American Academy of Pediatrics statement on the 9/22 WH autism press conference: “Today’s White House event on autism was filled with dangerous claims and misleading information that sends a confusing message to parents and expecting parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals."

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

I can’t sleep 😃

I can’t believe I feel like I have to watch fucking Kimmel tomorrow.

When I was describing this to my husband earlier (he’s less online than I am), I had to stop when I brought up Dr. Oz because my brain had kindly blocked out that he’s the head of CMS. fuck.

welcome comrade uh *squints, cries* big pharma

@lilkatze.bsky.social any rapturing?

Hey @ezraklein.bsky.social, is that big tent worth my life? Your wife’s? We are not abstractions, you absolute trash clown. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Calculating the perfect dose of Tylenol to give my beautiful wife so our child grows up to be an entomologist

This is a perennial antivax lie. Sex is just one way you can catch Hep B, which is spread through all kinds of contact with infected blood and body fluids. Babies can catch it from their moms during the birthing process, for starters.

BREAKING: Trump goes on a wild and unhinged rant spouting misinformation and easily debunked lies about autism. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

lol the Trump years are going to be known for many things but let’s not let it be forgotten that he’s pretty much the worst thing to happen to maternal and child mortality in generations. Watch us reverse decades of progress.

Well, all that really matters is that women suffer more.

Do you want to know what fucking rules? I work with 95% women and it’s as great as you think.

Coates for Vanity Fair. Link in alt text.

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

though I’m not trained like some of you, I’m actually a very strong debater, I think largely in part because I get really eloquent/quick when I get angry. I also understand the point of debate isn’t necessarily to be right, but to *win*, and I do think we get hung up on that

OH MY FUCKING GOD 😫

double down, you stupid motherfuckers, every car dealership, personal injury firm and local franchise is about to get inundated from the angriest fucking libs you have ever met in your life demanding they stop advertising on sinclair stations

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.

...apparently he tweeted about it several days ago. it seems weird that The Economist purposely hid his name from readers. unless of course they knew that readers might already be aware of Jəsse's long history of bias on this issue...

This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Shana Tova to those who celebrate! 🍎🍯

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

juggalos are also well fucking versed in community care & organizing btw even if unfamiliar with leftist politics or deep dives into protest & resistance, they can legit “be like water”

GWAR crossed a major line at riot fest

also, if you have prime or another means of watching this, i encourage you to & then consider building alliances with juggalos they’re like the socialists of the niemoller poem “first they came for the juggalos & i said nothing” — no im not being hyperbolic here either; just trust me

Saw a YT video today in which an autistic woman pointed out that parents of autistic kids who do things like police diagnoses may be in thrall to the rigid thinking that characterizes autism The same might be true of parents investigating the 'real' causes of autism

Okay! I need some ideas. Jasper is having his surgery to resect whatever wound/tumor is on the back of his neck. Because of its location, he can’t bite it but he can scratch it. The shirts don’t extend up over it high enough. Is there such a thing as like a soft cervical collar I can find?

waow

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

This statement is such a fucking spineless weenie statement. Just obfuscating the real issues of the past week with some weird patriarchal “we, a giant corporation, felt it was in the nation’s best interest” shut up!! At least own your boot licking!!

Do not use Tylenol recreationally. Got it.

Hep B can be transmitted through bodily fluids, not just sex, we give it to infants to avoid it passing from caregivers to children, AND this is a dumb attack because we give the HPV vax starting at age 11 specifically because it's a sexually transmitted disease and some kids have sex that young.

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.

I took two Tylenol to try to get rid of this headache, but now I have a headache and autism

Holy shit

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

and it's all because those kids are brilliant, they're shining stars, they're unequivocally BETTER THAN YOU. nothing scarier than someone who's willing to *break the chain.* that's why they gotta be strangled with all the fury that the dead hand of tradition can muster.

Also yes, Tylenol/acetaminophen can hurt your liver - when taken incorrectly. IANAD but for most people, even extra strength Tylenol is safe up to 4g a day split over four 1g doses (each dose two 500mg pills). People think ibuprofen is safer and I often see people take it like candy and…you

We can’t say for sure that almost anything is “safe” in pregnancy because it’s considered unethical to drug test on pregnant people. This is why when you see chatter around “safety” in pregnancy you have to dig in a little more. Like we know some things are absolutely NOT safe - but also can’t say

IANAD. Yes

HAPPY FALL BITCHES. Most wonderful time of the year. 🍎🍁🍂🎃

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

Good Lord. People ask me why I don’t cover sports like I used to, and it’s because of stuff like this and Matt Shaw skipping a game for Charlie Kirk’s funeral. If you care about things like “human rights” and “racism” and “violence against women,” sports media is a tough place.

Okay! I washed it with warm water and blue Dawn, even the suede unlined pockets (which seem to have tolerated fine). Let it dry, then dumped most of a box of baking soda and rubbed it in, just vacuumed it out. It isn’t perfect but the smoke smell has faded a ton! Going to clean the exterior now to