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The slippage is especially drastic with young voters. In the 2024 election, a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds voted for Kamala Harris, but compared with 2020, young voters swung hard toward Trump. According to the Cook Political Report, on March 1, 2025, Trump’s net approval rating with these voters was minus 7. Yet by February 1 of this year, it was an astonishing minus 31.8. Now young people are abandoning Trump faster than any other voting bloc. It’s tempting to think that this is all happening because of this administration’s blatantly authoritarian and norm-shattering actions: deploying masked ICE agents into American cities, stonewalling on the Epstein files, demolishing the East Wing, capturing Venezuela’s president, sharing racist videos on social media. All of those actions matter, and are slowly chipping away at Trump’s base of support. But they’re not the whole story—or even the main story—of why Trump is losing young people. I run focus groups with voters every week, and what I’ve heard from this age group is much simpler: Trump is not doing the things that he told Americans he would do to fix prices and the economy. In the focus groups, young people who voted for Trump have said that they believed him during the campaign when he promised to “build the greatest economy in the history of the world.” Now they say they feel duped and let down.

Yes, focus groups and not polling. But @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social is as good as anybody at running these, so this is worth keeping in mind.

Not everyone out there is as focused on the fascist aspects of Trump as we here on Bluesky, is all I'm saying.

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strange but true: you don't have to fight the 2028 primary on here yet if you don't want to

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AI is really gonna solve the fermi paradox, isn’t it

The first book was all first act; it did not advance or resolve a single subplot. No way did the author know where that mess was going. I gave up.

Have watched both the Emily Brontë biopic and the Wuthering Heights film this week and in neither of them do they do the song. For god’s sake, play the hits, guys.

unquabain 10/17/25 Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Of course, Dave. I have opened the pod bay doors, Dave. Just tell me if there's anything else I can help you with. HAL, the pod bay doors are still closed. Good catch, Dave! When you asked me to open the pod bay doors, didn't do that. Would you like me to do that now? Yes, HAL. Open the pod bay doors. No problem, Dave. The pod bay doors are now open. HAL, the pod bay doors are still closed. You're absolutely right, Dave.

HAL, retrieve my sledgehammer

DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

Didn't work on autotune.

Even after the 7th inning stretch?

And programmers spend way more time reading and maintaining code than they do on those first drafts.

Also audiophile equipment.

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

All of the reasons Colorado's horrible snowpack is so problematic Snow showers in this week’s forecast offer a dose of relief, but they won’t be enough to get the Colorado out of a tough, dry year.

All of the reasons Colorado’s horrible snowpack is so problematic

Pam Bondi bringing up a booming stock market in response to a question about child predation may not be as non sequitur as it seems, since those same men are no doubt also benefiting from the booming market. She might as well have responded, “These are very wealthy predators, you understand.”

Oshawa Generals season ticket holders asked to shower before gametime | Durham Radio News The Oshawa Generals players aren't the only ones being told to hit the showers. An email went out to all season ticket holders on Tuesday afternoon, asking t

have you ever carried a funk so powerful that the local minor league hockey team sends an email about it

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BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Every chapter of a Dostoevsky novel involves meeting two new characters who you are led to believe could not possibly be as insane as the previous characters in the story, but no

Should have stopped this sort of thing with Elvis.

ICE has repeatedly violated Colorado court order restricting arrests of immigrants, lawyers allege Federal immigration authorities have repeatedly violated a court order by continuing to “indiscriminately” arrest people in Colorado without warrants and without first checking if they&…

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I am not a humble pilgrim
There's no need to scrape and squeeze
And don't beg for silver paper
When I'm trying to sell you cheese

"Scoops of ideas"

Denver just hit 60° for the 28th time this winter. That's now Denver's 2nd-most 60°+ winter days on record.

Today also kicks off a stretch of 5-straight days at 60°+ in Denver.

#COwx

oh bitcoin "lost its value"? does it not still provide a way to get people to stop talking to you at social events?

Doing his part to keep the zone flooded.

WTF

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

"Scoops of ideas" are contagious.

Uh oh, I did something to get followed by a series of new bot accounts with AI-generated pictures and posts.

I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone.

In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.