AJ
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leftist plan to increase the birthrate:
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
www.npr.org
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 PM
leftist plan to increase the birthrate:
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
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The biggest electoral challenge in America is getting voters to believe the indisputable reality that their government is full of nazi freaks
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
The biggest electoral challenge in America is getting voters to believe the indisputable reality that their government is full of nazi freaks
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So we’re all clear that Trump is escalating ICE raids so he can trigger retaliatory violence and then declare martial law to interfere with midterm elections, right?
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
So we’re all clear that Trump is escalating ICE raids so he can trigger retaliatory violence and then declare martial law to interfere with midterm elections, right?
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Potentially unpopular opinion: I’d move on from Sirianni faster than I would from Lafleur.
MLF also screwed up the clock, but Packers were majorly affected by injuries.
What’s Nick’s excuse?
MLF also screwed up the clock, but Packers were majorly affected by injuries.
What’s Nick’s excuse?
January 12, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Potentially unpopular opinion: I’d move on from Sirianni faster than I would from Lafleur.
MLF also screwed up the clock, but Packers were majorly affected by injuries.
What’s Nick’s excuse?
MLF also screwed up the clock, but Packers were majorly affected by injuries.
What’s Nick’s excuse?
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I do not want to ever hear another US person call the French cowardly. They would have taken out the guillotine and burnt Paris to the ground by now.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I do not want to ever hear another US person call the French cowardly. They would have taken out the guillotine and burnt Paris to the ground by now.
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Sometimes during a movie or TV show when people are having a discussion, often someone responds immediately after the other person stops talking, when it reality they would need at least a second to think.
It comes off as unnatural and unrealistic.
It comes off as unnatural and unrealistic.
January 12, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Sometimes during a movie or TV show when people are having a discussion, often someone responds immediately after the other person stops talking, when it reality they would need at least a second to think.
It comes off as unnatural and unrealistic.
It comes off as unnatural and unrealistic.
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Too many of us who have spent our lives studying the history racism in this country were dismissed as hyperbolic and hysterical and biased and people who have not studied this history and were willfully blind to the truth of America and been wrong about it all were uplifted as the voices of reason.
January 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Too many of us who have spent our lives studying the history racism in this country were dismissed as hyperbolic and hysterical and biased and people who have not studied this history and were willfully blind to the truth of America and been wrong about it all were uplifted as the voices of reason.
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A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
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We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".
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If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
Sum up the 2025 Philadelphia Eagles with an image saved on your phone.
January 12, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Sum up the 2025 Philadelphia Eagles with an image saved on your phone.
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
Well fought and earned.
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Well fought and earned.
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online
various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism
I can still hear the crickets
various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism
I can still hear the crickets
He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.”
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 AM
I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online
various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism
I can still hear the crickets
various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism
I can still hear the crickets
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if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
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The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
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once again thinking about how american pride was invented by the federal government to stamp out state allegiances after the civil war
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
once again thinking about how american pride was invented by the federal government to stamp out state allegiances after the civil war
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It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
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To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
To paraphrase Margaret Atwood…”men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Exactly.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Exactly.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.
It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered.
And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.