"Thus the post‑1960 U.S. experience for the typical worker has three, and only three, sustained episodes in which real median wages clearly and materially rose: pre-1968, the 1995-2000 boom, and 2013-2022."

Yeah, at this point, I think Patagonia has no real choice other than suing, because if they don't defend their trademark, they run the risk of courts deciding that they've waived the right to sue. So it's not like they can just make an exception in this one case

Xavier Becerra, candidate for California Governor, has just received an additional $245,000 from Meta to his Super PAC This brings Meta's total contribution in support of Xavier Becerra to $1,195,000

Well you see they also have stock trades to consider!

it's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile

Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

it is critical to the safety of the world's jews that they always be able to flee to their safe haven: a paranoid fortress state under a hail of iranian missiles, whose conditional immunity is supplied by insane antisemites

It's true by construction. If you measure "can afford rent" by whether a household can afford the 40th percentile rent, you will always get a number around 40%.

assuming a lifespan of 80 years, the length of the entire human civilization is only about 70 people old. The US Civil War was two people ago and the Ottomans sacked Constantinople seven people ago. Not very long!

A vote for Steyer is a vote for Dem vs Dem in Nov. A vote for Becerra boosts Hilton's chance to be second.

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How does CPI account for this price increase?!

they don’t want pussy, they don’t want baddies, they want to endlessly “critique” baddies

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Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

this person works in medical billing software

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

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You: "things still aren't perfect but the economic situation of today is not worse than it was during the great recession" Unwell losers: "wow you think all poor people are utter shit who deserve to be murdered*

i think that you could have probably dissolved the MAGA cult via an essentially sadistic prosecution of Trump

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

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Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

I am so tired of living in a museum of the 1970s.

I don't get how people don't understand, they're telling on themselves with this meme, "lol gay rights are fake and gay ha ha and don't matter!" like clearly having the most powerful military in the world in favor of progressive things is *good* or better than Trump 🙄

Basically, America is having a mid-life crisis. Why do guys (it's mostly guys) have a mid-life crisis? It's not because they don't have money. It's because they do have money, they've made it--and now they have to figure out what they really want and what will make them happy, and they don't know.

I always come back to Lincoln on Memorial Day

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

In circles. In your living room.

The fact that small scale real estate investors who flip $500k starter homes into $2 million McMansions are NOT required to provide subsidized housing for poor people but the investors who flip the same homes into ten $650,000 townhomes ARE is such an indictment of California housing policy.

religions with an explicitly transcendant basis can weather disappointments pretty well but when you start basing your entire creed on specific, falsifiable predictions and then those predictions fail to occur even the revealed religions can falter. leninism has no such transcendant claim.

it is essentially impossible to understand the right-wing thesis that "heterosexuality is gay" without printing the unprintable

Hot take: Door dashing a bagel because you’re too hungover is dishonorable. Part of the hangover bagel is getting yourself put together enough to obtain the hangover bagel.

preparing my weekly anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences

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The reactionary worldview is very often the refuge of people with a strong sense of disgust and a limited capacity for self-control. They obsessively seek to control their social environment because they need intense social pressure to act in the way they want to, and are miserable otherwise.

I remember at a protest I had to listen to some college commie rant about how Libya and Yugoslavia were victims of American Imperialism and I never wanted to slap a child more. The protest was supposed to be about Trump.

I feel this way but for the Capitol Police.

whatever issues Gadhaffi had (such as presently leveling the second-largest city in his country with artillery fire)

the only person i know who is (correctly, imo) screaming that the joystick has snapped off in our hand and no one even *can* fly the plane anymore is will stancil

I disagree. Harris should have done everything I wanted and she would’ve won, not what you wanted.

the truth that people have had a very hard time grappling with, because it is karmically unsatisfying, is that harris ran a good campaign and lost anyways

Anyway the UC and CSU systems have like 10x as many students as all the Ivies and Stanford put together and they never get written about in that newspaper because their beat is elite status anxiety, not higher education.

You can't refute this. You can't. Don't even try.

We also have examples of other phenomenon like crime or illegal immigration where people believe that the problems are historically bad and getting worse even though the data clearly contradicts it and we understand these to be socially driven reactionary false beliefs.