60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages. #ADHDAwarenessMonth
Maia Szalavitz
@maiasz.bsky.social
Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neuroscience, troubled-teen industry, harm reduction, cats.
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
aside from unethical, this would be ineffective. otherwise, women giving birth or breastfeeding would be in love with everyone around them at the time. & every orgasm would bond people forever. not how this works...
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 3d agoShit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...
this is actually neglect. the reason reading a book to a baby builds the child's brain is the physical, emotional, visual & verbal interaction (ie, sitting on lap, seeing what mom is pointing to, responding to understanding & delight). obv. OK to use media sometimes, but this is not how kids learn.
Joshua Sharp@joshuasharp.bsky.social · 3d agoIn eighteen years his kids will send an AI model to visit him for the holidays.
Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
nytimes.com
Many people who have experienced significant mental illness collect diagnoses over time, like stamps on a passport. I was labeled bipolar, depressed, O.C.D. Here’s why, by @maiasz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o... via @nytimes.com
Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Diagnose Mental Illness
More than half of people who qualify for one diagnosis also qualify for another during their lifetime.
nytimes.com
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
No country has stopped an HIV epidemic in people who inject drugs without providing clean needles... so sad that they are blocking this & enabling the virus to spread...
Prevention Point Philadelphia@ppponline.org · 6d ago“With HIV cases rising by 12-fold between 2010 and 2025, in mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency. Estimates are that there are upward of 9,000 cases; the country's health minister has announced that 1 in 60 adults are now living with HIV.” www.npr.org/2026/09/26/g...
for the first time since tracking began, more American households have kittens than puppies. there is a reason for this: homeownership is declining, and homeowners are twice as likely as renters to own dogs. did cats engineer the housing crisis? i'll be honest: it is now more likely than not.
Psychiatric diagnosis is problematic. But labels can also help. My latest on efforts to improve DSM & alternatives www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Diagnose Mental Illness (Gift Article)
More than half of people who qualify for one diagnosis also qualify for another during their lifetime.
nytimes.com
Historically, having a vibrant, successful city people want to live in, visit, and spend money in is about supporting the arts, versus "we need more cops with guns to terrorize everyone" and while it's not rocket science it's pretty great to have a mayor who knows that.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
Excellent images to have a coffee whilst admiring
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
theguardian.com
basically, they care more about punishing people than housing them, even though that's actually the best way to reduce the public disorder they supposedly want to address & is also kinder and cheaper & more effective.
Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · last wk.“I’m going to die sleeping outdoors,” he said, choking up. “But I got nowhere to go.” Great story about the people who are suffering from Trump's hard turn away from housing first toward temporary shelter and forced treatment. abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
Hope can feel in short supply these days. But I am truly hopeful for the future, in large part because of the community we've built through the Bethesda Declaration. Proud to share these reflections on hope: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.... May they bring you some hope.
Hope From the Front Lines: Reflections From the Bethesda Declaration Movement | Hope: A Public Health Blueprint for Action
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
Please check out my futuristic opinion piece in @jamapsychiatry.com "specific treatments for schizophrenia that are tailored to target symptoms at different developmental stages are no longer the stuff of science fiction, but instead are realistic future goals" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Updating Treatment Goals for Schizophrenia
This article discusses research providing renewed reasons to revisit the utility of glutamatergic drugs for treating schizophrenia.
jamanetwork.com
I didn’t generate this!! I would never. It came up in my searches.
RFK, jr appears to think that AI's medical judgment is better than that of any doctor while completely failing to recognize that it's based on the judgment of the entire medical literature (which he says is just pharma propaganda or Big Vaccine or whatever). the level of stupid is beyond belief.
evil. hilariously, they don't seem to realize that AI gets its answers from..... research done by experts.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoEugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
Of course @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has the most interesting review of the MAHA Summit. She asks who organized the event, who attended, and where the money goes. Kennedy likes to keep his grift in the family. Zadrozny notes: "Finn was the summit’s first speaker." www.ms.now/news/maha-su...
