I wonder just how far this overt hostility to public health goes before visa-free travel for US citizens becomes a real liability for countries that currently offer it.

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

fact check: As of 20 January 2025, 100% true.

Multiple peer reviewed studies done by medical researchers indicate that Tylenol does not seem to be a cause of autism. But one heroin-addicted nepo baby says that it is. For pregnant mothers it can be hard to know who to trust.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

One thing conservatives are gonna do is they’re gonna make sure pregnant people are suffering as much as possible—because, of course, they hate women and want them to suffer!

Absolutely unsurprising that their autism recommendation [sic] is that women need to suffer more

"In Phase 1, the president issues an executive order declaring a national emergency and purporting to change the way we vote. In Phase 3, presto, the way we vote changes. What’s Phase 2?" talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-...

Just impatientky explained to Peter Nicholas NBC, inquiring after Nixonian precedents for Trump's call to the AG to prosecute Schiff etc, that without showing the valor to exapand his apature to Italy in the 20s and Hitler in the 30s, he's not doing his job. America is not an exception to history.

What you have to understand is that they only believe the vesting clause grants a huge scope of essentially royal inherent powers when their team holds the office. Just as President Biden didn't have those powers, somehow, neither will President AOC.

it strikes me that propping up another (medium-sized) economy in free fall due to domestic policy stupidity inflicted by an ignoramus president might not be wise for a very large economy deeply engaged in acts of policy stupidity inflicted by an ignoramus president themselves.

America’s current stance is the US should hurt Brazil’s economy and prop up Argentina’s economy. The entire reason is that the US president and his fans like the leader of Argentina—or a successful version of him they made up—and dislike that Brazil upheld its laws against a coup plotter they like.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

"If we don't ask, they won't be hungry."

Argentina, a tale in three parts:

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The description here by @jamellebouie.net of Trump administration propaganda as 'real life AI slop' is a remarkably on-point way to describe something I have been trying to put into words about the MAGA pagentry, cosplay, of authoritarianism in the absence of actually consolidating control.

Trump Administration to link trade deficits and mail-in voting to autism.

"Social media is so awful", blah blah gripe. Okay. But do you know the story of how this wonderful award-winning SF book won the sales jackpot for the second time? Gather round, kids, if you want reminding how wonderfully good things can happen in this world. 1/

“At some point, it defies [your] oath to serve a president who rejects the rule of law and bends the Department to his abuses.” How Should a DOJ Political Appointee Think About a Trump-Weaponized DOJ? open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

With the unlawful Caribbean strikes, Trump officials are claiming the right to kill anyone merely by saying the targets are drug dealers—no real evidence needed—and by saying drug dealers are terrorists. The same week, they're claiming that criticism of Charlie Kirk is promoting political violence.

If you work for ABC/Disney and have any insight on how the Kimmel fallout is playing out inside the company, please contact me on Signal at juddlegum.47 I will maintain your anonymity.

Updating my blocking policy. I know we're all feeling raw now, but violent rhetoric will get you immediately blocked. Don't give the fascists an excuse.

Education is more than job training.

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Here's a great excerpt from @stefanfatsis.bsky.social's superb new book, Unabridged, which, trust me, you want to read.

cops dressed up like they are getting ready to roll through mid-2000s kandahar is entirely cosplay. there is no domestic threat short of a survivalist compound that justifies that sort of hardware

I get protectionism for items necessary for warfare or in which spying software/hardware could be snuck, but tariffing solar panels is literally the opposite. It's a fee against your own citizens trying to locate power-creation in your own country.

This exact word-for-word quote has appeared in my FB timeline about a dozen times, each time attributed to a different professional athlete. It’s always by some account that sounds like a fan account, none of which I subscribe to. Just a cesspool of misinformation and AI slop.

So I found out Stephen miller lives in my general neighborhood.

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Democrats, you don’t have to make your good communicators president! You can just put them in leadership positions. Stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think the term that most accurately describes a country that is using its navy to blow up boats on the high seas (without demonstrating any cause beyond vague assertions that they are carrying drugs) is "rogue state".

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

just think of the prize money these captains are foregoing by blasting these vessels into smithereens rather than capturing them, Jack Aubrey would be very sad.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

I have been wondering whether anyone has explicitly asked the white house, or navy, what the legal justification for these strikes has been. even if you get an answer like "because they're bad guys, how dare you ask!?" then you print that and point out what the law actually says

every journalist knows they are packaging the entire Charlie Kirk story dishonestly, and they all think it is incredibly rude to point that out

that's some grim shit In Steve Miller's eyes, poaching cops from local PDs is the way to protect Americans from nasty immigrants who do terrible things like run restaurants, care for children and the elderly, play soccer, and work in churches and mosques

(Reuters) - South Korea's economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I'd love to live in a country where making a mistake on a mortgage application is no big deal but accepting a large bribe is still a crime

cheat code

Good piece (1st of 2 parts) "What I’m saying is that the 'free speech culture' ethos has relentlessly sought to portray relatively powerless people like students as the prime threat to free speech in America. Again, how’s that working out for you?"

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

it is true that you cannot reach Jim with his 17 MAGA hats and his qanon tattoo, and you shouldn’t try it is also true that you can reach Sally who didn’t like inflation and was vaguely nostalgic for pre-Covid times, and he won the popular vote off a decent number of people like Sally

Superstitions of all kinds is part of the reason why we are here

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids “No one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.”