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Bryan Walsh @ Vox 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

2025 felt like a disaster — but the numbers tell a very different story

2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […]

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