Nice to see Jacobin publish something less bad on the antinatalism/pronatalism bullshit train, but reading this was like looking through a funhouse mirror. Sweden/Europe and the US are so profoundly different on this stuff, man.

“Nice! We can totally capitalize on the fact that neoliberalism overplayed its hand by privatizing all of reproductive labor into the family and thereby onto women!” - literally they did the reading and it’s working

Reminding all the cavalier tech dudes/ladies saying “privacy is not a feature” and hating them even more.

Stigma <---> Restriction

I made my choices but I wish they hadn't led me to knowing the objectively gross word "fecuditation"

Antisemitism is terrifyingly powerful in the US right now. It's mostly outside my scope of attention, so I appreciate summaries like this very much, even though reading them sucks.

Lots of people have kids because kids are great and love is great and care is great! Creepy losers who think kids are property can't wishcast us all into their dreary worlds. ❤️👶🎵🎶🎉

They're going to keep pushing this narrative that only conservatives have children, and it's very important that we keep saying "what the fuck are you talking about"

V hard to maintain faith in a system that generates a journal issue like this

High young adult #mortality makes reaching old age less likely in the US than elsewhere. That's true in all states, but in WV and MS more than one-fourth of 20-year-olds are not expected live to retirement age. State analysis inspired by @financialtimes.com and @drjenndowd.bsky.social #demography

How I feel: Moderation for the sake of power is just callous defeatism. Less glib, intelligent, from actual political scientists: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

man's always hated books and the people who love them tbh

Your mom‘s feeling about the constitution are more important than SCOTUS - pass it on.

It’s always “Nobody wants to work” “nobody wants to pay rent” “nobody will have babies” Never a whisper of “bosses don’t pay enough/treat people right” “rents are too high” “everybody’s on their own if they ‘chose’ to have kids”

going to start posting this as a reaction image every time pronatalism comes up instead of saying anything substantive

Managing medical care is time consuming and stressful! With Supermarket Cake you can focus on cake instead of worrying about getting appointments for refills and second opinions.

Furiously googling "how to un-teach maximum likelihood estimation" but all I get is a slurry of AI nonsense and a bunch of people's course websites.

Love to see them continue to regress us to the local minimum and mean, equidistant between two poles and therefore very popular

This is a terrific report by @lookheron.bsky.social on how to create institutional structures that protect free speech at public universities. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Pronatalism at work, guys!

Ten years ago every moderately legit redneck man would have recoiled in disgust at this behavior from law enforcement. Something big about guns has changed for some of them.

Considering renting a storefront in my town just to play this on a loop in a tv in the window.

A recursive version of the Peter principle where you just substitute compliance for competence. Quineing for advanced capitalism.

Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩 🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado 🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only) 🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations Details in 🧵

The ugly American stereotype doesn't even approach us.

When the society has a procedure and infrastructure for “booking” infants into jail <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Do NOT use an app to track your hormones

If economists really believed in “statistical discrimination” they’ve be arguing the ugly American stereotype wasn’t ugly enough.

340 million Minnesotans.

Students are so distraught that careful, hard thinking they've learned to do is disregarded and disrespected in every public venue. I tell them about the venues where good work is valued (states! cities! communities!) But my biggest answer is the future. How do you answer these pleas?

I really resent that she’s doing for bangs and flannel what Krysten Sinema did for bright glasses and high-waisted dresses.

Minnesotans don’t want ICE to abduct our neighbors a little differently. We want all of it to stop. And we’ll keep doing everything we can to make that happen. If you’re outside of the state, you should too.

And let that include calling your senators again. Don’t give them a moment of peace until we get a moment of peace in Minneapolis. Anyone who votes to fund ICE has blood on their hands—no matter how they rationalize it. Make sure they know.

I really resent that she’s doing for bangs and flannel what Krysten Sinema did for bright glasses and high-waisted dresses.

Abortion stigma hurts literally everyone.

The latest Heritage Foundation plan for incentivizing marriage and birth misunderstands America right from the jump. The founding generation they so venerate were among the first in the world to intentionally reduce their childbearing.

This kind of thing was terrifying and nearly unmanageable when it was rogue individuals and groups we had to be afraid of. Now that it's the literal federal government we have to worry about, too, it's well on its way to being an effective denial of academic and speech freedoms.

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

A video of the author giving the chicken chicken paper delivers. ❤️✊

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

People outside of Minnesota should know that a lot of ICE agents are harassing, assaulting, and abducting people in plainclothes and unmasked. Plainclothes ICE agents are especially likely to be in places people visit out of necessity—like hospital lobbies.

Care is a politics,not only an ethics.Care is a source of power, not only a disposition.A politics of care is not only good it is powerful.It is what undergirds parallel institutions,it is the support structure that allows people to say NO & mean it b/c they do for each other&don’t need permission.

@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov you‘re there right next to trump. You’re being outflanked to the left by your opponents on the right.

Many mainstream Dems - Obama included - helped establish and reinforce the fascist system we are seeing in full flourish today. The point is not to excoriate the Democratic Party but to understand that handing them another election won't be enough to "save democracy". The party must (be) change(d).

Protecting people because they’re real is a whole politics and I love it.

Pronatalism is most compelling when it’s arguing for community defense work.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

sure thing