“Sick to my stomach”: A researcher studying Tylenol and autism says that, by making false statements about vaccines, the White House compromises her research. @amymaxmen.bsky.social has the details: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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

Important not to let politicization get in the way of evidence- based decisionmaking.

ICYMI earlier (as I did): SCOTUS still SCOTUS-ing. They will not stand in the way of dictatorship and we should not plan on them doing so.

This whole thread. 💯

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

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Unlike RFK Jr.’s concerns about vaccines, his concerns about pesticides have echoed those from legitimate research. Studies have found associations between exposure and development of some illnesses and conditions including autism, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/qQSZaPgs

It should be obvious, but from someone who is aware of the literature: There is no observed link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. But there is significant data on all sorts of bad outcomes if pregnant women don't treat high fevers.

This is so very dumb and misguided.

There it is, the whole stupid thing in microcosm

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New blog post up! Key legal news from the past 10 days - get caught up in less than 15 minutes. A lot of different narratives happening at once, which I tried to disentangle. Threaded below ⤵️ marzhang.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/s...

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Did this story not get any traction because it turned out to be about gendered violence? Really weird for 3 police officers to be killed in a shooting and it not be plastered everywhere. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Interviews with 40+ current or recent employees throughout NIOSH, and dozens of others, detail how Trump’s cuts have upended safety research on everything from fracking to opioids, along with chemical risks in nail salons, electric-vehicle fires and terror attacks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting. Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy… 1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants 1/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

This is a tragic anecdote that is also supported by multiple studies. Tear gas exposure is linked to miscarriages & also generally has adverse effects on reproductive health: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

Indiana apparently up next for redistricting ⬇️

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

Jacinda Ardern. Still relevant and principled.

Not always easy to be proud of living in Pennsylvania these days, but this is good. Thank you to my rep @repdwightevans.bsky.social and to @repsummerlee.bsky.social @scanlon.house.gov @repdean.bsky.social

Whoa. Read this thread. Judge Kelly is not a liberal. He's a Trump appointee. And he rightly slams the Trump Administration here. What they did is outrageous.

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

New material to teach constitutional due process notice requirements in Civ Pro! (Hoping I get to assign the 9th Circuit en banc opinion and not a SCOTUS reversal...)

My reaction upon seeing this: wait, Brad Lander got arrested again?!?! 🫡

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

Stating the obvious: The claim that Khalil's presence in the U.S. risks "serious adverse foreign policy consequences" is ludicrous on its face. (Countless citizens, after all, express essentially identical views.) But Marco Rubio said it, so the courts feel obliged to accept nonsense at face value.

I will be at the APHA conference! This news makes going feel more dramatic than I think it is. It'll certainly be interesting to have this conference within militarized DC.

Every accommodation gets an individualized assessment. Categorical denials violate the ADA. Accommodations are per se exceptions to policies like these.

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Terrible

If you want some descriptive statistics of litigation in the federal courts, my co authored article providing them is out in JELS! doi.org/10.1111/jels...

Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n

So she couldn’t state with any authority that she has jurisdiction because SCOTUS doesn’t explain itself on the shadow docket enough for her to know exactly what the justices mean by “deference owed the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” bsky.app/profile/muel...

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So this Trump lawsuit is wacko for many, many reasons, but THIS IS NOT WHAT ACTUAL MALICE MEANS in the legal context. At all.

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

If you have information about the ICE raid in Mifflin Square Park today, I encourage you to report it via Juntos’s Raid Response Hotline: 814-205-3293.

Looking forward to the legal acrobatics necessary to say these public university terminations are perfectly fine under Garcetti. The First Amendment might as well be scratched out of the Constitution at this point.

NEW: Lawyers for four people the Trump administration sent to Ghana say their internet access — used to communicate with counsel — has been cut off and that transfer to countries where the U.S. could not directly send them is imminent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wrote about the Trump administration’s political prosecution and imprisonment of Kilmar Ábrego García for @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

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“We’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history. Every previous large-scale shift in energy—from muscle power to wood to coal to oil—has taken decades or even longer. But the ‘renewable revolution’ is happening far faster.”

😭 The willingness to change during the pandemic showed us new possibilities, but the powers that be refused to tolerate them.

This conduct by the government and its lawyers is a gross violation of the common courtesy that lawyers expect from opposing counsel. I'm not expert enough on ethics rules to know whether there's a violation there too, but just gotta say: THIS IS NOT OK to do to opposing counsel.

There aren’t really that many West Coast people on Bluesky for some reason, so around 1am ET, this website gets real quiet except for (1) the shitposters who don’t have kids and (2) Chris posting horrifying developments in the most fucked cases ever