Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana doctor who chairs the Senate health committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to release any evidence tying acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism, noting that “the preponderance of evidence shows that this is not the case.”

now show mickey mouse emptying his pockets willingly

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

I haven’t left my house today did the rapture happen my neighbors appear to be here but we’re all terrible people

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Shout out to Kirk Cameron, the only reason I even know what the rapture is despite growing up catholic

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE

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

i just laughed so hard help

As Trump and RFK end their announcement on autism and Tylenol use: "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists just issued a statement stressing that the organization considers acetaminophen safe”

Tesla thought he could talk telepathically with a pigeon From Nautilus: "Nikola Tesla — the Serbian-American scientist famous for designing the alternating current motor and the Tesla coil — had, for years, regularly been spotted skulking through the nighttime streets of midtown Manhattan, feeding…

What ridiculous thing will you do this week that will bring you joy? On Thursday, I'm taking a man who exclusively wears cowboy boots to an Everclear concert so that I can relive my middle school angst.

The Secret Lives of Dead Trees

Rand Paul tells NBC that FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments threatening to take action against Disney's ABC were "absolutely inappropriate."

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭

does calling it a flatbread just give it permission to be a bad pizza

It's a really good time to donate to non-profit journalism that has no corporate owners and is free to read. votebeat.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...

truly a mad lib for our times

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

Even in satirical news, you've got to jump on that local angle

what do you do when one dog eats very quickly and one dog eats really slowly you put one of them on a table

"The decision to fire Siebert could throw into crisis one of the most prominent U.S. attorney's offices, which handles a bulk of the country's espionage and terrorism cases." abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

FOLKS a PSA that you can bid on items at shopgoodwill.com and today I have purchased a $400 espresso/coffee machine for — this is true — $29 including shipping from Dayton Ohio. You can have really nice shit as long as you don't insist on it being new.

Jon Stewart in 2022: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether... When a society feels under threat, comedians are who gets sent away first.” apnews.com/article/bill...

Exactly this

Happy constitution day

I’d hope that the American military is at least skilled enough not to strike random fisherman.

I am doing a math literacy training tomorrow and I had chat gpt create vector art for three quotes I hate to hear from journalists, in which violence is being done to each. They are as follows:

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

this lawsuit is just a billboard for my colleagues' hard work in questioning power and holding it to account www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

“Im going to tell on you!”

I routinely find this platform absolutely insufferable and I, too, think this is unhinged

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

I missed yesterday that the president announced that 88% of the United States had died

Maurene Comey has sued the White House, the DOJ, and others, alleging her firing from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office this summer, days after she’d been assigned to take the lead on a major public corruption case, was based on who her father is and her perceived political beliefs

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

The ascendance of vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the top health official is creating an environment where promising vaccines are harder to develop, scientists and investors say.

Sometimes it took me years to realize that skills I use daily were successfully taught to me by teachers I did not prefer. Universities should actually invest in teacher training, enforce it and use peer review to improve teaching. Student feedback is helpful, but it’s rarely transformative.

I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise. (My solution, despite years of good evals, was to have other faculty observe my class and give me feedback, even when I was senior and tenured.) by @rosehorowitch.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Well, well, well, how about that: “Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as ‘vacation home,’ documents show” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

I’m going to log off the internet now and watch my neighbors’ band, the polyphonic spree, rock out at the Granada in Dallas later. Join me, please, in doing something joyful today. And if you are in Dallas, go to the show!

Expecting people who do fundamentally irrational, horrible things to have a clean, easy-to-understand motivation is a mistake we all repeatedly make a lot. This is the correct approach.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

if you pronounce bexar county wrong i'll yell it out in the middle of a meeting and that's just a thing i physically can't help myself from doing i apologize

NEW: Take a moment with me to enjoy some light comedy and read about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently planning to speak at a fringe health conference in Estonia, and then pulling out because local politicians called him "a quack" and "cuckoo in the head." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...