Apparently abusive partners will often make small gestures of kindness, such as buying their victims nice things, to keep them from realising the overall relationship is toxic.
I am seeing a few people throw out statistics along the lines of "If the shutdown lasts two more weeks, it will cost the government more money than the budget to build the wall."
When you get feedback from a job interview "It's a no. You showed great depth of knowledge and understanding in the data space and the work, but we just didn't feel that you were that behind working for our company."