Georgia Republicans are falling off an electoral cliff... If it keeps up, Georgia won't be a swing state for all that long. It'll look more like Virginia and Colorado than Wisconsin.

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.

Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Heated Rivalry is the second-most-in-demand show in the WORLD. It's now the highest-rated show EVER on Russia's version of IMDB, despite the show being banned there. Oh, Canada. So proud I work in Canadian TV right now. archive.is/202602051409...

Do you feel it?

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

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.

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%

Nightmare. Five alarm fire. Trump just fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Fed Board of Governors. Trump can only remove her "for cause," i.e. gross negligence or malfeasance. So he charged her with mortgage fraud. Remember this man is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

It feels wrong to me that Wisconsin is more populated than Minnesota. The Twin Cities are so much bigger than anything in WI. All the mid-size towns and deceptively populous rural areas in WI throw me off.

MAGA seems to think that wages will magically go up if you deport people. But immigration generally slightly raises wages of native workers, or has little impact. And by deporting people, you shrink the entire economy. One less worker, one less consumer, one less taxpayer.

The only two people, at present, I'd be willing to say I think have a >10% shot at the Dem nomination in 2028 are AOC and Newsom.

If conservatives wanted to preserve Cracker Barrel in amber, might I suggest they should have prevented its past three years of quarterly growth from looking like this? Perhaps by eating there?

Each colour is roughly 1/3rd of the US population.

The AI is not going to be shut off. Stop deluding yourselves, engage with the world as it is.