Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview:

"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."

He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.

‘I am extremely sad’: celebrities react to the end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Ben Stiller, Rachel Zegler and Judd Apatow and others disappointment at decision to axe long-running show

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If you remember 2000 this cannot be happening in 2025.

Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa said rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world The arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is a welcome sign that the rules-based order continues to hold, the Nobel laureate Maria…

Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner

No water from the City of Tshwane, so families turn to illegal suppliers The 12,000 households in Azania informal settlement have no official supply of water

No water from the City of Tshwane, so families turn to illegal suppliers – The 12,000 households in Azania informal settlement have no official supply of water

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“You Should Run for President”: Jimmy Carter’s Ad Man Speaks Gerald Rafshoon helped take Carter from the peanut farm to the White House. Here, he exclusively recalls some of the key moments of a decades-long relationship.

Carter’s death at age 100, coming so close to the return of Donald Trump to the presidency, has made Carter’s contrast with Trump even starker.

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

Chosen solitude may be the most significant social fact of our age, @dkthomp.bsky.social writes. The emergence of the anti-social century is changing childhood social development, our physical infrastructure, and even our relationship to reality.