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What Happened Today – October 4, 2025

Rep. Jonathan Jackson shows identification outside Broadview ICE facility on June 17, where federal agents denied the congressman and his party access to the detention center. (Official House photo)

🛑 The crackdown is here. Trump is sending 300 National Guard troops into Chicago over the governor and mayor’s objections. Border Patrol shot a second citizen there today. Trump tried sending troops to Portland too, but a federal judge stopped him. Running afoul of the government has consequences. DOJ wants to add 22+ years to … Read more

What Happened Today – October 3, 2025

Draft of Trump $1 coins posted by the Treasury Dept to social media today.

⚠️ The House of Representatives has no votes scheduled for nine days while Trump runs amok and acts like the First Emperor of America. The US military attacked another boat in international waters today, killing four more people without proof or due process. America has killed 21 people in this way over the last month. … Read more

What Happened Today – October 2, 2025

The Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. The museum’s director was fired after telling the White House it was illegal for Trump to gift King Charles Eisenhower’s saber. (Image courtesy of Eisenhower Library)

💔 You may have been one of the millions Trump punished today. He cut funds to states that didn’t vote for him, denied a dying man medication, and hijacked federal workers’ voices to force partisan messages. But rangers keep defying orders, scientists keep blowing whistles, prosecutors keep refusing to indict his enemies. They’re making choices … Read more

What Happened Today – October 1, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meets Tennessee National Guard soldiers deployed for domestic law enforcement in Memphis two days after the task force made 53 arrests. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech)

⚙️ The shutdown is a weapon for Trump. Two days after a judge threatened officials with contempt for defying his Voice of America restoration order, the agency shut down all broadcasts and furloughed every journalist. Universities face funding deals requiring ideological screening of foreign students and sharing discipline records with immigration authorities. Trump dismissed 22 … Read more

What Happened Today – September 30, 2025

Trump's AI-generated deepfake depicts Jeffries wearing sombrero and fake mustache with mariachi band behind him, racist imagery the president posted twice in 24 hours to mock the Democratic leader during government funding crisis. (Screenshot from Truth Social)

🛒 You know that panicked feeling when you’re sprinting through a store at closing time?  That’s today’s news. Thirty-one stories dropped as the government shut down. All of the generals worldwide were summoned for loyalty tests, the president posted racist deepfakes twice, journalists were attacked by ICE two days in a row, and a judge … Read more

What Happened Today – September 29, 2025

Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, where Senator Mark Kelly argues it should remain free and accessible rather than relocating to Houston's paid museum for $375 million. (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum photo by Dane Penland)

💸 They fired the whistleblowers who exposed fair housing violations, shot pepper rounds at a journalist documenting ICE operations, and charged activists for posting an agent’s address online.  On the same day, Trump collected $24.5 million from YouTube, slashed coal royalties while tripling public land access, and his former campaign manager registered as Israel’s foreign … Read more

What Happened Today – September 28, 2025

Trump's AI-generated Fox News segment promotes MedBed conspiracy theory hospitals that QAnon followers believe can cure cancer and regrow limbs, a dangerous medical hoax he later deleted. (Screenshot via Truth Social)

🚨 Federal troops and agents are now in Chicago and Portland with Memphis next. DC and LA were practice runs. Their bosses are emboldened. A Border Patrol commander bragged his agents arrest people based on “how they look” while tactical teams swept Michigan Avenue. Trump called Portland war-ravaged to justify the deployment. Masked federal agents … Read more

What Happened Today – September 27, 2025

Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the mob assault Trump now falsely blames on FBI agents rather than his own incitement. (U.S. Capitol Police photo via GAO)

⛔Trump controls Congress, the courts, and the executive branch, but still governs through threats. Federal workers face mass firing warnings, Portland gets unwanted troops, foreign leaders lose visas for dissent, educators lose jobs for speaking freely, all while his family turns the White House into a fashion shoot that he then travels to a golf … Read more

What Happened Today – September 26, 2025

Naples Pier in Florida, where DHS Secretary Noem fast-tracked $11 million in disaster aid after a campaign donor's intervention. (Photo by Charles Patrick Ewing, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

🌃 They dropped 28 major stories tonight, betting you’d already checked out for the weekend, but this new dump is impossible to miss.  More Trump enemies are being investigated and FBI agents who kneeled at a protest five years ago were fired today. But the systems are holding against some abuses. Giuliani and Lindell are paying … Read more

What Happened Today – September 25, 2025

Planned Parenthood's Milwaukee clinic will pause abortion services October 1 after federal courts lifted protections, leaving Wisconsin with just two abortion providers statewide. (Photo: Planned Parenthood)

💊 Trump promised “I am your retribution” and now you’re paying with your life.  He ordered Comey punished, ordered prosecutors to seek death in every eligible DC criminal case, and ordered doubling the cost of imported insulin, cancer drugs, and heart pills. His cruelty starts with his enemies list and ends at your medicine cabinet. … Read more