If you're an autistic person who has used Tylenol while pregnant and have thoughts on Trump admin linking autism + Tylenol, please be in touch at [email protected]. I may want to talk to you for a potential @motherjones.com article. Reposts appreciated.

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

Like Scaramucci has become a unit of time (11 days), can Homan become an internet unit of money ($50,000)?

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

The most prominent journalism school in the United States just posted the First Amendment. What a time to be alive

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that. Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse

Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontièreswater truck while it was distributing 10000L of drinking water in Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to the Israeli authorities, as MSF does on a daily basis. msf.org.au/article/proj...

Exactly this

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is very serious jawboning.

He is our 13th colleague killed since the war started in #Gaza. Doctors Without Borders strongly condemns his killing and call yet again for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire and protection of civilians:

Charlie Kirk trafficked in conspiracy theories. In death, he became the main character in the ultimate one, spun by the White House. It’s a tactic I imagine Kirk would have approved of. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

The headline of this article is becoming a theme of the higher ed movement and the anti-authoritarian movement in general: rank-and-file folks are forging ahead of our nominal "leaders."

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Trump's lawsuit against the NYT is meant to intimidate news organizations from doing the work we need them to do--and more broadly to silence anyone who might be tempted to criticize or embarrass the president. It's a garbage lawsuit, just thuggery. knightcolumbia.org/content/trum...

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

"both sides"

It shows how far into authoritarianism we’ve descended that journalists can be fired for simply acknowledging what a right-wing activist said and not participating in collective hagiography. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

“protocols alone won’t save us… We need governance scaffolding, shared institutions that make decentralization viable at scale”

This is similar to the myth that health conspiracism is driven by dissatisfaction with the American healthcare system. Countries with the best healthcare systems in the world also have very large anti-vaxx movements! In both cases the problem is more closely related to information environments.

As in most decisions, editors’ decisions on what is “newsworthy” are flush with implicit biases. It’s just usually not so obvious.

Every word of this Korean editorial is true, and it could be easily be published in any American newspaper in the news sections.

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.) Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company. This is the point. abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

“But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.” @cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in his piece here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

That's about 10% of the population. Quite literally, "decimated."

THREAD, from one of the best respected public health scientists out there 👇

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

"… AI harms emerge not only from technical failures but also from design and deployment choices that do not fully account for how algorithms interact with users in specific institutional settings," writes Alondra Nelson in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3IlsCD3

We’ve been down this road so many times, and yet it just feels like the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings on replay, over and over again, except now the official sources (FBI) are directly plugged into social media (X) as input.

Do people know the most likely outcome is that, sometime soon, Trump will announce that TikTok is being bought by Larry Ellison (and/or his money)? And that the Ellisons will need Trump's royal approval for either one or two mergers? www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Political violence is not just non-famous people killing famous people. It also includes the misuse of power against others in a lawless and unaccountable way, under the guise of law.

A really important story with lots of illuminating detail about why Paramount was so ready to settle with Trump, and about Paramount's ongoing efforts to soften CBS's coverage of Trump and Israel. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

This is horrible. Beyond the obvious reasons, it also taps into deep fears and resentments in the region about un-atoned colonial wrongs and assumed religious motivations for US political positions. It will further erode the shreds of US credibility to be a trusted partner in the region.

New evidence that casting aspersions on the source has significant and long-lasting effects on trust.

🧵8/ This video about an analysis of 38 super-influencers make clear how these ideas were intentionally and strategically spread. Undermining trust in traditional health care is super profitable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Read about Liam, his Apple Watch & what his doctor said about his AFib. Bringing AI to medicine requires philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethicists In STAT www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/a... via @statnews.com

Kennedy commission child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death

Nothing says ‘making America great again’ like bleeding out in a Walmart parking lot because the county hospital shut down.

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

🧵This is worrisome. Currently, Murdoch's children are split 3 to 1 regarding the direction of Fox. 3 want to return it to a news source providing accurate news. 1 wants it to chase profit at any cost, even if that means advancing false claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/... 1/3