A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the account "Politics & Poll Tracker 📡" (@PollTracker2024). The post text reads: AP-NORC poll | 4/16-4/20 President Trump approval ❌ Disapprove 67% (+7) ✅ Approve 33% (-5) (Change from 3/19-3/23) — President Trump’s handling of the issues ❌ Cost of living: -53 ❌ The economy: -40 ❌ Iran: -35 ❌ Immigration: -19
Trump is entering Bush second term territory with his approval ratings.
Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war
Kalshi announces 3 new political insider trading enforcement actions, on candidates in Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota primaries: news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-pol...
It’s extremely funny that Patel’s lawyers decided to spread allegations that got cut from the published story
🧪 “the bacteria that live inside Chernobyl’s ruined reactor … survive … in an inhospitably alkaline environment … . Even more astonishingly, they are breaking down the wildly radioactive mixture of melted uranium fuel, concrete and metal known as corium.”
www.economist.com/interactive/...
🧪
At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron
We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...
A win! A judge just blocked the Trump admin from strangling hundreds of wind and solar projects nationwide. Chief Judge Denise Casper issued a preliminary injunction, striking down a policy that required every wind and solar project to get personal sign-off from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
Tucker Carlson is on an apology tour for supporting Donald Trump. I’ve got a way he can really make amends, but I don’t think he’ll go for it…
Civil Eats Salon: Inside a Historic Supreme Court Case on Pesticide Risks Thursday, April 30 | 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET. Speakers: Nathan Donley, Center for Biological Diversity Environmental Health Science director, and Lisa Held, Civil Eats senior staff reporter and contributing editor.
Bayer will face off against a gardener who claims using Roundup caused his cancer in front of the Supreme Court later this month.
@lisaelaineh.bsky.social and @biologicaldiversity.org's Nathan Donley will discuss the case and answer your questions on April 30, 11am PT/2pm ET. ➡️ buff.ly/GzNxUgu
As we celebrate Earth Day this year, may we reflect on the wise words of environmentalists, climate activists, faith leaders, lovers of nature, and the youth of the world.
Cartoon by @markdolk.bsky.social
Jesse Watters has a long history of making misogynistic and sexually suggestive comments on air. His past year on Fox has been no different.
Via Ralph Chapoco: The Southern Poverty Law Center is the target of a federal investigation, potentially over the use of paid informants to gather intelligence on extremist groups, the organization said in a statement Tuesday. https://ow.ly/VNqv50YNxFW
Lemme get this straight
A civil rights group is being criminally charged for paying informants to get info about the KKK & neo-Nazis that was then shared with law enforcement?
That's basically what the FBI does!
Should they prosecute themselves?
youtu.be/25dlBorkAy4?...
Thanks to a protest led by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, Etsy will ban the sale of fur on its platform starting this August. www.optimistdaily.com/2026/04/a-58...
🤔How did they do that?
"Paraguay’s progress has focused on the foundations of job creation: infrastructure that lowers costs, increases productivity, and allows people to connect to the increasing creation of economic value..."writes Susana Cordeiro Guerra and Pablo Saavedra.
How Hungarians ousted Viktor Orbán is a critical case study for people doing the unglamorous but essential work of democracy defense. Here are eight lessons from their playbook.
🎙️ Just on Al Jazeera on war & clean energy.
Double-edged sword — but I'm optimistic long-term.
High fuel prices make clean energy more economic than just weeks ago. Demand for solar, EVs and heat pumps is surging.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNe...
The Best of the Best vs. the Worst of the Worst www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Trump’s descent into even greater madness and his death spiral continue to get worse, and meanwhile reality continues right on with natural wonders and all of the forms of human goodness known inthe world.
🚨 Virginia residents, vote YES on April 21 to counteract efforts to rig the mid-terms. Multiple ads from the Justice for Democracy PAC are circulating across social media urging people to vote no in the name of "protecting minority representation" — these are intended to mislead you. Stay informed:
Virginia voters approved a complete redrawing of their congressional districts to offset pushes by President Donald Trump to increase the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. bit.ly/3QUjBog
