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What Happened Today – October 24, 2025

Dozens of aircraft crowd the deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford as it leaves Oslo in September, before deploying to menace Venezuela where Trump's forces killed 43. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Alexis Fowler)

The fuses Donald Trump lit are burning as he flies to Asia for a week. Forty-two million Americans depend on food stamps to eat, and the Trump administration refused today to use emergency funds to keep benefits flowing as the shutdown continues. While Americans go hungry, 14 warships carrying thousands of troops and dozens of … Read more

What Happened Today – October 23, 2025

A U.S. soldier inspects double bunks at Guantanamo Bay, where Justice Department lawyers claimed Thursday they can detain migrants at any military base worldwide. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Ornelas Jr.)

History is being rewritten in real time. Trump continues gaslighting America by demanding the National Symphony open concerts with the National Anthem and editing the White House website to include photos of Hunter Biden in a bathtub and a topless transgender activist whose actions got her immediately banned from the White House.’ He told reporters … Read more

What Happened Today – October 22, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shares footage of the ninth U.S. military strike on alleged drug-trafficking boats, killing 37 total while comparing cartels to al-Qaeda to justify extrajudicial killings without due process. (Screenshot from @PeteHegseth/X)

The food crisis is real and about to get much worse. California and New Mexico are the latest states warning about their inability to meet demand now that they’ve been cut off from federal funding. That’s millions in California and one out of every five New Mexicans. Often they are people who are already food … Read more

What Happened Today – October 21, 2025

Donald Trump paved over the White House Rose Garden for commercial patio furniture, shown here weeks before he met Senate Republicans there today. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

πŸ’° Donald Trump is looting America, but his own party is feeling the heat. He now says that he’ll decide whether taxpayers pay him $230 million for being investigated, claiming the decision “would have to go across my desk.” His former defense lawyer from the Mar-a-Lago case, Todd Blanche, is now Deputy Attorney General and … Read more

What Happened Today – October 20, 2025

Camp Rilea in Warrenton, Oregon

Camp Rilea in Warrenton, Oregon, where National Guard troops are currently stationed after Trump won 9th Circuit clearance to deploy them to Portland over state objections following months of ICE facility protests. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Anita VanderMolen, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

The pain is about to get very bad for a lot of people. Food benefits and Head Start programs are quickly running out of money. Pennsylvania already said they have no funding for SNAP in November. Federal employees are missing checks. Even the National Nuclear Security Administration is down to 400 people from 1,800, and … Read more

What Happened Today – October 19, 2025

Visualization of Trump's National Guard deployments targeting Democratic-led cities, blocked by courts in only Portland and Chicago while succeeding in LA, DC, and Republican-governed cities. (Statista)

πŸ‘‘ Donald Trump’s reaction to seven million of us in the streets protesting his administration was to post an AI video of himself wearing a crown and dumping feces on the protesters. Bullying, humiliating, and dehumanizing have been his MO since he announced his first campaign a decade ago and called Mexican immigrants rapists and … Read more

What Happened Today – October 18, 2025

The Oxford Union debate chamber where George Abaraonye debated Charlie Kirk in May, now the site of Saturday's no-confidence vote after Abaraonye posted "loool" when Kirk was assassinated.

Seven million Americans flooded streets today in one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history. That number matters. ✊ As people protested in thousands of places, the U.S. Embassy warned Americans in Trinidad and Tobago to avoid government facilities after military strikes killed their citizens in Caribbean waters. California closed I-5 so the military … Read more

What Happened Today – October 17, 2025

U.S. Coast Guard surveys flooding in Kipnuk, Alaska, where Typhoon Halong destroyed 90% of homes and displaced residents unable to return for 18 months. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Air Station Kodiak)

Today, more than one million Americans are expected to protest at events throughout the country. From an undeclared war in Venezuela to attacks on those who oppose him, Donald Trump has learned what rules he can ignore backed by an enabling Congress and compliant Supreme Court. There’s little choice when the White House punishes areas … Read more

What Happened Today – October 16, 2025

A Smartmatic voting machine in Marinka, Philippines, where the company allegedly paid over $1 million in bribes to secure $182 million in contracts for the 2016 election before U.S. prosecutors charged the firm with foreign corruption. (Photo: Patrickroque01, CC BY-SA 4.0)

πŸ”₯ Americans have sat in slowly warming water that will soon boil. The military is destroying boats and killing their inhabitants in the Caribbean with missiles. Three prominent Trump critics have been criminally indicted in 21 days. Three days after signing a peace accord, Trump says “we will have no choice but to go in … Read more

What Happened Today – October 15, 2025

Fulton County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, where Republican commissioners' decision to aid Trump's stolen election claims by violating a state Supreme Court order will cost taxpayers over $1 million in fines. (Public domain)

❗ Β They govern by dismissing whatever gets in their way or doesn’t serve them.The Young Republicans who wrote praising Hitler were “kids being kids” while Rep. Grijalva still hasn’t been sworn in after being elected on September 23. And to needle Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Trump casually announced that the transportation project serving hundreds of … Read more