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There have been very few sound bites from our current administration that have made my stomach turn like JD Vance telling the crowd at a March for Life rally that he wants beautiful young Americans to procreate. “I want more babies in the United States of America,” Vance told the crowd in Washington, D.C., in January 2025, in his first official speech as Vice President. “And I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.” I can’t believe any woman ever let him touch her—let alone wanted to get married and have kids with him. But someone did. And Vance has officially gotten his wish for more babies in the U.S. On Tuesday, his wife, Usha—whom he recently threw under the bus for being raised Hindu—announced she’s expecting her fourth child with Vance. So I guess JD took a brief pause (or not) from allegedly fucking couches. --> “We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy,” JD, 41, and Usha, 40, wrote in a shared statement on social media. The New York Times notes that it’s the first time in “modern history” that a sitting Second Lady has been pregnant. “Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the statement continued. Late July would make him a Leo, and Vance was born on August 2, which also makes him a Leo. That’s a lot of male Leo energy, just saying… In December, Propaganda Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she’s expecting a baby girl in May, and on New Year’s Eve, Katie Miller, wife of anti-immigration ghoul and White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, announced they’re expecting their fourth child. I know this is a forced-birth administration and these women are probably all ecstatic to be a part of the most anti-women government in recent memory, but also…I’m curious if Vance has put something in the White House water. Speaking of Katie Miller, on Wednesday, she quote-tweeted a Fox News clip of Jesse Watters and Kid Rock, from May, talking about how they believe no one wants to sleep with liberal women because they have blue hair and choose not to shave their armpits, writing: “Conservative women are just factually more attractive than liberal women. It’s why more conservatives than liberals are having babies.” Anyone even tangentially connected to this administration using the word “factually” is LOL. But if armpit hair will keep me safe from men like Vance, Miller, Watters, and *gulps* Kid Rock, then, as God (she/her) as my witness, I will grow my armpit hair so long that it will need its own ZIP code. Guinness Book of World Records, watch out. Like what you just read? You’ve got great taste. Subscribe to Jezebel, and for $5 a month or $50 a year, you’ll get access to a bunch of subscriber benefits, including getting to read the next article (and all the ones after that) ad-free. Plus, you’ll be supporting independent journalism—which, can you even imagine not supporting independent journalism in times like these? Yikes.

No one truly knows how many people, whether they’re American citizens or global travelers, have met their end by jumping from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. An official count was once kept of deaths occurring at the iconic Bay Area landmark, which connects the city to the Northern California hills south of Sausalito, but that official count ended just before the 1,000th death by suicide in 1995, in recognition that the publicizing of such statistics by the media might only increase the notoriety and attractiveness of the site as a place for more suicides. The confirmed count since the bridge opened in 1937 is frequently said to be more than 2,000, though a true number will never be known: Not when it’s a certainty that many deaths over the decades have surely gone unwitnessed and unrecorded. For decades, the average yearly count sat around 33 yearly fatalities. It’s beyond notable, then, to be able to say the following: In the final seven months of 2025, there were zero known suicide deaths at Golden Gate Bridge. It’s almost certainly the longest period without a death in the structure’s 88 years in operation, and it’s the result of a concerted effort at suicide prevention that should stand out as a model for activists and governments worldwide. For as long as the bridge has stood, people had always jumped from it. It was only 10 weeks after its official opening that the first case was recorded, a 47-year-old World War I veteran named Harold Wobber who was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder. Many more followed, and a certain mystique about the bridge as a suicide destination began to grow in a macabre corner of the public consciousness. On some level, the notoriety was earned in how deadly a jump from the bridge proved to be: At 245 feet above the Bay, a person falling has time to accelerate to about 75 mph by the time they hit the water, causing immediate death on impact in most cases, or immediate drowning. Nevertheless, some small portion of jumpers–about 2%, roughly–have survived the plunge, almost universally saying that the first thought they had after leaping from the edge was one of regret, or a desire to live. In the most well-known cases of survivors, such as Kevin Hines or Ken Baldwin, they went on to dedicate their lives to helping others struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. In 2000, Kevin Hines survived a Golden Gate Bridge jump thanks to a sea lion. He now speaks globally on suicide prevention, using his story to raise awareness about mental health. [image or embed] — Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) Nov 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM --> For decades, however, city officials and members of the public actively resisted calls to physically alter the bridge in an effort to prevent or at least cut down on suicides, even as the national suicide rate rose. Arguments were made citing the potential damage to aesthetics of the beloved landmark, or the cost of proposed projects, or questioning the ultimate effectiveness of suicide deterrents such as nets. And while people argued and debated, the numbers of deaths only climbed. In 2014, the year that an ambitious netting project under the bridge was finally approved, 46 people died. In 2025, that total number was down to only 4, including the aforementioned zero in the final seven months. The results are conclusive, and as good as that news is, it comes with a simultaneous indictment of past inaction: This is something that could have been done much, much sooner, resulting in more lives saved. It was simply too easy to jump. With that said, it’s almost a wonder the project got completed at all, given all the legal red tape and construction delays it endured. Despite approval in 2014, construction of the netting project didn’t begin until 2018, with costs ballooning from a projected $76 million to $224 million along the way, funds that came from a variety of sources: The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, California Department of…