Nexstar clearly trying to find the "next star" amirite bsky.app/profile/benm...

also talked about consolidation, the right-wing takeover of the MSM, and the knotty state of media ownership in the year 2025, with both @nharnie.bsky.social (www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sta...) and @maryharris.bsky.social:

reupping for the occasion of Kimmel's triumphant monologue and the persistent rage directed at Nexstar and Sinclair

Yeah, Kimmel is back. And Trump made him much stronger. This was excellent. 410K views on YouTube in the first 30 minutes. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

As I was saying…

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

He nails it. Touching, funny, directs people to pay attention to the attacks on the press even more so than attacks on comedians. It's all the same thing, really: www.youtube.com/@jimmykimmel...

Minneapolis's zoning reforms are addressing housing affordability by increasing supply. Researchers found that the reform lowered housing cost growth to 16% to 34% lower, while rents were 17.5% to 34% lower. Please Read. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Trump and RFK Jr. have scared the families of #ActuallyAutistic children so much that they are afraid of getting their children diagnosed. But that carries tons of risk and preventing autistic kids getting the services they need. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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THIS @ericmgarcia.bsky.social piece on what's at stake for autistic people right now renders the moment heartbreakingly clear. 'These ghost autistic people will be the legacy of RFK Jr. that haunts America for generations.'

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

I appreciate that this NYT chat features an autistic journalist and author — and gives him the room for full-throated responses! And of course @ericmgarcia.bsky.social crushed it. gift link

As the LGBTQ Youth Population Doubles, Number of Bills Targeting Them Triples @the74.bsky.social @bethhawkins.bsky.social #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/as-t...

New from me @the74.bsky.social , via @mapresearch.bsky.social & its partners: 'As the LGBTQ Youth Population Doubles, Number of Bills Targeting Them Triples' Some cool interactives in here, people!

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.

Amid Trump’s calls to ID and institutionalize people with psychiatric disabilities, HHS revives a second discredited theory of autism’s cause

The grocery store chain and a firm that provides applied behavior analysis are locked in a multimillion-dollar legal battle over unpaid medical bills for children of Publix workers. #autism #disabilities

For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor @ejwillingham.bsky.social "fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Although we often say #housing policy is #education policy, you don’t often see such clear advocacy from school boards for #upzoning. #Seattle has grown faster than its suburbs since 2010 yet school enrollment continues to decline

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

it’s yet another good day to donate to @transjournalists.org i have a recurring donation set up & it brings me a flicker of gladness every time i get an email saying the month’s donation went through, would recommend www.transjournalists.org/donate/

Apropos of nothing, #ActuallyAutistic moms tend to give birth to autistic children and we actually don't know a lot about their experiences. But the studies we do have would make us believe they experience more pain, physical difficulties and nausea. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

BREAKING: Trump goes on a wild and unhinged rant spouting misinformation and easily debunked lies about autism. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Updated, from me: Trump also suggested, contrary to longstanding evidence, that autism is not diagnosed in Amish people & Cubans — something he wrongly attributed to members of the religious sect eschewing vaccinations & his belief that people in Cuba can’t afford acetaminophen.

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also, so happy about how nicely they repped autism in this show? it’s never even confirmed that mel is autistic but you clock it immediately, it’s clear. and she is so SENSITIVE and EMPATHETIC and DISARMING and nobody draws attention. a balance of masking but visible that we don’t often see in media

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Although Tom Ragsdale’s oil companies owe New Mexico more than $3.5 million for pollution and unpaid fees, the state has recovered only about $50,000. Drillers across the industry have employed similar tactics in what is known as “the playbook.” (Published Dec. 2024)

REPOSTED: President Donald Trump plans to announce Monday that using Tylenol during pregnancy could contribute to autism risk. Trump will also highlight leucovorin, a cancer and anemia drug, as a potential therapy for people with autism. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It looks like d,l-leucovorin "can substantially improve particular symptoms in children with ASD, especially those positive for folate receptor alpha autoantibodies." But that seems very different than a "therapy" for autism. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Promising for a specific subgroup of children with autism who have cerebral folate deficiency (CFD). Its not promising for other kids with autism.

Important point here. There seems to be *some* promise, but it's by no means the panacea folks like RFK Jr. will bill it as. bsky.app/profile/noah...

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

A sure sign you’re not from Minneapolis and/or Minnesota is calling either or both “minny”

Fellow journalists: we need to frame how harmful this language is.

Tomorrow is going to be a shitty day for many autistic people. The report on itself is bad, but so is the language we're going to see officials use to describe autism.

I've been thinking about why the Jimmy Kimmel moment was such a gut punch, and it's partly because the government pressure for corporate self-censorship is so obvious. It's the logical continuation of the Paramount settlement–but also a significant escalation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

NEW: Federal judges have levied an “ego-driven, petty” attack that targets a transgender civil rights attorney. We spoke with legal journalist, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, to discuss the importance of this case:

Cruz admonishes the FCC for taking down Kimmel, calling Carr’s actions “dangerous as hell.”

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Five tips for how to keep your son from being radicalized online. Really good presentation of the same things threat assessment experts will tell you: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMeUTxqK/