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It's wonderful when two sociopaths with the mindset of serial killers find each other.

Trump: “There's a rumor & I don't know if it's so or not—that Cuba, they don't have tylenol because they don't have the money for tylenol, and they have virtually no autism” Cuba had an autism rate of 83.30 per 10,000 children in 2023. The US rate was 80.90, the same data shows."

The Trump-Albanese non-meeting is a classic case of media demanding it happen purely because the media think it matters. Not one journo covering the US visit could explain what good they would expect to come of the meeting. But they just assume it must be done.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

There are so few medications approved for use by pregnant people. It's abhorrent for people who can't get pregnant to attempt to deny minimal pain relief to those who can. Source: dad who gives a shit about his partner.

The medically trained men who stood by him smiling—Drs Oz, Bhattacharya, & Makary—they own this catastrophe.

If HHS really pushes for this, forcing vaccine manufacturers to go through clinical trials and FDA approval for 3 vaccines, they would probably leave the US market until RFK Jr. is no longer in charge.

Before people call to ask. Measles is not available as a single antigen product in the USA. It's not FDA approved, we don't carry it, and we can't order it for you.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

This is, unfortunately, ultimately how we win

I tried to capture everything that's strange about the TikTok deal. A giveaway to Trump's allies and another step toward US media being controlled by his allies www.platformer.news/tiktok-deal-...

The thing that pisses me off about this is that acetaminophen is the only pain reliever women are recommended to take in pregnancy, so many, MANY of them do. Trying to correlate autism to acetaminophen use is like correlating it to drinking water during pregnancy.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As a person w/no kids, I find it bizarre that there is not an uproar that an org run by the late CK who us known for racist, misogynistic, homophobic vitriol is everywhere in American schools & colleges. I guess if you don’t care about mass shootings, you don’t care if your kids being indoctrinated.

Australian political commentators on the #ABC are still treating Trump like he’s a rational actor. No, David Speers, Trump’s reaction to US allies supporting Palestinian state recognition won’t be the same. Trump didn’t care when having a pompous state visit in the UK. Tomorrow? He could go psycho.

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

Ahhhh... he posted it again with Lindsey Halligan's full name, so maybe it wasn't a DM? Who the hell knows. But this is a weird freaking thing to post publicly.

Congress should haul in Pam Bondi and Kash Patel this week to explain why the FBI caught Tom Homan taking bribes—and why Trump’s DOJ killed the case. That’s corruption, plain and simple.

Nepo baby Hugo Lennon cosplays as a “concerned centrist” online, but when he wanted to know which version of Mein Kampf to buy there was only one group he turned to. Today we reveal Auspill’s neo-Nazi connections. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Not a single one of them prepared to be named. Total cowards, both the MPs and the Guardian.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

If you agree to this, you are no longer doing journalism.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

“If our job as journalists is to hold truth to power, then surely asking legitimate questions – politely – to the President of the United States should be acceptable. But in this day and age in America now, it’s not,” ABC’s Americas editor John Lyons

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

President Trump's scorn for highly respected Australian journalist John Lyons was followed up by an official White House X account branding him a "foreign fake news loser". Our research shows Australians want a more independent foreign policy. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/poll-in...

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US.

Cynthia Rehberg, a school teacher in WI, was falsely targeted after right wingers claimed she made comments about Kirk. But she hadn't. Her school received 800 voicemails, some including death threats. "She didn't do anything, she didn't do anything wrong," said the district's superintendent

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

Top of WSJ homepage now: “Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows the problem is getting worse and not much is being done about it” www.wsj.com/business/air...

Though I have stressed the importance of information hygiene and safety planning, I think the scale of their data collection provides some insulation for people with exposure. The spreadsheet makers and people who act on the info are different groups, and what connects them is visibility.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

BUT NOT LIKE THAT, DIANE

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

This moves me out of my area of expertise, but, my sense is that what have historically been seen as red lines for use of military force (i.e., no limits if it's in the global South but unacceptable against many post industrial democracies) will degrade as US becomes more fascist and isolated

I honestly am still trying to adjust to the reality that the most structurally powerful people in the world are moving from a sort of technocratic class solidarity into explicit embrace of the most terminally online and vulgar forms of white supremacy

"I really think there's got to be a change of government in Britain. And you can't... we don't have another four years or whatever the next election is. It's too long. Something's got to be done. There's got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held."

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today. "You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

Sharing this timely piece from September 9th - the day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated - for no particular reason. GIFT ARTICLE to read and share widely, because I think we’re going to be reading a lot about Nick Fuentes in the coming weeks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

This story was in the Wed NY Times. It literally starts with a sentence about his academic achievements. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...