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Journalist @voxdotcom, covering housing, family policy, homelessness, politics. writing CAPABLE with @penguinrandom, a book about agency and social change
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Joined August 2009
got to watch this little guy look at the sky for the first time on our way home from the hospital. I'll be off from work for the next few months caring for him, and seeing him take in what I hope are many more firsts. welcome to the world, Jesse ❤️
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Wikipedia editors are now debating if Eric Adams should be described as Albanian-American
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that 2K, free preschool for 2 year olds, will be full day and full year - from 8am to 6pm, 260 days a year. 3K and prek typically end at 2:30 and are closed over the summer - a major difference for working parents.
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Actual quotes from President Trump: Trump’s “victory timeline” claims. Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully. March 10: practically nothing left to target Mar 11: “You
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Mahmoud Khalil sat down with @jdforward for an extended interview because he wanted to talk to Jews, including those who see his Free Palestine movement as an existential threat. His message, take it or leave it: "I want to liberate everyone."
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The Columbia protest leader on Hamas, Zionism and why Jews shouldn’t fear a 'free Palestine'
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When Trump took office, the IRS was planning on beginning 6,786 new audits of ultrarich individuals that year. Instead, they only began 3,692, around half of their plan. This was a policy decision from Trump. This year, Trump's IRS has set its target even lower, at just 2,264.
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Trump's Biggest Iran Fear https://t.co/7lWgdst7jJ
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As tonight’s deadline nears, Trump is desperate for one thing
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Idk, it seems basically impossible to take this seriously enough, even if you expect him to ultimately back down; it seems like a situation where people ought to violate norms and demand access and information; and somehow it’s playing out as everything else has, with nervous,
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can someone tell me what this is and what we do with it (found in fridge, origins unknown) Claude said a “fruit fly trap” and Chat GPT said a “cherry/olive pitter with a splash guard container”
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treating myself to a parental leave present of a hyperfixed subscription https://t.co/L1L70Y86ev
Also if we get more than 150 signups this month we will give away more merch! Anyhow please sign up cuz we are completely independent and exist only with your support. But the merch is cool dog https://t.co/ENCHcVZ0SV
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“I started this story thinking it was about the state of feminized forms of activism in 2026. I’m ending it thinking that a lot of the questions opened up by the Women’s March haven’t been answered yet.” Read @annanorthtweets on ‘craftivism’ https://t.co/Zjv6hAOM30
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Want to fight fascism? Join a knitting circle.
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New opening for a senior editor at Vox. Amazing opportunity to cover the future, in all its facets, with a great team on a range of platforms. https://t.co/aOiwnxv4zQ
job-boards.greenhouse.io
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Coincidentally, there is a bill in Alaska that would do just that: build out state paid parental leave first (using existing UI taxes!)
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@rcobooth Including all care leave drives up the price of the package. So then you water down the wage replacement level. And then young parents can't afford to take the leave you're offering. https://t.co/2v0OuvYAJB
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The playbook has been hiding in plain sight.
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(this is true even when their partners are also employed)
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The mentality of “let’s make things so bad for women that they drop out of workforce altogether and then just have kids instead” is both stupid and counterproductive And across most counties women who work are more likely to have kids than those not employed
@rcobooth Second-order consequences. Fundamentally, the fertility crisis boils down to one and only one thing: women choosing careers over children. Parental leave (among other things) contributes to women's sense that they can have both.
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Great article here by @rcobooth. She references my report with @JoshuaTMcCabe on the exclusion rates for men and women in states with paid leave programs. Any federal paid leave proposal should ensure that no new parents are left out.
While it's great that more blue states are stepping up on paid leave, the packages have tended to fall far short of serving all low-income parents. In Congress leaders should push a parental only bill, one that actually stands a shot of passing + that better serves families
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