On Call: Anthony Fauci Tells All—Nearly—on Trump, COVID and Other Disasters
Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesAnthony Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly 40 years. He tackled AIDS, Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and SARS, yet at the end of his run, COVID-19 tested him and the U.S. like nothing in recent memory. More than 1.1 million died. Life-expectancy dropped by more than a year.“I had confronted terrible outbreaks, but none of them prepared me for the environment I would find myself in during the coronavirus pandemic,” Fauci writes in On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, his eagerly awaited memoir. Smoothly written and well-paced, On Call is a tale of upward arc and challenges met—but also unanswered questions.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Vandals spray paints ‘F–k Elon’ on 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks in Florida
Vandals with an apparent vendetta against Tesla CEO Elon Musk spray painted “F—k Elon” on 34 brand new Cybertrucks in Florida. Fort Lauderdale police received a call around 8:30 Thursday morning from a person reporting that the massive electric vehicles, which were in perfect condition the night before, had been defaced, police told The Post...
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Is the ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Ending Hopeful or a Total Downer?
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/A24“There is still time.”These words are written in chalk on the street in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film I Saw The TV Glow, bold and bright for both its protagonist, Owen (Justice Smith), and the audience to see. It’s a message that’s clear for the young man whose life continues to pass him by, each day seemingly another exhausting trudge and an onslaught of disappointment. Since his childhood, Owen has been on the margins of his own life, his only solace coming from his friend Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and the television show she provided him with VHS tapes of, The Pink Opaque. The teen sci-fi show isn’t just fiction, but strongly implied to be the “real” world, with Owen trapped in the show’s “Midnight Realm”—an eerily familiar suburbia populated by minions of the “big bad,” Mr. Melancholy (Emma Portner).As time slips him by, Owen remains unable to find pleasure in the things he once enjoyed, back when he was accompanied by Maddy, his lone friend who left him after she discovered her true self within The Pink Opaque, and he rejected her offer of helping him do the same. The protagonists of the show, Tara and Isabel (Lindsey Jordan and Helena Howard), aren’t just alluded to be mirror images of Maddy and Owen, respectively, but their fully realized selves; the characters are the most obvious allegory of a fulfilling transition that trans/non-binary filmmaker Shoenbrun provides for the viewer. That Owen rejects this transition—accepting himself as the woman that Isabel is—and instead chooses to live with this dysphoria, while continuing to be given the chance to change, is the core dramatic tension of I Saw The TV Glow.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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This GOP Candidate Is Anti-China. His Family Tried to Build Water Parks There.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Public DomainMultimillionaire banker Eric Hovde is taking tough stances on China in his battle to unseat Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin—but corporation records show his brother and business partner once tried to launch an investment vehicle there.Just before Eric’s first 2012 U.S. Senate bid, his brother Steven set up Hovde China Ventures LLC in the notoriously secretive state of Delaware. According to what few public records are available, the entity shut down four years later.While the brothers have frequently collaborated in their real estate and financial ventures, Eric Hovde’s team says Steven embarked on this project solo—and that it involved water parks.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Is the Rare Brilliant Spin-Off Series
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Sophie Giraud/AMCIt makes sense for the clone show to get its own clone. Almost seven years after the conclusion of Orphan Black, the Canadian drama that launched Tatiana Maslany to international stardom for her portrayal of a small army of human copies, we’re diving back into the clone-iverse with Orphan Black: Echoes. The show, premiering June 23 on AMC, presents an ominous technological future dominated by 3-D printing technology and monomaniacal scientists bent on perfecting humanity at any cost, and, like the clones in Orphan Black, the new series offers a spin on familiar territory. Echoes pointedly takes a different route through the metaphysics and ethical conundrums of scientific progress, asking us to ascribe human motivations to inhuman acts.It’s Boston in 2052: The city skyline is upgraded with spiraling high-rises reinforced with skeletal honeycomb facades, even trucks have that electric vehicle purr, and rolling hills are dotted with windmills to indicate that we’re in The Future. A scientist played with quiet melancholy by Keeley Hawes works at the Additive Foundation, experimenting on a new technology with the capability to print human organs from scratch.But that’s not the only thing she’s printing. In the opening scene, the scientist comes into contact with an amnesiac woman (Krysten Ritter, ever the badass, abrasive heroine in a dark jacket and skinny jeans) who has no memory of her name, or even a conception of ever having a past—and, given that this show is the sequel series to a show about clones, you can probably guess why. The only flash of recollection Ritter’s character, who later takes on the name Lucy, feels happens the moment she runs into a young teen girl named Jules (Amanda Fix) who looks strikingly familiar. Again, perhaps you can guess why.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Ocasio-Cortez Jumps Around, Blasts Cardi B Music During Bowman Rally
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was seen jumping around and blasting music by rapper Cardi B during a rally for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) on Saturday. The post Ocasio-Cortez Jumps Around, Blasts Cardi B Music During Bowman Rally appeared first on Breitbart.
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How Buster Murdaugh’s Lawsuit May Be the Key to Solving a Murder Mystery
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe alleged involvement of Alex Murdaugh’s only surviving son in the 2015 roadside murder of his former classmate has always been a lingering question mark on the infamous family’s tangled web of legal woes.This week, Buster Murdaugh finally fired back, filing a damning defamation lawsuit against Netflix and others who produced documentaries and news articles that he says “irreparably damaged” his reputation by insinuating he was involved in 19-year-old Stephen Smith’s death. But his decision to sue the companies he says accused him of “committing a crime of moral turpitude” may also be the key to figuring out what happened in the still-unsolved criminal case.“He is reigniting embers that were almost extinct, adding oxygen to it in terms of public interest,” Eric Bland, a lawyer representing the Smith family, told The Daily Beast. “Now, these media companies are going to fight tooth and nail to get new content. They want another season and Buster just handed it to them.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton exits early after scoring run vs. Braves
Giancarlo Stanton left Saturday’s game against the Braves. He was pinch-hit for with Trent Grisham to lead off the bottom of the sixth and the Yankees leading, 4-1 in The Bronx. The move came after Stanton doubled and scored in the bottom of the fourth. Giancarlo Stanton, who doubled and then scored in the fourth...
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Elon Musk secretly fathered a third child with Neuralink executive: report
Tesla CEO Elon Musk secretly fathered a third child with an executive at Neuralink, his brain-chip implant company, according to a report. Neuralink director Shivon Zilis had Musk’s child — whose name was not released — earlier this year, Bloomberg revealed Saturday. The birth come after Musk revealed in 2022 that he and Zilis had...
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Jamaal Bowman During Rally: 'Show Them Who the F**k We Are', Calls for Ceasefire
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) ramped up a crowd of supporters at a rally on Saturday, calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. The post Jamaal Bowman During Rally: ‘Show Them Who the F**k We Are’, Calls for Ceasefire appeared first on Breitbart.
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