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Vox's The Weeds - Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

Entertainment — The good and bad of gentrification + swing voting
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 2015
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1501 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
traffic.libsyn.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Vox's The Weeds - Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it inactive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 6 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Freakonomics Podcastentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+9.6— unverified
urRadioentertainmentsimilar83%40.00.0● live
Science Vs - Welcomeentertainmentsimilar83%40.00.0● live
Slate Money Episode 75: The Service as a Service Editionentertainmentsimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
HBR Ideacast - Understand How People See Youentertainmentsimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
Earbitsentertainmentsimilar83%11.00.0— unverified
Note to Self - The Ad Blocker's Dilemmaentertainmentsimilar83%40.0+32.0● live
Invisibilia - Outside Inentertainmentsimilar83%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tiersunset
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 12:10Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache778dead_404
2026-08-18 13:19Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache851dead_404
2026-08-11 00:16Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache864dead_404
2026-08-08 06:06Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache925dead_404
2026-08-05 18:27Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache137dead_404
2026-07-30 17:41Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache1111dead_404
2026-07-18 15:36Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache1380dead_404
2026-07-16 09:47Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache1003dead_404
2026-07-10 10:35Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache2191dead_404
2026-07-04 09:26Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache2690dead_404
2026-06-23 13:44Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache1214dead_404
2026-06-21 22:01Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache2937dead_404
2026-06-20 20:09Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache1958dead_404
2026-06-19 16:48Z404traffic.libsyn.comApache2977dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Vox's The Weeds - Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/vox-s-the-weeds-gentrification-a-budget-deal-and-the-decline-of-floating-voters · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.