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What Happened Today – October 5, 2025

A Midwest soybean field, America's top food export, now caught in Trump's circular trade war where tariff revenue pays farmers harmed by his own tariffs. (USDA file photo)

☢️ Trump dropped the façade today and ordered troops into Chicago and Portland. A federal judge has blocked any Oregon deployment for now. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling this Trump’s Invasion, and it’s hard not to see it as anything but a pretext. The ACLU is offering free training on Zoom on Monday night … Read more