How Sánchez became Trump’s nemesis in Europe ft.trib.al/ypuPjwt

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes that killed Iran's leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday reut.rs/4aSiAoF

NEW Feb 28 poll of 2,466 U.S. adults (+/-2.8 points) % who think the U.S. attacks on Iran diminished Iran's capacity to make nuclear weapons in the future [a lot or a little | not at all] U.S. adults 47% | 19% Democrats 38% | 30% Independents 37% | 22% Republicans 66% | 7% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

Trump has no realistic plan for Iran’s future ft.trib.al/WUMjTDW

What is there to "curtail" when the attack already happened?

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

FYI, polling on Iran: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/voter-id-t...

The new Strength In Numbers/@verasight.io poll finds Democrats leading on the generic ballot by 10 points among registered voters. (@gelliottmorris.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260225

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

They're cooked.

American approval of President Trump's immigration policy fell to its lowest level since his return to the White House in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, with a majority of Americans saying his crackdown on immigration has gone too far reut.rs/4k2SJgC

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Well, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll. Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below). (cc @gelliottmorris.com )

Very late to this but here we go! A collection of our visual and graphics storytelling from 2025. Enjoy 💞

A 2024 study considers the U.S. Federal Reserve more independent than Bank of England, but less so compared with European Central Bank. The data is from the central bank independence index that measures six dimensions, including independence by CB governors.

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will take steps to ban large institutional investors from owning single-family homes to address affordability. However, data show that as of the second quarter of 2025, 87% of investor-held single-family homes were owned by small investors with 1-5 properties.

Premium tax credit under the Affordable Care Act, used to offset some healthcare costs, is set to expire by Jan. 1, 2026 without a potential extension or replacement. The expiration, in turn, would push up healthcare premiums for Americans.

W www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he wants undocumented immigrants to push back against improper law enforcement, urging residents to refuse entry, remain silent and legally record agents during an encounter.

“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, adding to his growing list of pardons on just the first year of his second term. Data show Trump has pardoned 70 people as of Dec. 1, more than his recent predecessors on the same period of their term.

Private insurance won't cover houses in areas increasingly prone to natural disasters like wildfires or hurricanes, so they're covered under insurance plans of last resort, known as FAIR plans. Read how the insurance fix is becoming a problem ➡️ reut.rs/44ldWvs

US states have set up insurers of last resort in disaster-prone areas which private insurance has avoided. Amid more frequent disasters, these insurers are experiencing record signups. The financial burden is becoming a problem. Visual explainer with Soumya Karwa. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Canada lost the elimination status of measles in the country after cases soared to their highest since 1991 this year, government data show. Before this, measles has been declared eliminated in the country since 1998, which meant that there was no continuous transmission of the disease.

Come Nov. 1, over 40 million Americans will lose food aid benefits called SNAP due to lapse of government funding and the ongoing shutdown. In fiscal year 2024, over one in five people living in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico received SNAP benefits, the highest across states.

"The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized 'on paper' gains."

Hear me out though: they're not really "debates." I also think it's interesting that the story didn't touch on something I think makes this show format effective: it's not just the conflict, but also the "underdog effect" on one person going up against a mass. Makes you root for that one person.

The current U.S. federal government shutdown is now the second longest in history with no end in sight as Senate Republicans and Democrats remain in a standoff over healthcare.

"A recently updated Fed staff model...found that overall financial conditions are boosting - not restraining - economic growth by about a percentage point a year, with the Fed's policy rate contributing slightly to the lift." Chart for this story by Howard Schneider. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Throwback to 2020 in the Philippines where allies of then president Rodrigo Duterte at House of Representatives denied the country's largest broadcaster, ABS-CBN, a franchise, triggering a broadcast shutdown. Prior to that, Duterte had criticized ABS's reporting of him. www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/m...

This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Big downward revisions in previous months' records, too.

Reuters is tracking how global companies are responding to the threat posed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.

Only about one in four Americans say Israeli military actions in Gaza are fully justified, poll says.

The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in previously appropriated funds to programs such as aid and support to public broadcasting. The bill goes back to the House of Representatives after the Senate chose to save about $400M in HIV/AIDS relief.

Nvidia, the most valuable public company in the world, is inching closer to $4 trillion market capitalization. It's now bigger than the entire UK economy.

Mamdani gains on Cuomo with just two weeks until the New York City mayoral Dem primaries.

Jan 6 police heroes argue Trump and his top aides are peddling in “hypocrisy” by decrying “Insurrection” in Los Angeles

The U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy-League institution.

Global investor pushback against long-term government debt is turning what normally would be a routine US bond auction into one of the most anticipated events on Wall Street this week.

US facilitated the return of a Guatemalan it deported. In another case, the US Supreme Court in April ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US from El Salvador. Garcia is still in El Salvador.

Spain betting big on immigrants.

US economy shrinks.

Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/4dzoOJF

The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...