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What Happened Today – August 19

Harriet Tubman, legendary conductor of the Underground Railroad, shown in a Smithsonian photo Trump now targets as part of his purge of exhibits on slavery and racial injustice. (Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution)

Harriet Tubman, legendary conductor of the Underground Railroad, shown in a Smithsonian photo Trump now targets as part of his purge of exhibits on slavery and racial injustice. (Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution)

💀 Democratic politicians are being killed, threatened, and now forced to agree to police surveillance while Trump’s allies rewrite data, fire scientists, and tell prosecutors to ignore laws. This is an authoritarian takeover with social media as a way for extremists to reach regular people day and night. Intimidation is replacing democracy. Be like Rep. … Read more

What Happened Today – August 18

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flanked by Trump and allied leaders at the White House, makes Ukraine’s plea for survival in a city patrolled by troops. (Official White House photo)

🔥✈️🇺🇸 Foreign leaders flew into a militarily occupied Washington for a wartime summit, 3½ years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. NATO and EU heads pressed Trump on Ukraine while DC streets sat under armed patrols, restaurants down by one-third, democracy suffocating at home. This is what authoritarian rule looks like. Stopping it is on … Read more

What Happened Today – August 17

ICE posts video of eight masked plainclothes agents tearing down a protest banner in DC’s Mount Pleasant as federal power moves onto city streets.

👁️ What started in DC on Monday is spreading like contagion. In less than a week, Trump’s military and police takeover unleashed masked agents snatching people, tearing down signs, and driving residents indoors. Oklahoma is forcing teachers transferring from NY and CA to take loyalty tests, humanitarian visas are cut off, and Europe is arriving … Read more

What Happened Today – August 16

A guest at an Alaska hotel found Trump-Putin summit papers left in a printer — including the menu, schedule, and personal contact info for U.S. staffers (Image: NPR)

🦅🚔 Trump’s takeover is accelerating. Today, he doubled down on his Washington takeover with hundreds more troops from red-state governors. Meanwhile, the Post got internal ICE maps and charts showing plans to double detention capacity in just months. America is now blocking medical visas for sick Gazans. New analysis shows $500B in mandatory Medicare cuts … Read more

What Happened Today – August 15

Redistricting map released Friday by the DCCC for California voters to decide this fall, in sharp contrast to GOP gerrymandering in Texas.

😡 Trump’s White House is telling America to normalize a federal takeover of our cities the way we were told to normalize death in the pandemic. Except this time it’s liberty being stripped away. Soldiers and federal agents patrol LA and DC while Trump struts off to Alaska chasing a Nobel Peace Prize with Putin. … Read more

What Happened Today – August 14

Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter (pictured in 2002), and Obama have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump has lobbied for years. Last month, he unexpectedly called Norway’s foreign minister to push again.

🔥🛑 Trump spent the day before his Putin summit rewriting rules, installing loyalty enforcers, and shutting down satellites and science that don’t serve him. He continued his takeover of the local DC government, rewarded the rich, and made clear no one is untouchable. Public disapproval is growing, but stopping authoritarianism takes more than bad poll … Read more

What Happened Today – August 13

A U.S. Postal Service employee sorts mail at a processing center. More than 10,000 USPS workers accepted early retirement offers this summer, meeting the agency’s goal to shrink its workforce. (Courtesy USPS)

🥪🌱 A man threw a sandwich, Trump’s furious about “old, tired” grass and neither is a joke. Military troops and federal police are patrolling the nation’s capital with Trump openly saying he will not pull them out in 30 days. Every petty excuse works for them: a broken taillight, a tent in a park, a … Read more

What Happened Today – August 12

The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters building in Washington, D.C., where severe healthcare staffing shortages rose 50% this fiscal year as the department cuts nearly 30,000 jobs through attrition. (Photo: GSA)

🚨🚨 Authoritarianism accelerated in just one day. Yesterday Trump federalized DC police. Today his administration said there were plans to extend that beyond 30 days, which literally requires an act of Congress. Meanwhile, they’re preparing 600 troops to put down “civil unrest” while the Texas AG asked a judge to jail a political opponent. A … Read more

What Happened Today – August 11

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan met with Trump at the White House Monday, four days after the president demanded his resignation over China connections. Trump afterwards praised Tan's "amazing story." (Photograph: Intel Corporation)

🔒 Trump is seizing control of the people, one place at a time. While courts hear challenges to his National Guard takeover in California, he federalizes DC police and deploys troops there despite crime hitting 30-year lows. His allies threaten to “eliminate” 10 more Democratic House seats while immigration detention smashes records with internment camps … Read more