Apparently it was live! Will post a clip when I have one. It was my first time on TV so I stumbled a bit in the beginning, but I think I finished strong.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

I interviewed #ActuallyAutistic moms about their reactions to Trump uring pregnant women not to take Tylenol and his anti-vaccine claims. They are a mix of livid, disheartened and frustrated that once again, their experiences as autistic women is erased. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

One of the full-circle moments? In high school, I was friends with Rebecca Smith. I was diagnosed as autistic. Now, she learned she's autistic and is a teacher down in Texas and I interviewed her about how she helps students accept others. @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I am maybe going to be on MSNBC tomorrow to talk about autism, RFK Jr., and the history of blaming moms for everything. More info when I have it.

Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

Mothers regularly shoulder the "blame" for having a child with autism. So when autistic moms watched Trump insist — despite little scientific evidence — that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, it felt like a return to a dark era. #disability #autism www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

Generally, I don’t respond to criticism of my journalism or character, nor do I like speaking much about my transition. This is an exception. Reed is quoting (and mocking) a personal essay I wrote when I was 20 years old, early on in my transition, from before I was a journalist.

Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I said on CNN that the Trump administration has yet to nominate members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. The IACC is making its call for committee nominations, which are due November 10.

NEW: After one of Kristi Noem’s major financial supporters contacted her, the DHS chief quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, records obtained by ProPublica show.

Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇

Do you know what this meeting is about? Get in touch on Signal: signal.me#eu/ES70l_cAl...

As always, @rosebroderick.bsky.social delivers.

Really valuable thread from @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Tldr if you spend 2000 words describing why Trump made baseless claims about autism and women, we should hear from those groups and get the facts and proper framing about those claims. It's not hard!

And during all of this, we have fewer disability reporters at national publications than when we started the year.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Northern Ireland police trawled phone logs for reporters' numbers in leak hunt reut.rs/428IRu0

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history." www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

שנה טובה ומתוקה!

NEW: With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we wrote about the pseudoscience underpinning yesterday's chaotic, bizarre, disturbing autism announcement at the White House www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Protip: Anywhere that advertises “biomedical treatments” for autism and ADHD is fleecing parents at best. Injuring or even killing kids at worst.

I see that today is “legacy media show full frontal gullibility amid assault on science” day

If you’re not already, follow @annamerlan.bsky.social and @ejwillingham.bsky.social to learn more about RFK Jr.’s long history and interest in bunk autism “cures,” as well as the particulars when it comes to specific nonsense and specific quacks being given a platform.

Hellloooooo, journalists! Covering the Mon announcement abt #autism? CHECK OUT the last 3 @thinkingautism.com newsletters for background on the loooong trail of grift in mitochondria-autism industry, starting w/a man who co-authored entire study abt his own daughter w/o disclosing the relationship.🧵

Ahead of the Trump administration's "historic" announcement on autism today, remember, RFK Jr. knows startingly little about autism. In fact, his views amount to a "rabbit hole filled with pseudoscience about the condition, near complete ignorance about current research and basic facts."

I feel like we’ve lost over a decade of progress around reporting on autism in just the last six months. It’s depressing.

I am *shocked* by the poor quality reporting on Leucovorin as an autism treatment by the Washington Post. I’m not even going to link it. Just abysmal.

I’m not saying it’s antisemitic for big news on my beat to happen while I’m out visiting my family for Rosh Hashanah, but I’m also not *not* saying that.

My account is definitionally sfw because I use it to promote my work. There isn’t anything about the new Bluesky guidelines that impact me on a personal level. But…

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

Nick Kristof went to talk to some of the moms losing their beloved children to Trump’s aid cuts. We are paying storage on already existing food rather than release it to starving kids. “I loved my child so much” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

this exists it is called thinking

At the ACIP meeting this afternoon, a representative from the American Pharmacists Association had to point out to members that in many states, the authority for pharmacists to give vaccines is based on ACIP recommendations. It's as if the new ACIP members don't actually know what ACIP does.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

Okay. ACIP meeting is over. Here are the four things they voted on with regard to Covid vaccines. Votes 1, 3 and 4 passed. Vote 2 (the call for a prescription requirement) did NOT pass. The language is so unclear that two legal experts I've consulted so far don't know what this means for access.

We still don't know what the Covid vaccine measures ACIP will be voting on in just hours. www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...

A vaccine panel just tabled a vote that would have delayed universal use of the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. For now, nothing has changed on use of the vaccine, which is safe and credited with saving lives. But how did we get here? My latest for @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2025/09/hepa...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Can't overstate how strange and tense this ACIP meeting has been. (Dr. Jason Goldman, President of the American College of Physicians. Medical organizations were booted from ACIP workgroups in August. Kennedy says these doctors are "biased.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ch...

The CDC vaccine advisory panel has started its meeting to decide coronavirus vaccine recommendations. And in an unusual move, it has not publicized what recommendations it will vote on! www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard. They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

btw journalists are not obligated to tell the white house anything about their sources, to be clear.

NEW: RFK Jr. has dubbed fluoride “industrial waste,” and federal agencies are reviewing their approaches to fluoridation amid a backlash that has seen state and local governments upending a decadeslong public health success story. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social