#NoKings 10/18

the prophecy is fulfilled

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Glass of wine at Aquitaine?

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

Obama with Nobel Peace Prize

I like Presidents that win the Nobel Peace Prize, a 🧵

See ICE in your Massachusetts neighborhood?

Call 617-370-5023

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

#WarRavagedPortland

A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.

Every so often you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to change minds.

This chart from @hausfath.bsky.social is one of those, directly refuting at least 2 standard climate-denier talking points we've heard from Trump recently

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Still no IFTAR

Top: bear is telling a scary story around a campfire “Then, suddenly - my PHONE RANG.” Pig replies “What’s scary about that?” Bottom: bear continues “They didn’t text me first to say they were gonna call.” Pig and hamster are horrified “GASP!”

terrifying

Slide a shim under your oven and whip up some egg whites for leavening, so you can make something that tilts to the right and caves really easily

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.

GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

Good time to release the Epstein files

Do you know what this meeting is about? Get in touch on Signal: signal.me#eu/ES70l_cAl...

Floof Festival

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump…

HSPH Dean Andrea Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023, two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism.

Abigail S. Gerstein and Ella F. Niederhelman report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

out in paperback today! read the book called "the funniest book about racism you will ever find" 🥰🫡

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690564...

My Brilliant Nephew on RFK Jr.’s Lies and What People With Autism Really Need In a deeply personal essay, our unmissable columnist Nell Scovell tells how Max LaZebnik shows the true value of the people disparaged by Kennedy and Trump.

Every day is hard but yesterday was particularly hard for my family since it involved attacks on children with autism and their mothers. Please read and maybe share?