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Look, moots, I made a channel! Presenting the first two episodes of my neoliberal Satantango, The Secret History of YIMBY. Over the next, uh, twelve, I'll explain everything you need to know about housing, zoning, and political economy. vimeo.com/channels/19482…

FIVE YEARS OF GROCERY RECEIPTS JUST EXPOSED THE MOST PROTECTED LIE IN ECONOMICS. Since 2019, the government says cumulative inflation is about 25%. Here is what actually happened to the things you buy every single week: Eggs: +79% Ground beef: +77% Coffee: +68% Car insurance: +55% Electricity: +43% Bacon: +26% Bread: +24% Five out of seven of those are running 2x to 3x faster than the official number. And the only two that tracked near CPI? Bacon and bread. The lowest-cost, lowest-margin items in the basket. The things that actually drain a household budget, the protein, the energy, the insurance you are legally required to carry, those are the ones the official number keeps understating. The CPI was retooled in the 1990s to reduce reported inflation. They added substitution adjustments. They changed how they weight housing. They smoothed out the things that spike. This is documented BLS methodology, not conspiracy. Food overall is up 30% since end of 2019. Car insurance premiums up 54% since 2020. Electricity just hit all-time record prices. But the official line is 2.4% annual inflation and the Fed debates rate cuts. Your grocery receipt is the only honest inflation report left.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

The iron dome is the equivalent of giving a school shooter body armor so that they are safer as they carry out their slaughter. It emboldens the colony by providing it the means to insulate itself from the consequences of its own violent actions. It is offensive in effect.

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

Let us now make a solemn promise, on the eve of building tensions with Iran, never to take seriously the learned opinion of anyone who couldn't see the obvious disaster of American intervention in Iraq *before* we invaded. Listening to them is a moral hazard.

Only 7 years ago

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Democrats own the War on Iran too by refusing to table the War Powers Act.

He didn’t just “pass away”. He was murdered. By his own father, Marvin Gaye Sr- with a gun he gave him as a birthday gift. A tragedy of Shakespearian proportions.

NYC Mayor Mamdani voices support for Rep. AOC’s decision to not use American tax payer dollars to fund Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system.

@GuntherEagleman Hey that guy went to Epstein’s PDFile island

@Kyle_Beckley You betcha

Yes, New Yorkers, it is awful. Please don't come

I knew the Council Speaker was rich. I had no idea it was *this* kind of rich. She’s disclosed NONE of it: “Tens of millions of dollars, including a $22 million Hamptons mansion, several luxury condos on the Upper East Side, and company private jets.” levernews.com/the-quiet-fort…

I would have any respect for this circular firing squad tactic if the people pushing it had any experience in organizing that didn't end in flames

The world lost 12m ha of rainforest recently with your help, maybe you could help US with that Nestle?

@neontaster What kind of genocide would the lack of Iron Dome engender, vs the one they already carried out?

This is the dumbest "analysis" around. Mass casualty attacks on Israel by Hamas or Hezbollah or Iran would trigger a response that would make anything we've seen so far pale in comparison. Iron Dome actually lets Israel be restrained.

If you used genAI and then didnt even have the decency to do basic fact checking, your pubs should be pulled. And there should be a time penalty - dont clog the peer review publishing timeline for those of us actually doing our jobs. Fabrication of evidence is heinous.

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!! Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission. He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank. Repost this. Please I beg you

If you absolutely must tweet offensive stuff about Chuck E. Cheese, please use "p*zza" instead writing out the whole thing. We get to use that word, you don't

I'm sorry but your "Chuck E. Cheese pizza is good" takes are racist tropes against New Yorkers. Do better

"I used to work with a guy who was unemployed"

it was to fund an AI data center btw