Good on the Times for putting the right beat reporters on this.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

As a sometimes Illini fan, I am not sad to see this man retire.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice weighed in Monday against the ban on high-powered firearms that Illinois and Gov. JB Pritzker passed after the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting.

“The devil’s aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot’s dread of a newspaper that laughs.” - “The American Press,” first printed in Mark Twain: Press Critic, University of California Press, 2003.

Next Stop, Chicagohenge. This evening's setting sun near the United Center on the day of the Autumnal Equinox.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

The point of the Antifa order is to assert that something exists which does not exist and to make people think it (1) exists and (2) is bad. you can read it, there’s nothing there beyond that www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

it should not surprise you that there is literally not a single country that summarily executes people for illegal entry

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There might have been hints… @govpritzker.illinois.gov

“The conditions people use acetaminophen to treat during pregnancy are far more dangerous than any theoretical risks and can create severe morbidity and mortality for the pregnant person and the fetus.” — Steven Fleischman, president American College of OB/GYNs (ACOG): www.acog.org/news/news-re...

We have STELLAR Nordic research showing no link between Tylenol and autism. Nordic research is the gold standard. Because Nordic healthcare system covers every person and documentation is perfect. Unlike in some other countries I could mention

Sheila Chalmers-Currin, the mayor of Matteson, is now the first Black woman to head the Illinois Municipal League.

If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet — Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it. Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts

An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed. A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.

Reporting on the recordings of 9-1-1 calls from ICE facilities are heartbreaking. Pregnant women were in distress, bleeding, or suffering severe pain and getting little to no medical care. Democrats won’t let abuses at Kristi Noem’s DHS go unnoticed.

Chicago’s top water officials defended Monday their decision to skirt a law requiring the city to warn nearly a million Chicagoans that their water comes from toxic lead service pipes.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.

ICE is still out here at Broadview firing pepper balls at protesters. Some folks just got hit pretty bad. Air out here is awful and people are retching.

Bhattacharya just claimed that genetics “cannot be the only cause of autism” because rates are rising. Rates are not rising, and genetics are the overwhelming contributing factor to the development of ASD.

They are already broken up. Many need boosters too.

Breaking News: A judge ruled that construction on a wind farm off Rhode Island could proceed for now, after the Trump administration halted work last month.

A piece from a few years ago that remains just as relevant boltsmag.org/when-state-s...

JB Pritzker quoting Andor is not something I had on my bingo card… )maybe my internal MadLibs)

He has friends everywhere.

In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Our Post-Ipsos poll (Fri-Tues, mostly pre-Kimmel) finds 62% of Americans think Trump has gone "beyond his authority as president," similar to 60% in April but up from 57% in February. 34% say Biden did so when he was president www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

"Frustrated by not being able to see through the gas, I swung my camera forward and saw a man who was carrying an American flag walk into the huge cloud of gas. He didn’t have a mask on and didn’t react to the gas. I shot 44 frames of him in two seconds." -- @staceywescott.bsky.social

News photographers have to be ready to meet the moment and the Chicago Tribune's Stacey Wescott did that superbly. She tells the story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/t...

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

oh no, crosscut is really good

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Get out your SAD lamps, fellow Northern Hemispherians

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Erupting volcano, a mayflower and a ring of turkey feathers are finalists for new state flag www.universalhub.com/2025/eruptin... #Massachusetts

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

ICE offers big bucks — but California police officers prove tough to poach

Three crashes in the first day? Tesla’s robotaxi test in Austin. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09...

This isn’t a university.

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.

On Thurs 9/3/2020 8:30 pm a 1997 Honda Civic driver (70/M) going E in the curb lane on University Blvd W/193 at St Paul St hit 2 pedestrians (21/F, critical injuries; 25/F, injuries) crossing properly in a marked crosswalk. Police (MCP271700SD) found the driver at fault: "looked but did not see".

The goal of these ads is to drive a deeper wedge between local law enforcement and local politicians.

This is central to Musk’s reputation and business models. He’s a hype man as much as any kind of tech wizard or financial genius