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We’re several months away from Zola, Janicza Bravo’s surreal and thrilling adaptation of A’Ziah King’s epic 144-tweet thread, arriving in theaters, but the tweet to kick it off is already reminding us of some of history and cinema’s greatest feuds.

Yet another former government employee has furthered the possibility of UFOs and alien lifeforms visiting Earth, saying a respected friend's aircraft once "paused at 40,000 feet."

From our friends at Nautilus.

Even with COVID-19 vaccines rolling out across the United States, testing still plays an essential component in curbing the virus’ spread. Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) that President Trump signed into law on March 27, 2020, there should be no COVID test cost. Instead, the tests should be free for all Americans, including the uninsured.

The CARES Act essentially ensures that COVID-19 testing is provided fully... Читать дальше...

Did you hear the one about the bartender who ate hollandaise sauce for a week because he thought it was soup?

Former UFC fighter-turned-pro wrestler Stephan Bonnar is big mad over being "kicked out" of a local gym for not wearing his mask correctly. 

A couple of weeks ago, TikToker Addison Rae was criticized for her appearance on The Tonight Show after she performed several TikTok dances without giving the creators credit. But now those creators are getting their moment to shine.

A disturbing TikTok that shows a young woman putting up with men harassing her on the street late at night is the latest video drawing attention to the perpetual issue of catcalling.

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Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect tech and politics unfolding online. Today:

• TikTokers report losing 90% of their views after trolls flag their videos
• Biden’s infrastructure proposal includes plan to get all Americans affordable broadband
• The agency that controls U.S. nukes had its Twitter account accessed by a child

BREAK THE INTERNET

A TikTok user claiming to be a Ben Shapiro fan asked him to take her to the gun show—the "showing off your muscles" kind, not a literal gun show—and he's obliged, leading to a series of videos in which the conservative commentator flexes on command.

A group of inmates at a jail in downtown St. Louis broke windows, set fire to objects they threw out those windows, and chanted, "We wanna go to court" on Sunday night. The actions were characterized by at least one ally as an "uprising," and the protest is reportedly related to a similar event at the same jail just two months prior.

Photos from the surveillance camera at a Burger King in Tennessee show a woman shooting at employees—allegedly because she had to wait for her order at a drive-thru, according to WZTV. 

A video that surfaced on Reddit on Monday shows a "Karen" refusing wear a mask for fear of smudging her lipstick. The video's surprise ending had viewers living vicariously through the waitress.

A viral TikTok video shows a woman dubbed "PetSmart Karen" yelling through a megaphone and fat-shaming a woman in a parking lot in Southern California.

Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell’s Oscar contender, is a particularly polarizing film. The discourse around it has fueled both thoughtful and boneheaded criticism for months, but in the case of one of its detractors, it also led to a comments section dragging him for his history of racist and misogynistic rhetoric. Also, he used to run a revenge porn site.

Conservatives are not happy about President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden's appearing with a masked up Easter Bunny on Monday afternoon.