"Poll after poll confirms Americans know exactly what they saw with their own eyes. … Including the remarkable finding that almost a majority of Americans want ICE abolished."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE #ApprovalRating
/9

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-january-18

"New YouGov poll finds a majority of Americans [53%] believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be charged for killing Renee Good.

Despite repeated lies from the Trump administration, Americans watched the videos and are demanding accountability."

~ Matt McDermott

#Trump #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE #ApprovalRating
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ryku3zw5wsf76ofvn4tjtx4s/post/3mcbfb54prs24?

"They aren’t talking a lot about the fact that the Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the Epstein files despite the law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Congress passed requiring the release of those files in full no later than December 19."

#Epstein #Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #Greenland #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/11

"They aren’t talking a lot about the fact that the Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the Epstein files despite the law, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Congress passed requiring the release of those files in full no later than December 19."

#Epstein #Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #Greenland #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/11

"You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota?"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Epstein #Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #Greenland #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/10

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-15-2026

"But there’s one important caveat I didn’t address: the interim risk that he overturns the game board. That may be what he’s working himself up to do."

#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #InsurrectionAct
/9

"The fact that Trump’s actions now are as aggressive as they were before he squandered his good will doesn’t mean he’s reset the game board and started over. ...

It’s an error to confuse flailing for forward momentum, but it’s also an error to grow complacent, simply because at this point in the game he’s closer to defeat. He’s also creating big problems that will be hard to fix in the future, when he’s gone."

#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
/8

"To mistake today’s madness on all fronts for the madness of last year requires pretending that everything in between never happened. And it’s a lot. It’s overreach and economic deterioration and No Kings and corruption scandals and an approval rating that’s inverted from +12 to -16."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #madness #fascism #Venezuela #NobelPeacePrize #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
/7

https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-speed-chess

"Donald Trump is lashing out abroad because he is weak at home. Hounded by a failing economy and unable to shake Epstein, Trump has reverted to a tried-and-tested playbook: a foreign war meant to rally patriotic support for a floundering presidency."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/1

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-foreign-gambit-and-domestic

"Heading into the fifth anniversary of January 6, there was pressure mounting on Donald Trump, including from Jack Smith’s recent testimony on Capitol Hill and DOJ’s failure to release the full Epstein files. Given that context, we’re forced to consider whether Trump’s attack on Venezuela is, at least in part, intended as a distraction."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/3

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-sunday-morning-wrap-up-e9e

"While it might seem too early to say how Americans view the intervention, it appears to have monumentally backfired. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 4–5 found that just 33% of Americans approve of the intervention. That figure is only slightly higher than approval of the Vietnam War in 1973, as U.S. troops were withdrawing from the country."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/2

"Donald Trump is lashing out abroad because he is weak at home. Hounded by a failing economy and unable to shake Epstein, Trump has reverted to a tried-and-tested playbook: a foreign war meant to rally patriotic support for a floundering presidency."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #Epstein #ApprovalRating
/1

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-foreign-gambit-and-domestic

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

"Which is amazing when he himself is plating everything he can in the White House in gold and building a 200, you know, actually it's now 300 or 400 million dollar glorious ballroom. And at the same time, lecturing people that they've never had it better. I don't think any of that seems to be working."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/13

"The highlights from that speech are just... I mean, he's telling people you're doing better than you've ever done. Again, going back to you don't need 37 dolls, you know, two or three are nice. You know, school kids, children just need a few pencils, not a whole box of them."

~ Joe Trippi

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-is-weaving-right-into-an-oncoming

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/12

"Same dollar. Five commitments. Zero proof. Zero possibility. ...

The 'tariff shelf' is a prop. Trillions are fiction. Promises are illusions."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/11

"On paper, at least. Tariff revenue has been promised to reduce the national debt. It’s been pledged for rebate checks. It’s been earmarked to bail out farmers harmed by trade disruptions. It’s been floated as funding for childcare programs. And in moments of rhetorical enthusiasm, it’s even been suggested as a substitute for federal income taxes altogether."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/10

"We are now deep into the era of what Trump calls the tariff shelf. You’ve heard about it. It’s apparently stocked with trillions upon trillions of dollars—so many, in fact, that the number changes depending on who’s holding the microphone. ...

The administration has already spent the money it insists is sitting on that imaginary shelf."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/9

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-arithmetic-of-make-believe

"'By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals,' the journalists report, 'Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.'”

#Trump #MentalDecline #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/3