REMINDER: James Comey's daughter, Maurene Comey, who was one of the lead attorneys that prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was wrongfully terminated from the DOJ just one week before Todd Blanche cozily met with Maxwell. Now, her father is being vindictively prosecuted by Trump.

Won’t someone please stop the flooding of foreign upholstered furniture into our borders! In the name of national security, seize that bathroom vanity! Grab your pitchforks! We’re headed to Lowe’s!

It's wild that me talking about the intersection between disability and race has so many white disabled people upset. I'm not minimizing your experience when I talk about the added struggles of being Black on top of being disabled. I face extra barriers. I'm allowed to talk about it.

It's absolutely fucking insane that Trump can just arbitrarily raise the prices of whatever he wants. This is untenable.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

In 2016, as he was getting ready to leave the White House, he did an interview with WIRED where he was asked about #Neurodiversity and he said "Part of what makes us human are the kinks. They’re the mutations, the outliers, the flaws that create art or the new invention, right?"

Barack Obama's trajectory on autism and toward autism acceptance is an example of the changing politics of autism. When he campaigned for president in 2008, he said "We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines" 1/

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

A lawsuit laying out, step by step, just how cluelessly, dangerously wrong Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion and the majority's vote from earlier this month were. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

Trump, who last year vowed to exact "retribution" against perceived enemies, gets what he demanded, an indictment of Comey, even though federal prosecutors concluded there was no case. Devlin Barrett @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

There is no low to which they won't stoop.

The Trump Admin illegally released Mikie Sherrill's unredacted military records to her political opponents. This Administration is corrupt and incompetent, while Mikie Sherrill is tough, smart, and capable. New Jersey is fortunate to have the opportunity to elect her Governor.

He even once admitted he would make up stories, like immigrants eating pets, if it suited his narrative.

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

Neither Sale nor Gloucester are even close to being teams I love, but I reeeeeeeally needed to watch some rugby tonight after this hellish week. A massive cup of tea, chocolate biscuits, a few very nice tries, George Ford getting POTM, and Ashy chatting sense - my autistic calm has returned! 💜♾️

I can't say for sure that with Musk, Thiel and Ellison making their moves that Britain is being treated as a potential MAGA/Broligarch colony for their experiments in data harvesting and algorithmic capture - but it sure looks like it

Outrageous.

BREAKING President Trump has signed an order which allows TikTok to remain operating in the United States under a US investor group. The president confirmed that Rupert Murdoch is part of the investment group.

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

Even if Trump agreed to ACA subsidies (even if he said, “my bad, here’s all $1 trillion of that Medicaid money back”), what’s to prevent him, a day later, from double-crossing the Democrats? The answer is nothing. There is no guarantee. Which is all the more reason for the Democrats to say no.

SecWar Hegseth has issued orders for hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to convene at Quantico, VA next week. The Pentagon gave no agenda for the gathering, which includes commanders from overseas. -WaPo

🚨 Calling all admirals & generals together as a budget shutdown, command reorganizations & mass firings loom⁉️ What are they plotting? 🎁🔗 Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/4nidndf

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what an absolutely glorious print cover for @wired.com

GMB backs Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader, first of the big unions to formally endorse

Thank you for the reminder of the time Jason Manford issued a notes apology because his tribute to Brucie being under the Palladium unintentionally sounded like he is in Hell.

Obama says Trump linking paracetamol to autism is ‘violence against the truth’

One last thing on Trump's embarrassing UN speech: watching it - in particular, listening to him read it - makes it clear that Trump has absolutely no interest in foreign policy. The only time he seemed remotely engaged was when he was complaining or bragging. That matters.🧵

Going to tell all my pregnant friends to load up on Tylenol so that their kids get autism and the United States can finally get some high speed rail before I die.

NEWS Jimmy Kimmel’s return episode was watched by 6.3 million viewers on broadcast TV. These numbers are triple his normal viewership, and it’s important to note 23% of households didn’t have access to show due to preemption by Sinclair/Nexstar. Monologue was viewed over 25 million times online.

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nowhere in DHS Cosplayer Noem’s statement would you know that ALL of the victims of today’s shooting were actually detainees. Not a single ICE officer was injured. Do we know the motive? No. Has that stopped Noem from leaping to conclusions & weaponizing the attack against political enemies? No.

That escalated quickly.

The new Tylenol ad just dropped. Sound up!

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that there is NO EVIDENCE for Donald Trump’s claim about Sharia law in London fullfact.org/world/donald...

Having spent the past few days taking a bunch of painkillers (thanks to a painful flare-up of one of my physical health conditions), all I have to say really is . . . Paracetamol is frigging amazing! My awesome manager Mel says everything else here www.instagram.com/reel/DO--fyL...

I always remember my MSc supervisor making me put something in my thesis about how much autism costs society. He said it was to make the project seem important, as if my reasons for doing the research, as an autistic person, weren't important.

Might take some paracetamol and see if I can convert my autism to the maths one, feel it could make a change from the history one

The National Autistic Society (UK) have issued a sensible and firm response to T*ump and RFK's nonsense, which may be a comfort if you're worried, or feeling down. www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n... If you're pregnant and anxious about pain relief, please speak to your midwife for reassurance.

Neurodiversity is looking for a new editor! The deadline for expressions of interest is 5 October 2025. Full details are here journals.sagepub.com...

politico has now edited their story to eliminate references to “the autism problem” and deleted their bsky post about it someone got caught

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Nigel Farage comparing paracetamol to thalidomide reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn comparing the evidence Russia was behind the Salisbury poisonings to claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Tapping into different seams of the "Don't Believe what THEY tell you" mindset, but with the same goal.

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Watters calls in a bomb threat against the UN. Sounds like somebody needs to take his show off the air, right?

Only in the 5th and 6th paragraphs do we get the perfectly innocent explanation that a member of the U.S. delegation inadvertently triggered the escalator stoppage. Yet Karoline Leavitt and Fox act like it’s an international incident. 2/2

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.