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With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025. No public memorial services are planned. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity or political cause of your choice. A Facebook page, 'In Memory of Kevin Dr
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March 2025
- Health Update
- Health update
- LA Times “bias meter” goes live
- Arms to Ukraine halted
- Office buildings are sprouting like trees
- Trump plans to halt arms to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia
- We don’t need to tell the poor what to eat
- Health update
- Smoke-and-mirrors budgeting is everywhere
- Destruction of Canada begins tomorrow
- Republicans have lost trust in the media
- Howard Lutnick believes in GDP fairies
- So how’s it going in the friendly skies these days?
- Dumbest. Idea. Ever.
- Health update 2
- Health update
- Trump kills elite tech group because it’s too woke
- English is now our official language
- DOGE wants to check if you’re really eligible for the vast riches of SNAP
- Health update
- The real story behind the downfall of USAID
- Raw data: The rise of the far right in Europe
- Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine
- Trump is merrily ending civil rights protections for everyone
- January 6 prosecutors demoted to entry-level jobs
February 2025
- In Ukraine, it’s all about revenge
- Friday Kitten Blogging – 28 February 2025
- Trump descends into screaming match with Zelensky
- Income and expenditures in January
- PCE inflation spiked in January
- Why is Social Security about to be gutted?
- Kash Patel will run the FBI from Las Vegas
- Judge tells Trump to stop firing people
- NOAA is being dismantled
- Health update
- California’s $20 fast food minimum wage hasn’t had much effect
- Measles is a state problem
- Unemployment up as Musk fires federal workers
- Jeff Bezos is all-in on free markets
- The big RIF is coming. But how big?
- RFK Jr. makes his public debut as HHS secretary. Better watch out.
- The mineral wealth agreement explained! Sort of.
- Health update
- Chart of the day: SpaceX/Starlink growth rates
- The new homebuilding market remains stagnant
- Are payment apps really banks? (Hint: yes they are)
- Elon Musk’s great email battle isn’t over yet
- EV sales rise steadily, then collapse in January (again)
- USDA forecasts egg prices are going up, up, up
- Gallup places Trump at 45% approval
- America wants your minerals
- What is Elon Musk really up to?
- It’s getting surly in Trump v. Everyone
- Truth Social continues to suck
- It’s time for the budget games to begin
- The decline of commercial paper
- Trump has suffered a lot of losses in court
- The strange, short-lived tale of the armored Teslas
- Diversity in the air: Don’t worry, everything is fine
- It’s time to screw China a bit more
- How smart were all those old white males?
- Where’s the fraud?
- Trump somehow digs up $200 million for anti-immigrant ad campaign
- E-commerce continues to grow vigorously
- Democrats need to do a lot of nothing
- German polling is stunningly accurate
- Chart of the day: The terrible German economy
- How Elon Musk benefits from being Elon Musk
- We are ten times richer than we were during Donald Trump’s favorite era
- Health update
- What did you do last week?
- Why is Trump demanding mineral wealth Ukraine doesn’t have?
- DOGE has saved taxpayers about 0.33% of the federal budget
- Trump fires diverse military officers
- Are raccoon dogs key to the origin of the COVID virus?
- Inflationary expectations are up a lot since November
- Elon Musk is extorting ad companies
- Trump is dropping fast in the polls
- The House and Senate are light years apart in their budget proposals
- Pete Hegseth wants to cut $300 billion from the Pentagon
- Health update
- Folie à deux in the White House
- Madness
- Health update
- Health update
- Health update
- Health update
- (Almost) everyone is getting torched by the Trump meme coin
- Health update
- This is the Republican Party’s most spineless hour
- Trump wants to wipe out medical research
- DOGE is being steadily reined in
- Trump: DOGE is rooting around in stuff they don’t need
- Friday Cat Blogging – 7 February 2025
- Why is the Navy killing sexual assault training?
- 2025 starts out with a weak jobs report
- Trump and white people
- What Republicans believe, 2025 edition
- Lunchtime Photo
- The pushback against Trump is now well underway
- Productivity up 1.2% in final quarter of 2024
- Donald Trump is very concerned about South Africa’s white people
- The Trump layoffs are a charade
- Lunchtime Photo
- Finding an apartment is getting easier
- Why does Trump want Gaza?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Elon Musk is building a report writer
- Did Elon Musk kill DirectFile?
- What in God’s name is the deal with USAID?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: How tariffs blew up the price of washing machines seven years ago
- Here’s how USAID ended up in Trump’s crosshairs
- Elon says he’ll shut down all payments to Lutheran charities
- Where’s the Republican Party?
- What does Trump really want?
- Fact check: How much does the US contribute to WHO?
- Canada is not a national security threat
- Has vaping reduced deaths from smoking?
- After the fires, a city comes together
- A scorecard so far of the Trump revenge presidency
- Trump thinks he turned on the Central Valley Project yesterday
January 2025
- Friday Cat Blogging – 31 January 2025
- PCE inflation was a mixed bag in December
- Do budget deficits cause inflation?
- Being America’s friend is dangerous these days
- Lunchtime Photo
- 2024 NAEP test scores weren’t too bad. But . . .
- GDP grows 2.3% in final quarter of 2024
- Place your bets on Q4 GDP growth
- Trump extorts $25 million from Mark Zuckerberg
- What is Trump’s $50 million Gaza cut really about?
- Health update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Drug overdose deaths are still plunging
- Lunchtime Photo
- Soon everyone will be DeepSeek
- Donald Trump: I ordered military to turn on the water in California
- What’s going on?
- Lunchtime Photo
- DeepSeek R1 has the world in a tizzy
- Raw data: The cheapest and most expensive countries to live in
- Colombia rescinds its middle finger to Trump
- Colombia tells Trump to fuck off
- Trump starts fight with Colombia over nothing
- Here’s how Trump’s Greenland gambit will play out
- The CIA changes its mind on COVID
- Why has fertility plummeted in the US and other rich countries?
- Health update
- Trump purges IG corps in Friday night massacre