Workers at the Department of Education tell me their out of office messages were changed without their consent or knowledge to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

everyone should legitimately be done forever with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social if he doesn't sign SB79. people took massive risks to get this through, YIMBY groups scraped together a coalition that could get through both chambers, if he fucking bails out now he's worthless.

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

This is what the internet was meant for

Interesting to think of all the college kids, professors, & activists over last couple years who were smeared, doxed, arrested, expelled, fired, threatened w/ deportation over calling what Israel was doing a genocide.... & now half of US agrees & UNGA is basically empty in protest of Netanyahu

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Pro tip: do not take medical advice from the guy who wanted you to inject bleach for COVID -an actual MD

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Please do not take medical advice from these people, and give your child with a fever Tylenol

If you’re wondering why the oligarchs propping up a regime would put so much effort into dividing citizens into a zero-sum set of factions, their freedom to engage in rank corruption and profiteering just might have something to do with it. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

the american people do NOT like what they are seeing

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects. The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

We now have a MAGA congressman using Charlie Kirk to call for taking trans people "off the streets," putting them into institutions, and banning them from the internet. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I’m sure this will be a shock to many of you but I don’t think the real goal of this is to ban porn

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

Ezra Klein thinks that “black people are stupid” and “gay people should be stoned to death” is practicing politics the “right way” Can we stop pretending he is some political sage?

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk. He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them. He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

This is really important to remember. The people who are loudly saying that “public health got things wrong” early in the pandemic are the same people who were orders of magnitude more wrong about literally everything. Jay Bhattacharya pushed a fraudulent claim there was herd immunity in April 2020!

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Let me be very clear as an academic who has studied research and written about the far right and authoritarianism: the Republicans are openly setting the stage for civil conflict across the nation using regular military against democratically held populations of this country.

Centrists “Karl stop being so hyperbolic the republicans aren’t waging war against the population stop telling people the republicans are gearing up to wage civil conflict”. The republicans :

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl

Yesterday, protesters stopped traffic near the White House to protest Russ Vought's refusal to disburse Congressionally appropriated funds, especially to fight HIV/AIDS, which they say is "illegal and unprecedented." Here are my photos from the protest: notadoctor.news/2025/09/03/t...

If you care about the discourse over vaccines and you care about censorship please read my latest about how a major critic of the Trump administration’s public health officials had his YouTube channel deleted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The referenced headline is: Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Funding. This is one of the primary groups studying childhood brain cancers- among the hardest to treat; they need more, not less. Says a lot about this administration’s priorities

Remember this when #SheriffBillBrown comes up for re-election. www.independent.com/2025/08/27/w...

#laborday #workers #unions

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement: