New Episode! Talking about the proposed connection between Tylenol and autism. With @drandrealove.bsky.social & @ryanmarino.bsky.social iTunes: tinyurl.com/2uhwwzk6 Spotify: tinyurl.com/56peddtw

It just keeps getting dumber and dumber. There really is no bottom

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

Currently, the strongest study we have that examined this is by Ahlqvist et al (2024), a study of 2.5 MILLION children...its a prospectively controlled study and adjusted for confounders (environment, genetic). It showed no association between acetaminophen in pregnancy & autism

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

I hate this to infinity. This country wants pregnant people to suffer so much that they’ll deny them the one shitty pain management option they had left because of a meta-analysis of a bunch of crappy observational studies, as they say garbage in - garbage out

I’m not sure why he bothers saying actual words at all

Whatever happens at tomorrow’s announcement by RFK Jr, know this: autism spectrum disorder is not caused by one thing, and I refuse to let mothers be shamed for taking Tylenol during pregnancy.

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.

Sean, in this genteel idealized America is there room for my transgender daughter? Is it safe for her there?

With #OBBB cutting funding for food assistance, Trump doesn’t want us to know that more Americans will be going hungry. #MAGA #Hunger @shematologist.medsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Sir. I have had covid once and that was one time too many. You and your covid fan club are all playing long covid Russian roulette. Not to mention what damage the virus has done repeatedly to your vascular system and you’re unaware

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It's important to note that Ezra Klein and his merry band of centrist clowns very often are just plain MISINFORMED. They don't understand the history and politics behind the garbage ideas they push. Vibes-based fascism support from the "left" is not only morally abhorrent, it's deeply ignorant.

Often people tell me that they want to help with homelessness and they don’t know how. One of my favorite, legit nonprofits is Project Nightnight, which provides an age appropriate book, a blanket, and a teddy bear to homeless children in San Fran and Detroit to provide some normalcy for them.

On May 21,2011 when a rapture was predicted, I sent my sister this pic of our mom’s shoes and told her she’d gotten raptured

Petition to ban Fox News in hospitals

1. Republicans are attempting to get the FBI to label trans advocacy as domestic terrorism. Project 2025's parent org is pushing it. It would not label all trans people as terrorists, but it would open the door for heavy surveillance and disruption. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Nancy Mace is a prime example of how transphobia turns you into a raving ghoul who can no longer function normally in society

YOU. ARE. WHITE.

A cybertruck for your face

522,000 children starved to death in Sudan since April 2023

We're just going to keep having pilot projects like this until capitalism eventually falls. Giving houses to the homeless is cheaper than anything else. Giving people healthcare is cheaper than not. Giving people basic income is cheaper than not. Taking care of society is financially prudent.

Billionaires should just straight up give people with low incomes money. They’re not being taxed so there’s no government middle man. Just directly give people money. A mere drop in the bucket for them would do so much good

Man if you think you’ve met some unimpressive homeless people let me regale you with stories of some of the dickheads I know who live in the suburbs There are exponentially more of them, by the way

Whether you use the boiling frog or the Overton window metaphor, it’s clear the norms are shifting in this country, with ever increasing assaults on decency and, importantly, our rights. We must not become numb to this, or else we really will be cooked.

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects. The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

Today an insurance company denied coverage of progesterone and said the patient needs to fail treatment with estradiol first and I…

ICE kidnapping in North Portland this morning

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Why existing matters right now

Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down. Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.

State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states. While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet: Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.

I think it’s a near certainty that these will make you stupider just like ChatGPT

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Please stop using Substack. No, I won’t subscribe. I won’t even click on your links. I’m not supporting a company that allows literal Nazis on their platform. You cannot expect me to hear your complaints about Nazis on the Nazi website. Use other platforms Ghost or Medium or write a newsletter.

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants. And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines. But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family. We are ALL in this together.

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

Here is the email I sent 🧵: Perhaps you don’t know any trans people and that is why you don’t think it’s a big deal to publish something entitled “Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk's shooting, sources say”

hi, cis folks! the WSJ endangered trans lives with false reporting yesterday. it’s still accepted as truth by many, regardless of it being false. the article’s still up with a little note. it needs full retraction. it's not even a phone call—it's email. you can do this. contact info below.🧵⬇️

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.

Especially now, it’s not trivial to post about trans joy. It’s necessary. Every trans person who shares their joy sends a message of hope to others who may be struggling. And everyone who uplifts those posts helps spread that light, hope and visibility even further.

It's not just that I find Democrats prostrating themselves to be gross. It makes them unsafe. Why should I, a Black queer woman, maintain any faith that these jamokes give a single shit about my material circumstances as they eulogize this horrible man. It sucks.

OMG YOU GUYS

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

The list of Dems voting to ban trans rights: Cuellar - Texas Davis - North Carolina Gillen - New York Golden - Maine Gonzalez, V. - Texas Gottheimer - New Jersey Gray - California Horsford - Nevada Kaptur - Ohio Lee - Nevada McClain Delaney - Maryland McDonald Rivet - Michigan Mrvan - Indiana ...🧵

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.