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For Mother's Day, @[email protected] looked at RFK Jr's record on caring for moms--Hint, it's not good. #mothersday #MAHA #Tylenol #pregnancy #disparities #contraception #abortion #vaccines
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For Mother's Day, @[email protected] looked at RFK Jr's record on caring for moms--Hint, it's not good. #mothersday #MAHA #Tylenol #pregnancy #disparities #contraception #abortion #vaccines
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For Mother's Day, @[email protected] looked at RFK Jr's record on caring for moms--Hint, it's not good. #mothersday #MAHA #Tylenol #pregnancy #disparities #contraception #abortion #vaccines
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For Mother's Day, @[email protected] looked at RFK Jr's record on caring for moms--Hint, it's not good. #mothersday #MAHA #Tylenol #pregnancy #disparities #contraception #abortion #vaccines
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What Have RFK, Jr. And The Trump Administration Done For Mothers?
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. July 30, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #abortion #birthcontrol #cdc #Covid-19 #mothersday #pregnancy #RobertF.KennedyJr. #theWhiteHouse #transgender #TrumpAdministration #tylenol #Vaccines
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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
cc: @autistics
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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
cc: @autistics
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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
cc: @autistics
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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
cc: @autistics
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So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.
#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?
cc: @autistics
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Trump's Tone-Deaf Bathroom Remodel, #SNAPBenefits Run Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPOxas0ljQ#GeorgeSantos on the #NewYorkCityMarathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodK6lXBYkTwo People Who Just Hooked Up Discuss the #GovernmentShutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUAPVxtXWnU#PrinceAndrew Loses Royal Titles, #SpecialOlympics Slam #KidRock for Using #Slur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JEV6oxx-f4Newsroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRY12mraV40#SNL #icymi #comedy #satire #saturdaynightlive #news #tylenol #NYC
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Please Kenvue: Sue him into oblivion.
Oh, Oopsie! Bob Kennedy Walks Back Tylenol-Autism Claim
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/oh-oopsie-bob-kennedy-walks-back-tylenol#Tylenol #BatshitBob #AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol
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A Long History of Ableism – The Changeling Narrative
The Devil as he replaces an infant with a changeling.A few weeks ago, the American Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy claimed that use of the pain medication Tylenol in pregnant women is linked to autistic children – an absurd claim without any scientific evidence to its name. But this fits into a larger pattern of hysteria about and against people with autism, including blaming the mothers for something allegedly being “wrong” with their autistic children.
While the specifics of this particular hysteria are new, the general pattern is not – as I shall show, it fits into the “changeling” narratives where “apparently healthy” infants were switched by spirits with entities that appeared to be “misbehaving” or disabled in some manner.
Content warning: Ableism, child abuse, and infanticide.
The Grass Devil
A long time ago, a maid lived at Siegburg who was a serf of the monastery.[1] She gave birth to a little boy before she was led to the altar by a man. She suffered a harsh punishment for becoming a mother in such a sinful manner. For when her child was a few months old and it was the time for the hay harvest, she took the little one with her to work when she was called up to do her labors on the meadow.[2] And when she was preoccupied with turning grass over,[3] she put him down on a half-dry heap. She was working at a stone throw’s distance in this manner when he started to cry pitifully. Then she went there in order to breastfeed him. But even though the child had been calm and content until now, she was no longer able to satiate him.
And he seemed to be completely changed, for he cried nonstop day and night and partook of so much nourishment that ten children might have been satiated by it otherwise. He furthermore caused a lot of hardship to the mother because of his overwhelming filthiness. During all this, he did not grow, did not gain any weight, but stayed like he was, which bothered the mother greatly and which she tearfully lamented to clever women.
Then she heard from everyone that the child had been bewitched, and that there would be no other way of curing him than to bring him to St. Cyriacus at Overrath, weigh him on the scales of Cyriacus, and give him something to drink from Cyriacus’ Well.[4] This was the custom in those times which is still adhered to in our days. Children who do not grow and thrive will be weighed on the great scales of St. Cyriacus, and people are then convinced that, by the ninth day after this, the fate of the weighed child will be decided to be either death or recovery.
The sorrowful mother saw no other path to saving her child, and thus went on the way, carrying her child, until she had reached the Acher bridge.[5] Then the little glutton seemed to be so heavy to her that she was unable to proceed further, and, gasping for breath and drenched in sweat, leaned against the guardrails of the bridge.
At this moment, a traveling mendicant monk came along the path, spoke to the exhausted woman in a friendly manner, bid her greetings, and said: “Well, my dear woman, what kind of horrible creature do you have on your back? That one will push you into the ground if you do not let it go.”
“It is my dear child”, replied the sorrowful mother, “who won’t grow and prosper. Thus, I am going to the scales of St. Cyriacus in order to weigh him, as the old women have told me. Then hopefully the poor little worm will get better again, for it seems that he has been cursed by an evil witch.”
“What witch?” exclaimed the wise padre. “There is no enchantment upon this brat. End your cuddling which is horribly wasted on this burden. Instead, throw it into the water, for this is not your child and no child of any human, but an actual grass devil! It is an old dwarf which has been switched with your child. Throw the trickster down into the water, for the love of your true child and your own salvation!”
“No,” answered the frightened mother, “how could I do such a terrible thing to my own flesh and blood? I have carried the poor little worm, stilled it, and raised it, and know that it is my child. But when I went out with other women in order to make hay on the abbot’s meadow and put the child on a dried heap of grass, an evil eye passed over him. For then he started to cry like he has never done it before, and from that moment on he seems to have changed for the worst.”
“At that moment, the malicious kobolds[6] from the Wolsberg[7] moment stole your child and put that creature at the same spot,” replied the monk. “They take care of your child within the mountain, like they have done with quite a few other stolen children. But if you throw this changeling into the water, then they must bring your child back within the hour. Then you will find it at home in the crib, healthy and hale, well-grown like other children – and not like this creature, which will suck you into the grave if you keep him for any longer.”
The devout monk said this with such conviction that the woman was barely able to stay on her feet. Then, in a whirlwind of fear, dread, and love, half will-less and subconsciously, she let the child drop over the guardrails. Then the little creature screamed horribly, and down in the water a ruckus arose as if the river was about to boil, and a roar as if bears and lindwurms[8] were moving around in it. Then the mother realized that the monk had spoken the truth. Driven by fear and hope, she hurried back home where she indeed found her child in the crib as the monk had predicted it – healthy and hale, and well-grown like other children.
[1] This refers to Michaelsberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 1064 by Anno II, the archbishop of Cologne. It was finally dissolved in 2011 when the number of monks serving in it became too small.
[2] As a serf, she had to do corvée labors for her liege lord – in this case, the monastery.
[3] The goal was to dry the grass so that it could be collected as hay.
[4] This likely refers to a chapel that used to be located in what is now modern-day Cyriax, a district of Overrath. Both are named after Cyriacus, a Roman noble who converted to Christianity and was subsequently martyred in 303 during the Diocletianic Persecution. A monastery in this village was secularized in 1803, and its buildings were subsequently used for agricultural purposes. The whole journey would have covered a distance of more than 17 km.
[5] Most likely a bridge over the river Agger. The most logical location of this bridge would have been at Wahlscheid, a district of Lohmar.
[6] As a reminder, “kobold” is a generic term for “small, mischievous spirit” in German, similar to the British “goblin”.
[7] The Wolsberg is a hill located within the Wolsburg district of Siegburg.
[8] Another name for dragons, usually of a wingless and serpentine variety.
Commentary: Here we see the basics of the changeling narrative. First, it is the mother who is blamed for getting a changeling. The story claims that this is a direct consequence for having a child out of wedlock, without presenting any evidence for this. And then it is the mother’s inattention for allowing the spirits to switch the child, even though this was hardly a moral failing on her part – she simply did not have any support group which could have provided childcare while she was working, and was too poor to hire anyone (and her liege lords obviously did not care about this state of affairs, either).
The rest of the story is even more insidious: “This misbehaving, underdeveloped creature is not the woman’s real child – so the solution is to get rid of it in a likely-lethal way so that the real child (which is well-behaved and healthy) will be brought back by the spirits!”
I have to wonder: How many mothers of centuries past, upon hearing such tales, convinced themselves that their infant child was not their real child because it has some mental or physical disability? Or perhaps she was suffering from (obviously undiagnosed) postpartum depression, and used this narrative as an explanation for her moods. Or perhaps she was resentful about her pregnancy and new motherhood in general – after all, this was during a time when women barely had any control over their fertility other than in the most crude ways. No matter what the mother’s precise circumstances were, the changeling narrative was a useful justification for infanticide.
As for the rest of the community, rural populations who frequently experienced famine and starvation were often rather more enthusiastic supporters of eugenics than the laws of the land – or church doctrine. Their goal was to have healthy, grown-up men and women who would support their parents in old age, not people with disabilities who would consume resources but who would be unable to contribute as much as healthy people. Thus, changeling narratives were useful as a justification for infanticide for the rest of the community as well.
I have little doubt that a lot of children died because of such stories.
The Changeling. Premenk
(Haupt and Schmaler II, p. 267. Oral account.)[1]
Until the time when a child has reached an age of six weeks, there must always be a person nearby. For otherwise, an old woman might come from the mountains or from the forest and replace the infant with a changeling. This changeling is misshapen, as well as weak in body and mind. At the very least, people should place a hymn book next to the head of the child before they leave the chamber.
But if this misfortune has occurred due to neglect, then it is good if you realize this early on. Then you need only fashion a rod from the branches of the silver birch, and thoroughly beat the changeling with it.
When it screams, the old woman will come and have the switched child with her. She will give the child back, and leave with the creature. However, you must let her go on her way, and in no case berate or admonish her. For otherwise, you will be stuck with the changeling.
Source: Haupt, K. Sagenbuch der Lausitz. Erster Theil: Das Geisterreich. 1865, p.69.
[1] This refers to the second volume of “Volkslieder der Wenden in der Ober- und Nieder-Lausitz” by Leopold Haupt and Johann Ernst Schmaler. The relevant text – a slightly abbreviated entry in encyclopaedic form – can be found here.
Commentary: Again, the appearance of a changeling is blamed on negligence, although the mother is not explicitly singled out as being at fault for this situation. And again, the suggested solution is violence against the apparent infant. The true nature of the “old woman” is unclear, although she obviously is a spirit of some kind. But we never learn why she would switch out children, nor why she would bring them back if the changeling is abused.
Driving a Changeling Away By Beating Them With A Blunt Broom
The people on a large estate were busy with threshing grain. A new mother wanted to help with the work. She thus left her small child lying in the crib, and went into the barn in order to help with the threshing. When she came back to the chamber, her child was gone, and an ugly thing was lying in the crib which was extremely foolish[1] and which cried without pause. The child had thus been switched and a changeling had been put into the crib.
The women in the neighborhood thus gave her the advice that she should beat it with a blunt broom until she received her own child back. And indeed, she did so, and hit it so pitylessly that the changeling writhed horribly and screamed. But she did not stop, and soon bloody streaks were visible on its body. Then suddenly the door was ripped open and her own child was pushed in. The child was just as beaten up as the changeling, which was now suddenly gone.
(Oral tale from the cook Anna Cl. from Langenau at Katscher.[2] 1906.)
Source: Kühnau, R. Schlesische Sagen. Zweiter Theil: Elben- Dämonen und Teufelsagen. 1865, p. 158.
[1] The German term used was “Strudelkopf” (“Strudel head”, with “Strudel” representing a type of German pastry). I initially took this to be a comment on the appearance of the changeling, but it turned out that this used to be a metaphor for “an extremely foolish person”).
[2] Langenau was incorporated into Katscher, now the town of Kietrz in the Opole Voivodeship of Poland.
Commentary: Here the violence gets even more intense, with the mother continuing to beat the apparent infant until it is bloody all over. Whatever entity switched the changeling did obviously not appreciate this kind of treatment, as they returned the actual infant in a similar sorry state.
Of course, this narrative could also be used to cover up child abuse: “My child was switched by a changeling, so I had to beat up the changeling in order to get my real child back! And the spirits returned my child in this sorry state!” In other words, the mother did not just beat their own child until they were bloody in a fit of rage – it was the spirits’ fault!
Changeling Beaten By A Rod
(Prätor. Weltbeschreibung I. 365. 366.)[1]
The following true story occurred in the year 1580: A noteworthy nobleman lived near Breslau[2] who needed a lot of grass to be cut and turned into hay in the summer, and his subjects had to do these labors for him. Among these there was a new mother who had rested in bed after having given birth for a mere eight days. As she saw that this was the will of the noble and she was unable to refuse, she took her child with her, put the child on a small heap of grass, went away and assisted with the haymaking.
When she had worked for a good while and went to breastfeed her child, she looked at the child, screamed loudly, threw her hands up in horror, and wailed vehemently that this was not her child since it greedily sucked from her milk and howled in such an inhuman manner which she was not used to from her own child.
Despite everything, she kept it with her for many days, and it acted in such a horrible manner that the poor woman was close to ruin. She complained about this to the noble, and he said to her: “Woman, if you believe that this is not your child, so go and carry it to the meadow where you have put the previous child. There you should beat it heavily with a rod, and then you shall see strange things.”
The woman followed the advice of the noble. She went outside and beat the changeling with a rod so that it screamed loudly. Then the Devil brought her stolen child and spoke: “There you have it!” And with these words, he took his own child away.
This story is well known to both young and old in the same area in and near Breslau.
Source: Grimm, J. and W. Deutsche Sagen, Band 1. 1816, p. 144f.
[1] “Anthropodemus Plutonicus, das ist, Eine Neue Weltbeschreibung”, published in 1666 by Johannes Praetorius. The relevant section can be found here.
[2] Now Wrocław in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Commentary: Beyond providing us a glimpse into the harsh labor conditions of 16th century Silesia, where women were expected to do hard work soon after giving birth (which was a widespread state of affairs – generally, only women from the upper classes or who lived in developed countries were able to rest for multiple weeks before resuming their usual daily work), this story implies that a changeling comes directly from the Devil – and like all spawn of Hell, it thus deserves no pity or consideration.
Which again fits into the larger, horrible narratives about changelings: If an infant does not “function to specifications” – that is to say, if they are too loud, too fussy, or if they have some kind of developmental disorders – then they are not a real human infant, and not the real offspring of the mother. Instead, they are an otherworldly creature that must be abused until the “proper” state of affairs is restored.
In other words, such tales are encouragement for child abuse – and while the folkloric changeling tales may be gone, similar modern narratives have taken their place. I’ve mentioned the recent anti-autism hysteria, but there are many others. How many LGTB children have been rejected by their parents for not fitting into their parents’ narrow world views – or being forced into “conversion therapy” (another form of child abuse which in its own way is no less cruel than the beatings that were portrayed in these tales)?
Folklore is not a thing of the past. It lives on – for good or ill. And we need to be aware of the latter, and how it shapes our politics, societies, and very lives.
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#ableism #autism #changeling #childAbuse #folklore #infanticide #RFKennedy #Tylenol
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Rumor Of 'No #Tylenol ... Virtually No #Autism' In #Cuba Is NOT True -- There Is Autism In Cuba And There Is Tylenol Too, Under The Name #Paracetamol
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/503495/ Federal warning brings concerns over Tylenol; the options available for you #Acetaminophen #Health #ibuprofen #Medication #NonsteroidalAntiInflammatoryDrugs #NSAIDs #OverTheCounterMedications #PainRelief #PainRelievers #Tylenol #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhatAreTheSideEffectsOfAcetaminophen? #WhatAreTheSideEffectsOfNSAIDs? #WhatOtherOptionsAreThereThanTylenol?
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Trump's cabinet meeting takes an alarming plunge into madness as #RFKJr makes MULTIPLE BLUNDERS on BASIC anatomy and working to "make the proof" to support the claims against #Tylenol that he is supposedly TIRELESSLY "researching" #JohnIadarola and #BrettErlich break it down youtu.be/uMvm6FYat9E?...
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Paracetamol na gravidez não tem ligação comprovada ao autismo
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Top ten posts in September 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/01/top-ten-posts-in-september-2025/
#93 #aleisterCrowley #AlejandroJordorowsky #alexandria #alienIdeals #alive #ancientMesopotamia #AndrewChumbley #Anhiliantion #antiquity #AntoineFaivre #arthurVersluis #Aye #babalon #balance #becoming #bestPosts #bestTen #Blondie #brainWorm #BrendanWalls #calendar #CeesLeijenhorst #children #ChrisCarr #ChristianGnosticText #ChristianTheosophicLiterature #ChristopherChungWaiWong #circle #Codex #concept #conquest #cripple #cryptid #cyprianTheMagician #DaniëlVanEgmond #Darkly #deform #demonicDeity #dinosaurs #discourse #DonnerstagAusLicht #EarlyRosicrucianism #EarlyTwentiethCentury #eclipse #education #EighteenthCentury #ElsieGrayParker #Ennead #EsotericConnection #esotericTradition #feast #FivePointedStar #FrancescoPatrizi #FraterYechidah #GaryLachman #glass #gnosis #GnosticEthics #GnosticMyths #Gnosticism #gods #goldenDawn #goldenToad #gospel #GreekEucharist #grimoire #healing #HeartOfDarkness #hermes #HermeticEthics #HermeticLodge #hermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticPhilosophy #HermeticSpirituality #hermeticTradition #hermeticism #hermetism #hidden #HiroyukiTakeuchi #HistoricalImagination #holyMountain #HRT #IanDrummond #images #influences #Interpreting #JRBobDobbs #JanHelderman #JeanPierreMahé #jesus #JohannesVanOort #JosVanMeurs #JoscelynGodwin #KarenClaireVoss #kundalini #laborDay #LateNineteenthCentury #LesGoldman #liberLegis #liberXxxi #magic #Manichaeism #manuscript #mayDay #MedievalGnostics #MelaniaTrump #meme #Merlin #MettenerArmenbibel #MichaelOLeary #middle #modernTimes #money #moon #music #NagHammadi #NewAgeMovement #Nibbāṇa #nimüe #ninetyThree #occult #Ogdoad #Olla #OnTheEducationOfChildren #one #opposites #panacea #parasiticPerversions #path #Pazuzu #poetry #presence #propaganda #pythagoras #reading #red #rejoice #RenaissanceHermeticism #RepresentativeTexts #return #reverence #right #RockAndRoll #RoelofVanDenBroek #RoelofvanDenBroek #RolandEdighoffer #RomanMassGillesQuispel #romanticism #salvation #SecondForm #sendMoney #September2025 #sevenDeadlySins #SeventeenthCentury #ShawnGray #SigilsOfTheScales #solidarity #soul #Source #sources #spiritualAlchemy #standards #Stockhausen #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #sun #Tenchijin #TheAsclepius #TheBeast #TheBookOfTheLaw #TheBookOfTheSubGenius #TheCathars #theEast #theEyeInTheTriangle #TheGoddessAndTheSerpent #TheRevivalOfMagick #thelema #time #topPosts #topTen #touched #truth #twinPillars #TwoRoads #tylenol #VarjaMath #vase #wallet #westernChristianity #WesternEsotericSchools #WesternEsotericTraditions #westernEsotericism #WilfriedSätty #WilliamBlake #WishFulfilling #wormhole #WouterJHanegraaff #wrong #天地人
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Sinclair Broadcasting Takes A Break From ‘Protecting Local Communities’ (By Banning Comedians) To Spread Tylenol Disinformation
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—> #TheDailyShow ⦁ This Week’s News #JonStewart <— Jon on #Kimmel’s Return as #Trump Attacks #FreeSpeech #Klepper on #Tylenol & #Comey #DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/hGj1P1tMoHI
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—> #TheDailyShow ⦁ This Week’s News ⦁ #JonStewart <—
Jon on #Kimmel’s Return as #Trump Attacks #FreeSpeech
#DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor
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RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Associated Press Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #CA #Canada #falsemedicalclaims #Health #healthcarepolicy #HHS #Kenvue #misinformation #Ozempic #prozac #RFKJr. #RobertF.KennedyJr. #tylenol
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RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Associated Press Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #falsemedicalclaims #Health #healthcarepolicy #hhs #Kenvue #Misinformation #Ozempic #prozac #RFKJr. #RobertF.KennedyJr. #tylenol
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RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Associated Press Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #falsemedicalclaims #Health #healthcarepolicy #hhs #Kenvue #Misinformation #Ozempic #prozac #RFKJr. #RobertF.KennedyJr. #tylenol
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Wednesday Reads
Good Afternoon!!
Will there ever be another slow news day in the U.S.? Every day we see more stunning news–violent incidents, embarrassing, chaotic, and illegal behavior from our “president,” shocks to the economy from Trump’s tariffs and mass deportations, and more. We have to survive 3 more years of this insanity. There are some hopeful signs. Trump is very unpopular and his poll numbers are dropping rapidly. There are also signs that he is having health challenges. But I think he has changed our country long-term by inflaming his followers with lies and disinformation. There is definitely a core group of about 30 percent of the population that clings to him no matter what. And one of the biggest dangers is the behavior of the Trumpists on the Supreme court. Anyway, on to today’s news and comment.
First, the breaking news. There has been a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas.
Bullet casings from the Dallas shooting.
NBC News: Live updates: 2 dead, including suspect, in shooting at Dallas ICE facility.
What we know about the shooting
— Three people were shot at an ICE facility in Dallas this morning, an ICE spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
— Two people are dead, including the shooter, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Dallas police said in a news conference. No ICE officers were hurt in the shooting.
— Round found near the shooter, who was dead when police arrived, contained messages that were “anti-ICE in nature,” Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI Joe Rothrock said at a news conference. He added that the attack was an act of “targeted violence.”
— The victims’ identities will not be released at this time, but Rothrock said no law enforcement personnel were hurt during the attack.
— The shooter fired multiple rounds from a nearby roof or an elevated position down into the field office’s sally port, an ICE spokesperson confirmed.
— The motive behind the shooting, or what the shooter was targeting, is not immediately clear.
According to FBI Director Kash Patel, “Anti-ICE” was written on one of shell casings. This story is still developing.
Paul Krugman is the latest writer to argue that Trump’s fascist takeover can be thwarted. From his Substack: Is the Jimmy Kimmel Saga a Sign that the Tide is Turning?
It’s irrefutable now: Trump is nakedly following the playbook of autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. As his poll numbers fall, he is rushing to lock in permanent power by punishing his opponents and intimidating everyone else into submission. Craven congressional Republicans and a complicit Supreme Court have abetted Trump’s destruction of our democratic safeguards and norms.
Yet Trump has a significant problem that neither Putin nor Orban faced. When Putin and Orban were consolidating their autocratics, they were genuinely popular. They were perceived by the public as effective and competent leaders. Just nine months into his presidency, Trump, by contrast, is deeply unpopular. He is increasingly seen as chaotic and inept. As David Frum says, this means that he is in a race against time. Can he consolidate power before he loses his aura of inevitability? Will those who run major institutions – particularly corporate CEOs – understand that we are at a crucial juncture, and that by accommodating Trump they have more to lose than by standing up to him?
To put it bluntly, is the Jimmy Kimmel affair the harbinger of a failed Trumpian putsch?
Krugman notes that Trump’s role models, Putin and Orban were popular during their takeovers, in contrast to Trump.
Trump’s net approval, by contrast, turned negative within weeks after taking office and has just continued to fall.
As G. Elliott Morris points out, his position looks even worse when you consider intensity. Almost half the public disapproves “strongly,” twice the share with strong approval.
Jimmy Kimmel
It’s clear that if Trump were subject to normal political constraints, obliged to follow the rule of law and accept election results, he would already be a political lame duck. His future influence and those of his minions would be greatly reduced by his unpopularity. But at this juncture he is a quasi-autocrat. He is the leader of a party that accommodates his every whim, backed by a corrupt Supreme Court prepared to validate whatever he does, no matter how clearly it violates the law.
As a result, Trump has been able to use the vast power of the federal government to deliver punishments and rewards in a completely unprecedented way. He has arbitrarily cut off funding to universities, refused to spend Congressionally-mandated funds, threatened to take away broadcast licenses, fired officials who are supposed to have job security, pardoned J6 insurrectionists, defied the lower courts, retaliated against those who have tried to hold him accountable, and enriched his family. This has created a climate of intimidation, with many institutions preemptively capitulating to Trump’s demands as if he already had total power.
But the fact is that Trump has not yet locked in his autocracy. Timid institutions are failing to understand not only how unpopular Trump is, but also how severe a backlash they are likely to face for surrendering without a fight.
Disney figured it out; we’ll see what happens with Sinclair and NexStar. Read the entire post at the link.
Politico Playbook on Kimmel’s return:
An unbowed Jimmy Kimmel took aim at President Donald Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr last night in a blistering, emotional return to ABC. Kimmel tore into the Trump administration for its “dangerous … anti-American” bid to have him canceled, and heaped praise on the conservative politicians and commentators who spoke up for freedom of speech. “This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
Kimmel blended humor with invective. “I’m not sure who had a weirder 48 hours,” he deadpanned, “me or the CEO of Tylenol.” Robert De Niro made an appearance, playing a mafioso-style Carr issuing threats to ABC. And addressing the expected sky-high audience for last night’s show, Kimmel said: “You almost have to feel sorry for [Trump]. He tried his best to cancel me — instead he forced millions of people to watch the show … He might have to release the Epstein files to distract from this.”
Kimmel came close to tears as he partially addressed his own comments — about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer — which sparked the initial backlash from the right. “I want to make something clear,” he said, voice wavering. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.” Later, he hailed the words of forgiveness that Erika, Kirk’s widow, delivered at Sunday’s memorial. “It touched me deeply,” Kimmel said. “If there’s anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that. Not this.”
Catch-up service: Watch the whole opening monologue
Naturally, Trump wasn’t happy that ABC brought Jimmy Kimmel back last night.
Ed Mazza at HuffPost: Trump Loses It Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return In Unhinged New Rant, Then Threatens ABC.
President Donald Trump threw a fit on social media on Tuesday night as late night TV nemesis Jimmy Kimmel headed back to the airwaves.
He said Kimmel should “rot in his bad Ratings,” called his show a “major Illegal Campaign Contribution” to the Democratic National Committee and threatened legal action against the “true bunch of losers” at ABC.
“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website about an hour before Kimmel’s return to television. “The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”
Despite Trump’s claim, Kimmel’s show was suspended ― not canceled ― over comments the host made about the suspect in the public assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE,” he wrote. “He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution.”
Then, he threatened ABC with another lawsuit after settling with the network last year in a defamation case.
Maybe because Kimmel is more popular than crybaby Trump?
Yesterday, Trump embarrassed himself and all Americans in an unbelievably bad speech to the U.N. It was truly horrifying, and a historic stain on our country.
David Rothkopf at The Daily Beast: Trump’s UN Address Was a Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions.
Instead of a traditional public address from a world leader, U.S. President Donald Trump tilted back his badly-dyed hair-sprayed coif and howled at the moon for the better part of an hour during his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning.
Well, not the better part. Definitely not the better part.
To describe the speech as insane, while accurate, would distract from just how extraordinarily packed with lies it was. How profoundly ignorant it was. How much damage it did to the United States’ standing in the world—it clearly marked a low point in America’s relationship with the United Nations and the international order we helped create in the wake of World War II.
From a purely U.S. political perspective, emphasizing how haggard and low-energy our rapidly declining president was is key. He made a point to note that an apparent mechanical issue with a UN escalator was an insurmountable problem, for example—most of the rest of us who are in fairly reasonable shape might have noted a stalled escalator is actually just a stairway that we could have walked right up.
But it would nonetheless, be a mistake, to ignore just how crazed the speech was. It was apparent from Trump’s opening moments when he railed about the UN’s broken teleprompter to the point later when he brought it up again in his broader condemnation of the UN as also broken, highlighting what he saw as its uselessness in not coming to his assistance in solving the famous seven global conflicts that we all know he did not solve. It was apparent in the fact that he argued that he deserves the Nobel Peace prize while noting he also takes great pride in discussing the attack he authorized on Iran, and those he has ordered against boats he claims without evidence were trafficking in drugs on the high seas.
The speech contained the most extensive condemnation of green energy and what Trump considers the climate change hoax that we have ever heard from a public official since possibly the invention of the steam engine. Science be damned. Oligarchs love fossil fuels or what Trump noted that he demands White House staffers refer to as “beautiful, clean coal.” Windmills, windmills on the other hand, are the pinwheels of Satan. (Someday we will get to the bottom of Trump’s anemomenophobia. Clearly, he had a bad experience with something that blew him the wrong way as a child. Or more recently.)
He defended his irrational, lose-lose global trading system destroying tariffs which in and of itself will soon be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as an extreme symptom of economic psychosis. He downplayed civilian casualties in Ukraine and explained this war wouldn’t have happened if there had been good leadership in the country—in front of President Volodymyr Zelensky, no less.
And there was so much more. He even claimed that he had settled 7 global conflicts and that everyone thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more at the link.
Steve Benen at MaddowBlog: With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States.
Seven years ago this week, Donald Trump addressed the United Nations and began his remarks with an absurdity. “In less than two years,” the American president said, “my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” The boast, of course, was plainly false.
But just as important at the time was that everyone in attendance at the U.N. General Assembly recognized the rhetoric as silly — and some of the diplomats in the room started audibly laughing. The laughter caught the Republican off-guard and left Trump in a position he’d long hoped to avoid: the target of international ridicule.
In some ways, the Republican’s address was a handy encapsulation of where Trump stands in the fifth year of his White House tenure.
The Trumps struggle with a UN escalator.
Over the course of his remarks, he told strange lies about foreign investments in the U.S. He generated murmurs in the hall by declaring, “Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the United States, you’re going to jail or you’re going back to where you came from — or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means.”
He pretended that he’s ended seven wars, while pointing to approval ratings that exist only in his mind. He renewed his pathetic lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, falsely claiming that “everyone” wants him to get one. He took pointless shots at ostensible U.S. allies in NATO and at the United Nations itself. He told unnamed officials that their countries are “going to hell.” He bragged about campaign swag sales. He attacked clean, renewable energy, while insisting that climate science is an elaborate “con job” and a “hoax” concocted by nefarious people with “evil intentions.”
And for good measure, he claimed that unnamed “environmentalists” want to ban cows.
Perhaps most importantly, Trump told one of his favorite lies, bragging that international respect for the U.S. has reached all-time highs now that he’s back in power.
Read more at the MSNBC link.
You might also want to check out this piece by Zachary B. Wolf at CNN: Trump’s ‘your countries are going to hell’ speech, annotated.
One more from AP: After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter.
President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional.
“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle,” he mused, chopping the air with his hand.
But it turns out the cause was closer to Trump.
Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.
“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a statement. “The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function.”
On the Teleprompter:
As he began his speech, Trump also noted that the teleprompter wasn’t working. He joked that whoever was running the teleprompter “is in big trouble.”
A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue contributed that one to his side as well, saying the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.
The day before yesterday, Trump gave an insane “health” press conference with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. JJ, in which they claimed that Tylenol as well as vaccines are causes of autism. JJ covered it in yesterday’s post.
Today, STAT has a response to Trump’s “medical” advice: Trump’s ‘tough it out’ to pregnant women meets wave of opposition by medical experts Doctors explain the medical consensus on autism, leucovorin, and Tylenol for fever.
Federal health officials are telling Americans no, they shouldn’t take Tylenol during pregnancy for fear of autism and yes, they should try a drug used in cancer care to treat children who have developed autism. The medical world disagrees.
“We were actually pretty alarmed by some of the output that was coming from the administration,” Marketa Wills, CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, said in an interview. At a remarkable White House briefing on Monday, President Trump and his top health and science officials said Tylenol use in pregnancy caused some cases of autism in children and said leucovorin, a form of vitamin B9, could treat the disease.
RFK Jr. and Trump claim to have found causes for autism.
The event has drawn a flood of pushback from medical societies, autism organizations, and pediatric experts through official statements, interviews, and social media. Much more research is needed on the claims about Tylenol and leucovorin in particular, experts emphasized.
Until more research is conducted, Wills recommends that doctors rely on professional societies, peer-reviewed research in medical journals, and resources like UpToDate and the Washington Manual for guidance on how to talk with patients.
John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, pointed out that there were discrepancies between the bold statements from the president and other government guidance. “If I ignore the press conference, and I listen to what the FDA wrote to providers, I would say — you know what? It’s talking about the lowest dose for the shortest period of time, and that’s not a bad thing,” White said. “That’s different than what I heard at the press conference.” [….]
While President Trump repeatedly told women to “tough it out” rather than take Tylenol for fever or pain during pregnancy, medical experts said there are good reasons to consider the medication.
An untreated fever can cause serious harms in pregnancy, including neurodevelopmental injuries to fetuses such as spina bifida, they told STAT.
“Brains are impacted by fever,” Joia Crear-Perry, an OB-GYN and founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, told STAT.
There are also studies suggesting fever is associated with the risk of autism spectrum disorder, but it’s unknown whether treatment decreases that risk, Brenna Hughes, interim chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University School of Medicine, wrote in an email to STAT.
There’s much more information at the STAT link.
The New York Times has published a shocking investigation about Elon Musk’s family, by Kirsten Grind and John Eligon (gift link): Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse.
Elon Musk has not been shy about putting much of his life on public display. The tech billionaire posts daily on his social network X, has cooperated with two biographies and often speaks on podcasts and at conferences.
But there is one part of his life that he has not revealed much about — his longtime estrangement from his father, Errol Musk, who has become increasingly outspoken about his family and business ventures tied to the Musk name.
Errol Musk
A New York Times investigation found that a significant factor in Elon Musk’s rupture with his father stems from accusations against Errol Musk of child sex abuse. The allegations have repeatedly spilled over into Elon Musk’s life as relatives have contacted him for help and he has sometimes taken action to intercede, according to personal letters, emails and interviews with family members.
The family’s troubles have entangled Elon Musk in a painful three-decade multigenerational saga that continues to trail him. The fallout has kept the 54-year-old mogul tethered to South Africa, where he was born and where Errol Musk lives, even as he has built a business empire in the United States and briefly ascended to political power as a close adviser to President Trump.
The allegations against Errol Musk involve five of his children and stepchildren, whom he was accused of abusing in South Africa and California, according to police and court records, personal correspondence, social workers and interviews with family members.
The earliest accusation was in 1993 when Errol Musk’s stepdaughter, then 4 years old, told relatives he had touched her at the family house. A decade later, the stepdaughter said she caught him sniffing her dirty underwear. Some family members have also accused Errol Musk of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson. And as recently as 2023, family members and a social worker attempted to intervene after his then 5-year-old son said his father had groped his buttocks.
Three separate police investigations were opened, according to police and court records, as well as family members. Two of the inquiries ended, while it’s unclear what happened in the third. Errol Musk, 79, has not been convicted of any crime.
The abuse allegations have caused strife within the Musk family, with some relatives turning to Elon Musk — who is Errol Musk’s eldest child — for help. Around 2010, one relative wrote Elon Musk a five-page letter about some of the accusations and implored him to intervene.
“We really need your advice, help and guidance in these matters because we daily see these children suffer,” the relative wrote in the letter, which was viewed by The Times.
Use the gift link to read the rest.
Those are my recommended reads for today. What stories have you been following?
#Autism #DallasICEShooting #ElonMusk #ErrolMusk #JimmyKimmel #leucovorin #Tylenol #UNGeneralAssembly #UnitedNations #vaccines
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The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-to-end-the-mmr-is
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FDA Commissioner Flagrantly Misquoted Harvard #PublicHealth Dean at White House Autism Event
The White House claimed that Dr. #AndreaBaccarelli has found a "causal relationship between #prenatal #acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of #ADHD and #autism spectrum disorder." Not true.
from #DropSiteNews
Ryan Grim
Sep 23, 2025Makary capped off his case against #Tylenol by claiming to be quoting Harvard’s Dr. Andrea Baccarelli. “To quote the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, ‘There is a causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and #AutismSpectrumDisorder. We cannot wait any longer,’” said Makary, reading from notes.
That would indeed be quite a firm endorsement from the pinnacle of the scientific establishment, given that a “causal relationship” is much harder to demonstrate than an “association.”
It would be big if it was true.
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It's the only one logical explanation for this #Tylenol idiocy.
There's #criminals feeding #nonsense bullshit to mindless #puppet #RFKjr, who are #extorting and #manipulating stocks of every company they can.
Maybe they found a hit with Bristol-Myers or J&J. A final push to capitulation and buyout, perhaps.
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Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism
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Medical fact: 100% of Americans who ate pickles in 1901 have died.
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Tylenol, Environment, and Autism
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“Don’t take #Tylenol,” #Trump instructed pregnant women around a dozen times during the unwieldy White House news conference, also urging mothers not to give their infants the drug, known by the generic name #acetaminophen [which he could not pronounce] in the US or #paracetamol in most other countries. He also fueled long-#debunked claims that ingredients in #vaccines or timing shots close together could contribute to rising rates of #autism in the US, without providing any medical evidence.
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#Trump makes unfounded claims about #Tylenol & repeats #discredited link between #vaccines & #autism without evidence
Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven & in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines & autism as his admin announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.
#science #medicine #RFKJr #brainworm #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation
https://apnews.com/article/tylenol-cause-autism-trump-kennedy-0847ee76eedecbd5e9baa6888b567d66?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-22-Breaking+News -
For the confused British right now:
Is Paracetamol the same as Tylenol?
#Paracetamol is known as acetaminophen in the USA. #Acetaminophen relieves mild-to-moderate pain, headache and fever. It is available as brand names such as #Tylenol or #Mapap or #Panadol, and also as generics and store-specific brands.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/paracetamol-usa-3555654/
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"But people were taking Tylenol and dying, and the implications were harrowing: Was there tainted Tylenol out on store shelves? If so, how long did they have to figure it all out before the next person was stricken?" —Michael Solomon for Truly Adventurous https://www.trulyadventure.us/poison-pill
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The #Tylenol murders started 42 years ago this week. Kids today have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1frutao/the_tylenol_murders_started_42_years_ago_this/
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The #Tylenol murders started 42 years ago this week. Kids today have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1frutao/the_tylenol_murders_started_42_years_ago_this/
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The #Tylenol murders started 42 years ago this week. Kids today have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1frutao/the_tylenol_murders_started_42_years_ago_this/
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The #Tylenol murders started 42 years ago this week. Kids today have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1frutao/the_tylenol_murders_started_42_years_ago_this/
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The #Tylenol murders started 42 years ago this week. Kids today have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1frutao/the_tylenol_murders_started_42_years_ago_this/
