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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 16m
The kind of inspiring poll you expect to see from a Democratic governor who spent much of the year trying to defund universal pre-k
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 1h
A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 1h
probably less than ideal when you're actively refreshing the cvs manage prescription page to see if your doctor put in a prescription yet
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 4h
Is 19-year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal detained thru LRA after a mistaken traffic stop not your constituent @ossoff.senate.gov; what about her father who was trying to finalize his permit? How dare you use someone’s murder to justify hurting thousands & countless deaths?
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 7h
I would like to be less ill
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 21h
The WNBA playoffs should not be on 43 different networks and streaming services, with zero consistency from game to game. The new commissioner should figure this out.
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Jack Guignol @jackguignol.bsky.social · 21h
Check it out!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 22h
Aaaaaaand...scene.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22h
The promise of $10-a-day daycare outside Quebec feels like it’s slowly dying under Mark Carney’s austerity agenda, just as the imperfect pharmacare program for diabetes drugs and contraception did before it.
cbc.ca
Ontario, feds extending affordable child-care program but costs to stay the same | CBC News
Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it may not live up to its signature goal — lowering pare...
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 23h
you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The important scholars of these literatures have given the forces of reaction a clearer self-understanding which they have since put into action in their contemporary political projects.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is lettuce safe yet? last time i thought it was they were like just kidding
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 29/09/2026
An Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit from a Boise daycare and parents that sought to block enforcement of a state law that bans daycares from requiring vaccines or medical treatment.
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Federal judge upholds Idaho law that bans vaccine, medical treatment requirements in daycares • Idaho Capital Sun
The ruling upholds an Idaho law that bans daycares, businesses, governments and schools from mandating vaccines or “medical interventions.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
regret to report this gives decent answers and asks useful follow-up questions if you ask it how to get help paying for child care.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I post about this I'm coming from experience where I'd not only be expected to take this Matt Yglesias protege seriously, but everybody would decide it was a commonly held belief that we need to always have a caveat for whenever we mention universal child care because it was in The Atlantic.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of you know this, but any time some centrist loser starts talking about how a social policy will only benefit the wealthy what they really mean is they don't want anything to benefit anyone.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretending everything is a toy version of gender is a great justification for ignoring everything else (class, race, you name it)
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The idea that we can't build a working child care system without simultaneously paying a stipend to people who opt out of that system that's just enough to promote marriage but not enough to allow equal opportunities for single mothers is fascinating to me.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what happens ideologically when Matt Yglesias provides childcare
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"For six years, I’ve sat in the center of what many call Brooklyn’s political game of thrones — a place where power is coveted, alliances shift overnight, and battles erupt without warning. Some joked I was the Mother of Dragons, holding fire in one hand and strategy in the other." LOL WHAT
nydailynews.com
I’m turning over the Brooklyn Dems’ reins
For six years, I’ve sat in the center of what many call Brooklyn’s political game of thrones — a place where power is coveted, alliances shift overnight, and battles erupt without warning. Some joked ...
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 29/09/2026
Listen maybe the DC-based, Ivy-educated, economics major who’s the child of LA corporate lawyers and worked for Matty Y actually doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the volk
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missed this fun detail about the "universal child care is cosmopolitan" early 20s Darthmouth grad atlantic staff writer this morning
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there should be a name for that consultant stink that dems get about them, the miasma of bad of advice, ill-considered knee-jerk centrism in the face of actual fascism, the reek of cowardice that only comes from abysmal advice
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We will never be able to grasp the potential wasted by ensuring that only rich people’s children get to do socially meaningful work
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
De-skilling professions that support human wellbeing.
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unless Democrats can muster something more than “culture wars are a distraction from kitchen table issues,” we are never getting these degrees back.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you @garbageday.email for *actually* explaining why nobody you know has heard “Choosin’ Texas,” yet it is paradoxically topping the charts www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...
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Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit
Read to the end for FlubberLover01
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The consequences of abortion bans are no longer shocking in part because their very existence reenforces the biopolitical right to maim women through mandatory pregnancy.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US is the only OECD country w/out paid parental leave. Most other countries guarantee ~a year of parental leave before families enroll their kids in universal childcare. Instead of pitting families against each other, we should demand paid leave AND universal childcare like all our peer nations.
rooseveltinstitute.org
Building the Future of the Care Economy - Roosevelt Institute
The US is facing a care crisis. Our care work focuses on addressing gaps in care through stable, long-term public investments that center worker equity and quality care outcomes while resisting privat...
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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The author uses the fact that many parents want to stay home with very young children as an argument against universal childcare. This is a false choice. At Roosevelt, we recommend paid leave AND universal childcare, so parents can stay home for a year w/ their infants. (It's also cost effective.)
rooseveltinstitute.org
Building a Vision for Universal Public Childcare: Principles for a Childcare System That Works for Workers and Families - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Lena Bilik and coauthors argue that the US needs bold, transformative public investments to create a universal early childhood care and education (ECE) system that can meet the need...
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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Atlantic ran an article this morning critiquing the growing fight for universal childcare. There is plenty here I disagree with, but we can save some of that for another time...For now, I want to focus on one thing missing: a real conversation about paid parental leave. 🧵
theatlantic.com
The Problem With Democrats' Favorite Policy Proposal
Universal child care appeals to the party's cosmopolitan base—but not to most of the country.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's almost like people who work on child care policy knew this was a longstanding systemic problem with pre-k, which was exacerbated by 3k. and why nobody who works in child care programs or policy thought 2k was a good approach 🙂
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Public preschool providers say they’re losing teachers to better-paying jobs, running up debts and having to pay out of pocket because their city contracts don’t pay them enough." gothamist.com/news/nyc-chi...
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NYC childcare providers say city contract rates fall $12.6K short per child
Providers say what the city pays them isn’t enough to cover the true cost of care.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Emily Oster has been trying to make women think about their families as collections of tasks instead of people bonded by love and it’s a terrible idea.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
24 year old guy who has a staff job for the atlantic says universal child care is "cosmopolitan" and I'm supposed to pretend that's worth my time.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 500K people in NYS are officially unemployed. But what if each of these people could go to a government agency that— • Intakes what kinds of jobs they're willing to do; and • Matches them with a government job that meets a known public need? I think this is possible, if NY takes 4 steps. 🧵
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm gonna be honest I really don't want to spend my time arguing with the men who pretend to be liberal but all they care about is writing a thousand pieces about how it's "unfair" to build a universal child care system without paying women to be stay at home moms. Not paid leave.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah the thing is I’ve known of Langley for years now. the song is fine. But it’s only #1 pop hit because the monoculture is dead. If it had to compete when Mariah was the reigning #1 queen it would be lucky to be a top 50 hit on country. This is a story about how poor the competition is.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"affordable" child care is not "universal." sliding scales and means tests are not universal. work requirements are not universal.
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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just remembered the guys saying "she's not even a cinephile" about an academic reviewing the Odyssey. tumblr / letterboxd brain is a blight.
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