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What Happened Today – June 1

June 1, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 80 🟢
Low activity. Things are quieter than usual.
This is an indexed score based on news activity.
100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 20% below normal.
Recent trend: 41% below the long-term baseline.
Previous 5 Days 64 | 128 | 152 | 192 | 184

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Courts, Federal Personnel, Criminal Justice
7 Day Trending Topics: DHS, ICE, Tariffs

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

Trump administration expands Palantir contracts to compile comprehensive database on all Americans from IRS, Social Security, medical and banking records to advance political agenda and police immigrants.

🌀 Reality isn’t just bending; our dystopia is now undeniable.

Trump shares a post that Biden was “executed and replaced by clones” while Ernst jokes about constituents dying from Medicaid cuts, and somehow a terrorist with a flamethrower feels like just another Tuesday.

This isn’t political theater anymore. It’s the systematic destruction of any shared understanding of what’s real or acceptable.

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