@#3 ... Inflation and costs. ...

... including healthcare costs.

... Congressional Republicans have clear advice for Canadians: Tune out the Trump administration ...

The Congressional Republicans should take their own advice, and start acting like the co-equal Branch of government that the Constitution creates for them.

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... It's been a bad stretch of polling for President Donald Trump.

In recent weeks, a string of new polls has found Trump losing ground with key constituencies, especially the young, non-white and low-propensity voters who swung decisively in his direction in 2024.

The uptick in support for Trump among those non-traditional Republican voters helped fuel chatter of an enduring "realignment" in the American electorate -- but the durability of that realignment is now coming into doubt with those same groups cooling on Trump.

Surveying the findings of the most recent New York Times-Siena poll, polling analyst Nate Cohn bluntly declared that "the second Trump coalition has unraveled."

Is it time to touch up the obituaries for the Trumpian realignment? To find out, I spoke with conservative pollster and strategist Patrick Ruffini, whose 2024 book "Party of the People" was widely credited with predicting the contours of Trump's electoral realignment.

Ruffini cautioned against prematurely eulogizing the GOP's new coalition, noting that the erosion of support has so far not extended to the constituencies that have served as the primary drivers of the Trumpian realignment -- particularly white working-class voters and working-class Latinos and Asian Americans.

But he also acknowledged that the findings of the recent polls should raise alarms for Republicans ahead of 2026 and especially 2028. ...

The WhoIs for the domain shows no recent change in ownership ...

Tangentially related ...

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... Those questions deepened last week, when the Social Security Administration said it discovered DOGE employees at the agency secretly and improperly shared sensitive personal data last year, but once again can't verify the extent of the violations.

The admission came in a court filing last Friday, Jan. 16, that made numerous corrections to testimony given by top agency officials last year in a lawsuit alleging that DOGE was illegally accessing Social Security data.

In the filing, Justice Department lawyers representing the Social Security Administration wrote that two SSA DOGE employees were referred to a federal watchdog to determine whether they violated a law barring government employees from using their job for political activity, known as the Hatch Act.

The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States," the filing said. It remains unclear whether any data actually went to this group.

"Based on its review of records obtained during or after October 2025, SSA identified communications, use of data, and other actions by the then-SSA DOGE Team that were potentially outside of SSA policy and/or noncompliant with the District Court's March 20, 2025, temporary restraining order," DOJ attorneys wrote.

DOGE team members also circumvented IT rules to improperly share data on outside servers, sent a password-protected file of private records to DOGE affiliates outside the agency and had the ability to see data even after a judge temporarily halted access.

In acknowledging the breaches, the Social Security Administration also repeatedly indicated it still has little knowledge of what data was shared and offers little insight into how those incidents occurred.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Social Security Administration have asked the two courts currently considering the case to incorporate the "brazen misconduct" documented in the corrected testimony. ...

@13 ... And when the MAGA electrical grid fails in Texas, we die here by the thousands. ...

From what I've been hearing on the news, the Texas power grid is expected to be under a lot of strain. Hopefully, it doesn't fail.

@#2 ... Is this what the people of Gaza want for their land? ...

Or, should we just say "OK" to Pres Trump and his billionaire friends exploiting the region for their profit?

A "Two-State" solution seems to be quite needed of late ...

He seems to be losing it.

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... "Record numbers all over the place! Should I try for a fourth term?" Trump asked on Truth Social. The president appears to be including the 2020 election, which he lost, as his third term, which would make a 2028 election win his fourth.

Trump's comments come hours after he blasted "fake polls" and threatened legal action after multiple surveys showed that his approval ratings had fallen to just 35 percent. ...

@#8 ... it used to be a "secret" sonic weapon until you had to brag about it. Now it's just a sonic weapon. ...

... and a sonic weapon possibly used against Americans.

Does my health plan cover being on the receiving end of this weapon that Pres Trump says may be used against Americans?

@#18 ... You've been so boring and repetitive ...

Projecting? Yet again?

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... The personal consumption expenditures price index increased by 0.2% in October and again in November. Thursday's report combined October and November due to the government shutdown delaying both reports.

The price index also increased by 0.2% for both months when excluding food and energy.

While the index increased, those increases in inflation have slowed over the year prior. In October 2024, the price index increased by 2.7%. It increased by 2.8% in November 2024.

Personal incomes increased slightly in October, up 0.1%, and more in November, up by 0.3%. In total, increases in spending outpaced the rate at which people's incomes grew. ...

xpenses continue to outpace disposable personal income for consumers while personal savings continued a seven-month downward trend.

Consumers saved about $844 billion in October, down to $800 billion in November. The percentage of personal income that was put into savings also decreased, from 3.7% of take-home pay in October to 3.5% in November. ...

... The government was unable to provide any evidence ...

Welcome to MAGA.

@#16 ... Trump single-handedly averted war between America and Greenland. ...

So, now it is nine wars he has ended?

@#29

Of course a major question remains ...

Let's suppose that SCOTUS deems the Trump tariffs to be illegal and must be refunded.

To whom will those refunds go?

To the Americans importers? Or to the end consumers who ultimately paid for them?

@#29 Well duh! Tariffs are essentially a sales tax. An additional burden placed on manufacturers that gets passed on to the consumers. ...

FTFY ...

Well duh! Tariffs are essentially a sales tax. An additional burden placed on US-based importers (a.k.a. Americans) that gets passed on to the consumers.

Tariffs are not on the foreign manufacturers. Tariffs are on Americans.

@#10 ... All the saber rattling was meant to distracted from the Epstein files ...

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... Such an extraordinary event is thought to happen only once every 1,300 years. And if the buoy hadn't been taken for a ride, we might never have known it had occurred. ...

For centuries, rogue waves were regarded as mere nautical folklore.

It wasn't until 1995 that myth became reality.

On the first day of the new year, a nearly 26-meter (85-foot) wave struck an oil-drilling platform about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Norway.

At the time, the so-called Draupner wave defied all previous models scientists had put together. ...

Oh dear...

Pres Trump's ego may have been damaged when PM Carney expressed an opinion Pres Trump did not like... so, no "Board of Peace" membership for PM Carney.

What does that say about the remaining members of Pres Trump's Board of Peace?

... Now Is the Time to Admit It: He's a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron ...

With each passing day, it is looking more and more like that.

@#4 ... the i4 corridor welcomes the facility ...

So, you seem to be championing the abuse of those detained?

@#22 ... Nah, need two-thirds for a conviction. No chance of that.

Trump knows no one can touch him because GOP has no bawlz. ...

As much as I want to disagree, I cannot.

A Blue Wave won't do it. A Blue Tsunami might, but I do not see such a tsunami on the horizon for the Senate.

@#154 ... Up until Trump I supported democrats ...

Really?

I've never noticed that.

Trying to change history?

From the sub-summary ...

... Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.

Trump's misguided effort to acquire Greenland, even with the threat of force off the table, has changed the way allies see the U.S. ...

Exactly.

Pres Trump's short-term transactional tactics to prop up his dicta have long term consequences.

Yet, Pres Trump seems only to crow about the short-term benefits, ignoring the [significant?] long-term damage he has done.