Thursday, June 11, 2026

Trump approval slump puts 2026 midterms and GOP strategy in jeopardy

New national polling shows President Donald Trump at 39 percent approval and 58 percent disapproval, his worst showing of the second term and rivaling the lowest point of his presidency overall, as voters sour on his economic, immigration, and high-profile executive actions while protest movements gain strength.

Trump’s Pacific pivot

Trump's plan: negotiate with China today, fight a war with it tomorrow.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed...

Wastewater injection had been happening in Oklahoma for 80 years, but something was driving the growing number of purges. But what is the cause?

Rage Against the ICE Machine

Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn.

Ahead of COP30, UN report warns 1.5°C breach as countries commit to just 10...

With fewer than one third of Paris Agreement signatories submitting updated climate plans, the UN’s new synthesis report shows global pledges would cut emissions by only 10 percent by 2035 as world leaders admit “overshooting is now inevitable.”

Brazilian government grants license for exploratory oil drilling in Amazon basin

Despite environmental and Indigenous concerns, the Brazilian government cited that the potential for energy sovereignty.

Biden administration discarded internal finding on Shireen Abu Akleh killing, former investigator says

A former U.S. Security Coordinator official says evidence showed Israeli soldiers intentionally shot the Palestinian American journalist, but senior officials removed that conclusion and the State Department called it “the result of tragic circumstances.”

Trump’s power and control is slipping through his fingers—and he knows it

All of this should serve as evidence that Trump’s grip on power is quickly slipping through his fingers, and he knows it.

Trump is bad at running the country

It seems that what I learned all those years ago in El Salvador is increasingly becoming the essence of Donald Trump’s America.

The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption 

The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”