Nick
@Mill226
Map Maker, He/Him
Map of estimated turnout of the adult population in the 1940 US Presidential Election. The strong effects of Jim Crow voting restrictions & poll taxes are visible (see the WV/VA border!), with less than 10% of the adult population voting in some Southern counties (dark orange):
Does anyone have someone you follow and fucking hate (not a public figure). That’s Liam Donovan for me. Extremely good at calling what will happen in Congress, obviously smart enough to know how dumb Trump + MAGA are, doesn’t even like Trump… his job is helping GOP
In 1972 Gallup asked voters who supported George Wallace in the Democratic Primary who they would prefer Dems choose between McGovern and Humphrey; McGovern had a narrow 43-34 edge among Wallace supporters
Egyptian hieroglyphs constituting the earliest complete sentence known, found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. This sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."
ACA subsidies expire at the end of this year and that will price out millions from health care coverage.
All the tax cuts happen immediately and all the horrible cuts come a month after the midterms and this presidential term. Genius politics.
Trade data today confirms that the tariff collection rate was only about half of the policy rate in May. An important reason why it seems the tariff impacts are taking time to flow through the economy and prices.
NEW: GOP tax bill includes largest cut to US safety net in decades, possibly ever Medicaid faces ~18% cut; +10 million projected to lose insurance SNAP faces ~20%; +2 million to lose food stamps Clinton cut food stamps by ~14%. Reagan cut Medicaid by ~5% across 2 years
Respect to him, even if he’s too late to stop this.
Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys? The people in the White House advising the president, they're not telling him that the effect…
New blog post is out! "How Zohran Mamdani won, in four charts" I look at the coalition Mamdani put together to win; his impressive performance with Hispanic and Asian voters, his dominance with youth voters, and his difficulties winning Jewish voters. Link below!
The rate of global warming is accelerating.
Threw together this layout earlier assuming that Cuomo would at least get the most votes in the first round (even if he lost). That assumption aged pretty poorly! More nuanced analysis to come but i am tired
1977 New York mayoral election is funny looking in retrospect Liberal Mario Cuomo winning Staten Island & Queens, the strongholds for conservative/moderate candidates, in an election where Cuomo's anti-Death Penalty position was a big issue Italians stuck by their own back then