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Increasingly, the GOP, faced with a rising number of serious COVID-19 infections, mostly among the unvaccinated, is suddenly and without any acknowledgment of its complicity with the anti-Fauci, anti-vaxxer and conspiracy-theory movements, flipping the script, encouraging people to get the shot.

The latest example of this is Alabama's 76-year-old Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, who snapped when a reporter asked her about her state having the very worst vaccination rate in the U.S.

Her response is generating praise on social media. She said:

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Lil Nas X's video for his track “Industry Baby” (feat. Jack Harlow) is absolutely amazing. It takes the form by the balls and shocks and surprises in ways music videos haven't done in ages.

As a Gen Xer who holds sacred the art of the three-minute movie masterpieces of the '80s and '90s, I have to say Nas is a true video artiste, and a charming-as-hell disrupter. He is making every closeted artist look foolish with his bravado, and like the best of all pop stars do, he is being provocative while making point after point.

Don't believe me? Take a look:

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I always loved Bert Convy, and especially his work on Tattletales. I started interviewing celebrities who had been on the show in preparation for an article about its history, but stopped when his daughter Jennifer, a successful producer in her own right, never replied to my overtures. I felt not having her on the record made the potential article a bit less interesting. I think I did Orson Bean's last interview before he was killed by two cars.

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Fashion-plate actor Tommy Dorfman, best known for playing Ryan Shaver on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, has come out as a trans woman in a lengthy interview for Time.

The chat with novelist Torrey Peters begins forthrightly:

We’re talking today to discuss my gender. For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman — a trans woman.

Dorfman will not change her name, just her pronouns, after having medically transitioned, and stresses that she isn't interested in blowing up her past.

She will next be seen in the Lena Dunham film Sharp Stick — her first project in which she will be playing a female role.

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