“Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn’t,” one producer said. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 1 year ago

The problem for JD Vance is there's only one Donald Trump, and he isn't it. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

Mike Masnick: ‘The Surgeon General Is Wrong; Social Media Doesn’t Need Warning Labels’

Mike Masnick, writing for The Daily Beast: We put health warnings on things that are inherently harmful, with little redeeming health value. That is, things that are actually toxins: nicotine, lead, poisons. The complaints here are with speech. [...] The American Psychological As … | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

Putin Recalls Trump Acting Like Jealous GF in Private. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

Hackers Threaten to Leak Trump Trial Docs If Ransom Isn’t Paid. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

“Your move, Clarence,” the “Last Week Tonight” host said at the end of his 11th season premiere. “Your fucking move.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

George Carlin’s daughter seeking legal action against voice cloned “comedy” special

“It’s not his material. It’s not his voice,” Kelly Carlin tells The Daily Beast. “So they need to take the name off because it is not George Carlin.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 2 years ago

Paul Reubens Never Got the Critical Reappraisal He Deserved

After his controversial pair of arrests in the ’90s and early-aughts, the comedian saw his career put on pause. If any reappraisals are made, they’ll now have to be posthumous. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

“Think about that,” the city’s mayor said. “That murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under Kentucky’s current law.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Biden joined a great history of American presidents standing up to Russian aggression, and significantly broke from the shameful actions of his predecessor. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

A Netflix engineer pressed Musk to provide specific details about Twitter’s coding on Tuesday night, prompting Musk to eventually lash out with ad hominem attacks. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Predict Your Death by How You Walk

Care to find out? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk ceases supporting Ukraine via paying for Starlink

Musk says he just taking the advice of a senior Ukrainian diplomat who told him to “fuck off.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Jury Orders InfoWars Founder Alex Jones to Pay Up for His Sandy Hook Lies

Jones was hit with the astonishing bill two months after a jury in Texas ordered him to pay nearly $50 million in damages for spewing lies about the school shooting. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Internet Trolls Have Tormented Patrick Tomlinson for Years. He Can’t Stop Them

Tomlinson and his wife have fallen prey to a yearslong mass harassment campaign, including “swatting” attempts and death threats—all because he wrote an innocuous hot take. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

The comedian, a frequent collaborator of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s, had been battling stage 4 ovarian cancer. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

'Pro-Life' Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend's Abortion

Herschel Walker, the football legend now running for Senate in Georgia, says he wants to completely ban abortion, likening it to murder and claiming there should be "no exception" for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. But the Republican candidate has supported at least one … | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

How the Mises Caucus Took over the American Libertarian Party

State parties are splintering and candidates are bailing. One side calls their foes sore losers, the other calls them alt-right. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

New Brain Science Shows Us a Sinister Effect of an Idle Mind

Your mind’s regular resting state can be the source of creativity and inspiration—and also a ton of stress and anxiety too. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death for the Metaverse

You can’t get people to embrace VR if it’s going to make them feel like throwing up. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Judges Are Playing 'Calvinball' With the Constitution Because They're Mad Trump Was Banned From Twitter

A panel of judges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that "editorial discretion" is no longer a protected right under the First Amendment-because the judges are upset that Donald Trump was removed from Twitter. I know that sounds impossible, but it's exactly what h … | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Conservative Fifth Circuit jurists took a sledgehammer to the First Amendment—using incoherent logic, incorrect law-reading, and fake history. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

CEO Known for $70K Pay Resigned Just Before NYT Investigation Published

He got famous for raising worker pay to $70,000; this week he resigned just before The New York Times published an exposé into his alleged bad behavior. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 3 years ago

Schools Spent Millions on Faulty Covid Scanners

Some of the thermal scanners and cameras sold to schools to detect fevers would regularly fail if someone walked in with a hot coffee or after spending too much time in the sun. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Peloton Hit with yet Another Copyright Suit, This Time from Cypress Hill

One of the original members of the group claims that Peloton used songs without paying for his share of the rights, calling it an act of “willful infringement.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The Ugly War over Bob Ross’ Ghost (2021)

For decades, Bob Ross has been a soothing presence in a world gone mad. But the real story behind the painter’s life, and especially his afterlife, reveals just as much madness. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Shinzo Abe’s Assassin Succeeds in Exposing Japan’s Deep Ties with ‘Cult’

The shooting of ex-PM Shinzo Abe has blown open secret ties between Japan’s ruling party and the mass-marrying Moonies. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Scientists Turned Dead Spiders into Undead Zombie Robots

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to ask if they should. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Secret Briefing Zeroes in on Suspected Russian Spy Station in New York

Classified talks were held in D.C. on Friday, with pressure growing on counterespionage officials to stamp out a suspected Russian intelligence compound in the Bronx. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Notorious ‘Global Terror’ Boss Escaped in Mass Prison Break

The head of a brutal militant group accused of abducting and murdering foreigners is one of 600 inmates who’ve escaped from a prison in Nigeria, officials told The Daily Beast. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Tech CEO Arrested in 1992 Mountain View Cold Case Slaying After DNA Breakthrough

John Woodward, who was tried twice for Laurie Houts’ murder in the mid-’90s, has finally been linked to the rope found around her neck three decades ago. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Outrage Erupts as White House Calls Abortion Rights Activists ‘Out of Step’

In trying to defend Biden’s response to the overturning of Roe, the White House appears to have shown more frustration with pro-choice activists than with Republicans. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign

When Herschel Walker's campaign aides approached him this winter to discuss whispers that Walker had a secret child, the Georgia GOP's Senate candidate told his campaign the rumors were false. Walker's aides already knew he was lying.(thedailybeast.com) | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Everyone on social media is obsessing over the new FX series “The Bear.” Rightfully so! It’s great. But the ridiculous nicknames used in the show have been driving me up a wall. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Tucker Carlson's Favorite 'Covid Contrarian' Alex Berenson Returns to Twitter

Berenson peddled falsehoods on the platform for a year and a half before getting suspended. And now he’s back. Heaven help us all. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

A new study offers clues about the worsening damage COVID could inflict on your body with each round of infection. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Space Station Astronauts Suffer Horrific Amount of Bone Loss, Study Finds

In just six months, they experience decades worth of skeletal deterioration. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Let’s face it, in modern-day American politics, Republicans have mastered the art of dominance. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

May Be the Covid Variant Scientists Are Dreading

A brand new subvariant is starting to surge, and there are signs this one can dodge our immunity. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

When Ayn Rand’s ‘Top Secret’ Atomic Bomb Movie Lost Its Way (2020)

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at least two Hollywood studios planned movies about the atomic bomb. One was about its horrors. Ayn Rand’s? Not so much.  | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Amid reports Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was included on the list, law enforcement would only say the targets were somehow “related to the judicial system.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Roving Packs of Robot Dogs Are Coming to the Moon

Meet the team that wants to put packs of robo-canines on the lunar surface to find water. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The Trump loyalist refused to comply “in any way” with a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, an indictment says. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Licht told staffers what many have said for years: Please stop calling everything breaking news. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The cultural schadenfreude kicked off in a viral Reddit post and snowballed from there. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Trey Ganem Is Customizing 19 Caskets of Uvalde’s Youngest Victims

The nation’s only child-coffin maker is shipping them to Trey Ganem, who is determined that each massacre victim’s resting place tells the story of their young life. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

70-Year-Old Naval Technology Could Pave a Path for a Nuclear Energy Revolution

When it comes to nuclear reactors, smaller might be better. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough

The same court that appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to protect innocents before they are born seems to lose interest when it comes to innocents later in life. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago