Blusky post on how immigrants have cut the deficits

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.1/3

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.937Z
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More right-wing fake photos

The first one, posted by the White House, is terrible even by their low standards.

The White House posted an altered photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest, edited to make it look like she was crying, sparking concern among some forensic-image experts about the administration’s distortion of real-world imagery.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-01-23T01:30:05.480763258Z

Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2026-01-31T15:26:42.479Z

More bad polls for Trump

Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.This is digging deep into Trump's base.We detail these numbers on today's pod:newrepublic.com/article/2059…

— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T12:34:24.007Z

Benchmarking public opinion on Trump's DOJ arresting Don Lemon: An ABC News poll last Sept found 36% of Americans think Trump "is committed" to protecting the freedom of the press. Now we see how much/if that falls… substack.com/@gelliottmor…

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2026-01-30T17:17:42.644Z

Disastrous new poll for Trump from Lakshya Jain and The Argument. Only 33% of voters want ICE to remain in Minneapolis and 49% of voters support not funding ICE without major reforms.Net favs:ICE: -26Stephen Miller: -20Trump: -15Vance: -12DHS: -7www.theargumentmag.com/p/immigratio…

— Sarah Longwell (@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T12:54:26.038Z

Most interesting part in the new Pew poll on Trump is the decline in GOP confidence, which is really starting to mirror Dems losing confidence in Biden.Just 2/3 of GOP-leaning voters think he has the mental capacity to do the job and only 42% thinks he acts ethically.

— Kevin Robillard (@robillard.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T21:23:47.185Z

Backing up The Argument in NYT/Siena, Gen X still has an astonishing 49% approval for Trump (!), while Boomers have dipped to 42%. Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.

— World's Second-Biggest AtlasIntel Hater (@corncobanalysis.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T19:00:59.510Z

The latest state-by-state Trump approval ratings show him underwater in these states that he won in 2024:

See YouGov's polling on how many Americans support and oppose 369 policies and positions from the past year of the Trump administrationOn average, 32% support each policy and 49% oppose ittoday.yougov.com/politics/art…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2026-01-23T22:04:46.709Z

Trump’s destruction of the Kennedy Center

"Crisis." "Catastrophe." "Chaos." Just three words people used to describe the state of the Kennedy Center after Trump's announcement that he wants to close it for two years for construction.Our latest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen…

— Travis M Andrews (@travismandrews.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T22:35:40.133Z

I bet it’s just the Trump center when/if it reopens. He’ll say the old name doesn’t apply because of changes to the building.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T22:39:08.053Z

14 federal prosecutors have resigned because of Trump’s terrible policies

Eightn now, six earlier

Notably this includes Ana Voss, head of the civil division, whom Chief Judge Schiltz thanked by name for handling a deluge of habeas petitions in response to ICE’s barrage of unconstitutional arrests

— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T23:04:07.271Z

Breaking on MS NOW:Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-01-30T14:55:47.823Z
Federal Prosecutors in Minnesota Are “Demoralized and Pissed”

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…“(The resignation) comes after six prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota resigned over their concerns about the direction of the investigation.”

— Laura Anne Gilman (@lauraannegilman.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T23:33:30.256Z

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned in protest of the Justice Department's decision to investigate Renee Good's widow.When SIX career attorneys quit, something is seriously amiss.www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u…

— Christa Brown (@christabrown.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T21:58:13.883Z

A government lawyer who told a judge her job “sucks” during a court hearing has been removed from her Justice Department post. Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her assignment after her comments in court Tuesday.apnews.com/article/juli…

— Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 (@dovewoman.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T20:57:11.255Z

New York Times article on food delivery and my experiences

I am 72 and not much of a cook. I use food delivery often. Here are some thoughts on my experiences.

  1. I am grateful it exists. Getting food, groceries and medicines will enable me to stay in my house longer as I age.
  2. I almost always order multiple meals. I can’t see the point of ordering one sandwich. Then you have to order again soon. A neighbor said they must think 4 or 5 people live here. (I live alone.)
  3. I don’t drive. Delivery services enable me to get food from places that are too far to walk to.
  4. I always try to tip well. I wish there was a way to tip the restaurant, too. Uber Ears had this for a while during the pandemic.
  5. Some things just don’t travel well. For example, tacos in hard shells get soggy.
  6. Long delivery times match the times restaurants and bars are busy like Friday and Saturday nights.
  7. Lots of foodies post on Instagram – that’s a good way to find out about restaurants. I also use local papers and posts by the restaurants.
  8. Most of the time, the delivery times have matched the time range the services said and I got everything I ordered.
  9. Before the pandemic, the only delivery food I ordered was from Domino’s and Papa John’s. At first I ordered from places I had been to; now I order from anywhere.

Food delivery was a convenience, until it became a lifestyle. Now America is a nation of order-inners—and it’s destroying restaurants as we once knew them, Ellen Cushing argued in October:

— The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) 2026-02-04T01:15:10.953Z