The Disston House, a historic North Philadelphia mansion, has been sold off by Father Divine’s Peace Mission since the 19th century. https://t.co/vO1WMZvp6u
— PHILADELPHIA.Today (@PHILLYToday_) August 14, 2024
Johnny Eck from Baltimore was in ‘Freaks’
Johnny Eck was from Baltimore.
Actor Johnny Eck was #BornOnThisDay Aug. 27, 1911 Born with sacral agenesis, often worked as a sideshow performer but known today for his film role in Freaks (1932) + his role as a "bird creature" in several Tarzan films (1932-'41) Passed in 1991 (age 79) from a #heartattack #RIP pic.twitter.com/OeeQVrFC8W
— Dr. Buzz aka Buzz Von Ornsteiner PhD (@DrBuzz_Forensic) August 27, 2024
Baltimore born Johnny Eck is known for being sideshow performer and magician but I’ve left him at the Visionary Art Museum because he was also a talented folk artist. Eck became a screen painter, having learned the craft from its inventor William Oktavec.#baltimoresaltbox pic.twitter.com/9PfGQf44nn
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) December 20, 2023
This #GraveTale looks at the life #JohnnyEck, the self-proclaimed King of the Freaks. SeanPaulMurphyVille: Grave Tales #37: John H. "Johnny Eck" Eckhardt https://t.co/QnrznDCK1p pic.twitter.com/f5IuceJeGM
— Sean Paul Murphy (@SeanPaulMurphy) August 9, 2023
Johnny Eck with his twin brother pic.twitter.com/RJxJ1YT7T1
— Mystery Editor (@editor_mystery) September 25, 2023
Inflation is down
JPMORGAN: “.. the speed of US #disinflation has been more pronounced than expected, while core inflation pressures in most other regions have stayed firmer. US core inflation fell to just 1.6%ar in the three months to July.” 🇺🇸 #CPI pic.twitter.com/0QdtHjkGxq
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) August 26, 2024
And the thing is every reporter writing on this knows that prices can't fall. Wages are up 23 percent since the pandemic. We CAN'T have pre-pandemic prices, but the media keep using this impossibility to whack Biden-Harris. https://t.co/yCSzIUm4Zz
— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) August 25, 2024
Powell’s speech attributing inflation largely to transitory pandemic effects was apolitical, but it implicitly absolved Biden’s policies. So sure enough, tech bros who showed their political acumen by boosting RFK Jr. are declaring that government spending causes inflation pic.twitter.com/B1EZooZe9s
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 24, 2024
Your regular reminder that if we measured consumer prices the way other countries do, without a large imputation for rent on owner-occupied housing, inflation is fully back to prepandemic levels pic.twitter.com/ldILRt6Vne
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 19, 2024
Someday some reporter will figure out how to explain to the American public how post-Covid inflation was a worldwide phenomenon caused by pent-up demand and that the Biden/Harris administration handled it better than every other country. pic.twitter.com/MnEUUWgVJV
— Bill Prady ⚛️ (@billprady) August 16, 2024
Latest inflation data allows me to provide an update on real wages. pic.twitter.com/f43aGZI573
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 14, 2024
Trump lies about the impact of his proposed tariffs
Americans would pay the price of Trump’s tariffs
Hence, why the Republican presidential ticket is desperate to convince Americans that they don't/won't pay Trump's tariffs. https://t.co/S6lWbVmhzo
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) August 25, 2024
Narrator: they do not disagree. https://t.co/OFcCZGgvqG pic.twitter.com/40QFPNtX62
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) August 25, 2024
Senator @JDVance is right to say that economists disagree about whether tariffs on Chinese goods raise the price for Americans.
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 25, 2024
Some "Strongly agree," while others merely "Agree." A few are "Uncertain." It is disgusting that some try to paper over this disagreement. https://t.co/7ox6ZLnIEq pic.twitter.com/YQVpvXvx35
Trump’s tax proposal to replace a major amount of income-tax revenue with tariffs is a prescription for the mother of all stagflations. It burdens the middle class and the poor who purchase goods on international markets. It would also create worldwide economic warfare.
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) June 15, 2024
The…
Tariffs imposed by executive fiat give the executive lots of opportunities to accept bribes in exchange for lowering tariffs on specific goods or even specific companies. https://t.co/9RNZR4NhDN
— Mr. Nick Beaudrot (@nbeaudrot) June 14, 2024
Border arrests are way down
Governor Abbott has quietly stopped bussing migrants across the country, because the number crossing the border has drastically dropped thanks to Biden's executive orders. https://t.co/ZkKB9WJLQg
— Joel Montfort (@jmontforttx) August 16, 2024
NEW: U.S. Border Patrol encounters in July were 32% lower than in June 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since September 2020, according to Customs and Border Protection officials.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 16, 2024
Border arrests drop 33% to a 46-month low in July after asylum restrictions take hold https://t.co/G93jsJfSWe
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 16, 2024
Republicans have blocked votes on border security bills
Trump has opposed the latest compromise because he thinks it would help Democrats.
House GOP leadership never allowed a vote in either 2006 or 2013. The widespread expectation each time was there were also 218 House votes for it-but not a majority of R House members. So they blocked it w/the "Hastert rule": only pass bills backed by majority of the majority https://t.co/u2WgwuWimZ
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 17, 2022
in 2007, the Bush-backed bipartisan bill died by Senate filibuster because three-fourths of Senate Republicans voted no
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 17, 2022
in 2014, the Obama-backed bipartisan bill, which had passed the Senate, died in the House because the Republican Speaker wouldn't bring it up for a vote https://t.co/1ZMSzrybl1
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: ".. giving up on a border security bill would be a self-inflicted GOP wound. President Biden would claim, with cause, that Republicans want border chaos .. Voter anger may over time move from Mr. Biden to the GOP, and the public will have a point."…
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 26, 2024
Illegal immigrant voter fraud is very rare
Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election https://t.co/weXQYQe4WM
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 1, 2024
Last month, I went straight to the lion’s den and reviewed the Heritage Foundation’s own database of proven cases of voter fraud dating back to the 1980s.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) August 25, 2024
They had only documented 10 cases TOTAL where an undocumented immigrant had voted.
Read more here: https://t.co/4BAqOMJqor https://t.co/5UxsN9QS2E pic.twitter.com/SD0Je2kLAK
The simple reality is that there’s never been a non-citizen “voter fraud” problem in America—or any other advanced democracy—so there’s no need for a “solution.”https://t.co/i29HtWMDp1
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 14, 2024
Memes on the Vance couch story
AP retracts its JD Vance 'Couch Cushion Story' fact check, leading some to jokingly conclude the lewd Tale must be true.
— Know Your Meme (@knowyourmeme) July 25, 2024
(post by @ParkerMolloy) pic.twitter.com/8UZ93VWJ1w
I don’t care if JD Vance isn’t really a couch fucker. The memes are funny. pic.twitter.com/g2A4SgeilV
— Annalea 🪷🐝☀️🌻🍌🗳️ (@citizengatsby) July 23, 2024
Can we get a Trump/Vance meme thread going?
— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) July 24, 2024
(I know the couch thing was made up but it's still funny as hell) pic.twitter.com/nboB2AlylR
Of course I have more memes about the couch pic.twitter.com/P8ot7Tz2IM
— Queen Iseabail, the Sassy Lassy 🇺🇦🏴 (@bandrui0) July 25, 2024
I was wondering why I was seeing memes today of JD Vance lusting after couches. Turns out, in his hillbilly book he wrote about a time, that he used a latex glove and fucked the cushions of his couch. There's your ticket MAGAs….the rapist and the couch fucker. Good job. pic.twitter.com/SM1dCCBQLT
— #AnatomyOfCapitalAttack #CruzHawleyCoup #Sedition (@TekStol) July 24, 2024
Lololol. Who did this ??? pic.twitter.com/rzR1euqelB
— jonathan Slater (@slater_paul) August 26, 2024
— Tim Johnston /Mojojax (@timjohnston50) October 6, 2024
71% of US GPD is produced by blue counties
Crucial fact about the parties pic.twitter.com/TbJebjpI6b
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 29, 2024
The blue dots are the people that produce 71% of our economy. The red dots are livestock, corn and people that depend on the blue dots for federal aid. pic.twitter.com/ssARTF33Db
— Carlos Turnbull (@cturnbull1968) August 25, 2024
You fucking morons. We can tell this truth without denigrating anyone doing anything for a living anywhere: The vast majority of this country's GDP is produced in its urban centers. So is the vast majority of its tax revenue. States with less of an urban presence are actually… https://t.co/q9RDFDlbnn
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 26, 2024
GDP per capita (which is calculated by dividing a state's GDP by its population) of all 50 states
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) April 22, 2024
Notice any trends?
1. New York
2. Massachusetts
3. Washington
4. California
5. Delaware
6. Connecticut
7. Alaska
8. North Dakota
9. Wyoming
10. New Jersey
11. Maryland
12. Illinois…
Tweet on photographer Thaddeus Wilkerson
I had never heard of Thaddeus Wilkerson until I saw the tweet below. Read the excellent essay the tweet links to.
Uptown Gothic: The NYC Photographs of Thaddeus Wilkerson https://t.co/odLzEezTLh via @CrimeReads
— gonzomike (@gonzomike) August 24, 2024
Sad! 