Thieving Fox
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Data & Journalism. Nonpartisan. Nonadvocacy. No BS.
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World Bank country classifications by income level for 2024-2025
Explore the updated World Bank country income classifications for 2024-2025, highlighting GNI per capita shifts and global economic trends. Discover which countries moved between income categories and...
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Germany and a new wave of drug-based crime, violence and lawlessness. www.spiegel.de/internationa...
This map shows the range and variety of Earth’s tides, created by Dave Taylor, a cartographer with Pathfinder Geospatial.
Taking Stock of Our Oceans’ Tides
A stunning new map shows the range and variety of Earth’s tides. Explore tides that are barely perceptible to those that rise over 50 feet.
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Good morning, election friends. First up today, we've got a look at mail & in-person early voters in Texas! The number of Texans who've returned their ballots by mail has risen to just over 200k; meanwhile, about 2.4 million voters have opted for in-person early voting so far.
Useful new report, Politics Without Winners, on why neither party has developed a majority electoral coalition: www.aei.org/research-pro... True that voters are in the middle & each party overshoots, but I don't expect a clear victor anytime soon. Incentives are toward more of same
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March 5th, 1933. The last free elections with multiple independent parties in Germany. Nazi organizations "monitored" the voting process. #elections #consequences #history