Guys, if I'm honest, this feels like a pretty big question to be getting around to in 2025.

I... don't even feel like I can chart this out accurately, but I know it doesn't the one rule for this stuff lol

A problem with gerontocracy is that the party's leadership cannot cope with this graph, like literally cannot perceive how much the world of their voters has changed

Anything useful on the male loneliness topic was reflected here in 2000.

Me: I like my Ford Focus. Can I buy a new car?

Ford: Can I gaslight you into thinking that SUVs are just big cars?

All US rural/urban politics discussions should start with this graph. We don't actually have the rural population doing rural things we think we have anymore. And most of what we think of as "rural populations" are actually in small cities, living in urban/suburban modes.

Amazing that a bunch of the figures from this classic photo of "Republicans laughing like super villains after doing super villain stuff" had *too much integrity* for this regime

Lots of buildings across the way on the National Mall. The physical infrastructure for a really extraordinary bureaucratic effort that won WW2. A world wonder, really.

Shocked to hear that a DC area toll project is headed to market failure

Pivotal moment for the EU I think: As the EU thinks about creating new security structures to meet this moment, they will lay the track for the future. For instance, if a unified European Command is coming, we may see its origins this week through a coordinating defence council or similar