Trump approval in Real Clear Politics average hits 2nd term low of 40.6% (1st term low: 37.3%) and approve-disapprove spread also hits 2nd term low of -16.1 percentage points
www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...
An event celebrating the free press should not spotlight Donald Trump, the biggest threat to the free press, @billscher.bsky.social writes.
America would not exist if George Washington didn’t inoculate the Continental Army from smallpox
I had mixed feelings when I went to the Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner during the W administration. Can’t imagine going to this in 2026.
Thanks!
This is the correct take.
... "A fundraising event to support 'programs to educate the public and the value of the First Amendment and a free press' should not have a featured speaker who is the biggest peacetime threat to the First Amendment and a free press in American history," writes @billscher.bsky.social.
They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.
Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.
FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.
Read to the end!
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
“Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner”
— my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/21/c...
Tired: Term limits
Wired: Just kick them out now
Most likely, but even then the Democratic Party was quite ideologically incoherent.
These subversive teenage Dead Poets Society boys took minutes at their meetings
Re-watching Dead Poets Society, so I can be reminded of a time when the height of teenage rebellion was reading poetry after school.
Uh, I wouldn't go back to the 1920s to prove that's when the Democratic Party had a clear vision
He doesn't say, "No."
Because it couldn’t be possible that guys like Buckley and Tucker have been wrong about nearly everything for the entirety of their political careers. No, it’s the Jews who fooled them. (Not this time though, this time they’re smart.)
Factors that buoyed Swalwell's rise
Appetite for generational change (beating 80-year old D to get to House)
Top-two election (making it easier to defeat a D with R votes)
Social media ("As communications became a focal point in his office policy took a backseat") www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"At one point he even mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor."
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
It takes a special kind of gaslighter to illegally assassinate a head of state and dozens of government officials and then claim you were being nice
Possible. Barrett was jammed through in 30 days.
Re www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
“Ukrainians do not believe that losing American support will inevitably lead to their defeat. They see how they have sustained the war effort, using their own resources and with the help of European partners”
“not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Great to see @mford.bsky.social deftly tackle the thankless task of digging into the complicated history of Woodrow Wilson
