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Data is Beautiful “ Monthly U.S. data, 1970–2025. Shaded squares show the 10th–90th percentile range of outcomes for that chair. What stands out: Burns = no bueno – Miller tenure was super short hence the thin rectangle. Volcker’s wide range—started with double-digit inflation, then brought it down. Greenspan’s long tenure clusters unemployment near 5–6%. Bernanke …
BuzzFeed: “How many alcoholic drinks do you have in an entire week? Five, seven, 10? More? If you have one drink a day, your health could be impacted ― but the powers that be aren’t doing much to make that fact known. Earlier this month, Vox reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department …
404 Media: no paywall: “The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there …
The Journalist’s Resource, Zoom Meeting – Vanishing Numbers: How Federal Data Manipulation and Removal Threaten Journalism and Public Trust Oct 1, 2025 12:00 PM [h/t Barclay Walsh] “Federal datasets are one of the pillars of democracy. They underpin everything from health research and economic forecasting to climate science, disaster response, and watchdog journalism. Yet today, these …
404 Media; [no paywall] “Some international sellers on large platforms like eBay and Etsy have jacked up their shipping costs to the United States to absurd prices in order to deter Americans from buying their products in an effort to avoid dealing with the logistical headaches of Trump’s tariffs. A Japanese eBay seller increased the …
404 Media no paywall: “A data broker owned by major U.S. airlines is selling masses of customers’ travel data to the government. New documents we just got show this includes “5 billion ticketing records for searching capabilities.” Where people went, how they paid, and even where they plan to go in the future are all …
The New York Times – [no paywall]: “…Most of this material — gathered by social media analysis, drone surveillance and more — will never be reviewed by any court and will be entirely inaccessible to anyone outside of law enforcement. For almost 90 percent of the technologies it deploys, the department has stated that it …
The Atlantic – ICE won’t say. [gift article] “In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s telling, citizenship checks by ICE officers are as straightforward and frictionless as presenting yourself at the entrance to a Costco. Just show a membership card, and you’ll be on your merry way. Kavanaugh wrote an opinion this week, concurring with the Court’s majority, …
NPR: “Tens of millions of voters have had their citizenship status and other information checked using a revamped tool offered by the Trump administration, even as many states — led by both Democrats and Republicans — are refusing or hesitating to use it because of outstanding questions about the system. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services …
The Record: The number of U.S.-based investors bankrolling spyware companies nearly tripled in 2024, with 31 American firms found to be backing the manufacturers compared to just 11 in 2023. The finding was published by the Atlantic Council think tank in a report released Wednesday which analyzed 561 spyware entities — vendors, supplies, partners, investors, …
Apollo Academy: “The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that …
Follow up to previous posting – Epstein Files Are Out. The Coverup is Worse Than You Think, please see Bloomberg [this article appears to have no paywall on first click – do not click again though] “NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox – more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world …
