@PaddyTech @ccferrie Same, nothing but good things about the guy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117073466693048693

Kennedy claimed at one point: “Something happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.”

Guess what happened in 1994?

DSM IV came out.

Guess what it did?

Defined new categories for autism diagnosis including Asperger’s.

This shit makes me so mad; I could yell at a wall until it changes its mind or crumbles to dust.

(Kennedy, obvs. Not Liza, who is awesome and you should read her thread)

@blogdiva federal funding for early diagnosis in schools, and having it in the DSM as a diagnosis probably helped a bit.

@Seedymofo @zackwhittaker There are two links, did you try the “Adblock bypass” one?

@gwynnion was the same story in January, also. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2026/01/14/women-made-up-nearly-all-the-job-losses-last-month-heres-why/

Here’s a non-Bluesky link for today’s news if anyone wants an article: https://newrepublic.com/post/214107/women-100-percent-jobs-lost-july-donald-trump

@sundogplanets “cowboy” and science makes me think of early nuclear experiments like the Demon Core, or the meltdown that happened in my community in the 50s cause they kept turning the reactor back on without figuring out why they had to keep hitting SCRAM.

@FediTips I’ve seen where a post has hashtags I can’t see, and that’s why it was in my feed