"We have a deal" lasted three days; the 50% tariffs landed at midnight and the neighbor is now, in his own word, at war.
The record
Every day, both sides, kept where it can be checked against.
Numbered like statutes. Nothing is edited after publication except corrections, which are marked. RSS.
Three bailouts deep: the tariffs took the market, the checks take the credit.
The blockade runs "indefinitely," the deal deadline lapsed, and August set the record at the pump.
The government wants the lists; the courts, the states and the calendar answer.
The VA calls 40,000 departures "attrition"; the PACT Act quietly pays out $11 billion.
The grid bills you for the server barn: the right sells security, the left drafts the invoice.
Every so often, the two rosters get read side by side — who each side actually has, names on the dial instead of words. The left's needle lands on the cream; the right's lands on the best of what's left.
A $2 million beautification of the Reflecting Pool stands at $14 million, painted flag blue, peeled green, and draining again — while the White House demands vandalism charges against a canoeist. A reflecting pool's one job is to reflect what stands over it. It is working.
The median first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old — a record — and first-timers are a record-low fifth of the market. Congress actually passed something this summer; the dials read what it was, and what it wasn't.
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions just set a national record in the middle of the worst measles years since 1991. One dial reads the destination year; the other reads what still gets counted.
22,810 school book bans across exactly 451 districts, with Fahrenheit 451 on the pile — while four states have now made the banning itself illegal. The metaphor stopped being one; the statutes are catching up.
The Pentagon failed its eighth straight audit and lost nothing; SNAP fed one in five American children and lost $187 billion. One dial names the arrangement, the other counts the bill written to end it.
Announced at $200 million with a promise of not one taxpayer dime; now at $600 million with taxpayers on the hook for half and construction running 20 hours a day. Both dials read straight off the ledger.
As the 60-day window on his own deal expired, the president threatened to bomb the country hosting the talks. One dial names what that does to an exit; the other counts the votes already cast to close it.
Nine missiles demanded an end to the joint drills and the drills were cut; the ally who refused a different war got the bill. What was paid has a name, and what held has one too.
Democratic primary turnout is breaking records state after state while Republican turnout sits flat — and the party that redraws maps mid-decade is telling you which of those numbers it believes.
A regulator handed the president's family a bank while the DOJ dismantled the police who would have watched it; the opposition's answer is the ledger.
The debt is $39.68 trillion. One party's own senator says it will grow $8 trillion this term, and the members who would have voted no are gone.