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What Happened Today – October 14, 2025

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh briefs reporters in the Pentagon press room on January 10, nine months before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would ban nearly every outlet from this space. (Department of Defense photo)

📣 Donald Trump should be basking in the glow of forcing a Middle East ceasefire. He was just in Egypt and Israel yesterday lauding peace. Today he threatened Hamas with a military attack, ordered strikes that killed six more people on a boat in the Caribbean without offering proof they were of any import to … Read more

What Happened Today – October 13, 2025

Trump and world leaders at summit in Egypt.

President Donald Trump at center with world leaders at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, signing a Gaza framework with mediators while the warring parties remained conspicuously absent. (Trump Truth Social post)

🕊️ Today should have been Donald Trump’s triumph. President Donald Trump at center with world leaders at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, signing a Gaza framework with mediators while the warring parties remained conspicuously absent. (Trump Truth Social post) He flew to Israel, was lauded at the Knesset, then went to Egypt, where he signed … Read more

What Happened Today – October 12, 2025

The Smithsonian's T. Rex will stand tomorrow in a darkened National Museum of Natural History, closed along with all Smithsonian facilities after Trump's shutdown exhausted prior-year funding on day 12. (John Gibbons)

⚠️ Violence is Trump’s default response. Federal agents fired pepper balls at naked cyclists in Portland while priests were illegally denied access to prisoners in Chicago. In DC, JD Vance threatened more painful mass firings while his boss flew to the Middle East and threatened to give Ukraine long-range missiles. Remember January 6.  Mike Pence, … Read more

What Happened Today – October 11, 2025

President Trump shares Harrison Design's rendering of his planned triumphal arch for Memorial Circle on Truth Social early Saturday morning, promoting imperial Roman symbolism that critics compare to Nazi architect Albert Speer's unbuilt designs. (Trump Truth Social post)

🎯 His schtick is paternalism, but Donald Trump hosed his supporters today. Yesterday, nearly all special ed staff supporting K-12 programs in our local schools were fired. Democrats won’t budge on the shutdown without restoring the Affordable Care Act. A link below proves that 57% of the people receiving Obamacare live in Republican districts. Trump … Read more

What Happened Today – October 10, 2025

An environmental worker collects wastewater samples from sewer access points in New Mexico, the kind of routine testing GOP lawmakers want EPA to weaponize for tracking abortion medication. (New Mexico Environment Department)

🆕 What happened today just doesn’t happen in modern America. China restricted exports of rare earth minerals. Trump responded with an immediate 100% tariff on top of the tariffs already crushing American farmers. During the government shutdown, Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought laid off 4,200 federal employees, the first time a shutdown has ever been … Read more

What Happened Today – October 9, 2025

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where President Trump today will undergo his second "yearly checkup" in six months without explanation, raising questions about undisclosed health issues. (U.S. Army)

🗺️  America’s descent into uncharted territory continues. The first GOP governor broke ranks with Trump today when OK’s Kevin Stitt said that his state’s residents would “lose their minds” if the Illinois Guard was deployed there. We also saw another Trump enemy indicted on a mortgage charge by his former personal attorney just as the … Read more

What Happened Today – October 8, 2025

A firefighter battles the Pacific Palisades inferno that killed 12 and destroyed nearly 7,000 structures, nine months before authorities arrested a man today for intentionally setting the fire. (Image: Los Angeles Fire Department)

🔥 Trump removed his mask yesterday when he told a meeting room that he “took the freedom of speech away.” You can watch the video. It’s not a slip or anyone spinning a story. He bragged and tried to justify it. The USA is now an authoritarian regime. Trump also wrote that the Illinois governor … Read more

What Happened Today – October 7, 2025

Trump displays a Hurricane Dorian forecast map altered with black Sharpie to support his false claim Alabama was at risk, a lie defended by NOAA official Neil Jacobs who was confirmed today as the agency's chief. (Official White House photo, September 4, 2019)

🖕 Trump breaks the law. His cabinet enables him. And they’ll attack you if you speak up. Troops are now on the ground in Illinois over the governor’s objections. Trump says he’ll decide which federal workers get their back pay, and OMB deleted the law requiring it from their website. When the Senate Judiciary Committee … Read more

What Happened Today – October 6, 2025

The pristine Northwest Arctic region where Trump approved a 211-mile road to facilitate mining in Gates of the Arctic National Park despite local opposition to the project. (Interior Department)

⚖️ They’re bulldozing constraints while starving our protections. Troops are moving toward Chicago, and Trump threatens Portland and the courts with the Insurrection Act. Down in Florida, the DOJ admits that not everyone locked up in the Everglades was subject to deportation. And in California, the Hollywood-Burbank Airport’s control tower sat unmanned for six hours … Read more

What Happened Today – October 5, 2025

A Midwest soybean field, America's top food export, now caught in Trump's circular trade war where tariff revenue pays farmers harmed by his own tariffs. (USDA file photo)

☢️ Trump dropped the façade today and ordered troops into Chicago and Portland. A federal judge has blocked any Oregon deployment for now. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling this Trump’s Invasion, and it’s hard not to see it as anything but a pretext. The ACLU is offering free training on Zoom on Monday night … Read more