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Here's the large study that debunks the assertion that Tylenol has a causal link to autism (etc.) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... from which: increase in risk of disorders associated with acetaminophen use observed in models without sibling control may have been due to unmeasured confounding #medsky

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Important list, with many good additions in replies.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Today I think of the time my wife sat in the chair on a stage that had been assigned to Robert Redford. He did not ask her to move but sat in her place instead. They had a respectful and joyous discussion afterwards. (bad labelling by the event organizers, in case you're wondering)

I think this makes a good case. (Why it makes sense to stay off Xitter, which I left nearly a year ago.) www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

An alternate version of Wilhoit's famous "protects but does not bind" vs. "binds but does not protect" is "rights without responsibilities" vs. "responsibilities without rights", as we've seen very clearly over the past months (generally) and week (with respect to speech)

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Democrats and progressives rushed to lament the murder of Charlie Kirk, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social, but the right rushed even faster to blame the left for its opposition to Trump's authoritarian movement, a movement backed to the hilt by Kirk’s Turning Point USA.

Quietly, a world first: a portable, low-cost, open source, multifunction system that does neural stimulation, among (potentially very many) other things. Demonstrated live on stage, in Boston, yesterday. #medsky (Disclosure: my wife did the demo, founded firm, etc.) www.linkedin.com/posts/majeps...

On the dangers of "knowingness" and absolutism: Isaac Asimov's "The Relativity of Wrong" @densediscovery.bsky.social (Plus- the Edsel) Rethink: roughlydaily.com/2025/09/04/t...

What Epstein records have not been made public?

Where I live (San Francisco bay) #sanfrancisco

The sun's going to shine, and winds keep blowing, and tidal waters rising and falling for the next billion years or two. Solar and wind energy will keep on dropping in cost, effectively forever. Countries that lean into this will win; those that don't, won't.

Leaving a YouTube playlist called "RFK Sounds" on in my backyard at medium volume. It scares away all known predators, bugs to bears. I am working with European scientists to discover if this may ultimately eliminate malaria.

Governor Newsom @governor.ca.gov, Governor Kotek, and I launched a new West Coast Health Alliance today to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics. The Trump Administration has undermined the independence of the CDC and dismantled its vaccine panel.

Punctuated equilibrium- species/lineages appearing in sudden bursts not through gradual changes- modeled: "The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees" @jakebuehler.bsky.social ‬ @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Barbara McClintock) Dissecting development: roughlydaily.com/2025/09/03/t...

Pertinent advice from a century ago, inscribed by a detained would be-immigrant into the walls of the Detention Center at Angel Island, near San Francisco. I visited it, again, this weekend. (more in ALT text and one follow-on note)

San Francisco Bay this morning.

A brushback pitch "'is a pitch thrown close enough to the batter to intimidate him.' That’s a fair description of the lawsuit the Trump administration aimed at all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland in their personal, not just official, capacities." New from me at Cato.

Ceasefires do not only matter because they pause the killing. They can also signal acceptance that a war will not have a military resolution

This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates. Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

I wrote more about Trump's Intel "deal." I think it's a taking and here's why. www.techdirt.com/2025/08/26/w...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Listen to some of the best independent and community radio stations in the US: ldial (Plus- Spam) Tune in: roughlydaily.com/2025/08/22/n...

Ye Goode and Anciente Art of making the bredde from yeasts in yr foreste. A bread thread

Post: www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

So, I'm doing some analysis comparing ethically and non-ethically sourced products and having to type in 40% (+/-) import duties on goods coming in from China was wild. Unsure what's next: low demand from {uncertainty + unemployment} + increased prices due to duties = stagflation?

Correction: I posted a note about Turner's painting The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on) as pointing to some horrors of the slavery industry. It may have helped cement anti-slavery emotions but Britain had abolished slavery decades earlier 1 /4

Among other things, two million slaves died BEFORE even getting to the New World. www.statista.com/statistics/1...

The unity among EU leaders in today’s virtual Summit was palpable. Everyone is committed to a lasting peace that protects both Ukraine’s and Europe’s vital security interests.

Do you have burning questions about drone technology - such as "can I shoot a drone if it's bothering me"? I answer at least some of those questions in my new FAQ on drones, which I'll be uploading periodically: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/i-answer-som...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like: “Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery” and “Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead” But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:

On one side are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and other such states. On the other: Ukraine, Poland, Britain, Canada, Taiwan, etc. Where is the United States in this? Neutral, at best? A mind-boggling juncture in history.

I’m sure there are black holes out in space that watch the entropic moral collapse of Marco Rubio’s principles with complete envy

It's monday morning, which means I have done the thing I do, again www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

So both Putin and Trump went to an AF Base in Alaska. Each had a set of demands. Trump accepted all of Putin's demands and then said he would convince Ukraine and Europe to accept them. And both then went home. Do I have this right?

CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon. ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk] CHIEF: Both of ‘em. ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

It was a Nothing Hamberder! #TrumpPutin #AlaskaSummit

Today, a hero came by our home. It was his home 35 or more years ago. We had a great visit. Who is this? Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 astronaut, first pilot of the Lunar Landing Module - and then post-NASA, an advisor to the California Governor.