Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

YUP

They fucked up so bad and they know it. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

I just want to point out how they spent all week excoriating us for hating Charlie Kirk. This is the right wing playbook. They are allowed to hate us. But if we hate them, it’s a moral failing. Fuck, and I can’t stress this enough, that shit.

So the leader of the party that spent the week arguing for “civil debate” just got up in front of the cameras and talked about how much he hated his enemies, do I have that right? Cool.

Normal people don't want to *influence* anyone. Marketers, politicians, and cult leaders want to influence people. Normal people just want to have friends, or at least friendly conversations.

One thing that working with spicy peppers has taught me is that I touch my face way too much.

And the MAGAs will still scream that CNN is biased against them.

I'm calling it. These are state-sanctioned pogroms.

I planted these peppers as a distraction from the bad news in winter, and now I can eat this hot sauce to distract myself from the bad news in summer.

What movie do you consider perfect?

I just made a hot sauce that I think qualifies as self-harm.

We really, really need to stop leaning on "corporations" as the explanation for why agriculture is the way it is.

Thank you, Rep Crockett, for being one of the few to tell the cold plain truth.

This is not going to happen. And if it does, it will destroy TikTok. Users of TikTok are famously sensitive to tweaks in the algorithm. Nothing will kill it faster than a sudden shift toward content they don’t want.

What a cool, normal country we live in.

A famous bigot who hated trans people and loved guns was killed by someone who loved both guns a trans person. That’s not a story about political violence, it’s a story about how we have too many guns and bigotry is bad for your health.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

It is horseshoe theory when I get “don’t you dare celebrate this” lectures by both the right and the left?

Democracy Dies in Deference

There's huge news today-- Trump demanding his AG prosecute his enemies in public, Holman's possible bribe, allies recognizing Palestinian state-- and the WaPo and WSJ are currently leading with the memorial service for someone the WH is deliberately and carefully making into a martyr.

Well, yeah. Literally everyone who works on these things know this. They’ve always known this. They just don’t care. (They fired the people who cared.)

Literally disappearing people. I remember centrists scoffing at the idea when smart people said it would happen a year ago.

If you ever wondered why people around Trump keep getting convicted of crimes, this is why. This is what he does. Direct, illegal orders.

Fire Iger.

I say this somewhat often but it's worth pointing out more that the conservatives of every era have been wrong about just about everything. It is a political tendency fundamentally rooted in amnesia and lying.

This is the most futuristic thing that has ever happened on my farm.

Anyway. Harvest has begun.

Huh. I guess The Onion redesigned? And is at a new URL? Weird.

The thing about this that I have not seen discussed is that Marvel LITERALLY made their business on resisting fascism! Captain America was a pulp WW2 hero that punched Nazis!

And the mainstream media - and Congress itself! - helped by turning CK into a hero.

This whole thing is a fiasco.

Goodnight from Milk Barn Farm.

Pedro Pascal is a load bearing part of multiple franchises, so Bob Iger better get his act together before his choices manage to torpedo Marvel and Star Wars plans

Bob Iger fucking over a late night host who seems genuinely beloved by the actors he needs to make his product seems to have been a bad move.

This.

Hard to believe there are still people who post a swastika in a reply and think “I’m helping!” No, you’re really not.

Ezra Klein running around the Titanic grabbing women and children and throwing them overboard to satiate the iceberg.

This post turned into quite the honey trap. If you think that other countries, *especially Gaza*, would be worse under a Harris administration than they are now, honestly, seek professional help. Hate has consumed you. Your brain is broken.

That not what journalism is, and not what the first amendment requires.

That “first they came for” poem? Yeah, this is it. It’s happening now. Say something.

“By bending the knee, Disney has shown its weakness and broken trust with its employees and consumers in a way that can't easily be rebuilt. For many, it will never be.” Hey here’s an idea: fire Iger.

Obama spent eight years getting read for filth by Fox News and every other right wing media org and you know what he did about it? Nothing, because he was a man and understood how free speech worked.

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

Sometimes I like to think about what we’d be mad about today if we’d elected Harris and Walz. Today I think it’d be Walz working on his Scout on the White House driveway and Harris taking too long to legalize Cannabis like she promised.

I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than being the head of the most powerful publicly traded media conglomerate in the world, preemptively capitulating to the dancing monkey of a demented pissbaby fascist, & waking up to find Ted Cruz, of all people, standing up against what *you* caved to.

This is horrifying and exactly why vaccine deniers should not be in charge of public health policy.

One of the definitions of fascism should be sudden agreement with terrible people. Tucker, Cruz, and now this.

It should not be lost on anyone that the leaders who are actually leading right now look like this. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S9y55B/