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▪️They’re resurrecting this false meme from last year, when the “10 year challenge” meme was popular. I’ll post the original bust below, but I’ll note the current Redfin estimate is $383K, which has gone up since last year, but still way below $550k (also the meme cites 2022).

▪️This meme currently has over 340K likes on Twitter & has been widely shared elsewhere. It presents this house like it was sold for these prices in 2012 & 2022, but is actually complete fiction, like someone just picked a random picture of a house and fabricated a price.

▪️This particular house was hard to find, reverse image searches brought up just a few sites, where this house was used as a generic example of modern American ranch-style architecture. Like here:
https://architecturestyles.org/post-war-modern/

▪️I nearly gave up, but in a caption one site mentioned it was in Des Peres, near St. Louis, MO. If you look closely at the original photo, you can see “eleven hundred and nine” written above the garage.

▪️It was a long shot without the street, but I tried a search for “Des Peres 1109 ranch style home” and bam, it came up on Trulia!
https://www.trulia.com/p/mo/saint-louis/1109-cameo-ct-saint-louis-mo-63131--2060091681

▪️It’s 3 bd 2 ba, 1478 sq ft. It was last sold in Aug 2008 for $220K. According to Redfin it’s estimated at $322K, Trulia & Zillow put it at $337K ($290-385K range) and it was assessed for property taxes at $296,400 in 2020.
https://www.redfin.com/MO/Des-Peres/1109-Cameo-Ct-63131/home/93514369

▪️I don’t know what is was worth in 2012, as it wasn’t for sale then, but in 14 years it went from ~$220K-330K. If it went up exactly with price inflation it would be $280K, so it certainly exceeded that, but not the more than 3X in 10 years that this meme suggests.

▪️Meanwhile, average hourly earnings were $21.70/hr in Aug 2008, $23.24/hr in 2012 and $31.31/hr today. As I’ve repeatedly pointed out no one earns the Federal min wage. Just 0.8% of full-time workers earn at or below it, and most of those are in leisure & hospitality that get tips in addition. It makes no sense to use it as a metric for any price, especially home prices.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES0500000003
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm

▪️To pre-empt the objections that this meme still makes a valid point housing has gone up, ok. But these numbers are pure fiction, they don’t accurately represent the change in this house, the median US price, median St. Louis price, nothing. Why not find an actual 10 yr home price instead of making it up? I guess the answer is because you can get 340K likes, so who cares?

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As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!

Story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/san-francisco-bookstore-stops-selling-jk-rowling-titles-due-harry-pott-rcna215255

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Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.

Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.

Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.

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This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.

▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.

▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.

▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...

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