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Leslie Root

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reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень

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I can still sing the jingle! 59, 79, 99, Taco Bell's done it again

12.03.2026 02:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me 😭

12.03.2026 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I subscribe to several newsletters and almost never read any of them, because they come to my inbox, which is not a place of honor etc. I should really set up an RSS feed again.

11.03.2026 18:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
11.03.2026 16:53 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

10.03.2026 11:07 👍 4458 🔁 1209 💬 45 📌 53

This is a phenomenal way to describe the Democrats

11.03.2026 04:02 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

10.03.2026 23:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

high five, i also have mild exercise-induced asthma (only an issue when it's pretty cold out)

10.03.2026 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope my representation of your thinking is more or less on the mark! Can't wait for you to write more about it

10.03.2026 21:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

lol came here to say you look like a bitch (extremely complimentary)!!

10.03.2026 20:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pleased to have have the opportunity to link to the work of many people I respect, and (unlike Meagan Day, just saying) not to have linked to Lyman Stone/the IFS

10.03.2026 20:42 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope she (Elizabeth Bruenig, Meagan Day) sees this

10.03.2026 20:41 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At last, my first "I'm on the left and I say pronatalism sucks" piece longer than a tweet is out spectrejournal.com/non-natalism/

10.03.2026 19:31 👍 63 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 9

Lmao

10.03.2026 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in the homeward direction, yes - into work it's the (slightly smaller) other side of the same hill

10.03.2026 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no. no!!!!!!

10.03.2026 16:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it's good enough exercise for me! and yeah it has allowed us to continue to only have one car which is also great

10.03.2026 16:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i do have a goal of doing it on my regular bike one time this year just to see what it's like!

10.03.2026 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would never use a regular bike for my work commute, because it is nine miles and 300 feet of elevation gain and I am not about spending an hour on my commute just to need a shower after. I guess I'm lazier than someone who would do that, but I'm also less lazy than I would be if I drove...

10.03.2026 16:29 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

I LOVE that they used a birth certificate as the header image instead of some baby bullshit!!

10.03.2026 16:16 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Non-natalism – Spectre Journal A case for being against pronatalism Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social pol...

Spectre Journal has generously let me spout off about pronatalism spectrejournal.com/non-natalism/

10.03.2026 16:15 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2

we love to see it!!

10.03.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh yes to be clear my tax ire is reserved for the people on r/boulder who are constantly bitching about their property tax valuations. i wish i were bold enough to not pay my federal taxes, but my dad is a tax cheat who's been caught (twice! love you dad but seriously why) so that path is not for me

09.03.2026 21:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

haha I mean I think there are pro-shoplifting arguments for sure! like, it's anti-social, low-trust behavior but it isn't really corrosive in the same way being a weasel on your taxes or a shitty driver are

09.03.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

hell yeah ✊

09.03.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it is!

09.03.2026 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sorry, i will never publish anything longer than a twete, that's the leslie root promise

09.03.2026 21:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"the rules are for suckers" is boomer-coded, sorry. also car culture-coded. in this essay, i will

09.03.2026 20:59 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

chaser: bsky.app/profile/phil...

09.03.2026 19:57 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

shot:

09.03.2026 19:57 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0