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December 9, 2025
'Terrible': Trump admin dragged as key jobs report yanked
(Raw Story) Political analysts and observers warned on Monday that President Donald Trump's latest move shows that "something is very wrong" with his economy, despite his claims that he has resurrected America's "Golden Age." The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Monday that it was going to roll October's employment data into the November release that is scheduled to be published in January. The news sparked backlash from analysts and observers on social media. "If the jobs report or the GDP report or the inflation report were good, the Trump Administration would have released them," Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) posted on X.
Go to discussionUS civic health rating downgraded after year of 'restrictive' Trump actions
(The Guardian) A coalition of global civil society organizations has downgraded the United States’ civic health rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed.” In a report released on Tuesday, Civicus, a non-profit that monitors civic freedoms in 198 countries, placed the US in its “obstructed” category. The group cited a “sharp deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the country … following a year of sweeping executive actions, restrictive laws and aggressive crackdowns on free speech and dissent.”
Go to discussionMajority Wants Obamacare Subsidies Extended
(Political Wire) A new Morning Consult survey found that 58 percent of Americans say Congress should extend the Obamacare subsidies, while 24 percent say it should let them expire.
Go to discussionJustice Department can unseal Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case records, judge says
(AP) The Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said on Tuesday. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled after the Justice Department in November asked two judges in New York to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits from Maxwell and Epstein’s cases, along with investigative materials that could amount to hundreds or thousands of previously unreleased documents.
Go to discussionSupreme Court Asked to Ax More Campaign Finance Limits
(Political Wire) “The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a major challenge to the way political campaigns are funded that could sharply reduce one of Democrats’ financial advantages in recent years,” the New York Times reports. “Fifteen years ago, the Supreme Court dramatically remade the campaign finance landscape in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a landmark case in which the justices struck down legal limits on independent political spending by corporations and unions, allowing a flood of new money to enter politics. The court has been chipping away at campaign finance restrictions ever since.”
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Trump will talk prices at Pennsylvania stop as ally says he has few quick-fix options
(Roll Call) President Donald Trump will address high prices and a stubborn economy when he stops by a Pennsylvania swing county Tuesday to sell his fiscal message to the battleground state. But one key Senate ally acknowledged there’s little he can do with the stroke of a pen or single legislative plan on the issue of affordability. “Just about everything is down,” the president said on Dec. 3 during an Oval Office event. “They use the word affordability. It’s a Democrat hoax. They’re the ones that drove the prices up.” But polling shows voters disagree. According to a RealClearPolitics average of recent surveys, 62.2 percent disapproved of Trump’s handling of inflation, while 34.8 approved.
Go to discussionTrump's new security strategy endangers democracy
(Salon) On Jan. 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy used his inaugural address to proclaim America’s commitment to protecting and promoting democracy and freedom across the globe. This country, he promised, would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Every president who followed embraced Kennedy’s vision. Everyone, that is, until Donald Trump.
Go to discussionHonduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump
(UPI) Honduras' attorney general on Monday night announced that he had issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, days after he was released from a U.S. prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump. Attorney General Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez said in a statement that he had instructed ATIC, Honduras' elite criminal investigative body housed within the Public Prosecutor's Office, to pursue the international arrest warrant, while urging security agencies and international allies, including INTERPOL, to do the same.
Go to discussionJudge Points Out Glaring Typo While Denying Pro-Trump Election Worker's Petition to Get Out of Prison
(Mediaite) Former Colorado election official Tina Peters’ latest effort to get out of prison flopped Monday, as a federal magistrate judge denied her habeas corpus petition because her state-level appeals had not yet run their course. Peters, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump who shared his penchant for baselessly claiming he lost the 2020 election because of fraud, served as the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder. She was indicted in 2022 for allowing an unauthorized person — later discovered to be affiliated with MyPillow founder and fellow election conspiracy monger Mike Lindell — to access and tamper with the county election equipment, breaking into the voting machines under her supervision and copying data that was later leaked online.
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