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Of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, 23 switched from voting for Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 bloom.bg/2Jfw6Fj
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- In a tour de force of hard won reporting, the New York Times has put numerical clothing on what we’ve known about President Trump for years: He’s a haphazard businessman, human billboard and serial bankruptcy artist
- Global supply chains are breaking, borders rising within nation-states, stock exchanges are convulsing with fear, and recession looms over the global economy. The coronavirus has disrupted world order
- Let’s take a break from worrying about the apocalypse and celebrate some good news: 👴🏾We're living longer 🍊We're healthier 👧🏼Child mortality is down 💵Poverty is decreasing 📖Literacy is increasing 🔫We're killing each other less
- The American Dream has moved to Canada
- Replying to @opinionThe strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam & China are paying off. As of Nov. 1, the cumulative death rate per million is: 🇺🇸U.S.: 696 🇬🇧U.K.: 685 🇫🇷France: 563 vs. 🇰🇷South Korea: 9 🇨🇳China: 3 🇻🇳Vietnam: 0.36 [Chart shows data correct as of Oct. 30] trib.al/X4AUjxs
- The most misleading cliche about the coronavirus is that it treats us all the same. It doesn’t. It exacerbates preexisting conditions of inequality wherever it goes, and before long, uprisings will be one of the side effects
- People who deactivated Facebook in a study were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety. That change is equal to about 25-40% of the beneficial effect typically reported for psychotherapy trib.al/pt2iTCx
- This alarming chart illustrates the poor job the U.S. has done in containing Covid-19 compared to the European Union, a bigger region of independent countries that suffered an earlier outbreak. What is America doing wrong? trib.al/LJcqBBi
- Replying to @opinionEbola has a 50% death rate. If you got infected, you’d most likely die. Covid-19 has a 3.4% death rate. Obviously not as bad as Ebola—but that makes it up to 34x more deadly than the seasonal flu trib.al/EO09fxA
- People who deactivated Facebook in a study were happier afterward, reporting higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and anxiety. That change is equal to about 25-40% of the beneficial effect typically reported for psychotherapy trib.al/IqNEOsM
- Replying to @opinionEstimates of the virus’s reproduction rate suggest that it’s risen back to around or above 1 in the following countries: 🇬🇧The U.K. 🇫🇷France 🇮🇹Italy 🇪🇸Spain 🇧🇪Belgium That means one infected person will on average spread it to more than one other person trib.al/wZ3Q5QM
- Seattle's $15 minimum wage was supposed to crush hiring. Look at what happened instead bloom.bg/2EPA2LD
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