Thursday, July 17, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

Mickey Friedman

A founding member of redcrownews.com, and former filmmaker, Mickey Friedman is the author of “A Red Family,” published by the University of Illinois Press. He is almost finished with a novel, “Danger Times Two.” Addicted to iced lattes, he can often be found pretending to write at Fuel GB. And while under the influence of caffeine, he has been known to travel as far as Price Chopper to the north and Big Y to the south.

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THE OTHER SIDE: When the protectors won’t protect

If I have sounded like a broken record these past months, it is because these developments in American public health are as important as they are horrifying.

THE OTHER SIDE: MAGA medicine

Gone is respect for the hard-earned body of knowledge developed over so many years by exhaustive trial and error, by continuous study, experimentation, and re-evaluation, honed by failure and followed by success.

THE OTHER SIDE: The Great Barrington Declaration lives

Sadly, for the American people, whether it is something distorting his soul or his mind, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with his many anti-vaccination compatriots, has brought chaos and destruction to us all.

THE OTHER SIDE: Equal opportunity stupidity (Part Three)

Well, if winning Most Stupid was easy, everyone would have a trophy.

THE OTHER SIDE: Equal opportunity stupidity (Part Two)

There is no rest for the wicked. Even now, the competition for most stupid grows more fierce by the day.

THE OTHER SIDE: Equal opportunity stupidity

I, for one, unabashedly admire Kristi Noem's unwavering commitment to be as stupid as her male counterparts.

THE OTHER SIDE: Donald Trump’s great grift

Patriotism, politics, morality—everything falls by the wayside in the pursuit of profit.

THE OTHER SIDE: Lest Donald Trump be judged

We are living in a time when Donald Trump believes he is above the law, certainly not bound by the opinions of judges who don’t agree with him.

THE OTHER SIDE: The lawyer who kills

The experts call it vaccine hesitancy, but it is really the unwarranted fear provoked by a systematic campaign of disinformation.

THE OTHER SIDE: Guilty until proven innocent

President Trump and his cohorts are determined to do away with the bedrock principles that underlie our democracy: due process and the presumption of innocence.

THE OTHER SIDE: President Trump has tanked the economy

Trump's ego and shortsightedness invariably cause him to underestimate those he harms.

THE OTHER SIDE: The war against smarts

At last, a major institution in America is standing up to the bullying and extortion that seems to characterize every action of the Trump administration.

THE OTHER SIDE: Elbows up

We are all of us caught up in a spiraling, out-of-control war not of our own making. Why are we so recklessly making enemies of friends?

THE OTHER SIDE: Greenland says, ‘No thanks’

As for America, our losses are both foreign and domestic. And the costs are incalculable.

THE OTHER SIDE: Elon Musk’s Treasury

While Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the MAGA faithful will repeat again and again that their main goal is reducing waste and promoting efficiency, there are far more insidious motives at work.

THE OTHER SIDE: The gender war

As with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that childhood vaccines are more dangerous than the fatal childhood diseases they are designed to combat, that the Measles vaccine can cause autism, Trump’s gender war is yet another occasion where unsupported dogma contradicts medical and psychological experience.
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