A Swedish nationwide study published in JAMA in 2024 found NO causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in children. It examined data on 2.5 MILLION children born between 1995 and 2019. ENOUGH ALREADY.

The President sounds like this all the time these days and is clearly non compos mentis but it just gets a pass from Congress, from the courts, from the media, from Wall Street, from every institution, because it's Trump.

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Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

In this post, I summarize why Trump's order imposing $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is harmful and illegal. I build in part on insightful piece by my @cato.org colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social one of America's leading immigration policy experts: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I think one additional reason that time feels so full right now is that people not paying attention have not fully grasped how bad things could get *and* at the same time the people paying attention are often forgetting how many "good" paths remain open -- both depending on choices still to be made.

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

The White House convinced many its focus is “illegal” immigration. Then: —Today’s near-ban on LEGAL high-skill work visas —Ended LEGAL refugee visas —Slashing LEGAL student visas —Ban all/most LEGAL visas for 17 countries —Ending LEGAL parole & TPS for millions Not a “crackdown”. A lawless purge.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

I have no idea why the high inflation of grocery prices stopped being news. Groceries prices are rising higher than total inflation and have been for some time. Biggest just in 3 years last month! Everyone has to eat, so everyone feels this in their budgets. apple.news/AXttO9mKeSy-...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

"'The posture of [Harvard] seems to be one of compliance,' Gay said. 'This is distressing, not only for those of us who are on campus and facing the consequences directly, but also for all of those in higher ed who look to Harvard for leadership and guidance.'" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

The US president saying "Comedians and the news are not allowed to criticized me" should be giant front-page news in every outlet in America, by the way. It's him repudiating the First Amendment and the Constitution. Unambiguously and clearly.

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

This is very good and definitely worth a read if you are on the market:

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

Painting by Sylvia Ken, Indigenous artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt

“It’s hard not to connect those dots. It seems possible, and even probable, that Nexstar pulled Kimmel’s show because Trump’s FCC chairman made it clear there would be consequences — which might have to do with the Tegna deal — if he didn’t.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

“The Violence Prevention Project at Hamline University found the overwhelming majority of mass shootings with four+ people wounded in public were carried out by men. Just 2% in last decade were carried out by women and less than 1% were by transgender people” www.theviolenceproject.org/key-findings/

Deeply troubling. Congress has not authorized this use of force. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW EUROPEAN DATA: Favorable views in each country of right-wing populist parties Forza Italia 51% Reform UK 37% National Rally (France) 35% PiS (Poland) 30% AfD (Germany) 21% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

U.S. foreign policy is much easier to understand once you accept that the main "grand strategy" of the Trump administration is straight-up kleptocracy.

The immigrants who've helped John Painter run his 450-head dairy operation “are not the troublemakers that we should be focusing on getting rid of.” (Painter voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024.) www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

This Economist article could’ve had a much better/less incendiary headline, but the commentary from @lilymasonphd.bsky.social is very good, imo archive.is/iALcQ

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

How important is immigration? Here are charts of the population by age in 2000 (pink) and 2024 (purple) with: 1. Everyone 2. No immigrants 3. No immigrants and no children of immigrants Look how the age distribution shifts. www.pbump.net/o/another-vi...

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

This is not a good sign

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1. Jared Kushner is taking TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS annually from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern governments Simultaneously, Kushner is playing a CENTRAL ROLE shaping Trump's Middle East policy It's a massive conflict. And a scandal. That's getting scant attention

WASHINGTON (AP) - US had advance knowledge of Israeli strike against Hamas leaders in Qatar, AP sources say. @apnews.com

I’m regularly amazed that the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 and United States v. Cruikshank in 1876 are not covered at all in most American history courses. If people understood how reactionary SCOTUS was to Reconstruction civil rights legislation they’d understand the true disposition of the court.

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