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The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

U of MN’s Vaccine Integrity Project could be a great resource around which to build an upper-midwest health consortium.

It feels like maybe Pulte is the one who should be investigated.

RFK, Jr., is testifying before the Senate Finance Committee today. Remember, Senators, in his responses to your questions: If he talks like a quack and ducks like a quack, he’s a quack.

The AP published a story yesterday that Putin had agreed to Article 5-like security guarantees from the US for Ukraine. Moreover, Putin would agree to Russian legislation that it would not threaten the security of Europe. These are meaningless guarantees, however. 1/2

Perhaps we’ll finally find out if a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador. on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We have to put our real history in the witness protection program.

And here's the abstract. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

You’re the #%!&@*! President of the United States!

@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

Brad is an incredible public servant and this is absolutely horrifying

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

@weissmann.substack.com hi, Andrew- I’m a fan and just heard you on Tim Miller. I thought I’d pass on that Les Miserables is not set during the French Revolution (1789) but during 1815-1832, culminating in the June Rebellion of 1832. It’s a common mistake. (Keep up the good fight.)

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

Liz Oyer, former DOJ Pardon Attorney, said on “Pod Save the World” that the Constitution puts “no limits “ on the pardon power. Um…Perhaps she meant to say that the SCt. believes there are no limits, even though the Constitution clearly implies a pardon in exchange for a bribe is not allowed.

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

Wow! Not only was Noem wrong, if she believed hers was the right answer it would be nonsensical in light of Miller’s threat to suspend the writ.

A participant in Kara Swisher’s recent podcast said,”authenticity is king.” Authenticity is overrated. Schmoozing with the Saudis may be more authentic than meeting the arrival of the bodies of service members, but I would prefer the latter to the former *even if* it

I woke up feeling punchy so I just wrote and submitted my comment on the OPM rule to reinstate Schedule F, which would dangerously politicize the civil service. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the helpful explainers of what return to schedule F would mean. Submit your comment no later than 5/23

@jdmortenson.bsky.social Sincere condolences on the passing of David Souter.

Gift link to the this extraordinary essay, which I urge you to read. I don't think any serious person outside MAGAworld buys the idea that the military is overrun with wokeness, and so this is good indicator that the goal here is not anti-wokeness, but control. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Re Indivisible’s “ No Kings Day” 6/14 protest theme: our political situation now is nearly the opposite of that in 1776. Then, the bad actor was an unrepresentative Parliament abetted by a complacent monarch. Now, the problem is an autocratic Prez abetted by a complacent Congress.

Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms. The area's population is over 72% Black. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Would such a program have continued for a poor white community? The answer, whether yes or no, indicates that “DEI” is not the reason it is being shut down.

In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.

It will be unpopular to point this out, but the government has affirmative duties under the 8th Amendment to protect inmates from cruel & unusual punishment. It can’t transfer inmates to the custody of foreign countries without maintaining some supervision over the conditions of their incarceration.

It’s not clear to me how the president’s loosely sketched Article II foreign affairs powers have precedence over the Constitution’s explicit guarantees of due process.

This is the foreseeable result of reckless federal layoffs. Don’t expect states to pick up the burden; assuming they have the money, that would just result in needless duplication and uneven enforcement.

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

We have every reason to believe that *they* are committing crimes against presumptively innocent people whom they have no intention of giving a fair trial. We have more reason to believe that about them than they have ever produced about people whom we should be thinking of as their victims.

Good on these lawyers for abiding their oath. As lawyers, you don’t get a pass on following your ethical duties because higher-ups demanded it. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct say:

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, @fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

I still have to confirm this but it looks optically right and yall…this is insane.

A lot of federal government work (and not the most expensive stuff) involves thinking and planning for foreseeable problems. When that work is ended, we will become vulnerable and voters will ask, why weren’t we prepared. This, right here and right now, is why.

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

What?!?! Nobody read my “5 Things”? I worked hard on those.

Did the Administration chat group that National Security Adviser Waltz set up intend to include a different JG - US Trade Representative Jameison Greer, perhaps? Not sure why he would be included, though I seem to remember there being something about trade mentioned.

Combing through my text messages now to see if I’ve received any war plans.

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

Submitted my “5 Things I Did Last Week” to [email protected] for the 5th week in a row. My recurring “I am Spartacus” moment.

Isn’t there a Congressional power, hiding silently in the Article II appointments clause, to designate a term of office and to require for-cause dismissal?

I think Paul, Weiss was aiming for some ambiguity with its pro bono pledge, listing only certain issues “and other mutually agreed projects” for which the pledge covers. It signals, however, its vulnerability to (in effect) paying protection money.

Why is a constitutional crisis commonly defined only as executive defiance of a court order? Why doesn’t it include executive defiance of legislative power? Is it only because the legislature has submitted to the defiance? What is it, then, if the judiciary submits?