The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

10. “Government can’t be trusted” 20. Win 30. Do untrustworthy things with government 40. Lose 50. Goto 10

Tylenol a bridge too far?

it's all heartbreaking.

“Someone should do something about this! Anyways,” - Merrick Garland family crest

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

Predictability and the rule of law are two huge reasons for America’s economic success, as any business leader will proudly declaim at a swanky ideas conference. The big question is whether they’ll ever do anything more about it.

Reading a lot about World War I lately, and it’s hard to overstate the damage that can be done by an insecure man with an army, a grudge, and nobody to tell him no

like, Bessent and Lutnick have this vision of humanities profs and federal workers working for private manufacturing industry and it's telling to me

Lot to work with for a competent opposition party

It's galling that the only Bush II voices opposing this stuff have been Karl Rove and John Yoo.

remember when we had *several* news cycles over bill clinton getting onto loretta lynch's jet

Suburban memes for commuter teens

Online gambling and sports betting are a scourge and, if they’re allowed to exist at all, should be taxed at confiscatory levels

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Like so many others, I comforted myself in 2003 that we’d one day see the rush to war in Iraq as a generational mistake. What I didn’t expect was that the architects of that mistake would slink into retirement or quiet cable news jobs, and the American people would just… let them. And forget.

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Great example of Tech Bro Policy: • Boundless overconfidence • Zero real knowledge or expertise • “This one stat I learned yesterday can solve everything” • Cruel, retrograde ideas spun as NEW! • Basic factual errors (bail & three-strikes are different things) • Easily duped by white supremacists

I am probably one of the bigger suburban life enjoyers in this webzone and even I threw an error code at the idea of a highway being "beloved"

This is why they’re deleting studies

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

Look I’m not happy about this either but our path back to democratic government lies through voters who, like her, are learning for the first time that it’s a bad idea to reshape the economy around racism

i;m the bari weiss dude

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

im just gonna say it. something seems off with that stephen miller guy

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

“Catiline Was Practicing Politics the Right Way” NYT | M. Tullius Cicero

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City

I always thought Eliezer Yudkowsky was a fraud so I listened to an interview with him and now I’m sure he is

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

Hey @chatterton.bsky.social, dust off the thesaurus and ring up Harper’s; it’s time to save Free Speech again!!

NYT - Radio and TV stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

This strikes me as the sort of video that gets played at the opening of a trial at a Hague, to show who and what precipitated the massacres the trial is about. Kilmeade should be fired and ostracized from everyone. The opposite tho will surely happen.

If and when the AI bubble pops, we’re right back to 2008 for the third Republican recession of my adult life

This is definitely true, from my experience of interacting with many national non-profit lawyers.

The White House has been in a unilateral cold war with “blue” cities and states for months now. It’s now becoming more explicit.

krassenstein trying to get in a dunk but he ends up being the one dunked on because there is no left-of-center role to play but the washington generals to the conservative's harlem globetrotters.

not disagreeing with Anna, who is correct, but also, I think this is a good illustration of the futility of staying on twitter as a left-of-center account. this is actually effective dominance politics from vance! there's no function you serve on there that does anything but aid the right's project

oh we're live this week's decision letting Trump unilaterally cancel $20 billion in congressional funding for climate projects is a new and egregious example of conservative judges building a pseudolegal house of cards to shelter Trump's brazenly illegal acts ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/clima...

I love Scrubs as much as the next guy but can Hollywood please COME UP WITH NEW THINGS

Battle Hymn should be the national anthem following Second Reconstruction

Truly admire Sam’s determination to destroy the idea that “Founders” have some deep and ineffable grasp of their product’s deeper meaning

I remember way back in the blogosphere days, joking about how the GOP answer to everything is "tax cuts." budget surplus? tax cuts. budget deficit? tax cuts. terrorist attack? you better believe that's tax cuts.

As president you generally want to keep the risk of civil unrest or a secession crisis below 1.0%. These are goals we should all be able to agree on.

It will only be a civil war if states like Illinois are actually prepared to resist with force. If they don't, it's just a run-of-the-mill military dictatorship oppressing a specific region.