Annie Heffernan

Apparently the opening credits use Woody Allen's "typeface of choice," which....🤢

The reviews have been pretty meh, and from the previews I've seen, it's *not* subtle (e.g. the Edebri character's parents are billionaire donors, the Garfield and Roberts characters are going up for tenure, etc). Mostly, it seems like Tàr: academia and a wasted cast.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Is this delta? Somehow they decided to go the Bridgerton route with the instrumental/string quartet pop songs. I am not a fan.

A bright blue wooden chair against a light pink wall. White text on the bench reads "I need more time. rest here if you agree."

wide shot of a museum exhibit room. The room is a bright aqua blue with various t-shirts, posters, and banners on the wall. A large quilt/banner at the wall reads "Disabled People Fight Back Nothing About Us Without us. A light wood seating area is in the center of the room.

A mannequin posed wearing a black tshirt and baseball cap, khakis, and running shoes. They are wearing a sash with an iphone pinned to it and holding a megaphone. The piece illustrates proxy protesting--"an alternative method of engaging in traditional, site specific protests...[that] pairs one person who is onsite at a protest, with one person who is offsite...broadcasting them into that physical space" (text from proxyprotest.com)

Another corner of the exhibit. A Giant brand bike belonging to the Gaza Sunbirds racing team is fixed high on the wall, while one of their jerseys is displayed in a clear case below.

If you're in London or plan on visiting in the next few months, go see the Design & Disability exhibit at the V&A--it's absolutely phenomenal. The thought that went into it--from the tactile map and texture markers to its expansive understanding of what counts as design--is everywhere apparent.

Crucial overlooked dynamic: The MAGA agenda fractures the Trump coalition. The "price of eggs" voters hate tariffs, militarization of cities, masked kidnappings, corrupt weaponizing of budget cuts, censoring of comedians.

Me and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

He's not the first person to make this mistake. Poor Hakeem (Jefferson)

Photograph of copies of Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a box. The cover is purple with a photograph of Pat Parker, wearing a deep v neck shirt, glasses, and rocking a small fro.

Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!

The Cost of a Single Trump Tax Break Would Bring 3.2 Million Individuals Out of Poverty. SSI Reform Could Change Lives. During the debate on the 2025 GOP reconciliation bill, Republican lawmakers argued that cutting aid for able-bodied adults would free resources for “those that truly need it.” Yet, that money has neve...

New from me at @rooseveltforward.org Building economic security will require major upgrades to our forgotten and threadbare programs for people with disabilities. I describe the decade of neglect that have left millions on SSI languishing in poverty...1/3

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ssi-reform...

Today I was on the Berkeley campus for two and a half hours and in that time I saw not one, not two, but *three* boomer white men in glasses stumble and drop their bags so that books and papers flew everywhere.

absolutely. That anyone thinks otherwise is amusing. Although I get the sense from this interview that Sunstein is incapable of critical thought. Setting aside the Kissinger bit, his unwillingness to address the current moment because it's "unpleasant" and would make him "grumpy" is wild.

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

[I think about your post about sandal at the vet almost daily]

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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

wait till you get to the parts about Hayek, Rothbard, and Regan

I am CACKLING. This has made my day.

I relish the precise moment in each of these interviews when the interviewee switches from talking down to Chotiner to realizing they're screwed.

The hubris to imagine their interview could go any other way is...impressive

On why his book makes no mention of Trump or any other threat to liberalism:

"To say that there are these people and they have names and they are doing and saying awful things would be, for me, unpleasant."

[the sounds you hear are the muffled screams of political scientists and historians]

[grabs popcorn]

Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism

It is by far the least important part of this article—which is refreshingly blunt about the “evidence” on which the tylenol-autism link is based—but I’m gonna need the menswear guy to address this suit jacket:

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

IT IS TIME.

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

no, but truly: what IS this press conference?!

Also: Tylenol is one of the only pain medications pregnant people can take. Forcing them to "tough it [pain] out" and then blaming them "failing" to do so is cruel. This entire press conference is a sham (not that i expected anything less, but we've reached new depths of depravity).

WATCH LIVE: Trump expected to make announcement on autism Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised earlier this year to determine the cause of autism by September.

Every day is a bad day to study American politics in the current climate, but today feels like a particularly awful day for those of us who study disability. I used to be reticent to characterize contemporary policies as eugenic, but there's really no other way to describe what's happening.

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring.

So Science did a study.

ChatGPT failed.

Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

*waits patiently*