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What Happened Today – June 23

GovBrief Intensity Score 136 🔴
High intensity. Big news cycle.
Previous 5 Days
48 | 88 | 168 | 120 | 192
This is an indexed score based on news activity. 100 = our permanent historical baseline. Today is 36% above normal. Recent trend: 3% below the long-term baseline.

🔥 Cruelty and lies have become the new infrastructure of government.

Today saw the systematic demolition of accountability paired with the institutionalization of brutality with an Iranian retaliatory attack on one of our air bases.

The Supreme Court didn’t accidentally bless overseas torture camps. Republicans didn’t randomly gut the GAO. These are deliberate choices to rebuild governance around inflicting pain and escaping consequences. Democracy doesn’t survive when violence becomes policy and truth becomes optional.

Every institution that still catches these lies or blocks this cruelty is under attack. Call your representatives now and demand they defend what’s left before cruelty becomes so routine we stop noticing.

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Senate GOP slashes apparent cost of tax cuts from $3.8 trillion to $441 billion using never-before-used accounting method that eliminates expiring tax cut costs.

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