This is the reality, and it's devastating. 💔
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Trump's ballroom is very unpopular: More people believe in ghosts (39%) & telepathy (29%) than support it (28%).
The ballroom is such a political problem as it reinforces for Americans that Trump has the wrong priorities (67%) & they disapprove of him on govt. spending (67%).
As of this morning, our data analysts have worked through ~180 aftershocks above magnitude 3 from yesterday's large earthquake near the Hubbard Glacier. While we have not detected landslides, note that this event was on the same fault system that led to the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami.
CNN's chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) on the need to hold the “invincible” elite accountable, and why they feel so invincible in the first place
TLDR: Why what’s happening to the White House matters.
1. Transparency
2. History
3. The way it’s being paid for (private donations by companies and people who have business before the government)
4. The lack of oversight by an independent body
5. The speed
6. The symbolism
“We have lost our humanity over these last few years, it feels to me,” Martin Luther King III tells me after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. King knows the poison of political violence and echoes his father’s teaching: “We must learn nonviolence or we may face nonexistence.”
Were the economics bad? Yes. Did politics play a role? Liberal claims about this are underevidenced but possibly yes. Is mass culture dying? Yes. Did liberal scoldiness make Colbert's job harder? Yes, that too.
What I learned covering the abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq is that a system that encourages treating people like animals will eventually end up with abuse. A reminder most of those being held have not committed any crimes. https://t.co/6R7R6bY7tJ
‘Electricity demand in the United States is rising faster than it has in at least two decades. AI data centers are using huge amounts of power to train new models. More Americans are plugging their electric cars and hybrids into the grid. Rising temperatures mean more air-conditioning use.’