The walls are closing in on Fauci
Invented by Late Ray Tomlinson, this li’l thing called Email has done it again! First Hillary, then Ghislaine Maxwell, and now Lord Fauci. Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the release of thousands of Fauci’s emails, thanks to Buzzfeed’s requests under the Freedom of Information Act. And boy, are they full of juicy material! From his admission that masks don’t work to his concerns about people figuring out that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Lab, Fauci clearly knew much more than he let on, intentionally misled people on Covid’s actual mortality rate, and blatantly lied about NIH’s funding of the ‘gain of function’ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The big stories
Time for Fauci to be fired and criminally investigated. You have to take out a few minutes to watch these 4 Tucker segments - MUST WATCH - 1, 2, 3, 4
Bibi out? A diverse coalition of opposition parties in Israel agreed to a deal to form a unity government, likely spelling the end of the current tenure of Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister. Unprecedented in the diversity of partners, the pact is led by secular centrist leader Yair Lapid and religious conservative Naftali Bennett and includes six other parties, including the Arab-Israeli Raam. But, it ain’t over till it’s over! Netanyahu is trying to exert as much pressure as possible on members of Bennett’s right-wing Yamina party to refuse to vote for the new government. Even one defection would put the “change government” at risk of failing to obtain the required parliamentary majority. Details
Trolling level 1000! AOC rejects Matt Walsh’s help! This story so funny at so many levels. Clown rep. AOC posted a tweet on June 2nd telling everyone how her abuela (grandma) is living in a dilapidated house in Puerto Rico, all because of Trump administration’s lack of relief funding after Hurricane Maria. Sane people rightly pointed out that AOC lives a life of luxury herself, but allows her grandma to live in those squalid conditions. Then Matt Walsh, in all his savage troll glory, started a GoFundMe called “Save AOC’s Abuela’s Ancestral Home” which managed to raise more than $100K in less than a day. But then, this happened -
Business news
Etsy to buy Depop, a London-based secondhand fashion marketplace, for $1.6B in cash. This is millennial-driven Etsy trying to get younger, as around 90% of Depop’s users are under 26 years old. Details
AMC to the moon! It is now up more than 2300% this year. That’s a bigger rise in 2021 than even GameStop experienced! AMC management have embraced the chaos as they’ve been quick to cash in on the meteoric surge in AMC’s share price. Details
Twitter is rolling out a new subscription offering, ‘Twitter Blue,’ in Australia and Canada. The subscription will cost users in Canada $2.88 monthly and users in Australia $3.44. Details
Krispy Kreme files $100M IPO. The company will trade under the ticker DNUT on the Nasdaq. Details
Coinbase Pro embraces Dogecoin. Details
Paula’s Choice plans to launch $300M or more in an IPO this year. Details
Circle, a global financial technology firm that provides payments and treasury infrastructure for internet businesses, raises $440M in financing from leading institutional and strategic investors. Details
Cloudera enters into definitive agreement to be acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for $5.3B. Details
Prosus to acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8B. Details
This week in woke and cancel-culture lunacy
Chris Pratt’s epic post about Memorial Day went viral and you should read it because it’s fantastic - Read
Woke Joke — Spain’s postal service put out skin-colored “equality stamps,” but the dark ones are worth way less than the light ones. Details
Tom MacDonald’s new song ‘Snowflakes’ - ah, the lyrics!
Science & Technology
NASA is going to Venus. The organisation plans to send two new planetary science missions to study this inferno-like world: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. Details
Fashion, food, and entertainment
Rent the Runway is getting into resale, where no membership will be required for customers to shop on its site. Details
Wendy’s takes aim at Ronald McDonald in return to UK high street. Details
Warby Parker to open 35 new stores. Details
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are back together. Details
What’s gaining popularity
Google Search topics with big percentage jumps in search interest last week. Courtesy: Exploding Topics
“Pulse oximeter” - devices that attach to the finger or ear to measure blood oxygen levels
“Secretlab” - a DTC brand of gaming chairs
“Hand blender”
Chart of the week
Next week calendar
Monday, June 7 - World Food Safety Day. Apple’s WWDC.
Tuesday, June 8 - World Oceans Day. National Best Friend Day.
Wednesday, June 9 - Tribeca Film Festival
Thursday, June 10 - Annular Solar Eclipse. Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event.
Friday, June 11 - Pulitzer Prize announcement. G7 Summit.
Saturday, June 12 - World day against child labor
Let’s foment a controversy
Y’all do not want US military men and women anywhere near Taiwan in case China launches an invasion.
Stanford China expert Oriana Skylar Mastro writes in the latest Foreign Affairs - “A palpable shift in the Chinese government’s thinking about Taiwan means that for the first time in three decades, it is time to take seriously the possibility that China could soon use force to end its almost century-long civil war.”
He continues, “Recent war games conducted by the Pentagon and the RAND Corporation have shown that a military clash between the United States and China over Taiwan would likely result in a U.S. defeat, with China completing an all-out invasion in just days or weeks.” Full article.
Will post a new topic next week. Thanks for reading!