New: The FDA put autism quack Richard Frye's trial of folinic acid/Leucovorin on full clinical hold for "Unreasonable and significant risk of illness or injury to human subjects" This was an experiment on vulnerable autistic children. h/t @thetransmitter.bsky.social

tinpot dictator crap

This story is getting a lot of traction with other media orgs, but I want pause to credit to the person who broke it with some ace reporting: @anthonyclark.bsky.social 🫡

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why is Mamdani constantly asked about Israel and Palestine, but no other candidate who parrots Israel's talking points is ever asked if they condemn a genocide, occupation, and apartheid?

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

FBI Director Kash Patel marks Yom Kippur by launching a major attack on the ADL, calling it “an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization.” The Bureau is doubling down on institutionalized antisemitism, of the real, not imaginary, variety.

"LinkedInese." Love it, thank you!

These people are absolute trash.

#WritingTip: if you're working on a complicated story that has many parts and requires several mini-explainers, don't try to write it linearly. Write each part, getting each one right, then move them around for the best narrative for your readers. (Am trying hard to follow that advice right now. 😮)

If Bill Hicks was alive, I wouldn't be surprised if he called Hegseth a Big Girl. Same goes for Trump.

Thank you @atrupar.com for the many clips of Hegseth's presentation which brings to mind every middle manager's cliche-ridden rah-rah marketing speech at the annual sales convention. Not quite the outcome predicted by some @bsky.app Chicken Littles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQX...

Disallowing anonymous equal opportunity complaints allows people who have already been discriminated against to be targeted for retaliation by their peers and superiors. I’m sure this is Hegseth’s goal.

Their whole point is to smash up functioning government and use the spoils to terrorize everyone, while installing a state based on mafia-style patronage. Don't give them more tools. Don't fund the terror.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Jon Adams, The New Yorker

Run, run Ruwa! apnews.com/article/ruwa...

In case you haven't heard, the Peach State - where my wife & I have been proud to call home for the past 20 years - has come a long way since Lester Maddox!

My state rep! Go Ruwa!!! Donate here: www.ruwaforgeorgia.com

A friend said he considered Trump to be The Devil. IMO the mythical Trickster - the passive/aggressive villain who persuades you to walk into traffic without you realizing what's happened - is closer to the mark. Along those lines, check out this Incredible movie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Slee...

Re: the City of Roses, remember this area creep? www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/T...

What Trump's secret police was up to today: holding a 5 yo autistic girl as bait to catch her father, who's lived in the US for twenty yrs and has an active asylum application. The agents went to his home and kidnapped his daughter. trib.al/VFuC1v3

BREAKING: Oregon sues the Trump administration to stop its deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.

Most of Red America has no clue about the capabilities of urban residents who use bicycle for their jobs.

He. Was. Indicted. For. Bribery. In. 2024. Do. Not. Congratulate.

Jeffries the “party leader” who hasn’t found it in himself to support the Dem nominee who won the primary by miles - the party primary that the boundlessly corrupt Trump-boot-licking Adams didn’t eve run in — surely Brooklyn can find a truer representative in Congress than Jeffries.

He truly is Chance the Gardener from Being There. www.kgw.com/article/news...

Just say no to career extortionists. apnews.com/article/atla...

Footnotes: However, political violence perpetrated by MAGA rioters is fine, and we will compensate them for the convictions and imprisonment they suffered.

"The neighbourhood was rocked in August when plainclothes police officers showed up & confiscated stacks of orecchiette and pasta-making equipment amid allegations that some of the women were sourcing commercially produced pasta and passing it off as their own." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is probably my favorite tweet in this genre. We've always been at war with AntifaSuperSoldiersWhoWillBeheadWhiteParents

Paranoia is as American as cherry pie. (Apologies to H. Rap Brown.) theconversation.com/trumps-targe...

There's a reason David Gorski has long-referred to Age of Autism as "that wretched hive of antivaccine scum and quackery." Age of Autism was cofounded by Mark Blaxill, who is #29 in the Encyclopedia of American Loons.

three most powerful words: "I don't consent." two most powerful words: "Make me." most powerful word: "No." 3/3

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Now *this* is a lede. Thank you, Patch reporter Michael Lemanski, for using the d-word. "The city's immigrant community was shocked this week when a well-known immigration activist was disappeared by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents." patch.com/connecticut/...

RELEASE THE JUDGE CRATER FILES!

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Trump is ordering a 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets, but in apparent deference to JD Vance, only a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.

Your tax dollars at work.