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September 9, 2025
Americans' confidence in finding a new job falls to record low
Updated on: September 8, 2025 / 6:39 PM EDT Job seekers' confidence in finding new employment has fallen, a new survey reveals. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Survey of Consumer Expectations, the average "perceived probability" of finding a new job after losing one fell 5.8% points to 44.9% among heads of households surveyed in August, the lowest measure on record since 2013 when the New York Fed began collecting data. At the same time, Americans are increasing ...
Go to discussionMike Johnson's Slim House GOP Majority Expected to Shrink This Week
Published Sep 08, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT Updated Sep 08, 2025 at 5:26 PM EDT Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw, the Democratic nominee in Virginia's special election on Tuesday, is being predicted by pundits to be victorious and fill late U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly's seat—a result that would narrow House Speaker Mike Johnson's already razor-thin GOP majority and complicate the chamber's ability to pass party-line measures. "We feel good," Walkinshaw told Newsweek via ...
Go to discussionSotomayor Scorches Supreme Court's Racial Profiling Ruling In Blistering Dissent
Sep 8, 2025, 03:21 PM EDT | Updated an hour ago Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling authorizing immigration agents’ use of racial profiling, saying it’s “unconscionably irreconcilable” with the U.S. Constitution. “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Sotomayor wrote. Her dissent is peppered with documented instances of Immigration and ...
Go to discussionLawyer Who Helped Trump Try To Overturn Election Says He May Use 'Emergency Powers' To Take Control of Elections
Sep 8th, 2025, 7:41 pm A lawyer who helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election claimed the president can "exercise some emergency powers" to wield authority over elections, which are a state matter. After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell, then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump's margi ...
Go to discussionHouse Democrats post 2nd Epstein birthday book page referencing Trump
10 hours ago Democrats on the House Oversight Committee publicly posted on X another page from Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book that referred to President Trump. The big picture: The post that features an image of Epstein holding a large check with the caption, "Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a 'fully depreciated' woman to Donald Trump for $22,500," came hours after they posted a doodle in the document containing the president's name — which he strongly ...
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