For four years, Anthony Fauci told America he was just following the science. No politics. No ego. Just a humble public servant protecting the country from a deadly virus. Now his own diary is out, more than 1,000 pages of it, and it reads less like the private notebook of a careful scientist and more like the datebook of a man falling in love with his own fame while the country buried its dead.
Former FBI Director James Comey has requested a court toss the case accusing him of threatening President Trump's life with seashells arranged in such a manner as to read "86 47."
Somewhere along the way, "Hollywood made something" turned into shorthand for "Hollywood ruined something." Most of the time, we're not wrong. But Christopher Nolan just spent three years and a mountain of his own credibility building the most audacious theatrical experience in a generation, and half the conservative movement is too busy screaming about casting to even notice.
Argentina is racist. ICE is racist. Mickey Mouse is racist. All three claims were made by people in positions of public trust within the span of a single week this July. Somewhere between the World Cup final and a House Oversight hearing on the Smithsonian, the word "racist" stopped describing something specific and started describing everything.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released a more than 1000-page report revealing that the authors and scientists behind the infamous "Proximal Origin" paper doubted their own conclusions.
