On January 22 at the direction of that rapist currently sitting in the Oval Office the National Park Service removed exhibits that discussed the history of slavery at the President’s House at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. Apparently any mention of slavery gets that rapist’s panties in a twist.
A judge has now ordered the return of that exhibit, declaring, “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.”
U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe also forbade the government from “any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President’s House site” without getting permission from the City of Philadelphia.
So there!
Meanwhile, according to G. Elliott Morris:
According to our poll, low-knowledge voters backed Trump by a net margin of 11 points in 2024. Now, however, the same low-knowledge voters say they disapprove of the president by 13 points — a 25-point shift away from the president.
He continues:
In our poll, we asked respondents to answer two factual questions about politics today — which party controls the U.S. House and which party controls the U.S. Senate — in order to compare the attitudes of high- and low-knowledge voters. We also asked people to tell us their approval of Trump’s presidency overall and for key issues, and whether they voted in 2024 (and if so, who they voted for). We call someone “high knowledge” if they know which party controls both the House and Senate today (about 75% of 2024 voters), and “low-knowledge” if they got either one of those questions wrong (about 25% of 2024 voters).
Based on their 2024 voting behavior, you might expect low-knowledge voters to be more conservative across the board. However, that’s not what the data show.
When you break out Trump’s approval on specific issues, the high- and low-knowledge groups look remarkably similar on almost everything. Net approval of Trump’s handling of jobs and the economy (-19 vs. -21), trade (-19 vs. -22), foreign policy (-15 vs. -18), immigration (-9 vs. -9), health care (-30 vs. -27), and government funding (-20 vs. -21) barely differ between the two groups.
The one exception is on prices. Low-knowledge respondents disapprove of Trump’s handling of prices and inflation by 40 percentage points in our poll, compared to -30 among high-knowledge adults. That 10-point gap is statistically significant.
Read the whole article.
Now Stephen Colbert explains to his broadcast audience that a new directive from Brendan Carr’s FCC makes it next to impossible for CBS to air his interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico on CBS.