Dr. Smith subjected herself to the whole thing so you don't have to.

Now they'll be ordering leucovorin by the barrel.

Trotting out all the classic anti-vax nonsense. This band has been touring for decades, and they play all their fan favorites. Yes, there is autism among the Amish.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

A distinctly American experience:

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I am excited to announce the answer to autism! The answer is YES!

Any clue about who owns the gun range, Houston Chronicle?

Reading the article you’d never know that the gun range in question is operated by the Katy Police Dept.

Trump’s delusional if he thinks this ends with Bubba from Oklahoma landing a tech job. Tech firms will just move operations overseas to reach top-tier talent. 📌 After Trump slapped a $100K fee on new visas, several passengers bailed minutes before takeoff, afraid they couldn’t get back into the US.

Reading this very important article on Covid origins and the genetic tracing of wildlife and viruses at the Huanan market. And...it turns out these markets sell Himalayan marmots. These animals are the source of the most transmissible and dangerous forms of...plague. And I'm just...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

There is no one more motivated to understand autism than Dr. Hotez, as a doctor, scientist and autism dad. Unfortunately, being an autism parent means having to understand the grifters that live to profit from our situation. Dr. Hotez absolutely nails it here

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

As expected, and as history predicted. Sex and gender tests are fundamentally about keeping women *out* of sport.

All of this so billionaires can get a tax cut.

“After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America” This reminds me of the way Trump wanted to deal with the Covid pandemic: “If they stopped testing, the numbers wouldn’t be so bad!”

Democratic politicians, I'm begging you to watch this. Look at this new guy, already handling crappy questions better than you do. Trans people, Muslims and immigrants aren't talking money from my pocket, aren't harming me. Billionaires and their puppet politicians are.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

The right's position on political violence has always been and will always be that it's wrong, unless it happens to people they don't like in which case it's hilarious and awesome

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Excruciating.

Triple Pulitzer Carol Leonnig, @carolleonnig.bsky.social, hits the ground running in her new job at MSNBC. Tom Homan is on video accepting $50,000 cash from undercover FBI agents.

Why the Oklahoma Superintendent of Education was streaming a movie showing nude women during a Board of Education meeting, explained. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

I was told celebrating political violence is wrong—yet here’s a Fox News host celebrating violence against a Democratic congressional candidate.

"In 2023, Texas set aside $7.2 billion to subsidise new fossil gas plants...that fund has been a big fat flop...Developers say high costs & equipment shortages mean gas can’t compete with wind, sunshine & batteries, even with help from the fossil fuel lobbyists." www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

School vaccination laws were passed in the 1960s & 70s, but vaccine exemption rates did not begin falling until the rise of social media and their amplification of anti-vaxxers & their disinformation leading to outbreaks. #Ivax2protect #freedom #CommunityImmunity counterhate.com/research/the...

The ACIP meeting is RFR Jr.’s big FU to Sen. Bill Cassidy. RFK Jr broke the promises Cassidy said RFK Jr. made in his Senate floor speech, refused to delay the ACIP meeting as Cassidy requested, and is targeting the #HepB vaccine in the childhood schedule. #cancer www.reuters.com/business/hea...

A few years ago, when Kulldorff still said MMR vaccine is safe & effective, he was challenged to a debate with anti-vaxxers and declined, calling them "disrespectful" and "dishonest." kirschsubstack.com/p/james-lyon...

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

States are getting together to protect public health.

Withholding treatments known to be effective against disease has some ethical problems.

One key thing actual Americans should understand right now: he is not all-powerful, and does not have the capacity to achieve his goals. He is using the classic bully tactic of threats in order to force capitulation in advance. Bullies don't win fights; they win forfeits. Show up, and they fold.

With #ACIP happening, check out the fantastic toolkit of tip sheets from @sciline.org for reporting on #vaccines. I'm a bit biased because I contributed three of them, but there are seven in total, and they're all great, each addressing a different focus area. www.sciline.org/resource-lis...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce New York’s involvement in the initiative on Thursday morning. The effort is similar to the West Coast Health Alliance — a bloc of four Democratic-controlled Western states, including California — that issued its own vaccine guidance this week.

Here’s an outcome I didn’t predict for our medical establishment. Irrelevance.

My sympathies with parents having to worry about the increasing risk of measles exposure when your baby is too young to be vaccinated.

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me

We've reached the point where CDC medical experts are declining to speak publicly about vaccine safety because they’re afraid of being violently targeted by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-ex...

Kirk's murder is being weaponized to corral us into a smaller and smaller arena of speech, and it is our job to refuse to be confined, to keep speaking out, to keep making irreverent jokes, supporting progressive voices, chastising the high-profile cowards, and talking among ourselves.

This is all he said.

How’d I do?

The U.S. has at least 8 separate but complementary vaccine safety surveillance systems. Not one of them has ever reported an increase in either adult or pediatric deaths after COVID19 vaccination. But Marty Makary falsely claims that this work hasn’t been done. We cover this in our report.

California cut its link to ACIP, in legislation that can be a model to other states. From now, CDPH can recommend vaccines, and health insurers will have to cover them if they want to be active in the state. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/17/f...