ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

IT IS TIME.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

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

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

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...

Irony is truly dead.

trump is underwater on tariffs by 20 points (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=...) that means he's negative in 40 states (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-is-u...) this is a good opportunity for democrats to show how they fight for working-class voters (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...)

We’re suing the Census Bureau to force the release of critical LGBTQ+ data. Failing to release the data = failing to include LGBTQ+ people from policy decisions impacting health care, housing, employment, education, and more resources. So we're demanding accountability.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Kimmel is back on Tuesday: DISNEY: "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Two thirds of Americans are not Trump voters

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Weird seeing mashup of church in service & political convention. People holding Kirk & Turning Point signs during worship songs. So gross.

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

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

Viva la Revolucion.

2. The answer to what ails us from all the center-y white guys in Democratic politics cannot constantly be - ask everyone but people who look like them to give up fundamental rights. That’s actually not how you build the Democratic coalition that has won in the past.

I resist getting caught up in pundit thought bubble politics bc most of them have never actually worked on a campaign but fine here goes… 1. Pro-choice policies are very popular - the polling doesn’t actually support Klein’s supposition. Frankly we should run more on pro-choice platforms.

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Iowa farmers are in the field right now and they are losing money on every bushel of beans they harvest because of Trump and Hinson’s tariffs. Farmers are mad:

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

The most dispiriting thing to me right now is the immense level of cowardice I see all over, at all levels.

Tell me you know nothing about Kansas (and Missouri) politics without telling me… (Kansas has a pro choice Dem governor and resounds defeated an abortion ban referendum)

Every. Time.

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

Again, just to be clear here, Siebert's replacement will take office with a clear, virtually explicit, mandate to prosecute people who have committed no crime

U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against honoring “the life & legacy” of Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying that the conservative activist “resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past." “The fact is Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was divisive, disparaging, & too often rooted in grievance,” he said.

BREAKING NEWS: The group voted to require people who want a shot to be briefed on harms and benefits and tried but failed to pass a requirement for a prescription.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Dix-huit militants du parti de Gbagbo libérés en Côte d’Ivoire

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It's important to understand that Graham is not a fringe figure. Prestonwood has 45,000 members, runs a huge private school, & was integral in the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention 40 years ago.

As first reported by @jackjenkins.me here is the wild video of Prestonwood Baptist Pastor Jack Graham playing an AI generated Charlie Kirk speech in which a fake Kirk says he knew he might be killed for "speaking up in this cultural moment, and I'd do it all over again."

An astonishing gift to Huston-Tillotson. Some good news. www.kut.org/education/20...

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Turkmenbashi energy

I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I actually hate to say this, but maybe we need to start talking less about elite capitulation and more about elite collaboration.

So, not one but *three* churches used an AI-generated audio clip of Charlie Kirk in services this weekend. It's part of surge of AI-generated remembrances of Kirk, as MAGA-world's embrace of the technology supercharges a new kind of public memorialization. religionnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

i've been trying to tell y'all that Nexstar is way worse than Sinclair ever was, mostly bc Nexstar is actually competent

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...