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We are nearing the end.

submitted 6 hours ago • 517 comments

as the parent of two incredible neurodivergent kids—one of whom is autistic—what I want to say about this man is not printable

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

This Administration is trying to erase a human being. Don't allow it. We are all connected.

submitted 14 hours ago • 199 comments

An extraordinary statement, which effectively says that the authors of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US constitution aided and abetted terrorists.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 2 days ago • 992 comments

In Hitler's last will and testament, dictating hours before he committed suicide, 80 years ago in April 1945, he insisted that no one had wanted war in 1939. It had been forced on him by 'international Jewry and its helpers.'

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

McCormick was born in 1968. One reason he did not remember seeing people with autism at the time was autism did not have a diagnosis separate from schizophrenia in the DSM until 1980.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

A shocking attitude to autism Robinince.com for Normally Weird dates uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...

submitted 3 days ago • 177 comments

“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Pretty fair summary: an “event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis”.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

For clarity - he has never been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

AOC, "The destruction of our rights and democracy is directly tied to the growing and extreme wealth inequality" "It is not a coincidence that billionaires like Elon Musk dumped millions of dollars in this election to elect Trump.And I'll tell you LA he sure as hell isn't doing that out of charity"

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 4 days ago • 209 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

..and he was behind a fence, over which he was shot whilst trying stagger up off the ground. It's all utterly awful, entirely unnecessary, and this poor lad is now dead. Rest in peace, lovely 😢.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 197 comments

Judge allows Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil's deportation

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Do people realize that a drop in oil means it doesn't matter how much Trump deregulates oil? If it hits below a certain price, oil wells just will stop drilling. There won't be an incentive to "drill, baby, drill"

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

One of the interesting dynamics to watch within major financial market actors as we potentially drift towards a post-American order is how far power within them shifts from their US HQs towards their executives and centres based in Europe and Asia

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

@mrjamesob.bsky.social talking absolute sense on LBC Here's the fastest way to tell Starmer to stop being timid on reversing Brexit Please Sign and Share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

make no mistake - this is nothing to do with anti-semitism and all about suppressing dissent and creating a climate of fear

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

LIVE: Fox presenters’ souls leave their body as they’re forced to finally tell the truth about tariffs. Here, the story a small business making products for kids with special needs. Its tariff bill has gone from $26,000 to $346,000. Fatal. A fate Fox deserves for months of tariff disinformation.

submitted 8 days ago • 129 comments

Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves. Trump bullies. Trump caves.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Congress could stop Trump’s tariff policy at a stroke. This story is ultimately not about presidential power, but about congressional weakness.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Oligarchs always think they can control autocrats until it’s too late. Same delusion, again and again, the world over.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

submitted 10 days ago • 290 comments

Brutal opening by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Oh dear. Another worrying paper from Autism Journal (National Autistic Society's publication). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is an Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) paper, funded by Autism Speaks. It discusses how to stop children running away, dangerously, from caregivers (elopement)/

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Imagine you’re Timothy Haugh, a decorated general, confirmed unanimously by the Senate to head the NSA. And while you’re traveling abroad, you find out the President just fired you on the advice of a 9/11 truther whose bigotry once got her banned by Uber.

submitted 13 days ago • 220 comments

With his “birther” nonsense, Trump literally sought to use the constitution to stop Obama from being President, regardless of what voters wanted.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

I lost years of my life talking about chlorinated chicken. Years. Now it comes back to haunt me.

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

"Unicef states that on average “a woman menstruates for about 7 years during their lifetime.” This fact is what really made it hit home for me. 7 years of unpleasantness is a really long time, and depending on the person, the symptoms can be quite severe."

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

submitted 14 days ago • 76 comments

Trump, a father, has 34 felony convictions

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

Apple announced $500 billion in investment during Trump's term and its CEO gave $1 million to Trump's inauguration

submitted 14 days ago • 209 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 15 days ago • 1670 comments

“To forgive Le Pen is to say - those in politics are allowed to break the law with impunity. Once you do that, your basic political standards have crumbled into the fucking dirt” Important read on the feebleness of the press in the face of rightwing criminality iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now? This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

submitted 17 days ago • 1552 comments

“MPs will be asked to vote on Labour’s disability benefit cuts without any idea of how many of those affected will be able to find work as Britain’s economic watchdog may not publish its forecast of the employment impact until the end of October” That’s madness www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Maybe.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So, MPs are being asked to vote first to slash money for disabled people, and only find out if there's jobs for the disabled people afterwards? That's...different. Some might say 'incompetent' or 'cruel', even. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... People will remember how their MP voted.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Do we deserve 'automatic points' for being autistic? No, I wouldn't go that far (and I wasn't serious ten years ago either). But we do need interviews to be structured in ways that don't actively advantage those who can 'play the interview game', as opposed to those who'd be good at the job.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment