Wrote briefly about care as a bulwark against apathy, and what the path forward demands of us: momleft.com/p/time-to-care

I agree with this and also think Dem messaging over-relied on “life of the mother” scenarios because the more common reality (terminating an unwanted pregnancy) offends some marginal voters Dems hoped to win. I wish they could make clear that abortion is v much an economic issue!

seconding and: i think the decontextualized anticapitalist buzzwords that crop up in some of these videos obscure the fact that, in many of the proposed scenarios, women who leave the paid workforce aren't ditching bosses. they're replacing them with boyfriend-bosses and new work

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

yeah i’m at my desk

How dumb is Trump 2.0's education policy going to be? Look to states like Oklahoma, where trial runs are already proving unpopular, even with Republican voters. New from me in MomLeft **which will have one more post, then hiatus till Jan!** momleft.com/p/get-stupid

TODAY: The House is set to vote on H.R. 9495, the "nonprofit killer" bill designed to target pro-Palestine groups — and which could empower Trump to go after other political foes Debate starts at 9, voting to follow at 10. I'll be updating here, with story tk at The Intercept

One emergent them in Trump 2.0 is the level of obsession of his non-education picks with the schools. Here's OMB pick Russell Vought warning that the Department of Ed is running camps to train teachers on how to secretly *socially transition* kids

I appeared along with Kelly Weill on NPR's "It's Been a Minute" to talk about how conspiracy theories became such a driving force in American politics and culture. Also, we talk UAP's and movie musicals. npr.org/2024/11/22/121…

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For my last MomLeft of the year I wrote about logging off. I’ll post the link in the next tweet because (per my email newsletter!) this place is pretty cooked. 💻👎😤

that’s Burial