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Fox News
4 days ago
- General
- Fox News
Emily Austin Stops By To Talk About The Left's Misinformation War Against Israel
Journalist and activist Emily Austin joins Fox Across America With guest host Rich Zeoli to give her take on how liberals are dishonestly framing what's been happening in the war between Israel and Hamas. Emily Austin Praises Trump's Transparency PLUS, check out the podcast if you missed any of Thursday's show!
South China Morning Post
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is conservative influencer Emily Austin? The sports journalist just met Trump at the Capitol – she's also interviewed Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul and collaborated with MTV
US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson recently opened the doors of the Capitol to a host of primarily conservative influencers before President Donald Trump 's Congress speech. Around the same time, Democrats welcomed online creators to make promotional content. However, the move backfired when a TikTok video captioned 'choose your fighter', posted by Sulhee Jessica Woo, went viral for the wrong reasons. Advertisement The clip, which featured several Congresswomen, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , posing like video game characters while their accomplishments were listed on-screen, was dubbed 'cringey' by netizens. Johnson added, 'This next generation is so thirsty for authenticity, they just see all this performance stuff and it's detestable to them and they want something that's real,' per the Daily Mail. One of the invited influencers who had the chance to interact with the Speaker after Trump's address was 23-year-old Emily Austin. Describing the experience as 'great', Austin told the Daily Mail, 'It's been clear that this new administration is really keen on empowering independent journalists.' So who is Emily Austin, who was once a media consultant for the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations? She is strongly supportive of Israel and in 2023 was deemed crucial to curbing antisemitism by Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post and by the philanthropic Ruderman Family Foundation. What else do we know about her? What is Emily Austin's background? Emily Austin (second from left) was one of many conservative influencers invited to Washington recently. Photo: @ Austin hails from Brooklyn, New York, where she was born to Israeli parents, per The Sun. She was raised on Long Island and graduated from North Shore Hebrew Academy before studying journalism at Hofstra University, both nearby. Austin also attended Touro University, per her LinkedIn page, though it is unclear when. Her parents are secular Jews but she follows Jewish traditions, according to The Sun.
CBC
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Would life be easier as a rat? Emily Austin's latest character thinks yes
In Emily Austin's latest novel We Could Be Rats, her main character Sigrid is having a hard time. She hates her job at the Dollar Pal, never graduated high school and has a fraught relationship with her family, which leads her to wonder if life would be easier if she was a rat, void of societal expectations. Even though they grew up in the same household, her older sister Margit seems to thrive in what's expected of her — she always knows what to do and what to say — and finally made it out of their small town by going to college. We Could Be Rats follows these two sisters as they transition to adulthood, grapple with some dark realities and test the bonds of their relationship. Austin is a writer based in Ottawa who studied English literature and library science at Western University. She is also the author of the novels Interesting Facts About Space and Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers. She joined Mattea Roach to discuss the search for community and connection at the heart of We Could Be Rats. Mattea Roach: What is it, do you think, specifically about becoming a rat that appeals to Sigrid, one of the characters in this novel? Emily Austin: I think rats are such endearing creatures because anyone who has rats — I don't because they don't have a very long lifespan and I don't have the heart for that — but anyone who has them always says that they're a lot like dogs and can learn tricks. They have big personalities. They are thought of negatively and have a gross connotation to them. But they're just little creatures and they're living for themselves and they're scrappy. That feels very apt for Sigrid, the character who's talking about rats and ratness in this novel. MR: Sigrid has this belief that she espouses throughout the novel that life gets worse as you get older and that your most joyful days happen when you're a kid. Why does she feel this way? EA: I was trying to write about someone who, as a kid, didn't want to become a teenager. She was the type of kid who played with her toys longer than the other kids, who wasn't interested in talking about boys, for example. Then she had a similar sort of crisis when going from a teenager to adult. With her, I was trying to show that her authentic self is someone who, I think she says something in the book like, "I feel like a happy person caged." I wanted to write her as someone who has this position that is positive and who wants to be happy, but who is affected by the society and restrictions imposed on her. As someone who is a queer person living in a small conservative town who people find rude and annoying because she doesn't understand social graces very well. Because of the world she's living in, she's not able to be her true self. - Emily Austin I wanted to show how stifling that is for someone whose natural state, had she been born as a rat, she would have been a happy rat even as an adult rat, she would have been someone who was living for herself and happy. But because of the world she's living in, she's not able to be her true self. And even when she does, it doesn't feel happy. She doesn't get that rat girl energy. She feels depressed. MR: One thing we learn in this book about Sigrid is that she has this profound shame around her best friend Greta, who we learn is dealing with an opioid addiction. Why does she feel this sense of responsibility for her friend who's dealing with addiction? EA: One thing I was exploring in this book is the importance of connection and community. One difference between Sigrid and her sister Margit is that Sigrid is pretty isolated. She didn't graduate high school. She's in her small, conservative town. She has conflict with her family and her one close friend, Greta, has an opioid addiction and they're no longer friends. Margit, on the other hand, has moved away to college. She has friends. She has a school community. Her teachers notice when she starts to struggle in class, she has people around her who notice her — and Sigrid doesn't. That was part of what I was trying to convey in this story is to show what it's like to be someone who cannot connect with the people around them because they are, for example, queer in a community where they cannot connect with other people. One thing I was exploring in this book is the importance of connection and community. - Emily Austin With Greta, the reality of small towns is that there is an opioid epidemic. Sigrid and her friend both tried drugs together and Greta fell into this opioid addiction. If you're from a community like that or if you have any experience with someone who has an addiction problem, you know that people can behave the exact same way. People can make the same choices and one person will be an addict and then they have to suffer this social stigma. Their life disintegrates and while they struggle with this horrible illness, they're sort of seen as someone who is this rotten person. But the reality is that so many people around them did the exact same things. And they are not, they don't have the gene or something. They're not addicts. So I also wanted to explore that a little bit, for the sake of understanding what it's like to be someone like Greta in this book. MR: Do you feel that you've gained anything personally in reimagining some of your experiences, including some experiences that were perhaps painful or difficult, through a fictional lens? EA: Definitely. That's one perk to writing for me. I feel like I can make something positive out of things that I found negative. Writing is great for that. I think art in general is great for that. It's nice to be able to make a bad experience into something good. It's nice to be able to make a bad experience into something good. - Emily Austin I've really found, especially with the poetry and that first novel, that I have been connected to people who had similar experiences. I was just talking about how community and connection matter so much. It's nice to be able to turn that into something that you can connect with other people over.
Yahoo
09-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
MAHA influencer demands stricter safety standards for US cosmetics
As the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains momentum, U.S.-made products are getting closer attention. In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, TV personality and clean beauty brand owner Emily Austin expressed her excitement about the push for change. Austin, who is the CEO of People's Beauty in New York City, noted that her skincare brand is made with "clean ingredients," with no parabens, sulphates, phthalates, silicone, dyes or fragrances. Maha Moms Call For 'Rigorous Transparency' Into Health Concerns The People's Beauty website states that its products are formulated to "EU cosmetics standards (the highest standard in the world), banning over 1,300 toxins." "But how sad is it that we have to fit another country's health standards?" Austin questioned during the interview. Read On The Fox News App "I would love our website to say, 'We meet the U.S. health standard – because America has higher standards for their consumers." Austin said she considers it "pathetic" that the U.S. "brags" about meeting Europe's standards of safety. Lara Trump On Food, Health And America's Children: 'We Want The Truth' "It should be all across the globe," she added. "But especially a country like the U.S., where everyone has eyes on [us] – I think it's a shame." As the Mediterranean diet has been widely dubbed one of the healthiest ways to eat, Austin suggested that the U.S. should take a page out of Europe's book when it comes to food as well as cosmetics. Austin said she is optimistic that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — leader of the MAHA movement — will tackle preservatives and pesticide use in the U.S. food supply. "Why are we eating poison, and then questioning why so many Americans are sick?" she said. "Too many people are focused on the cure and not on preventative care." Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter For cosmetics, Austin challenged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the same toxins as the EU — especially offenders like parabens, also known as preservatives, which have been linked to endocrine issues. For women, this may manifest as reproductive complications or hormone disruptions that could lead to cancer, according to Austin. For more Health articles, visit "Just because [some companies are] legally allowed to have parabens to a certain extent, doesn't mean they should," she said. "Yes, it's better for the companies, of course — your products don't expire — but at whose expense?" she went on. "It's at the consumer's health expense." To consumers, Austin recommends sticking with ingredients that come from nature and steering clear of plastics in exfoliating products and chemical-based oils. "Nature provides you with every single alternative that you need for cosmetics," she said. "I really don't think there's a good excuse anymore to use chemicals. Maybe it's a lot cheaper, but nature always has the same solution."Original article source: MAHA influencer demands stricter safety standards for US cosmetics
Fox News
09-02-2025
- Health
- Fox News
MAHA influencer demands stricter safety standards for US cosmetics
As the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains momentum, U.S.-made products are getting closer attention. In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, TV personality and clean beauty brand owner Emily Austin expressed her excitement about the push for change. Austin, who is the CEO of People's Beauty in New York City, noted that her skincare brand is made with "clean ingredients," with no parabens, sulphates, phthalates, silicone, dyes or fragrances. The People's Beauty website states that its products are formulated to "EU cosmetics standards (the highest standard in the world), banning over 1,300 toxins." "But how sad is it that we have to fit another country's health standards?" Austin questioned during the interview. "I would love our website to say, 'We meet the U.S. health standard – because America has higher standards for their consumers." Austin said she considers it "pathetic" that the U.S. "brags" about meeting Europe's standards of safety. "It should be all across the globe," she added. "But especially a country like the U.S., where everyone has eyes on [us] – I think it's a shame." As the Mediterranean diet has been widely dubbed one of the healthiest ways to eat, Austin suggested that the U.S. should take a page out of Europe's book when it comes to food as well as cosmetics. Austin said she is optimistic that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — leader of the MAHA movement — will tackle preservatives and pesticide use in the U.S. food supply. "Why are we eating poison, and then questioning why so many Americans are sick?" she said. "Too many people are focused on the cure and not on preventative care." For cosmetics, Austin challenged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the same toxins as the EU — especially offenders like parabens, also known as preservatives, which have been linked to endocrine issues. For women, this may manifest as reproductive complications or hormone disruptions that could lead to cancer, according to Austin. For more Health articles, visit "Just because [some companies are] legally allowed to have parabens to a certain extent, doesn't mean they should," she said. "Yes, it's better for the companies, of course — your products don't expire — but at whose expense?" she went on. "It's at the consumer's health expense." To consumers, Austin recommends sticking with ingredients that come from nature and steering clear of plastics in exfoliating products and chemical-based oils. "Nature provides you with every single alternative that you need for cosmetics," she said. "I really don't think there's a good excuse anymore to use chemicals. Maybe it's a lot cheaper, but nature always has the same solution."
