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Hispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies,
according to recent polling
– indicating they may not be willing to support the president’s party in the midterm elections.
Despite a record number of Hispanic voters casting their ballots for the Republican president,
more than 65% said they are displeased with Trump’s handling of his job
and 78% said they would prefer to see the Democ…

Hispanic voters’ support for Trump wanes over economy and immigration
Polls show voters who helped elect president unhappy – and may be willing to vote Democrat in midterms

Economic dignity in old age should be a promise — not a luxury.
We must strengthen Social Security.
It is the only large program that guarantees seniors a fixed monthly payment until they die,
but it is expected to become insolvent in just over six years.
That means raising taxes to shore it up.
And rather than encourage average Americans to sink their money into private equity funds and other exotic investments,
we should allow the Social Security Admini…

Opinion | This Trump Proposal is Good for Private Equity — and Not Good for Our Retirement Accounts
A win for private equity. A loss for our retirement assets.

Every time I’m told that the economic statistics are good,
that people’s discontent is based more on “vibes” than material reality,
my reaction is the same:
Go out and talk to people.
And don’t just ask them superficial questions (“Are you happy?”)
Get them to tell you about their lives.
I don’t think D even really saw his situation as outrageous or exploitative;
he seemed surprised when I told him that it sounded really fucked up, although he a…

Don’t Tell Me This Is a Functional Country
My conversation with an EMT and what it reveals about American economic life.

Rand Paul says he doesn't understand the buzz over Mitch McConnell's health (Molly Parks/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4692714/rand-paul-doesnt-understand-buzz-mcconnell-health/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p80#a260819p80

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
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- Stable convergence of partial sum processes towards discontinuous limits
Johannes Brutsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12740 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117092840163122403
- Bayesian Inference Procedures for A/B Testing: An Overview
M{\aa}rten Schultzberg, Mattias Fr{\aa}nberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12949 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117092799825341949
- Estimation of distribution functions, their jumps and interval probabilities under measurement error
Kairat Mynbaev, Carlos Martins-Filho, Chad Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13152 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econEM_bot/117092724945077876
- Extreme principal minors of Wishart and deformed GOE matrices
Zhanrui Dong, Tiefeng Jiang, Tuan Pham, Jianfeng Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117092881421641444
- Sinkhorn Linearization and the Spectral Proxy: Unifying the Statistical and Algorithmic Theory of...
Han Dong, Jiaming Li, Yongqiang Gong, Ruixi Li, Yin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/117092803789923153
- Weighted cumulative past inaccuracy and Kullback-Leibler divergence based on extropy: properties,...
Bighneswar Sahoo, Suchandan Kayal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13363 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117092858417590746
- Nearly sharp comparison results for sliced and max-sliced Wasserstein distances
Jonathan Niles-Weed, Jacob Shkrob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13374 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117092901477246948
- Theoretical Properties of Covariate-Adaptive Randomization with a Diverging Number of Covariates
Yuhang Tao, Li-Xin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117092865494823071
- The data geometry of masking diffusion: Certified-optimal schedules via unmasking growth complexity
Martin J. Wainwright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13520 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117092942960850473
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Ik heb ooit geleerd dat je als boer nooit ergens anders tijd voor hebt dan voir de verzorging van dieren en gewassen, maar desondanks beginnen ze aan demonstraties tegen stikstofplannen kabinet.
En ik zag een spandoek met daarop: 'DE MAAT IS VOL' en dat is zo, overvol mest.
http…

Political Power-Sharing, Firm Entry, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Multiple Elected Representatives
Harsha Dutta, Pulak Ghosh, Arkodipta Sarkar, Nishant Vats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08934 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08934
arXiv:2608.08934v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We examine the effect of political power-sharing on local economic activity. This effect depends on the relative importance of the risks associated with unchecked power and the potential efficiency gains or losses arising from checks and balances. Our research design exploits a geographic discontinuity design due to the haphazard overlap of electoral and administrative boundaries that generates quasi-random variation in the number of politicians governing adjacent regions. We supplement this design using an episode of electoral delimitation that allows us to exploit within-region variation in the number of politicians. We find increasing the number of politicians governing an area can lead to new firm creation, lower unemployment, and greater real economic activity. Our results suggest that non-aligned multiple politicians enhance state efficiency by imposing checks and balances on each other, leading to lower regulatory obstacles, less cronyism, and improved provision of public infrastructure, creating an economically favorable environment for firm creation.
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The Impact of Circumgalactic Rotation on Ly$\alpha$ Radiative Transfer
Hee-Gyeong Kym, Seok-Jun Chang, Max Gronke, Kwang-Il Seon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08396 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08396 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08396
arXiv:2609.08396v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) is a prominent emission line from the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Due to its resonant nature, Ly$\alpha$ carries imprints of the physical properties and kinematics of the cold CGM. In particular, CGM rotation can modify the Ly$\alpha$ peak separation, which is often interpreted as a tracer of H I column density. We present 3D Monte Carlo Ly$\alpha$ radiative-transfer simulations in a CGM-like rotating medium and examine how the emergent spectra depend on rotational velocity ($V_{\rm rot}$), H I column density ($N_{\rm HI}$), viewing angle, clumpiness, and intrinsic source width. We find that rotation broadens the integrated spectra and increases the peak separation, with the strongest viewing-angle dependence when rotational Doppler shifts dominate over frequency diffusion. At high $N_{\rm HI}$, numerous scatterings reduce the sensitivity of integrated spectra to rotation, producing a degeneracy between $V_{\rm rot}$ and $N_{\rm HI}$. Consequently, Ly$\alpha$ peak separation alone can overestimate $N_{\rm HI}$ in a rotating medium. Spatially resolved halo spectra provide a clearer diagnostic: opposite sides of the rotating medium show systematic redshifted and blueshifted asymmetries associated with the line-of-sight velocity of the last-scattering gas. Such rotation-driven signatures can also contribute to velocity-map patterns often interpreted in terms of inflow or outflow, highlighting the need to consider rotation in spatially resolved Ly$\alpha$ observations. We further show that the main signatures persist in simple clumpy media, while the halo signatures are largely insensitive to the intrinsic source width. Our results demonstrate that spatially resolved Ly$\alpha$ observation is essential for disentangling CGM rotation from radiative-transfer effects.
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Barely a week after the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, unleashed a supposed “economic D-day”aimed at crushing the regime in Tehran under the weight of commercial pressures,
"War" Secretary Pete Hegseth once again returned to the limelight – and the center of controversy.
The former Fox News host usurped Bessent from center stage as the conflict with Iran reverted to open warfare and discontent at the Pentagon was laid bare once more.
Turf wars within Hegseth’s…

Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for ‘inept’ leadership of US military
The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as the Iran war drags on

Trump, who has lately taken to issuing warnings about a communist plot to take over America,
posits that an island of 9.6 million people
— nearly 90 percent of whom live in extreme poverty amid extended blackouts due to decades of U.S. economic warfare
— is an existential threat to the U.S.
This accusation is not meant to be rational.
It, like the charge that our elections are manipulated, is a transparent excuse to go after institutions and individuals that are…

Trump’s Phantom Enemies
Your Death is My Command – by Mr. Fish The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. …