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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

What Happened Today – July 1

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tour Florida's new immigration detention center in the Everglades, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (Photo by Daniel Torok)

💸 Trump has turned defiance into a luxury many can’t afford. Vote against his agenda and your political career is over, edit an interview in a way he dislikes and face endless lawsuits, defy his immigration crackdown and he’ll threaten to deport you even if you’re the world’s richest man. The calculation is working because … Read more

What Happened Today – June 30

Senators hover at 2 a.m. during the vote-a-rama on Trump’s sweeping budget bill that faces a bruising House showdown if it makes it through the Senate. (Image: dailypress.senate.gov screengrab.)

💥 Trump’s packing his financial agenda into one colossal bill to reshape America while crushing anyone who won’t fall in line. He’s driven two GOP lawmakers to retire rather than back his plan, turning their exits into no votes, and publicly attacked AT&T twice just as they became his business rival. This is presidential power … Read more

What Happened Today – June 29

President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House last month. Canada rescinded its digital services tax on U.S. tech giants after Trump cut off trade talks, abandoning $2 billion in revenue to meet his July 21st deadline. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

⏰ Every relationship is now a hostage situation. Trump governs by deadline and threat. He tells allies they have trade cutoffs, senators to vote his way or else, and gave a university president a day and time to resign. Authoritarians replace law with coercion, negotiation with extortion, and partnership with fear. The worst thing is … Read more