Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that,’” Pritzker said in a post Monday evening on the social platform X evening, referencing the Disney+ show’s 12th episode of its first season

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Fascists: “we must eliminate the pattern recognition people” The pattern recognition people: “hey this bullshit you made up about us sure looks like a grift side hustle to go with your eugenics”

My theory about the autism/neurodivergence panic? Yes it's rooted in transphobia and the eugenics of people on the spectrum who need assistamce with ADLs...but it's also linked to a disdain for a very vocal, hyper competent, demographic of skilled people with injustice sensitivity.

Grifters all the way down (although also please do see the comment after this for caveat about a medical reality that shouldn’t get lost in this shitshow)

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

The real test isn’t that Kimmel is back. It’s what Kimmel is willing to say on air addressing this and going forward. Right now we don’t actually know who capitulated or to what degree

Importantly, this study indicates what we've known for a long time: Youth who other studies viewed as "desisting" (because they stopped taking hormones, changed their gender identity a second time, stopped seeing a doctor, etc) USUALLY STAY TRANS.

And as John Oliver said, the only thing that works is “fuck you, make me.”

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

I wasn't even thinking about how the latest rapture date is coincidentally timed to make Christians the center of attention during a Jewish holiday because god forbid anyone else be the protagonist for 5 seconds but now I can't unsee it.

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Appalachian Trail over I-70 Eastbound in Western #MD.

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

I have mentioned before that Miller gives off strong serial killer vibes and like...yeah. This doesn't undermine that idea.

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

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’ve been here more than a dozen times, and every single time I have seen a lawless abduction,’ said Comptroller Lander, while sitting cross-legged on the floor outside the elevators of the first floor of Federal Plaza.”

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

That is why it is POLITICAL MALPRACTICE for Dems to bend on this or ask us to bend on it. I mean obviously it's unforgivable on a personal and ethical level as well. But it is also just the stupidest idea imaginable.

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

This entire article was a really good read for this Monday morning www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Since apparently this needs to be stated again, a reminder that TWO THIRDS OF THE US VOTERS believe abortions should be legal in all or most cases, making it FAR more popular or unifying than Ezra Klein....

Blaming autism on women seeking pain relief during pregnancy - the pain of which these wackos believe is divine punishment for Eve seeking knowledge and falling out of Eden - is like six different types of Christian nationalist eugenics the absurdity of which is irrelevant to its promised horror.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

surprise www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

I wish I was kidding.

I would strongly argue that you will understand what the New York Times has become much better if you understand that they soft launched the new NYT with their trans coverage, and have been building and expanding from there. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

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...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I miss when AI meant adobe illustrator Btw I also hate adobe illustrator

“We are not going to stop *being* Nazis, so you have to stop *calling us* Nazis.” This isn’t a call to turn the temperature down, it’s a call to smash all thermometers.

This is the actual reason they want it banned . The detriments to children are real , but the focus for the most stringent people who want to ban it is control over kids they know they are already treating poorly

One of the launch gatherings for this must have been what I ran into yesterday. It was so heartening!