Debbie Downer

A blonde woman with her hands in the air looks upward in despair. The caption says “aggressive disease infected monkeys (and mosquitos), take me away!” This is a play on a Calgon ad from the 1980s where the distressed woman said “Calgon, take me away!”

2025 has me feeling like…

Shooting gallery! Loved the theme and all the clever references!

here we go.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Virtual No Kings rally:

#NoKings

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Watch the US numbers skyrocket beginning in 2013. Then remember than in December 2012, Adam Lanza killed 20 children between six and seven years old & 6 adults in 5 minutes with an AR variant. Obama asked for stricter gun control; people began buying ARs 'before they're banned.'

And boom.

It's Not Indecision, It's Devotion The worst place to have a crisis of morality is the candy aisle at 10:30 PM.

New piece on autistic pattern recognition, demand avoidance, and why some of us loop through every moral angle before choosing because we understand the cost of getting it wrong.

www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/its-not-in...

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Meme with a news headline about Trump claiming that Tylenol causes Autism in the upper frame, and with a photo of Jennifer Coolidge in the lower frame with the caption “Makes me want a Tylenol real bad.”

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

White House press conference with Trump, RFK Jr, Marty Makary, and Dr. Oz, for fuck's sake

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

Autistic children are not “hard to watch.” Fuck this guy.

It's Eugenics Day at the White House.

RFK Jr’s autism comments place blame and shift research responsibility to parents, critics say Head of US Department of Health told parents to ‘do their own research’ when deciding to vaccinate their children

"I cannot tell you how distressing it is to have seen all these years of research go into autism and vaccine causation that could have been used to research better quality of life for my son.” @shannonrosa.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Paracetamol (Tylenol) does not cause autism, and it is a source of great dismay that autism researchers and Autistic advocates still have to spend so much time battling misinformation.

Research on causes of autism systematically fails to control for the existence and behaviour of Autistic parents.

Trump is calling autism “out of control”

No…

Autism stigma is out of control

Ableism is out of control

Inaccessibility to basic healthcare and support is out of control

As an autistic person, I am dreading the Oval Office announcement today on autism. I feel sure we are going to be sold a bill of nonsense full of scientifically unsound claims, all while we are degraded and vilified.

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

AUTISM and TYLENOL

A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.

“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”

Full article:

Screenshot of a message from Hulu confirming the cancellation of a subscription

If they want to cancel free speech to appease fascists, then I’m cancelling them.

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.

I lost my dream job.

For doing journalism.

For fighting for people to able to express themselves.

In America.