Going to repeat myself, but a functioning society needs mechanisms to impose consequences on powerful people who lie and bear false witness.

Oh my, are they saying the president is so physically frail he can’t walk up stairs? Oh my, that is concerning.

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

Here's the key chart from that piece. Note what's on here with significant risk: genetic inheritance (twin on autism spectrum, sibling), third trimester stress, and factors that can affect maternal/paternal DNA. What doesn't carry risk? SSRIs. Sonograms. And vaccination. All very well tested.

Sure. Cool. Wait, your job is what—you’re the acting head of FEMA?? wapo.st/46BGTDU Crazy exclusive from WaPo about the guy Lewandowski installed to run FEMA, who was reportedly unreachable during the deadly Texas flood in July (gift link)

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Autism has gone up by a factor of five since 2000 but acetominophen use during pregnancy has been going down. Sorry but the math just ain’t mathing.

Fever during pregnancy can be dangerous. Pain can make pregnancy unbearable, and no, you shouldn’t just “tough it out,” if your doctor is telling you otherwise. Trust your doctor, not political hacks.

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1/ Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis affects 1 in 10Kpeople who contract measles, but the risk soars to 1 in 600 for infants infected before their first birthday. The progressive brain scarring & inflammation typically emerge 6-8 years after the original measles infection. No pay wall.

We all need some good news 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 “The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027” @unitaid.bsky.social CHAI Wits RHI unitaid.org/news-blog/le...

The reindeer photo is amazing.

"Stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi....[and start telling them that they are anti-Christian vermin linked to terroristic traitors in the Democrat Party who've been infected by the Soros-funded woke mind virus and are poisoning the blood of the country.]"

It's funny how we're learning why we have all of these dormant parts of English common law that are about how to deal with a mad king

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

Somehow all of these agencies were able to do their jobs before, unmasked. I wonder what's different now.

It’s quite bad that the credibility of the FBI is in tatters because a vengeful president put a political hack in charge of destroying the institution.

The first reference I saw to this was a Mediate repost and I assumed it was a particularly dumb Onion-wannabe attempt...

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Reconstruction bros have long understood that in the American context, "socialism" most often means "integration and equality" bsky.app/profile/bren...

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

So the America First crowd is spending US taxpayer dollars to prop up a right-wing leader in Argentina until his election? Yep.

Uh, might that be called….SOCIALISM???!!!!

For some additional context, AZ-07 is majority Hispanic and takes in parts of Tucson, the (very rural) border with Mexico, and some suburbs to the south of Phoenix. It swung from +33 Biden in 2020 to +22 Harris in 2024. A good sign for Dems to be winning the turnout battle here.

One thing I note in my book is that one reason that there are so many schools named after Confederates is that Brown v. Board of Education overlapped with the spike in new young people from the baby boom.

Protests matter, your dollars matter, everything matters, resistance works.

mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

Nicely done.

Look, it's past time the gloves come off & we actually fight to save democracy. Legislatively. By using all legal maneuvers available to us. Like California's Prop 50. Red states are redistricting to rig the 2026 mid-terms. Wringing our hands isn't enough. FIGHT BACK DEMOCRATS!

Yep. — I do not believe that Harris won. But that’s not the point. I did believe that Gore won in 2000. And that’s fine, just as it was fine for people to believe that Trump won in 2020. It’s what you do about that belief that matters. We have ways of settling such questions.

We talk a lot about the Swedish study where the effects of acetaminophen on neurodevelopmental outcomes disappeared after sibling control. This paper from Japan with over 200,000 subjects showed the same thing. Small harmful effect that disappeared (actually sl. protective) with sibling controls.

Seriously, Apple? Really?

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If your slogan polls this much worse than the underlying policy*, it's a bad slogan. Sorry. *The underlying policy according to most of its proponents, but a bunch of its own supporters will gleefully jump into your mentions to tell you that "defund" really means "abolish."

1/ So many thoughts about this whole, pathetic episode. But two stand out. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Using a child as leverage isn’t law enforcement. It’s cruelty dressed up as authority, and we should never accept it as normal.

Find the Nexstar station nearest to you, note the ads during the local news and contact the advertisers List here: www.nexstar.tv/stations/

It is as if his job is to weaken America and hasten our decline as a global power. It's the central "achievement" of his second term.

Just a reminder: If there is a *correlation* between taking Tylenol during pregnancy and the baby’s health, that might be because MOM WAS SICK. That's why she took MEDICINES.

$17T is not a riff. Who is feeding him the $17T number???

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

I think this is great actually. A lot of Sinclair scam over the years has been slipping semi under the radar

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Past time to attend to Sinclair’a radio holdings. And chat—what about podcast platforms? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Topical commentary from 1852 www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.