Trump's approval on economy falls in AP-NORC poll, showing new warning signs for president A new AP-NORC poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher.

New AP poll has Trump's approval down to 33 percent. On his handling of the economy it's 30-70:
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I celebrated last week.

probably now is another good time to remind people that it's really, really bad that there is no one in charge of this government with the slightest amount of decency or concern for responsibility

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Like me, you may think you understand the horror of measles and the murder being committed by RFK & co. Read this, if you can handle it--my eyes are tearing up for this splendid child lost--and learn just how much more terrible and heartbreaking it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

When Will the Anti-Vaccine Fever Break? A leading public health authority offers a bleak assessment of the future of vaccination.

The anti-vaccine movement carries the seeds of its own demise: when it wins, children are sick, hospitalized and die, and the tide turns.

The problem is the price. Children (and adults) don't deserve to be harmed by anti-vaccine misinformation.
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Living in a nursing home shouldn’t mean giving up everyday freedoms.

I just signed a bill allowing seniors living in nursing homes to consume alcohol - so that everyone can enjoy happy hour!

it's the same with a lot of conspiracy theory--it makes chaotic tragedies or things happening as the result of no one caring about you or you community more comfortably explicable as bad people valuing you enough to plot against you

He really gets to live out his dreams, and again, most anyone with enough power to do anything about it studiously avoids pointing out that he’s doing so.

All is fair in love and primaries, but once a primary is over if you are an accelerationist telling voters to sit home to teach dems a lesson, you might as well be Pete Hegseth in your culpability for the outcomes.

after all, he would dissect and eat a dead badger

lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker

how much of my life did I believe what I was told, 'we all want the same things', only to eventually learn that no, no we don't, no we verrrrry much do not

and it's mean and arrogant not to think of right wingers as redeemable and reachable so therefore it all must be our fault for not reaching them correctly

it's weird though, because he doesn't want to believe in the germ theory of disease, so him saying immigrants aren't vaccinated enough undercuts his whole schtick

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

a bigger number always means you take the bad thing more seriously, which is why the harshest condemners demand we say Stalin and Mao each killed 60-100 million people

piecework

it's very difficult to mock this any more than its own existence mocks itself

Trump extends Iran ceasefire, keeps blockade as Pakistan talks in disarray Iran says it will not accept negotiations under 'shadow of threats' as Trump promises to continue US blockade of Hormuz.

womp womp

"Iran has rejected attending talks in Pakistan, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency is reporting, citing one of its correspondents."

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Why is this video not censored? YouTube video by Etymology Nerd

Oh! On Algospeak! you probably don't need to use it now. If you ever actually did. youtube.com/shorts/Z5fvm...

'yes sir Mr Palantir sir, you are an amazing sword-man! your swording is the best! I'd hate to be in a sword battle with you sir!'

Another data point for the "everybody is 12 now" theory. That's the billionaire CEO of the world's biggest and nastiest surveillance company who also just released a high concept technofascist statement. He and I are the same age. And I am, I cannot be clearer, an Old Man.

It's just great that the national destiny was set by literal traitorous Giuliani buddies in the NY FBI who hated Hillary, and of course the press who loved them. Definitely a good way to run a country.

Captain Smallpox gonna get it done!

James Comey making sure to violate DOJ rules to make one candidate look bad while making sure to keep a tight lip about investigations of the other candidate! Both sides!

Why "No New Taxes" Guarantees There Are More Fergusons The Department of Justice’s report on the practices of the city of Ferguson shows that the city adopted a predatory mindset when it came to its relationship with its black residents. White supremacy i...

"White supremacy in America has always been a vehicle for transferring resources from typically poor black communities to richer white communities....

We see this pattern repeated in Ferguson, where black residents were targeted as an economic resource to fund the city..."

This is also why I check out when people minimize racism as a material & economic interest. Towns keep their taxes low by pulling over Black people. CEOs pump up their stock by selling technology meant to surveil us. Insurance companies meet their margins selling exorbitant policies in Black cities.

Heck I think it was just this week I was told that it was liberals which drove Joe Rogan into the arms of Donald Trump in 2024 by not going on his show enough

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess