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Tidbits- Aug.28 -Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism – Learning From Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss;

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Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics

Ryan Cooper The American Prospect
mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it. In reality, mRNA is by far the best vaccine option should a new viral outbreak strike because climate change is expanding mosquito habitat, or bird flu...

Tidbits- Aug.21 -Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump’s DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani – the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom This Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views From the Israeli and Palestinian Left; Cartoons; More…

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Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...

When Sleeping Is a Crime

Colleen Shaddox The American Prospect
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.

Tidbits- Aug.14 -Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues To Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race – Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource – Social Security FAQ; and More

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Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues to Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race - Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource - Social Security FAQ; Cartoons and lots more;

Tidbits- July 31-Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready To Make Deal With Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims; Keep ICE out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

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Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready to Make Deal with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again; Keep ICE Out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

American Jews Were Played — Now What?

Rabbi Jay Michaelson Jewish Daily Forward
It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.

Zohran Mamdani vs. Donald Trump

Aziz Huq Jacobin
It’s clear that Donald Trump will aim to make governance as difficult as possible for Zohran Mamdani’s potential New York City mayoralty. But Mamdani has a range of options available to counter the president’s attacks.
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