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What Happened Today – April 7

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, a decorated combat helicopter pilot and former president of the Naval War College, was one of the Navy’s highest-ranking women before being fired by Trump political appointee Pete Hegseth. Her decades-long career included commanding in Afghanistan, leading U.S. forces in the Pacific, and becoming the first woman to head Joint Region Marianas.

🔧 Cripple the system, then blame the wreck. Trump’s team is torching the machinery of public trust by gagging science, gutting safety hotlines, and cutting off cancer patients mid-treatment. They’re not just breaking government. They’re rewriting history while doing it. Think again if you think it’s all accidental. It’s a playbook: silence the experts, centralize … Read more

What Happened Today – April 6

Dr. Steven Rosenberg, a leading NIH immunotherapy expert, helped develop a breakthrough cancer therapy now helping 1 in 4 patients. Its rollout is being delayed as Trump-era layoffs disrupt treatment capacity.

🔧 Cripple the system, then blame the wreck. Trump’s team is torching the machinery of public trust by gagging science, gutting safety hotlines, and cutting off cancer patients mid-treatment. They’re not just breaking government. They’re rewriting history while doing it. Think again if you think it’s all accidental. It’s a playbook: silence the experts, centralize … Read more

What Happened Today – April 5

USAID workers were fired this week while conducting earthquake relief operations in Myanmar, where over 3,000 people have died. (Photo: courtesy of the Red Cross)

✊📢📉 “Mega API,” mass firings, and mass protests—Trump’s machine is just getting started. Even as Americans flood the streets, Trump’s regime tightens its grip. DOGE is gutting the IRS and eyeing Palantir to wiretap your finances through a single system. Tariffs are crashing markets, and dissenters at FEMA, DHS, and DOE are getting purged. This … Read more

What Happened Today – April 4

Pete Hegseth heads to Panama weeks after Marco Rubio’s visit, as both push Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, shown above in this 2021 Coast Guard photo.

🧨 Trump breaks things on purpose — and dares you to stop him. He tanks the markets, targets dissent, opens forests to industry, and turns the federal government into a personal vendetta machine — then smirks from the golf course and tells you to “get rich.” While he defunds disaster prep, mass-fires civil servants, and … Read more

What Happened Today – April 3

Brown awaits word on Trump retaliation: $510 million in federal funding at risk over protest response.

⚙️ 🏭 🤖 The authoritarian machine is burning hot and cold—unleashing chaos while pretending it’s all under control. Trump’s economic blitz hits 60 countries (and a few penguins), while law firms and corporations keep folding to pressure, striking deals that trade integrity for survival. At home, mass firings rip through federal agencies. The CDC was … Read more

What Happened Today – April 2

After Gov. Mills opposed Trump, Social Security singled out Maine, requiring parents to register newborns in person at one of just eight federal offices.

👁️‍🗨️🚨 Trump is consolidating power faster than he can spell DEI. From defying court orders to purging national security staff and threatening universities, the administration is rewriting the rules—and punishing anyone who resists. Even Wall Street and the country’s biggest law firm flinched. They’re testing the limits. It’s up to us to show where the … Read more

What Happened Today – April 1

The Naval Academy library removed nearly 400 books from the shelves before Pete Hegseth's arrival.

😡 They’re doing all this in plain view. From ICE deporting a U.S. resident to the mass firings of scientists to judges handing federal buildings to Musk’s agency for free, today’s chaos is coordinated. Trump’s allies are purging public institutions, canceling dissent, and daring anyone to stop them. But not everyone’s rolling over. From Wisconsin … Read more

What Happened Today – March 31

EPA Admin. Lee Zeldin closed a small agency museum he complained was a shrine to climate change and environmental justice.

💥 Power grabs, digital sabotage, and righteous resistance. Trump’s team tried to quietly transfer a $500 million building to the government, crashed the Social Security portal pushing out staff support, and bragged about killing “terrorists” in strikes escalating with Iran. But just blocks from the White House, trans Americans and their allies gathered in defiant … Read more

What Happened Today – March 30

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen with President Biden in the Oval Office, 2023. Frederiksen heads to Greenland this week after Trump revived threats to annex the island.

🌪️ “Third term.” $6 trillion. War-fighting bases. Molotovs. Authoritarians don’t pause. They escalate. Trump’s team leaked strike plans over Signal, dangled third-term fantasies, and proposed tariffs the size of a quarter of the U.S. economy—all while attacking lawyers, lying to the public, and cozying up to a dictator who just tried to erase Ukraine’s leader. … Read more

What Happened Today – March 29

Comedian Amber Ruffin was dumped as the Correspondent Dinner entertainment following WH complaints.

GovBrief Intensity Score: 104 ✅ Below the two-month average. 🧊 They’re not hiding it. They’re banning books, firing peacekeepers, and threatening to annex Greenland. This isn’t a stunt. It’s a strategy — from anime ICE memes to purging the Pentagon, they’re showing us exactly how far they’ll go. Believe them. Read today’s post. Share it. … Read more