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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.

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

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On top of everything else this year, listening to this kid crying is breaking me. I am a mild mannered white lady, fucking shaking with rage. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov WHAT WILL YOU DO TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY??!!!!

100% this!👇

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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

This seems like something you’d be sentenced to…like for a crime. Not something you’d ever want. 😬

Omg, “thank you for sucking” 😆😆. I was doomscrolling and feeling terrible and that really helped! 🥹

Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.

This is infuriating. This could be you. This could be me. It could be any one of us.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.

Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Holy shit, it absolutely does. Finding my mind wandering off mid-sentence is a pretty reliable slop indicator.

it's a massive failure of our society that we have allowed companies to distance themselves from the horrible things said by their AI, which has been created to represent them. if your AI says it, it should be equivalent to a live human person making the same statement, and treated accordingly

This whole thread…

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”

-Zohran Mamdani

Was horrified to get “bed rotting” until I looked it up. Sounds pretty good, actually! 😆

This seems entirely plausible to me…

Four adorable lemon pigs!

In their adorable piggy glory!

Four lemons, dimes, tin foil, cloves, and multicolored toothpicks…ready to make new year’s lemon pigs!!!

We are so ready!!

Four lemons, a container of cloves, a container of multicolored toothpicks and a roll of tin foil sit in readiness for the yearly making of the lemon pigs!!

All set for later…just need to grab a few shiny coins! #lemonpig

I’ve thought for some time that people waiting for conscious AI remind me of Linus sitting in the pumpkin patch. “Oh Great Pumpkin where are you????!”

Our youngest (maybe 7 at the time?) lost her wallet at the aquarium in a big city. It contained all her bday money (no, she didn’t tell us she’d brought it) and some gift cards. A kind and honest soul found it and left it at L&F with everything intact.

Actually laughed out loud!

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Well…I guess that would make me a demon. 😆

Omg, perfection!!

Shared a helpless shrug across the room with @ericidle.bsky.social (who I think was signing books?) after getting scolded and told to move by a security guard at a Spamalot performance when we were clearly hemmed in and had nowhere to go. Guard was loud enough to draw attention, lol.