Author: Harris L

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

Trump disobeys a judge’s order. What happens now?

My guess is not much. Even if the judge penalizes the administration, Trump’s DOJ won’t do anything.

— Jonathan Miller (@jonathan-miller.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:59:30.808Z

If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about.We’re there, folks.

— Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:45:26.856Z

If the White House doesn’t like a federal judge’s ruling they should appeal it, not ignore it. Absent a valid justification, the government officials responsible should be held in contempt.

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-03-16T20:43:07.283Z

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T20:23:44.931Z

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. http://www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-…

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T18:18:34.572Z

Trump is a disaster for climate change

He’ll be gone in four years but he is doing permanent damage,

#ProudBlue #BlueEarthCensoring climate change language & removing info about the damage we are all doing to our planet, won’t make the problem go away. The ignorance & pure negligence is maddening. They are putting all of us in danger daily. insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202…

— Honest and Unfiltered (@momazonrises.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T21:42:39.048Z

#ResistanceEarth#BlueEarth#Voices4VictoryAs the planet warms and displaced people flee extreme heat and weather disasters, countries will eye areas with weak or ambiguous sovereignty that are sparsely populated and likely to become more habitable.www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state…

— Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T00:24:26.870Z

In a few short weeks, President Trump has severely damaged the government’s ability to fight climate change, upending American environmental policy with moves that could have lasting implications for the country, and the planet.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-03-02T13:53:28.556Z

“We used to think that climate change was something that would happen to our children. We now understand it’s something already happening to our parents.”wapo.st/4jTlv2S

— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T16:07:38.149Z

How climate change is upending the American dream: "Part of the problem is that many people were coaxed into living in the very high-risk areas they call home precisely by the availability of insurance that was cheaper than it should have been." @abrahm.bsky.social http://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o…

— Ian James (@ianjames.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T04:49:43.796Z

“Soaring home prices in the United States may have peaked in the places most at risk, leaving the nation on the precipice of a generational decline,” writes Abrahm Lustgarten.

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion.nytimes.com) 2025-02-03T13:07:31.601Z

NEW: How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream http://www.propublica.org/article/clim… @abrahm.bsky.social

— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T13:03:14.852Z

No matter how many lies Trump spreads, the science is clear: The climate crisis is real and it will take global cooperation to solve it.With one stroke of his pen, Trump has set us back decades in protecting our planet for future generations.

— Congressman Bill Foster (@repbillfoster.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T17:38:59.336Z

The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a world without planet-warming fossil fuel pollution, a new analysis suggests.

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-01-15T03:18:10.868Z