Alex Christy

July 11th, 2026 9:30 AM MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday to recap the week's news, which naturally highlighted

With there still being many unanswered questions around the death of 18-year old Nolan Wells, CNN First appeared to understand on Saturday that baseless speculation was unhelpful. However, that still did not stop him from defending the assumption that race had something to do with as well as more far-reaching claims about the entire state of Mississippi and white people more generally.

MS NOW's Connect host Jacob Soboroff rewound the clock on Saturday to promote a short documentary called Reclaim the Flag that was released a year ago that featured several LGBTQ celebrities—some of whom were definitely more famous than others—talking about their views of the flag. Soboroff sat down with producer Alexis Bittar to discuss the film and play several soundbites that included claims to the flag as having “blood on it” and being a “violent symbol of prejudice and hate” and beliefs that people who fly the flag would kill them if they had the opportunity.

Actor and comedian Ike Barinholtz became this year's second summer guest host of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday and the second to try to claim they are following in Kimmel's footsteps by becoming a free speech martyr . What made Barinholtz's claim extra dumb is that he tried to do so preemptively as he attacked Sen. Mitch McConnell after his hospitalization as a health care hypocrite and Sen. Lindsey Graham after his unexpected death by joking with sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez that they had nothing nice to say about him.

Monday was a rough night for part-time late night comedy hosts when it came to Sen. Mitch McConnell's hospitalization. On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live! substitute Ike Barinholtz portrayed McConnell as a health care hypocrite for receiving care when allegedly denying it to others. Similarly, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart claimed that McConnell was smiling in his “proof of life” photo because, thanks to him, he had health insurance and nobody else in the hospital did.

Even by MS NOW's standards, Tuesday's edition of The Moment was truly something else. After host Katy Tur played a clip of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett recalling the threats her family has faced since the Dobbs decision leaked, Tur and her assembled cast of characters decided to put the blame on President Trump.

The fast-growing trend of gratuitously nasty, guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! episodes continued on ABC on Tuesday with Ike Barinholtz once again deciding to make fun of the dead. Not only did Barinholtz continue to attack Sen. Lindsey Graham on personal terms, he also attacked his sister and replacement, Darlene Graham Nardone. According to Barinholtz, Nardone has pledged “to suck” President Trump's “tits even harder” than Graham did.

Over the past year-and-a-half, former MSNBC host Joy Reid has transferred her professional crazy person persona to her podcast, but on Monday, Reid took the shtick to the next level. While dancing on Sen. Lindsey Graham's grave, Reid twice gleefully declared that Graham is now in hell.

Actor John Leguizamo stopped by Comedy Central and The Daily Show 's “In My Opinion” segment on Wednesday to give his thoughts on the Supreme Court's recent ruling that upheld birthright citizenship. According to Leguizamo, critics of the decision should be careful what they wish for because once upon a time “every white person was here illegally.”

NPR Newsmakers podcast host Steve Inskeep welcomed HBO's Bill Maher to Thursday show his Mark Twain Prize and the wider world of politics. At one point in the interview, Maher confessed that he was surprised Inskeep invited him on because NPR is now “on the far extreme of the left.” Inskeep tried to defend NPR by saying reality is different than what its critics allege, but the numbers don't back him up.