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“Trump’s 41 percent approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower—including Trump’s own first term.” —CNN

We see the low approval ratings, yes. We understand. Our administration’s first one hundred days were the least popular in the past seventy, eighty, nine hundred years. But we just want you all to know: You can’t phase us. We were ready for this type of public reaction. Because our policies are very, very bad.

Listen, we knew it wouldn’t go over well when we intentionally tanked the global economy. And to be honest, it would have been weird if it went over well, because it wasn’t good for anybody. Not even rich people, which is how you know we’re serious about having lousy policies. So no, your little stat that voters would “rather have the Fyre Fest guy in charge of tariffs” doesn’t bug us. Not one bit.

Accelerated after October 7, a growing network of laws across the Western world threatens free expression by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism — a trend years in the making.

The post From the United States to Europe, Criticizing Israel Is Becoming a Crime appeared first on MintPress News.

“National Immigration Project said on Friday the New Orleans ICE Field Office ‘deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children—three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7.’” — Axios, 4/27/25

“The White House has been fielding proposals aimed at persuading people to marry and have children… One such proposal that has been pitched to White House advisers is a $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ to every American mother after she gives birth.” — ABC News, 4/23/25

Senate Democrats had a legislative path to shield journalists and their sources from surveillance and subpoenas. They didn’t act.

The post Democrats Had a Shot at Protecting Journalists From Trump. They Blew It. appeared first on The Intercept.

In the second of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar for a panel on the fight for immigrant rights. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

The post Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing media corporations and targeting individual journalists on social media. The White House press office is playing musical chairs at its press conferences and withholding press pool reports it dislikes. Republicans in Congress have called on public broadcasters to defend themselves against “systemically biased content” and are trying to claw back their funding. Large newspapers are choosing to tailor what they write to stay in the government’s good graces and smaller ones are being forced to do the same. Sources are increasingly reluctant to go on the... Read more

April 30, 2025, marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second term in office.

- by Ayisha Osori

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The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

The post A Map for Vanishing Animals appeared first on Nautilus.

Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline

The post Asking Trees to Solve a Roman Conspiracy appeared first on Nautilus.

Ex-GOP Senator and Republican Jewish Coalition chair Norm Coleman proclaimed with a straight face that Jews control the world during a Jerusalem conference featuring a speech by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.  Former US Senator Norm Coleman has raised eyebrows by declaring that “the masters of the universe are Jews” at a major Zionist lobby event in Jerusalem. In an address to a summit hosted by the Adelson-funded Jewish News Syndicate on April 27, Coleman pointed to various major technology firms […]

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