. I would love to be a fly on the wall at their Thanksgiving...

So, after George Floyd's murder by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Kloss joined many others in expressing solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement. However, a lot of people feel that posting a graphic or a quotation without backing it with links to educational tools for where to donate to organizations that fight police brutality and racism is "performative activism." And, coming from someone so closely tied to Trump, the optics aren't...great.

This quote is especially awkward as it encourages people to fight racism by first having a conversation with their families. C'mon, Karlie! Are you actually having a conversation with your family? Show us the receipts!

Many were quick to comment on the hypocrisy but Tavi Gevinson didn't mess around.

Damn, Tavi!

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Tea about Glee, a show that ended five years ago, is the escape the world needs right now.

Gossipers and Gleeks alike have been following the drama around Lea Michele, when co-star Samantha Ware accused her of "traumatic microaggressions" and making her experience on the show "a living hell."

Ware responded to Michele's post about Black Lives Matter, and her post was promptly co-signed by the other black actors.

Yvette Nicole Brown and Alex Newell applauded Ware's candor.

A common theme is that she allegedly called background actors "cockroaches." Jeanté Godlock was in the background on Glee, and is now center stage on Netflix's Daybreak.

Keith Powell from 30 Rock can also testify to Michele's racist ways.

Amber Riley, who played Mercedes and has since rocked the world and won an Olivier Award (aka a "British Tony"), first responded with a GIF of herself sipping tea.

She also addressed the headlines in an interview with Danielle Young on Instagram.

"I’m not going to say that Lea Michele is racist. That’s not what I’m saying. That was the assumption because of what’s going on right now in the world and it happened toward a Black person," she said. "I’m not going to say that she’s racist. She’s also pregnant and I think that everyone needs to chill. Y’all dragged her for a couple of days. But at the same time, in my inbox there are a lot of Black actors and actresses telling me their stories and letting me know they have dealt with the same things on set, being terrorized by the white girls that are the leads of the show."

Heather Morris, who played Brittany on Glee, posted in a semi-incomprehensible statement in which she alluded to Michele's bad behavior, while also criticizing her co-stars for not speaking out sooner.

"Was she unpleasant to work with? Very much so;" Morris said. "For Lea to treat others with the disrespect that she did for as long as she did, I believe she SHOULD be called out. And yet, it's also on us because to allow it to go on for so long without speaking out is something else we're learning along with the rest of society."

(Morris also posted a video of herself doing an interpretative dance about the murder of the murder of George Floyd, and you can help but wonder whether or not everyone on Glee was simply playing themselves.)

After losing a brand deal with meal kit service Hello Fresh, Michele posted a lengthy statement, apologizing not for her actions, but how how her actions were "perceived."

Ware responded by telling her to put her money where her mouth is and donate to the family of James Scurlock, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed while protesting the killing of George Floyd.

Gerard Canonico, a Broadway veteran who in 2007 was in Spring Awakening with Michele, slammed the apology in the comments. It was deleted by her team, but posted again, and lives on in screenshots.

"You were nothing but a nightmare to me and fellow understudy cast members. You made us feel like we didn't belong there," he wrote. "I tried to be nice to you but to no avail."

Elizabeth Aldrich, who understudied Michele in the 1998 musical Ragtime, said that she was a nightmare even as a child.

In an Instagram comment, trans model and recording artist Plastic Martyr recalled her transphobic experience with Michele at the Emmy Awards.

Fans began sharing their fan stories, and are likely no longer fans.

In conclusion, please enjoy this GIF of Jessica Lange savagely walking by the alleged bigot.

Whoever first coined the phrase "there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers" obviously hasn't been asked very, very stupid questions.

While we all have off days and different learning curves, there are some questions people ask that are so obvious and confounding they shouldn't need answering in the first place. Learning and keeping a sense of curiosity is important for everyone, and asking questions is certainly part of it, but there are indeed stupid questions.

In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the most obvious and confounding questions they've asked, and it proves the old adage wrong.

1. From InspectorDerp:

"Is the ice cream served cold?"

Usually as a waiter, I can game-face almost anything, but there's no way my face didn't read "...the f*ck you just say?"

2. From BlackStar867:

"Do you speak Canadian?"

I thought it was a bad joke. It wasn't.

3. From mrreggiego:

Girl: Hey what’s the capital of the world again?

I said Detroit.

4. From KhaosElement:

I work IT, asked a person if her mouse was wired or wireless. She said "How am I supposed to know THAT?! This is YOUR job!"

5. From ApexInTheRough:

I worked at Blockbuster Video in 2004 for six months. I had three unrelated incidents, but the words and tone of all three were uncannily identical. They answered the question immediately before asking it... AND THEY STILL DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER:

"Yeah, I know my movie was late... Why do I have to pay a late fee?"

6. From echo6golf:

I live in a very popular tourist town.

"Is there anything to do around here? We've already seen the Walmart."

7. From Sam-1229:

My sister once asked me if the humans killed all the Homo sapiens because they were stupid.

Also when she found out that you need more stamps to mail a big package, she asked how many stamps it would take to mail a car. My dad told her 50 as a joke and she just nodded her head and said “oh that makes sense.”

She was in college when she asked both of these questions.

8. From IFapToHentai42069:

A friend once asked my other friend who was a history teacher, "What was the president's reaction to JFK's assassination"

9. From Cheetodude625:

"Did you choose to be half Asian?"

Yes, this was an actual question that was asked of me.

Late response to the comments: I'm half Japanese and I look vaguely white/Asian. So no, I did not choose. I was born looking like a mix between a white person and an Asian person.

10. From wircruisen:

I worked retail. A woman who did not have her child with her asked me if I thought a piece of clothing would fit her child.

11. From Twice_Shy:

"Hey, you work at XYZ business, right?" "No, I don't." "Are you sure?"

12. From Drakaena_Helianthus:

- What country are you from?

-Spain

- Yes, yes, but what country?

Edit: I think that person asked because of my Chinese features, but at that moment I didn't realize because I'm practically occidental and I'm not very used to people asking about the country I was born.

13. From 7empestipated:

I was born significantly deaf. Was once asked, "Do deaf babies know sign language when they're born?"

14. From ritsload:

Once a classmate, this was on year 10 or year 11, asked me how I had managed to put ice into a plastic bottle. A friend of mine proceeded to tell her that there were youtube tutorials on cut open and glue the bottle back together and that it was super easy.

15. From SwaeLao:

“Did you have to take a canoe to school” - a question I was asked once when I told them I moved from Hawaii.

16. From twelvegrainbread:

“Can’t you drive to Hawaii?”

17. From SalemScout:

"If you get a not-guilty verdict, does that mean you can commit the crime again and not be charged?"

She was confused by Double Jeopardy, but my favorite part was the again.

18. From igotapuppyinmyhands:

A friend of my parents asked me if I know him, he visited my parents while I was away to college and I told him I was gone when he visited “But I saw pictures of you at your parents house, you don’t know me?”

19. From dadoliver:

In the days before cellphones...friend called me and asked where I was.

20. From Burnytheclown:

'If my child has a biting problem in your classroom, can't you just, like, bite my child back?' Asked by a completely serious parent. Sure, I can bite your child, but I kinda like keeping my job and not being arrested for child abuse more.