Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

After enacting the largest SNAP cuts in history, Trump is now scrapping the federal government's annual report on hunger in America. The utter cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

Trump says when he leaves office he wants Autism rates to be down to 1/10000 or 1/20000 or maybe none! Says this is obviously induced. Says he feels certain of this, even though he will be criticized for it. 'We cured the biggest inflation in history, the largest tax cuts, it doesn't mean a thing.."

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Scam alert: a scammer is soliciting authors in the name of the Crime Writers Association, offering "trend analysis" and other bogus services. I suspect this is another of the Nigerian PR scams that are so prevalent right now thecwa.co.uk/news/beware-...

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

So @mostlybree.kitrocha.com asked me to give a publishing analogy of how hilarious this is, and this is my best shot.

New #WriterBeware blog post: Gen AI-driven Nigerian writing scams have arrived recently & spun up fast. Two new ones: book club impersonations (charge a "spot fee" for appearance) & fake private book review communities (reviewers are "tipped" w/ a minimum buy) writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

Note that Vermont joined too, confirmed later in the thread, just a glitch in the announcement's timing left them out initially.

1/ Today and tomorrow, #ACIP —the external body that sets vaccine policy—is holding a special session. One item on the agenda is the highly anticipated vote for the Covid vaccine. We’re expecting VAERS data to be misused to suggest 25 pediatric deaths were caused by the vaccine. Here are the facts👇

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.

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

must be something wrong with my internet, I just woke up and tried to find the massive Democratic party pushback to all these attacks on the first amendment and nothing's coming up in my browser

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Good thread. Took me a long time to realize that the lesson we were taught as kids and young adults -- that being smart and working hard would necessarily lead to success -- was largely a lie.

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

A new study suggests that permanent standard time may reduce obesity and stroke

Anybody in #history Bluesky got anything?

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Starting to get anxious about the possible end of telehealth for patients insured by Medicare on 9/30. Many in the rare disease community can ONLY access qualified care through telehealth, because there are so few experts. Is #MedSky assuming it'll be extended again? I'm not that optimistic.

From @publisherslunch.bsky.social on publishers' failure to register copyright & impact on the Bartz settlement: Macmillan says it's been "communicating" w/ authors & agents about this & will make authors whole if excluded from settlement due to failure to register

This looks like so much fun.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

One of the things that always strikes me about Dewey's democracy is the way he thinks about tolerance. It is not that Dewey would say we should tolerate all ideas, rather; we should hear an idea and consider if it has any place in a democratic society.

A #WriterBeware thread! 🧵 1. Have you just received an email like the one below from Excalibre Writers' Hub, touting itself as a "learning platform" with webinars, workshops, and author services, inviting you to become a member? Here are some thoughts. www.excalibrewritershub.com

No lie, this is a large reason I write what and how I do these days - the world is ever with us and it's good to have something to distract you for a little bit.

They have to catch him soon. Violence begets violence. The FBI needs to focus rather than tweet. More from @cnn.com

4 USC § 7 specifies that no other flag should fly above the US flag, meaning that if the US flag is at half staff, other flags should be as well. Note that this does not require any particular statement to be made, but does explain why you can expect to see all state flags also half-staffed.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

The knight stood, triumphant, over the prostrate dragon. He raised his sword high above his head and- "I wouldn't if i were you" The voice was in his head. Confused, he glanced around. A black cat was cleaning a paw, casually nearby. He raised the sword again. "Are you REALLY, really sure?" /1

This is important information. It's not easy to prove damages in court! That's why copyright law provides for "statutory damages," which are sort of a presumed amount of damages if and only if the copyright is registered. (Not giving individual advice here.)

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Hello I have a late Monday (standing friend time) and so I am just getting around to reading about the Anthropic settlement. There have been no orders filed and the transcript isn’t available so I have to go by what the reporters said.

So I want to briefly mention what next steps look like for people who are left out of the loop on this settlement. There are many of you.

I think that if you are trying to understand the Anthropic book settlement, and you are not doing it in light of the (extremely) failed Google book settlement from 2011, you will never be able to understand what is happening.

The extent to which EFF has decided to back tech over individuals is disappointing. Judge Alsup's decision, which IMO is not fairly characterized by EFF's post, was very favorable to Anthropic. The only liability they faced was for stealing instead of buying the books they used for training.

SFWA's press release on the Anthropic class settlement www.sfwa.org/2025/09/06/p...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

My blog post about the Bartz v. Anthropic class action suit, updated with details on the recent settlement and a link to the official class action website writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...