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Here's a map of the housing shortage by state, in absolute terms. Democrats just aren't building enough in their states. Especially CA.

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Per a new Financial Times article from today: vast parts of the US aren't looking great economically. Many states, including large ones like IL, WA, NJ, GA, and VA, could be in recession. However, the "big 4" (NY, TX, FL, CA) are holding on.

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Per the FT, manufacturing is in the worst economic position of any sector of the economy atm. The US has lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs so far in 2025. Those tariffs sure are working great.

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Minnesota feels like someone picked up an East Coast state and just dropped it in the middle of the upper Midwest. Similarly, Colorado feels like a West Coast state dropped in the Rockies.

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Georgia's flag is not okay tbh. Literally the first official flag of the Confederacy with the state seal in the middle of the stars.

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Here's a map of the housing shortage by state. You'll see the South and Midwest generally do better, while the West and Northeast are struggling. And California is... well, it's California.

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Americans aren't choosing to move to, or stay in, blue states. Only 5 states both voted for Kamala Harris and attract more Americans than they lose. Four of them, DE, NH, VT, and ME, are very small states. 21 Trump-voting states have positive domestic migration. Democrats must build housing.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Since 2000, average rent has increased by 139.4% compared to 112.3% for median full-time wages, meaning the growth in rents has outpaced wage growth by roughly 24.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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

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

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in New York since 2002. These are the longest same-party streaks in any state for each side. It’ll be interesting to see which one breaks first.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Is your state building housing? Here’s how many housing units were permitted per 1,000 residents in 2024. You’ll notice that many red states are booming, but only four blue states - Washington, Maine, Colorado, and Delaware - are above the nationwide median.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The number of young men who report having had sex with another man has more than doubled since 1990. Who knows if more men are actually having sex with men, or if they're just more willing to be forthright on a survey, or both, but either way, it's something.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Do you remember the famed "rising male virginity" headline from WaPo in 2018? It's gone now

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Thanks Trump. I always secretly yearned for you to stab the US economy in the back for no reason.

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South Carolina is sneakily heavily gerrymandered. It's very easy to draw a compact 4R-3D map, which also reflects the state's partisan makeup very well. But it's 6R-1D in reality, and the GOP has to let that seat exist because of the VRA.

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Sometimes looking at possible maps in states where Dems gave up redistricting power is painful.

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In the US, coal is having whatever the opposite of a moment is. In its flop era.

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911 didn't reach coverage of 50% of Americans until 1987 lol. It covered 26% in 1979. It wasn't nationally mandated until 1999. So many facets of what I consider modernity are still so new.

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