I am so damn tired of these cowards.

short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common:

wtf politico

Those poor people, calling the rapture’s manager to complain that it didn’t show up again

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

my favorite step in the scientific method: gossip

A LOT of these guys joined ICE, etc., specifically to beat the shit out of immigrants and protesters. And statistics tell us anyone willing to behave this way in front of witnesses and news cameras has probably beaten domestic partners too.

Oh did the rapture happen yet? lol

take me to god’s country:

Thinking about how FDR's New Deal gave jobs to a ton of white men and how white nationalists today never bring that up. But with the New Deal, those jobs either required skills or required learning skills while with the Trump admin it's just a job program for incompetent white men

This trend began before Dobbs. While women are not incarcerated as much as men, they are rising dramatically. Important as well — whiteness is no longer a protection against the violence of incarceration.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

There's this thing with autism where they have always wanted to either blame mothers for their children's autism (i.e. refrigerator mothers) or present them as the victims of their children's autism. Like for as long as autism has been recognized. How do we get out of this cursed cycle.

More important than Kimmel's reinstatement – the public fought this hard and WON. And, thankfully, Trump lost. Badly. I hope people start to believe that they have at least *some* power.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Dr. Steven J. Fleischman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, wrote that "not a single reputable study has successfully concluded that the use of acetaminophen in any trimester of pregnancy causes neurodevelopmental disorders in children.”

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.

It seems this is even dumber than I thought. The active ingredient in Tylenol is acetaminophen. Other drugs that have acetaminophen: NyQuil®/DayQuil® Excedrin® Alka-Seltzer Plus® Mucinex® Robitussin® and some others that I didn’t recognize so did not list. But sure guys. Point only at Tylenol. 🙄

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"It feels to me like we've regressed so horribly and intentionally by the administration, because as they've demonstrated constantly, they have no interest in actual science." Yours truly on the monstrous autism disinfo coming out of the WH today, at @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

John Oliver was right, the bullies are weak, and “Fuck you, make me” will immediately make them walk it back youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

I got this yt comment that said "You are dropping a lot of dog whistles about who is and who isn't welcome on your channel." This was 4 days ago but this comment has really dug into my brain. Do racists not expect to be uninvited from parties? Is this why racists get mad when you call them racist?

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...

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

As we watch the right set off the pyrotechnics at his "memorial," rush to make him a faux Christian martyr and rabidly engage is other, ahem, strange "observances," that really is very clear that it's not the left who's celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

Let me be the one to say it plain and clear. America is not intelligent or self-sufficient enough as a nation to be isolationist. American exceptionalism is a dangerous delusion. Like an Icarus level delusion. And it's so deep too many folks don't realize the wings already burned & we're plummeting.

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Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

"Neither Trump nor the MAGA right wants to discuss or deliberate; it wants to dominate. American politics is no longer a fight over policy; it is a fight... [to defend] a more democratic and egalitarian American republic — not hope that one can avoid the fight by having the right conversation."

"culture war" is a euphemism for fights picked by fascists

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

White House border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

i strongly encourage parents not to post photos of your children on the internet

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

"Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world’s resources." inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

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Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

if there is one thing I've learned from a decade in sports analytics, it's that normal people have absolutely no fucking idea how percentages work

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

This 1934 NYT article about a group of 75 Nazis in New Jersey getting the crap kicked out of them by 1000 “anti-Nazis” is no laughing matter and the writing is not highly entertaining. Please do not laugh or smile while reading this as it is a very serious matter and violence is not funny.