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What Happened Today – October 28, 2025

Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike monument in DC's Judiciary Square, reinstalled by Trump executive order after protesters toppled and burned it on Juneteenth 2020. (Photo by Cliff via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Trump is still in Asia, ignoring suffering and death at home. Louisiana’s Surgeon General banned vaccine events after two infants died from whooping cough. Anti-vaccine ideology matters more than dead babies. Forty-two million Americans lose food benefits Saturday. The GOP knows 1 in 8 Americans don’t have enough to eat, but shutdowns work as political … Read more