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What Happened Today – July 11

Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly addresses sailors on the flight deck of the USS Antietam. Hegseth withdrew Donnelly's nomination to lead Pacific Fleet after conservative media highlighted decade-old drag shows from his previous command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Santiago Navarro)

🗜️ The more we push back, the tighter they grip so that everyone sees their authoritarianism. More than a hundred people died in Texas floods and Trump’s weather service cuts may be at partly at fault, but they’re calling reporters evil for asking questions. ICE raided farmworkers and ordinary locals rushed to help when word … Read more

What Happened Today – July 10

2025 Texas flooding that killed over 100 people. FEMA's response was delayed 72 hours because Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem required personal approval for expenditures over $100,000. (Image: Census Bureau)

⚡ The pushback is becoming a roar and it’s making them panic. Medical clinic staff grabbed ICE agents’ hands and yelled “get off him.” California protesters stared down tear gas and rubber bullets for farmworkers in unorganized protests that spread by word-of-mouth. A whistleblower dropped receipts proving Trump’s judge pick told courts to go fuck … Read more

What Happened Today – July 9

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on Palestinian-territory human rights, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters, Oct. 25 2023. Trump sanctioned her after she backed ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, turning a watchdog into a warning sign of his payback politics. (Photo – Loey Felipe/UN)

🕶️💣 Trump is running Washington like a mob boss. Just today, he jacked Brazil with 50 percent tariffs for daring to prosecute his buddy Bolsonaro, sanctioned a UN watchdog doing her job, and held back funds from clinics and loan relief to keep the rest of us in line. This is pure Roy Cohn style … Read more

What Happened Today – July 8

Caisson horses from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment prepare for funeral escort duties at Fort Myer, Virginia, April 10, 2025. These Arlington National Cemetery horses are among the few ceremonial units spared as the Army adopts out 141 horses from other programs to save $2 million annually. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Oscar Toscano)

🔥 The disarray is in full view now. Trump’s pontificating about decorations in today’s meeting while his Cabinet tore itself apart. Gabbard is hunting NSA and CIA emails for disloyalty, Rubio and Grenell are running competing prisoner negotiations without telling each other, and Trump is whining about Putin’s honesty on live TV. The authoritarian machine … Read more

What Happened Today – July 7

Planned Parenthood won a temporary injunction today that allows the organization to continue receiving some Medicaid funding.

🎭 Trump’s strongman act crumbles when anyone actually challenges him. LA Mayor Karen Bass cleared MacArthur Park of National Guard troops by going there and getting their commander on the phone. Across the country, Judge Paula Xinis called DOJ’s excuses “like nailing Jell-O to a wall.” And the big bad bill? Planned Parenthood said “See … Read more

What Happened Today – July 6

Students gather on the iconic steps of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library at the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan. (Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0)

📉 Trump’s erratic overreach is creating backlash. When people learn the extent of what he’s doing, they turn against him. And why not? He keeps extending the dates for tariffs and peace deals and now his own administration tells people to get a job if they want insurance. The proof is in the data showing … Read more

What Happened Today – July 5

Cars line up at the South Entry Gates to Grand Canyon National Park, where Trump has ordered higher entrance fees for foreign tourists while cutting park staffing and budgets nationwide. (Photo: National Park Service)

⚡ Trump just rammed through his massive spending bill, but his coalition is already splitting apart at the seams. Musk is launching his own political party after Trump threatened to nuke his subsidies, House Homeland Committee Chair Mark Green cashed out for a mysterious business deal, and Trump’s admitting he can’t deliver on campaign promises … Read more

What Happened Today – July 4

Egg prices remain 41.5% higher than last year despite Trump claiming credit for bringing them down. Prices peaked at $6.22 in March 2025, two months after Trump took office, before declining to $4.55 in May. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Bank

🎆 Trump’s July 4th fireworks and military theater couldn’t distract from his antisemitic slur and the government’s systematic deception. While he wrapped himself in patriotic pageantry signing his bill, his Social Security commissioner was spreading lies about what it actually does and news broke that ICE finally released a sick 6-year-old after a month of … Read more

What Happened Today – July 3

Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 members training at New River, NC. The Pentagon is deploying 200 Marines to help with ICE operations in Florida. (Photo: Lance Cpl. Andy J. Orozco)

😡 The megabill passed to no one’s surprise. I look at America the day after and see migrants in shipping containers waiting to be jailed in a third country, federal agents found urinating in a high school parking lot in broad daylight, and diplomats being required to take show fidelity to Donald Trump, not the … Read more

What Happened Today – July 2

DHS posted this image on social media soon before opening an internment camp in the Everglades, and after President Trump said alligators would chase escapees. (Image: Department of Homeland Security)

🗽 MAGA is coming for everything. Trump’s megabill will rip health care from millions and bury the country in debt to feed millionaires, while his team plots loyalty purges and fights judges who try to enforce the rules. Trump wants a nation where only the loyal thrive and everyone else pays. Call your representative today … Read more