A majority of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump’s handling of issues related to colleges and universities, according to a new poll, as his administration ramps up threats to cut federal funding unless schools comply with his political agenda.
— Bruno J. Navarro (@brunojnavarro.bsky.social) 2025-05-09T20:01:54.232Z
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Trump’s policies are costing jobs
Volvo Cars to cut 5% of jobs at South Carolina plant as tariffs bite http://www.reuters.com/business/wor…
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T20:04:21.274Z
This important report by @hassan.senate.gov shows how President Trump’s tariff taxes are hurting small businesses. Small businesses have lost over 366,000 jobs since the President took office. We owe it to them to end this chaos.
— Senator Amy Klobuchar (@klobuchar.senate.gov) 2025-05-07T00:43:12.520Z
Columbia University to cut 180 jobs due to federal grant revocations
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) 2025-05-07T01:10:36.104Z
POLARIS CEO: “We have instituted our recessionary playbook.”@wsj.com http://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs…
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-05-05T11:27:52.259Z
Trump’s conflict of interest and grift
Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to Donald Trump’s campaign. But Trump’s memecoin scam allows foreigners to influence U.S. policy by putting money directly in his pocket. This unlawful graft must be stopped.
— Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) 2025-05-07T14:11:17.997Z
Trump’s contest to see who can bribe him the most through his meme coin is being dominated by foreign investors.There’s a reason why Trump fired the ethics watchdog overseeing the executive branch, and the team investigating crypto fraud.These are bribes, and this is corruption.
— Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T12:46:36.440Z
Donald Trump is profiting off the Presidency again, this time through cryptocurrency.Since returning to the White House, Trump and his family have launched crypto ventures worth billions.Let’s break down how the Presidency is now a personal business model. 1/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o…
— Rogue Citizen One (@roguecitizenone.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T13:03:11.464Z
Your Family: 3 dolls and 5 pencilsTrump’s Family: $2.9 billionAny questions?
— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-05-07T03:36:22.848Z
The bottom line: Trump's first term blurred the line between public office and personal gain. His second term has erased it — turning the presidency into a profit engine for his brand and bloodline. http://www.axios.com/2025/05/02/t…
— Po Murray (@pomurray.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T12:21:23.854Z
The Trump Organization admits in a filing that President Trump never gave up control of his business assets despite public claims to the contrary. This confirms longstanding, and obvious, conflicts of interest, and the lack of transparency makes it worse.
— Noah Bookbinder (@noahbookbinder.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T20:55:03.563Z
The new @davidfrum.bsky.social show on Youtube is fabulous. And it just passed a million views in the brief time since we launched. Watch him and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in today's episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpU2…
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T21:50:20.066Z
Even more Instagram Lego posts
DOGE could use AI to replace government employees
I am very alarmed by this. AI is not perfect and could give customers wrong information.
NEW: A DOGE recruiter told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 and custom emojis of a man licking a boot.
— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-05-02T16:22:19.386Z
SCOOP: A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.@davidgilbert.bsky.social @wired.com http://www.wired.com/story/doge-c…
— Vittoria Elliott (@telliotter.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T21:21:44.260Z
More Instagram Lego posts
Lego sets are commanding high prices on the secondary market, with some valued as high as $16,846. The eye-popping price tags come with a dark side: a black market that fuels brazen thefts.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-04-14T15:59:36.123Z
More polls showing Trump is unpopular
The people who’ve felt the historic weight of oppression see the danger. Does it make more sense now why Trump doesn’t want you learning our history?Listen to us—because no one walks away safe from a collapsing democracy.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-05-01T13:42:31.643Z
Trump drops to 43% approval, 55% disapprove in … Georgia. http://www.ajc.com/politics/tru…
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T19:51:33.989Z
Since October, Trump's favorability hasn't changed much. Since February, his approval is down a lot. Despite his claims, he is not a popular, political juggernaut — not that you assumed he was. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) 2025-04-30T14:48:08.361Z
Trump gets an ‘F’ on his first 100 days from plurality of Americans, poll findswww.pbs.org/newshour/pol…
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T02:58:45.653Z
These are some of Trump's least popular ideas, ranging from 76%-86% disapproval. Fewer than half of Republicans support three of them, with the exception of sending U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to foreign prisons (57%) http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
— Scott Clement (@sfcpoll.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T13:06:15.476Z
As much as Trump wants everyone to believe Bublé's lyrics, he can't be FEELING GOOD. Even Faux News is unable to do too much to spin the polls.*NEW FROM FOX* Where Trump stands with Americans 100 days into his second presidency:44% approval & 55% disapproval4/4www.foxnews.com/politics/don…
— Sally Deal – 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! (@sallydeal4.bsky.social) 2025-04-28T22:18:19.504Z
There is no historical precedent for a U.S. president losing support as quickly as Trump has in term 2.www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-04-29T18:10:15.623Z
Americans hate just about everything about Trump and what he's doing by large margins
— Rebekah Jones (@georebekah.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T12:26:30.731Z
So much winning abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru…
— 🦋SJI2783🦋 (@sji2783.bsky.social) 2025-04-27T09:31:52.338Z
Harry Enten: "I think we can say Donald Trump has lost the political battle when it comes to what has happened in Los Angeles. Trump's net approval rating on LA – way, way underwater at -15 points… this is happening on what should be on Donald Trump's best issue … he's losing on his core issue"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-20T15:50:30.066Z
I won’t trust any statistics from the Trump administrations
They have fired thousands of civil servants. I assume some were involved in statistics. I expect them to make up numbers on things like GDP and unemployment (or keep blaming bad ones on Biden.
For how long can we trust government economic data and quarterly reports? They have been the basis of worldwide economic and financial decisions for many decades. Are we confident the Administration won’t seek to skew the data?
— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T22:48:27.005Z
More “savings” that are really reductions in services
These fired federal workers were stewards of tax payer dollars. That’s why firing 121,000 of them has caused government spending to go UP. Federal employees save more money than they cost. For example, the VA paid me $120K a year and I saved them $60M a year.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-04-30T03:48:05.033Z
White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T23:58:50.968Z
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, reminder that DOGE is busy gutting programs that help survivors—without explanation. People facing the highest rates of sexual violence — like Native communities – are paying the price. This is not how we protect survivors.
— Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) 2025-04-30T21:43:59.393Z
With the Trump administration reportedly proposing steep budget cuts at NASA and other federal agencies, wildfire studies and prevention programs could be in jeopardy — all while fire season is ramping up.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-30T15:15:11Z
🧵1The Trump admin torched $600M in grants that trained new teachers—just when schools are desperate for help. Why? Because the programs supported diversity and equity.They’re not just gutting funding—they’re gutting the future of public education. This is deliberate sabotage.@aft.org
— Jennifer ✨Get In Good Trouble (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) 2025-04-28T17:20:39.650Z
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in… 1/
— Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T21:29:46.717Z
JFC we are setting ourselves up for so many disasters
— David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) 2025-04-30T22:57:22.920Z
Across the country, states rely on USGS data to craft drought mitigation plans, issue water rights, post flood warnings and more. But 25 centers that enable that vital work from the USGS have had their leases canceled by DOGE. My latest dives into the issue: insideclimatenews.org/news/2904202…
— Wyatt Myskow (@wyattmyskow.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T23:40:01.853Z
TrumpIs Soulless.nationalcasagal.org/national-cas…
— VivianOfTheSierras (@vivianofthesierras.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T20:20:08.043Z
Posts about Pitt Stadium (1925-1999)
I went to Pitt but didn’t go often to Pitt Stadium to see college football. It was on a steep hill as I recall. Pitt was not a good team when I got there in 1971. In 1973, they got a new coach, Johnny Majors, and a great player from nearby Aliquippa, Tony Dorsett, and they gradually became a good team, winning a national championship four years later.
From the Vault: Construction of Pitt Stadium
The last night at Pitt Stadium
Sad! 