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ANTHONY FAUCI IS A NATIONAL HERO UNDER ATTACK BY RAND PAUL He served seven presidents. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He received the National Medal of Science. He spent more than 50 years trying to keep Americans alive through AIDS, Ebola, and a once-in-a-century pandemic no one had ever faced. Now Paul, with help from RFK Jr. and the Trump orbit, is turning private scientific notes written in the fog of early 2020 into a political crime. Those notes show a scientist thinking carefully under extreme uncertainty. That is not a cover-up. That is the job. They need someone to blame for a novel virus that tore through the world. So they go after the doctor who actually showed up and tried. Fauci gave his career and his safety to public health. These MAGA idiots are trying to make the next crisis harder to fight.

NBC reports: In three separate, highly unusual meetings with officials from the State Department, they’ve discussed the logistics of Alberta breaking off from Canada, including switching over to U.S. currency & border security. Albertans think their going to run things? No way!

Numbered Treaties don’t mean natives have no say on Alberta, the opposite, actually. Treaty 6, 7, and 8 were signed with the Crown, not with Alberta. The province didn’t exist until 1905, so you can’t secede out of an obligation you weren’t even a party to. The written text says “cede, release, surrender.” But the oral promises made to chiefs were “as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow” — shared use, not a one-time handover. Courts increasingly weigh that oral record alongside the paper. Treaty and Aboriginal rights are constitutionally protected under Section 35. A province can’t override that unilaterally. Treaty 8 Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi called out Smith directly for treating Section 35 as a “legal uncertainty.” It isn’t — the Supreme Court has upheld it repeatedly. This isn’t theoretical. A Court of King’s Bench ruling already found Alberta’s chief electoral officer failed its duty to consult First Nations and ignored a prior decision holding that separation would violate treaty rights. That’s what got the Stay Free Alberta petition quashed. Seven chiefs put it plainly in January: “Under international and Canadian law, neither Alberta nor Albertans have the right to secede, unilaterally or otherwise. The Treaties were agreed to by First Nations and Crown before Alberta was created.” Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam: First Nations signed treaties to share the land, not for separation, or “for you to go wherever you want.” In July, the AFN passed a national emergency resolution: a province cannot unilaterally alter or extinguish Treaty rights or change the constitutional relationship between First Nations and the Crown. Mercredi has said he won’t rule out civil disobedience if Alberta ignores the court rulings and proceeds with the referendum question — blocking highways, halting industry. That’s the real cost separatists never mention. So no, the treaties don’t strip natives of a say. They’re one of the biggest legal walls standing in the way of secession.