The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

I know we've worked hard to move history ed away from names and dates but I think we might need to swing back to chronology a bit because "who was president on january 8 2021?" and "which came first, the clinical description of autism or tylenol?" shouldn't be this hard, especially for reporters.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Shame on #harvard Durba Mitra’s brilliance is just too much to handle for a place of so much darkness. Triggered and pissed all over again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

im sorry but I'd rather live in a country where everyone is inordinately obsessed with model trains and ornithology than whatever the hell is going on right now

RFK Jr.'s little dig at "Believe All Women" when talking about autism, vaccines and Tylenol (all while blaming moms who take Tylenol for autism) reminded me of @lebassett.bsky.social's piece last year saying Trump's re-election was revenge for #MeToo. www.thecut.com/article/trum...

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

The alt text on the pictures is spot on. 💯

For anyone who needs to hear this, by virtue of being a “human being” with “empathy” and a concern for “the dignity of others,” well, I regret to inform you that you are and always have been a part of antifa.

Just a periodic reminder that being autistic isn't a death sentence and the fact that it's being treated like the worst possible thing a person can have is ludicrous.

so funny they made a whole press conference about acetaminophen and no one told him how to say it

We're working on it.

Believe all women

Co-opting sexual assault in order to promote pseudoscientific theories is sending me into a white hot rage.

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Get. Off. Twitter.

How is long Covid going today? Well, just added vanilla to the list of food allergies, which is now over 60 foods I used to eat daily. Don’t get long covid.

Harrison Butker too far to the right again huh

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

We have learned nothing

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

baseball is stupid

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

i would rather read your imperfectly written, typo riddled idiosyncratic ideas that show you have read my papers and are familiar with my lab’s work than a grammatically perfect and generic genAI written application/email … every damn time

The reason my Kermit icon still wears a mask is because *I* still wear a mask.

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Free speech is genuinely precious, the “free speech” debate (“it should be illegal for libs to be mean to me”) was just about destigmatizing bigotry and confusing the issue so as to provide a pretext for actual state censorship

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

If you’re too afraid to do your job, you should quit your job. If you’re too afraid to report on what’s going on because you’re afraid of MAGA death threats, you should stop being a reporter. if you’re too afraid to vote against honoring a white nationalist due to death threats, you should resign.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

Why does "expand the tent" always mean the left has to endorse right-wing Democrats and never that the center has to endorse socialists like Zohran Mamdani?

love to open the Bad News and Bad Feelings App 30 times a day by reflex

if I had a time machine I would use it to explain this skeet and all relevant context to Benjamin Franklin

Maybe the “debating other people‘s basic human rights is intellectually stimulating and ethically sound” folks can go for their own tent with the fascists.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

And don’t let you talk about how their HISTORY of not taking pivotal moments seriously is how we got to THIS pivotal moment… then it’s just “whataboutism” and “being divisive” THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES-

something something political violence

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."