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Hunter

@statisticurban.bsky.social

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Data scientist │ MS in CS, stats, biochemistry │ Current Econ MS student │ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 19d

The Senate is losing its distinctiveness.

People like Bernie, Jon Tester, Elizabeth Warren, Murkowski, Manchin - they fit their states perfectly. But new arrivals like McCormick and Ashley Moody are essentially just “generic Republican number 5.”

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 28d

This is bad

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's a map of the regions.

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's a map of the regions.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Playbook: ‘I’m gonna punch you in your f--king face’

And Trump heads to the Museum of the Bible for a speech on religious liberty.

www.politico.com

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

Per Politico, the United States Secretary of the Treasury allegedly threatened to punch another official in the face on Wednesday.

We're being governed by manchildren.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's a fun graph of the US population by region since 1900.

You can really see the decline of the Northeast and Midwest and rise of the West and the South.

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.ft.com/content/e9be...

Is the US already in a recession?

For vast segments of the American economy it certainly feels that way

www.ft.com

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Sep 7

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 · Sep 7

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 26

Her term was not due to expire until 2038. Nearly 13 years from now.

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Twin Cities metro is 1.6 million more people than Madison and Milwaukee metros combined

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

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?

Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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