Month: March 2025

Trump approval is declining

% who approve | disapprove of the approach Donald Trump has taken to implementing his policiesU.S. adults 46% | 44%Democrats 8% | 84%Independents 40% | 43%Republicans 87% | 8%ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Re…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2025-03-18T17:01:48.533Z

Overreach http://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o…

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T02:19:44.567Z

New Morning Consult weekly tracker is out and it's another bad poll for Trump. His job approval is now 48%-50%, down 10 points since his first week. With independents its 39%-56%. More strongly disapprove – 44% – than approve.

— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2025-03-17T23:33:42.483Z

Even 60% of Republicans say Signalgate is a serious national security breach. Hegseth must resign or be fired. If the Obama or Biden admins had done this, Republicans would be apoplectic and heads would have rolled.

— Mike Levin (@mikelevin.org) 2025-03-28T00:21:02.937Z

Blue state housing restrictions will cost them electoral votes after the 2030 census

Housing really is a ‘decide if you want to win’ issue for the Democratic Party.

— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T03:04:21.012Z

@yappelbaum.bsky.social: in California cities where the share of progressives votes goes up by 10 percentage points, number of housing permits issued declines by 30 percent http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T19:33:44.827Z

Resegregation posts

Looks like Trump the bigot wants resegregation

In case anyone is still skeptical that the goal is resegregation and the lowing and reinforcement of the glass ceiling. http://www.npr.org/sections/sho…

— Tom Langen (@calocitta.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T18:42:11.583Z

Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:37:44.263Z

Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago…

— John Light (@johnalight.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:33:26.739Z

The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

Trump attacks on Administrative Law Judges (ALJ)

🚨SSA ALJs decided nearly 425,000 cases in 2024. While they hear appeals from Social Security and SSI applicants and beneficiaries, ALJs are particularly important in ensuring fair access to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Trump wants to fire them.🚨www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Peter Morley 💙 ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:39:52.380Z

In Feb, the Trump Admin announced it believes legal protections against firing administrative law judges (ALJs) — independent judges who serve at exec agencies — are unconstitutional & does not plan to follow existing law that protects ALJs from being fired w/o cause. 🧵www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T16:19:05.012Z

What’s going on with GSA’s property list?

GSA posted a list of government buildings it wants to sell, then took it down and said another list would be posted later.

I am most familiar with the buildings in Woodlawn, MD. This looks like most or all of the Social Security headquarters complex there. Most of the buildings were built around 1960 but were totally renovated in the 2000s. There’s also a building in Wilkes-Barre, PA that was built as a data center in the early 1990s. What is Trump up to? Are they going to contract part or all of SSA’s work out?

This is almost every major federal building in DC, and even includes the HEATING PLANT that supplies steam and cold water to government buildings.

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T20:25:37.544Z
Feds ID local Social Security buildings for sale, then list disappears
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/federal-buildings-sale-trump-gsa-chaos/

Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/noncore-property-list