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ATX 🌮 | Data Science 📊 | Progressive 🫎 Austin-based data scientist turning analytics into action. Turning insights into impact, because the numbers don’t lie, but they can tell a damn good story 📚
A current House member was on the OSU wrestling staff at the time.
If you want to talk about accountability, start with the people who had access, authority, and responsibility to protect them... and didn't.
If you want justice, start with Jim Jordon.
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People aren’t leaving Jesus.
They’re leaving a church that chose politics over Him.
AI therapy is like texting your ex during a mental breakdown: it might feel good for a minute, but then you remember why your therapist is licensed and your ex is… your ex.
Please don’t use AI as a substitute for real therapy.
Chart - @economist.com
Data - @yougov.co.uk
#AI #Therapy #MentalHealth
The national debt increased $257.2 billion during the shutdown.
Start (Oct 1, 2025): $37.9T
End (Nov 12, 2025): $38.1T
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#EconSky
The giraffe, duh
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Covfefe walked so South Carerddd could run.
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Composite chart showing partisan perceptions of U.S. economic conditions from 2016–2026. The top panel (Pew data) shows Democrats’ and Republicans’ ratings diverging after each presidential transition. The bottom panel overlays those perceptions with real GDP growth, illustrating that Democrats’ optimism follows actual growth trends while Republicans’ sharply diverges under Democratic presidents.
When a president’s party label matters more than inflation, jobs, or growth… that’s not economics.
That’s identity masquerading as analysis, grievance dressed up as data.
And that’s how we end up arguing about an imaginary economy while the real one moves on without us.
#EconSky
Same chart overlaid with real GDP growth, showing Democrats’ sentiment tracks growth while Republicans’ sentiment diverges.
Line up perception with real GDP though and pretty clear:
Democrats’ optimism rises and falls with actual growth; up in recoveries, down in recessions, no matter who’s president.
Republicans’ optimism collapses the moment a Democrat takes office, regardless of actual economic growth.
Line chart of Americans rating the economy as excellent/good since 2016, split by party. Republicans rise sharply under Trump and collapse under Biden; Democrats show the reverse.
For the most part, both parties view the economy through partisan lenses. Which makes sense, right? When your team’s in charge, you like what they’re doing (at least you’d hope so).
But how does that line up with reality?
#PewResearch #Politics #Economics
His first impeachment was literally for selling out Ukraine.
23.09.2025 22:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can’t wait for the LinkedIn posts to start from this about how important networking is.
“I thought I was holding a clipboard. Turns out I was sending a connection request that brought me home years later.” - Josh McCown (probably)
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
08.09.2025 21:21 — 👍 54028 🔁 9376 💬 962 📌 544Yes and no. A couple things worth flagging:
August:
- Full-time (35+ hrs): –357k
- Part-time (<35 hrs): +597k
- Invol part-time (economic reasons): +65k (+284k since June)
The risk isn’t vanishing jobs, it’s jobs hollowing out.
America 2025: The Vice President doesn’t care if it’s a war crime.
Cool cool cool.
This comes from the BLS Household Survey (Current Population Survey), Table A-9: Selected Employment Indicators in the Employment Situation release:
- Full-time (35+ hrs): LNS12500000
- Part-time (<35 hrs): LNS12600000
You can see the full tables here: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Full-time work: -357k
Part-time: +597k.
People aren’t finding jobs, they’re settling for hours.
#JobMarket #LaborReport #EconSky
Bread and circuses for all!
05.09.2025 23:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When hedge fund billionaires start sounding the alarm on inequality, you know the system is cooked.
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Fitting contrast on Labor Day:
- Roosevelt fought for shorter hours & better pay
- Trump said workers get too many holidays
#LaborDay
Told y’all this wasn’t gonna go well.
30.08.2025 03:15 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Not silent, just overshadowed. They made a public announcement, it just got buried because the Pope literally died the day before.
Definitely wasn’t quiet but wasn’t a focus for most.
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Our kids deserve classrooms, not caskets.
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That total seems a little low for the public housing program according to HUD’s data.
5,600 × $45.44/person/day = $254,464/day.
Still, well below the $1.1M per day.
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If fair representation is the goal, why are we packing Congress so tight?
Congress could do this today.
No amendment.
No funky maps.
Just a vote.
Imagine a Congress that finally represents us all.
#FairRepresentation
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Damnit Aaron, I’ve been telling you to check the tariff shelf…
25.08.2025 20:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sending troops into US cities against their will.
Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions.
Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor.
Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country?
KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
