What Happened Today – April 15

Colstrip Steam Electric in Montana is one of 70 plants Trump exempted from Clean Air Act compliance today. (Image by spotreporting is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.)

🚨👮 The crackdown is here. Trump’s regime isn’t waiting for permission. They are punishing, blacklisting, and threatening anyone who resists. A whistleblower gets drone-stalked. A protester was tased to cheers at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall meeting on Tuesday night. The AP’s victory was short-lived because all wire services got punished. And court orders? Still … Read more

What Happened Today – April 14

Harvard President Alan Garber formally rejected federal demands to overhaul campus policies. Hours later, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in grants and funding.

👨‍⚖️ đź’Ł Trump’s not ignoring the courts—he’s daring them to stop him. Judges say “reinstate the AP”? Trump says no. Order a deportee returned? He shrugs. One federal judge literally asked if a constitutional crisis is coming. It’s not coming. It’s here. And while the courts stall, Trump’s team is punishing universities, defunding global alliances, … Read more

What Happened Today – April 13

An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter launches from the USS Harry S. Truman to attack Houthi positions in Yemen.

🧱 Brick by brick, the Trump administration is gutting norms and tearing down the guardrails. A senior Social Security official gets walked out for objecting to the legality of classifying thousands of migrants as dead. DHS sends a mass email telling people to leave the country, even to at least one U.S. citizen. The CDC … Read more

What Happened Today – April 12

Alhurra journalists received the Burke Award in 2024 for frontline reporting in Gaza. Months later, the U.S.-funded network was shuttered and its staff dismissed after a Trump administration funding freeze.

🧱 Brick by brick, the Trump administration is gutting norms and tearing down the guardrails. A senior Social Security official gets walked out for objecting to the legality of classifying thousands of migrants as dead. DHS sends a mass email telling people to leave the country, even to at least one U.S. citizen. The CDC … Read more

What Happened Today – April 11

​Officials inspect sewage infrastructure in Hayneville, Alabama, where 650 homes were set to receive $8.7 million in federal cleanup funding until the project was blocked by the Trump Department of Justice, dismissing environmental justice as a 'DEI preference'.

🧪🧱🧠 The Trump administration is gutting science and shredding public trust. From fluoride bans to FDA walkouts, and from deporting political dissidents to handing military powers broad new turf, the message is clear: facts are optional, and control is the point. Public health is being politicized. Dissent is punished. Systems are collapsing on purpose. Call … Read more

What Happened Today – April 10

U.S. Ambassador Bridget Brink speaks at the “Victory Harvest” event in Ukraine, December 2024. She resigned this week as the Trump administration pivots toward diplomacy with Russia and a minerals deal that may leave Ukraine out in the cold.

🛰️💰🇺🇸Trump’s return isn’t a campaign — it’s a hostile occupation of government. Generals leapfrogged. Ambassadors purged. Scientists replaced with conspiracy theorists. Dissenters, from Space Force to Columbia, silenced or surveilled. Autocrats don’t just rewrite the rules — they erase the referees. And this time, the purge is wearing a badge, holding a gavel, and calling … Read more

What Happened Today – April 9

The FDA reversed Trump’s telework ban after mass resignations crippled drug approvals and critical work.

🚨📞💻 Trump isn’t just rewriting the rules. He’s coming for your rights. He tried to cut off Social Security phone lines. He handed your tax data to Musk’s private army. He’s punishing lawyers who held Fox accountable for 2020 lies. In your state. At the agency helping your family. Inside your benefits. None of this … Read more

What Happened Today – April 8

An unarmed MQ-9 Reaper drone at Springfield-Beckley Air National Guard Base. Despite Trump’s terror label for Mexican cartels and Musk’s public calls for drone strikes, the Pentagon says the military has no authority to launch attacks, only to monitor.

👉 Beneath the surface, norms are rotting. Trump’s crackdown isn’t random. It’s targeted, strategic, and retroactive. From deporting legally admitted migrants to punishing law firms and gutting civil rights oversight, this is authoritarianism cloaked in legalese. The goal? Instill fear, reward loyalty, and rewrite the rules beneath our feet. 🧯 Use 5 Calls. Use Resistbot. … Read more

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