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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More

https://newrepublic.com/post/191740/tru ... d-medicare

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WTF am I looking at

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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00562-w

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Trump team orders huge government layoffs: how science could fare

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00660-9

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Trump’s Approval Rating Goes Underwater
by Ed Killgore
March 5, 2025

Introduction:

(MSN) Even as he was delivering the most partisan address to Congress maybe ever, Donald Trump’s public support seemed to be regularly eroding. An updated FiveThirtyEight average of Trump’s approval ratings on March 4 showed him going underwater for the first time since reoccupying the White House, with 47.6 percent approval and 47.9 percent disapproval. That puts Trump back in the same territory of public opinion he occupied during his first term as president, where (per Gallup) he never achieved more than 50 percent job approval, and averaged a mere 41 percent.

Perhaps Trump will get lucky and conditions in the country will improve enough to validate his agenda, but it’s more likely that the same sour public climate that overwhelmed Joe Biden will now afflict his predecessor and successor.

The Reuters/Ipsos survey that pushed Trump’s numbers into negative territory showed a mood very different from the 47th president’s boasts about a new “golden age” for our country:

• Thirty-four percent of Americans say that the country is headed in the right direction, compared to 49% who say it is off on the wrong track. When it comes to several specific issues, Americans are more likely to say things are off on the wrong track than going in the right direction: cost of living (22% right direction / 60% wrong track), the national economy (31% right direction / 51% wrong track), national politics (33% right direction / 50% wrong track), American foreign policy (33% right direction / 49% wrong track), and employment and jobs (33% right direction / 47% wrong track).

So all the hype about Trump being a popular president who was in the midst of engineering a major realignment of the American electorate is already looking more than a bit hollow. Trump has a solid Republican base of support and a solid Democratic opposition, with independents currently leaning towards the Democratic Party on most issues. Perhaps Trump’s agenda will gain momentum and support, but since he’s not trying to reach out beyond his party’s base at all, he’s going to need a lift from Americans who only voted for him in 2024 as the lesser of evils and may not vote in the 2026 midterms...

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion ... 8ce&ei=36

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Even the UK's hard-right Reform party is starting to hate him...

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It's called the compartmentalization of logic.

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Make Invasive Pests Great Again!

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They were working to ensure invasive pests didn't destroy U.S. crops — until they were abruptly fired

March 7, 2025, 10:37 PM GMT

Jonah Ulmer was the federal government’s foremost authority on tiny invasive pests that most Americans have never heard of — but which can decimate crops across the U.S.

Known as thrips and psyllids, the gnat-sized insects often sneak into the country on imported flowers and produce — and it was the job of Ulmer and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to identify and quarantine highly destructive species that appear on perishable goods during the inspection process required at U.S. ports of entry.

But Ulmer was abruptly fired last month — swept up in the Trump administration’s frenzied and turbulent efforts to drastically shrink the federal workforce. He's one of at least 145 workers in plant protection alone who were terminated, including entomologists, soil conservationists and tree climbers who hunt for pests, according to a list of terminated job titles obtained by NBC News.

Overall, nearly 6,000 probationary workers — new employees who’d been on the job less than a year or workers who’d been promoted — were eliminated from USDA, including other highly trained scientists and technical staff stationed across the country to help customs officers screen imported items, identifying and quarantining those infested with dangerous pests.

As the national taxonomist for thrips and psyllids, Ulmer knew there wasn’t a single person left at the agency with the expertise that he had — and he knows the consequences of making a mistake can be dire.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us ... rcna194913



Credit: David Bartels / USDA, via Flickr

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Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run For President in 2028

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/donal ... 8-sources/

They voted for Trump in 2024. Months later, his administration fired them

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/us/fired ... index.html

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Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12 ... ual-abuse/

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Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation ... rcna195994

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Some more funny stuff for once

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Polls on Trump's approval rating are all over the place lately

Thursday, March 13, 2025

President Trump Job Approval, Rasmussen Reports:

Approve 52, Disapprove 47, Approve+5.


Wednesday, March 12

President Trump Job Approval, Quinnipiac:

Approve 42, Disapprove 53, Disapprove+11


President Trump Job Approval, Reuters/Ipsos:

Approve 44, Disapprove 52, Disapprove+8


President Trump Job Approval, CNN:

Approve 46, Disapprove 53, Disapprove+7


President Trump Job Approval. Economist/YouGov:

Approve 48, Disapprove 49, Disapprove+1

That is a 16% difference in net rating between the highest (Rasmussen) and the lowest (Quinnipiac). Weird.

Source: https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls

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Fulton County DA Fani Willis ordered to pay $54K to attorney in Trump case

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fulton ... trump-case

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Trump to declare “illicit” fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fe ... raft-scoop

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Florida man accused of threatening President Trump on social media: Deputies

https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida- ... a-deputies