Great tweet on a dumb conspiracy theory

Is this real? Is anyone that dumb? The wrong route and the wrong year?

They don’t make conspiracy theories like they used to. pic.twitter.com/zrfjs66znl

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) December 30, 2018

Religious influence is decreasing in the US

I’m an atheist.

Generation Z – those between the ages of 8 and 22 – is twice as likely to identify as atheist https://t.co/qTJURpIwGQ via @ReutersTV
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 30, 2018

As data show that Black and Latin American “nones” are growing, Hutchinson said they’re trying to “debunk those stereotypes about who secular folks are.”https://t.co/A9D4yrRx0u
— Religion News Service (@RNS) September 30, 2022

China imported no US soybeans in November

This is what Trump’s trade policies get us. He’s not making good deals – he’s harming US businesses.

The U.S. soybean stockpile is growing and that's an issue https://t.co/Az6fCqEhZR by @adrianambells pic.twitter.com/CfLdvOyLT9

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) December 29, 2018

Quitting TPP was stupid for so many reasons. Gave all other members a competitive advantage over the US, as this recent news shows.
But biggest giveaway was geopolitical. Imagine how much stronger US position would be if confronting China as head of a large bloc rather than alone https://t.co/nn0VrGULhd

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) December 30, 2018

And because trump threw out TPP which went ahead without us, exports for farmers in Canada and Australia are booming. Yep, trump sure does care about his constituents in the farm belt. Their customers are never coming back. https://t.co/NZQqshESo1

— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) December 29, 2018

This is monumentally bad news for American agriculture and there is no public subsidy that can fix it. https://t.co/v9k1SbmwmY

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 30, 2018

One of the only GOP House pickups was in Minnesota’s 1st District, home to many soybean farmers, who voted to support the party enabling the trade war threatening their livelihoods. GOP attack ads focused on the patriotism of the Democrat—a veteran who served two tours in Iraq. https://t.co/qD6mh8pxHZ

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 29, 2018

China's soybean imports from the US plunged to zero in November, marking the first time since the trade war between the world's two largest economies started that China, the world's largest soybean buyer, has imported no U.S. supplies. https://t.co/CS5AIB9gpM

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 29, 2018

The world is moving on without us

Trump’s isolation is harming our country. Countries are making trade deals without us.

President Trump pulled out of a massive trade deal. Now 11 countries are going ahead without the US https://t.co/iuwSOq28fe pic.twitter.com/CAbVSKJOTn

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 29, 2018

“Trump’s New Jersey golf club accused of giving fake green cards, Social Security numbers to undocumented employees”

another crooked Trump enterprise

Trump has acted like laws don’t apply to him. I hope he winds up in jail.

OUR COVER: Supervisors at Pres. Trump’s Garden State golf club may have committed federal immigration crimes — New Jersey AG, prosecutors, Mueller, FBI played part in the inquiry.
✏️By @C_Sommerfeldt #TrumpGolf #Mueller

What do you think? pic.twitter.com/Eucme8Zhiy

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 29, 2018

"…handed over fraudulent green cards and Social Security numbers that management at the club allegedly procured and gave his clients" https://t.co/WaskZvQmn0

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 29, 2018

Investigators gather documents of immigrants without legal status who allegedly worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says https://t.co/hCelU10iUV

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 30, 2018

Trump's New Jersey golf club accused of giving fake green cards, Social Security numbers to undocumented employees https://t.co/cjITYUeddT pic.twitter.com/9jQzvJNN7P

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 29, 2018

Articles on hangover cures

just passing these along – don’t know if they work

That's right folks, I wrote about pickles for @BBC_Travel. https://t.co/k4Oal6WqLa

— Paul Benjamin Osterlund (@Paul_Osterlund) December 27, 2018

Rough night while you're away? Or want to get ahead of your next trip? Here's some advice. https://t.co/H9hiS8yZV2

— Men's Journal + Fitness (@mjfit) December 29, 2018

Finally. https://t.co/3E8iTyvXB8

— Men's Health Mag (@MensHealthMag) December 27, 2018

Pedialyte's New Packets Are Finally For Adults – Is Pedialyte A Good Hangover Cure? https://t.co/qSkQmEQprJ

— Darby Lyons (@darbyjlyons) December 28, 2018

Baltimore’s population loss and efforts to revitalize it

Baltimore has led all U.S. cities in population loss for the last two years. But efforts to revitalize are picking up in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods crushed by decades of neglect. https://t.co/r3Ue3WLnkB pic.twitter.com/kzeL63R4Wu
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) December 29, 2018

Significant about how the list of largest cities has changed since 1950–
Baltimore and St Louis–no longer in top 10–are the only 2 'independent' cities. Each losing population to their separated counties. https://t.co/hPOO5k9QGP
— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) November 17, 2022

Trump learned nothing from the massive Republican House losses in the midterms

This will hurt Trump and the Republicans going forward (which is fine with me). Trump just lives in his Fox News bubble and ignores the facts.

“He’s playing poker holding two threes and suddenly putting all of his chips in. It’s pure emotion, the mark of a panicking amateur.”https://t.co/kBMSraYTqD
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2018

from the article linked to above:

“Republican critics, such as veteran strategist Mike Murphy, say Trump is threatening the GOP by “learning nothing from November and playing to the third of the country that he already has.””

Repeating this point, but the tendency of presidents to recover after bad midterms doesn't necessarily happen automatically—it may happen because it prompts them to pivot. Not clear if there's any recovery if there's no pivot, and Trump isn't pivoting. https://t.co/u6qD9Vvrcr pic.twitter.com/nsjrrdS7FO
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 29, 2018

A great illustration of how Republican hands are tied: they lose 40 seats in the House because voters reject Trumpism, but take no steps to move from him bc their remaining members (and leaders) are in mostly Trumpy districts

The president won Wyo by 40https://t.co/t3f46diWoz
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 10, 2019

Trump cancels pay raise for civilian federal employees

I guess he thinks they’re mostly Democrats. Trump only cares about his base. He has no interest in being the president of the entire country. Budget restraints are partially caused by his tax cuts which reduced revenue.

Trump signed an executive order Friday eliminating a 2.1% pay raise for federal workers due to take effect in January, writing in August that "federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases." https://t.co/rV6d7r1iFY

— Axios (@axios) December 29, 2018

NEWS: President Trump says he's eliminating a pay raise for civilian federal employees slated for 2019 in order to "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course." pic.twitter.com/7wNAgoMdKX

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 30, 2018

Trump has told Congress that he is canceling a pay raise that most civilian federal employees were due to receive in January, and he's citing budgetary constraints: https://t.co/0Ha88hIRpS

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 30, 2018

“Let them eat wall” https://t.co/Osnlls9GvY

— Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) December 29, 2018

Trump has the gall to say he’s stiffing the entire civilian federal workforce – 30% of whom are veterans – on their scheduled pay raise to put the country on “a sound fiscal footing” as he creates historic deficits by blowing trillions on a tax cut that will mostly go to the rich https://t.co/KhWhV62nNv

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) December 29, 2018

I assume there’ll be a move to overturn this in Congress by adding the pay raise to the CR Congress has to pass before Sep. 30. Great issue for Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10) to take lead on. And in Senate, a tough vote for Ted Cruz (lots of civilian federal workers in TX). https://t.co/7wOgDURNCi

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 30, 2018