Paying $5/gallon for gas to drive to an airport where you'll wait 4 hours to get monitored by untrained ICE agents as thousands of American troops prepare to deploy to the Middle East to fight a needless war.
Another day in Donald Trump's America.
If you are an American, and you haven't read a single history book written more than 50 years ago, travelled outside your continent, and don't have any friends who are non-western, consider that you are heavily propagandized and don't know wtf is really going on in the world.
The US spends $0 on federally mandated paid parental leave. Its fertility rate just hit an all-time low. And now we’re writing magazine pieces asking why parents have regrets.
The US fertility rate hit 1.599 in 2024. Down from 2.1 in 2007. The country can’t replace its own population anymore.
Three moms tell NY Mag they want their old lives back, and 70,000 people visit r/regretfulparents every week. Studies put the number at 8-14% of parents who’d choose differently if they could rewind.
But the framing of “regret” as a personal feeling misses what’s actually happening. The cost of raising a child in the US hit $310,000+ through age 17 by USDA estimates. Childcare runs $12,000-$15,000 a year. The US is one of six countries on earth with zero federally mandated paid parental leave.
You have a system that tells people parenthood is life’s greatest purpose, provides almost no structural support for it, then calls them broken when they struggle.
The 70,000 weekly visitors to that subreddit aren’t experiencing a psychological anomaly. They’re the honest ones in a system where 62% of women say they’re unsure about having more kids and fertility just fell off a cliff.
We keep calling this a stigma problem. It’s a policy failure.
.@JamesTalarico: For 50 years, the religious right convinced our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage—two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible.
Jesus tells us exactly how we're going to be judged: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, and by welcoming the stranger.
Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I’ll tell you what you believe. Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
"Consider what he intends to do if we give him power again. Consider his explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy. And we know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in Project 2025." ~ @KamalaHarris, 08/22/24
The billionaire class wants you impoverished, unable to buy a home, and working yourself to death for their bottom line, while also expecting you to birth children for them to exploit and sexually abuse. You can’t make me care about what someone on SNAP buys to feed their family
caring for immigrants is one of the only things the bible is actually clear about so i never want to hear conservative christians claim their beliefs are biblical ever again