🐣 🇺🇸 📊 More Births on X:
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has one of the most intense careers of anyone. And yet!"

"Conservatives are embracing parenthood while liberals are turning away from it, and a huge fertility gap has opened up."

"As recently as the 1980s, there was hardly any right-left fertility divide, yet now it runs about 2 to 1!"

"This shows that the cultural messages each side expresses have a massive impact on birthrates."

"The correlation between a state's conservatism and its fertility rate is now above 60%."

"The reddest states are basically still at replacement while the bluest states are far below it."

"And so red states are growing while blue states are dying out."

"Blue states like Minnesota try to support families with benefits like extended family leave and universal pre-K, but pronatal culture matters much more."

"Conservatives have it while liberals increasingly do not."

📎 More Births

🏹 🇺🇸 🇳🇬 Appears that at least 3 Tomahawk warheads failed to explode from these strikes.

📝 Carolina Lion: "If they fired 12 missiles that is a 25% failure rate. So in addition to our Tomahawk supply being limited 1 in 4 might not work properly."

📎 Trevor Ball

🚢 🇨🇳 Tracking just the cargo ships around Asia is nearly impossible.

There are over 100,000 ships over 100 grt sailing the world's oceans.

Satellites are great, but you need to be able to differentiate between all the targets on the world's oceans.

📎 Sal Mercogliano