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What Happened Today – July 31

Two of ICE’s new recruiting poster models are unmistakable: Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The militarized campaign echoes Trump’s July 4 plan to ramp up deportations to 1 million a year while offering offering new hires up to $50,000 in bonuses.

🧱 Trump is building a government that doesn’t ask permission. Military deployments. Billion-dollar tech contracts. Tariffs on 70 countries. Congress never approved them and when courts say no, he often ignores them too. If you don’t know who is holding him accountable either, why don’t you call your senators and representative today and demand that … Read more

What Happened Today – July 30

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly testifies to the House Homeland Security Committee in 2023. The Army rescinded a job offer to Easterly today after conservative influencers complained.

🛑 Trump treats the federal government like his personal joystick, seizing tariffs, troops, and newsrooms in a grab for absolute control. Judges and lawmakers rush to pry back authority, but their lawsuits and subpoenas will stall without public muscle, so raise your voice right now and push your representatives to block the ongoing power grab. … Read more

What Happened Today – July 29

Earth's city lights captured by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, the same military satellites that track hurricanes and rapid storm intensification. The Defense Dept agreed today to keep supplying data to NOAA as hurricane season begins. Credit: NASA/NOAA satellite data.

🔌🌎 They’re trying to unplug the country from reality. Today, Trump’s EPA announced plans to revoke the scientific finding that underpins all climate change regulations, a move they call the largest deregulatory action in history. That comes as the National Science Foundation guts its scientific leadership after the same happened to the staff. This is … Read more

What Happened Today – July 28

Trump seated at a ceremonial desk dragged into the Rose Garden for a National Day of Prayer on May 1, 2025. Today, he told federal workers they can preach on the job and call others' beliefs wrong.(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.)

🏷️ Everything has a price tag now. Trump is selling off the country. Reproductive rights. Public lands. The safety net. All for sale. And now he’s accepted a private jet from the Qatar government. It will cost taxpayers up to $1 billion to convert it into Air Force One. That money is being pulled directly … Read more

What Happened Today – July 27

Trump's approval rating fell to a second-term low of 37% in July, with independent voters dropping to 29% - their lowest level in either of his terms.

💰 Clearance Sale on Democracy Trumpworld is a protection racket where loyalty buys immunity, dissent gets crushed. He forced foreign leaders to negotiate at his golf course under threat, then handed a judgeship to his criminal defense lawyer. That nominee is now under two whistleblower complaints for telling DOJ staff to ignore court orders. And … Read more

What Happened Today – July 26

The Department of Education said that it would release billions of dollars next week that will go to school districts in every state to provide tutoring, counseling, and after-school programs. The White House ordered the money to be held after claiming it was used to support a "radical leftwing agenda."

🎪 The con is falling apart, but dangerous clowns still run the show. Trump’s own State Department admits his refugee program is whites-only despite his public denials, while a teenager known as “Big Balls” helps eliminate federal regulations with AI. The Defense Secretary shut down lie detector exams at the Pentagon before facing his own … Read more

What Happened Today – July 25

Ghislaine Maxwell’s MDC Brooklyn mugshot, taken July 2020, a stark reminder of the pardon whispers swirling around the immunity received for two days of interviews this week.

✈️ While Trump golfs in Scotland and downplays his long running ties to sex traffickers, his administration doubles down on its immigration crackdown. The real horror: FEMA funds rerouted to detention camps and making the citizenship test even tougher. The Justice Department is prosecuting two surgical center workers who tried to block ICE from storming … Read more

What Happened Today – July 24

Trump tours the Federal Reserve renovation site with Chair Jerome Powell and Senator Tim Scott. Powell publicly corrected Trump’s inflated $3.1 billion cost claim on camera, which the White House still aired after Trump brushed it off. Photo (Official White House video released July 24, 2025)

🔥 A deceptively light day as the Epstein files controversy persists and the vulnerable pay again. Trump flies to Scotland under the guise of trade talks while maintaining his grip on two family-owned golf courses while scrutiny intensifies over his relationship with Epstein. At home his administration pushes forced psychiatric hospitalization for unhoused people, ankle … Read more

What Happened Today – July 23

A farmer fills a sprayer with dicamba, which EPA plans to re-approve despite two prior bans. (Photo: USDA)

🚨 The Project 2025 machine is humming, but Trump’s DOJ is choking on the Epstein files. While Cabinet secretaries push the authoritarian playbook, Trumpworld is spiraling into full-blown Watergate mode: secret briefings, strike forces, banana-republic revenge plays. A bipartisan subpoena for DOJ’s Epstein files just hit. The spotlight’s coming, and this time, the crime and … Read more

What Happened Today – July 22

The US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The organization complied with Trump's demands and has banned trans women from competing as women. (Library of Congress photo by Carol Highsmith)

🔨 They’re moving fast and breaking things, which is a disastrous way to run a government. The foundation of climate law is about to be dynamited while our national nuclear security was critically breached. Local control is only a talking point. After judges in New Jersey chose a replacement to a Trump appointee, his AG … Read more