Weekly Review - August 256, 2026

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Articles In This Issue

The ‘Chaotic and Violent End’ of Our Wisconsin State Fair

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - August 20, 2026

What does it say about Milwaukee and our public schools?

Scores of teenagers fighting and terrorizing fair goers shut down the Wisconsin State Fair, home of cream puffs and 4-H projects, Sunday 08-16-26. Bystander videos are lighting up social media with images of screaming young people confronted by police on horseback and foot patrols using tasers. One officer was struck, seven teenagers arrested. It’s an issue in the governor’s race.

Republican governor candidate Tom Tiffany blames his Democrat(ic) opponent David Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, for the shutdown. State Fair Park is in his bailiwick. Crowley blames the Republican legislature — which is incongruous, since legislatures set budget and policy; policing is an executive function.

Anthony Fauci Was Lying Through His Teeth

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson - August 19, 2026

Last week, Senator Rand Paul and I released one of the text chain messages obtained from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone. On August 5, I confirmed that the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s phonefrom the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

We downloaded the contents and discovered the phone contains more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails, but suspiciously, only 3 contacts. This makes matching phone numbers to people difficult, but not impossible.

This first piece of information discovered on Fauci’s phone I had to release right away because it impacts public safety and informed consent.

Dr. Fauci was concerned in January 2021 that the second dose of the COVID shot “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” The texts between Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and Vivek Murthy are outlined here.

While I’ve been conducting oversight for years, now that we have the documents and Fauci’s government-issued phone, my investigation has only just begun. The phone spans from 2014 to a few days before Fauci left the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We will continue to scour every piece of evidence to deliver the truth to the American people.

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A.F. Branco, Creators Syndicate - August 24, 2026