Mike Orren

The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET

Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

I miss the glory days of Twitter, pre- the current owner where you could wind up chatting with everyone in your extended orbit and the occasional celeb.

John Perry Barlow, A. Whitney Brown and Eddie Pepitone were all in my DM's. Bluesky doesn't come close to replicating that.

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social

I’m one too.

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The Minnesota Star Tribune has reporters write about the ICE crackdown in Minnesota, then emails the next day’s layouts to Des Moines, Iowa, to be printed, then trucks the printed papers back to Minnesota for delivery, then can’t get the newspapers delivered because of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota

BREAKING: Massive anti-U.S., pro-Greenland protests have erupted in Copenhagen

Let that sink in, one of America’s closest allies is publicly protesting out of fear we might invade their territory

So much for the claim that “the world respects the U.S. under Trump.”

The reality? It’s the opposite.

Did I make me up? Or make this face til it stuck? I do the best imitation of myself. - Ben Folds, 'Best Imitation of Myself

Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody, when I paint my masterpiece. - Bob Dylan, 'When I Paint My Masterpiece

I launched a thing and I'm giddy:

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"Blow up your T.V. Throw away your paper. Go to the country. Build you a home. Plant a little garden. Eat a lot of peaches. Try and find Jesus on your own." - John Prine, "Spanish Pipedream"

Wisdom from John Prine.

@mikeorren.com: “They’re thinking about the cost of acquiring a customer and how to create useful products while you’re spending a small fortune on hard news.”

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The growth hackers come to your town "They're thinking about the cost of acquiring a customer and how to create useful products while you're spending a small fortune on hard news."

In which I contribute to @niemanlab.org's annual journalism prognostication-fest:

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

A post from the US Homeland Security, reading “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”

And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Insider Wire # @InsiderWire #BREAKING: X just paused the account location feature for an unknown reason.

Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from Israel but it’s India

Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Nigeria

Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Bangladesh

Don’t know the reason/the reason

Velvet Underground in their prime.

Donald Trump announces he has commuted George Santos’ sentence in his federal fraud case: “at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN! […] I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

Johan Tetzel, 1517:
Indulgence purchases are up 50% from last year.

Martin Luther:
Clearly we have a revival on our hands.

A people who refuse to despise one another are immune to authoritarians because an authoritarian’s power depends on certain groups of people despising other groups of people.

This is why there’s so much power in Jesus’ words, “love your enemies.”

It is an act of resistance.

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50%+ of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

All the BW apologists at mainstream outlets should feel extra embarrassed about their advocacy for her, and her elevation to the top of CBS News, after this. It's incredibly worth a half-hour of your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right?

Right?

An image of a vitriolic press release from the White House showing up in Google News feed.

Will @googlenews.bsky.social please take the freakin White House out of the Google News feed? It’s not a news source and shows up in feeds every day.

So much for the new rules stopping Pentagon insiders from talking to the press against the official line

No

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