MAGA cult members, remember when Trump personally awarded Dr. Anthony Fauci a Presidential Commendation for his work on Operation Warp Speed and the COVID vaccine?
Trump apparently didn’t.
When Megyn Kelly asked him about it, he claimed he had no idea who gave Fauci the award. Kaitlan Collins pulled the receipt: Trump himself issued it on January 19, 2021—his final full day in office.
Thanks, Kaitlan Collins. The internet never forgets, even when Trump does.
A 107-year-old Chinese mother pulled a sweet from her pocket and gave it to her 84-year-old daughter.
No matter how old you get, you’ll always be your mom’s baby. 🥹❤️
This is what a broken healthcare system looks like:
More uninsured patients are showing up in emergency rooms.
More people are unable to pay their hospital bills.
More Americans are delaying surgeries they cannot afford.
Healthcare is a human right. We need Medicare for All.
@davidericstan@NTDPlus_ Rubbish list - voter id NOT required in Australia ……yes you have to be registered to be on the voting list but on polling day you just say your name and they cross you off the list, no need to provide id.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is 85 years old - 5 years older than Donald Trump - and still does a 5 mile power walk every morning.
When it comes to health advice, I’ll trust the doctor.
Anthony Fauci's newly released diary is turning into a pretty rough own goal for the republicans who leaked it, because instead of exposing him as some deep state villain, it mostly shows a scientist working the phones, trusting the evidence, and quietly rolling his eyes at donald trump's chaos while trying to keep the country safe.
Senator Rand Paul released more than a thousand pages of Fauci's private notes from 2019 to 2022, and Fauci testifies before Paul's committee this week. Paul has framed the release around the idea that what Fauci wrote privately and what he told the country were two different stories.
Paul's biggest headline claim does not hold up well under scrutiny. He points to a diary entry where Fauci allegedly acknowledged early on that the virus did not originate at the Wuhan wet market, while publicly backing a paper that pointed to natural spillover from that market, and Paul is using the gap to argue Fauci covered for a lab leak.
But the entry Paul is citing actually shows Fauci complaining that conspiracy style letters from members of Congress were an amazing and unbelievable waste of time, which reads like frustration, not confession. A Dartmouth virologist told NPR that scientists being less certain in private than in public is normal, and that solid evidence exists for two separate viral lineages emerging, which actually supports natural spillover.
Paul has also repeatedly alleged, without evidence, that NIAID funded gain of function research in Wuhan caused the pandemic, a claim Fauci denies both publicly and in the supposedly damning private diary itself. If Fauci were really hiding something, you would expect the private version to admit it. Instead it says the same thing as the public one.
What actually comes through in the diary is a guy trying to steer a president who kept wandering off topic. Fauci repeatedly described trump's public comments as rambling, noting at one point that trump would drift into talking about TV ratings while Fauci tried to keep him on track. That is what a competent official sounds like when the man in charge cares more about ratings than case counts.
The timing of this outrage cycle is not an accident either. While cable news spends the week over a diary that mostly makes Fauci look diligent, RFK jr is overseeing the worst measles comeback in a generation. The CDC reported 2,318 measles cases in 2026 alone, more than all of 2025 and far beyond the 283 cases in 2024, with the number still climbing.
Not to mention the ever-increasing outbreak of diarrhea lettuce.
So, dig through Fauci's diary if you want. What you will mostly find is a professional doing his job under an erratic boss, and a senator whose greatest hits don't survive contact with their own footnotes. ~~VIA Exposing Political Corruption In The United States
@mjfree Trump's answer to COVID was to drink bleach and shove a UV light up your ass.
But when Trump got COVID, he rushed to the hospital by helicopter and had all the vaccines recommended by Fauci
We are in the middle of a measles outbreak. A cyclospora outbreak. RFK is dismantling our public health system & scientific research. Millions have lost their health care. And Senate Republicans spent today attacking Dr. Fauci.
I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.
@RealTruth9213@HalfwayPost So true - I remember that from my primary school bully - she was shocked when I punched her back and from then on left me alone 👀