More bad polls for Trump

Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.This is digging deep into Trump's base.We detail these numbers on today's pod:newrepublic.com/article/2059…

Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T12:34:24.007Z

Benchmarking public opinion on Trump's DOJ arresting Don Lemon: An ABC News poll last Sept found 36% of Americans think Trump "is committed" to protecting the freedom of the press. Now we see how much/if that falls… substack.com/@gelliottmor…

G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2026-01-30T17:17:42.644Z

Disastrous new poll for Trump from Lakshya Jain and The Argument. Only 33% of voters want ICE to remain in Minneapolis and 49% of voters support not funding ICE without major reforms.Net favs:ICE: -26Stephen Miller: -20Trump: -15Vance: -12DHS: -7www.theargumentmag.com/p/immigratio…

Sarah Longwell (@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T12:54:26.038Z

Most interesting part in the new Pew poll on Trump is the decline in GOP confidence, which is really starting to mirror Dems losing confidence in Biden.Just 2/3 of GOP-leaning voters think he has the mental capacity to do the job and only 42% thinks he acts ethically.

Kevin Robillard (@robillard.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T21:23:47.185Z

Backing up The Argument in NYT/Siena, Gen X still has an astonishing 49% approval for Trump (!), while Boomers have dipped to 42%. Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.

World's Second-Biggest AtlasIntel Hater (@corncobanalysis.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T19:00:59.510Z

The latest state-by-state Trump approval ratings show him underwater in these states that he won in 2024:

See YouGov's polling on how many Americans support and oppose 369 policies and positions from the past year of the Trump administrationOn average, 32% support each policy and 49% oppose ittoday.yougov.com/politics/art…

YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2026-01-23T22:04:46.709Z

Trump’s destruction of the Kennedy Center

"Crisis." "Catastrophe." "Chaos." Just three words people used to describe the state of the Kennedy Center after Trump's announcement that he wants to close it for two years for construction.Our latest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen…

Travis M Andrews (@travismandrews.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T22:35:40.133Z

I bet it’s just the Trump center when/if it reopens. He’ll say the old name doesn’t apply because of changes to the building.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T22:39:08.053Z

14 federal prosecutors have resigned because of Trump’s terrible policies

Eightn now, six earlier

Notably this includes Ana Voss, head of the civil division, whom Chief Judge Schiltz thanked by name for handling a deluge of habeas petitions in response to ICE’s barrage of unconstitutional arrests

Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) 2026-02-02T23:04:07.271Z

Breaking on MS NOW:Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-01-30T14:55:47.823Z

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…“(The resignation) comes after six prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota resigned over their concerns about the direction of the investigation.”

Laura Anne Gilman (@lauraannegilman.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T23:33:30.256Z

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned in protest of the Justice Department's decision to investigate Renee Good's widow.When SIX career attorneys quit, something is seriously amiss.www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u…

Christa Brown (@christabrown.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T21:58:13.883Z

A government lawyer who told a judge her job “sucks” during a court hearing has been removed from her Justice Department post. Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her assignment after her comments in court Tuesday.apnews.com/article/juli…

Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 (@dovewoman.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T20:57:11.255Z

Trump’s plan for the USIP building may be illegal

New Scooplet from me: The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.” @wired.com http://www.wired.com/story/trump-…

Vittoria Elliott (@telliotter.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T14:56:25.372Z

The Peace Building in DC has been renamed the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace”The institute created by Congress, signed into law by Reagan, and axed by Trump back in February. He literally had the president of the USIP hauled out by police and has now deemed himself the emperor of peace.

Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T15:24:49.322Z

Another clip shared by DC Metropolitan Police in response to my FOIA lawsuit from the DOGE raid on USIP shows the same white shirt cop addressing three USIP staff members outside the building. He says "Obviously there's gonna be lawsuits on the back end of this, and civil stuff."

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T22:53:22.917Z

A former USIP official said of Trump: “It’s pretty ironic that he put his name on an institution he destroyed.”Taking over institutions and putting your name on it is another sign of authoritarianism.www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p…

Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T18:14:15.997Z

Vance and others don’t mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pritzker does this the right way. Vance’s statement leaving out any mention of Jews is horrible. Search for my other posts on the Holocaust.

Today, we mourn the six million Jews and countless others murdered during the Holocaust.This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we recommit ourselves to honoring their memories and standing up to antisemitism and bigotry in all its forms.

JB Pritzker (@jbpritzker.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T18:46:50.462Z

The widespread erasure of Jews from the Holocaust is an exploding trend. Stop playing into it. Once that succeeds, we are truly on a rapidly decaying downward spiral.

Kristin Reid (@kristinmreid.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T05:07:15.129Z

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) 2026-01-28T03:00:30.056Z

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's getting harder to remember as the number of living Holocaust survivors dwindles. Read this piece on the work of remembering: lnk.thebulwark.com/49ZzOP0

The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-27T21:15:49.765Z

this story quotes:- A trump ambassador- A museum run by Trump appointees- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors… aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T03:01:38.939Z

ICE’s murder in Minnesota – 1/24/26

They murdered a man and lied about it.

ANOTHER ANGLE: the original video was deleted but I screen capped it. Here it is.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-01-24T20:39:19.185Z

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T20:31:15.375Z