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Exclusive: Some 47% of Americans approved of Donald Trump's presidency as he returned to the White House, a sign of a polarized nation following the Republican's victory in November, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/40GJ1bu

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This is crazy. Sometimes it's hard to put that much wealth into perspective. I'll also add, the median household net worth in the US is ~$200k.

1. Trump is either unfamiliar with the constitution or has contempt for it. 2. He’s talking about birthright citizenship generally, but I’m anticipating his strategy will focus on a narrow subset of people that fall into the BRC category—i.e children of illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants.

Can we all agree to teach our kids that effective policy and real change does not happen by the single action of a President. They pitch it on the campaign trail in a way that makes you hope so. But our government is layered and deep. Policy ≠ agenda. Policy is effective. Agenda gets you elected.

A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic, by demanding the government scrap its first licensing round in return for support for the budget reut.rs/4fXwKF6

Jets: “You gonna take us to the Super Bowl?” Aaron Rodgers:

While Facebook is pushing every Instagram user to Threads, and Twitter is desperately trying to shore up its collapsing user base, Bluesky is picking up steam — currently nearly 24 million users — because people actually enjoy using it. Go figure.

Well deserved $100K fines.

The Big Ten Conference has fined Michigan and Ohio State $100k each for their involvement in Saturday’s postgame brawl, the conference announced.

Helicopter Heist on Netflix. That is all. You’ll thank me later.

Bryce Young, coming into his own with the game on the line…

Citizens United was wrongly decided.

a lady who owns grave space at the cemetery where i work sent us an email referring to herself as a "future resident" 🫥

Abolishing the Department of Education has to be one of the dumbest ideas of my lifetime.

I 100% agree ‘if you don’t want a team planting a flag on your turf, then win.’ But, I also agree with Ryan Day’s sentiment: Having pride in your team and school, never let another team “plant a flag” in your turf. If you’re gonna do it, be ready for someone to take that as disrespect.