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What Happened Today – November 7, 2025

Four AI-generated posters from the Labor Department's social media campaign show exclusively white men in blue-collar settings promoting American manufacturing, part of a broader effort art historians compared to Nazi and New Deal-era propaganda. (Official Labor Department images)

The shutdown in the Republican-controlled federal government continues to expose systemic problems, including millions of hungry people missing food aid and a severely compromised air transportation system. Systems crack, splinter, then fall apart, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that. Justice Jackson stood on formality and allowed an appeals court to fully consider whether … Read more