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What Happened Today – June 22

CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the White House Situation Room on Saturday during President Trump's airstrikes on Iran. (Photo: White House)

🎭 The administration’s victory theater is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. Trump declared Iran’s nuclear sites “completely obliterated” while his own vice president admitted they’re uncertain about what actually happened to the uranium stockpiles. Republicans tried to hide $3.8 trillion in tax cut costs with accounting gimmicks that fooled no one. They … Read more

What Happened Today – June 21

A B-2 Spirit Bomber shown landing at RAF Fairford UK in 2017. The B-2 reportedly carried out the attack mission in Iran Saturday. (USAF photo by Tech Sgt. Miguel Lara)

⚔️ Trump versus the US is institutional trench warfare, and his forces captured some ground today. CFPB abandoned 18 enforcement cases protecting consumers from predatory lenders while Voice of America was gutted again with 85% workforce cuts. Social Security is crumbling and has started hiding its telephone wait times to conceal its collapse. The judiciary … Read more

What Happened Today – June 20

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of favoring "moneyed interests" over ordinary citizens and warned of "reputational cost" in her scathing dissent on EPA emissions rules. (Photo courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

⚔️ Trump versus the US is institutional trench warfare, and his forces captured some ground today. CFPB abandoned 18 enforcement cases protecting consumers from predatory lenders while Voice of America was gutted again with 85% workforce cuts. Social Security is crumbling and has started hiding its telephone wait times to conceal its collapse. The judiciary … Read more

What Happened Today – June 19

An ICE detainee boards a flight to Guatemala earlier this year. Deportation flights from the Los Angeles region have more than doubled recently. (DHS Video)

Official portrait photograph of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.)

💥 Panic has gripped those in power. ICE stripped Congress of the right to inspect detention centers without 72 hours notice, illegally blocking surprise oversight of a regime terrified of accountability. Meanwhile, GOP officials are pitching fantasy prisons guarded by gators and pythons. There’s more, which is why you need to check these headlines and … Read more

What Happened Today – June 18

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Peter Welch (D-Vt) briefly attended a Senate Judiciary hearing on President Biden’s mental fitness then walked out as other Democrats boycotted attendance. Photo via C SPAN.

🎯 Trump is checked out while his administration is seizing control of everything that moves. While he saluted flagpoles and watched construction crews, his appointees weaponized student visas, Medicaid databases, and federal contracts into surveillance and deportation tools. They’re moving with 54-minute deadlines and contempt-of-court defiance to capture every institution they can reach. Iran is … Read more

What Happened Today – June 17

Masked ICE agents arrest NYC Comptroller Brad Lander at immigration court Tuesday as he escorted an immigrant whose case had been dismissed, with one plainclothes officer placing his forearm across Lander's throat during the detention. (Brad Lander/Bluesky)

🟥 Trump’s regime is now physically targeting Democratic officials. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by ICE agents outside a detention facility in early May. Since then, Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted, Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed and removed from a press event, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested in the hallway of a federal … Read more

What Happened Today – June 16

NIH researchers conduct laboratory work at Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, part of the biomedical research threatened by Trump's illegal cancellation of $1 billion in diversity-related grants.

⚠️ Trump is brushing away every safety system that keeps Americans alive, treating radiation standards and cancer protections like paperwork cluttering his desk. What took him four years to attempt in his first term, he’s now accomplishing in months with a GOP Congress that cheers while he waves away laws in the interest of his … Read more

What Happened Today – June 15

Vance Boelter, handcuffed and in tactical gear, is escorted by Ramsey County deputies moments after surrendering in Green Isle on June 15, 2025. (Photo: Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

😮‍💨😡 Sunday’s uneasy breath: Trump flaunts force with unprecedented deployment of tankers in the sky, ICE sweeps for blue cities, and a $45 million parade bankrolled by corporate pals, yet walls literally crumble, allies slap back, and resistance reloads for tomorrow. The harder he squeezes, the clearer it becomes that his power survives only if … Read more

What Happened Today – June 14

Despite two state legislators being shot overnight, protesters marched to the Minnesota State Capitol as part of today's No Kings protest. (Photo by Chad Davis. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Original at chaddavis.photography.)

🩸 Trump’s extremism has pushed America to the breaking point. Millions took to the streets in the largest protests since he returned to power, dwarfing the sparse crowds at his birthday parade with the US Army. A political assassin targeted Democratic lawmakers while a driver rammed his vehicle into protesters. Now Trump is considering a … Read more

What Happened Today – June 13

An oil drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. Appeals court allows the Willow Project to proceed there despite environmental law violations, citing economic disruption concerns.

⚡ Resistance is going viral. Federal judges blocked Trump all day, 400 international academics including 30 Nobel laureates issued an anti-fascist manifesto, nearly two dozen attorneys left a firm that caved to Trump for one that is still fighting, and millions of Americans are preparing for over 1,800 “No Kings” protests today in what organizers … Read more