More on Trump’s bad polls

As President Trump prepares to address the nation Tuesday evening, Americans remain generally sour about his performance, with majorities disapproving of his handling of priority initiatives, according to a new poll. https://wapo.st/3OHb5rI

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-02-24T02:00:08.58035359Z

Feb 23 poll of 2,287 U.S. adults (+/-2.6 points)% who approve | disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling MexicoU.S. adults 36% | 49%Midwest 39% | 45%South 39% | 45%Northeast 33% | 51%West 30% | 56%today.yougov.com/topics/polit…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2026-02-23T23:26:54.501Z

Gallup had him at 34/62 in January 2021 news.gallup.com/poll/203198/…

— Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T20:46:40.470Z

New WaPo-ABC poll:Trump's approval stands at 39% positive and 60% negative among adults — including 47% who say they strongly disapprove.The last time Trump's disapproval touched 60% was shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T20:30:19.056Z

ABC/WP/Ipsos Pres. Trump 🟢Approve: 39% (-2) 🔴Disapprove: 60% (+1)Trump's net approval on key issues Border Security: -3Economy: -16Immigration: -18 (new low)Tariffs: -30Inflation: -33(change since last poll) http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

— Poll Tracker 📊 (@polltracker.bsky.social) 2026-02-22T14:06:17.255Z

NEW Economist/YouGov Feb 13-16% who approve | disapprove of Trump's job handlingU.S. adult citizens 39% | 56% (-16)Last week 37% | 56% (-19)Start of term 49% | 43%Dem 3% | 95%Ind 28% | 62%Rep 87% | 10%18-29: 33% | 59%65+: 44% | 53%today.yougov.com/politics/art…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2026-02-17T14:52:18.282Z
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Posts on AI hallucinations-

Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

I really resent that the media in general just accepted the term 'AI hallucinations' without any kind of questioning or pushback. Let's call them what they really are: 'Fuck-ups'. Fuck-ups made by faulty, overhyped technology that ordinarily would lead to the abandonment of such unreliable software.

— Nick Carver (@nickcarver.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T14:15:51.264Z

Kier Starmer has played a blinder here

— Oatmilk Reilly (@doghousereilly.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T09:30:48.241Z

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”You can’t trust chatbots.

— Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) 2026-02-15T20:25:44.034Z

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

— Former Pingu Child Actor (Communist) (@cursedpingu.bsky.social) 2026-02-14T23:47:03.856Z

Opinion: The proliferation of AI hallucinations in court filings has imposed substantial costs on the judiciary and underscores the need for mandatory reporting of AI-related sanction, the author argues.

— Bloomberg Law (@bloomberglaw.com) 2026-02-20T14:01:00Z

“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10…

— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T12:13:36.565Z

Trump’s corrupt effort to halt the opening of a new bridge

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

— Ken Vogel (@kenvogel.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T02:44:50.867Z

Your daily bananas Trump corruption story:It's about a bridge connecting Michigan to Canada that's due to open, until the billionaire owner of the existing clogged bridge called Trump and asked him to keep the new bridge closed.Nuclear grade corruption. All out in the open.

— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T20:03:54.443Z

Trump is also trying to block opening of a new bridge between US & Canada if Canadian officials did not address his long & growing list of grievances. Note that the guy who owns a rival bridge has also personally been lobbying Trump to prevent competitionwww.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2026-02-19T17:26:37.042Z

If you’re late to the controversy surrounding Trump and the Gordie Howe International Bridge (as I was), it’s a doozy:- billionaire donor wants a lucrative monopoly- he calls Lutnick- Lutnick calls Trump- Trump rejects his own position, does what the billionaire wantswww.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-17T21:59:01.375Z

Trump’s excessive defense spending

Trump wants to ⬆️ the military budget $500 billion PER YEAR, close to a 50% ⬆️It’s such a large ⬆️, they have no idea how to even use that much money. Over the decade, it’d cost $5.6 trillionKeep in mind they just took health care & food from people in the largest cuts to Medicaid & SNAP in history

— Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T15:52:21.020Z

from the article:

The roughly $900 billion defense budget approved last year was the largest in U.S. history. While other nations have also increased their military spending, the United States already spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined, according to 2023 data from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.