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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 13h

My cold front is a gravity wave train.

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Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's a chart crime (the numbers for 2026 are just for the first six months of the year). Here's what it looks like on a trailing-12-month basis: not great, but nothing like Covid

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He's going to do the hand-over-mouth "woo-woo" sound—historically called an "Indian call" or war cry in old Western movies.

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Basically what the news media said about Trump's 2024 campaign

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My parents are the ones spending $100 billion

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

you can already hear the deficit hawks revving their engines for 2029

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's gonna piss off all 25 people who still watch soap operas.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder about independent/swing/moderate/median voters:

independent/swing voters are the biggest simpletons of all time

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This weather is just too seasonable

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The odd Eq. Pacific thermal instability around 120°W in the Copernicus ARMOR3D global ocean dataset has been around for a month, and has been growing stronger over time with the dataset now showing an absurd 3°C increase with depth from the surface to 75m.

ARMOR3D global ocean dataset plot from August 22 showing equatorial water temperatures increasing with depth around 120°W

ARMOR3D global ocean dataset plot from September 20 showing equatorial water temperatures increasing with depth around 120°W

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well thanks Beebe for saving our ass. Bit of a wake-up call.

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Northwestern putting up one helluva fight

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 25/09/2026

Local connection: there should be no surprise that Sage Steele has also been a speaker at this organization's recruitment events.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 25/09/2026

A campaign-style advertisement, apparently funded by taxpayer dollars, that features images of President Donald Trump over a music track titled “Love Me” is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill and beyond.

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Trump's ‘Paid for by the U.S. Government' Ad Campaign Draws Scrutiny

“It feels like Viktor Orbán,” Sen. Thom Tillis said.

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's 2026 and I thought there were 0 places in America that still required masks, let alone people who *demand* that places require masks. This bar in MA very recently decided to make Saturday Nights mask-optional and apparently Hell hath no fury like a Massachusetts liberal's scorn. Wild stuff!

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This American Life @thisamericanlife.org · 23/09/2026

Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/78g1b584

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MS: “.. real wage growth has still deteriorated across groups. .. low-income consumers benefit less from wealth and are more exposed to higher rates, so we do not expect broadening out .. .. The K-shape dynamic is evolving, but we believe it persists ..”

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026

No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...

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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low

No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.

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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026

hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‼️ Weeks before midterms, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications havent been processed due to an error by the DPS. The Texas Association of County Elected Officials say number could be "tens of thousands" - much of them in urban areas.

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Error means unknown number of Texas voter registrations haven’t been processed yet

It’s unknown how many prospective voters have been affected.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Funny that!

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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: Megadonors have now pumped more than $1.7 billion into the midterms. The figure includes a newly disclosed $10M from the crypto billionaire Winklevoss twins, who gave MAGA Inc while crypto regulation was on the Hill. Meet all 50 of the top donors here: www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 22/09/2026

NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21: The midterms Among likely voters, Democratic congressional candidates lead Republicans 52% to 38% — a 14-point edge, the largest of the cycle Among all registered voters the Democratic lead is 7 points (45% to 38%) yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Who is leading among registered voters and likely voters in the race for Congress in 2026."

The chart has the sub-headline: "In the elections for U.S. Congress in November, who will you vote for in the district where you live? (% of registered voters picking the Democratic candidate minus the % picking the Republican candidate)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Likely voters are U.S. adult citizens who meet two criteria: (1) They either are registered to vote or say they will be registered to vote by the November elections; and (2) They either say they will definitely vote in November or say they have already voted. The displayed question has been used since the August 14 - 17, 2026 survey. Prior surveys asked the question, "If the elections for U.S. Congress were being held today, who would you vote for in the district where you live?" Responses of "other," "not sure," "I would not vote," and "I will not vote" are not shown."

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He's helping to raise huge sums of money to back Senate candidates who will vote for Trump's judicial nominees, not much of a "rebuke."

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This year's Freedom Fest, the Northern Kentucky MAGA gathering that usually draws thousands of conservative attendees and speakers, has been called off entirely just days ahead of its scheduled start on Saturday. No one is buying tickets, so the show can't go on. www.rawstory.com/eric-deters-...

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'Best MAGA event' in the country collapses days before gates open amid lousy ticket sales

A right-wing festival headlined by Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter has been canceled.This year's Freedom Fest, the Northern Kentucky MAGA gathering known for drawing thousands of attendees and A-li...

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Charlie Miller @chuckmiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can get all the potash you want from my ashtray.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is basically the entire past decade of America summed up in one unintentionally poetic blurb.

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