New Quinnipiac numbers are out. Trump is:
Negative 19 points on the economy
Negative 19 points on Iran
Negative 17 points on foreign policy
Negative 13 points on performance as commander in chief
The 58% disapproval for his handling of the economy is his highest ever
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
And, there it is ... we have unlocked a new level of DOJ incompetence.
DOJ is now moving to withdraw its dismissal of the law firm EO case appeals. (NYT reported this morning that was being considered.)
Motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-to-dro...
“When the only tool you have is a gun, every problem looks like a puppy dog.”
- Kristi Noem
Our tax dollars are being used to make dating videos for seniors
Another day fighting for Colorado, ensuring that our public health funding is not illegally taken away and standing up against this administration’s denial of climate change.
These are completely legitimate questions from Washpost journalists. And there's no good answer.
Via a new thread from their guild, bsky.app/profile/post...
Colo. Sen. Michael Bennet (D) is claiming credit for spending projects he voted against. Bennet said he couldn't support other issues in the bills.
Unlike Rep Lauren Boebert (R), who's done the same, Bennet wouldn't say if he still would have voted NO if he was the deciding vote
![would break apart the term of art—'applicant for admission’—that has been plainly defined
by the statute and gloss the singular word ‘applicant’ with a meaning that Congress
expressly never intended” (citation modified)). The Court is prohibited from “break[ing]
apart” any statutory provision, id., and declines to disregard this instruction simply
because a divided panel in a different judicial circuit reached an unpersuasive conclusion
to the contrary. See also Fedorenko v. United States, 449 U.S. 490, 514 (1981) (“It is not
the function of the courts to amend statutes under the guise of ‘statutory interpretation.’
(citation modified)); Buenrostro-Mendez, 2026 WL 323330, at *13 (“The government’s](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:63qzp63fz5q45anhnxhoxhl5/bafkreicdgbkx2kuxnwczj6m7sleez6tcfsekled37vu62kqrjsjr2d7nkm)
Judge Charlotte Sweeney issued the first decision out of Colorado today addressing the Fifth Circuit's outlier view of the government's mandatory detention authority. She called the majority opinion "unpersuasive."
this is an educational #copolitics interview (with a bunch of f-bombs from the host...)
“Look, we just don’t have the time to let someone double-check that we’ve got the right person for the right reason. The Constitution obviously allows us the efficiency of just kidnapping the black and brown people from their homes wholesale, as the Framers intended.”
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
The TACO cycle:
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
Iceland at Davos
Iceland, Greenland.
Greenland, Iceland.
"Don’t kid yourself, folks: There is no magic bullet here," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.
"There is, instead, a long hard slog ahead of us—a long hard slog of elections, advocacy, protest, litigation, and people fighting for their rights."
JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Trump on Democrats: "They should say 'great job.' They shouldn't say, 'Oh gee, maybe it's not constitutional.' You know, the same old stuff that we've been hearing for years and years and years."
Thanks, @katiephang.bsky.social, for calling out the lawlessness of the Trump Administration. Great to join you to discuss my work standing up for Colorado, protecting the rule of law, and fighting for affordability, opportunity, and resilience for all Coloradans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKSX...
It positively makes one yearn for the days when he's
To the gun lobbyists who will inevitably claim the Bondi shootings show that Australia’s strict firearms laws are ineffective:
In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.
Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
What are the odds his insiders will blame his tariff-driven increases in food prices on foreign countries?
I used to think Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly's blunt, dry style wouldn't play well with an entertainment-addled American public. Now it seems like his fearless bluntness is the perfect antidote to push back against the overcooked rhetoric of Trump and Hegseth. They picked the wrong guy to attack.
NEW: Colorado's election clerks are increasingly upset that Gov Jared Polis (D) hasn't ruled out releasing Tina Peters to the Trump administration.
On a call today, a bipartisan group of elected clerks said Polis hasn't agreed to meet with them about their concerns.
Colorado's Republican election clerks tell Gov Jared Polis (D) that freeing Tina Peters at Trump's request would be a betrayal. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0rs...
Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration. n.pr/3KcqSNg
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
This, in particular, is spectacularly hideous. It's like something you'd see on the wall of a car dealership where they put pictures of their top salespeople every month
