So you’re saying the last ten years of sanewashing weren’t an essential exercise of journalistic standards?

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It’s “personal” in the sense that he sees it as a vehicle to self aggrandizement not “personal” in the sense that he gives a shit about anyone who’s affected by autism

Let’s not get too excited, but maybe threatening to sue a media company that doesn’t have billions of dollars in pending deals as bullying points was a bridge too far even for the Times

Something I’ve been thinking about: History as a profession has long relied on affiliation. Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/

So Metro is less crowded than a usual Tuesday but it looks like Rosh Hashana uncrowded not Rapture uncrowded

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

Huh. Everything about that family seemed normal

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes "People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

This is the US government using children as hostages to detain immigrants.

This Karen is a Leader we can get behind. Sorry, I’ll see myself out after pointing out that the only actual way her posts impeded university operations was because of threats by the far right against her for accurately reposting Kirk’s words

If the government doesn’t support these scrappy upstart industries how will we pollute groundwater and boil the oceans while generating electricity at higher cost than renewable sources?

does trump even believe this nonsense? I don't think he's exactly capable of "belief" in this sense. He thinks it's fun to sound authoritative and present himself as more knowledgeable than the medical establishment.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

this is the funniest possible way to describe GWAR

Fun fact: GWAR spoke out against the defunding of orgs like PBS. Lead singer Mike Bishop, who holds a PhD in music, stopped in the middle of a show to point out that defunding public institutions is horrible and said it'd lead to worse. Dude was not wrong.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

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...

Meta HIRED the “chemicals are turning the frogs gay” guy to police AI bias against, presumably, complete morons: “He [Starbuck] falsely asserted that exposure to the pesticide atrazine turned amphibians "gay,” prompting male frogs to mate — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked.”

Nobody has anything to steal except maybe prescription pharma

Just witnessed the rapture, if by rapture you mean “the cat barfed a loud hairball at 4:15 and the smell woke the dog up” it’s truly glorious

Jesus H. Christ

The warning came from three former CDC officials who recently quit in disgust.

"At the helm of federal power and without the need for Senate confirmation...." Suddenly a little suspicious that Trump didn't nominate Homan for a position that required Senate confirmation, no? As if the administration was aware of the bribery investigation. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

GWAR crossed a major line of being cool

"We DO NOT CARE"

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!

This is why, if your goal is to stoke moral panic about right wingers feeling they can’t express bigotry without social scorn, FIRE is very useful. But if your goal is to actually track freedom of speech on campuses, they are useless … or worse, an agent of speech repression.

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

Wow let’s hear more from the biggest loser in contemporary democratic politics. Let’s follow Neera Tanden into this hole, there’s gotta be treasure at the bottom this time

Would this be the impression you got if you were a dedicated consumer of our finer news outlets

When you’re not producing thinkers, but credentialing Tory dipshits

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

So the guy who heads the CDC panel that just voted to restrict COVID vaccines… -he called the shots the “most failing medical product in the history of medical products” -he’s not a medical doctor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

Obligatory

We’re going back to the Fairness (to me) Doctrine

No substance, just posture.

Here’s a college republican activist openly saying that his goal is for colleges to fire professors for *criticizing* his hero, who the entire media is trying to frame as a champion of free speech and open debate. We’ve seen what happens when a society makes petty snitching a rewarded virtue

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare