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What Happened Today – June 25

Leaders gather for the Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunisation in Brussels on 25 June 2025, a pledging event co-hosted by the EU and the Gates Foundation that secured more than $9 billion for Gavi’s next five-year vaccine drive—only for U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to announce the very next day that Washington will yank its funding.

🤑 Power is cashing in while cracking down. Trump’s family hijacks war buzz for a Tel Aviv tower, rebrands imported phones as American miracles, then his administration punishes unions, journalists, and immigrant families that dare ask why. Stop this profit driven autocracy before it locks us out of our own democracy. Don’t rely on the … Read more

What Happened Today – June 24

Trump tells reporters Israel and Iran "don't know what the fuck they're doing" before departing from the White House for NATO summit in The Hague, Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

🏴‍☠️ Deportation architect Stephen Miller owns stock in the data company tracking immigrants. Trump’s former lawyer, now up for a lifetime federal judgeship, allegedly told government attorneys to ignore court orders. Trump himself owes $83.3 million but suddenly claims immunity he previously waived. Grift has always been Trump’s brand, but now his aides and enablers … Read more

What Happened Today – June 23

A U.S. Postal Service electric delivery vehicle. The Senate parliamentarian blocked a GOP provision that would have forced the Postal Service to sell all its electric vehicles, ruling the measure violated Senate rules.

🔥 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 … Read more

What Happened Today – June 22

CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the White House Situation Room on Saturday during President Trump's airstrikes on Iran. (Photo: White House)

🎭 The administration’s victory theater is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. Trump declared Iran’s nuclear sites “completely obliterated” while his own vice president admitted they’re uncertain about what actually happened to the uranium stockpiles. Republicans tried to hide $3.8 trillion in tax cut costs with accounting gimmicks that fooled no one. They … Read more

What Happened Today – June 21

A B-2 Spirit Bomber shown landing at RAF Fairford UK in 2017. The B-2 reportedly carried out the attack mission in Iran Saturday. (USAF photo by Tech Sgt. Miguel Lara)

⚔️ Trump versus the US is institutional trench warfare, and his forces captured some ground today. CFPB abandoned 18 enforcement cases protecting consumers from predatory lenders while Voice of America was gutted again with 85% workforce cuts. Social Security is crumbling and has started hiding its telephone wait times to conceal its collapse. The judiciary … Read more

What Happened Today – June 20

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of favoring "moneyed interests" over ordinary citizens and warned of "reputational cost" in her scathing dissent on EPA emissions rules. (Photo courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

⚔️ Trump versus the US is institutional trench warfare, and his forces captured some ground today. CFPB abandoned 18 enforcement cases protecting consumers from predatory lenders while Voice of America was gutted again with 85% workforce cuts. Social Security is crumbling and has started hiding its telephone wait times to conceal its collapse. The judiciary … Read more

What Happened Today – June 19

An ICE detainee boards a flight to Guatemala earlier this year. Deportation flights from the Los Angeles region have more than doubled recently. (DHS Video)

Official portrait photograph of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.)

💥 Panic has gripped those in power. ICE stripped Congress of the right to inspect detention centers without 72 hours notice, illegally blocking surprise oversight of a regime terrified of accountability. Meanwhile, GOP officials are pitching fantasy prisons guarded by gators and pythons. There’s more, which is why you need to check these headlines and … Read more

What Happened Today – June 18

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Peter Welch (D-Vt) briefly attended a Senate Judiciary hearing on President Biden’s mental fitness then walked out as other Democrats boycotted attendance. Photo via C SPAN.

🎯 Trump is checked out while his administration is seizing control of everything that moves. While he saluted flagpoles and watched construction crews, his appointees weaponized student visas, Medicaid databases, and federal contracts into surveillance and deportation tools. They’re moving with 54-minute deadlines and contempt-of-court defiance to capture every institution they can reach. Iran is … Read more

What Happened Today – June 17

Masked ICE agents arrest NYC Comptroller Brad Lander at immigration court Tuesday as he escorted an immigrant whose case had been dismissed, with one plainclothes officer placing his forearm across Lander's throat during the detention. (Brad Lander/Bluesky)

🟥 Trump’s regime is now physically targeting Democratic officials. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by ICE agents outside a detention facility in early May. Since then, Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted, Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed and removed from a press event, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested in the hallway of a federal … Read more

What Happened Today – June 16

NIH researchers conduct laboratory work at Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, part of the biomedical research threatened by Trump's illegal cancellation of $1 billion in diversity-related grants.

⚠️ Trump is brushing away every safety system that keeps Americans alive, treating radiation standards and cancer protections like paperwork cluttering his desk. What took him four years to attempt in his first term, he’s now accomplishing in months with a GOP Congress that cheers while he waves away laws in the interest of his … Read more