Autism was discovered in 1911, and Tylenol was invented in 1950.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Blaming pregnant mothers for their kid's autism is so vile and damaging, especially if you know just how bad and guilty they already feel about a million other things. I know that there are moms out there who are believing this shit and it makes me so angry.

President Trump and Republicans put our communities at risk by gutting food assistance programs in their Big Ugly Law. Now they’re dodging accountability by eliminating a report that tracks hunger in America.

It’s not just that the president doesn’t have the legal authority to ban mail-in voting or require voter ID. It’s that he doesn’t have the power to do either. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-...

No big deal, just one of the most famous right-wing influencers on a stage shared with POTUS, at the GOP mega-event of the year, going full mask-off Protocols of the Elders.

I ran a code on a 2 month old last night. I hereby request that anyone on RFK’s vaccine panel should be required to have experienced the visceral reality of resuscitating a lifeless infant before they take away access to lifesaving vaccines. #medsky #provaccines #mmr #vaccinate #hhs

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

"Go to your local Home Depot, where immigrant day laborers are at extreme risk of harassment and arrest. Choose a location convenient to you, where day laborers gather and commit to showing up regularly. Be present. Be consistent. Build relationships and offer protection." ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-...

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

Holy shit

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Nearly 20 years ago, TPM cut its chops on the scandal over the firings of U.S. attorneys for failing to be aggressive enough in pursuing bogus voter fraud cases. It led to the eventual resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. It all seems almost quaint now by the standards of Donald Trump.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

It’s 10000% appropriate for Fergie to be canceled and for Ghislaine Maxwell to rot in prison. I just want the police and the public to bring this same energy toward the *men* who were besties with and enabled and abused women and girls with Jeffrey Epstein. Is that too much to ask?

Some news~ as the kids say~ I got the RTO ultimatum and I'm leaving Pitchfork. Read more on Instagram. There are two full-time women remaining at the publication! That FEELS BAD! www.instagram.com/p/DO6L-fIDYve/

The Great Resegregation in housing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Damn! Only a 4.8 but basically at the Claremont Hotel Felt big! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

JUST IN: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted the San Francisco area awake shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

so that was a M 4.6 with an epicenter in Berkeley, USGS event page: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Earthquake!

A memorial-service reminder that there are no feelings about Kirk you are required to "respect." He was an unregenerate bigot and misogynist who seized on a shrewd grift and used it to make our world worse. I fear that we can't yet measure his legacy, but that's all he deserves to be remembered for.

I re-read Letter from a Birmingham Jail the other day and I was struck by just how stunningly brilliant it was not just in writing but strategic thinking. Like, not news, it's a modern classic for a reason. It's just a remarkably clear vision of a strategy to achieve change.

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

Not dismissing that some people feel fewer side effects on Novavax, but if it is possible, I'd try to get the mRNA vaccine ASAP before the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on September 18-19. Truly, who knows what people appointed by RFK Jr will try to do.

STEVIE WOULD NEVER www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states

You mean pro-sepsis candidates? Pro-women bleeding out in parking lots candidates? Pro-forcing girls to carry the product of rape and incest candidates? Pro-goverment all up in your cooter candidates? Just the most unserious conciliatory pendejo shit these two are peddling.

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

Contrast with: 10 years for buying baking supplies atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Also blue states governors that are constructing alternative public health regimes that expressly counter program Trump/RFK destruction of CDC, with much buy in from medical and scientific establishments

To recap, conservatives built an entire category of legal theory dedicated to the grammar-derived reading of precise text, only to take power and abandon written law altogether.

companies like disney and target spent years carefully calibrating their target customer base to “affluent liberals” and then Trump won the election with 49% of the vote and the executives all cooked their brains online and they decided to throw all of that away bad business decision!

Even in Red states, when abortion measures are put on the ballot, they usually win. Abandoning the entire uterus having population (which is MORE than half, by the way), should be a non-fucking-starter.

🚨🚨🚨 South Korea is taking legal action against the United States government for the inhumane treatment of legal residents working at the Hyundai plant. 🚨🚨🚨 Hey, those perpetratrating these atrocities are also accountable. 1/2

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

They are f*cking lunatics

They’re putting in place a patronage network. Instead of open, accountable structures, public goods will be allocated to courtiers.

While 🇺🇸 farms go under…