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.

It's here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Anyway, baby me avoided raids by sleeping at another place and never ever taking a cell phone home, but you can still watch video of my skinny 22-year-old ass getting interviewed about the domestic terrorism charges here: www.democracynow.org/2008/9/5/we_...

Those seven avoided prison after two years of court battles. But tons of states/etc passed similar laws after 9/11. Yes, it's absurd to classify standard protest civil disobedience or vandalism as "terrorism"; but liberals mostly chose not to care about where this was always going.

Anyway, in 2008 they arrested seven other members of an org I helped found to provide basic infrastructure (beds, food, meetup space, etc) for protesters coming from out of town and charged them with "conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism" which carried 7.5 years.

For over two decades, as anarchists have been sacrificed on the altar of these hilariously unconstitutional domestic "terrorism" charges, liberals have basically shrugged or at best furrowed their brows. Nothing was done to get the laws off the books. So yeah, Trump has legal means.

These charges either stick or they don't depending on how ravenously bloodthirsty a judge is, but the legal structures ARE there to illegalize virtually all protest and activism as "terrorism." It's well established that it's "terrorism" to cost a company money: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Hu...

Planned to attend a protest where someone ended up breaking a window? That's been firmly "Conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism" for going on two decades. Discuss it with people across state lines? Well that's federal.

It's true that there's no magical legal status of "domestic terrorist", but there are a ton of laws that add "terrorism" nonsense to domestic crimes on the flimsiest grounds of any lawbreaking being "political." "Conspiracy to jaywalk in furtherance of terrorism" is technically chargeable.

#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.

I wish I was a better person right now But having to basically beg for rent while the people who often explicitly targeted me get millions to fail And the people who SWORE it was class/ tone realize it’s not gone save them

I've read about people with or who suspect they have autism hesitating to get diagnosed or ask for accommodations because they don't want to end up on some kind of govt list. It's a truly scary time for people with disabilities

these fucking people must really hate autistic people because they are turning medical science upside-down in the hopes of eliminating them

I hope this is the lede for the rest of the coverage because this is fucking BANANAS

Leucovorin is not “just folic acid like pregnant women already take”

The dose makes the poison. The amount of folinic acid in Leucovorin is much higher than the amount advised for pregnant women. For pregnant women Leucovorin is currently classified as a class C drug

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

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.

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So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Leading national political reporters vowed that never again would they look the other way when a president was showing every sign of being too debilitated to do the job

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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.

Good hed from @apnews.com

Expect the Court to formally, actually overrule Humphrey's on paper some time next year In practice though, the Supreme Court keeps saying people should proceed as if any law that conflicts with what Trump wants has already been struck down ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

In her dissent today, Kagan is like, could you please be even a bit less eager to help build a lawless dictatorship, because this is absurd “Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.” ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

so let's review we again have an FTC commissioner fired for no reason we again have a president say restraints on firing are unconstitutional all the lower court judges were like 'we've gone over this so uh no' but now here comes the Supreme Court like UH YES ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

(they aint say it like that, but that's what they meant when they said it was “plain under the Constitution that illimitable power of removal is not possessed by the President”) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Fast forward 20 years and FDR says 'lol I'm firing this dude Humphrey's anyway, it's actually unconstitutional for a president to not be able to fire people for no reason' In Humphrey's Executor, the Supreme Court was unanimously like * laughs nervously * wtf ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Let's talk a bit about Humphrey's Executor and the Supreme Court's BS Congress created the FTC to protect the public from unfair business practices. And to keep the agency focused on the interests of the *public (not just the president), Congress gave FTC Commissioners for-cause removal protections

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Tylenol should sue their asses off.

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I like it when people tag/label their noncon clearly so I don't have to see it! Because I don't want to see it! But lots of people also don't want to see the stuff I write! So I try to be super upfront about what that is, too!

Also, rules like this make it INFINITELY harder to avoid. When you disincentive proper tagging because people aren't sure how your vague rules might punish them, you make it so we end up seeing content we could have avoided if the rules had been "mark this so people can avoid it"

It took like 72 hours on spoutible to go from romance authors trying to figure out if we could advertise our books to the Hashtag Resist Blue Wave white ladies screaming at us that we were porn peddling jezebels trying to show our boobs to their grandchildren. You can't trust ANY SIDE on this.

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.

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Pilots' mnemonic: IMSAFE Illness Medication Sleep Alcohol Fatigue Eating Applies to driving too.

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

And just because the White House did an EO saying trans masc people dont exists and are thus using language to erase the fact we give birth to autistic children too doesn't mean you have to share posts and use language that does the same

I'm old enough to remember when autism was blamed on "refrigerator mothers," mother's who cold and detached. New era but still trying to find ways to blame the birthing parent

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To the news orgs that have been emailing me all weekend, here’s your answer. I won’t be discussing this further online as I await next steps. Please email with any further questions to [email protected] Ashley 🫶🏾

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