ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Tylenol in pregnancy doesn’t cause autism. There isn’t an “epidemic of autism”. Autism is not the fault of the mother or the child. Whatever they announce tomorrow, it won’t be based in science or truth. Stay vigilant, follow the science and support the neurodivergent community.

Our country is so deeply broken.

Never thought that the local weatherman from back home when I was growing up would be out here dispensing solid anti-fascism advice, but here we are.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

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

shit is scary right now, but i have no intention of shutting up or shutting down. support independent media. subscribe to the handbasket.

I have to admit, I fully expected the second Trump administration to be worse than the first, but I did not expect that this many powerful people who previously clocked his brand of politics as gross and toxic would suddenly turn into embarrassing, obedient little bootlickers

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

New evidence-based op-ed in the Philadelphia @inquirer.com with @judalicious.bsky.social: Third Way’s banned words memo is odious, corporate capitulation is real, and word choice doesn’t win or lose votes—but it does affect marginalized people. (Written before the Kirk news.) “Enjoy” (?) and share!

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Past me to collaborators: Yes, we know the data exists so if we can just get the data from the various places I can easily combine it all together! Current me: *Sobbing in pandas*

@melanielenahan.bsky.social and I are running another iteration of the Implementing Alternative Grading learning community starting next month! Details and sign up at qubeshub.org/community/gr...

oh so the quiet part was LOUD loud

Pretty cool that some people warned, hey they don’t actually support free speech just their own temerity, and a lot of other people were like, awww give ‘em a chance to cancel everybody while feigning the victim everyone deserves the old college try, except colleges, which they also want to cancel.

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

This could be written about essentially every institution in America. I would phrase it, "X group was willing to throw vulnerable people/communities under the bus to appease Trump and also in some agreement with him ...but realized Trump would accept only 100% compliance and then had to fight him.'

I dont know which of you need to hear this, but this Kirkland bottled-in-bond bourbon is pretty darn great for a $24 bottle (and it's a 1L bottle even)

Because you can't say "We are succeeding at manufacturing consent"

If Bill Kristol can come out and make public statements like this, shouldn't we expect at least as much from 100% of our elected Democrats? Shouldn't we expect at least as much from Gavin Newsom?

"There are no grades and no hard deadlines, just the pleasure and satisfaction that comes with enriching your mind. " You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.

For anyone dealing with shit right now regarding saying true things about Charlie Kirk or anything else for that matter, I'm reposting this free resource from my nonprofit. qsideinstitute.org/social-justi...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"Every time a Black person dies at a traffic stop because they're murdered by the police, that is political violence. The thing that has been so discouraging about the coverage this week is that it contains no context," says @meredithshiner.com

An extra special “what the fuck is wrong with you” to all the theoretical Democrats who decided they needed to put on a holy performance grieving their good friend the KKK-level racist. You can express sympathy and/or disgust at the violence without groveling! Flags at half-staff, good god.

It was a terrible week, but I just tapped this American mild I brewed and it's the best beer I've made in a long long time. Maybe the best since I was in grad school.

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Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

I like Prof. Terence Tao. But the whole, "I don't usually talk about politics, but now is the time!" bit is so tired. It's giving "Guys! Before this only affected you! But now it affects me! Fight for me! Save me!"🤡 Albert Einstein didn't wait for his funding to be cut before speaking for others.

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

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Google has gotten so bad that it is now marking its own emails (automated updates from Google Flights) as spam.

"This isn't about academic freedom"

"No one expected *this*"...except for all of us who called out this centrist hand-wringing for what it was. On top of everything else, the complete absence of critical thinking and historical awareness from people who should know better is stunning.

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

Begging people to stop asking the bullshit machine for advice on their (physical or mental) health.

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Is the US included among those countries?

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. must resign, immediately, before the lives of millions of Americans are further imperiled by his reckless disregard for medical expertise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

I wrote this yesterday. This is how predictable you are

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

Series on neurodivergence and alternative grading is now complete! 1. Why we're interested emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/neurodiver... 2. Some existing discourse beyondthescope.substack.com/p/neurodiver... 3. Conclusions and ideas for future research beyondthescope.substack.com/p/neurodiver...

I’m shocked that a company whose business model includes monetizing Nazi content would also screw over their writers. Nobody could have seen this coming.

This is so true! For years in African and African American Studies we have strategized about how we can ensure that our STEM colleagues will stand in solidarity to protect our field from attacks. And now here we are.

Fogust seems to have ended early. We took advantage of this beautiful day to hike a few miles on the bluffs along the coast, and were treated to some whales.

Ya know what caused my kids' autism IT WAS ME AND THEIR NERD ASS DAD