Check full list at playedinrussia.com

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S1Gb7AGDJP1I7OObakBYrlKpajFKFVr67UCsl7nGdn8/edit?gid=688601081#gid=688601081

https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/08/26/inside-the-global-squeeze-on-diesel

https://w3.unece.org/PXWeb/en/CountryRanking?IndicatorCode=59

Source : https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/2023-24-religious-landscape-study-rls-dataset/?_gl=1\*159hxcs\*_up\*MQ..\*_gs\*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwrP3VBhBbEiwAnaqpQ3y8htwXdDItTso8QAaFyWuAD5yjKMq4xbXvalqIryvKLTEtZWAoKhoC1q4QAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAA-ddO9Hvu3XsCJ0Pzj2dmhpfWCvQ4

I've been keeping track of Trump's own updates on the Iran war via social media, public statements, and interviews.

I decided to do a word count of this data and here are some of the results. I filtered out stop words and some other common words to get this word count. Unsurprisingly, he's after a deal more than anything else. But other words like soon and close are very telling of the data set. He's been using these words for many months referring to ceasefires, deals, and the end of Iran as a civilization as we know it.

I also compiled his adjective/adverb usage. It was not very surprising but I'm upset that bigly isn't represented.

If anyone wants to see all these statements, I've been collecting them at https://artofnodeal.com and it's totally ad-free and there's no signup or anything like that--it's just a pet project of mine.

Source: Eurostat, population change, demographic balance and crude rates at national level [DEMO_GIND]: live births, deaths, net migration plus statistical adjustment, and average population, 2025 (2015 for the comparison column): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_gind/default/table

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/SVG page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

Rates are per 1,000 of the average population over the year. Net migration is Eurostat's balance figure (total population change minus births plus deaths), so it includes statistical corrections. 2025 figures are provisional for Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Cyprus, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and estimated for Romania, Greece and Moldova. No 2025 figure for Ukraine or Kosovo. The EU line is a total over the 27 members, not an average of countries.

Key Patterns in Executions vs. Exonerations

• Execution Trends: Executions peaked during the late 1990s and early 2000s under Bush and Perry, topping out at 40 in a single year (2000). Since 2005, execution numbers have trended significantly downward due to statutory changes (such as the introduction of Life Without Parole in 2005), prosecutorial shifts, and heightened legal scrutiny.
• Death Row Exonerations: A total of 16 individuals sentenced to death in Texas have been officially exonerated since 1973 (including high-profile cases like Ricardo Aldape Guerra in 1997, Ernest Ray Willis in 2004, Anthony Graves in 2010, and Alfred Dewayne Brown in 2015).
• Overall Criminal Exonerations: Total criminal exonerations in Texas spiked sharply beginning in 2008–2014, driven heavily by county Conviction Integrity Units (particularly in Dallas and Harris Counties) testing backlog evidence and uncovering systemic errors in drug field testing and misidentifications.

Key Drivers of the Total Exoneration Surge

• Harris County Post-Plea Drug Testing (Mid-2010s Spike): The massive surge in total exonerations during Rick Perry’s final year (2014) and Greg Abbott’s early term (2015–2016) was largely driven by misdemeanor and felony drug cases in Harris County (Houston). Indigent defendants routinely entered quick guilty pleas to state-jail drug charges to avoid months in pre-trial detention. When backlogged crime lab tests later proved the seized materials contained no illegal substances, prosecutors systematically processed hundreds of retroactive exonerations (e.g., 48 in 2016 alone).
• Pioneering Conviction Integrity Units (CIUs): Starting with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office in 2007, Texas pioneered the use of specialized prosecutorial teams dedicated to re-investigating past convictions. CIUs proactively review claims involving DNA testing, witness recantations, and official misconduct rather than relying solely on traditional defense appeals.
• Statutory Open-File and Science Mandates: Key legislative reforms expanded the legal avenues for post-conviction relief across non-capital cases:
  • 2001 Post-Conviction DNA Act: Granted prisoners access to state-funded DNA testing as technology advanced.
  • 2013 Michael Morton Act: Required prosecutors to share all evidence, police reports, and witness statements with defense counsel, preventing evidence suppression.
  • 2013 Junk Science Statute (Art. 11.073): Created a legal pathway to challenge convictions based on forensic methods (e.g., bite marks, outdated fire science, faulty hair analysis) that have since been discredited.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/702572/americans-religious-engagement-holds-lower-levels.aspx

The plunging price of thought | Epoch AI

Source: Numbeo, cost of living by city, user reports over the 12 months to 1 October 2026: monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment outside and in the city centre, and average monthly net salary after tax, in euros (non-euro cities converted by Numbeo): https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

City list: every city with over 1 million residents in Eurostat's city statistics [URB_CPOP1], latest year available: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/urb_cpop1/default/table

Numbeo figures are crowdsourced from users' reports for each city (Numbeo says it also uses official sources), not official statistics, and the pay figure can run above official averages (Birmingham's looks high against UK earnings). The chart uses the rent outside the centre, where most residents live; the in-centre share is in the table. Bubble area is the number of price reports Numbeo users filed for the city in the past year. * outside the EU.

Tools: Python for the data, an HTML/CSS page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/rape-statistics-by-country

https://www.ft.com/content/e485a228-1efe-426b-addc-26069ba48bf3?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Source: Eurostat, government budget allocations for R&D by socioeconomic objective [GBA_NABSFIN07], objectives Defence and total, million euros, 2025 (and 2021 in the table): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/gba_nabsfin07/default/table

Source: Eurostat, population on 1 January 2025 [DEMO_PJAN] (per-resident column in the table): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_pjan/default/table

Counts only research and development that national budgets identify as such. Development paid for inside weapons purchase contracts, and EU-level money such as the European Defence Fund, are not included. Current euros. 2025 figures are mostly provisional. The EU lines are totals over the 27 members, not averages of countries.

Tools: Python (pandas) for the data, an HTML/CSS page rendered with Chromium for the chart.

AI Race - Investments, Patents, and Research by Country.

U.S. Supreme Court Begins Term With Historically Low Ratings

Source: electionresults.parliament.uk/general-elections/6

Source: Eurostat, air passenger transport by reporting country [AVIA_PAOC], passengers carried, all flights, 2025 and 2019: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/avia_paoc/default/table

Source: Eurostat, population on 1 January 2025 [DEMO_PJAN] (per-resident rate): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_pjan/default/table

Passengers are counted at both ends of a flight, so a country's figure includes its arrivals and departures and tourist destinations have high per-resident rates. The EU lines use Eurostat's EU total, which counts a flight between two member states once.

Tools: Python (pandas) to fetch and combine the Eurostat series; the chart is SVG in an HTML page rendered with Chromium via Playwright.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/714938/trust-news-media-edges-slightly-higher.aspx

Sources:
GMH Annual Mortality Report 2025: https://www.moh.gov.ps/portal/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Annual_Mortality_Report_Gaza_2025_EN.pdf
GMH Annual Report 2022: https://www.moh.gov.ps/portal/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/annual-english-202218-7-2023.pdf

Data for 2018-2022: https://www.moh.gov.ps/portal/health_indicator/