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’s also impossible to imagine kimmel groveling in a way that would satisfy the right wing, something everyone involved here also knows

there's no grift easier than the conservative pundit, which is one of the big reasons they're all so absurdly thin-skinned.

all of the presidents you can plausibly argue for being as evil in their personal conduct as Trump owned other human beings

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

Credit to @apnews.com for this fact based headline & story. More news outlets should follow this example. "Experts say the rise in cases is mainly due to a new definition for the disorder that now includes mild cases on a “spectrum” and better diagnoses."

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

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

to be clear, KVUE has gotten SMOKED by this crusade. But the fact shares are *up* as the President slags their product on TV is a good example of how markets are forward looking (eg expectations were for a WORSE outcome than what we're getting)

The Khan is the only one I've seen who gets what kind of situation we're in on a real level.

This can't be like the FBI, where Republicans treat it as a purely partisan office, and Democrats respect their choices. If we're going to have a unitary executive, the next Democratic president should pledge to purge every single Trump appointee on day one.

this fwiw is an astoundingly poor understanding of how the new deal coalition took shape and reveals a real inability to grapple with its contradictions

There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues

Fwiw this is factually incorrect and shows a completely uninformed of elections. Electoral churn from cycle to cycle is alone enough to dramatically shift results. No persuasion required.

For a @motherjones.com piece, I'm looking to chat with 3-4 retirees about how they've been volunteering for causes that push back against what the Trump administration is doing. Please email [email protected]

Removal protections are gone. Humphrey's Executor is overruled in all but name by the Shadow Docket. Rest in peace to the Presidency, and long live the Monarchy.

this is the most Atlantic article of all time

New Gallup report apparently just dropped, and check this out. Even as violent crime hits historic lows, the percent of Americans saying it is our biggest problem is at 2020 levels, back when there was a real spike in violence. Abysmal coverage of this topic misleads the public SO badly.

AZ special election tomorrow! 1 more vote for the Epstein/Trump Files!

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

reading about the kirk thing and it sounds bonkers but i also have the unshakeable sense that this big political-religious spectacle in an attempt to create a martyr to justify [broad gesture] will be forgotten in three days

Now that’s what I call a pivot

my crazy view is that the vesting clause mostly reflects one of the live debates during the convention, which was whether the executive would be a single person or some kind of executive council. that's it!

H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

For no reason, I'm lifting up my column on how a government shutdown works. Every shutdown looks different because of different funding streams, contingency funds, different bodies administering them, etc. I did my best to explain here to be thorough without being too dense.

I feel like this is good for straight women because men wearing Palantir merch are self IDing as fascists and you know to avoid them apple.news/AfZBmxQmXRbC...

I think in normal times it’s important to tie a boycott, or a sub-boycott, to a willingness to stop boycotting if the behavior changes. But these are not normal times, and keeping Kimmel off the air for several months, say, will not lead me to be like “oh we’re cool now” after those months.

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

tbf I think the greater barrier for a lot of this Type is internalizing that either 1) Dems are pretty good actually or 2) Dems are still bad but you have a searing moral responsibility to support them anyway

I will put this as gently as I can: this argument is not going to be persuasive to the rest of the FOMC. From Chair Powell's press conference last week:

one extremely strange thing about this era is that trump can get away with anything which the Republican congressional majority cannot admit to him doing, whereas there has been substantial pushback on things which would not collapse the coalition to admit

The Laws of Armed Conflict are not mere niceties. The point of following them is not to be polite. They’re formed through centuries of blood, and the point is to make an awful part of the human experience somewhat less awful for all involved, and make outbreak of the very worst less likely.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Miller needs to get sent to The Hague

oh fuck holy shit?

For those who don't know, OPT is an extension of the student visa and lets students easily work for a year (or three if they have a STEM degree) without having to immediately do the H1B lottery. I used to be a manager and on my end it was relatively easy, just a form where I had to outline

I recall the time Kamala was doing the CNN event with swing voters, and the throughline of it was, "Kamala, can you prove you're not a radical Black woman that the Trump campaign argues you are?"

I said it pre-election but the Beltway media had already drafted the narrative that "peak woke" gave us trump instead of economic voting behavior

he's salty Harris criticizes the media. Yet Weigel is completely uninterested in whether this is true. The review also does not once mention inflation, and criticizes her for not taking risks then criticizes her for a price gouging bill pundits hated. Claims voters wanted tariffs?

I love it when journalists don’t think we can see both their writing and social media posts bsky.app/profile/russ...

most of it is reasonably popular (abortion rights, generally egalitarian, pro-environment, etc) & even changing the stuff that's a lightning rod for criticism (ie immigration, trans rights) would likely just fracture your own coalition without gaining votes see the UK bsky.app/profile/polp...

i'll go further actually - & i know this is basically heresy to both centrist & lefty critics - but the policy package the dems seem to have converged on probably already *is* optimally calibrated for competitive races or at least there's diminishing marginal returns to reworking it

i know this isn't especially exciting, but the formula for an over-the-odds flip seems to be: 1. trump is in the WH 2. dems run a middle america coded nice guy (occasionally gal) who'll basically be a party-line vote 3. republicans run an, even by their standards, absolute freak

We're banning all H1B visas, except the ones that are economically necessary, which is all of them.

Genuinely don’t think these guys how many rural hospitals are basically held together by doctors and nurses from foreign countries. Like if anyone is losing out from this it’s you guys.

Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...

2025 is likely to have the lowest murder rate ever recorded.

I mean it is a very weird thing to politicize (outside the usual stuff like "the factory is in my district") but f-35s are also very much a global project, which makes them unattractive perhaps to america-first folks (despite the prime being lockheed martin)