As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

“There is no state or federal law that prohibits instruction on gender identity in college classes.“ This sentence is essential. They aren’t even bothering to pass laws now. The SB17 law in Texas specifically exempts instruction! They are just making things up and calling it law.

Cool astronomy news.

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

This is precisely the claim that evidently animates the rigthwing majority on the Court: That any "burden" placed upon the regime by insisting the constitution is still in effect, the separation of powers is still a thing, and the law is still the law, causes the government irreparable harm.

"A cottage of one's own": www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

Birthright citizenship's scope is not unclear in constitutional law. The words of the Constitution do mean what they mean and doctrinally, the issue has been reinforced by many legal precedents over and over at SCOTUS. Here's a brief by two historians tracing the history. 1/

The forests that once sheltered the small town of Roseland are turning brown. Now, many residents are left wondering: Is what was left behind after the Aug. 22 blast safe? If it’s making the trees ill, what about them?

This is a beautiful piece of writing - because it’s so clear and fundamentally about being human, together. South African friends who grew up under apartheid have said the same. Call it out, name it, shame it- the hateful rhetoric and the actions that follow. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

The best way that we can protect the First Amendment rights under attack by this administration is to exercise the First Amendment rights under attack by this administration. That is why we must make the upcoming No Kings Day the single largest day of peaceful protest in modern American history.

We are now raising an entire generation of kids who will become accustomed to hearing the following sentence from their pediatricians: "The President has absolutely no idea what he's talking about."

It’s me, I’m (one of the) experts.

Not only is this bonkers in general, but there are no single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines manufactured in the US. (Or anywhere else I suspect?) Tylenol is safe in pregnancy, MMR is safe, hepB vaccine is safe at birth, no other vaccines need to be spaced out, autism is primarily genetic.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

I have a downright unwieldy number of thoughts but mostly I just think everyone in any corner of publishing should probably read this

New #WriterBeware blog post: An update on the historic Bartz v. Anthropic settlement. It's been preliminarily approved by the court, but many questions remain about the claims process, the timeline, and exactly which works are included writerbeware.blog/2025/09/26/b...

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

President Donald Trump said “there's no downside” to avoiding Tylenol use while pregnant. Tylenol is one of the only safe and studied options for treating pain and fever during pregnancy. Untreated fevers can harm a baby and mother.

An issue for Labour (having grown up somewhere where the Labour vote, never that strong a second place, was vaporised by the SDP), is the narrowness of their geographical base. FPTP magnifies this, of course, but wave/collapse/squabble [repeat] really helps no one.

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Sept 26): kidlit411.com/2025/09/the-... Inside: PB Tips, Humor in Kid Lit, Comp Title Workshop, more. Thanks Bodhi Kim for the illustration, @victorpineiro.bsky.social & @meganclendenan.bsky.social for the MG & PB giveaways.

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

The settlement has been approved!

Run *through* the tape, Zohran!

since a lot of ppl are discussing the ICE camp shooter's apparent lack of ideology, i would like to posit that online irony blackpill is absolutely an ideology with coherent tenets - the reason it appears incoherent is because this an ideology primarily defined by faithlessness, negative space

Incredible to see UNSPEAKABLE by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper on Slate's list of the 25 Greatest Children's Books of the Century! 🎉📚🎉

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

3 weeks to go to my trends workshop! I'm enjoying reading, talking, researching what's going on with PB bios, MG novels, YA and romantasy--the trends you're talking about--and thinking about how best to learn about and deal with them going forward... www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/pub...

1. There are autisms, rather than just autism. 2. The diversity in symptoms & the range of biological contributors are too large. 3. The neurobiology is also too complex. 4. “If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.” 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

#birds #jays #corvids #climatechange #nature 🧪 🪶

Setting aside the question of legality, this would be an action of enormous self-harm inflicted on the nation, needlessly ridding the country of talent and expertise. It’s also extortive. “Give us what we want in a funding fight, or we’ll hurt the country.”

Two big firsts today. No other American president has ever named a political opponent to be prosecuted—much less had an AG follow through with an indictment. No FBI Director has ever released evidence from a live crime scene. The Epstein files must be SO BAD.

I was definitely a kid who loved to browse. I would read the whole NF book eventually, just not necessarily in the order that the pages appeared! #TLSkyChat

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

@adamchapman.bsky.social That Nanpantan story is so interesting! Do you think there were similar places all over the country?

This is a great post and a wonderful project, which features a little pub history - I'm fascinated by pubs responding to tourist opportunities in this period - and even a temperance hall. Loughborough was a decent temperance town, and you'd need somewhere to go on holiday!

Thank you, Debbie! The serial comma rules, rocks, and clarifies!

Shhh let them cook

3 weeks to go to my trends workshop! I'm enjoying reading, talking, researching what's going on with PB bios, MG novels, YA and romantasy--the trends you're talking about--and thinking about how best to learn about and deal with them going forward... www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/pub...

Really important piece by Roxane Gay: “Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries.” 🎁 link: @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Well worth a read: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Well worth a read: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings."

See PW’s picks of six notable children’s books from indie presses out this fall

PW looked at some of the many federal and state legal cases shaping American’s right to read

People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all. A few points 🧵