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overeducated Midwest trash, southern interloper, and duplex appreciator. big fan of big L labor, the rustbelt, & transit. 🚲 🚌🚶🏼‍♀️ currently Durham, NC
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there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

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I understand why the left was absent from this pronatalism conference, even if Liz Bruenig doesn't.

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

By the way, as a reminder, the pronatalists are now writing policy proposals about making it harder for women to go to college so that they have more babies. And not some obscure blogger or something. The Heritage Foundation. www.heritage.org/education/re...

Finally it's the weekend, I can relax and fully focus on being pissed off

getting my notification that my monthly donation to the Carolina abortion fund has gone through as Im getting increasingly pissed off about the pronatalism discourse

The correct comparison for CECOT isn't Auschwitz or one of the death camps, something done in semi-official secret as part of a project of mass murder, but Dachau: A place to send political enemies and "asocials" that the Nazis bragged about in the newspapers.

There has never been and never will be a birthrate induced shortage of human beings on this planet. There are many reasons one might want children, as I do. It is simply not the case that anyone in particular has a responsibility to consider having children to perpetuate the existence of humanity.

The human race is perpetuating itself just fine; natalist anxieties only make sense if you’re concerned about the growth of certain demographics relative to others, which of course is the far right’s entire concern.

I feel like this misses the point that the left is the only people capable of placing “having children” within the broad spectrum of the right to bodily autonomy, all of the choices within this are actually morally neutral.

Trying to impress upon my two year old the cultural importance of the 20 year old American apparel flex fleece sweatshirt I’m wearing today

hey mamas is anyone else disproving germ theory

"Cyclists are always running stop signs!" Yes they make no sense for us, legalize treating them as yields

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Having the camp of the saints in the naval academy library would be scandalous on its own in a normal world

Every single member of this company’s C-Suite has a graduate degree and every single director level manager has at least an undergraduate degree. When these people say they want you to skip college they mean they you to take less pay and have fewer options. It is an evil company of evil people.

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how come these guys are always so concerned about nose ring sophomores and never the Industrial Rape Factories and drug trafficking hubs that are fraternities in the South?

This is good for me because I’ve been hoping we can breed an even more powerful strain of norovirus

When it comes to American history I can'r think of a period which has been interpreted via a materialist lens and by the Marxist school of thought more than the Civil War and the rise and fall of Reconstruction. One of the most important books period— Black Reconstruction— as a shining example

It's considered uncouth to say this but the entire impetus of the antivaxx movement is the idea that having an autistic child is worse than a dead child

there is nothing, and I truly mean nothing, that is too bad for this man to deserve

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

My dentist has now sent me THREE separate bills by mail to try to collect $7.20 from me instead of just asking me to pay next time I come in. So happy that they’re financially supposing our great post office to this extent.

all left wing people should oppose superstition and irrational beliefs, which are necessary in order to maintain class, racial and societal heirarchies and oppress mankind.

The anti-trans movement is welfare for losers.

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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tommy needy drinky

I need to stop looking at measles posts on all the crunchy mom fb groups I joined because it’s causing me serious psychological distress to observe women that are this stupid

Hopefully hospitals don’t use stuff from China

One really cool thing that happened to me last night is I started smelling a weird smell in my living room and was sniffing around trying to figure out where it was coming from but couldn’t and then like 5-10 minutes later I realized I had a stinkbug sitting on my head

to all who celebrate...

Was I supposed to be panic buying things before the tariffs went into effect … the only thing bought was new lightening cables which somehow are constantly disappearing into the ether in my house (I think my husband hoards them in a secret cable cache)

It’s spring so I have returned to being hyperfixated on Lorde’s “Melodrama”

all the guys being emasculated by their email jobs are welcome to do real work with their hands and go work at a long term care facility

“As long as the stasi can get you across the border before you can wrangle a lawyer you’re fucked” is a hell of an argument

looking forward to RFK spearheading another way for kids to die (sepsis from untreated dental caries)

make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health

the law, in its magnanimous wisdom, forbids protests outside the homes of justices while blessing deportations with legality if conducted fast and sloppily enough