2024
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December 2024
- Top 20 charts of 2024
- Lunchtime Photo
- My top ten wishes for 2025
- Biden never finished his biggest projects. That’s a good thing.
- Top ten photos of 2024
- Businesses are not rushing to adopt AI
- Raw data: Bird flu cases in the US
- The “working class struggle” is a myth
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: The US murder surge is nearly over
- The evolution of AI training is astonishing
- Jimmy Carter’s economic legacy
- Auditing the rich is paying off already
- The good and the ugly of AI performance
- Wages have plummeted in big cities over the past four years
- High and low crime rates in the 50 states
- Dealmaker-elect shares some thoughts on his greatness with the Supreme Court
- EV sales are rising again, but not at Tesla
- Friday Cat Blogging – 27 December 2024
- Raw data: Homelessness in 2024
- Surprise! Globalization is still a global force.
- There were no good old days in America
- Elon Musk learns about racism
- Raw data: Obamacare enrollment
- The Partisan Conflict Index hit 178 in November
- Trump plans to amass a great deal of personal authority to punish his enemies
- Lunchtime Photo
- A look at the poor people who think Trump will help them
- Raw data: Lawful permanent residents in the US
- Russian AA probably brought down Azerbaijani airline
- Travel to China has cratered
- Trump’s inauguration will cost twice as much as any other president’s
- A brief history of egg prices
- Lunchtime Photo
- Merry Christmas to payment apps
- Americans haven’t lost trust in medicine. Republicans have.
- Greenland gets new dog sled teams
- Republicans oppose Feinstein post office in San Francisco
- Contraceptives are cheap and easily available
- Which chatbot will rule them all?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Violent crime victimization revisited
- Working from home is . . . only kinda popular
- Americans have not lost trust in the media. Republicans have.
- Matt Gaetz by the numbers
- Workplace deaths were down slightly in 2023
- Lunchtime Photo
- New home prices tumble in November
- How honest are immigration researchers?
- Americans have given up on the COVID vaccine
- On the fence over China
- Sanctions and mismanagement have finally caught up to Iran
- Raw data: Global economic growth
- Raw data: Violent crime victimization in America
- BREAKING: Voters who don’t like Democrats didn’t vote for Democrats
- Panama is the latest country in Donald Trump’s gunsights
- Fiscal hawks killed CR provisions that had already passed
- Did all the CR drama end up saving any money?
- 18 months is not an AI crisis
- Raw data: The safety record of Waymo driverless cars
- In which I investigate the investigations
- The “health epidemic” isn’t, really
- Friday Cat Blogging – 20 December 2024
- Personal income rose 1.3% in November
- Core PCE inflation plunges in November
- Border crossings drop in November
- Health update
- Republican “fuck you” bill goes down to massive defeat
- Did Democrats lose because voters were mad at Joe Biden?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Tariff fears are (supposedly) driving car sales
- Is Pete Hegseth in trouble?
- Independents really don’t trust vaccines
- Quote of the day: “Great question”
- Donald Trump is afraid of the debt ceiling
- Trump wants a CLEAN spending bill except for almost everything in it
- A quick look at every penny of domestic spending
- Democrats in disarray! (For awhile.)
- GEC survives to fight Russian psy-ops for another year
- Lunchtime Photo
- We have no idea if the economy is headed for a soft landing
- CNN: Gaetz investigation will be released
- Who I am
- America is in love with apartments
- Brookings: The 2020 murder spike was COVID all along
- RFK Jr. throws his longstanding abortion support under the bus
- Elon Musk uncovers huge Deep State scandal targeting . . . Elon Musk
- The mystery drones are . . .
- Lunchtime Photo
- Congress working hard to do the bare minimum
- Raw data: Poverty in big cities
- Raw data: Affirmative action at Harvard Law School
- There is wariness in the financial markets
- Donald Trump shares some deep thinking on drones
- Lunchtime Photo
- Why does the press treat Donald Trump so unfairly?
- Raw data: Partisan differences on childhood vaccinations
- Germany’s government has fallen
- What really happened in 2024?
- Biden was right to commute the sentence of the “kids for cash” judge
- A quick look at the state of US farming
- New Jersey’s drone mystery solved by statistics!
- Donald Trump wrecked North Carolina to win an election
- Why did ABC News roll over for Donald Trump?
- Health update
- The state should stop judging who gets to die
- Donald Trump becomes a Standard Time truther
- Donald Trump’s vision for America
- Caitlin Clark says Black women are pretty good basketball players
- Trump’s economic goal: Do almost as well as Biden
- Friday Cat Blogging – 13 December 2024
- Your black kitchen utensils are fine
- Commuting dropped (slightly) during the pandemic
- All the Obamacare insurers listed in order of claim denial rates
- Claim denial rates from health insurers have been declining (maybe)
- Slacker teens are in shorter supply these days
- Here’s the simple truth about the FBI
- Republicans ask Trump to kill the IRS’s great new Direct File app
- Self-segregation is easing a bit in big cities
- Lunchtime Photo
- The economy really is great. So what’s the problem?
- Breakfast Photo
- Trump starts the long, arduous process of reneging on his promises
- Rent burdens have eased considerably since 2010
- Midnight Snack Photo
- Does a pardon require you to admit guilt?
- How to get away with bribery: do it in broad daylight
- Red states shouldn’t be banning gender-affirming care. But there’s a but.
- The dreaded NEPA has been put on a diet of two years and 150 pages
- The revolt against experts has been very calculated and very Republican
- Foreign students warned: Get back to America before Trump takes over
- Health update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Inflation rises in November
- Man, the price-rent ratio is really high
- We’re still trying to figure out why Latinos abandoned Kamala Harris
- Will Alvin Bragg quietly whisper “nice work” to the UHC killer?
- Life is good, says the second coming of Cassandra
- Where are all the bureaucrats?
- Lunchtime Photo
- The Elon Musk slop machine is in overdrive
- Optimism on the decline? Blame Fox News.
- The US kicks ass on economic vitality and regulatory efficiency
- The postal service is (always) in crisis
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Black learning loss on the 2023 TIMSS mathematics test
- Jury acquits Daniel Penny in weird result
- Raw data: TIMSS math test results for 2023
- I don’t care what Elon Musk’s mother thinks about anything
- American bureaucracy is pretty good
- AI is good, but not all the time
- Why did checking accounts surge during the pandemic?
- Working at home produces both better and worse software engineers
- We have plenty of police officers in America
- LA Times announces plan to undermine its own coverage
- Pardon them all. Do it now.
- In an instant, Syria is now free of Bashar al-Assad
- Raw data: The Olympic Games
- Is Brian Thompson a canary in the coal mine?
- Raw data: All the oil in ANWR
- Trust in health care quality is down, but that’s not the real story
- The regicide rate is way down over the past millennium
- Lunatic judge threatens saintly lawyer with contempt
- Friday Cat Blogging – 6 December 2024
- Kamala Harris bombed with Hispanic voters. That’s the whole story.
- Net jobs were up in November, but . . .
- Why does Congress spend so much unauthorized money?
- Here’s how wokeness hurts centrist Democrats
- Let’s all stop filing tax returns
- Elon Musk downsized Twitter by 60%
- Movies have gotten slightly longer over the past 60 years
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Mobile home sales in the US
- How angry are people at health insurers?
- Add mental illness to the list of lead’s sins
- Are you tired of Trump’s vaudeville act already?
- Democrats lost the election by 2% of the vote
- The Supreme Court’s naked partisanship continues today
- Will more Democrats receive preemptive pardons?
- AI weather forecasting swamps the competition
- Lunchtime Photo
- Throckmorton County, population 1,440, doubled its GDP in 2023
- Musk pal tapped to run NASA
- Raw milk has always been a right-wing cause
- Pete Hegseth’s future may not be in an E-ring office after all
- Guess what? Biden is now just as corrupt as Trump.
- California’s train to nowhere is surprisingly popular
- Trump’s stock has steadied out at $30
- Lunchtime Photo
- Hiring falls by 270,000 in October
- China strikes back against US sanctions
- Raw data: Prostitution in the US
- Pete Hegseth, conservative asshole
- Democrats back down from a knife fight yet again
- Donald Trump and the bombshell presidency
- Wait. Democrats picked up two seats in Congress this year?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Russia is spending record amounts on the Ukraine war
- We’re still putting up a whole lot of new office buildings
- Biden pardons his son. World pretends to be shocked.
- A look back at what COVID was really like
- What happened to Marc Andreessen?
- When will inflation finally fall below 2%?
- Returns are killing the retail industry
- A Trump attack dog will head up the FBI
- Real GDP for real across the G7
November 2024
- Ivanka’s father-in-law is our new ambassador to France
- Home builders are swooning over Donald Trump
- Raw data: Assisted suicide in Oregon
- Interest on the national debt: A brief primer
- Why have VA disability payments skyrocketed?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 29 November 2024
- The ruble has lost 20% of its value since September
- People were feeling good about the economy this year
- Trump wins fake but real victory over illegal immigration
- Lunchtime Photo
- The national debt has declined 2% under Joe Biden
- Choke Point 2.0: A primer on the right’s latest conspiracy theory
- The only thing Republicans (apparently) care about is the Treasury Department
- A quick peek at manufacturing and semiconductors
- Lunchtime Photo
- Americans are losing their lust for cars
- Sanctuary cities are no threat to Donald Trump
- Disposable income up 4.5% in October
- Rogue Chinese ship cut a pair of Baltic Sea cables last week
- PCE inflation ticks up in October
- A short trip down the NAFTA memory lane
- The federal EV charging program has now built 210 charging ports
- Raw data: US exports to Mexico
- Civic disorder follow-up: The case of fare evasion
- Lunchtime Photo
- How many federal workers will Elon Musk fire?
- Chinese state losing hard-won influence on Twitter
- Home sales plummet in October
- Here’s a shallow dive into public disorder
- Top Trump advisor tried to shake down cabinet hopefuls
- Lunchtime Photo
- If the CDC didn’t close schools during COVID, who did?
- In nearly every state, the poor pay a higher tax rate than the rich
- Did the CDC recommend school closures?
- Raw data: Public school spending in the US
- The case of the Pentagon’s $45 bolt
- Why Kamala lost: A confession
- A (sort of) defense of bureaucracy
- Raw data: Fentanyl overdoses have dropped dramatically
- Our economic quandary: Should we pay more attention to vibes or data?
- Yet another Black guy is running HUD for Trump
- Trump blocks promotion of Afghanistan general
- All Trump’s demons are being set loose
- Supermarkets and shoplifting: A brief conversation
- I’m done with Google search
- Friday Cat Blogging – 22 November 2024
- Yep, alcohol deaths are way up
- My econ picks on Twitter
- Another look at inflation and Fox News
- Republican economic optimism is skyrocketing already
- A recession is probably in our near future
- Pam Bondi, Trump’s $25,000 friend, is his new AG choice
- Fox News declares inflation over
- Republican finances have suddenly recovered
- Chrysler is down to one car
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Childcare after the pandemic
- Home prices increased 30% under Donald Trump
- North Carolina creates permanent Republican Supreme Court
- Mike Johnson can go fuck himself
- Nothing gets between Americans and their eggs
- Health update
- Three great modern myths
- Two looks at the housing crisis
- Lunchtime Photo
- Republicans have gained 0.1% of the national House vote
- Raw data: The real number of federal workers
- Health update
- Raw data: Capital productivity in rich countries
- Trump chooses quack TV doctor to run Medicare
- We are all working class now
- Lunchtime Photo
- Who cut Sweden’s lifeline to Lithuania?
- Trump’s cabinet is going to fizzle
- American runner wins Olympic medal today
- Economic uncertainty has surged since Trump was elected
- Elite education: Back to where it started 100 years ago
- NAFTA was fine. It was China that ruined the working class.
- Inflation in Russia is . . . kind of normal
- Sex vs. gender: I have a question
- Health update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: The stock market is very frothy
- Trump says he’ll use the Army to carry out mass deportations
- Tariffs won’t solve our budget problem
- Republicans take aim at Medicaid
- No, Trump is not on the side of blue-collar workers
- The Wall Street Journal admits Biden had almost no effect on inflation
- Wait. Trans athletes have won 890 medals in women’s sports?
- Raw data: Inflation in the US and Europe
- Pete Hegseth is a devout Christian
- Would you like an extra large side of public humiliation with your Big Mac?
- Biden was a loud and proud centrist in 2020
- Why did dogecoin rise 150% over the past week?
- The 3% solution
- America needs an Iron Governor
- The choice between two scary extremes is usually a move to the right
- How much do Democratic politicians fear The Groups?
- The stock market rally is no more
- Friday Cat Blogging – 15 November 2024
- Wokeness has declined 24% over the past three years
- Elon Musk knows nothing about government efficiency
- Top ten RFK Jr. conspiracy theories, now in handy index card format
- Would you like to be an associate assistant deputy assistant secretary?
- Larry Kudlow for Treasury?
- Retail sales rise slightly in October
- Pearls of wisdom, all for you
- Raw data: A cautionary tale
- Raw data: Miscellaneous student reading scores
- Collins for VA! No, not that Collins…
- RFK Jr. will head HHS. Sure! Of course he will.
- Lunchtime Photo
- Will the Senate confirm Tulsi Gabbard?
- Raw data: Drug use among teens has plummeted
- Fear of bananas is big news in Stockholm
- I’ve been rethinking Truth Social
- Air travel has grown by nearly half over the past three years.
- This whole recess appointment meme is nuts
- Live commerce is surging! Or maybe not.
- I’m not sure the inflation horse is dead, so let’s beat it some more
- Trump is choosing the most telegenic cabinet in history
- Lunchtime Photo
- Quote of the day: Who’s Pete Hegseth?
- John Thune elected new Republican leader in the Senate
- Once more on the Fed and inflation
- Wages keep rising in October
- CPI ticks up slightly in October
- The working class has done fine during the Biden era
- Fox talking head is our new Secretary of Defense
- Lunchtime Photo
- The impact of ARP on inflation
- Jerome Powell should be safe for now
- Was turnout really down in 2024?
- How many times can we kill the Department of Education?
- Israeli lunatic thinks Trump will make all his wishes come true
- Health update update
- Jack Herrera on Latinos and the Democratic Party
- Raw data: The cost of solar power through 2030
- Lunchtime Photo
- Bitcoin is skyrocketing
- What do tax cuts on the rich accomplish? Can you guess?
- My fantasy Gaza speech
- Health update
- Lies, damn lies, and conservative speech
- Here’s what’s changed politically over the past few years
- Who’s queer?
- Trump demands permission to appoint anyone he wants
- Why is California vote counting so damn slow?
- Raw data: What the American public thinks of culture war issues
- Here’s some simple background to the Democratic losses in 2024
- YIMBY, shower heads, and NATO
- Did you know that Joe Biden has increased food stamp benefits 43% since taking office?
- Suddenly we conducted a fair and clean election
- Central banks warn that climate change is getting worse
- Health update
- Raw data: Contingent employment in the US
- Friday Cat Blogging – 8 November 2024
- Shoes are hotfooting it out of China
- Raw data: Medical inflation has plummeted over the past three years
- Bad economies only recently started to affect elections
- Does wealth inequality explain Trump?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Why Kamala lost: The real answer
- Wall Street says: The rich are back!
- After big Trump win, DJT is . . . down?
- As always, tax cuts for the rich are Job 1
- The working class rears its electoral head yet again
- Donald Trump should have the easiest presidency ever
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Social media is becoming more accepted
- Hooray for the US election system!
- Inflation can be more painful than official statistics show
- What a depressing night
- Was it just inflation all along?
- Abortion rights in Florida win big, but lose anyway
- Vote early and often
- It’s time for Trump to declare victory
- Trump stock was kind of weird today
- The ghost of public campaign funding still haunts us
- A third of Americans aren’t sure Roman slaveholding was a bad thing
- Lunchtime Photo
- Who’s going to win tonight?
- Data centers take a hit in electricity wars
- The yield curve is back. Hooray?
- Raw data: COVID deaths in the US
- Republicans are ready for a post-election lawfare blitz
- EV charging station update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Trump spokesman gets taste of his own dog food
- “Stop the Steal” is all grown up and ready to rumble
- Russia is trying to sabotage US transatlantic flights
- For Californians: Here’s how to vote on tomorrow’s ballot initiatives
- In the end, will immigration be the undoing of Kamala Harris?
- Women’s restrooms have a long history as an underground network
- A tiny radio station in Poland is a canary in the AI coal mine
- Raw data: The price of gasoline
- Is fluoridated water safe?
- The long, sad story of E-Verify
- Which states do you want to avoid driving in?
- Raw data: Waymo taxi trips in California
- Republican crackpottery is now conventional wisdom
- Have Republicans really become anti-war?
- The election might be close. Or it might not.
- Friday Cat Blogging – 1 November 2024
- As the border becomes more militarized, so do smuggling gangs
- Net new jobs fall in October
- Conservatives are crazy, Part 847
- AI suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect
October 2024
- Why has Reddit taken over your Google searches?
- The story of freight trains
- Inflation is now about the same as it was under Trump
- Lunchtime Photo
- Would RFK Jr. ban vaccines in a Trump administration?
- The rise and fall of the DJT empire
- Today’s economic news is all blue skies
- PCE inflation is 2.1% in September
- We don’t need to take a blowtorch to regulations
- Federal election monitoring is alive and (fairly) well
- Lunchtime Photo
- Politico floods the zone over fake “garbage” outrage
- Republicans on Supreme Court rule that the law doesn’t apply to Republicans
- Final YouGov poll: Harris ahead by 1%
- GDP grew 2.8% in Q3
- A brief summary of Donald Trump’s plan for America
- Israel decides to cut off aid to Gaza
- Here’s the boring truth: Crime is neither up nor down
- Mortgage rates have spiked up to 7%. It’s a warning from Wall Street.
- Final GDP forecast: 2.8%
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Google searches for Puerto Rico
- Job demand is almost back to normal
- Time is running out
- The wages of the white working class
- Raw data: US crude oil imports from OPEC
- When will I recover my taste buds?
- CES says Kamala Harris is comfortably in the lead
- Lunchtime Photo
- Have our social skills rotted away?
- Every political day is the same as yesterday
- I have voted
- MSG report #4
- MSG report #3
- MSG report #2
- MSG report #1
- Trump used burner phone to pressure Michigan speaker over vote
- A history of Israel in one sentence
- Election threats pouring in from party that begins with R
- Friday Cat Blogging – 25 October 2024
- Who’s afraid of Donald Trump?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Trump foreign policy folks are living inside a fantasy bubble
- Home sales steady in September
- Are there more social media content creators than teachers?
- New study says Black drivers ticketed at 3x the rate of white drivers
- Lunchtime Photo
- Presidential race tightens slightly
- Abortion bans have mostly backfired
- Vladimir Putin continues his campaign to elect Donald Trump
- Donald Trump’s contempt for the military, quote by quote
- What arrows are left in the anti-Trump quiver?
- College tuition is down 40% over the past 10 years. That’s not a typo.
- Raw data: The price of gasoline:
- Lunchtime Photo
- Kamala Harris leads Trump by 24 points among recent deciders
- New study tells us little about trans regret rates
- Shoplifting is up. Or maybe it’s down. Or maybe neither.
- Yes, Kamala Harris really does have a clarity problem
- FTC bans fake reviews
- Lunchtime Photo
- Florida’s First Amendment threat came straight from Ron DeSantis
- The progressive era is over. Again.
- Raw data: Homeownership among the young
- Did Elon Musk really have to study whether his rockets might hit sharks and whales?
- Trump fakes a stint at McDonald’s today
- Here’s the simple reason I think Harris will win
- Will you still love me when I’m . . . 66?
- Trump: Xi Jinping knows I’m fucking crazy
- How big was Arnold Palmer’s package?
- The FBI’s crime data is crap these days
- Existential anxiety and civilizational ennui
- Religion and quantum mechanics
- We should all be Californicated
- Raw data: Homelessness in California and the US
- How are we doing with our housing crisis?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 18 October 2024
- Ten years of cancer
- Donald Trump’s negotiating fantasies
- We’re all buying lots of food
- As pressure mounts, Trump’s threats balloon
- Lunchtime Photo
- The great EV sales collapse of (January) 2024
- Why has recent inflation been so unnerving?
- Did crime go up or down in 2022?
- Lunchtime Photo
- How is DEI going at the University of Michigan?
- Locked out
- Republicans think everything is terrible
- Republicans remain convinced that they’re failing financially
- Harris still leads by 3 points
- Notes on Trump’s Bloomberg interview
- Raw (very very raw) data: The price of milk
- Lunchtime Photo
- Is Trump mentally fit?
- Walgreens is closing stores to restore profitability
- Trump stares vacantly, swaying to music, for half an hour at town hall
- Everyone wants more babies—except for women of childbearing age
- Conservatives are in denial
- In Texas, no one really opposes illegal immigration
- Lunchtime Photo
- Kamala Harris promises to legalize marijuana
- GDP growth is roaring ahead
- Fast food: Is it a Republican thing?
- In battleground states, Trump is running ahead of other Republicans
- Nobody’s jobs were taken away by illegal immigrants
- Why is everyone so quiet about war with Iran?
- I’m hungry
- Go see the comet tonight!
- Weather control: An update
- Inflation = Pandemic + CARES Act
- Would you answer an Instagram appeal for bank robbers?
- Raw data: Women in the academy
- Gen. Mark Milley: Trump is a fascist
- Twitter banned the JD Vance dossier because Trump asked them to
- JD Vance thinks he’s a clever boy
- Truth Social stock is suddenly on fire
- It’s Trump, Trump, Trump all the time
- How is California’s $20 fast food wage working out?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 11 October 2024
- Men are still going to college
- Republicans hate Republican presidents
- Tesla’s cybertaxi vaporware didn’t impress anyone
- Some prices really are coming down
- Biden’s eight circles?
- University DEI statements are a demeaning charade
- Just how bad is Twitter, really?
- It’s time to raise taxes, not cut them
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: How the poor are doing
- Hourly wages up, weekly wages down in September
- Quarterly CPI plummets in Q3
- CPI inflation falls slightly in September
- Crypto is spending wildly in the 2024 race
- Wage growth has been sluggish for the past three years
- Lunchtime Photo
- Renewable electricity will almost triple by 2030
- YouGov poll remains at +3 for Harris this week
- Weather control is trending
- Kamala Harris wants Medicare to cover long-term home care
- Why does California have a housing shortage?
- When is a gun not a gun?
- Lunchtime Photo
- John Roberts is puzzled
- How to vote on California’s initiatives
- Harris maintains her narrow lead
- Raw data: the US share of global GDP
- Border crossings drop to 102,000 in September
- California did not ban a parody video
- What is the pro-Palestinian argument?
- Germany caves in on apostrophes
- Lunchtime Photo
- Health update
- Retail productivity is up 32% since 2000
- Trumpies level yet another stupid threat
- Use credit cards, not payments apps
- Consumption growth is historically high
- Oil production is historically high
- Poverty is historically low
- GDP growth is historically high
- Unemployment is historically low
- It now takes 30 weeks to open a new store
- Raw data: Income inequality in the US
- Raw data: Spending and the deficit
- Elon Musk’s brain is tapioca
- Raw data: Growing and declining causes of death in the US
- Friday Cat Blogging – 5 October 2024
- Raw data: Labor force participation under Joe Biden
- Job growth increased briskly in September
- Is free speech on the run?
- Health update
- Fox News is lying about FEMA
- Raw data: Crime in Los Angeles
- Our weird universe
- The Israeli public wants war
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: The Greek financial crisis
- The sweet, reasonable deceit of J.D. Vance
- Lunchtime Photo
- Does the economy care very much about immigration?
- Harris maintains 3-point lead over Trump
- What’s the deal with Trump and Obamacare?
- In a nice vs. nice debate, nobody won and nobody lost
- Donald Trump’s entire campaign is now untethered from consensus reality
- Let us hold Donald Trump to normal standards of conduct. Please.
- Iran hoists a white flag
- Raw data: Average earnings of unionized port workers
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: The cost of disasters
- Disaster relief in Republican-land
- How many people get fired each year? How come we don’t know?
- Today all my opponents wear teal
- BREAKING: Trump says Kamala is a FAKER
- Presidents do not direct emergency response
September 2024
- Elon Musk fears for the future of the republic
- Lunchtime Photo
- The federal government is coming to rescue Asheville
- Raw data: Feeding at the federal trough
- Unleash the cops, but just for a day
- 14,000 noncitizen murderers roaming free? Um, no.
- Are young men falling even further behind?
- Bully for Ambien
- Is anyone moving right these days?
- Trump’s $100,000 watch is a thinly veiled bribe
- How much has Tesla’s Supercharger network cost it?
- Raw data: The EV charging network in the US
- Raw data: Biggest US trading partners
- Are yellow school buses going extinct?
- In which I return to life and announce new, lower inflation rates
- Friday Cat Blogging – 27 September 2024
- What happened to productivity after the Great Recession?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Eric Adams is corrupt. He’s also an idiot.
- Raw data: Job tenure in America
- Raw data: GDP growth in the G7
- FBI investigation count as of this morning
- Atlanta Fed forecasting Q3 GDP growth of 2.9%
- Test scores have recovered from the pandemic — except among white kids
- Americans are spending more money than ever
- Harris lead at 3% in YouGov poll
- Is the modern world a spiritual hellhole?
- A (really flimsy) defense of judge shopping
- Lunchtime Photo
- We are facing a typhoon of Chinese cyberattacks
- Raw data: Top steel importers to the United States
- Israel is brutally destroying towns in the West Bank
- Raw data: Home sales in August
- It’s 5:30 am. How much steel are we importing?
- Raw data: Carbon emissions in the US
- AITA? Hospital version.
- Raw data: Inflation in America
- Lunchtime Photo
- BREAKING! Joe Biden is too feeble to run a cabinet meeting.
- Health update
- What’s up with all the Trump merch?
- It’s not easy to get more poor kids into college
- The miseducation of Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Trump vs. Harris on economic policy
- The murder rate dropped 11-12% in 2023.
- Lunchtime Photo
- Republicans and their conspiracy theories
- Can you balance the federal budget?
- The GOP is a reverse engineering virtuoso
- Republicans cave in yet again on the budget
- “Too cheap to meter” is finally getting close
- Gazans are starting to give up on the war
- Raw data: Cell phone subscriptions
- Raw data: Homicides in Springfield
- No, Democrats aren’t suddenly gun nuts
- Friday Cat Blogging – 20 September 2024
- When is a hand count not really a hand count?
- Why are generic drugs unpopular in Europe?
- What’s your colorway?
- The stock market is doing great
- Raw data: High school history curriculums
- Lunchtime Photo
- No one cares about Trump’s attack on the free market
- A brief look at Donald Trump’s policy vision
- Sure, Donald, let’s cap interest rates
- Time for Trump to sell some stock?
- Harris builds 4% lead in YouGov poll
- Raw data: Drug overdose deaths are finally falling
- J.D. Vance doesn’t care about your so-called “truth”
- Fed cuts interest rates half a point. Hooray?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Wages have been outpacing inflation for five years
- Happy anniversary to us
- Raw data: The price of oil
- California banned campaign deepfakes four years ago. They’re still banned today.
- Headline of the day
- What does Kamala Harris need to do to seal the deal?
- Kamala Harris is getting close to a durable lead over Trump
- We are paying the price for crazy driving
- Lunchtime Photo
- OK, maybe there are 4,000 Haitians in Springfield?
- Donald Trump doesn’t want to broaden health care coverage
- Retail sales decline in August
- Health update
- Illegal border crossings remain steady in August
- Political violence in America
- Lunchtime Photo
- Work requirements for Medicaid would have no effect on spending
- I have a very bipartisan name
- How a fake biodiversity statistic took over the world
- Donald Trump is always right, even when he isn’t
- Raw data: The uninsured rate during the Trump and Biden presidencies
- How many Haitian immigrants really live in Springfield? Maybe 2,000?
- Kamala Harris talks about prices
- How’s your credit? Signals are mixed these days.
- Why has illegal immigration gone up and down so much?
- Latest AI almost has an IQ of 100
- Quote of the day: Trump’s plans for his scam stock
- Trump wants Ukraine to surrender to Putin
- Trump to California: Toe the line or I’ll take away your wildfire money
- Raw data: University enrollment by race
- Friday Cat Blogging – 13 September 2024
- What’s the matter with Project 2025?
- The price of imported goods continues to plummet
- Most welfare programs already require the able-bodied to work
- New crime figures show decline in 2023
- For most Americans, inflation is well under 2%
- West Coast football is reborn
- Lunchtime Photo
- The crackpot championships are underway
- Surprise! The Wall Street Journal misleads on social welfare spending.
- Raw data: Late abortions in the US
- Fact checking Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris toasted Donald Trump last night
- Lunchtime Photo
- Harris and Trump are now tied — maybe
- The yield curve has just un-inverted
- Inflation remains well controlled in August
- Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris won tonight’s debate
- Tariffs are not as nuanced as the New York Times says
- Lunchtime Photo
- America is the crypto fraud capital of the world
- Voter ID: Solved!
- Income rose 4% in 2023
- Chart of the day: Poverty in America
- When is a campaign ad not a campaign ad?
- Kamala Harris is losing ground in swing states
- What’s really happening in Springfield?
- Lunchtime Photo
- We need higher energy costs
- Multiple myeloma strikes again
- Now we know where the sex smears against Kamala Harris came from
- Median income is the best measure of an economy
- Half of all Americans are out of work
- Raw data: Suicide and thoughts of suicide among teens
- America’s teen sunburn crisis
- Raw data: Labor participation for prime age, native born workers
- Friday Cat Blogging – 6 September 2024
- Treasury is way behind on auditing the wealthy
- Russia has been targeting the American right all along
- Job growth remains low in August but earnings soar
- Unintended consequence of the day: Bats and infant mortality
- Trump and his tariffs
- Donald Trump and the child care non-crisis
- Lunchtime Photo
- How is productivity doing?
- Why did murder spike in the summer of 2020?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Taxing unrealized gains isn’t unusual, but it’s probably not a good idea anyway
- There’s been no surge in foreign born workers in the US
- Harris maintains lead over Trump
- What’s the matter with West Virginia?
- Kamala Harris does not want to shut down Twitter
- Did Donald Trump take $10 million from Egypt?
- I guess TV really sucked in the ’50s and ’60s
- Lunchtime Photo
- DJT stock is down 40% thanks to Kamala Harris
- Raw data: Residential construction spending in the US
- Raw data: Book and newspaper consumption
- Lunchtime Photo
- Hamas murdered six hostages in cold blood
- Don’t send the Afghanistan withdrawal down the memory hole
- What is BleachBit?
August 2024
- Raw data: Economic growth in California
- A brief look at stuff Donald Trump has said lately
- The price of college football: $14 million per team in the SEC
- Maybe we build more beautifully today than we think
- A case study in propaganda
- Trump blames families for Arlington debacle
- Trump will vote for 6-week abortion ban
- There is nothing unusual about the number of people with multiple jobs
- Rating the CNN interview(er)
- Friday Cat Blogging – 30 August 2024
- Fox News: Biden “skipped” Arlington “event”
- Caltech has come a long way since 1976
- PCE inflation remains under 2% in July
- Just stop it. It wasn’t “Biden’s inflation.”
- Trump’s secret Arlington Cemetery plan
- Maybe Kamala Harris is actually ahead in swing states
- Donald Trump is a woman’s best friend
- Lunchtime Photo
- Is America still the land of opportunity?
- Kamala Harris has tightened the race in every swing state
- Army: Trump knew the rules at Arlington and broke them anyway
- We have a crisis of crises
- Stress in America: A deeper look
- Lunchtime Photo
- Marriage and kids just aren’t that important anymore
- Harris lead drops to 2 points
- Housekeeping finished!
- Trump plan blows up the debt, gives most money to the rich
- Housekeeping note
- Kamala and the press
- Please note: There was no Biden administration in 2020
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Per capita GDP around the world
- Texas judge once again does what Texas judges do
- We have a record number of teachers this year
- Don’t touch Social Security
- It’s finally time to impeach Joe Biden
- Raw data: Heat-related deaths in the US
- How’s the eviction crisis coming along?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Hours of work in America
- Ozempic-like drugs will cure what ails you
- No, plug-in hybrids are not finally taking off
- Can AI write a good novel?
- Raw data: Who’s the most militaristic president? Who’s the least?
- What J.D. Vance really said about tariffs
- Israel launches preemptive attack on Hezbollah
- Is Tim Walz a big fat liar?
- Boredom on the internet
- Here’s how war in the Middle East ends
- Raw data: STEM degrees by race
- Bloomberg compares Republicans and Democrats
- Legalized abortion has nothing to do with crime rates
- Trump abandons the pro-lifers
- Friday Cat Blogging – 23 August 2024
- RFK Jr. endorses his buddy Donald Trump
- We should be buying a million new homes per year
- Beating Trump isn’t everything, it’s the only thing
- America is not in decline. Not even close.
- Donald Trump is (still) losing his mind
- Is YIMBY really becoming a political force?
- Lunchtime Photo
- I’m in favor of ordinary this year
- Harris is now three points ahead
- Kamala Harris’s kinda sorta tax plans
- Why oh why are electric bills so high in LA?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Health update
- Trump: Forget about the Comstock Act
- Health update
- BREAKING: Lynn got backsies in line (but not really)
- Quote of the day: Don Corleone’s lessons for politics
- Lunchtime Photo
- What do you expect Israel to do?
- The Walz family and their fertility treatments
- Grocery inflation is over
- Supply chains look totally normal right now
- Silicon Valley is throwing in the towel on DEI
- Lunchtime Photo
- The US economy is running way above potential
- Harris’s price gouging proposal looks pretty modest
- The comeback of Erie, Pennsylvania
- Harris continues polling ahead of Trump
- No more Nook
- Raw data: Crime under five presidents
- How’s the blog doing?
- Donald Trump: Liar or moron?
- North America in the sky
- The housing market continues to crumble
- Economic policy explained
- Our national debt problem really is simple
- Nope, no tampons in boys’ bathrooms
- About that Trump “news conference”
- Are grocery stores gouging us?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 16 August 2024
- Illegal border crossings plummet in July
- The Fed played no role in our recent bout of inflation
- Raw data: How Social Security finances are affected by ending the tax on benefits
- Kamala Harris looks like Kamala Harris
- Today’s boring but true headline: The cost of electricity has not been going up
- How California became California
- Lunchtime Photo
- Retail sales surge in July
- How can New York City reduce crime on the subway?
- Do we have any legal use cases for crypto yet?
- Don’t listen to J.D. Vance. Things are fine.
- Lunchtime Photo
- Harris posts astonishing gains in California
- Inflation stays well controlled in July
- Does anyone care about the deficit?
- Why is everyone keeping mum about that hacked J.D. Vance material?
- Musk judge recuses himself . . . but only from one case
- Lunchtime Photo
- Did California go too far when it loosened punishment of property crime?
- Wholesale inflation drops in July
- Lunchtime Photo
- How are hourly workers doing?
- Housing today is expensive, but not by a lot
- Everything is crazy
- Biden vs. Harris
- Trump Media almost has revenue of $1 million
- We have added 20 million people to Medicaid in the past decade
- Donald Trump is hallucinating things
- Friday Cat Blogging – 9 August 2024
- Abortions continue to rise in wake of Dobbs
- Tampons in boys’ restrooms? Nope.
- Trump is running scared on abortion
- The ABC debate will proceed as scheduled
- Lunchtime Photo
- Health update
- Donald Trump is unhappy
- What worked to stop the spread of COVID-19?
- Donald Trump, panderer in chief
- Lunchtime Photo
- Kamala Harris is preferred to Trump 49% to 44%
- Meet Honey
- Here’s the story behind Musk v. GARM
- Lunchtime Photo
- Spare a thought for poor Donald Trump, prisoner of abortion politics
- Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’s running mate
- Today is the 79th anniversary of Hiroshima
- Pre-recessionary? That’s probably an understatement.
- Judge finds that Google is a very, very evil monopolist
- Lunchtime Photo
- Yes, the Fed should lower rates. But not because of the stock market.
- Raw data: Tax rates in California, Texas, and Florida
- Trump’s attack on Kamala Harris’s blackness was very precisely aimed
- Cooked data: Another look at childless families by political party
- Kamala Harris needs a few policy statements
- The strange tale of Imane Khelif
- The stupidest man in the world strikes again
- Health update
- Why did Bloomberg break the prisoner swap embargo?
- Putin’s prisoner strategy: Just keep kidnapping Germans until they give in
- Friday Cat Blogging – 2 August 2024
- Net new jobs in July drops almost to zero
- Pete Buttigieg for veep?
- Raw data: Childless families by political party
- No, Trump’s insults yesterday weren’t deliberate
- Lunchtime Photo
- Productivity grew nicely in Q2
- Construction dips in June for second month in a row
- US prisoners released from Russia
- Rich kids work less than the merely affluent when they grow up
July 2024
- Harris is way ahead of where Biden was two weeks ago
- Yeah, Kamala Harris is Black
- Lunchtime Photo
- “You won’t have to vote again,” explained
- Come on, Jerome, inflation is over
- Inflation is pretty much the same for all of us
- Kamala Harris is having a lot of fun
- In the past three years, one unarmed Black woman has been killed by police
- 20 things that make Republicans weird
- Lunchtime Photo
- Hiring declines yet again in June
- Kamala Harris would be wise to shift slightly to the center
- Dear [insert name here] . . .
- How long will the office building crisis last?
- Childcare in America: The real story
- Lunchtime Photo
- We’ve finally reached herd immunity! But it doesn’t matter.
- Joe Biden has expelled nearly 7 million illegal immigrants
- Dionysus inspires protests on the right
- Sunday miscellany
- What’s next from Trump? A strategic golf ball reserve?
- It’s not hard to say Kamala Harris’s name right
- Here’s why your doctor doesn’t call you back
- Quote of the day: Donald Trump on religion
- Botox use skyrocketed after the pandemic
- J.D. Vance is . . . kind of a weird guy
- Friday Cat Blogging – 26 July 2024
- Are teenagers really buying “only what they need”?
- PCE inflation stays low in June
- Raw data: The Biden factory building boom sets a new record
- Oklahoma says Bible haters won’t be tolerated
- Harris makes up huge ground in latest NYT poll
- Kamala Harris should choose a pal for vice president
- Norwegian study says surgical masks don’t stop COVID
- Lunchtime Photo
- The economy was great in Q2
- More kvetching about the ’70s
- Economy grows 2.8% in Q2
- Atlanta Fed says Q2 GDP will come in at 2.6%
- Kamala Harris was never the border czar
- Lunchtime Photo
- My memories of the ’70s have been shattered
- Have consumers finally realized the economy is pretty good?
- A short primer for understanding conservatives
- Earth sets new personal best
- Health update
- Peterson Foundation says we need big tax increases
- CBS News reports once again that illegal immigration is way down
- My review of the Surface Pro 11
- Lunchtime Photo
- The food situation in Gaza has improved
- President Biden is out in a coup against democracy*
- Raw data: Employment among Black men and women
- Health update
- Kamala Harris is now the Democratic nominee for president
- Liberal and conservative myths about illegal immigration
- Is it racist to drink Mountain Dew?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Fast food prices haven’t spiked recently
- American families have no serious debt problems
- Kamala Harris will poll as well as Biden by next week
- Biden withdraws
- What the hell is Donald Trump talking about?
- No, we haven’t spent $9 billion on eight EV chargers
- Friday Cat Blogging – 19 July 2024
- Health update
- Security update kills computers worldwide
- Donald Trump talks for 90 minutes, says two true things
- A tiny number of police guns are used to commit crimes
- A realistic look at a second Trump term
- Lunchtime Photo
- Donald Trump and the fentanyl crisis in the US
- Biden has lost essentially all support from top Dems
- Biden remains two points behind Trump
- Vaccination reduces chance of long COVID by half
- Do you remember the Iraq War? I do.
- Raw data: The popularity of white cars
- Lunchtime Photo
- Factlet of the day: California and the Electoral College
- Biden displays yet another mental lapse
- Men’s earnings shot up last quarter
- The stock market just can’t quit
- Lawfare roundup
- Lunchtime Photo
- Will Mitch McConnell’s replacement ban abortion?
- Retail sales fall slightly in June
- In Bizarro RNC, unions are a beloved partner of the working man
- Yes, AI is already better than undergrads and it’s undetectable
- Illegal immigration plummets in June
- Raw data: The number of people fired each year
- Lunchtime Photo
- Trump chooses loyalty in his VP pick
- Evictions are down since the pandemic ended
- Assassination is as American as apple pie
- Aileen Cannon demonstrates her devotion to Donald Trump, tosses charges against him
- Raw data: Men’s and women’s earnings since 1975
- Remote work hasn’t changed women’s employment
- Did the number of young trans people double in 2021?
- A single unknown Democrat suggested the Trump attack was staged and has apologized
- Trump escapes assassination and the right wing knows who to blame
- Raw data: The contribution of wives to family income
- American cities are not unusually expensive
- Why are conservatives such damn gold bugs?
- One more thing about prescription drugs
- Rep. James Comer continues his inane jihad against Joe Biden
- A brief look at drug price negotiation
- Friday Cat Blogging – 12 July 2024
- Who wants to cheat at elections?
- Wholesale inflation has been low for two full years
- Democracy and socialism
- Biden holds a press conference and does OK
- The greatest economy ever?
- No, consumers have not slowed down their spending
- Lunchtime Photo
- Inflation hits zero in June
- Yes, Donald Trump even lies about bacon
- Fast food chains are doing fine
- Lunchtime Photo
- Joe Biden has lost only 2 points among Democrats
- Health update
- Tesla’s AI has a single main customer
- Vladimir Putin, Russia’s geostrategist extraordinaire
- Crime in Washington DC is down a lot since Trump left
- Donald Trump and insulin: A brief history
- Lunchtime Photo
- A deep dive into double clicking
- There’s no embarrassment in getting something wrong
- Behold the 2024 Republican Party platform
- Lunchtime Photo
- Columbia deans found guilty of tropes
- Europe has a lot more elevators than the US
- Raw data: Black unemployment vs. white unemployment
- Are lefties really smarter than conservatives?
- Why does customer service suck so bad?
- The left is winning
- I am besieged by red lights
- Was Britain really planning to ship illegal immigrants to Rwanda?
- Biden moves sideways in ABC interview
- Fear of trans
- Friday Cat Blogging – 5 July 2024
- Trump’s election trial has been delayed. Who cares?
- Thank you for noticing
- The unemployment rate is rising
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in June
- Conservatives destroyed in British election
- The press and Joe Biden
- Lunchtime Photo
- Supreme Court finally leaves us alone
- Ocean temps reach almost not record breaking level
- Young people worldwide aren’t getting any more negative than their parents
- Preliminary estimate shows illegal immigration way down in June
- Joe Biden lost about two points of support after the CNN debate
- Lunchtime Photo
- Remote workers spend less time working
- Joe Biden doesn’t need to drop out of the race. He needs to resign.
- The Trump immunity ruling is not the end of democracy
- Biden’s cognitive decline may be fairly recent
- The Supreme Court really hates federal agencies
- Precedent? We don’t need no stinkin’ precedent.
- Lunchtime Photo
- The voter’s dilemma
- Hiring is still down from from its pre-pandemic level
- Federal judge uses very strange words to overturn LNG pause
- Raw data: The building boom is over
- Donald Trump still can’t shoot someone on Fifth Avenue
- Health update
- Free speech probably lives, though only 6-3
- Yes, the Supreme Court now allows cities to make homelessness illegal
- Lunchtime Photo
- Supreme Court rules that it needs more time before ruling on Trump’s immunity
- Joe Biden needs to resign the presidency
June 2024
- Thirteen lies
- Ten excerpts
- President Harris?
- California now requires financial literacy in high school
- Chevron was not a complicated decision
- Is France’s extreme right still all that extreme?
- Why do we care what Elon Musk thinks of Star Wars?
- Raw data: Killer chemicals
- PCE inflation plummeted in May
- The Supreme Court is toying with us
- Joe Biden has been far more successful with NATO than Donald Trump
- Friday Cat Blogging – 28 June 2024
- Biden is suddenly OK this morning?
- Living on the street drops 10% in Los Angeles
- Supreme Court spends pages and pages deciding what “otherwise” means
- Supreme Court decides courts are the very best at everything
- Supreme Court ending its term with a bang
- Debate recap: Oh fuck
- America finally breaks the sleep barrier
- The Supreme Court hobbled the power of the SEC today. But what about everyone else?
- Lunchtime Photo
- New study says oral contraceptive use has plummeted
- The Supreme Court now has three blocs
- Raw data: Murder in large US cities
- There are some migrants with “ISIS ties” at large in America
- New house price drops again in May
- Why do conservatives love government corruption?
- Why are Republicans going easy on Alejandro Mayorkas?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Web traffic at conservative news sites
- AI is already widely adopted and eliminating jobs
- Here are the bizarre results of giving homeless people cash
- On a technicality, Supreme Court overturns ruling of mass censorship by Biden administration
- There’s been no slowdown in arms shipments to Israel
- Bowman, Trump both big losers tonight
- Raw data: Spending on food
- Lunchtime Photo
- What exactly did Julian Assange plead guilty to?
- Raw data: Unemployment state-by-state
- Ultra-orthodox layabouts have to serve in the army, Israel’s supreme court rules
- Please save historical preservation for historical buildings
- Julian Assange is about to be set free
- My prediction for Thursday
- Lunchtime Photo
- A conversation on the internet
- Keeping expanded Obamacare subsidies is super cheap
- What should I replace Netflix with?
- Trump yet again accuses Biden of drug use
- Columbia deans placed on leave for . . . something
- Can the Wall Street Journal editorial page read?
- Donald Trump’s 2025 agenda
- Lock ’em up
- There are more undecided voters now than six months ago
- Friday Cat Blogging – 21 June 2024
- Yes, AI will likely be selectively banned in the future
- Trump stock has been tanking ever since his guilty verdict
- What’s going on with Benjamin Netanyahu?
- We have a new record holder for the fastest company to launch 50 rockets
- Illegal border crossings down slightly in May
- Lunchtime Photo
- Rural broadband is rolling out on schedule
- US warns Hezbollah of possible Israeli retaliation
- Supreme Court sides with liberals in minor tax case
- Housing starts continue their downward trend in May
- Quote of the day: Hamas ain’t going away
- Trump is being prosecuted because . . . he broke a lot of laws
- Thou shalt display the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments — if you’re a school in Louisiana
- Are people starving in Gaza? How many?
- Lunchtime Photo
- How close are we to a nuclear Middle East?
- Are retail sales down, or just returning to their old levels?
- Genocide and the floating pier
- Some early thoughts about next week’s debate
- America still knows how to build stuff
- Raw data: Wealth in Africa
- Lunchtime Photo
- Average compensation rose in Q1
- The lessons of COVID
- The FTC might have a hard time making its case against Adobe
- Lunchtime Photo
- Warning: This blog may damage your mental health
- Why did auto fatalities stop declining?
- Finally, a completely bogus lefty conspiracy theory
- MAGA chaos is helping . . . MAGA
- Factoid of the day: Semaglutide use in America
- Out-of-the-box thinking from Donald Trump
- Liberals have run the West Coast just fine
- The military under Trump ran anti-vaccine psyops worldwide
- Beloved newspaper has a headline problem
- BREAKING: No contempt charges for Garland
- Friday Cat Blogging – 14 June 2024
- Just what is a “single function” of a gun’s trigger?
- Trump says AI wrote one of his speeches
- Crime is really and truly down in 2024
- Why do conservatives hate inclusiveness?
- Health update
- Too many poor people get the wrong kind of Obamacare
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Inflation in the US vs. Europe
- Do evangelicals really oppose IVF?
- Mifepristone survives to fight another day
- Did you know . . . we defeated inflation in a single month?
- It wasn’t Hunter Biden who pulled out of his plea bargain
- IEA says an oil glut is coming soon
- Why do we need a floating pier in Gaza?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Yet another COVID vaccine conspiracy theory?
- Come on, LAX isn’t all that bad
- Inflation rate drops to nearly zero in May
- Congress then and now
- After 30 years, chlorofluorocarbon ban finally starts working
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Industry winners and losers since 2000
- It’s begun
- Crime is way down everywhere
- Republicans rely on fake videos these days
- Hunter Biden convicted in gun case
- Cool new Gen IV nuclear plants still produce hot old nuclear waste
- Has native-born employment really dropped 300,000 over the past year?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Hunter Biden case heads to the jury
- Inside the Gaza hostage rescue
- Raw data: COVID death rates in different professions
- CBS News: Biden ahead of Trump in battleground states
- Far right wins modest gains in European elections
- It’s not COVID that killed trust in experts. It’s politics.
- Three charts about presidential taxing and spending
- Raw data: Vehicle sales per capita in the US
- Post-constitutional? Yeah, about that.
- Federal procurement officers work harder for a president of the same party
- The lessons of COVID: We need better masks
- No, pediatricians aren’t suddenly opposed to gender affirming care
- Are illegal immigrants stealing all our jobs?
- Car sales are just fine
- The problem with Long COVID
- Friday Cat Blogging – 7 June 2024
- Disney has always been about the money
- Bogus doomsaying is bad for progressives
- Raw data: Employment in the US
- Trump wants the power to slash the budget. He won’t get it.
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in May
- Which horrible person will be Trump’s VP?
- Conservatives are looking for a loophole to further ban abortion
- Clarence Thomas has received a ton of gifts while on the Supreme Court
- Lunchtime Photo
- NYT confirms that Trump’s felony conviction had only a tiny effect
- Raw data: What do we import from Ireland?
- There’s no good reason not to protect contraception
- BREAKING: Biden mumbled one word during Time interview
- Poll: Trump’s felony conviction has hurt him only slightly so far
- Donald Trump’s two-tiered justice
- Health update
- Bacon update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Consumption around the world
- Surveillance pricing is in your future
- California math
- The best reason ever to vote for Joe Biden
- RFK Jr. has less support than he thinks
- Lunchtime Photo
- Matt Gaetz is the top user of new congressional honor system
- Have construction workers really become more productive since the pandemic?
- In April, job openings are down but hires are up
- Biden’s border plan probably won’t work
- Health update
- Lunchtime Photo
- How close to famine is Gaza?
- The rise and fall of the six-foot rule
- Dr Pepper is now #2
- Trump wants to get rid of the Interior Department
- There is a big pickleball scandal
- A timeline of the Trump hush money investigation
May 2024
- BREAKING: AI confirms Western ideals of beauty
- Friday Cat Blogging – 31 May 2024
- Conservatives like Trump because of his character
- Raw data: EV sales have plateaued
- Trump fucked a porn star and covered it up
- PCE inflation slows in April
- Trump isn’t going to prison
- Texas profs file bizarre anti-abortion lawsuit
- Trump can rant and rave, but he can’t dismiss the jury
- UPDATED: All the major Trump court cases since 2016
- New Chinese car has an 81 mpg gasoline engine
- The verdict is in. Trump is guilty on all counts.
- America is not on board with making divorce harder
- Lunchtime Photo
- Biden’s problem with Black voters still doesn’t add up
- New solar tech comes from . . . Israel
- Raw data: Corporate profits for banks and non-banks
- Economic growth was kind of sluggish in Q1
- Trump judge Aileen Cannon is more than just prickly and slow
- Lunchtime Photo
- Why Biden isn’t getting credit for crushing inflation
- Donald Trump’s “other crime” finally officially explained
- What is Donald Trump’s “other crime”? Take your pick.
- Lunchtime Photo
- Are Black people being “erased” from the long-COVID story?
- Trump and Biden remain tied, but Biden will win in November
- Republicans don’t care about the deficit, part one million
- Do Republicans really want to level Gaza and salt the earth behind it?
- We are living in the worst decade ever
- Yep, there are still plenty of white folks being hired in American History
- Everyone thinks they’re losing these days
- News you can use
- Lunchtime Photo
- Overall, academia remains pretty white
- Will Netanyahu ever stop the settler violence?
- Raw data: Inflation has been nearly normal for the past year
- Cell phones really don’t seem to be causing an epidemic of teen depression
- Nobody knows how much aid Gaza is getting these days
- Study suggests Republican panic caused recent inflation
- Biden’s position on the Gaza war has always been clear
- Is UCLA a “failed medical school”?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 24 May 2024
- Republicans today care only about illegal immigration
- Zionism is dead
- The wonders of modern travel
- Lunchtime Photo
- What is Donald Trump’s “other crime”?
- Biden’s good news problem
- But there were warnings!
- Another person has tested positive for bird flu
- Ambroxol is not a miracle drug
- LA is in a l-o-o-o-ng drought of total eclipses
- Lunchtime Photo
- How long do Hollywood marriages last?
- Trump tried to move classified docs away from security cameras
- The economy is still running hot, hot, hot
- The algebra wars are pure insanity
- Twitter’s community notes work pretty well
- Even yet still more classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago
- Lunchtime Photo
- So how are the China tariffs coming along?
- The Trump trial is over
- New study says internet access improves everything for (almost) everybody
- Should illegal immigrants be allowed to fly on airplanes?
- Raw data: CEO pay increased 4% last year
- Israel Defense Minister: Ignore Biden, there will never be a Palestinian state
- Truth Social posts terrible Q1 results
- Lunchtime Photo
- 87% of Biden’s new judges haven’t been white men
- Everybody understood that withdrawing from Afghanistan was dangerous
- The Washington Post is very, very wrong about the economy
- A trip to Vienna
- Biden should suggest Trump stay out of the briar patch
- Should you recycle bottle caps? Yes!
- 17 Mai 2024 – Freitag Katzenblogging
- Even conservative economists agree: We should have higher taxes on the rich
- Our lengthy wait for Vienna public transit
- Yes, of course Biden’s claim of executive privilege is bogus
- Texas governor pardons racist murderer
- Never trust social media for anything more important than new dance trends
- Lunchtime Photo
- Illegal border crossings remain steady in April
- Supreme Court spanks the Fifth Circuit yet again
- Does Facebook use really turn you into a MAGA voter?
- Netanyahu doesn’t want the Gaza war to end
- Supreme Court backs Democrats in Louisiana
- Lunchtime Photo
- A 6-week abortion ban is really a 4-week abortion ban
- Assassinations have plunged over the past two decades. Why?
- Food prices are down, wages are up
- Inflation settles down in April
- Are Americans really cheating on drug tests more?
- Joe Biden has been rock solid on Israel
- Lunchtime Photo
- Joe Biden has big trouble taking credit for his victories
- California is doomed, part 567
- Israel changed Joe Biden’s mind all by itself
- Lunchtime Photo
- What do the Gaza protesters think they’re accomplishing?
- Time to lower speed limits?
- How dangerous is climate change?
- Let your bot do the job hunting
- Raw data: Public interest in Joe Biden’s age
- Police don’t kill Black people any more than white people
- Raw data: CO2 emissions continue to accelerate
- Friday Cat Blogging – 10 May 2024
- Biden to China: Drop dead
- Raw data: Most popular leaders in the G7
- No aid trucks are getting into Gaza
- Lunchtime Photo
- Lunchtime Photo
- Does jail await Donald Trump?
- Is Jim Jordan on Trump’s list of VP candidates?
- Race is a social construct except when it’s not
- Lunchtime Photo
- Benjamin Netanyahu is no ally
- Lunchtime Photo
- Pandemic savings have all been spent
- Screwing their customers reaches a limit for food companies
- Chaos! Upheaval! Uncharted territory!
- Kristi Noem wants to shoot more dogs
- Stop telling everyone life is horrible
- Israel through young, old, and in-between eyes
- Raw data: Supreme Court cases per year
- Do women get the short end of the health care stick?
- Israel through young and old eyes
- Friday Cat Blogging – 3 May 2024
- Job growth slows in April
- Everything is fake, according to Donald Trump
- Lunchtime Photo
- Banning cell phones in school is a no-brainer
- Raw data: Productivity growth slowed in Q1
- Nvidia will sell you a human brain for $200,000
- Raw data: Aid shipments into Gaza are increasing modestly
- Lunchtime Photo
- When you occupy university buildings, cops are called
- Raw data: Hires vs. job openings
- Gaza here and there
- Raw data: Police officers killed in the US
- What’s the most fascist country in the world?
- Crime is down but Donald Trump isn’t buying it
April 2024
- Fox News caves to Hunter Biden threat
- Lunchtime Photo
- Giving poor people money helps them find homes
- Democrats say they will rescue Mike Johnson
- AI is going to replace low-wage workers
- Employment costs rise slowly in Q1
- Take a look at Donald Trump through conservative eyes
- Here are the issues most important to young people
- Beware of polls, young people edition
- Lunchtime Photo
- Study says progressive prosecutors are associated with slightly higher property crime
- Miracle cat shipped to California and survives
- The perils of GPS jamming
- What do I mean, there are no good guys in the Middle East?
- There are no good guys in the Middle East
- The Supreme Court has gotten testier over the years
- I had a lovely time today getting my email unfucked
- No, a minimum wage increase in April didn’t raise prices last September
- Donald Trump loves the QAnon song
- How are we doing on the democracy front?
- Does anyone remember that Joe Biden broke his foot?
- Here’s an update on Joe Biden’s small ball politics
- How safe are Tesla cars with Autopilot?
- What is a document?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 26 April 2024
- Joe Biden is going to win!
- America needs higher taxes
- PCE inflation changes little in March
- International court didn’t say there was plausible genocide in Gaza
- Hobby drones are the latest target of the China panic
- How many new jobs are we really creating?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Just how big is the global market for baby diapers?
- National Enquirer boss says Trump bragged about hush money in front of the FBI director
- GDP grows an anemic 1.6% in Q1
- Raw data: Avian flu cases, 2003-2024
- A pop quiz: Are police the cause of protest violence?
- Truth Social just gets scammier and scammier
- Lunchtime Photo
- Chamber of Commerce sues to overturn noncompete ban. Can you guess where they did it?
- Raw data: Black vs. white employment levels
- Bird flu is spreading beyond birds
- Health update
- Tesla stock climbs on grim news
- Noncompete agreements are dead
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Employment of recent college graduates
- National Enquirer publisher says Trump payments were to help his campaign
- Trump stock set to lose value yet again
- Bay Area toilet comes in way under budget
- How strong is support for Hamas in the US?
- Being around nonsmokers is good for you
- Why I’m skeptical of interrupted time series
- Lunchtime Photo
- Juneteenth or Jeff Davis? Alabamans will get to choose.
- California wants rich people to stop cutting the line in airports
- Why is the economy so good?
- Do we still need Phase 1 clinical trials for new drugs?
- At last, Ukraine aid etc. passes the House
- We’ve made surprising progress on climate change over the past decade
- I am now a physical chemist
- Vox takes a look at all those Boeing stories
- Raw data: Ideology among college-educated young people
- Another look at America’s housing shortage
- Prosecution says jury should know that Trump is a big fat liar
- Friday Cat Blogging – 19 April 2024
- Fox News has destroyed American confidence in itself
- Democrats shatter the rules to pass Ukraine aid through the Rules Committee
- What happened to teen girls in 2015-17?
- What has Biden asked from Israel?
- Congress is supposedly mad about something
- Health update
- GDP looks to be fairly strong in Q1
- How many ways are there to scan a person?
- How good is “better late than never”?
- A quick rundown on events in Sudan
- Raw data: The suicide rate among teen and adult women
- Lunchtime Photo
- Running the House of Representatives is like running a kindergarten class
- Don’t believe everything you see on the internet
- Home sales fall in March
- Today in politics: abortion is in, immigration is out
- Illegal immigration remains steady yet again in March
- Trump shakes down the neighborhood for a 5% cut
- Lunchtime Photo
- Donald Trump and the policies of personal pique
- Raw data: Part-time employment
- The polyamory BS just won’t stop
- Truth Social continues to plunge amidst new weirdness
- It’s time for a vacation
- Lunchtime Photo
- The global economy is becoming more fragmented
- Why have Alzheimer’s deaths increased among women?
- I acknowledge that pro-life folks think abortion is murder. I just don’t believe it.
- A Wheel of Fortune question
- Raw data: The cost of fighter jets
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Tax rates since 1980
- There is no maternal mortality crisis. The CDC needs to stop saying there is.
- Old man Trump falls asleep during criminal trial
- A record number of drugs are in short supply
- Why did Iran attack Israel? Hmmm.
- The Dutch are the biggest bullies in the world
- How quickly should prostate cancer be treated?
- Murder in the US is plummeting
- “Retail investors” is the nice word for the force behind Truth Social
- How to win in West Virginia? Fake MAGA outrage, of course.
- Iran sues for peace
- Food inflation is close to zero
- How the retirement industry is wrecking retirement
- Raw data: What America thinks about abortion
- Friday Cat Blogging – 12 April 2024
- FISA renewal passes House—unfortunately
- Brookings confirms it: The cost of college has barely changed in the past 30 years
- Next week is durable goods week
- Aid to Gaza is up either 100% or 4%
- A quick update on Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter
- The deep and nuanced complexity of one word
- OJ and the LAPD
- Lunchtime Photo
- There’s no need to panic over inflation
- Blame Gavin Newsom!
- Trump opposes Arizona’s abortion ban. So what about Texas?
- First AI came for the grunts….
- UK review says we know almost nothing about gender care for teens
- Lunchtime Photo
- Why are so many people only now turning against the Gaza war?
- Quote of the day: Republicans and Ukraine
- For the millionth time: People are happy and things are going OK
- Inflation slows in March
- California hasn’t spent $24 billion on homelessness
- The peculiar tale of NPR’s decline and fall
- Here’s why abortion is now illegal in Arizona
- Lunchtime Photo
- Health update
- Abortion? It’s no big deal anymore.
- Trump blasts Graham for staying firm on abortion ban
- Global sea temps continue to go nuts
- National Review editor: Biden should fully expect to be criminally tried if Trump wins
- Lunchtime Photo
- Here are 108 companies, graded from most to least racist
- President Biden forced Iran to back down
- Trump caves completely on abortion
- Half a dozen things Trump has said lately
- Trump: Just surrender to Russia
- Update: More aid getting into Gaza
- Raw data: Wages and employment of native-born Americans
- Facts about penicillin
- “Republicans for Biden” gets its first start
- Health update
- Israel should be escorting humanitarian aid
- Friday Cat Blogging – 5 April 2024
- Earthquakes and eclipses
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in March
- Taxes in California haven’t gone up recently
- Is the plunge in teen reading because of smartphones?
- Trump: Just kill the Palestinians and get it over with
- Immigrants are pretty law-abiding people
- Lunchtime Photo
- 15-minute lunches and no talking
- Yes, food is more expensive. And wages are higher too.
- Raw data: Degrees in education
- Did Israel deliberately destroy an aid convoy?
- Raw data: Gender dysphoria in teens
- Grocery inflation is at 1%. Why don’t more people know it?
- Lunchtime Photo
- New York City congestion pricing faces nearly a dozen lawsuits
- Pediatric surgeons kicked ass last year
- Hardened reporter spends a day on Truth Social
- Trump prosecutor issues ultimatum to Florida judge
- Raw data: Water in California
- The war on Easter has just gotten started
- We still have a bee problem
- Lunchtime Photo
- Judge shopping ban lasted three weeks. Now it’s gone.
- We have finally reached the end of science
- Quote of the day: War is hell
- Raw data: Commercial construction is turning down
- Florida bans abortion but allows vote to make it legal again
- Truth Social still sucks, stock plummets
- Lunchtime Photo
- A new kidney test is still racist. It just harms a different race.
- Gen Z isn’t getting its hands dirty
- Some Easter ponderings
March 2024
- Donald Trump celebrates Easter with yet another vicious rant
- Raw data: Incarceration of Black men has plummeted
- How much aid is Gaza getting?
- Let’s delve into medical studies
- Donald Trump celebrates the resurrection of Christ with yet another vicious lie
- Venue shopping lives!
- The LA Times was an ad-free newspaper today
- What am I?
- Why do doctors love to schedule things at oh dark thirty?
- Quote of the day: The government isn’t required to tell the truth
- About a third of all border crossers ask for asylum
- Friday Cat Blogging – 29 March 2024
- Here’s yet more misleading “science” about the Flint lead crisis
- Raw data: Use of AI in American industry
- Commercial chatbots lean to the left
- PCE inflation moderates in February
- Reliable Republican judge throws Chamber of Commerce under the bus
- Bridge failures haven’t changed in the past quarter century
- Burger flippers in California set to get 12% raise
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: The price of food has increased 2.2% since a year ago
- Sam Bankman-Fried is off to prison
- The Great Divergence continues
- Raw data: Unit sales of electric vehicles
- Raw data: Black unemployment
- Lunchtime Photo
- Update on the end of right-wing terrorism
- Raw data: Betting markets are losing faith in Trump
- Right-wing websites are hemorrhaging traffic
- Biden gaining on Trump in swing states
- Pro-choice Democrat wins big in Alabama special election
- A conservative takes on right-wing social media
- Lunchtime Photo
- A fake bridge collapse? Nope.
- Credit card companies agree to lower swipe fees by 0.04%
- Only one special Bible is endorsed by Donald Trump
- Mail-order mifepristone likely to stay fully legal
- Why is Truth Social trading at 100 times its actual value?
- The era of random right-wing terrorism is over
- Abortion pills are on the rise post-Dobbs
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Personal health care spending
- Trump fine cut in half—for now
- Raw data: Teacher pay in the US
- Every politician should be precisely as smart as me
- Chuck Todd says the Trump-era RNC is a bunch of thugs and liars
- Raw data: Real medical costs have been negative over the past decade
- Why are squatters suddenly everywhere?
- Raw data: Everyone loves Obamacare
- Adult mental health is as bad as teen mental health
- Joe Biden is now eking out a lead over Donald Trump
- Illegal immigration remains steady in February
- My top ten traffic pet peeves
- Israel just can’t stop insulting Americans
- The North Atlantic meltdown is getting even worse
- Raw data: Burglary in the US
- Is social media becoming less social?
- The new worst generation ever is Gen Alpha
- Friday Cat Blogging – 22 March 2024
- Yet another Republican flees the madhouse
- Will Donald Trump really make $3 billion from his sham stock offering?
- Mike Johnson has pissed off the Freedom Caucus again
- A conservative take on the infant formula market
- Is social media duping impressionable teens about contraceptive use?
- The working class has a lower life expectancy than 30 years ago
- Lunchtime Photo
- Are House and Senate Republicans even the same species?
- Home sales rose sharply in February
- Kidney of a (genetically engineered) pig
- Chart of the day: Productivity was up 0.7% in 2023
- The new GOP budget is just the same old claptrap
- Can Donald Trump file for bankruptcy?
- Julian Assange may be close to a plea deal
- Lunchtime Photo
- New EPA rules cut emissions, promote sales of EVs
- New report suggests that more internet = more happiness
- Did the FDA kill a promising new way of preventing cavities?
- Lunchtime Photo
- No-fly victim wins (limited) victory in the Supreme Court
- The abortion rate spiked upward in 2023
- Raw data: Murder dropped 13% in 2023
- Chart of the day: The uninsurance rate in Q3 of 2023
- Donald Trump cannot decree that official records are actually personal
- Remote learning during COVID was harmful but limited
- Lunchtime Photo
- Medicare Advantage will cost an extra $83 billion this year
- New Nvidia chip will cost $50,000
- Trump can’t post bond in his $454 million fraud case
- Supreme Court ready to toss out loony Louisiana “coercion” case
- Here’s an interesting argument that AI won’t take all our jobs
- We should be honest about Donald Trump’s “bloodbath”
- TikTok is losing popularity among teens
- Joe Biden is a decent human being
- Human trafficking has barely changed at all since 2018
- Food aid to Gaza is starting to pick up
- “Americans” don’t think Biden is too old
- Are Boeing planes getting worse?
- Donald Trump wants China to sell Facebook
- People who have worked for Trump don’t like him much
- Friday Cat Blogging – 15 March 2024
- We should ban TikTok as pure trade retaliation
- Biden’s SOTU flipped the media narrative
- Fani Willis allowed to stay on Trump election case
- Mike Johnson says he’ll allow vote on Ukraine
- Long-term unemployment has been pretty steady recently
- Lunchtime Photo
- Do we really need a financial literacy requirement in high school?
- PPI inflation index jumps in February
- America’s teens probably don’t get very much real news from TikTok
- Denmark
- Lunchtime Photo
- Housekeeping update
- Elon Musk says Don Lemon is a Jeff Zucker sock puppet
- Worker pay increased 10% last quarter?
- Banning TikTok might very well make things worse
- Ukraine has sunk a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet
- Conservative judge shopping finally gets banned
- Is TikTok an existential threat to American society?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Transcript shows Biden was fine during Hur interview
- CPI inflation surges upward for fourth month in a row
- Trump makes a desperate bid to delay his hush money trial
- The Kate Middleton scandaloid is truly strange
- Women and their pets
- Lunchtime Photo
- A preview of next year’s budget fight
- Yet another budget tome lands in Washington DC
- TikTok is an ordinary youthful fad. Convince me otherwise.
- Does immigration bring down wages?
- Scandal!
- The pro-starvation wing of conservatism is alive and well
- We are living in a golden age of light bulbs
- The tale of Katie Britt and the sex trafficking victim
- Why did Republicans vote down the immigration reform bill?
- Secretary Pete endorses the lead-crime theory
- Raw data: All the major Trump court cases since 2016
- Friday Cat Blogging – 8 March 2024
- Trump loses yet another legal case
- Why is Donald Trump suddenly a TikTok fan?
- The state of the poor in 2023
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in February
- That was a pretty good speech from Joe Biden tonight
- My preview of tonight’s SOTU
- How to create a phone-free school
- KFF poll shows Biden leading Trump
- Lunchtime Photo
- What’s the problem with TikTok?
- Emerson poll says Trump and Biden are dead even
- Biden plans to “flood the zone” with aid to Gaza
- Is crime rampant on New York City subways?
- Abortion foes are fighting against making IVF freely available
- The filibuster no longer exists
- House Republicans finally pass half a budget
- Raw data: Unit sales of electric vehicles
- Lunchtime Photo
- Adam Schiff won because he fought Donald Trump
- Texas judge kills minority business agency
- Hiring was down slightly in January
- Raw data: Inflation around the world
- Raw data: Confidence in institutions
- Did a bunch of meteors hit earth a few thousand years ago?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Voters don’t know anything yet
- The Bitcoin bubble continues to defy expectations
- How Trump plans to make billions from his worthless social network
- Circuit court tells Florida it can’t ban woke speech
- Why are white women so depressed?
- Why are we having less sex? Is it antidepressants?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Post-pandemic teacher turnover isn’t especially high
- Here’s why I’m still bullish on Biden
- Why are so many restaurants struggling?
- Supreme Court rules states can’t throw Trump off the ballot
- Bridge to Portland is an “Antifa superhighway”
- Divorce rates have plummeted over the past 20 years
- Millennials have suddenly become the wealthiest generation
- Biden and Trump are in a dead heat
- Here’s the secret to being pro-life and pro-IVF
- Raw data: The price of new homes in the US
- Waymo is ready to take on highways
- There sure are a lot of people who want to give Donald Trump money
- Raw data: Manufacturing construction in the US
- Friday Cat Blogging – 1 March 2024
- US to airdrop aid to Gaza
- And which religion would that be, Mike?
- Why does MAGA hate ranked-choice voting?
- The IRS would like you to pretty please file a tax return
- Joe Biden has arthritis
February 2024
- Mitch McConnell’s real legacy is anarchy
- Lunchtime Photo
- Long COVID is wrecking our IQs
- Raw data: Reading for pleasure
- How big a threat is Chinese tech?
- PCE inflation spikes up in January
- What could Biden do to stop the fighting in Gaza?
- Israel isn’t hurting Joe Biden
- Lunchtime Photo
- Can we do worse than Mitch McConnell?
- Donald Trump says he’s broke*
- Ecommerce giant now using AI for most customer service
- Alabama is loco
- It’s all theater for Republicans
- Here’s the non-fantasy story of how hotels are doing
- Sorry, but population groups are real
- Lunchtime Photo
- Food inflation is not a problem anymore
- Here’s how the budget negotiations are going
- White rural rage isn’t about economics
- Health update
- Lunchtime Photo
- Good news: I am not as bad as Hitler
- America is a wreck. America is great.
- 20 kids per year are taking Peter Thiel’s money
- Raw data: How long do we stay in our jobs?
- Who was Chuck Grassley’s leaker?
- Republicans can’t tap dance around IVF
- Friday Cat Blogging – 23 February 2024
- Israeli Jews strongly favor all-out war in Gaza
- Recreational sex is the oldest recreation of all
- Health whining
- Lunchtime Photo
- Right-wing judge dismisses charges against white nationalists
- Lunchtime Photo
- Alabama starts to lose its IVF centers
- What did Republicans know and when did they know it?
- How much are people interested in Joe Biden’s age?
- Media coverage of the economy has finally broken into positive territory
- Raw data: The death toll in Gaza
- Why do we keep vetoing UN resolutions over Gaza?
- Gotta admit, it must be nice being president
- Lunchtime Photo
- Trump and Biden are the nominees for president. Deal with it.
- AI video isn’t perfect yet. So what?
- The Hugo Awards are too small for a big world
- Lunchtime Photo
- Violence is at the core of MAGA nation
- Raw data: The ups and downs of egg prices
- Why does anyone take the charges against Fani Willis seriously?
- Alabama puts the IVF business out of business
- Donald Trump is mentally impaired, part 457
- The hack gap, again and again and again
- Auditing the rich really pays off
- Einstein on America
- Hispanic suicides aren’t really a crisis
- Amber, Blue, Silver, Yellow, Feather, Ebony
- Baseball’s new uniforms are literally violence against fans
- Does deterrence work?
- CORRECTION: Trump actually owes about half a billion dollars
- Here’s what really happened after the T-Mobile/Sprint merger
- Trump ordered to pay $355 million in fraud case
- Trump triangulates on abortion
- Friday Cat Blogging – 16 February 2024
- Teens seem to be in pretty good shape these days
- Small farms are booming
- Yet another Biden crime story goes up in smoke
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Wage growth at top and bottom
- Not everything is racist
- Lunchtime Photo
- Why is business formation so strong?
- ICE considers mass release of illegal immigrants, just what Trump wants
- Republicans thread a needle to impeach Mayorkas
- Here’s why your auto insurance has skyrocketed recently
- Illegal immigration plummets in January
- Republicans and racism
- Lunchtime Photo
- Senate passes Ukraine aid bill
- Evictions don’t appear to have risen over the past year
- CPI inflation rises modestly for the third month in a row
- Traffic deaths in Africa are down
- Voters need to be more scared of Donald Trump
- California has more plastic waste than ever
- Lunchtime Photo
- Donald Trump plays a tough guy on TV
- The real Donald Trump is losing it
- Raw data: Death rates in the US from drug overdoses
- Health update
- Deciphering Donald Trump
- Robert Hur’s final report is worse than I thought
- Revisited: GDP growth under Trump and Biden
- Israel says Hamas center was hidden directly below UNRWA headquarters
- My memory sucks
- Real interest rates are quite high
- Who’s visited Joe Biden recently?
- Raw data: Opioid use in the US
- $8 catheters add up fast if you bill for millions of them
- Here’s the whole story behind the Times Square melee
- Why are special counsels always Republicans?
- What’s left for Republicans to complain about the economy?
- Friday Cat Blogging – 9 February 2024
- Chart of the day: Economic growth under Trump and Biden
- Web vs. print: A mini case study
- Israel plans massive attack in Rafah
- Here is Joe Biden’s press conference. Watch for yourself.
- Sam Altman wants $7 trillion
- Michael Mann wins libel suit against climate skeptics
- Special counsel clears President Biden in documents case
- The truth has a liberal bias
- Lunchtime Photo
- Investors have no idea what they’re doing
- Does your job require people skills?
- California’s train to nowhere is such a dumb waste of money
- Raw data: About one-third of illegal immigrants are deported
- You are safe from your toothbrush . . . for now
- Does immigration really boost GDP?
- What’s up with that gap in the border fence?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Even Republicans think it’s fair to let felons vote
- Imports from China are down . . . sort of
- Chart of the day: The cost of bad behavior in LA
- House votes against Mayorkas impeachment — for now
- Is shoplifting up or down?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Yes, Fox News has gotten even worse
- AI is almost here
- Court says it’s OK to prosecute Trump
- Are Millennials really as well off as Baby Boomers?
- The moon is shrinking
- What would a poet of despair say about the 21st century?
- Here’s a quick look at objections to the Senate immigration bill
- Lunchtime Photo
- Young people buy a lot of homes
- How should liberals feel about the border bill?
- It’s gonna be Biden vs. Trump. -30-
- Senate immigration bill expands detention, increases asylum judges, and allows the president to shut the border
- VC interest in climate tech kept on rising in 2023
- Hours worked per week fell dramatically in January
- San Francisco cries uncle in the algebra wars
- DeSantis: No lab meat in Florida, thank you very much
- The myth of postwar New York City
- How to think for yourself
- Carbon capture is slowly picking up steam
- Here’s a nonseasonal look at the employment situation
- We’re all sleeping more than we used to
- Friday Cat Blogging – 2 February 2024
- “Do you know why I pulled you over?”
- Fani Willis admits to affair with Nathan Wade
- Raw data: EVs in the China and the US
- Spy pigeon cleared of all charges
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in January
- Why aren’t Democrats steamrolling Republicans?
- It’s not just solar that’s getting cheaper
- Raw data: College degrees in the labor force
- Lunchtime Photo
- Productivity really is higher
- Gay men apparently default on home mortgages at high rates
- Court actually rules against FBI in egregious civil asset forfeiture case
- The pandemic produced a permanent change in productivity
- In shocker, Trump judge supports DeSantis in Disney feud
January 2024
- Lunchtime Photo
- Congress got to yell at social media CEOs today
- Is NextDoor as popular as TikTok?
- Biden financial advisor says Biden never did anything wrong
- Wages continue their upward climb in Q4
- Let’s review the border crisis
- Fani Willis’s (alleged) affair guy won’t have to testify
- Raw data: Workers with college degrees
- Lunchtime Photo
- Florida bans trans identities on driver licenses
- Can we ever satisfy conservatives?
- Raw data: Deportations under Trump and Biden
- Trump has no comment about prison sentence of guy who stole his tax returns
- Employment was up moderately in December
- The AI ate my homework
- Here’s the story of DEI in our nation’s skies
- Lunchtime Photo
- Raw data: Containers lost at sea
- Baiting Trump
- Raw data: Are we getting lonelier?
- We have taken the first step toward robot football
- We are running out of water
- The gig economy is (probably) still small
- I am unable to read the Wall Street Journal (on my tablet)
- How do we get control of the border?
- How are we doing on the latest COVID vaccine?
- Wait. You do what?
- California has a very long sample ballot for a very simple election
- People was dumb in olden times
- Judge to Trump jury: go home and hide
- Raw data: Health care spending in the US
- Has confidence in the press plummeted?
- Trump hit with $83 million in libel damages
- Illegal immigration skyrockets in December
- Friday Cat Blogging – 26 January 2024
- Court rules Israel isn’t committing genocide. Yet.
- Spending was up 2.8% in the final quarter of 2023
- PCE inflation stays cool at 2.0%
- Just how bad are things, really?
- Alabama finally figures out how to kill someone
- The method to Donald Trump’s madness
- Yep, James Comer is a big fat liar
- Lunchtime Photo
- Barbie!
- Here’s an update on AI that’s worth reading
- And now for more dirt on the prosecution of Donald Trump
- Quote of the day: Tesla suffers a flesh wound
- GDP rises a healthy 3.3% in Q4
- Dobbs has (probably) had little impact on the abortion rate
- Even Republicans aren’t super concerned about the border
- Raw data: The death toll in Gaza
- There is no Trump coalition
- Republicans don’t really want to solve the illegal immigration problem
- Life, the universe, and everything
- Lunchtime Photo
- Texas defies Supreme Court, keeps on installing razor wire on the border
- Are political elites in touch with what the public really thinks?
- Raw data: Union density by state
- How do we compare to the ’90s?
- Trump and Biden win New Hampshire
- Raw data: US energy production
- The United States is one of the world’s great problem solvers
- Lunchtime Photo
- Congress should not pretend to be a homeowners association
- Nobody should be rooting for Donald Trump
- Raw data: Social welfare spending
- Everything is going to hell
- Why are border statistics so haphazard?
- Fuck you, HP
- Supreme Court hands down a sensible ruling on the border
- Three random charts about US economic growth
- Lunchtime Photo
- James Comer is a big fat liar
- The stock market continued to not set new records today
- Joe Biden has pushed for pretty big changes
- DeSantis is out
- My TV watching over the past year
- Raw data: The cost of ocean freight shipping
- American workers make more than they did in 1969
- Why Sports Illustrated failed
- Here is Trump’s track record on fentanyl
- Why doesn’t Joe Biden get credit for taming inflation?
- Raw data: Illegal immigrant population in border states
- Trump thinks Nikki Haley was in charge of Capitol security on January 6
- No, problems in the Red Sea won’t reignite inflation
- The pandemic did not rob us of social skills
- Republicans are drooling over hope of Homeland Security impeachment
- Friday Cat Blogging – 19 January 2024
- Raw data: Sales of electric vehicles
- Health update
- Corporate profits have skyrocketed since the pandemic
- Consumer sentiment is starting to get pretty frisky
- Kids learn better on paper? Don’t be so sure….
- Raw data: The uninsured rate has dropped dramatically since 2021
- Maybe that Child Tax Credit bill isn’t so great after all
- Everyone has gone mad over Max
- Trump’s latest trial has turned into a clown show
- Increasing skilled immigration would help cut the budget deficit
- Lunchtime Photo.
- Conservatives need to learn how to call a bigot a bigot
- Will the Supreme Court let Trump off on a technicality?
- College grads are moving to California
- Shipping companies are doing great as Houthis attack
- Conservatives hate electric cars
- How does the Fed control interest rates?
- Lunchtime Photo
- Poll: Republicans want revenge, fear Biden will sell out whites
- Can the US bring in aid to Gaza directly?
- Everybody hates Donald Trump
- Holiday sales were flat in 2023
- The birth rate in China dropped yet again in 2023
- Mind blowing: The CDC is publishing maternal mortality figures it knows are wildly wrong
- Should we declare all-out war on the Houthis?
- Raw data: Black men in the labor force
- The Child Tax Credit might be back. But probably not.
- Lunchtime Photo
- Donald Trump announces new 2024 campaign strategy
- Court rules that guns in the post office are A-OK
- Conservatives are taking yet another shot at expertise
- Why does the US lack a right to vote?
- 2023 was an all-time great year for the economy
- Here’s what Republicans think of the economy
- The unemployment rate in 2023 was the lowest in half a century
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- Raw data: Wages and employment of the young
- The US has the best public health system in the world
- Our long California DMV nightmare is over
- Is the world really all that scary?
- Ask Kevin: What should you do about a daughter who smashes her cell phone?
- Raw data: Active shooter deaths in American schools
- Raw data: The rate of leaving stuff in your body after surgery
- Republicans are furious that the IRS is already collecting more money from rich tax cheats
- Israel is committing war crimes. Genocide is not one of them.
- BREAKING: Joe Biden stole $1 billion in Ukraine money
- Raw data: Gasoline is cheap!
- You’re more likely to be promoted if you go into the office. Maybe.
- Sometimes a sink is just a sink
- Yeah, I remember Libya
- Snowstorm will reduce Iowa caucus turnout slightly
- Friday Cat Blogging – 12 January 2024
- Kindergarten kids also suffered learning losses during the pandemic
- ESPN forced to return fake Emmy Awards
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- Cannabis might be causing more teen psychosis. Or maybe not.
- Donald Trump just can’t keep his mouth shut
- Is the true crime genre too lily white?
- CPI spikes up in December
- Among Democrats, support for Israel has cratered
- Illegal immigration is mostly driven by availability of jobs
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- Calendargate is splitting the right
- No moon orbit this year
- Why are modern dishwashers so slow?
- No closing argument from Donald Trump
- Raw data: Rent in the US
- War over Taiwan would be very bad
- “Doing the work”: Does it work?
- Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer
- Why did illegal immigration surge after 2020?
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- The trade deficit improved slightly in November
- How does illegal immigration compare to US birth rates?
- Credit card debt keeps sneaking up
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- There’s no good reason to ditch the SAT
- Biden needs to stop aid to Israel until its campaign of starvation stops
- Raw data: Unleased office space sets new record in 2023
- Here’s a closer look at the miracle of East Palo Alto
- New California law mandates cursive in school
- Don’t blame neoliberalism for broken supply lines during the pandemic
- Confidence in universities hasn’t plummeted in any unusual way
- Raw data: Births and deaths in the US
- After 8 months, Republicans agree to budget from 8 months ago
- Quote of the day: Who cares?
- Abortion will be on the ballot in Florida in November
- AI can turn mediocre writers into pretty good writers.
- COVID-19 is on the rise again
- Raw data: Everyone wants to come to America
- Fact check: Is California ditching George Washington?
- Joe Biden takes on Donald Trump
- Listening in on Republicans
- Friday Cat Blogging – 5 January 2024
- DOJ getting ready to sue Apple over antitrust
- Holiday hiring was pretty weak in 2023
- Some thoughts about Claudine Gay
- Blue-collar wages were down slightly in December
- Chart of the day: Net new jobs in December
- Ron DeSantis is letting them see him sweat
- The federal budget — explained!
- Charts of the day: The housing market at the start of 2024
- Lunchtime Photo
- New survey says workers want more time in the office
- Gaza war is looking riskier all the time
- The mortgage spread is coming down . . . slightly
- Which country paid Trump the biggest bribes?
- Biden is probably still well ahead of Trump among young voters
- Flooding the zone with Claudine Gay
- Does DEI even work?
- Quote of the day: Mickey the slasher
- Lunchtime Photo
- What happens if Congress never passes a budget?
- Cold feet? Wear socks in bed.
- Hiring down sharply in November
- Nothing works. Now with proof!
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- Joe Biden has capped insulin prices at $35 per month
- Every single person survived a huge fireball on a Japan Airlines jet
- Nonresidential construction drops 3% in November
- Harvard president will resign today
- Here’s how the stock market is really doing
- Chart of the day: K-12 public school employment in the US
- Lunchtime Photo
- We just keep setting new climate records
- Top 10 years of the past few centuries