Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Man has never been accused of subtlety

Does Chotiner have a really good pokerface and deadpan delivery? I'm imagining saying that line about Cambodia and Star Wars and how it was received.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Me to my fellow Warren stan chat group: Do we want to talk about his UN speech or nah?

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Many of these wanna be oligarchs and techbros need therapy to heal their family traumas, instead of pushing their issues on all of us

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Chicago Pope is sublime www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

She's running

We need to put more funding into American k-12 education #evergreen www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Couple of things: - I believe she did argue behind the scenes - This book is too little, too late - Once she was top of the ticket, she could've made changes such as allowing a speaker at convention - She could've reached out to Rep. Tlaib for a private conversation.

"Well, this is the news I've been waiting for to sign up for Disney+" - no one, ever

Trust me, I feel this. Deeply. I don’t promise to have it figured out. But I am blocking two hours a day for what I call “this shit here”: the headlines from the majors, the 9 or so newsletters in areas I follow, a scroll through my subscribed content in Gmail, & then I clock back out.

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too. "Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth." (cites my piece on this) danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

Shouldn't have read that Wired article. NSFL and infuriating. Now I can't sleep.

Fun fact of the day: when goats and llamas eat whole apples, they look like they are singing opera.

Have eaten 3 little mooncakes (laudatory, 🥱) Perfect hand food

This is one of my biggest bete noires. Scientific and medical safety research should be inclusive and representative of the population. This means women and people of all sizes and shapes.

Or they could pull a reverse Winnie Greco and present an open bag of chips with a🧧 inside

In under 24 hours, I've eaten most of a giant bag of the $3 Boom Chick Pop popcorn from Costco. It's vacuum sealed. I'm now 50% 🍿 and 50% stress.

Riverside mega church @repmarktakano.bsky.social

Mr. Trump framed the “gold card” program as a way for the government to raise billions of dollars, and Mr. Lutnick said the program would likely replace all other green card visa programs

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

Hey, what do you think is more likely guys: Indian firms and US firms start hiring more US workers Or Indian firms and US firms start the biggest offshore program to do the work in India and China you’ve ever seen in your life causing a net drop in jobs for US workers

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Yes, that’s exactly what the EO says.

You want slaves

Black women are the actual canaries, if you haven’t figured that out. bsky.app/profile/darl...

Sadly this is the point. Drain the universities and force them to hire less or unqualified Americans. The American reverse brain drain on super fast forward. The relinquishing of all sorts of American soft power.

The new, annual $100k application fee for H1B work visas is going to hurt primary care the most of any med field. Most H1Bs go to tech, but a hefty % to Drs. Foreign med grads disproportionately wind up in med, peds, + family practice. Esp in rural hospitals. It's all out assault on basic health

You know why I love this quote? My family is from a country where they finally overthrew fascism with carnations. I always encourage antifascists to look into the Carnation Revolution if you haven’t. Numbers are so so much more powerful than guns.

now even more than ever, North American tech conferences need to start making plans to be split across multiple sites, one in the US for people that can't leave, and one outside the US for people who can't enter. Simulcast between the two locations.

Has anyone received a v sophisticated phishing email from someone purporting to be from your alma mater + found you via Linkedin? I received one maybe a month ago, my friend just got one today, sent a screenshot. The wording was very similar to mine. It went to a diff email than my linkedin one.

Eric Adams' endorsement is damning and disqualifying. Keeping Jacobs is a gift to the GOP. nypost.com/2025/09/19/u...

Please for the love of God. The best way for Hochul to keep the Governorship is to bring in a fresh team at NYDems, starting w a new chair. There is no party orthodoxy if the Chair doesn't support one of the marquee positions in not just NYS but the country. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

She should not have to be explaining this. She tried to protect people, particularly vulnerable people. A bunch of white men instead took it as an insult to their masculinity, decided to virtue signal. Stop making Black women bear the burden + brunt of everything.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally

The world's on fire, and Joshy is seeking interior decorating tips. NEXT!

i honestly think the level of energy these guys have about getting people to RSVP to a protest doesn’t make any kind of sense unless you take into account that most of the people saying “don’t RSVP“ are Black women and then you see they’re just dunking on Black women Then the energy makes sense

This absolutely warped view comes from one of the biggest suppliers of horserace coverage, and its trailings

Wonder if a lot of folks will wake up over the Kimmel cancellation. He is the most "average guy" of the late night hosts. His humor isn't as sharp-edged or innately political as Oliver, Colbert, Meyer, Stewart. He's the likable class clown and the Superintendent just expelled him.

No. But this is exactly how the Cultural Revolution went. ('Scuse me while I have a panic attack from my ancestors.)

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.