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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Pew poll has Trump's approval at 30% (!) 68% of the country disapproves of him. Lowest in his second term, at January 6 levels. *31%* of Trump 2024 voters now disapprove of him.

Trump's approval rating continues to drop
Three-in-ten Americans now say they approve of Trump's handling of his job as president, while 68% disapprove - down 4 percentage points from July and his lowest approval rating of his second term.
Trump's approval rating drops to 30% - on par with his rating prior to leaving office in January 2021

*chart showing his sinking approval ratings, compared alongside his first term*

Much of this decline in his approval ratings over the course of his term is among Trump's own 2024 voters - 67% of validated Trump 2024 voters approve of his job performance today while 31% disapprove. At the beginning of his term, 95% approved.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In fact, it's a leadpipe cinch Republicans will bring up her earlier statements, so I'm not even sure it'll be of much practical (cynical) political utility for her to pretend otherwise.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One problem is that, according to several comments in the OP thread, she explicitly opposed anti-trans legislation in SC just two years ago, so I can see where a lot of people are regarding this as more than just cynicism, but a blatant flip-flop.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

According to this, notwithstanding rumors that the WH is plotting with Johnson to refuse to seat Democrats in the next Congress, Johnson has apparently told fellow Republicans that he might just quit/return to Shreveport and start a lawn business if/when the midterms go badly.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not just that - Hans Spiedel, former chief of staff to both Rommel and von Manstein, was made commander of the West German Bundeswehr, and he wasn't the only such officer. It seems materially impossible that he wasn't aware of the same things Rommel was.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While a rump Russian state was to be permitted to exist east of the Urals, its main purpose was to be basically to provide live-fire training for German soldiers.

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He was the commander of Hitler's bodyguard regiment before the war - and a close friend of Hitler. His objections to Nazi depredations during most of the war were very much in the "good tsar, evil boyars" way.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What got you MAGA is too much TV, too much internet, too much talk-radio, a culture of plenty and a long epidemic of narcissism, and people not voting in midterms and local elections.

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Nondescript. @imaginaryperson222.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Republicans being forced to spend resources in South F'ing Carolina is a near apocalyptic disaster. Let them.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thinking lately for obvious reasons about when Roman Polanski was arrested in '09 & much of film twitter was in an uproar because he had "redeemed" himself through his art. Art is vitally important. It can persuade, it can reveal, it can comfort. It teaches us to be human. But it cannot redeem.

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down, 1914.

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First Impressions of Flashpoint Campaigns: Lowland Lions DLC I have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of variety provided by the add'l Dutch (3 Scenarios), Belgian (4 Scenarios), & remastered West German campaigns (6 Scenarios) added to the game by Lowland Lions DLC wp.me/pae4WL-fKs