IT IS TIME.

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

A leaked Project 2025 questionnaire database appears to reveal the books, thinkers, and dictators some Trump appointees most admire.

Today was a day that will live in infamy for HHS, FDA, NIH, and CMS. Their leaders all stood up and told bald-faced lies about autism and acetaminophen, and their lies will result in doubt, misplaced guilt, and second-guessing from parents. Also will generate so much work debunking their lies 🤬🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

Mobster government; Trump always wants a taste. Literally demanding "a fee" that could amount to billions.

i sort of halfway believe RFK jr has been telling him he has a big bombshell for weeks and when he got into trump’s office this morning, trump was like, “what the fuck are you talking about, try something else” and this is what they came up with, which is why they started 30m late

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

Call me old fashioned, but aren’t both parts of this relationship currently, uh, married to other people?

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...

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

This is a good thread that I recommend people check out, but I would add two notes: 1. The Roberts court has sanded down the law to make corruption prosecutions much more difficult (something they don't do in virtually any other area of criminal law).

Every blue state AG should be investigating ICE contracts in their states for corruption indictments. Especially since Homan was not a federal official when these bribery deals were made, state prosecution would be far simpler with fewer federalism issues involved.

This is actually a great opportunity for reporters to investigate WHY every company getting a no-bid ICE contract got those contracts - and why competitive bidding was not done for them.

Trump has designated Antifa as a terrorist organization, which will likely have all sorts of repercussions, none if them good, for American cities www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This is a perennial antivax lie. Sex is just one way you can catch Hep B, which is spread through all kinds of contact with infected blood and body fluids. Babies can catch it from their moms during the birthing process, for starters.

Not a denial

“It feels really lifeless and exclusionary.” Students across Ohio say a new GOP-backed law is reshaping campuses and silencing voices.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

This was supposed to be the press conference where they released the exciting new data about the cause of autism and they never mentioned any data. These old men just got up and rambled about their feelings.

Respectfully disagree. The president doesn't need a statutory authority to "conduct investigatory and prosecutorial actions." The designation per se is meaningless but the instruction isn't. There's not going to be a charge of "antifa" but they'll use every tool to charge people they deem "antifa."

he came to trump's attention by lobbying to pardon other war criminals, including a guy who decapitated a teenage civilian in front of his squad and whose own men fucked up his sights so he'd stop shooting random women. he belongs to a church which considers slavery and marital rape to be mandatory.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

That press conference was as bad as the time he told Americans to inject bleach.

Kash Patel: We love our state and local law enforcement partners. Also Kash Patel: I want to assure the frothing crank community that we are seriously investigating whether our state and local partners framed an innocent man.

This cites, get this, Matt Yglesias and Derek Thompson as authorities on thinking. 🟡 The decline of thinking people www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Trump and RFK Jr. are factless conspiracy mongers. When Trump says that babies don't need the Hepatitis B vaccine because its sexually transmitted, its dangerous ignorance. "Worldwide, the virus is most commonly spread from mother-to-child during birth." GOP SENATORS, YOU CAN SAVE LIVES: STAND UP.

That doesn't mean that you believe any woman making any claim whatsoever. Women know if they've been assaulted, our hunches about the causes of autism don't deserve any special consideration.

You don't say...

Donald Trump is up there saying what vaccines people should get based, explicitly, on his personal feelings about the matter. He also needed help pronouncing "acetaminophen."

NEW: Drones over Oslo, Norway were detected

If Homan didn’t take the $50,000 in a Cava bag, where is it?

Trump has already renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. Next up, the Department of Justice becomes the Department of Revenge.

I don't know why it's not on their bsky yet, but @thr.com reports that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to ABC on Tuesday night. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Kash Patel is name-checking every Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy theory. Partly because he's terminally online and pilled, but probably also because the administration needs a sweeping conspiracy to justify reprisals against unconnected liberals.

Is David Geier going to get jumped by antivaxxers now that he's made their entire life work look stupid.

Yeah that’s how the probably anthrax terrorist, Bruce Ivins, killed himself. Toxic dose of tylenol. It’s useful in small quantities though.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

If it was Tylenol all along, the antivaxxers look pretty stupid, huh?

"Under the plan being discussed, the FBI would treat transgender suspects as a subset of the Bureau’s new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs)."

Best piece of criticism I have ever received

I am excited to announce the answer to autism! The answer is YES!

i'm sorry, join who for a what? x.com/richardhanan...

The more they run their mouths about how guilty uncharged people are, the worse their chances of getting a conviction against any of them.

The concept of the corporate state was way underplayed in fascism studies for too long. The institutional union of the government, big business and the church to crush labor is the distinguishing feature of fascism.

Today marks 10 years since Nathalie, Anastasia and Carol were murdered by a man they had rejected. The misogynist was responsible for his actions but he was enabled by huge, massive system failures. Please honour their memories today by reading the inquest report : www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Megan Thee Stallion served a defamation lawsuit on misogynist streamer Adin Ross using a mariachi band. No matter how the lawsuit turns out, she wins.

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

UAUSAs need to ask whether they are prepared to be disbarred. Lawyers like Rudy Giuliani lost their licenses for bringing frivolous election conspiracy cases and frivolous criminal prosecutions are equally forbidden and even more serious. If you come at AG Tish James, you'd best not miss.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.