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In the US in 2024, there were 56,594 babies born to a white mother and a Black father.

But there were only 20,822 babies born to a white father and a Black mother.

Why's there such a huge gap?

This might be as close as you can get to the story of American summarized in one photo.

Markets expect inflation to run at ~5.3% over the next year.

I wonder what a Trump midterm at 5% inflation, a weakening labor market, and war in the Middle East looks like.

🔴US gas prices hit a 3yr high today.

The attacks on Ras Laffan and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz leave the US as very nearly the world's sole helium supplier.

Helium is crucial in a huge range of products, including semiconductor manufacturing, welding, fiber optic production, and MRI machines.

Oil futures are up 22.3% in the first 10 minutes of futures trading today and have exceeded $110/barrel

The American West is having its warmest winter in recorded history

According to new BLS data released this morning, in the entirety of 2025, *just 181,000 new jobs* were added in the US. Compare that to 2024’s average of 168,000 per month.

Objectively, the Trump administration has been vastly worse than the Biden administration for job creation.

I knew woke would return when the gay hockey show randomly became a megahit.

Do you feel it?

i follow many ppl i consider horrible, utterly odious, bc i want to know what they are saying and how they think.

The Senate is losing its distinctiveness.

People like Bernie, Jon Tester, Elizabeth Warren, Murkowski, Manchin - they fit their states perfectly. But new arrivals like McCormick and Ashley Moody are essentially just “generic Republican number 5.”

This is bad

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Here's a map of the regions.

Playbook: ‘I’m gonna punch you in your f--king face’ And Trump heads to the Museum of the Bible for a speech on religious liberty.

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Per Politico, the United States Secretary of the Treasury allegedly threatened to punch another official in the face on Wednesday.

We're being governed by manchildren.

Here's a fun graph of the US population by region since 1900.

You can really see the decline of the Northeast and Midwest and rise of the West and the South.

Here's a map of the housing shortage by state, in absolute terms.

Democrats just aren't building enough in their states. Especially CA.

Per a new Financial Times article from today: vast parts of the US aren't looking great economically. Many states, including large ones like IL, WA, NJ, GA, and VA, could be in recession.

However, the "big 4" (NY, TX, FL, CA) are holding on.

Is the US already in a recession? For vast segments of the American economy it certainly feels that way

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Per the FT, manufacturing is in the worst economic position of any sector of the economy atm. The US has lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs so far in 2025.

Those tariffs sure are working great.

Minnesota feels like someone picked up an East Coast state and just dropped it in the middle of the upper Midwest.

Similarly, Colorado feels like a West Coast state dropped in the Rockies.

Georgia's flag is not okay tbh. Literally the first official flag of the Confederacy with the state seal in the middle of the stars.

Here's a map of the housing shortage by state.

You'll see the South and Midwest generally do better, while the West and Northeast are struggling. And California is... well, it's California.

Americans aren't choosing to move to, or stay in, blue states. Only 5 states both voted for Kamala Harris and attract more Americans than they lose. Four of them, DE, NH, VT, and ME, are very small states.

21 Trump-voting states have positive domestic migration. Democrats must build housing.

Since 2000, average rent has increased by 139.4% compared to 112.3% for median full-time wages, meaning the growth in rents has outpaced wage growth by roughly 24.1%

Her term was not due to expire until 2038. Nearly 13 years from now.