1) Inflation has spiked up to 3% in January...which is a significant increase. Inflation is worsening. (https://san.com/cc/inflation-back-up-to-3-a-bad-sign-for-near-term-rate-cuts/)
2) NAEP scores - the best indicator we have of the overall skill of K-12 students - largely fell in reading. (https://www.edweek.org/leadership/reading-scores-fall-to-new-low-on-naep-fueled-by-declines-for-struggling-students/2025/01)
3) There have been at least 15 mass shootings in the US this year! Some of them are kind of pathetic, but if Randy Stair's failspree counts as a mass shooting then so do all of these. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025)
4) DOGE has finally managed to break something important: everyone at the IMLS has been placed on administrative leave for 3 months, preventing them from distributing grants to public libraries! America's libraries and museums are in severe peril! (https://archive.is/sgbDQ)
5,6) The "Hands Off" "protest", demanding that DEI hired feds get to keep having their jobs, happened in the first week of April this year. The only people who benefit from this are DEI hires, and as such this is both a "Race Riot" and a "Major Feminist Backlash," given that this was a nationwide riot with about 1% of the American populace involved.
