Unfortunately I think Rasmussen is spot on about the Trump game plan re vaccines and Tylenol: MMR/MMRV can cause fever and febrile seizures, Tylenol is a scary autism pill that can’t be given, ergo we should not recommend the vaccine that prevents the scariest and deadliest diseases in children.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

"one day, everyone will have always been against this"

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

I don’t want to go into details (because, uh, internet), but IV Tylenol quite literally saved my life when I was in labor and likely spared my baby birth complications. And: it’s like the ONLY med you can take as a pregnant person. The entire point is to blame women and make them suffer.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Crucially, there is STILL TIME TO STOP THIS. The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...

More of this!!!

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

I voted no on the misleading Charlie Kirk Resolution. While I stand firmly and without hesitation against all forms of violence, I cannot support language that requires us to praise a man who so often showed disdain and disrespect for others. This resolution is misleading.

This week, @rushkoff.com joins us on the podcast for a timely, humane, and slightly terrifying conversation about apocalyptic tech fantasies, accelerationism, and and alternatives to becoming a bunker bro to escape the mess we’re in. Tune in! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Our conversation is based on @rushkoff.com’s book, Survival of the Richest, which is excellent— maddening and funny in equal measure. In a time where it feels like were all looking for an escape hatch, this book offers an important antidote. bookshop.org/a/113982/978...

This week, @rushkoff.com joins us for a timely, humane, and slightly terrifying conversation about apocalyptic tech fantasies, accelerationism, and and alternatives to becoming a bunker bro to escape the mess we’re in. Tune in! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Of fucking course they do. Sigh.

A short list of reasons why you can’t be a teacher that wants to fight authoritarianism and use generative AI in your classroom: -the producers of this product are front and center enabling democratic backsliding -they are the men who will be enriched by this product being widely adopted 🧵

5/ But if you’re not covered by the above... ❌ no MMRV for you unless you pay out of pocket Like it or not, NayCIP, you've taken away some parents' choices The kicker of course, is the hot mic moment at the end where they were arguing about what actually would happen as a result of their votes 🤡🤦‍♂️

I’ll take the good news where I can find it this week.

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country: www.thecut.com/article/preg...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

It’s actually time for a national strike, not just because of Kimmel, but because of all the constitutional violations and fashy shit. We’ll go back to work when everyone gets their rights reinstated. And that means everyone.

Newborn lives are on the line. The hepatitis B birth dose is safe, effective, and lifesaving yet it’s under attack at ACIP this week. Weakening this policy would be a grave mistake. Read why we must defend it. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

The DOJ official who leads investigations of civil rights violations promising to use her powers to defund American higher ed at the behest of a bigot. One example of how MAGA is weaponizing Kirk's murder as an excuse to go after their perceived enemies. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

very instructive article here. you don't repair a broken democracy with timid rules-bound proceduralism www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

I am begging you to understand how madness spreads in a society. It's not just blind panic among the ignorant that there's a monster coming. It's smart-sounding people insisting you are a bad person unless you, also, believe in the monster and join the panic.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Retail jobs already suck; this startup has a plan to make them significantly worse! 10/10 neither of these guys ever worked a shitty retail job to pay the bills. www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

This exchange says it all.

Stephen Miller was directly involved in one of the largest acts of organized domestic political violence the United States has seen in modern times, the Jan 6 insurrection. Any news org that doesn't make this fact central is helping Miller deceive its customers.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Data financialization and police state have fully merged, I see.

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

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What makes me so enraged is that everyone like Ezra Klein who spent the last news cycle normalizing and praising Kirk have now completely shifted the Overton window so Fuentes et al are seen as a more legitimate far right faction rather than what they are, which is inconceivably extremist Nazis.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

Free speech is so cool.

Garbage Day is a publication that actually understands the context of what’s happening here. This newsletter and podcast remain on my personal must-read and must-listen list.

We're ending this *doozy* of a week with a much-needed dose of wisdom, sanity, and perspective. THE @proftriciarose.bsky.social joins us to talk about systemic racism, the meta-narratives that shape so much of American life, AND what we can do about them. Tune in. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I nearly fell out of my chair yesterday while listening to Robert Draper tell Michael Barbaro on The Daily: “Charlie Kirk was, in a sense, killed in the line of duty” Are kidding me??? What duty?? Professionally trolling and persecuting everyone but white men?