Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...

There is a direct pipeline from the mommy bloggers who got information about autism on Google to the autism mommy wars of the 2000s to Robert F. Kennedy becoming HHS Secretary. For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com, I chronicle this rise.
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We're Not Broken “This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which dives into how bad and unfounded ideas about autism hurt #ActuallyAutistic people.
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Fifty years ago, Chile’s democracy collapsed under the weight of propaganda, fear, and division.
The warning signs are familiar now: leaders preaching vengeance, truth turned into an enemy, citizens numbed by chaos.

If we stay silent, the sequel writes itself.

Missing Voices | A Nation at the Edge

PSA: Trans people are not responsible for SNAP cuts.
That blame-shift is a culture-war tactic to cover a shutdown + budget decisions. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs: on protecting food aid for 40M+ people. Sources + captured notices below.
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— Missing Voices | A Nation at the Edge

I will never understand how an ICE agent, essentially a human being, can do what they do to these people and then go home at night and tell their family they love them. I do not believe they know LOVE, or HUMANITY!

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

Honouring Catherine Galliford.

Catherine Galliford was a force — a trailblazer, a truth-teller, and a fiercely compassionate woman who spent her life standing up for what was right. www.gofundme.com/f/honouring-...

Disinformation, Misinformation, Propaganda, Slopaganda

Trumpism and MAGA

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Is it time to get rid of legal gender status? Podcast Episode · Philosopher's Zone · 2025-09-04 · 36m

Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this certification mean, in terms of its effect on our lives? There are many other things about us that have at least as much significance, but only gender has legal status.
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This story has all the best things, mystery, heartbreak, libraries

U.S. Detains 2 Survivors of Latest Military Strike in Caribbean

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Pope Leo Delivers Blunt Message To U.S. Bishops On Trump’s Immigration Policies – Baptist News Global Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump’s hardline policies, attendees said, in t...

Pope Leo Delivers Blunt Message To U.S. Bishops On Trump’s Immigration Policies baptistnews.com/article/pope...

Dear white evangelicals, I was wrong – Baptist News Global This use of force by the government against Christians is exactly what you’ve warned us about for years, Rick Pidcock says.

Dear white evangelicals, I was wrong baptistnews.com/article/dear...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc:

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After former Rep. Granger missed six straight months of votes and we didn’t realize, we set up this alert. It’s for us as much as our users. We can’t know if someone is missing votes until it’s happened. _Then_ we find out why (if we can; sometimes legislators won’t say) and update the page.

25 bills were introduced in Congress yesterday. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse#sort=-introduced_date 🏛️

If you don't know the difference or if somebody has told you that Antifa is something it's not, let's make it clear to you what #antifa is. It's #AntiFascist

If you don't know the difference or if somebody has told you that Antifa is something it's not, let's make it clear to you what #antifa is. It's #AntiFascist

Video: What People in Gaza Told Us About Two Years of War In the two years since Hamas militants attacked Israel, we’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza. Their stories stayed with us. So we tried to find them again.

What People in Gaza Told Us About Two Years of War www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Two people wearing EFF's Scoop Neck Motherboard t-shirt

Fight surveillance capitalism in style—and support EFF while you're at it. shop.eff.org/products/sc...

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

YouTube video by Charlie Angus HOW THE HELL DID MAGA PETE GET THE JOB?!!

I headed down to the massive fortress that is the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa to find out how MAGA Pete Hoekstra got the job as ambassador. The guy's resume is dismal. But here he is as Trump's top agitator, provocateur, and gaslighter in Canada.

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My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

Friends — I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-trauma

Fascism is taking hold in America

JUST NOW: UN members exit en masse as war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stage