Jeff
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They won’t forget these days
A newly released video shows two men attacking a 77-year-old man who was walking down the street in downtown Seattle last month. The incident was captured by the city's Real Time Crime Center surveillance cameras, which monitor public areas that have been identified as crime hot spots. In the video, the victim is seen walking slowly southbound on Third Avenue, approaching a pharmacy at the corner of Pike Street. Without any prior interaction, two men shove the man to the ground and punch him, the video shows. They are then seen walking away from the man, who is left hunched over on the ground as bystanders walk past him. None of the witnesses to the attack approached or offered assistance to the man as he remained on the ground. Full story here: komonews.com/news/local/vid… #komo #komo4 #komonews #komo4news #seattle #washington
One more and that will suffice for my political posts today: this is why transracial adoption is so dangerous.
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
⚡️The frame “the economy is cooked for 9-5ers” misdiagnoses what’s happening. The economy isn’t cooked. The economy is producing more wealth than it ever has. The cooking is specifically targeted at wage-earners with no equity exposure to the assets that have been compounding. That’s a different problem with a different cause and a different set of implications. Here’s the actual mechanism. The Fed printed roughly $5 trillion between 2020 and 2022. That money went somewhere. It went into asset prices. Stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, eventually crypto. People who owned those assets in 2019 are dramatically wealthier in 2026. People who didn’t own them are dramatically poorer in real purchasing power terms even if their nominal wage went up. This isn’t a mystery and it isn’t a market failure. It’s the predictable consequence of monetary expansion that flowed through the asset channel rather than through wages. The 2020-2022 stimulus programs gave brief direct cash transfers but the durable wealth creation went almost entirely to asset owners. So their friend in Katy is experiencing the wage-earner side of the largest wealth transfer in American history, and he’s interpreting it as the economy being broken. The economy isn’t broken. The economy worked exactly as the policy structure designed it to work. It transferred enormous wealth from wage-earners to asset-owners. He’s a wage-earner, so he experiences it as decline. Someone who owned a house in 2019 and an S&P 500 index fund and even a small Bitcoin position experiences the same period as the best wealth-building window of their adult life. The $200k Texas number specifically. That salary in 2015 was the equivalent of roughly 260-280k in 2026 purchasing power, depending on whose inflation measure you use. The official CPI understates real cost-of-living inflation for upper-middle-class households because the basket doesn’t reflect their actual consumption. Healthcare premiums for a family of three have roughly doubled since 2015. Daycare in any major metro has roughly doubled or tripled. Property insurance in Texas and Florida has tripled or worse since 2019. New car prices are up roughly 30%. Home prices in attractive Sunbelt markets are up 50-80%. The “$200k feels like $80k” intuition is mathematically accurate for the specific consumption pattern of a Sunbelt suburban family with kids. The CPI says inflation has been roughly 25% cumulative since 2020. The actual lived inflation for this household profile has been closer to 50-70%. This is not a bug. This is the system working. America has chosen, through fifty years of accumulated policy decisions, to be a society that rewards capital ownership and devalues wage labor. The 2020-2022 monetary expansion accelerated a pattern that was already running. The pattern continues because the political coalitions that benefit from it are durable, and the political coalitions that would change it are fragmented and confused about the cause.
OMFG! RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%.
What would it have been like to attend a worship gathering in 150 AD? New video out today, recounting Justin Martyr's description and drawing implications. I am also going to make this one into a shorter animated video, Lord willing (will be a few months).
