Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

"We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations..." The focus of the conversations:

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it” @nhannahjones.bsky.social

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Authoritarians abuse government powers to punish people and institutions who resist them.

"However, it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity. The ChatGPT Plus summaries required rigorous fact-checking by SciPak writers. Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed. For example, ChatGPT Plus had a fondness for using the word 'groundbreaking.'”

"I’m sorry to lecture. But I am worried. We all are...For all its real and urgent problems, US journalism is still the City on a Hill. The fading of its light will be disastrous not just for Americans, but for all of us."

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

"I'm very concerned we are going to see vaccines removed off the (vaccine) schedule..." Expect more cases of measles and possbly even polio, predicts @drdebhoury.bsky.social in an extraordinarily candid interview with @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

Here, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on the ominous stakes of the Kimmel move in the @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2006... via @newrepublic.com

Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Unilever, parent company of Ben & Jerry's, has apparently been pressuring B&J to stay quiet rather than speak up on contemporary issues. Unilever does not want to upset the powers that be. Jerry refuses to be silenced. He resigned so he can speak up. Letter ⤵️ freebenandjerrys.com/wp-content/u...

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

They are literally canceling culture

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Congrats to @joelleforestier.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 So proud, and happy to see your great work being recognized.

This is authoritarianism. Judges must dismiss any charges with prejudice. Political leaders must condemn it and use their legal powers to stop it. Citizens must vigorously protest it.

What can policy-oriented social scientists do in this moment? POTUS has remade the GOP coalition anew in his image. Lines of conflict & opposition coalitions are scrambled. He's taking apart long-standing institutions & conventions, making the future is more fluid than ever in my lifetime....

"Bleak employment prospects have helped tank young Americans’ views on the economy, to levels hardly seen since a prominent monthly survey began in the 1970s."

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Students get to pick the topic for some weeks of class. This year, in higher ed policy, they selected "DEI Censorship" for one of the topics and you betcha I'm having them read No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Should be mandatory reading. www.labyrinthbooks.com/no-ivory-tow...

"And so I write this now, in gratitude, for an award celebrating excellence in diversity science in this climate where that very science, and the people who produce it and benefit from it, are under attack."

Not being white in a place called Hyundai. Totally cool. See, Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

NEW: The family of Delta State University student Trey Reed is calling for an independent autopsy after his body was found hanging in a tree on campus. U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson is calling for a federal investigation, citing "Mississippi’s painful history of lynching and racial violence."

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This is exactly what's happening. Of course they think a LLM can do the job, when so many *already* think a statistician can be replaced with a flow chart - and they are right, if the only goal is publication. Infuriating, and harmful to patients.

"The president is demanding $15 billion...which exceeds the entire market cap of [NYT]. [This] is the latest example of what [1A] experts have described as a presidential strategy to silence critical news coverage and curb free speech by filing legally dubious lawsuits." www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.

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These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

This should be the opening quote to The Big Short 2

BREAKING: DC Cir. court of appeals rejects Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook from Board of Governors of Federal Reserve, allows her to participate in tomorrow’s meeting