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Thought this was interesting for fellow poll watchers: Biden Approval Index History - Rasmussen Reports® Biden hit 54% approval in two consecutive polls with Rassmusen. Those are his highest approval score with Rassmusen ever. Disapproval was at 44%, his second lowest score. His approval...

Featured CPAC speaker said Judaism is a “complete lie” and referred to Jewish people as “thieving fake Jews” Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has dis-invited a young African-American hip hop musician/online commentator, after Media Matters for America dug up a number of...

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1333916403389370369 Seems like the sort of thing a Very Stable Genius might like.

Survey of a little over 1900 'likely 2020 voters' https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1647-supermajority-survey-on-women/429aa78e37ebdf2fe686/optimized/full.pdf#page=1 Some key take-aways: 1. Many voters are angry and worried about the state of women’s rights and gender equality in the...

Trump's top economic advisor, and one of the steadier hands on the tiller, seems to have had enough. It looks like the further retreat into by the administration into Neomercantalism and economic nationalism was enough for him to call it quits. Gary Cohn was the Chief Economic Advisor to the...

Monmouth University released some polling data that shows that among those who currently approve of the president’s job performance, most (61%) say they cannot see Trump doing anything that would make them disapprove of him. I was just wondering: Among those who support Trump, what would the...

Interesting and controversial hypothesis, but one of its main proponents is starting to get some more traction, with some papers published recently in PNAS and Physical Review Letters. The papers are beyond me (neither chemistry, nor maths were favourites at university), but there are a couple...

From the "whoops, we weren't looking for that, but isn't it amazing" files: A Swedish university student, examining 1.6 billion year old microbes in rock from India, stumbled across complex, eukaryotic life instead. Specifically, a form of red algae. The find pushes back our estimate for the...

So, it looks like the price of dissent is losing your job. Acting A-G gone You're fired: Trump axes Attorney-General over travel ban defiance Some key language: Ms Yates had said she was not convinced Mr Trump's travel ban was lawful. "I am responsible for ensuring that the positions we...

So, the temperature record for 2015 has been analysed and it turns out that the year was the hottest since record keeping began. Not only that, it was a record by a record amount. UK Met Office: 2015: the warmest year on record, say scientists US NOAA: State of the Climate Report for December...

This is a question for creationists, primarily young earth creationists. What, in your opinion, is the reason that the scientific community - and the public more generally - accepts evolution as the prevailing model for biology and also deep time as the prevailing concepts for geology and...