I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

If this is half as fun as a game at Raimondi Park it will be a good time had by all. Ballers winning hearts all over town 💚💛

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.

We treat high fevers in the ICU with Tylenol and we don't make patients "tough it out" because that can be dangerous. Hope this helps.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:

The Trump admin is going to do what Russia and Hungary have done, dismantle liberal civil society to ensure that the only power centers that remain are either the autocrat himself or those aligned with him. It's about eliminating independent centers of political power from academia to the media.

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On one hand, this random Florida insurance lawyer has no experience as a prosecutor. On the other hand, she has the right hair

Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.

On Oct. 7, join us for ‘Killing the Story,’ a conversation with journalists who attempt to publish accurately & factually about the genocide in Palestine. We'll explore media bias, the Palestine exception, pressures from the Israel lobby, & other paths for coverage. tinyurl.com/killingthestory

The Pentagon must review and approve any article by journalists covering it in order to access the building. This is what authoritarian regimes do. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

Meanwhile @historians.org has suggested last month that one of the possible acceptable uses of gAI is to summarize "key points" of research articles, before reading.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Brett Kavanaugh insisted that any targeting of US citizens by ICE would be nothing more than a mild inconvenience. The US-born American who went into labor prematurely after being violently detained might disagree with that: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/i-was-born...

Sorry but rolling out Rarl Kove as a voice of reason is breaking my brain. That Jerermy Bobb stunt double looking mf architected decades of GOP jerrymandering that was motivated by fear of our first Black president. Send this whole timeline back. It makes no sense.

Absolutely delicious string of words to describe regional recall politics: "San Franciscans have been nurtured in their anger for some time now, to the exclusion of quantifiable facts." @esksf.bsky.social

Bookmarked!🔖So much local Bay Area history in Bruce Lee's journey we can't wait to listen to forum and read the book 👀

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

I should note Nexstar - Which had called for Kimmel to be preempted - is seeking a merger with TEGNA, which includes KING5 in Seattle.

Loving the first 48 hrs of Coyote! Proud to be a @coyotemedia.org member at the launch. One dream idea if the bandwidth ever appears: I'd pay extra $$$ for a once-a-year physical alt-weekly style newspaper. Needs to have Hotel Utah ads, multiple advice columns and weird 1990s classifieds. 🐾 🗞️ ❤️

Just in time for tonight's playoff game! COYOTE Media just launched Monday, and it's already a must-read Bay Area independent news/culture publication. This article alone made my subscription worth it! #GSV #WNBA and go Valkyries - get those V's up!

chicago, irving park: ice spotted at home depot at addison/kimball

What a weird coincidence that ICE should happen to abduct someone who was suing them.

On a fractal level we are living through a crisis of purpose what are we FOR why do we exist Technology, economics and demographic shift have distorted our ability to find good answers In the absence of good answers, we’re trapped in a sort of emergent, structural nihilism

Hoooo boy if you think the headline sounds awful, wait until you read the rest

I used to walk the channel that connects Lake Merritt to the estuary every day. I am still haunted by things I saw there. Oakland is proud of its shiny restoration of Lake Merritt but once you walk past Laney College that same waterway beomes a horror show. Glad @oaklandside.org is reporting this

I miss machine learning as the buzzword. It promised less

Re-introducing myself 👋 I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter, where I cover politics as it relates to disability. I am also chronically ill/disabled myself. You can get in contact with me at [email protected] or via Signal: juliametraux.49

I never knew that! So cool

The Fox is, as it stands, one of the grand houses to play in Oakland. I’ve seen Kacey Musgraves and Broken Bells there and whooooo is that a time. What a great venue.

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

"Outlets like FOX News have essentially pulled the entire media landscape to the right, telling these incredibly skewed stories so fast and so furiously." -- Robert Redford in *2003*

Xp Lee, a health equity analyst for the MN Dept. of Health and a former member of the Brooklyn Park City Council, won yesterday's special election to replace the late Melissa Hortman, joining the DFL caucus and bringing the House back to an even 67-67 tie. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/xp-le...

if only there had been like, literally fifty straight years of very clear warnings about this exact thing from countless global and domestic media academics

I just hate the way our society views the homeless. I’ve been homeless before and that shit ain’t easy to get out of. Ppl aren’t on the street bc they want to be. They’re not less human than you. And you could easily find yourself out there in today’s world. Have some compassion.

The Fox theater in Oakland, California. The location of IT security company office in the 1992 Robert Redford movie Sneakers. The sign in the window reads "Bargain Shop" but I think it was staged for the filming. By the end of the 90s wild 🍄🍄🍄 grew inside due to the city's "demolition by neglect"

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

For months I've heard crazy stories about SF's reorganized street medicine teams, which are now forced to focus on "the list" — a small number of homeless folks who've annoyed politicians or angry neighbors. This means every day they have to drive past people in urgent need of medical care. 1/3

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

People responding to this saying “the internet is forever”, but actually 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer online. Data, documents, and websites need to be archived and (importantly, this is a distinct thing) preserved or they will go away.

Spoke w/ @justinhendrix.bsky.social about how fast the Kirk video spread in a post-content moderation world—how platforms are failing to either provide content warnings or define glorified violence, & what the arguments are for allowing violent content to be seen www.techpolicy.press/assessing-te...

A long line of folks currently waiting at Kaiser Oakland for new Covid and/or flu vaccines. Everyone is patient, many are masked and someone is handing out iced pumpkin 🎃spice lattes

I am subscribed and so grateful for the density of publications, voices, and arts coverage 2025 is bringing into our lives. A balm, a salve, a reminder that there's so much we can do together to build the world we want, even amidst political obscenity.

Hey y'all! I have a three-part interview up now at La Cuenta, Stanford's online magazine and newsletter exploring issues of migration and politics. Parts 1 and 3 in the links below! Part 2: "Why are borders continually produced in the imagination?" lacuenta.substack.com/p/why-are-bo...

All of the systemic horrors continue. The descent into fascism which we must resist does not mean that everything was all cool and great before. "gift" link www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...