The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Trump says babies should have vaccinations spaced out over several years. Children will die because of this disinformation. Many childhood vaccines protect against diseases that are most dangerous in early life. Doses spread over years will cause delayed/reduced protection for the child & others.

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

It’s got to be so wild trying to teach law school classes now: “Um, yea, so there’s no such thing as ‘precedent’ or ‘law’ anymore — the law is just whatever John Roberts thinks helps Donald Trump the most right now.”

For years, we were that kind of slightly repressed midwestern wasp family that could say "I love you" much more easily to our dogs than to each other, but thankfully my stepmother somehow taught us we could try it on human beings we're related to. (We still gush over the dogs, of course.)

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

Christ, how awful

We watched one of those Waymos cut across a double yellow line on La Brea yesterday and cause a 4 car accident

The Kansas Book Festival was a lot of fun and wow was I in good company! 🏀

trump: i can’t even pretend to believe this god stuff anymore, not even at a memorial service, i hope my enemies all die horribly and i’ll be glad when they do npr: chorlie cork’s christianity on full display at worship service in his honor

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

Other things they have done have seemed cruel, vindictive, illegal, corrupt, biased, self-defeating, hypocritical, un-Constitutional, generally bad, etc etc. This one may win the standalone title as flat out crazy.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Ended up driving the back roads between Lawrence & Topeka. My reward was dragonflies and corn stubble and old stone farmhouses. I love my home state so much.

fascism has one tool and it's a stick and they hit you with it and when you say stop they say no and hit you harder and when you look like you're gonna fight back, they hit you again and when you give in they keep hitting you until you're dead there's no middle ground with fascism

I am weeping openly in a fast food restaurant after having read this When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

I posted earlier about the Brooklyn Book Festival but I got the date wrong. It is on SUNDAY. You should all GO. brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...

I'm sorry, it's actually on SUNDAY: brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...

Terrifying

Judge dismisses Trump's $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times

Also this week in the @bostonglobe.com books section, we mentioned the many local authors who were honored with an American Book Award. Still a very bookish town! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/a...

As if Jesus didn't say a bunch of other things about being kind to one another? (Not a Christian but I've read about the guy, and he sounds okay.)

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

You cannot disentangle the vitriol coming out of political leaders toward Mamdani from the very real death threats now targeting him. It's a through line, and it's filled with hatred, racism, and Islamophobia.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

I almost never rent a car and wow, it’s a truly shitty experience.

It was a pleasure to talk with Eliana Ramage about her debut novel, TO THE MOON AND BACK. I wrote about our conversation in my weekly @bostonglobe.com column. Give it a read! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/a...

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected. Now…. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

The real story here — that this happened after a threat from the federal government — is completely absent from this headline. Again, the press is so in the tank for Trump — and/or scared — that they don’t even have solidarity for their own.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

Local Knoxville affiliate reporting on the Trump Administration's outrageous order that information about slavery be suppressed at Harper's Ferry, of all places. The way WBIR chose to end the story is just perfect. WBIR in Knoxville, welcome to the resistance. youtu.be/4ywN-W-EWHQ?...

"The images are not enough. The reports are limited. The news flashes tell only a small part of the truth. To really understand what is happening, you must be here. "Here in Gaza, even the silence screams." 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🆓🔗 archive.is/MQM5u

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Cocaine is always flowing when the worst people are ascendant

Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Despite the often dark subject matter, it’s always a joy to dive into Patricia Lockwood’s enchantingly agile mind. Thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social and the Globe for the chance to write about Lovkwood’s latest, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU:

Ian McEwan fans, rejoice! The Booker laureate returns to form in "What We Can Know," his engrossing twist on dystopian fiction. Out next week from @aaknopf.bsky.social. Here's my rave for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/a...

Everyone is focused on how Kash Patel is utterly incompetent and totally ill-suited for tis job, but let's not forget he's also a whiny, sniveling little manchild

I'd give the Barnard president a dollar to explain why it's a good idea to host "difficult speakers" while squelching student/staff/faculty responses to those exact speeches. No, I wouldn't give a dollar for that, because I don't want to dignify the position by pretending like it's possible.