Since this is going to be headline news tomorrow… The highest quality research has shown Tylenol use in pregnancy is NOT at all associated with autism risk. To suggest otherwise is to be an amateur that cherry-picks data points from decades ago. What we discussed 2 weeks ago remains true today ⬇️

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Nick Kristof travels to Uganda and shows that the Trump DOGE cuts to foreign assistance and humanitarian aid are killing kids who are dying unnecessarily from hunger and disease b/c Elon needed a tax cut. Many stories of suffering of little children. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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

Yikes. 🚨🚨🚨This is beyond extreme: legitimizing extrajudicial killings against anyone who *seems* bad (not proven in any court of law) based on the murky decision-making of known conspiracy theorists who want to punish their perceived enemies. So incredibly dangerous.

This is what happens when media companies don’t simply roll over in the face of absurd threats.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

🤦🏼‍♂️ Utter incompetence that will result in easily preventable deaths.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

This is NOT ok. Blatant intimidation of the press and of expert sources.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

a parent of a trans teen told @kitoconnell.com of Texas's SB 12, “It really is intended to single out trans kids and humiliate them, effectively dehumanize them and humiliate them, either by refusing to address them as a person…or by marking them in front of everybody as subject to this policy.”

One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to terrify people into self-censorship. ABC ending Kimmel’s show is the perfect example of this.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Nothing is more central to a free society than the right to criticize one’s government. Nothing.

A project is under way to cover California's thousands of miles of canals with solar panels, and it's turning out to be a win-win solution.

Have you ever wondered why we’re here and dinosaurs like T. rex vanished? I wrote a book just for you. 🦖 ☄️🌿🐆

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former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas share.google/Q1DTVDtilp9C...

“Nearly every agent on Baltimore’s domestic terrorism squad was reassigned this year to work full time on immigration enforcement, forcing them to walk away from investigations of a network of violent predators that targets and exploits children online.”

Pro-tip: Deleting an inconvenient study from a government website doesn’t make it disappear.

In an interview with @yalee360.bsky.social, Saabira Chaudhuri, author of a new book on the plastics industry, discusses how petrochemical companies have molded consumers to embrace convenience and disposability—no matter the environmental and public health costs. e360.yale.edu/features/saa...

Seems like a big deal! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Imagine if, in 1946, President Truman had tried to ban Penicillin and other antibiotics on the basis of conspiracy theories and rumor. That’s where we are today, but for mRNA therapies and vaccines.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

NEW in @chron.com: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ books were found sitting in a surplus warehouse at Texas A&M University, and the university won't say why. As first reported by @joyurcaba.bsky.social, the books include a memoir by Matthew Shepard's mother and academic texts. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

Know what creates empathy? Books. Reading about people unlike ourselves and experiences we'll never have. Which is why some people want to remove those books and discourage reading. Kids and adults should read widely. Most spend their spare time online, which is where indoctrination often begins.

If outlets don't resist censorship, journalism’s independence “sinks to the lowest common denominator whenever news of global importance breaks in a country governed by a repressive regime,” FPF tells @theintercept.com. “What makes [Reuters] think the next censorial regime ... isn’t taking notes?”

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

From a few months back, our article about how right-wingers began bashing empathy. www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-ri...

This is a legitimate question. We have almost no control over an increasingly lethal weapon. How many campus shootings and senseless tragedies are necessary before we begin to address the root causes? Yes, violent rhetoric is a big contributor but guns are the main vehicles for that violence.

This is what the Trump administration sends its cabinet ministers to Europe to talk about, one day after Poland shoots down Russian drones violating its airspace.

One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

One of the most disturbing “only in the U.S.” stories in recent memory. This industry largely exists *because* of our refusal to prevent preventable slaughter - something every other western country has managed. Now it’s draining even more $ from school districts while turning them into fortresses.

Blatantly unconstitutional attack on the country’s free press, as well as the right of every citizen to record this in public spaces.

This isn’t at all surprising, given that it’s essentially been publicly reported that Stephen Miller ordered ICE to arrest first and ask questions later, but it’s still worth noting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... They are not even pretending that they know anything about someone before arrest.

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology." Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"? www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

CNN has a panel talking about Epstein and the host just mentioned (almost as an aside!) that one of the guys is a lawyer defending Ghislaine Maxwell. And rather than being a guest who's grilled about the case, he's treated like any other panelist who just happens to be minimizing the crimes.

Australia too! (And Sweden?). Again, #vaccines save lives. Many, many lives. 🧪

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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.