actually hate this chart because it was so obviously working and every attempt to keep it going was stonewalled
Jacob Bastian@jacobbastian.bsky.social · 2w agoNew in @brookings.edu Why did consumer sentiment remain so weak even as the post-Covid economy improved? @harveymelody.bsky.social and I find that the expiration of the expanded CTC in early 2022 explains about 17% of the late-2023 sentiment gap (“vibecession”) www.brookings.edu/articles/exp...
I have this theory that a lot of women projected themselves onto her because they also struggled PP and didn't feel supported by their partners so they need to find a way to make her innocent and punish her husband.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3w agoGod the people trying to turn the extremely tragic Lindsay Clancy story into a true crime mystery are so fucking gross.
I always forget the bizzaro world of Reddit childfree people when I search kid friendly restaurants in other cities and all the comments are like "Well if your toddler can SIT DOWN and SHUT UP and ORDER THE BEEF TAR TAR like a LOCAL" I suppose you could eat anywhere!
Really worried my son will cut me off when he's an adult for the trauma of "making him wear a diaper and pajamas to bed". At least based on the level of screaming involved in that bedtime.
I've had 2 babies as well as extensive fertility treatments and never heard a medical professional use the term "pregnant people" but even if they did who care??? I was pregnant and also a person.
Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · last mo.It really is unbearably pathetic how we have people publicly justifying their turn to fascism on the basis that they once saw “pregnant people” on a website.
So instead of 2 half days, parents should take 6 half days off work for absolutely no benefit except upsetting your kid 3 times as much. Great. Awesome.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoTrump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."
No one likes to hear this but the American middle and upper middle class pay very very low effective tax rates. It sounds good for politicians to say "middle class tax cuts" but at some point you need a tax base that's not 100 billionaires in NYC and LA.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · last mo.It's not the top 1% or the top 5% or the top 10%. You have to tax the top 70% to pay for the social democracy we need. I make $95k and my taxes should be higher. Once again, with feeling: every nation with universal health care levies a VAT. Everyone contributes something. Yes, that means you.
*redacted* this man into the sun in Minecraft
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)
Can't imagine dating in my 30s. What if you really like someone and they have a bad credit score?
This is just a middle aged divorced guy fantasy. They imagine impressing the hot 18 year old driving the snack cart at the club and getting to be the Prince Charming to her Cinderella. The vast majority of Americans marry within their economic class and marry people within 5 years of their own age.
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · last mo."I want to touch on what you said: .. the economic challenges facing young people impact men and women. One hundred percent true. But this is the bottom line, and I don’t think we like to admit this: Beyoncé could work at [KFC] and marry Jay-Z. The opposite is not true." I heard the record scratch.
Going to tell my boss the IRS deadlines are actually just social constructs so I'm going to stop taking my meds.
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last mo.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
"Build seething resentment toward women" does not seem like an effective solution to "why no gf?" but hey what do I know.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
This isn't trans people getting special treatment. It's brining transphobic harassment policies in line with every other type of harassment. It's not harassment to refer to a gay colleague's spouse as their wife if you don't know he's gay. It's harassment to do it repeatedly once you already know.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2mo agoGood. Look, if it is a genuinely honest error, most people I know, including myself, aren't going to make a fuss beyond maybe a gentle clarification first time. If people wilfully misgender trans and non-binary individuals though they absolutely should face misconduct proceedings.
Orca mom-fluencers have fads too.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoOrcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game
"The answer to a crisis of masculinity won’t be found at the bottom of a vial. It’s in the everyday enacting of a meaningful life. Witnessed by those who rely on us. Performed for those we love."
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago"No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them."
I actually love the sound of other people's babies crying because it reminds me it's not my baby crying. I'm so desensitized to it I basically can't even hear it any more.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2mo agoI cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????
Just got this email from our pediatrician. In alignment with the PA department of health, they're accelerating MMR vaccination among the youngest kids, including my 1.5 year old son, due to outbreaks in Lancaster, Lebanon, and Berks.
She's down a tooth but got to try ketamine so her day was kind of a wash. Everyone say poor Daisy.
I have had my name on a credit card in some form or another for almost 20 years and have requested 3 chargebacks in my life. All in the last 3 years!
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor August’s @bloomberg.com Businessweek—The Grift Issue!—I wrote about skyrocketing rates of credit card chargebacks, which are up 46% since 2021. It’s driven by two things: retailers behaving in scammy ways, and shoppers trying to scam them back. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A doctor who lets someone put themselves through 11 rounds of IVF at 45 and takes $250k of their money without an honest conversation about likelihood of success should probably lose their license idk man.
11 Rounds of IVF, $250,000, and No Baby
Clinics are seeing a wave of women over 45 trying to get pregnant. With so many experimental treatments, it’s hard to know when to stop.
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I have the same number of kids as this lady. Where's my NYT soft focus profile?
William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere are like 4 of these people and they all sound exactly the same and they've all received a soft-focus sympathetic story in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
My boss's boss's boss's middle child is an American citizen because he was born in NYC while his father was here on secondment. He pays American taxes despite living in Germany almost his entire life. When his father told me I was like that whips and all your other kids should get citizenship too.
Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2mo agoOf the 3.6 million babies born in the US in 2023, 9% were born to unauthorized mothers. Stats here including on babies born to temporary migrant moms, 20,000 in 2023: How did "birthright citizenship" become coded as a constitutional protection that only extends to people of color?
It was really obvious what was between the lines of all the previous articles and it really sucks his victim had to spell it out because a cadre of alleged leftists were too willfully ignorant to realize what was happening.
#1 garlic naan eater@rihannah.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt makes me want to scream that these women are having to go public in graphic detail about their sexual assaults because the pundit brains were willing to overlook the fact that this man is the embodiment of a walking red flag
I know the Vatican can't go around excommunicating every Guy Who Sucks but what if they did just a few? As a treat.
Rackletang@rackletang.bsky.social · 2mo agoOkay, I have only one question. What does this mean for Mel Gibson? Is Mel Gibson gonna get excommunicated? Because that would be hilarious
Chicago Bob strikes again. Do Opus Dei next.
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2mo agoTHE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM
Both Biden and Trump have visited my dad's work in the last few years and both times I learned about it on the news lol. My dad said they sent all the employees home so idk who the guys in the yellow vests in the pic are.
My father caught the tail end of the American manufacturing boom when he graduated high school in the early 80s. He got the job because my nana worked there and he's survived the decline on hard work, luck, and seniority.
Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 2mo agoEveryone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.
