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What Happened Today – November 8, 2025

A DC government rendering shows the proposed Washington Commanders stadium on federal land at the old RFK site, where Trump wants his name despite the team owning naming rights. (Washington, D.C. government)

They’re not hiding the lies anymore. The White House announced that there have been ZERO illegal border crossings for six months while their own DHS reports over 30,000 encounters in October alone. And how would they know if there was a successful illegal crossing anyway? They’re calling it affordability when a 50-year mortgage will create … Read more

What Happened Today – November 7, 2025

Four AI-generated posters from the Labor Department's social media campaign show exclusively white men in blue-collar settings promoting American manufacturing, part of a broader effort art historians compared to Nazi and New Deal-era propaganda. (Official Labor Department images)

The shutdown in the Republican-controlled federal government continues to expose systemic problems, including millions of hungry people missing food aid and a severely compromised air transportation system. Systems crack, splinter, then fall apart, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that. Justice Jackson stood on formality and allowed an appeals court to fully consider whether … Read more

What Happened Today – November 6, 2025

A passport application under the Biden administration allowed applicants to select male, female, or "X" as gender marker, an option the Supreme Court eliminated Thursday in its 22nd emergency ruling this year favoring Trump. (State Department form)

JD Vance called a federal judge’s order absurd tonight. That judge had ordered SNAP payments be sent to 42 million Americans who receive food aid. The White House said it would fund partial payments, and the judge countered today that his order wasn’t optional. The White House has chosen to appeal rather than comply by … Read more

What Happened Today – November 5, 2025

World Central Kitchen volunteers served meals to unpaid federal workers in downtown Washington during the record 36-day shutdown, treating the nation's capital like a disaster zone. (World Central Kitchen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Our biggest challenge is to bear witness to the suffering around us. World Central Kitchen is feeding unpaid government workers in DC as they might people in a war zone or disaster area. The government’s partial funding for SNAP this month means that five million Americans who are food insecure will receive nothing. Judges are … Read more

What Happened Today – November 4, 2025

FBI agents documented classified documents stacked in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom in 2022 during the investigation that led FBI Director Kash Patel to fire investigators in a chaotic purge more than three years later. (Official FBI evidence photo)

Trump continues governing like an emperor even as today’s election returns show Americans are unhappy with him. Democrats flipped Virginia’s governorship with the state’s first woman governor, held New Jersey despite his meddling, and won New York City where a democratic socialist defeated Andrew Cuomo, whom Trump endorsed over the Republican nominee. A federal judge … Read more

What Happened Today – November 3, 2025

Changpeng Zhao spoke at Vietnam's NFT Summit in 2022, two years before his guilty plea for enabling money laundering and Trump pardon despite the president claiming ignorance of him. (Photo by Aevozer, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tuesday is Election Day and our chance to begin restoring the norms we once lived under. In the less than ten months since he’s taken office, Donald Trump ordered attacks on 16 unarmed boats near South America that killed dozens of people. He has threatened Venezuela, Nigeria, Panama, Greenland, and Canada. The self-dealing and grift … Read more

What Happened Today – November 2, 2025

A 31-kiloton explosion in Nevada on November 5, 1951, exposed 6,500 troops who marched through fallout zones and caused an estimated 2,300 thyroid cancers and 120 deaths among downwind civilians, as Energy Secretary Chris Wright assured Americans this week that Trump's new nuclear weapons testing will not include explosions. (Official U.S. Department of Energy photograph)

Expect Trump to continue using multiple distractions to avoid the humanitarian crisis we face. One of every eight people has lost federal food aid while 5.9 million households are losing home heating aid just as we reach November. And the government said today that anyone traveling during this month’s busy Thanksgiving week can expect extensive … Read more

What Happened Today – November 1, 2025

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police unveiled Tesla Cybertrucks funded by tech investor Ben Horowitz's $2.7 million donation, exemplifying how private wealth now purchases public police equipment. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

Donors and power grabs take precedence in Donald Trump’s world.  Just one day after the UN condemned the US for attacking boats and killing people, the Trump administration announced a brand new attack. They even had an attorney tell Congress that it didn’t need their authority to do so.  They also acknowledged that dozens of … Read more

What Happened Today – October 31, 2025

Trump posted photos from Air Force One enroute to Mar-a-Lago of the Lincoln Bathroom renovation with marble and gold as judges ordered him to restore SNAP funding. (Donald J. Trump/Truth Social)

The United Nations condemned the U.S. today for 14 separate boat attacks that have killed 61 people. The High Commissioner for Human Rights made that announcement before SNAP’s food aid benefits for one of every 8 Americans were set to go unfunded by the federal government. Two federal judges ordered Trump to restart the funds … Read more

What Happened Today – October 30, 2025

Members of the 175th Security Forces Squadron, 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, demonstrate movements during civil disturbance training given to soldiers.

Trump isn’t hiding the machine being built. Military orders today established a unit of nearly 25,000 troops to deploy as Quick Reaction Forces with a presence in each state for supposed unrest. The military has also attacked 14 boats in international waters while killing 61 people, but the Defense Department didn’t send attorneys to brief … Read more