She’s joined by @andrewrsorkin host of CNBC’s "Squawk Box," to help us all understand the madness behind dogecoin and all the other coins. "The 'establishment' thinks this is zany. It’s nuts,” says @andrewrsorkin trib.al/7655BsW
Meanwhile, in India, people are literally dying in the streets from COVID. Vaccine specialist @PeterHotez discusses just how dire the situation is and how it could impact health systems around the world.
"The whole game plan was dependent on India providing vaccines for the world," @PeterHotez says. "Even before COVID, a lot of the vaccinations that people get in Africa, Latin America, across Asia are actually vaccines produced in India."
Remember when Trump insanely said that injecting yourself with bleach might be a cure for the coronavirus?
.@willsommer and @swin24 walk us through the terrifying world of extremist bleach enthusiasts in this week’s episode Fever Dreams. trib.al/Os90A7o
Surprise surprise, they have found a following among the QAnon crowd.
That includes a scammy father-son duo who tried to form a “church of bleach” so they could claim it was their religious right to sell their chlorine dioxide snake oil. trib.al/Os90A7o
The feds didn’t buy it and now they’ve been indicted (after a brief stint on the lam in South America) in the biggest takedown yet of these dangerous bleach peddlers. trib.al/Os90A7o
The former presidential candidate says the Republican Party has plunged into a “crazy” abyss of “whack jobs,” “autocrats,” and “nutjobs.” trib.al/c3YbkoM
Dean said there are still one or two decent Republicans in Washington, but they lack the backbone to stand up to the people who have taken over the party. thedailybeast.com/howard-dean-th…
It’s only been three months since disturbing messages sent by Armie Hammer began circulating, in which the actor described his extreme kinks and cannibalism fantasies. Now, those DMs are about to become authenticated and sold as pieces of NFT art trib.al/lxNN1Pl
Brooklyn-based artist and writer Julia Morrison is behind the project and will be selling two NFT pieces on Foundation, complete with a physical lightbox of the exchanges trib.al/lxNN1Pl
“I started looking into what the hell an NFT was and once I learned that it was a way to authenticate something, I said I want to make artwork out of my text messages with Armie Hammer,” Morrison explained. "It’s like a checkmate" trib.al/lxNN1Pl
Over the course of five seasons and 50 episodes on “Broad City,” there are still so many things that Abbi Jacobson still can’t believe she and her co-creator, co-star, and real-life best friend Ilana Glazer got away with trib.al/7IfZgsl
But as Jacobson explains on this week’s episode of #TheLastLaugh podcast with @mattwilstein, the moment that still makes her laugh out loud with disbelief is when her character made a deeply personal admission to Hillary Clinton: "It’s just so unreal" trib.al/7IfZgsl
Since "Broad City's" end just over two years ago, Jacobson has embarked on her own professional journey. Now, she is co-creating and co-starring in a new serialized version of "A League of Their Own" for Amazon, which proudly embraces “queerness” trib.al/7IfZgsl
Things are starting to get back to “normal” (whatever that means), so we’re all trying to remember how to have friends over, go to the office, and travel again.
In this thread, Scouted wants to know what you’re finally buying again.
From eventual dinner parties to holiday get togethers, what are you buying for your kitchen:
What kind of fashion are you going to start looking to purchase for leaving your house:
Thousands gathered at the Health and Freedom Conference—maskless, of course—to bask in the glow of Trumpworld luminaries.
Fever Dreams podcast, host @willsommer got an inside look at it all in this week’s episode. trib.al/ATGK4D1
“[It was] sort of a confluence of COVID denialism, QAnon, evangelical Christianity, all this kind of stuff, gathering outside of Tulsa, 4,500 people,” Sommer told co-host @swin24trib.al/ATGK4D1
The far-right Tulsa gathering brought in “a lot of people who are big deals in Trumpism—Lin Wood, and Michael Flynn, and Sidney Powell. Jim Caviezel,” Sommer noted. trib.al/ATGK4D1