What Happened Today - 9 Dec 2025
What Happened Today – 9 December 2025
ICE Update
MTG World….
The latest “hoax” – Affordability
HUGE win in Miami
Approval Numbers…
The Dumb Today…
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ICE Update
What ICE is doing right now isn’t just “tough enforcement”; it’s a full-blown cruelty machine that treats people like they’re disposable, especially if they’re poor, disabled, or easy to dehumanize. The stories coming out of these detention centers read like something out of a country that has given up on basic decency, not a place that claims to stand for due process and human rights.
Disabled people and medical neglect
There’s the disabled folks they lock up and then basically abandon: people with prosthetics, spinal issues, diabetes, hearing loss, you name it, left without the gear or care they literally need to survive. Investigators and disability advocates have documented people with prosthetic eyes who couldn’t clean them to avoid infection, detainees with serious spinal conditions stuck on busted mattresses that make the pain worse, folks whose hearing aids broke and never got repaired, and diabetics who couldn’t keep their blood sugar stable because meal times were a mess and medical support was a joke.
Then you’ve got cases where things go completely off the rails: a detainee who already had frostbite injuries ended up having his fingers amputated after ICE sat on his treatment, another person had stroke-like symptoms after being denied regular meds, and others have had medications reduced or cut off for serious physical and mental health conditions. In Georgia and elsewhere, advocates are screaming about people like Rodney Taylor, a double amputee whose detention raised alarms because of how impossible and dangerous it is to keep someone with that level of disability in a system that can’t even handle basic care.
Prosthetics and punishment
One of the ugliest patterns is how ICE handles people who rely on prosthetics just to move or function. There are reports of guards threatening to damage or take prosthetic legs and then retaliating when a detainee refuses to let them mishandle his equipment, including sticking him in solitary as punishment. Solitary confinement for someone already struggling with disability and mobility isn’t just harsh; it’s psychological torture dressed up as “discipline,” and it directly violates international standards for humane treatment.
At facilities like Adelanto in California, watchdogs found people with prosthetic devices and other serious medical issues who couldn’t get basic maintenance or treatment, even after repeated requests. When you’re locking up people who need charged prosthetics, specialized equipment, regular dialysis, or stable access to medications, and your system is so broken that they’re falling, getting infected, or suffering organ damage, that’s not a glitch — that’s structural cruelty.
Deaths in custody and “acceptable losses”
This year is one of the deadliest in decades to be in ICE custody, with around 20 or more people dying while detained and the population in these facilities ballooning to roughly 60,000 people. The deaths run the spectrum: seizures after denied care, suicide in facilities with a long history of neglect, and medical problems that could have been prevented if anyone in charge actually treated detainees as human beings instead of numbers on a spreadsheet.
At places like Krome in Florida and Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, advocates and senators have been sounding the alarm about overcrowding, people sleeping on floors, women shuffled onto buses overnight, and a trail of deaths by medical neglect and suicide that keeps getting longer. When a system is so overcrowded and underregulated that deaths become a “trend line” instead of a national scandal, that’s the definition of un-American hypocrisy: we preach liberty while running detention centers where people die waiting for basic treatment.
Raids, hearings, and snatching people mid‑process
ICE has been ramping up aggressive tactics: raiding apartment complexes, pulling adults and kids out of their homes, and going after people who actually show up for their immigration hearings or check‑ins like they’re supposed to. There are cases where people with DACA or administratively closed cases — folks who did everything by the book — get grabbed, given documents in a language they can’t read, denied interpreters, and cut off from lawyers and family for weeks.
This isn’t “you broke the law, now face the consequences”; it’s weaponizing the system against the exact people who tried to follow the rules and believed the process meant something. When a judge is literally confused in open court because ICE is detaining someone whose case was already closed and protected, that shows you how far this has drifted into lawless territory that’s all about intimidation, not justice.
Tear gas, “less lethal” rounds, and kids
On the street and at the border, the pattern is the same: escalate first, justify later. Border and immigration forces have used tear gas and rubber bullets at protests and operations in ways that even federal judges and local officials say went too far. In Chicago recently, residents described kids and bystanders getting hit with chemical agents during an immigration raid, with a mother saying her two‑year‑old was caught in the gas even though their neighborhood was nowhere near a “war zone.”
Reports and investigations show these “less lethal” weapons being fired into crowds that include families, with warnings that are either rushed or ignored, and then DHS turns around and releases edited video to “prove” everything was justified. This fits right in with the broader Trump‑era approach: throw troops and munitions at migrants and protesters, then slap a “policy compliant” label on it afterward while communities deal with kids choking on gas and people bruised or maimed by so‑called nonlethal rounds.
Family separation and what it says about us
Family separation is the most naked version of this cruelty: kids pulled from parents at the border and shuffled through a system that treats them like case files instead of children whose lives are being broken apart. The Trump line has always been that this is about “deterrence” and “law and order,” but what it really does is use trauma as a policy tool — sending a message to the world that America is willing to emotionally shred families to make a point.
Layer in everything else — the deaths, the disability neglect, the gassing, the raids, the solitary confinement for people in prosthetics — and it’s obvious this isn’t just about enforcing immigration law; it’s about normalizing state‑sanctioned cruelty against people who don’t have power. And that’s the most un‑American part of all of it: this country loves to brag about being a beacon of freedom while running an immigration system that treats human beings as disposable collateral in a political culture war.
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MTG World
Marjorie Taylor Greene is in full break‑up mode with Trump world right now, and she’s trying to rehab her image on mainstream TV while MAGA turns on her and most normal Americans are just stunned it took her this long to see what she helped create.
What she said on CNN
On CNN, she leaned hard into this “I’m done with toxic politics” rebrand, basically saying she’s sorry for helping pour gasoline on the fire and that Trump’s “traitor” talk about her is dangerous because it encourages his followers to target her. She admitted flat out that his language has fueled threats against her, and she tried to position herself as someone who wants to “put down the knives in politics” after years of being one of the biggest knife‑throwers in the game.
She also tied her shift to how ugly things have gotten on the right, referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk as a wake‑up call and saying she doesn’t want to be part of that climate anymore. It’s very “humbly, I’m sorry” energy, but coming from the same person who built her brand on conspiracy garbage and rage posting, it lands as more strategic survival move than moral awakening.
What she said on 60 Minutes
On 60 Minutes, she went even further, openly saying Trump’s policies are not really “America First” and blasting him for caring more about vengeance and optics than about the issues his base actually lives with every day. She talked about their relationship souring after she backed releasing the Epstein files, accused him of being “extremely unkind” when she told him his “Marjorie Traitor Greene” crap led to death threats against her son, and said a pipe bomb threat was literally tied to his words.
Greene also called out Republicans in Congress as cowards, saying half of them talk trash about Trump behind closed doors but are “terrified” to cross him publicly because they don’t want to be dragged on Truth Social. She hit him on policy, too, saying he’s not focused on what his voters actually care about anymore—cost of living, health care, and basic stability—and that a lot of her colleagues are just riding the Trump train out of fear, not loyalty.
MAGA world’s reaction
MAGA instantly did what MAGA does: they turned on her like she never existed. Trump went on Truth Social, called her a “low IQ traitor,” claimed she only “went bad” because she was “jilted” by him, and dismissed the whole interview as CBS and 60 Minutes being out to get him under their new owners. He’s using her as an example to keep everyone else in line: step out of the cult and you get publicly humiliated and stripped of your “real patriot” badge overnight.
The hardcore MAGA base followed his lead: online they’re calling her a sellout, a plant, a RINO, everything they usually reserve for anyone who stops worshipping Trump on cue. The right‑wing media echo chamber is split between trashing her as bitter and irrelevant and trying to erase the fact she was ever one of the biggest faces of the movement.
How most Americans are taking it
Outside the MAGA bubble, the vibe is basically: “She helped build this monster, and now she’s shocked it turned on her.” A lot of people are glad to see someone that deep in the Trump orbit finally say out loud that his rhetoric is dangerous and his own party is terrified of him, but there’s very little trust in her motives because she only started talking like this on her way out the door.
Polling and commentary around her resignation and these interviews show that for most Americans, she’s still seen as part of the problem, not some brave whistleblower—and her little honesty tour mostly confirms what people already suspected about how Republicans talk about Trump in private. The bottom line: she’s trying to jump off the MAGA ship after years of helping steer it into the iceberg, and while the cult is busy ripping her apart, the rest of the country is just clocking it as more proof of how rotten that whole ecosystem really is.
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The latest “hoax” – Affordability
Trump spent today in Pennsylvania doing this big “affordability” speech at a casino resort, trying to convince people he’s lowering costs even as polls show voters still feel squeezed and unimpressed. He’s touting a White House line about a whole-of-government push to bring prices down and boost take‑home pay, but the broader coverage keeps emphasizing that people on the ground aren’t feeling the relief he’s hyping. At the same time, he just moved to officially kill Biden’s SAVE student loan repayment plan, framing it as stopping a “deceptive scheme” and hammering the idea that if you took out a loan you’re going to pay every dime back, which is landing like a brick with borrowers who thought they finally had some breathing room.
Lie 1: “We inherited the worst inflation in history”
He’s been telling people he inherited “the worst inflation in our nation’s history” and that Democrats caused the affordability mess he’s now bravely cleaning up. That’s nonsense because inflation under Biden peaked around 9% in 2022, which is ugly but nowhere near U.S. records; the 1970s–early 1980s had higher sustained inflation, and post‑WWII spikes were worse too. Economists and coverage are clear the recent squeeze is a mix of pandemic whiplash, supply shocks, corporate pricing power, and yes policy, but not some uniquely “worst ever” Democratic inflation monster like he’s selling.
Lie 2: “Prices are coming down” / “We’re bringing prices way down”
In the speech and in the run‑up, he bragged that his policies are “crushing” inflation and “bringing prices way down,” as if your bills are magically shrinking. Reality check: inflation has cooled from the 2022 spike, but prices overall are still up around 3% year‑over‑year and remain well above pre‑pandemic levels, which is why people still feel wrecked at the grocery store and on rent. Slower inflation means prices are rising more slowly, not that they’ve dropped back to where they were, so claiming “prices are coming down” like everything’s cheaper now is flatly misleading.
Lie 3: “Affordability” is fake but also his big mission
For weeks he was calling affordability concerns a “hoax,” a “con job,” a “fake narrative,” then shows up at a casino wrapped in banners screaming “Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks” and pretends it’s his top priority. You can’t say the issue isn’t real and then turn around and tell voters you’re the one heroically solving it; that’s him trying to gaslight people into thinking their pain is partisan messaging until he needs their votes. Polls and local reporting show people in Pennsylvania are still getting hammered by stuff like healthcare premium hikes and rents, so his “it’s not real but I fixed it” balancing act is just another layer of BS.
Lie 4: “My policies are lowering your costs right now”
He’s selling the story that tax cuts, deregulation, and more drilling are already easing day‑to‑day costs for regular people. But a lot of the pressure in places like Pennsylvania is coming from the fallout of his own tariff fights and policy choices, plus expiring ACA subsidies that are sending some premiums up by double digits, not down. Even his own aides quietly admit they’re doing this tour because voters do not feel any relief, which undercuts his whole “mission accomplished on affordability” line.
Lie 5: SAVE was a “deceptive scheme” shifting debt to innocent taxpayers
On the student‑loan side, his Education people are calling Biden’s SAVE plan “illegal,” a “deceptive scheme,” and an “injustice” that supposedly dumped borrowers’ debt onto taxpayers who never went to college. In reality, SAVE was an income‑driven repayment plan Congress explicitly allowed the Department of Education to run, designed so low‑income borrowers paid a smaller share of their income and got forgiveness after years of payments—hardly some secret scam. Yes, it costs taxpayers money, but that’s literally what every federal loan subsidy and forgiveness program does; pretending this one is uniquely “illegal” and deceptive is a political choice, not a legal fact the courts have already blessed.
Lie 6: “If you take out a loan, you must pay it back” (like that’s the law, no exceptions)
His undersecretary rolled out the hard‑line mantra that “the law is clear: if you take out a loan, you must pay it back,” as if Congress never wrote in forgiveness or income‑driven repayment into federal law. That line erases the actual legal framework where Congress has always allowed the Education Department to reduce or cancel debt in certain situations—public‑service forgiveness, borrower defense, disability discharges, and income‑driven plans that end in forgiveness are all baked into statute. So they’re not “correcting” some illegal giveaway; they’re ripping away the most affordable plan millions had and forcing them into costlier options while pretending that’s just restoring the rule of law.
Lie 7: Ending SAVE protects regular taxpayers, not special interests
They’re selling the death of SAVE as a win for the little guy who “never went to college” and is tired of subsidizing someone else’s degree. But who actually benefits are lenders and the government’s bottom line, while millions of low‑and middle‑income borrowers lose lower payments, interest protections, and a clearer path to forgiveness, which means more defaults and more economic drag in exactly the communities already getting squeezed on “affordability.” Calling that “protecting taxpayers” is upside‑down when many of those borrowers are taxpayers too, just with student debt hanging around their neck.
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HUGE win in Miami
Miami just told MAGA to kick rocks, and it did it right in Trump’s adopted backyard, which is exactly why this win is such a gut punch for his whole movement.
What actually happened
Democrat Eileen Higgins just smoked Trump‑backed Republican Emilio González in the Miami mayoral runoff, winning by roughly 18–20 points in a city that hasn’t elected a Democrat to that office in almost 30 years.
This is in a city at the heart of Miami‑Dade, a county Trump actually flipped and won in 2024, which makes this result even louder as a rejection of his brand of politics.
Why it’s such a big win
Republicans have controlled Miami City Hall for nearly three decades, and national GOP and Florida Republicans poured money and muscle into González, explicitly framing the race as a test of Trump’s appeal with Hispanic voters.
Higgins didn’t run from the contrast; she leaned into being the anti‑MAGA candidate, campaigned on affordability and housing, and literally put out visuals tying González to Trump and his hard‑line immigration stance, then beat him in a Latino‑majority city by almost 20 points.
Why it’s a bad omen for MAGA
If MAGA can’t hold Miami—a Cuban‑ and Latino‑heavy city in a state they’ve treated like a personal fiefdom—after Trump personally endorsed the guy, that screams warning sign for the whole “realignment” storyline they’ve been bragging about.
Nationally, this fits into a pattern: Democrats overperforming in local and special elections all year while Trump keeps trying to run the same grievance playbook; Miami just showed even voters in his own stomping grounds are willing to break with a Trump‑branded candidate when real‑life issues like rent, corruption, and basic competence are on the line.
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Approval Numbers…
Trump’s numbers are still ugly: national favorables are hanging in the high‑30s to mid‑40s depending on the poll, with disapproval solidly in the mid‑50s, and one state‑by‑state breakdown has him at around 36–39% overall and hitting a second‑term low. He’s still over 50% in deep‑red strongholds like Idaho, West Virginia, Wyoming, and parts of the South, but he’s stuck in the 20s in deep‑blue states and hovering around 40% in key battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which is exactly why he’s practically living in those swing states and shouting “affordability” every five minutes.
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The Dumb Today….
Trump and his little MAGA Avengers absolutely delivered a fresh batch of nonsense today, and a lot of it was either flat‑out false or completely detached from how normal people are living.
Trump
Trump was back at it calling affordability a “con job” cooked up by Democrats, then in the next breath bragging in Pennsylvania that prices are “coming down immensely” and that he “inherited the worst inflation in history.” That’s garbage because inflation when he took office this time was about 3%, it’s still roughly 3% now, and overall prices are still way higher than pre‑pandemic, which means people absolutely are not seeing the magical price collapse he keeps describing. He also keeps pretending Democrats just invented the word “affordability” as some made‑up talking point when every poll shows voters in both parties list cost of living as a top concern, including a big chunk of his own supporters.
Pete Hegseth
Hegseth, now running the Pentagon, is out here proudly hyping lethal boat strikes near Venezuela like they’re some tough‑guy flex, brushing off the civilian‑casualty and escalation concerns coming from Congress. The problem is lawmakers and outside experts are already warning these strikes may have pushed legal limits, risk a wider conflict, and have murky intel behind them, so his “nothing to see here, this is decisive leadership” spin is just papering over very real questions about legality and blowback.
“MAGA Mike” Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson has been running around claiming things like healthcare subsidies and affordability programs are unsustainable handouts and fear‑mongering that support “ends this December” as if Democrats are about to pull the plug on everyone’s coverage. That’s misleading because what’s actually happening is Republicans — under pressure from Trump — have been slow‑walking or sabotaging renewals and extensions, so if anything lapses, it’s because of their obstruction, not some inevitable blue‑state welfare cliff.
JD Vance
Vance has been parroting Trump’s line that “affordability” is a “Democrat scam” and a “manufactured crisis,” while also claiming Republicans have “stopped inflation in its tracks” and restored thousands in household income. That’s upside‑down: inflation is lower than the 2022 spike but not “stopped,” prices are still up, and independent data show households lost purchasing power during the recent price surge, especially renters and low‑income families, so his “we fixed it, they broke it” story just doesn’t match the numbers.
Kristi Noem
Noem’s more offstage today but she’s still part of the same universe of spin, backing Trump’s line that red‑state culture‑war governance is what’s keeping people safe and prosperous while her own state has been dealing with ugly healthcare access gaps and economic strain in rural areas. The idea that lecturing about “woke” and carrying water for Trump’s attacks on media and protesters is some kind of economic plan is pure fantasy; it does nothing for actual wages, rents, or grocery bills.
Pam Bondi
Bondi, as Trump’s attorney general, has been out front promising aggressive crackdowns on “global crime groups” and echoing the same tough‑on‑crime, soft‑on-corporate‑friends message that led the administration to waive millions in fines for big companies while hammering migrants and low‑level offenders. Selling that as “law and order” is a joke when the pattern is clear: cozy treatment for corporations and political allies, maximal punishment for the most vulnerable.
Kash Patel
Patel is busy playing strongman, vowing massive investigations, talking about “huge” probes and warning Americans about cyber threats in a way that sounds more like political theater than sober law enforcement. On top of that, he’s already being sued by agents fired after kneeling at a George Floyd protest, which blows up his “I’m just defending the rule of law” act and shows how deeply political and retaliatory his leadership looks from inside the Bureau.
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