A message from Assata Shakur's daughter, Kakuya Shakur:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

NEW — Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren tell Marco Rubio to demand Israel not attack the Sumud Gaza aid flotilla, which is carrying Americans. Comes as hundreds of EU politicians demand EU resources to protect the flotilla — and as Spain & Italy deploy ships to do so.

Unless they’re in a boat? Unless they are driving their kids to school? Unless you’ve deported or extrajudicially rendered them to a place they’ve told you/the State Department has told you they will be assassinated?

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

“The team of federal economists and researchers responsible for producing the government survey that measures hunger in America were put on indefinite paid leave Monday, according to the union that represents the workers.”

In case you need me to tell you this, whatever the Clown Car says about autism today, it's going to be a bunch of shit. Read autistic writers and researchers if you actually care about us. We are legion and live it.

Everyone, this is extremely exciting, I look forward to getting a copy of this 👀

People in palestine are bracing for greater crackdown as Israel punishes them for statehood recognition by UK, Canada, & Australia. As I, and many others, have pointed out - these proclamations of recognition do nothing to stop the violence.

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

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Starting to think “the rapture” is just their explanation for why so many people aren’t around on Jewish holidays. “Behold, the cool people have suddenly disappeared!!” Yes, yes, sorry, but all of this could have been avoided if you just stopped scheduling things on Rosh Hashanah.

“If formal recognition becomes a substitute for defending the primacy of international law and addressing core realities of Palestinian suffering, it would be at best a hollow gesture—and at worst an epic misallocation of scarce international political capital.” sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat....

Correcting myself since I didn't read carefully enough in my haste; this doesn't go into effect immediately, it goes into effect in 29 hours, at 12:01 AM on Sunday morning.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

It’s been a very strange experience going to Eastern Europe this week. Since it was a trip to celebrate my aunt’s 100th birthday, in some ways it also felt like a tour of the last 100 years in Kolozsvár:

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

The latest from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

We made it to Transylvania for my aunt’s 100th birthday

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology

Just remember that even saying the most obvious things about how dude lived his life has gotten a number of people fired this week. And this is the normal course of things. Ain’t no backup.

It's been a gift to see all of the white people who are publicly defending that man. A true gift. They are offering you an opportunity to clearly identify your antagonists.

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman

Looking forward to an unsigned 6-3 decision to crash the economy with a “powerful dissent” and a concurrence that’s like “the thing about the president is that one of his specifically enumerated constitutional powers is economy crashing”

We’re pleased to exclusively announce the longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature. See it here.

Andrew and I recorded this interview before reports that RFK Jr. planned to blame autism on Tylenol. But it's all the more timely. We go DEEP on the history of autism and education policy and how RFK Jr. can roll back 50 years of progress for #ActuallyAutistic people.

Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.

People who think we can get out of this without talking about race are also pretty sure buildings don’t need walls, roofs or doors.

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

Chief Justice Roberts (2007): “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Justice Kavanaugh (2025): ethnicity “can be a 'relevant factor' when considered along with other salient factors” in immigration stops.

But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning: Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay allowing President Trump to remove the last Democratic member of Federal Trade Commission while the full Court decides whether to freeze lower-court rulings that had held that her firing was unlawful:

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

Repugnant, impeachable, unforgivable though that post is, it’s worth remembering this because fear is the mind killer and fascists want your fear. They deserve your disgust and your disdain far more than your fear.

The president posted a declaration of war on Chicago, complete with AI slop cosplay, imagery of the city being firebombed, and helicopter emojis.

BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...