Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

... what even is there to say?

The banana and coffee price hike has hit - as evidenced by the number of posts about it on my local NextDoor. And people are connecting it to tariffs, which is a good sign.

The Summer I Turned 50: Spent two Saturdays getting two (2) vaccinations in the morning and canvassing for several hours in the afternoon. Did I learn after the first Saturday? No, I did not. Did I maybe just promise someone a new park in their neighborhood? It's possible.

The journalism inside baseball here is what an amazing hire Carol Leonnig has been for MSNBC (part of the mass exodus from the Washington Post)

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

Straight up quackery being served up at ACIP. The real “post vaccine syndrome” is increased antibody protections against covid!

I listened to this and was able to follow Dr. Su easily. I appreciated that.

Despite RFK’s ACIP leaning towards pushing back newborn HepB vax—again, based on no evidence—they have voted unanimously to postpone the vote on the decision. Public pressure likely doing its job. Lots of brave voices showed up yesterday and today.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

A Look Back: Hundreds Of Student Handouts & 11 Chapters From Our “ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0” Are Now Freely Available Online larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/09/19/a...

This list of affiliated groups for america250civics.com is a rich text indeed.

This is an incredible combination of sentences by Tyler Kingkade. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

An assoc. principal was falsely accused of making insensitive comments about Charlie Kirk. In just 4 days, the district told me, it received over 900 harassing voicemails and 1,000 emails from people who thought it was true Around 100 students stayed home Monday www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

*incoherent sounds of rage*

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

Now this a blast from the #OpenSchools days - she rage tweeted her way into the FDA. How about that.

Continuing the delightfully long history that when it comes to public health and education, if NYS or Massachusetts takes a seat at a table, the other one is going to pull up a chair. Yeah!

Tomorrow features another brilliant #AMA that #Skystorians should be keen to check out. We'll be joined by @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social , author of Between the Street and the State: Black Women's Anti-Rape Activism amid the War on Crime!

If you are a parent of a kid you think might #ActuallyAutistic and don't want to get them screened because of RFK Jr., I'd love to talk with you for a piece. DM me or [email protected]. My Signal is emgarcia.85

Come check out this fantastic AMA with @kweingarten.bsky.social we have going on today! (One of several @nursingclio.bsky.social appearances on @askhistorians.bsky.social in the near future!) www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

My running mate and I are doing a Constitution Day event tonight and I fully expect to be a walking ball of cognitive dissonance for the entire day.

Am I catastrophizing if I admit that I expect Randi Weingarten to be arrested in the not too distant future?

Incredibly timely news, journalist/researcher friends: @righttobe.bsky.social just launched Expert Voices Together - a FREE service that helps journalists and researchers who are being intimidated/harassed! Check it out at expertvoicestogether.org !

I imagine there's a really interesting piece to be written about the differences in required teacher trainings across states. (I am doing sub training on the last possible date because I totally forgot I had a district email I was supposed to be checking.)

A young person in my town said something stupid on social media last week about Kirk. This week, there are people posting contact information for the child's mother workplace - she's a teacher at a local intermediate school.

As always, Adam way out ahead on this one

Geographic sorting based on vaccination exemption rules, our public health dystopia: “Anna Hulkow moved her 5 children to AZ in part for its looser school vaccine requirements because she could no longer send her kids to public school in CA since they were not vaccinated.”

I, unabashedly, like this. Good on her.

I appreciate the clarity of Dr. Williams' statement.

Much to my relief, I received a thoughtful, personal and reflective response to my email to Braver Angels about their message to members. It made me much more comfortable about continuing to volunteer with them.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

The question I have Ezra Klein and other "we're in a state of political crisis and Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" types is a simple one: If he was, who wasn't? If you're worried about democracy, and Charlie Kirk wasn't who you were worried about, who was? Specifically?

#PairedTexts 1. collection of screenshots from Charlie Kirk's organization presenting his "work" 2. text from an email this weekend from a coalition of organizations dedicated to depolarization

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

@triangleman.bsky.social In case this didn't hit your radar. www.reddit.com/r/nfl/commen...

I am exceptionally cranky because twice I've had to reach out to an organization I've volunteered hours and hours to because they botched public statements about Kirk's assassination. Grr. Argh.

Perfect

Folks, a crowdsourcing question: Is there a SCHOOL BOARD election this fall you're watching in your city-town-county, bc you think it's important? Fever around school board races has declined compared to 2021/2023, but some interesting ones still in places like NC or PA. But want to find more!

Come check out @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social's fantastic AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social for Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Only one professor in my department is targeted on there (their lies about her scholarship would be hilarious if it were not making her a target) but in the meantime I'm scrolling through the list of "colleges" on there and there's fucking middle schools on their list