I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It. As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
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White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

New Yorkers deserve a city where nobody is killed in a car crash. The more NYC commits to Vision Zero, the more lives are saved:

A friend of mine who is a doctor said they are seeing a surge of measles in Michigan and parents are coming in with no idea that their unvaxxed child has an incredibly contagious disease. When they find out the parents are confused because THEY never got sick like this as a kid. HMM I WONDER WHY?

1️⃣Week until Families for Safe Streets advocates🎤 Hear directly from @repleavitt.bsky.social on how she led the charge in WA to pass the B.E.A.M Act — one of the first state policies to install speed-limiters in the cars of repeat speeders.

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The civil servants of yesterday, who were respected experts in their fields with decades of experience, are not coming back. The damage is done. The government is already delivering worse services and putting lives at risk, and it will only deepen.

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

More from my testimony at NY City Council on the need for universal daylighting. This policy will save lives.

It was an honor to speak at this rally in New York and push for the passage of universal daylighting across the city. As you can tell, road safety is personal to me. Thank you @cmjuliewon.bsky.social for your leadership!

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.'

'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.'

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

Focused on the most important angles, as always.

We bought ours in December 2024, but probably couldn't afford it now. Especially now that dealers are referring to "potential" federal tax credits and not guaranteeing them.

"Effective immediately, and until further notice, the National Weather Service is temporarily suspending weather balloon observations at Omaha, NE and Rapid City, SD, due to a lack of Weather Forecast Office staffing. Offices will perform special observations as needed." Balloons helped collect temperature, dew point, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed/direction in the upper atmosphere twice a day.

Just as we move into severe weather season, the National Weather Service announces it will no longer send up weather balloons out of its Omaha office due to staffing issues.

“The Only Generation Available Right Now”- Gas Struggles While Solar, Wind Soar It might seem unlikely that an annual meeting of the Oil and Gas industry would produce so many headlines favorable for solar, wind, and battery technology – but here we are. Canary Media: In…

Even the folks at the oil & gas industry meeting agree: if you need lots of power quickly -- and oh boy, do we need lots of power quickly -- you need renewables & batteries.