"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

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www.rawstory.com Trump nominee squirms when pressed on false 2020 election claims: ‘You can’t answer?’

Trump nominee squirms when pressed on false 2020 election claims: ‘You can’t answer?’ #RawStory

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Trevor Noah eloquently explains Schrödinger’s Billionaire

#Pinks

Not off to a great start

Russians LOSE CONTROL of their Money as Putin Builds Authoritarian Banking System YouTube video by Silicon Wafers

Don't keep any money in #russia guys 🤷‍♂️

"Russians LOSE CONTROL of their Money as Putin Builds Authoritarian Banking System"

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“None of the Iranian delegation has arrived or even flown to Islamabad for negotiations with the US at the moment”
- Iranian State TV

Iranian channels also posted the Mr. Bean meme with JD Vance edited in to mock the situation.

Congresswoman Analilia Mejia goes after #ICE in her first speech!👏🏾👏🏾

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

The Save Act died in the Senate, again yesterday, but with tRump’s Epstein war, most people didn’t notice.

In some South states, less than 30% of citizens have a passport, and most married women nationwide don’t have a birth certificate matching their current legal name.

#ProudBlue #SaveAct

Vote every single Republican out #Midterms 🗳️ For keeping Trump in office and other failures.

The Trump Administration desperately wants to win the war with Iran, and desperately wants to lose the war with Russia - but can't seem to manage to do either.

Wife of active-duty U.S. Army sergeant detained by ICE in Texas at immigration appointment The wife of a 27-year Army sergeant was detained by ICE at an immigration appointment in Texas. He says he doesn't understand why, and "ICE is out of control right now."

"An active-duty U.S. Army sergeant who has served in the military for 27 years, including in Afghanistan, said he still does not 'understand why' his wife was detained by ICE last week in Texas."

Sgt. First Class Serrano said his wife could be deported to Mexico, a country where she has no ties.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Trump is a clear and present danger. Stop the madness

Serious as a friggin
HEART ATTACK 💥

Hochul Backs New Tax on NYC Pied-à-Terres Worth $5 Million-Plus New York Governor Kathy Hochul is proposing a new tax on second homes in New York City worth at least $5 million as a way to raise cash for the city’s struggling budget.

Good. This is very sensible. In a country where a growing number of people can’t afford a home at all, every home beyond the first should be taxed at a higher rate. In much of the country, second homes are tax write-offs, which is backwards and counterproductive.

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🇭🇺 The latest election results in Hungary. Péter Magyar is the Tisza Party. Viktor Orbán is the Fidesz Party.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Trump at a UFC event last night told fighter Paulo Costa he’s too good-looking to fight.

“You’re a beautiful guy. You could be a model, you look so good.”

This was what Trump was doing as negotiations with Iran imploded.

bsky.app/profile/meid... Notice how Axios not giving this much coverage.... huh!

Fetterman is a Senator, so not really salient to this post.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

No wonder the (free) world hates America.