did you experience the pain of recognition and a fleeting moment of self-awareness and shame when you read this part?

The delta between what you’d expect and actual sentiment is higher; but actual sentiment is worse for the poor. Real incomes staying flat while prices went up affects everyone. The end of the expanded ctc would have been felt (though not by much) at households up to twice the median income.

The difference between the past five years and expected 5 years graphs may be illustrative.

the scales aren’t the same but you can see the 2019 pre-covid peak, covid, and the end of covid anti-poverty measures / expanded ctc in all these graphs.

do you see the arrow? There are millions of people who were recently taken out of poverty and then shoved back into it.

Median real income was flat or down relative to pre-pandemic until at least 2024. (With the caveat that the 2019 numbers are possibly not super reliable).

But we all remember how well Tlon played in the group stage. Thats a small country wjth a lot of heart.

Robert Eggers:

Sometimes you park the bus, and sometimes the bus parks you.

in english: “Oi Oi ‘Ughie! They nicked the football and it’s not going ‘ome now! It’s right bollocks!”

Also I did not get to use this because of VAR:

I think it’s good that at least one pundit has done a post mortem on how she was duped. But also if they’re being really honest most platner supporters should admit they were willfully credulous in a way that should permanently cost them their credibility.

I am mixing him up with jon lovett.

If you can get tik tok to show you content in another language, you’ll be bombarded with the knowledge that dudes rock and all men are brothers.

In order to get asylum based on political opinion, it helps to have a documented record of expressing your political opinion. But also, apparently, if you express a political opinion, we’ll deport you.

You know who I bet has a lab in the bayou? The Ani-Mator. And who do we find there? Bird Brain — except now he’s evil!

I do not believe this is attributable to just time and agjng. Or even steroids and plastic surgery. This is simply not the same person.

I thought I was being pretty charitable since he doesn’t want to call it genocide, so I stuck to lesser charges Israel is proud of. Still got blocked.

look, if you want power instead of endlessly critiquing power you have to make some compromises.

the only real New Yorker is the Bruce Leroy’s dad from the Last Dragon. Just directa your feetsa to Daddy Green’s Pizza.

lmao.

“Is your past being weaponized? Why should you suffer for an action someone else noticed?”

I’m old enough to remember when saying “I would rape them… but not in a gay way” and getting a nazi tattoo because you identify with the SS would be a political liability for most candidates.

I’m beginning to think the mercenary with a nazi tattoo may have poor judgment.

He’s in the cabinet. If Smotrich and ben Gvir don’t represent Israel, who does?