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Senator Rand Paul (R.-KY) had Anthony Fauci figured out from the get-go. Now he’s using every power he has to expose the megalomaniac and even put him behind bars. First, the Senator released Fauci’s memoirs/notes from the time of the pandemic, when Fauci ruled the nation with an autocratic thumb. Then he brought him before a Senate committee for questioning, and the good doctor replied with endless Fifth Amendment silences. Now Rand has gotten Fauci referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for contempt of Congress. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions at a July 29 hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic, invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. In his opening statement before refusing to answer questions during the hearing, Fauci said: “The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he [Rand] is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars’. Any reasonable person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would readily come to

The verdict landed like a thunderclap in March 2026. A California jury found Meta and YouTube liable for intentionally addicting and harming a young user—not through negligence, not through oversight, but by design. The evidence was damning: algorithms engineered to exploit adolescent neurochemistry, notification systems calibrated to trigger dopamine loops, and content recommendation engines that learn faster than any parent can monitor. This wasn’t a product that children misused; it was a product built to use them. For nearly two decades, American kids have been the unwitting subjects of a mass-scale behavioral experiment, and the results are now impossible to ignore. Nearly 97% of teenagers use the internet daily, with 40% reporting they are online “almost constantly.” But this is not a story about screen time—it is a story about predation, profit, and the systematic dismantling of a generation’s mental health, all in the name of quarterly earnings. This is the indictment of an industry that knew exactly what it was doing. The Numbers Don’t Lie 97% of U.S. teens use the internet daily 40% say they’re online “almost constantly” 45% admit they spend too much time on social media 48% say social media has a mostly negative effect on people their age A Mental Health Crisis in the Making The core of the

In the spring of 1861, as Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency of a fracturing nation, the Charleston Mercury declared him a “reckless, unscrupulous, and unprincipled demagogue.” By 1863, opposition newspapers routinely depicted him wearing a crown, trampling the Constitution beneath military boots, his lanky frame caricatured as simian and grotesque. The Crisis, a prominent Copperhead newspaper in Ohio, called him “King Abraham I” and accused him of establishing “a dictatorship as absolute as that of any despot on earth.” Fast-forward 150 years. In December 2016, as Donald Trump prepared to take office, The Washington Post adopted the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” By 2020, major publications routinely featured op-eds with titles like “Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook” and “The Fascist Threat.” A giant inflatable “Baby Trump” balloon—depicting the president as an orange-skinned infant in diapers—became a fixture at protests worldwide. Historians and political scientists publicly debated whether American democracy could survive his presidency. The parallels are striking, even unsettling. Separated by more than a century and a half, two American presidents faced opposition movements that deployed remarkably similar rhetorical strategies: accusations of tyranny and dictatorship, visual caricatures designed to dehumanize and mock, apocalyptic warnings about constitutional collapse, and systematic efforts to delegitimize