When job growth stalls, wage growth stalls, and affordability gets worse by the month.

Urgent update. Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures. Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.

The FDA sent stern warning letters to Walmart, Target and other retail giants after its investigators found they had kept baby formula on store shelves even after the product had been recalled due to its links to an outbreak of infant botulism.

Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k. These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day"). Unemployment is now up to 4.6%. This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.

A lawsuit against Instacart alleges that the mobile shopping giant fired a corporate employee for running for Congress, citing fears that some of her Democratic positions could lead to backlash from President Trump and Republicans.

BRENNAN: The president said 'prices are coming down tremendously.' But the latest data shows the consumer price index up 3% year over year. What data is he looking at? HASSETT: He went through the individual items that we've already made a bunch of progress on

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner on the Signalgate report: "Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets." He is calling for Hegseth to resign.

The only garbage here is what’s coming out of his mouth

The NYC Young Republicans are pivoting from having Nazi-sympathizers in their ranks to featuring them at their galas. When people show you who they are, believe them.

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."

Commentary: This Thanksgiving, wages are down for Ohio’s most common occupations. Farmers are struggling. Health care costs are surging. Rent, utilities, groceries and the cost of everyday goods due to the Trump tariffs, all surging. Ohioans are on edge ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/26/t...

The economic picture hasn't looked very rosy.

Businesses in Ohio and surrounding states are seeing rising prices and declining activity in several sectors, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has reported. Some of it's attributable to massive import taxes imposed by President Trump, businesses said. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/02/c...

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump has formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year for trafficking massive quantities of cocaine into the United States and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

It’s now official: Trump has pardoned one of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking last year in the U.S. and sentenced to 45 years in prison. 1/

Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Americans are spending more but getting less. Although overall US online shopping increased 3% on Black Friday, it was driven by a 7% jump in the average selling price, according to Salesforce. https://cnn.it/48cFAND

Exhibit 926 in criminal contempt proceedings. Noem’s declaration is due Friday to Judge Boasberg.

Joni Ernst must be so proud.

The Trump administration's continued focus on immigration enforcement is letting gun crime off the hook. The number of weapons seized by DHS dropped 73% compared to last year. Keep in mind, immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. These shifts make us all less safe.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week underwent thorough vetting by counterterrorism authorities before entering the U.S., according to people with direct knowledge of the case.

Straight up war crime

Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale... Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch. Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt. America deserves better.

European leaders have rejected the 28 points presented to Ukraine by the US. Talks in Geneva Sunday with US, Ukraine (Yermak), E3: Germany, France, UK, and Italy on top adviser level.

"From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems. The trend was enabled by voters’ increasing weariness with the culture wars that helped MAGA..." politi.co/3JXnWnP

It has been unusual how much the Fed has discussed inequality due to how blunt and poorly designed their tools are in dealing with it. The reason is due to outsized role affluent consumers play in supporting economic gains and inflation, notably among luxury goods and services.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump tried to silence a child he's accused of molesting by allegedly promising money from a reparations payment he claims was coming his way, according to a report.

South Dakota farmer: For Trump, the welfare of the American farmer is not in his best interests. And he's compounded that lately now with the beef issue. When we look back to what the slogan was a year ago, America first, well, it's Argentina first. It's all about protecting billionaires' pockets

The information contradicts the Trump administration's narrative that it is targeting the "worst of the worst" when conducting immigration enforcement. and seems to violate a 2022 federal consent decree that puts strong conditions on warrantless arrests. n.pr/4i6rNLX

How much we've collected in tariff revenue vs. cost of Trump's $2,000-for-almost-everyone "tariff dividend" plan, via @pbump.com www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

When President Trump proposed the introduction of a 50-year mortgage, he challenged a bedrock of the U.S. housing market and financial system. He also revealed how desperate his administration is to lower prices for consumers. Listen to "The Daily."

They interfered with Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion during his reelection campaign.

What once seemed destined to become a Republican rout has been fought closer to a stalemate. A bitter pill for the House’s California Republicans, who appear to have lost their careers for basically nothing. The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kick...

The steep tariffs imposed by President Trump have magnified the economic strain of an already volatile coffee market, leaving shop owners with the question: Can they absorb some of those increased costs without putting themselves out of business?

"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.

The US drew nearly $900mn of its IMF reserves as Argentina received an equivalent amount ahead of a critical debt payment, transactions analysts pinned on Washington’s effort to bolster Javier Milei’s government. www.ft.com/content/2730...

NEW: Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as a member of the 119th Congress, more than seven weeks after her special election victory.

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh

BREAKING: House Democrats just released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims — among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. tinyurl.com/5yj3dfpx