It’s a winter phenomenon because births tend to surge in August and slow to a crawl in February, while deaths — as we’ve previously found — soar in winter and slump in summer.
But that’s nationally. On a local level, deaths already outpace births in much of the country. Eager for insight into why, we mapped the birth-to-death ratio — and immediately got our answer.
Geographic patterns simply confirmed the least controversial principle in all of medicine: As we age toward retirement and beyond, we grow less likely to give birth and more likely to die.
But the real thrust of Mr. Kabugu’s question — the demographic breakdown — draws us into a more fraught subplot.
If more deaths than births is America’s future, then for White people, the future was 2016. That’s when deaths of White adults passed births by White mothers. And the gap keeps widening. (Native Americans and Black Americans briefly saw deaths exceed births when they suffered disproportionately from the covid pandemic, but births are again on top.)
There’s lotslots more. My son-in-law is a genius statistician. I hereby order him to read this article.
Was It Russia’s plan? Trump’s plan? Rubio’s plan? Looks like it came from a Russian diplomat named Dmitriev and a Trump dolt names Witkoff. A clown show has once again broken out in the Big Top:
The 28-point surrender plan was leaked by Dmitriev. That’s when things started to spin out of control.
The intent followed two objectives. First, maximalist wishlist of the Russian should be engraved cognitively in media sphere for everyone before any pushback occurred. Two, it should test the US government how it would react to the backlash which will inevitably follow.
Rubio unaware of the contents of the talks was then confronted by a bipartisan group of US Senators and gave them his answer, which at this moment was truthful.
The senators then went public quoting Rubio: “It is not our recommendation, it is not our peace plan.”
At this point the US officials in the Trump administration must have started to realize that something is going wrong. As intended the leak totally blind-sided them. They completely lost control of the situation, but grudgingly decided to go along with it.
Rubio was then compelled to go public and claim that it was indeed the plan, while watering down that it yet just the Russian side, with some previous input from Ukrainian side.
This whole episode reveals that the current US negotiating team is completely out of its depth and that people involved in this „negotiations“ are absolute amateurs to say the least.
Witkoff is “a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background”. Who better to negotiate a forced surrender of Ukraine with the Russians?:
Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin’s most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine’s President’s Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan in direct coordination with Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s top economic negotiator and an operator in Moscow’s efforts to influence Washington.
“He has been doing it for months,” the source said, mentioning Witkoff’s 28-point plan that has been seen in Kyiv as a de facto capitulation to Russia.
The plan, approved by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this week, includes requirements for Ukraine to cede territory, slash its military, and limit its alliances — proposals far more sweeping than those discussed in earlier negotiation rounds.
I know I say it often but, I can’t even…
Trump To Expand War Against Venezuela. War Powers Act? 25th Amendment? Somebody, anybody?:
The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Reuters was not able to establish the exact timing or scope of the new operations, nor whether U.S. President Donald Trump had made a final decision to act. Reports of looming action have proliferated in recent weeks as the U.S. military has deployed forces to the Caribbean amid worsening relations with Venezuela.
Two of the U.S. officials said covert operations would likely be the first part of the new action against Maduro. All four officials quoted in this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of impending action by the United States.
The United States plans on Monday to designate the Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization for its alleged role in importing illegal drugs into the United States, officials said. The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading Cartel de los Soles, which he denies.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the terrorist designation “brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States.”
Does Chris Coons have ‘concerns’?
Time To Drop The ‘e’ in Brandon Toole’s Last Name? Word on the street is that he’s gone full pro-data center. A tool, if you will. The signs–Toole withdrew as a sponsor on the data center regulation bill. Later that same day, he attended a fundraiser at Barnes & Thornburgh, the firm that employs the chief lobbyist for the data center, Shawn Tucker.
What do you want to talk about?