How Main Street is doing
What goes into it
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Each source is measured against its own long history. Today's combined reading is ranked against every day recorded since 8 July 2026, and the level names where today sits in that ranking. The bars show the four largest components of eight.
Market-implied odds on civic questions. The percentage is what traders are paying · Odds: Polymarket; PredictIt shown where the same question trades there · not investment advice
Top politics headlines from the left, the center and the right, side by side. Links go to the outlets.
Each side's three most-used names, week by week, ranked by how many of its headlines use them · also in another side's top eight that week
Domains rising fastest in US DNS traffic on the 1.1.1.1 resolver · Cloudflare Radar (CC BY-NC 4.0)
United States · unofficial trending-searches feed, refreshed with the data build
Search terms rising in the most metro areas of 210 US media markets · Google Trends via BigQuery
English Wikipedia's most-viewed articles · Wikimedia pageviews
Topics trending across the Bluesky network, refreshed with the data build
Hashtags trending across Mastodon and the wider fediverse · global, not US-only
Links making the rounds
Hottest posts on r/popular right now, via the official Reddit API
Share of ChatGPT messages by topic · OpenAI Signals (CC BY 4.0; Chatterji et al., NBER WP 34255) · updated quarterly
The world's developers, this week, from GitHub · global, not US-only
Top 10 new repos by stars
Apple's most-played songs & top podcasts in the US · Charts: Apple
What goes into it
What makes it up
Also surveyed
Consumer-reported unwanted-call complaints · FCC and FTC · unverified. The two series count different things and differ about twenty times in scale.
The other measures
Utility prices
Tuition, debt and earnings
Recall notices issued · food, drug, consumer-product & vehicle · FDA · USDA FSIS · CPSC · NHTSA. Class I is the most serious recall class.
Top awarding agencies
Recent executive orders
Top advertisers · last 90 days
Recent weeks
Top components
Recent announcements
Recent reports
DOJ announced (30d)
FBI crime data says
What goes into it
Upcoming orbital launches from US spaceports · Launch Library 2 / The Space Devs
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