Causes of Autism More Plausible Than Tylenol &/or Vaccines: phase of the moon consumption of chicky nuggies capitalism insomnia unexpected texture in foods stepping on legos reading too much tide level one or more parents playing D&D or MtG yarn exposure fire truck sirens in infancy diet & exercise

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

I spoke with Charlie before he died and he told me that he was excited about getting deflowered at the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

This administration’s staggering corruption is dangerous beyond belief. And it’s a complete slap in the face to every single family working hard to put food on the table.

STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY

But I've said all this before.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

He not only didn't attend; he called CDC director Susan Monarez back to Washington so she wouldn't be there, either, per her testimony last week. (She went anyway.)

🧵 Today I’d like to remember Mark and Melissa Hortman, a lovely couple who were murdered in their home June 14, 2025 by Vance Boelter. Melissa’s birthday, May 27 is one day before mine which is why she is very special to me. #SheShed #Pinks

this is the way, force motherfuckers to correct you with his actual bigotry

God is the big enby in the sky and that is how I’m referring to they/them from now on

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

his wife is hugely sus. she worked for miss universe (for trump) prior to meeting charlie when she was set up. she also ran a ministry out of romania that was accused of trafficking by locals

Phew, this thread by Illinois Democratic Congressman Sean Casten. Reagan got *white* Democrats to vote for him, and it's because racism is the issue that white people agree on more than anything else.

You all know we won't shut up about this, but there is a specific dynamic of national outlets reporting on Chicago carelessly—as if there are no real stakes here because the middle of the country is a big black hole to them Thanks to @huffpost.com for participating in it!!!

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

She was doxxed and fired for this post which didn't celebrated his death. She said his death was a tragedy and she feels for his wife and children...and even says she would pray for him! Everyone should let Ball State know how wrong this is. @ballstate.bsky.social @ballstatemedia.bsky.social

looked into this bout 10 years ago, there is/was a whole ecosystem where I think the vendors of the devices/dbs have acquired large dbs of pricing data, scraped from the web was my guess, and they resell that as an app so that you have it locally, that was before 5g though

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

If your tent has room for Nazis and racists and transphobes then you’re actually in the Nazi tent, buddy

So this 80% who don't "Change their minds" - what happens to them if they don't get the procedures? Is there any acknowledgment at all that the wages for untreated dysphoria are often suicide and self-harm, or are we just pretending it's a fashion trend that some kids never grow out of?

A) it's not irreversible B) the vast majority of that 1/5 turned out non binary C) you're a bunch of hacks

...so 20 percent having an NB identity by the end of the study does not mean 20 percent mistaken medical transitions, or even 5 percent mistaken medical transitions. They're falsely implying every child who espouses a trans identity and is affirmed is given medical interventions, which isn't true.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

...joblessness, homelessness, poverty, sexual assault, or anything else trans advocates had actually been advocating for. Trans rights were discarded as easily as they'd been picked up because the stuff that seemed to be about trans rights was never about trans rights but about marking status.

...with using trans-inclusive language as a litmus test for in-group status, to the detriment of trans people themselves. We saw endless discussion of the rightest, bestest, most up-to-date language, with little or no effort to address...

i know i have a fairly wide array of folks who are at least academic-adjacent so this is an ask is there academic research on the determinants of user perception of "conversationality" of an interaction? maybe thats not the right term and there's a better one? thinking specifically about LLMs.

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

the thing about pediatric urologists is that their time spent thinking about children's genitals is bracketed and thus limited by the fact that this is a job they have. transphobes have no such limitations

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

this is a rich text from when Rod talked about his separation from his wife

Elon Musk did this

This is basically what happens when the Redditor replaces the librarian as introduction to source; we’ve replaced exploration for consensus.

As seen in the table & figure above, we dissect and explain how terminology is abused and contorted by industry — terms like 'generative' or 'agentic' are not able to isolate what is being critiqued. We have seen this countless times before; flitting from one nonsense buzzword to another. 2/n

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

The fact that he laid so much of the foundation with his “war on terror,” Patriot Act excesses, Guantanamo Bay etc. means he has even more responsibility for speaking up and saying, enough! And if he is good with what’s happening then we need to hear that too. 2/

In 2020, while reporting on a protest for a local newspaper I was wrongfully arrested by officers who were masked or concealed their names/badge numbers. I had photos of two of their faces and sued, but the department refused to provide information to identify them, and the lawsuit was dismissed

I mean look I think it’s worth saying here that there are other ways to make people change their mind. One way to do it is to create an indelible association between “voting for Republicans” and “suffering significant harm”. And it’s hard to do that if you don’t market them together!

I know so many leftwing lesbians in rural Iowa. I *struggled* to get support for Hilary in fucking Marion County Iowa because *Dems there didn't think she was left wing enough* (and they were right!). We need to stop using "rural people won't like it" as a mask for our own discomfort, people.

just learned that one of the people in the feminist caucus meeting objected to a rule change that would allow delegates to say their pronouns without being out of order because "it would alienate rural Minnesotans" and what are we even fucking doing. Stop assuming rural = ignorant or bigoted.

I re-read Letter from a Birmingham Jail the other day and I was struck by just how stunningly brilliant it was not just in writing but strategic thinking. Like, not news, it's a modern classic for a reason. It's just a remarkably clear vision of a strategy to achieve change.

attn: @jaketapper.bsky.social since you look like youre trying to pivot to actual journalism again

I have compiled a list of questions suitable for reporters to apply to Trump's murderous strikes in the Caribbean. Only this morning another interview showed him pleased to have frightened people away from fishing in the area.

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

you are directly saying here that "our" sense of being good outweighs everything else, including maintaining democracy. this is straightforwardly Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. our self-sense of goodness is the very thing being exploited by the right, and it must be set aside in order to prevail

Oh snap.