Great Bluesky post on gerrymandering

I agree completely with this. Democrats have to gerrymander everywhere they can. They have to make it so bad for Republicans that they will agree to non-partisan voting districts. Republicans clearly won’t play fairly otherwise.

Absolutely right. Democrats backed a national ban on gerrymandering while Republicans pushed their advantage in key states. This evens things up but also draws us closer to real reform.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T16:01:10.459Z

More old articles on Trump’s history of racism

Yeah, there's no evidence of his racism…Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020 share.google/cLurvcDnGPtx…

— Lynda Wright (@broncobaby10.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T13:50:20.766Z

Donald Trump was accused of racism long before his presidency, despite what online posts claim (7/28/23)

Trump and racism: What do the data say?

Donald Trump’s long history of racism (11/28/17)

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker. (10/12/24)

Trump is a racist but mainstream media is too cowardly to say it

The Truth Social post is just the latest example of Trump’s racism. The media is too cowardly to call him a racist. They’ll say his account posted a racist statement. Doesn’t that make him a racist?

The mainstream news media will never call Trump explicity racist. They'll always dodge the allegation. That's because the white people running the joints need to believe that there is a distinction between donig racist things and promoting racist polices, versus being *personally* racist.

— ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T16:52:44.994Z

Bluesky post on New York Times coverage

Racist regime does Racist shit. http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goons-…

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T05:07:14.794Z

Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer." It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?

— Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) (@portlandken.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T20:22:21.699Z

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T20:27:33.337Z

A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T06:13:18.824Z

BREAKING: President Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash. The White House had defended it but now blames staffer.

— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-02-06T17:57:46Z

A reminder that Trump posted an AI video of federal agents tackling Obama in the Oval Office while he watches and YMCA plays.

— Tim Dickinson (@timdickinson.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T17:48:26.319Z

donald trump is a trickle-down racist http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2026-02-06T14:54:27.120Z

Trump posting a racist video of the Obamas underscores how imagery long recognized as among the most explicit racist tropes in U.S. history have become normalized in the Trump era, @russcontreras.bsky.social writes.

— Axios (@axios.com) 2026-02-06T19:24:55.349Z

Trump’s racism is not new. Here’s an article from 2020.

Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s presidency and become key issue as election nears

Job declines and cuts under Trump

His economic policies are terrible

“The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse… fewer Americans work in manufacturing than any point since the pandemic ended.”www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-…

— Congressman Don Beyer (@beyer.house.gov) 2026-02-04T21:53:04.982Z

There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

— Forbes (@forbes.com) 2026-02-05T15:40:07Z

Job Openings Decline by More Than Expected in December Underscoring weak turn-of-the-year labor market trends…(sans ISM Mfg Employment PMI)but…Alternative private-sector data, however, suggest that job openings increased by 28k in December. GS

— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT (@mikezaccardi.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T16:54:03.000Z

As layoffs surge and job openings fall, Trump has a talking point he’s excited about: The workforce is the biggest it’s ever been.The trouble is, his talking point means a whole lot less than the data that points to the worst job market Americans have seen in years. http://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T20:26:12.655Z

Trump's "Golden Age for America" is as fake as the Party City decorations he taped to the walls of the Oval Office.

— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) 2026-02-05T17:55:24.752Z

The job market under Trump's 1st year saw the smallest increase in job creation in 10 years, outside of the 2020 pandemic unemployment spike. U.S. industries haven’t added fewer jobs than were added under Trump since 2013-2014. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/january…

— Layla A. Jones (@laylaayanna.bsky.social) 2026-02-11T19:34:02.388Z

Blusky post on how immigrants have cut the deficits

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.1/3

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.937Z
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3me2lnqyjf222

More right-wing fake photos

The first one, posted by the White House, is terrible even by their low standards.

The White House posted an altered photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest, edited to make it look like she was crying, sparking concern among some forensic-image experts about the administration’s distortion of real-world imagery.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-01-23T01:30:05.480763258Z

Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2026-01-31T15:26:42.479Z

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