# USA

# USA

vlgr Aug 11, 2026

MAHA Wins One: Common Sense Returns to Childhood Vaccines

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order restructuring federal childhood vaccine recommendations around three fairly revolutionary concepts: actual risk, individual circumstances and parental choice. In other words, America is moving away from “CDC says every child gets this” toward “here are the core vaccines, here are vaccines appropriate for particular risks, here are decisions for parents and physicians, and now go produce better evidence.”

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vlgr Aug 11, 2026

US Cowboys, Middle Eastern Airspace and Reliable Partners

Y’all remember that awkward Ankara summit where everybody was promised everything, nobody got much of anything, Turkey was once again declared a reliable partner without getting its F-35s, and Trump supposedly flew home on the older Air Force One because the new Qatari jet wasn’t quite sophisticated enough yet? Turns out there weren’t two planes involved. There were three.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Enters Through the Retirement Home

Moderna has finally done for seasonal influenza what it previously did for COVID-19: placed a strand of laboratory-produced messenger RNA inside lipid nanoparticles and persuaded the FDA that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to make an annual appointment.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Pfizer’s New Invention: The Schrödinger’s Control Group and Other Tales

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine was a triumph of modern science. A genuinely extraordinary piece of biotechnology. Within months of SARS-CoV-2 appearing, researchers had designed a nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine capable of instructing human cells to produce the viral spike protein, wrapped that message inside lipid nanoparticles, tested it in tens of thousands of people and prepared the technology for production on a scale previously reserved for Coca-Cola.

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vlgr Aug 6, 2026

Scientists Want 4 Billion People by 2200. They Never Said Which Ones.

A new paper in Sustainable Development has the polite solution to the planet’s problems: gently reduce the human population from over eight billion to around four billion by the year 2200. The good news is the White man has already volunteered.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Trump Cancels Iran War Again. War Expected to Resume After Brief Commercial Break

President Trump has once again cancelled a planned attack on Iran, citing progress toward negotiations and the outlines of a possible agreement.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Iran Murders Trump’s Family in Photoshop. Designers Now Seeking Work in America.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have once again murdered Melania, Barron and Ivanka Trump - this time in high-resolution Photoshop on a Tehran highway billboard.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

When the Senator Calls You Anthony Fauci, You Know You’re in Trouble

Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth before the Senate. A few hours later, Senator Ron Johnson offered him another opportunity to answer questions voluntarily. More ominously, he had stopped calling him Doctor.