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thedailyfeed:

Think speeches at the Republican or Democratic National Conventions don’t matter? Well, consider this: Barack Obama almost certainly wouldn’t be president today if not for his stirring keynote address during the 2004 DNC when he was just an Illinois state legislator.

And so, with both the RNC and DNC approaching, we decided to rank the best and worst convention speeches in recent years. 

A visualization timelapse of Syrian casualties over the past year. The CartoDB team loves charts too! 

I had a chat with Tumblr’s own Emma Koenig, from Fuck! I’m In My Twenties. 

think-progress:

There are only two countries that have child poverty rates over 20%: Romania and the United States.

Note: data reflects only the world’s “advanced industrial economies.”