The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Delusional megalomania. Grandeur, persecution and psychotic rage. Malignant Narcissism with thought disorder. Primitive in its denial and projection. A gross collapse in reality testing.

People should look up Horst Wessel and how the Nazis used his murder to create a martyr and accelerate their movement and march towards fascism.

If this indeed happens, it will cause unneeded guilt, hopefulness without hope, and a hesitancy to use the established and well-validated treatments that are available. It will also stop the development of new treatments.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Someone at some point will figure out when exactly this happened… but we have completely normalized psychosis. Trump. Stephen Miller. Speeches that were completely unhinged from reality. Delusional. Psychotically paranoid.

Great use of the word “unctuous” for all of those students out there studying for the SAT needing a mnemonic

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

"We are closing the department in charge of education, but also taking more control over education" is a real puzzler

Johnson & Johnson should sue the administration. This is the only way all this madness is going to end.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Trump doesn’t sit down with anyone. He does not negotiate with anyone. We are beyond the stage of “hope and pray” for anything that has to do with Donald Trump.

The rest of the world does not have this problem. Most murderers do not have a mental illness. Most criminals are not mentally ill. Mass shootings occur in America because there is access to the ability to complete the mass shootings.

@atrupar.com Back in the time of Tim Russert, Sunday mornings were all about happily watching the morning news shows. Now, I just watch Aaron Rupar so I don’t have to watch the shows I used to love, but still get the information I need to know.

I see a pattern here.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Thread got kind of anthropological about how different cultures do this and how you get admonished for shoes on and shoes off. :)

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Confirmed. The stage of a 2.5 year old.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social hosting my first party in NYC and I did not ask for this but apparently this is what New Yorkers do and I am sorry to tell you this, Tom

The best way to depress democratic hope and enthusiasm and get progressive voters to stay home is to give the appearance that both parties are the same

It couldn't be better. Disney-Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

"Hug our children and partners as if we are seeing them anew. Ask the person you’ve admired for the date. Get a dog. Or a cat. Make the world a better place by being kind, even when kindness is hard. Find the words that represent your experience and speak them." And don't ever, ever give up!

@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.” Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB

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It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies

This kind of behavior is indicative of a very abusive man. The tone. The impulsivity. The abusive language. The jeering. The reveling in his power.

“Regardless, if we take the premise that society should treat gun violence as a psychologist would, then the problem is an easier fix than you might expect: We simply take away the guns.” Thanks, George. Great paper by psychologist Ellen Braaten. #GunReform

"Many have said that we should treat gun violence as a mental health issue. But the vast majority of school shooters are not mentally ill. Only about 25% … are associated with non-psychotic psychiatric or neurological illnesses (depression, for example) with … 5% related to severe mental illness."

"Depressed people often don’t have the energy to commit violent crimes, and psychotic people usually have trouble executing an elaborate plan. It’s angry people who kill, particularly angry men with access to firearms." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Essay: Child psychologist Ellen Braaten often does media appearances, trying to reassure parents and kids in the wake of school shootings. She used to tell her audience that the adults in their lives do everything they can to keep them safe, but she doesn't say that anymore. We haven’t. We don’t.

I’ve been asked to speak many times about gun violence over the last decade….and here are some thoughts on my experience @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Trying to imagine the reaction on Fox News if they were discussing gun reform after a mass shooting and a guest said "For all the concern about the Second Amendment, what about the amendments that all these victims lost? They have no amendments right now. None." I bet they'd agree wholeheartedly.

At some point people have to stop blaming the media for Trump and start holding their fellow citizens accountable for him.

I am thinking this might be true.

If you are a parent of a kid you think might #ActuallyAutistic and don't want to get them screened because of RFK Jr., I'd love to talk with you for a piece. DM me or [email protected]. My Signal is emgarcia.85

Imagine if we all just stopped watching everything everywhere. Our mental health would improve. We’d meet at cafes. Have more sex. Stare at trees. Talk to our neighbors. Call each other. Draw, write, dance, sing more.

“A high school girl reported that boys “are becoming more emboldened, more confident to make these [bigoted] jokes”. Another said that since Trump took office, casual racism and sexism has become common”

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

Yes, it does matter.

We are now straight into full-blown McCarthyism, with black lists and everything.

And to vote against Harris. We are a bored, decadent nation, and we wanted a show, not a minority woman with actual plans for governing. The voters got bored with the show that replaced White House Apprentice, so they brought it back.

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

When we say the NIH is becoming politicized, this is a great example. NIH staff are not allowed to attend a scientific meeting (where they engage w/ scientists in their grant portfolios) because a deeply politicized DOJ is trying to use its power to squash even the remote appearance of dissent.