The Jeff Tiedrich Challenge remains unclaimed.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

The mainstream media euphemizes a day of doom for democracy into "norm-breaking". presswatchers.org/2025/09/use-...

The administration celebrating Wounded Knee is congruent with the administration asking for dismissals or one-day sentences for cops convicted of civil rights violations. It’s part of a coordinated message. /1 apnews.com/article/woun...

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

I took my newly 1 year old baby to her check-up this morning & she got her MMR, chicken pox, flu & COVID shots. If she's feeling fussy tonight, I'll alternate Tylenol & Motrin, per my pediatrician's rec. How fun that I get to ignore the president & be a good mom (and good citizen) instead.

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When the pReSiDeNt spends 2 hours a day on his hair & makeup, you're damn straight bathroom products are a matter of NaTiOnAL sEcuRiTy

Just a reminder: Democrats can’t shut down the government Republicans hold the majority #TrumpShutdown

LOL, this is going to go well for Miss Colorado.

The median voter is an idiot. Just saying.

i feel we dramatically overestimate the intelligence of the American electorate

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Shocker. 🙄

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

More upward wealth redistribution, from people paying the taxes (tariffs) to farmers, many of whom are wealthy.

We analyzed 9 years of Trump political speeches, and his violent rhetoric has increased dramatically share.google/HEPM0vZ32Gtr...

DeMoCrAtS mUsT tUrN dOwN tEh TeMpErAtUrE

The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025

It's all performative nonsense. They don't gaf about Palestinians, they just hate Democrats and especially Black Democrats far more than they hate the *actual fascists* who are *actually in charge* for the last 8 months.

The President of the United States is a crack-brained elderly man-child shouting at windmills and clouds and in fact basically at everything he doesn’t like…

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We don't know the final margin yet, but with 80% of the estimated vote reporting, Grijalva leads 71% to 28%. Harris won this district 60.5% to to 38.4% (per @the-downballot.com). This is shaping up to be another large overperformance for a Democrat.

"Strays from science." No, Goddamnit #BrokenTimes, he tells dangerous lies and endangers lives. Throw away your fucking thesaurus. Have the courage to speak truth. That would be journalism. On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Oh god. Now we're "The Autism Problem". Fuuuuck. Nothing good ever comes from that kind of phrasing. Politico engaging in more journalistic malpractice here... when the only "news" is that Trump and RFK Jr are just completely wrong and full of shit and lying out their assses.

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

@candylovely.bsky.social #Tylenol does not cause Autism

These mfers lie as easily as they breathe. *Of course* it was a threat to pull licenses.

Blaming Tylenol for autism isn’t the part that scares the hell out of me. THIS does. What type of snake oil quackery are they gonna start pushing on naive parents of young children?

The autism acetaminophen class action was scuttled on summary judgment where experts failed to show credible evidence of causation. But I think the notion that 'autism' is a compensable injury is offensive:

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

Why not do this?

i think that after none of these freaks are raptured tomorrow we should do our best to convince them that scores of other people were and that they just didn’t make the cut

“Dems need to be united in their messaging!”

Trade deals coming along nicely. 🇧🇷

FACT is that non trans people, men specifically, commit the vast majority of violence of all kinds in this (+ every) country. Trans people are a TINY minority, + even then they commit less than their share of violence. Simply put, on a per capita basis, they are less dangerous than non trans people.

Polish FM Sikorski is delivering punchlines at the UN Security Council

For the back row on this day

Here's an idea. Before you start extending grace to people who voted for him that now regret voting for him why don't we have maybe an election or something so that we can prove that they really regret voting for him? How about we make them be consistent through consistent action? Crazy idea right?

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight. They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit, when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers. 1/

The next time a shadowy conservative group publishes a 920 page playbook on how to destroy America, I hope we don't shrug off the party that spent six months warning us and elect the members of that shadowy conservative group to run the country.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

I’ve seen a lot of trans folks get outraged at Kamala Harris over this news article A brief thread on why I would really suggest *reading* the outrage bait posted about our community by major media platforms before hitting “post” on social media Here we go… 🧵

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

That was fast -- even faster than i predicted.Court throws out Trump's doggerel defamation lawsuit against NY Times for its failure to even make any "legitimate legal claims." It was all a screed of crazy mischaracterizations, not even a theory of knowing falsity over years. He will try to resubmit.

🎉 BOOM: House & Senate Dems introduce THEIR budget bill to avoid a shutdown, and I'm happy to say... acasignups.net/25/09/18/boo...