This is an indexed score based on news activity.
100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 123% above normal.
Recent trend: 61% above the long-term baseline.
7 Day Trending Topics: DHS, ICE, Tariffs
Yesterday’s Most Popular Story
Trump puts 22-year-old college graduate with no national security experience in charge of government’s main terrorism prevention office overseeing $18 million in anti-extremism grants.
🍅 Today was surely when flood the zone turned into throw ketchup at the wall.
While Trump and Musk’s public meltdown dominated headlines, the real story was happening in the shadows: systematically breaking government services so basic they can’t even answer tax questions, threatening election officials for following state law, and weaponizing immigration against college students who dare to protest.
But their tantrum revealed that they’re falling apart, losing in courts across the country, and failing at prosecutions they thought would be slam dunks. Their chaos isn’t strength, it’s desperation, and while they’re busy throwing food fights, 1,000 communities are organizing No Kings protests to show them what real power looks like.
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