Neal Lulofs

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Autism phenotype versus registered diagnosis in Swedish children: prevalence trends over 10 years in general population samples Objective To compare the annual prevalence of the autism symptom phenotype and of registered diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder during a 10 year period in children. Design Population based study....

A large study in Sweden found levels of autism *symptoms* were constant over time, even as autism *diagnoses* increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Hah! @newyorker.com #humor

BREAKING: In a stunning moment of defiance, Maine's Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump, saying she is complying with state and federal (anti-discrimination) law, and will see him in court over his threat to withhold federal funds.

This is incredible.

They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

Absolute POS

I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.

Biden added more jobs to the economy than Trump, Obama, or Bush The U.S. economy added 2.23 million jobs in 2024, including 256,000 in the final full month of Biden's presidency.

More jobs have been created under Biden than during the full terms of Trump, Obama, or Bush 43. @danprimack.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/01/10/i...

The State of Local News

Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.

Tweet by Bharat Ramamurti criticizing Joe Manchin for allegedly consigning millions of children to poverty due to his belief that poor parents used 2021 child tax credit payments to buy drugs. Below is a tweet by Josh McCabe refuting this, stating, 'Study confirms parents didn’t use their CTC to buy drugs in 2021,' with a quote from the study noting no significant association between child tax credit payments and drug use.

Villains don’t always wear red hats.

A handful of my favorite reads this year. #writers #fiction #books

I cannot stress this enough, write what you’d want to read. Not what you think someone else wants to read.

Read Your Way Around Chicago (Gift Article) Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit.

I would add the great Stuart Dybek to this list www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Remember the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma?

He admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up.

And that he started spinning new lies after meeting with Russian intelligence.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Revision is a lifestyle #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity

What Alice Munro Knew (Gift Article) The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?

Haunting www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

Bend OR here

You know you're old when you're entering your birth year online and you have to spin that thing like you're on Wheel of Fortune.

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces Kash Patel as the next FBI Director. If you had any question about whether Trump will prioritize investigating and prosecuting his political enemies, this is your answer.

Read my lit fiction story nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology #booksky #fiction www.theswannanoareview.com/issue1/neall...

We named our rescue from PR "Rico"

And then there was one!

... #undefeated

#GoDucks

Tesla Cybertrucks are being mistaken for trash dumpsters by raccoons, and they’re getting thrashed as a result. Honest mistake. 🤣

Dermot Healy
#writingquotes

“Image of Sarah McBride, standing confidently in front of the United States Capitol building. She is wearing a purple dress and a navy blazer, with her arms crossed and a smile on her face. The headline reads, ‘House Republicans Target McBride With Capitol Bathroom Bill,’ with a subheading explaining efforts to bar her, as the first transgender member of Congress, from using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill.”

I look at this accurate headline, and I just find it to be so infuriating and utterly depressing.

She should be celebrating and excited to get to work, like any freshman member.

She should be able to celebrate her historic achievement.

Instead, she’s fending off attacks she did nothing to ignite.

RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Oregon shows what’s coming. Fluoride is added to water to strengthen teeth and reduce cavities, but communities are abandoning the practice because of health concerns.

In the 1950s, some thought fluoride was part of a "communist plot." Crackpot theories survive today even in "liberal" Oregon wapo.st/40VkjVr #oregon #fluoride