Skip to main content

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;

Portside
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...

Abandoning mRNA Is a Dangerous Decision

Rick Bright The New York Times
If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology.

Friday Nite Videos | July 25, 2025

Portside
Why Children Get so Many Vaccines. Trump Promises To Reduce Drug Prices 1,000%. Woman Defends Immigrants at Torrance Car Wash. Freedom Flotilla Sails To Break Israel’s “Engineered Famine.” Everyday People | Playing for Change.

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

Rivka Galchen The New Yorker
It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying rat population on the ships exporting American culture.
Subscribe to vaccines