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So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago.

Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism. Horrible, horrible crisis.

I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics, along with me. And we actually met in my office, is it like twenty years ago, Bobby? It’s probably twenty years ago in New York. I was a developer, as you probably heard, and I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from. And he and I—I don’t know, the word got out. And I wouldn’t say that people were very understanding of where we were, but it’s turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it, we think. And I say we think because I don’t think they were really letting the public know what they knew.

“CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox instead of a single vaccine… Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health.” — The Guardian

At long last, our government is taking a strong anti-coddling stance on vaccines, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Younger generations of namby-pamby participation-trophy screen addicts need the kind of toughening experience I faced in the good old days of my youth.

To be clear, when I say “the good old days,” I mean “the Nixon era.” When I say “my youth,” I mean “when I weighed less than a golf ball and had a tail.” And when I say “toughening experience,” I mean “first-trimester prenatal rubella.”

It’s important in politics to see the small details as well as the big picture. And so it was that in the fateful few hours that passed between the prime minister’s announcement of his government’s ‘second phase’ and the outbreak of problems with Angela Rayner, someone in the know briefed the government’s favourite papers (the […]

After leaving my phone behind for a week and coming back to it, I saw my social media use in a stark new light

- by Tamur Qutab

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As a crime reporter, I wrote about people behind bars. I learned much more when I began writing to them

- by Amelia Arvesen

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Authoritarianism flourishes when people fall silent. That’s why the response to Charlie Kirk’s killing made me think of Assad’s Syria.

The post Far-Right Demands for Informants About Charlie Kirk Comments Remind Me of Syria appeared first on The Intercept.

Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

- by Maryam Aslany

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From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching

The post New Eyes on Space Weather appeared first on Nautilus.

Those of us on this side of the Atlantic have often heard, and even rallied around, the calls to ‘cancel the rent’. But rarely have we entered into the discursive terrain of abolishing rent altogether. Well, the latter is the nucleus around which Tracy Rosenthal’s and Leo Vilchis’ book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End […]

“My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.” — X user @NickyFrank30

Magda Goebbels’s Strudel Recipe

Use strong white flour for a superior product.

Mix lukewarm water, oil, salt, and vinegar. Nothing breaks down bonds within gluten like acid. In the final product, the sourness will be undetectable.

Crack in an egg. You can’t make a tasty strudel without breaking some eggs.

Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth.

Set the dough out of sight and out of mind.

Ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman was one of Charlie Kirk’s most committed donors. But as Kirk fell under attack for his increasingly critical Israel views during his final weeks, sources say Shillman ended funding for TPUSA. As his campus tour approached, Kirk was subjected to an “almost daily” lobbying campaign from Netanyahu’s allies. The Turning Point USA campus in Phoenix, Arizona is the house that Charlie Kirk built. Consisting of six sterile, two-floor office buildings, the campus is itself a tribute […]

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