Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025. n.pr/4d2eE64

The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week.

But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more.

Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts.

Lemme youtubesplain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF_...

No he cannot. As of March 2026, a U.S. President cannot unilaterally withdraw from NATO due to a 2023 law requiring either two-thirds Senate approval or an Act of Congress. This law, Section 1250A of the FY2024 NDAA, was enacted specifically to prevent a president from exiting the alliance alone.

Trump, Markets, And “TACO”: Why The Usual Warning Signal May Fail In Iran, Warns Justin Wolfers What happens when the U.S. starts a war—and the biggest economic pain lands somewhere else? Financial markets are a real-time forecasting machine: billions of dollars placed on bets about the…

Here's what worries me. The U.S. is less oil-dependent than our peers, and so Wall Street has responded far less to the war in Iran than financial markets abroad. When the country calling the shots feels only a small share of the pain, that's a dangerous asymmetry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTL...

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

EMERGENCY, #oregon forest friends!

Three more weeks to comment. No public hearings scheduled.

Comment to where?

EU regulator backs approval for Moderna's combined COVID and flu vaccine Europe's medicines regulator recommended approval for Moderna's COVID and flu combination vaccine on Friday, putting it on track to become the first single shot to protect people aged 50 and older aga...

Good News. How great is this?

Europe's drug regulator recommended approval for Moderna's (MRNA.O), a Covid and flu combination vaccine. This would be the first single shot to protect people aged 50 and older against both the flu & Covid.

🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Dow 50,000...

But look around, and the real question is why isn't it 60,000?

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground ALT: a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground

we go live to Heard Island:

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this."

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

This was not an inevitability.

This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.

It does not have to be this way.

smiling, good looking couple seated on a porch (soft focus garden behind them) elegantly dressed, the lady in a sleeveless dress, patterned top, banded at the waist with a softly pleated long white skirt, the man wearing a light colored suit with white shirt and striped tie - body language relaxed and intimate

Portrait of Michelle
and Barack Obama

former First Lady and
President of the US

📷 Pete Souza

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

@michaelkosta.bsky.social celebrates America's self-owning tariffs against its allies, and @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social can hardly watch

Adam Douglas Thompson, The New Yorker

At least the world isn’t laughing at him anymore 😵‍💫🤦

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Thanks!

The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges The neoclassical economics of childbearing turns 65 this year, marking the anniversary of Gary Becker's foundational article on the subject in 1960. This review article begins with a study of how...

My review article talks about how to tweak Becker's model to include unintended pregnancy and the transition to lower fertility levels. Recent research in economics is about how modern contraception and legal abortion led to a reduction in unintended pregnancy: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

FYI:

In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks.

The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Who would even have all this information over many years???

RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women

>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

Und meine Seele spannte
Weit ihre Flügel aus,
Flog durch die stillen Lande,
Als flöge sie nach Haus.

Joseph von Eichendorff,
Mondnacht, 1835

Es war, als hätt der Himmel
Die Erde still geküsst,
Dass sie im Blütenschimmer
Von ihm nun träumen müsst.
Die Luft ging durch die Felder,
Die Ähren wogten sacht,
Es rauschten leis die Wälder,
So sternklar war die Nacht.

“The biggest thing in medicine in like the last hundred years” !!!

Naamik!

Go blue!