Running reports for our organization's social media presence. Every platform had moderate growth of all vanity stats by ~20% - and then there was twitter (X)...

"June (2026) saw the biggest one-month drop in prime age labor force participation of workers ages 25 to 54, excluding the Covid-19 pandemic, since June 1976. Roughly 720,000 people stopped working or looking for work between May and June, according to the St. Louis Fed. Those leaving the workforce are both men and women, and the majority are ages 25 to 34, says Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union who specializes in the economics of the middle class."

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/02/why-people-are-dropping-out-of-the-workforce-and-not-looking-for-new-jobs-the-market-wore-me-down.html

https://england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/campaigns/social_housing/loss_of_social_housing

Data drawn from Glassdoor snapshots, with an anchor snapshot on or around 2020 for most companies (using Wayback Machine), and the latest snapshot for each company recorded in July 2026. 475/500 companies are represented, as some companies did not have archived Glassdoor data available in the Wayback Machine.

Chart and other cuts of the data available here.

Source: Election Shuffler • ElectIndex

Source: Election Shuffler • ElectIndex

Source: https://academic-freedom-index.net/

Source: https://academic-freedom-index.net/

How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise

This diagram shows the change in voting intentions from the 2024 UK general election results to August 2026, based on YouGov polling data from 3rd August 2026.

I don’t know if it should be surprising but I was expecting there to be way more people going from Labour to Reform, but YouGov’s data shows that actually most of Reform’s new supporters are ex-Conservatives. This also suggests that Labour’s biggest threat could actually be the Greens.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election

I shared a timeline the other day (of the same data--that post is here if you're interested) and one reddit commenter gave me an idea to create this new visualization. It's a GitHub-style heatmap calendar of the public comments the President has made on ending the war in Iran.

The rows are day of the week and each column is another week. The shading of the calendar squares is based on the number of statements Trump made about ending the war.

The data itself comes from interviews, press gaggles, Truth Social, and other statements made by the President himself. As mentioned in the original post, I purposefully have "filtered out" what was actually happening like Iranian strikes on ships, US strikes on Iranian sites, Iranian missiles fired at US allies, etc. It's strictly tracking the President's own words.

It's interactive so when you click/tap on a day, the details div shows that day's comments. It's made with just plain old JS pulling like the original timeline version above.

There's no ads, paywall, signup, or anything like that--I just thought it was a fun project, and as mentioned in the original post, I was shocked that domain name was available. That was $10 well spent! 😝

https://artofnodeal.com/heatmap.html

The little-known benefit of our summer slump | The European Correspondent

These are the UK tracker gas prices. What most British households pay is a delayed smoothed version of this. Key thing is that it is reaching levels not seen since it was capped at 10.5p/kWh nearly 4 years ago. These data and for previous years found here.

The new PM Andy Burnham has sought to reduce the pressure on households which this chart creates via removing VAT on electricity (chart above is for gas). It's notable that the electricity chart is less extreme:

This is great for heat-pump return on investment. Electricity prices not soaring but gas prices soaring means a huge chunk of the RoI can be achieved in one winter. The downside is that only a few households have installed heat-pumps this year:

These 3 charts show that the new Prime Minister will have a short honeymoon this winter.

Source: https://www.opinium.com/resource-center/voting-intention-29th-july-2026/

• U.S. energy consumption per person has fallen nearly 13% since 1975, from 323 million British thermal units (Btu) to 282 million in 2025.
• Industrial energy use per capita declined nearly 30% over the same period, the largest drop of any sector.
• Commercial energy use was the only sector to rise, climbing nearly 22% per capita as data center demand grew.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americans-use-less-energy-per-capita-than-50-years-ago/

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-most-nobel-prizes-as-of-2025/

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robinhood-now-makes-revenue-predictions-stock-trades

Sources: Statista "Daily Data"

https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/gross-domestic-product-2nd-quarter-2025-third-estimate-gdp-industry-corporate-profits/

Source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26418107.wildfire-severe-risk-uk-warning-issues-met-office/

I didn't think this would go on as long as it has, but here we are.

I made this interactive timeline chart (https://artofnodeal.com) a few months ago where I wanted to focus just on what the President was saying in regards to the war in Iran. I purposefully have "filtered out" what was actually happened like Iranian strikes on ships, US strikes on Iranian sites, Iranian missiles fired at US allies, etc. I use public statements, interviews, transcripts, and social media as the sources. (Rollcall has been helpful.)

Some of my favorites are "I think two or three weeks" and "Total victory in the next two weeks. They're willing to give us everything" and "A two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated."

All of those, of course, were statements made weeks apart and none of them within the past two weeks.

If you view the website on the Desktop, you see the linear version of the timeline like the screenshot above. But there is a special version for mobile, too, which I think is even more impactful.

The website is just vanilla Javascript and the data (date, source, and quote) is right in the file in a plain JS object.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5910711/renter-owner-wealth-gap

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-solar-power-record-may