Are there any Americans left who even like Trump?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-polls-2675266227/

MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough was taken aback Friday after new polling revealed that President Donald Trump had suffered a staggering 51-point swing in net approval among young voters in just a year’s time, something the “Morning Joe” host said he hadn’t seen in his entire career covering politics.

“I've never, in 32, 33 years following this very closely on the Hill, I have never seen 50-point swings,” Scarborough said. “Here we have a 51-point swing on the economy, a 51-point swing among [young] voters, and that's in the past year!”

According to a new YouGov/Economist poll, Trump’s approval among young voters – those between 18 and 29 years old – has cratered since he took office last year, dropping by 51 points to -42 net negative approval.

Trump’s approval on the economy has also cratered, dropping by 26 points among all voters when compared to the same point during his first presidency, and by a whopping 53 points among independents, a key voter bloc that helped hand Trump the presidency in 2024.

Scarborough called the abysmal polling “self-inflicted,” and cast blame directly on the Trump administration for its policies, particularly its push to construct immigration detention centers across the nation.

“They're not detention centers, they're internment camps! And they're building these internment camps all over the United States,” Scarborough said.

“If anybody in the White House is stupid enough to think people are going to allow internment camps in their communities... it's just going to make the situation worse! These internment camps will end up being another devastating blow, politically, to Republicans!”

Recently there has been a school shooting in Canada, BC, Tumbler Ridge Secondary school and the shooter was identified yesterday, I dont know if this thread has been already made.

https://www.winnipegsun.com/national-news/mass-killing-in-tumbler-ridge-school-leaves-six-dead/article_61ba49bb-afc2-4616-95c8-87f9e59963bc.html

Federal charges have been dropped against two men who had been charged with assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis last month, including one Venezuelan defendant who was shot in the leg by an officer. The Justice Department's motion cited "newly discovered evidence" that was "materially inconsistent" with the allegations against them.

The filing, entered Thursday by U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Daniel Rosen, moved to dismiss the charges against the men with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be reintroduced. On Friday, a judge granted the request.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Friday that two officers have been placed on administrative leave after a review of video evidence indicated they provided "untruthful statements" in their sworn testimony.

"Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers may face termination of employment, as well as potential criminal prosecution," Lyons said.

In January, the two men, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, were charged in a federal criminal complaint with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers in performance of their official duties. The charges came after Sosa-Celis was shot by an ICE officer, which drew nationwide attention amid the federal immigration surge in Minnesota.

From early on, the government's account of the alleged assault was not consistent.


>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-drops-charges-assaulting-ice-officers-inconsistent-evidence/

https://apnews.com/article/dhs-shutdown-tsa-travel-airports-delays-ff8b225c6ff8d57172fd301a550057b3

A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that took effect early Saturday impacts the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with airline reservations may be nervously recalling a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and long delays last year.

Transportation Security Administration officers are expected to work without pay while lawmakers remain without an agreement on DHS’ annual funding. TSA officers also worked through the record shutdown that ended Nov. 12, but aviation experts say this one may play out differently.

Trade groups for the U.S. travel industry and major airlines nonetheless warned that the longer DHS appropriations are lapsed, the longer security lines at the nation’s commercial airports could get.

Funding for Homeland Security expired at midnight. But the rest of the federal government is funded through Sept. 30. That means air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration will receive paychecks as usual, reducing the risk of widespread flight cancellations.

According to the department’s contingency plan, about 95% of TSA workers are deemed essential personnel and required to keep working. Democrats in the House and Senate say DHS won’t get funded until new restrictions are placed on federal immigration operations.

During past shutdowns, disruptions to air travel tended to build over time, not overnight. About a month into last year’s shutdown, for example, TSA temporarily closed two checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport. That same day, the government took the extraordinary step of ordering all commercial airlines to reduce their domestic flight schedules.

John Clark, arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from a business trip in Mississippi, said he was impacted by that earlier shutdown and is worried.

Sweethearts, the candy hearts with messages company, is leaning into recession indicator memes with its 2026 batch. Phrases like “split rent” and “buy in bulk” feature on many of the hearts this year in another sign that the economy is bad, regardless of what the White House might claim.

Every year, Sweethearts, owned by the Sprangler Candy Company, releases a new batch of edible hearts for Valentine’s Day—some with new messages meant to reflect the times. The vibe in 2026 is, apparently, poverty.

This is a recession indicator if there ever was one.

“Sweethearts has always evolved with the times by staying aware of current dating trends and relationships—and being practical is having a moment,” said Sprangler’s Vice President of Marketing Evan Brock in a press release.

“That’s why some of the messages on our Sweethearts candies aren’t just about finding love the old-fashioned way this year.”

The new hearts feature phrases like “share logn,” “car pool,” and “cook for 2” in addition to classics like “I luv you.” One even says “joint taxes,” referring to tax benefits enjoyed by married couples.

It doesn’t exactly warm the heart as much as “my hero” or “ur cute,” but Sweethearts isn’t wrong about 2026 dating trends. According to Consumer Affairs, 78 percent of Gen Z rated financial responsibility as an important factor in choosing a romantic partner.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/recession-indicator-2026-economy-bad-123000355.html

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-set-revoke-basis-us-climate-regulation-2026-02-12/
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, and eliminated federal tailpipe emissions standards for cars and trucks.
It is the most sweeping climate change policy rollback by the administration to date, after a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development and stymie the rollout of clean energy.
"Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and drove up prices for American consumers," Trump said, saying it was the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a press release the endangerment finding had relied on an incorrect interpretation of federal clean air laws meant to protect Americans from pollutants that do harm through local or regional exposure, not through warming the global climate.
"This flawed legal theory took the agency outside the scope of its statutory authority in multiple respects," it said.
Trump announced the repeal beside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and White House budget director Russ Vought, who has long sought to revoke the finding and was a key architect of conservative policy blueprint Project 2025.
Trump has said he believes climate change is a "con job", and has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement, leaving the world’s largest historic contributor to global warming out of international efforts to combat it. He has also signed legislation killing Biden-era tax credits aimed at accelerating deployment of electric cars and renewable energy.

The trans woman, Jesse Van Rootselaar of 18 years old, caused a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge (Canada), killing eight children, including his brother and mother.


https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/11/jesse-van-rootselaar-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooter/88631889007/

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-tpusa-charlie-kirk-death-conspiracy-theories-elijah-schaffer

TURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week.

In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved a convoluted story about an Uber ride. It went like this:

A TPUSA executive had taken an Uber and asked his driver what he thought of the organization. The driver replied that he had heard it was in chaos in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—and that no one inside TPUSA liked Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now TPUSA’s CEO. Then the Uber driver revealed to the TPUSA executive that the source of his information was Laistch, who the driver claimed was a high school friend of his daughter’s.

A strange story, and one Laitsch said she didn’t buy. She then offered up another explanation—one she said didn’t come up during her discussion with TPUSA executives but which she sensed was a factor in her termination.

Laitsch, as she outlined in her video, seems to genuinely believe that her own organization had something to do with its founder’s murder or an ensuing coverup.

The unfounded claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was some sort of inside job is growing in popularity on the right after being promoted by YouTuber and former TPUSA employee Candace Owens. Laitsch claims that others at TPUSA are suspicious about Kirk’s murder too—and that they had been discussing among themselves how they couldn’t raise the issue internally.