Leigh
@leighaf.bsky.social
she/they
I’m your weird blue-haired aunt. Here to chat about roller derby, cats, books, and community building. Probably killing a houseplant.
Current 🏠: Denver, USA
I’m your weird blue-haired aunt. Here to chat about roller derby, cats, books, and community building. Probably killing a houseplant.
Current 🏠: Denver, USA
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Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
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. n.pr/3NH3yso
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.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
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Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
I’m old enough to remember the anti-genocide encampments y’all defamed.
January 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
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Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
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This guy has it bang on
January 7, 2026 at 2:04 AM
This guy has it bang on
2025 wasn’t done with us yet. I just learned “Snow Squall” is a severe weather event I hadn’t yet encountered in life.
This post brought to you by being stranded with two dogs during a cross-country road trip by a snowstorm.
December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
2025 wasn’t done with us yet. I just learned “Snow Squall” is a severe weather event I hadn’t yet encountered in life.
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
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"The border" is a fiction, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. It's a narrative. A story. & for the love of Gloria (Anzaldúa), stop reinforcing & amplifying the bigoted, fear-mongering, white supremacist story Trump wants to tell. Or, if you can't, just stop.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/cons...
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"The border" is a fiction, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. It's a narrative. A story. & for the love of Gloria (Anzaldúa), stop reinforcing & amplifying the bigoted, fear-mongering, white supremacist story Trump wants to tell. Or, if you can't, just stop.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/cons...
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For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
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They keep them on the shelf below the binders full of women.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
They keep them on the shelf below the binders full of women.
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EVERYONE GETS SNOW!
(except denver)
(except denver)
a woman in a red dress holds a microphone and says you get one and you get one we all get one
ALT: a woman in a red dress holds a microphone and says you get one and you get one we all get one
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
EVERYONE GETS SNOW!
(except denver)
(except denver)
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billionaires buy twitter or WaPo as a little treat, but yes tell me about Gen Z's apocalyptic pastry habit
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
billionaires buy twitter or WaPo as a little treat, but yes tell me about Gen Z's apocalyptic pastry habit
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There are basic issues of democratic legitimacy when armed and masked men are defying the wishes of neighborhoods and cities of America.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are basic issues of democratic legitimacy when armed and masked men are defying the wishes of neighborhoods and cities of America.
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Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Then loudly shout Blue No Matter What and shame anyone who has reservations about a platform entirely shaped by polling, do I have this right?
Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Then loudly shout Blue No Matter What and shame anyone who has reservations about a platform entirely shaped by polling, do I have this right?
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name a more iconic duo than adhd and icloud find device
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
name a more iconic duo than adhd and icloud find device
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I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
AT LAST thank you Nate
5 on 3 for 1:50 - can the Avs convert on the PP tonight? #goAvsgo
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
AT LAST thank you Nate
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That's no ballroom
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
That's no ballroom
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"one nazi tattoo and i'm cancelled? so much for the tolerant left!"
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"one nazi tattoo and i'm cancelled? so much for the tolerant left!"
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Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.
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will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh