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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

What Happened Today – July 21

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., talks with President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 3, 1963. On Monday, the Trump administration released 200,000 pages of FBI surveillance records on Dr. King, a move critics labeled a distraction from the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein controversy.

🎭 They continued rewriting history again today. First, you change the facts to fit your narrative, like the FCC deciding to ignore whether you can actually afford the internet before giving the industry a passing grade. Then, you punish anyone who reports the real story, like kicking The Wall Street Journal off Air Force One … Read more

What Happened Today – July 20

An aerial view of the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium site in Washington, D.C., pictured in the 1980s. The former home of Washington's football team is now at the center of new presidential threats. (Photo Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress)

📢 They made a lot of noise today, but most of it was sound and fury. Bluster, brags, and threats flew all day against immigrants, allies, and even football teams over their names and stadium deals that aren’t Trump’s to block. It’s all a desperate screen to hide the fact that his support is cratering … Read more

What Happened Today – July 19

A B-2 takes off from Whiteman AFB in Missouri for the Iran bombing issues. Donald Trump is the only official source claiming it was 100% effective.

🏗️ They can’t manage what they have yet they’re building something massive. Trump stumbles from one self-inflicted crisis to the next. Whether its the Epstein follies, watching Hegseth lose his sixth senior aide in six months, or threatening global airline partnerships over routine disputes, it’s easy to understand why so many of his businesses have … Read more

What Happened Today – July 18

Rear Admiral Yvette Davids salutes during a December 21, 2023 change of command ceremony where she was relieved as Commander of Naval Surface Forces. The combat-decorated officer was transitioning to become the Naval Academy's first female superintendent in January 2024 before being ousted by Trump's Defense Secretary this week over DEI initiatives. (USN photo by Specialist 2nd Class Mikal Chapman)

🤐 They want you to shut up. Every critic is getting the message that there will be consequences to freedom of speech in America. We know this from the deported students, fired comedians, threatened scientists, and sanctioned schools. But they’re learning that we get louder when they squeeze harder. So speak louder, share more, resist … Read more

What Happened Today – July 17

Juul is back. The FDA just authorized its e-cigarettes after candidate Trump promised last year to save the vaping industry.

👀🔍💡 Hey, Mr. President. We’re watching you. Every new grift and power grab becomes exposed. Your health.The crypto scam.Your buddy Epstein.Attacks on public broadcasting, kids, and democracy itself.Firing critics.We see it all. Don’t let up. Keep watch. Share. Help each other. And don’t rely on the algorithm. Let me send this to you every night, … Read more

What Happened Today – July 16

A voting machine in Manatee County, Florida. The Trump administration has demanded access to them in 9 states.

🔥🌍 Trump spirals. America responds. He’s backing off the Epstein client list, calling his base “weaklings,” and spinning wild Coke sugar rumors. A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 69% think he’s concealing information today. Meanwhile, more than 1,600 Good Trouble Lives On protests are shaking every state with anger turned into action This chaos is a sign … Read more

What Happened Today – July 15

Embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at June's Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Powell gained a significant endorsement from JPMorgan Chair Jamie Dimon today.

‼️Trump’s executive branch runs on personal loyalty. Today, a man who once called a former U.S. President a “terrorist leader” was rewarded with a top Pentagon job for his allegiance to Trump. At the same time, Trump demanded the prosecution of rival Adam Schiff based on a sudden, baseless accusation of fraud. Earlier, dozens of … Read more

What Happened Today – July 14

Then: Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley speaks at the Aspen Security Forum in 2019 during the Trump administration. Now: The Trump administration abruptly pulled all Pentagon officials from the same bipartisan event this week, labeling it "globalist" and "hostile to the President." (Video still by David Vergun, DOD)

🏚️ The sound you hear is the government being broken from the inside out. The Justice Department told agencies to use English only in forms and documents while ICE agents are to deny bond hearings to millions of immigrants. Yet the grift continues as the Pentagon awarded a $200 million contract to Elon Musk’s chatbot … Read more

What Happened Today – July 13

Trump reads King Charles' invitation to an unprecedented second state visit at Windsor while meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office on February 27, 2025. Starmer deployed the royal honors as soft diplomacy to influence Trump on Ukraine support and UK trade tariffs. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins)

👁️ The wanna-be emperor has no clothes and people are finally saying it out loud. MAGA is still tearing itself apart over who lied about the Epstein files while Senate documents prove the Secret Service director lied to Congress about denying Trump security. Noem flat-out denies her own agency’s paperwork delayed FEMA call centers when … Read more

What Happened Today – July 12

Rosie O'Donnell speaks at a Lights for Liberty vigil opposing Trump's immigration policies in 2019. Today, Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship despite a 1967 Supreme Court ruling barring such government action against native-born Americans. (Photo: Tequila Minsky/Flickr)

🗜️ The more we push back, the tighter they grip so that everyone sees their authoritarianism. More than a hundred people died in Texas floods and Trump’s weather service cuts may be at partly at fault, but they’re calling reporters evil for asking questions. ICE raided farmworkers and ordinary locals rushed to help when word … Read more

What Happened Today – July 11

Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly addresses sailors on the flight deck of the USS Antietam. Hegseth withdrew Donnelly's nomination to lead Pacific Fleet after conservative media highlighted decade-old drag shows from his previous command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Santiago Navarro)

🗜️ The more we push back, the tighter they grip so that everyone sees their authoritarianism. More than a hundred people died in Texas floods and Trump’s weather service cuts may be at partly at fault, but they’re calling reporters evil for asking questions. ICE raided farmworkers and ordinary locals rushed to help when word … Read more

What Happened Today – July 10

2025 Texas flooding that killed over 100 people. FEMA's response was delayed 72 hours because Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem required personal approval for expenditures over $100,000. (Image: Census Bureau)

⚡ The pushback is becoming a roar and it’s making them panic. Medical clinic staff grabbed ICE agents’ hands and yelled “get off him.” California protesters stared down tear gas and rubber bullets for farmworkers in unorganized protests that spread by word-of-mouth. A whistleblower dropped receipts proving Trump’s judge pick told courts to go fuck … Read more

What Happened Today – July 9

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on Palestinian-territory human rights, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters, Oct. 25 2023. Trump sanctioned her after she backed ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, turning a watchdog into a warning sign of his payback politics. (Photo – Loey Felipe/UN)

🕶️💣 Trump is running Washington like a mob boss. Just today, he jacked Brazil with 50 percent tariffs for daring to prosecute his buddy Bolsonaro, sanctioned a UN watchdog doing her job, and held back funds from clinics and loan relief to keep the rest of us in line. This is pure Roy Cohn style … Read more

What Happened Today – July 8

Caisson horses from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment prepare for funeral escort duties at Fort Myer, Virginia, April 10, 2025. These Arlington National Cemetery horses are among the few ceremonial units spared as the Army adopts out 141 horses from other programs to save $2 million annually. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Oscar Toscano)

🔥 The disarray is in full view now. Trump’s pontificating about decorations in today’s meeting while his Cabinet tore itself apart. Gabbard is hunting NSA and CIA emails for disloyalty, Rubio and Grenell are running competing prisoner negotiations without telling each other, and Trump is whining about Putin’s honesty on live TV. The authoritarian machine … Read more

What Happened Today – July 7

Planned Parenthood won a temporary injunction today that allows the organization to continue receiving some Medicaid funding.

🎭 Trump’s strongman act crumbles when anyone actually challenges him. LA Mayor Karen Bass cleared MacArthur Park of National Guard troops by going there and getting their commander on the phone. Across the country, Judge Paula Xinis called DOJ’s excuses “like nailing Jell-O to a wall.” And the big bad bill? Planned Parenthood said “See … Read more

What Happened Today – July 6

Students gather on the iconic steps of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library at the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan. (Photo: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0)

📉 Trump’s erratic overreach is creating backlash. When people learn the extent of what he’s doing, they turn against him. And why not? He keeps extending the dates for tariffs and peace deals and now his own administration tells people to get a job if they want insurance. The proof is in the data showing … Read more

What Happened Today – July 5

Cars line up at the South Entry Gates to Grand Canyon National Park, where Trump has ordered higher entrance fees for foreign tourists while cutting park staffing and budgets nationwide. (Photo: National Park Service)

⚡ Trump just rammed through his massive spending bill, but his coalition is already splitting apart at the seams. Musk is launching his own political party after Trump threatened to nuke his subsidies, House Homeland Committee Chair Mark Green cashed out for a mysterious business deal, and Trump’s admitting he can’t deliver on campaign promises … Read more

What Happened Today – July 4

Egg prices remain 41.5% higher than last year despite Trump claiming credit for bringing them down. Prices peaked at $6.22 in March 2025, two months after Trump took office, before declining to $4.55 in May. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Bank

🎆 Trump’s July 4th fireworks and military theater couldn’t distract from his antisemitic slur and the government’s systematic deception. While he wrapped himself in patriotic pageantry signing his bill, his Social Security commissioner was spreading lies about what it actually does and news broke that ICE finally released a sick 6-year-old after a month of … Read more

What Happened Today – July 3

Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 members training at New River, NC. The Pentagon is deploying 200 Marines to help with ICE operations in Florida. (Photo: Lance Cpl. Andy J. Orozco)

😡 The megabill passed to no one’s surprise. I look at America the day after and see migrants in shipping containers waiting to be jailed in a third country, federal agents found urinating in a high school parking lot in broad daylight, and diplomats being required to take show fidelity to Donald Trump, not the … Read more

What Happened Today – July 2

DHS posted this image on social media soon before opening an internment camp in the Everglades, and after President Trump said alligators would chase escapees. (Image: Department of Homeland Security)

🗽 MAGA is coming for everything. Trump’s megabill will rip health care from millions and bury the country in debt to feed millionaires, while his team plots loyalty purges and fights judges who try to enforce the rules. Trump wants a nation where only the loyal thrive and everyone else pays. Call your representative today … Read more

What Happened Today – July 1

President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tour Florida's new immigration detention center in the Everglades, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (Photo by Daniel Torok)

💸 Trump has turned defiance into a luxury many can’t afford. Vote against his agenda and your political career is over, edit an interview in a way he dislikes and face endless lawsuits, defy his immigration crackdown and he’ll threaten to deport you even if you’re the world’s richest man. The calculation is working because … Read more

What Happened Today – June 30

Senators hover at 2 a.m. during the vote-a-rama on Trump’s sweeping budget bill that faces a bruising House showdown if it makes it through the Senate. (Image: dailypress.senate.gov screengrab.)

💥 Trump’s packing his financial agenda into one colossal bill to reshape America while crushing anyone who won’t fall in line. He’s driven two GOP lawmakers to retire rather than back his plan, turning their exits into no votes, and publicly attacked AT&T twice just as they became his business rival. This is presidential power … Read more

What Happened Today – June 29

President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House last month. Canada rescinded its digital services tax on U.S. tech giants after Trump cut off trade talks, abandoning $2 billion in revenue to meet his July 21st deadline. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

⏰ Every relationship is now a hostage situation. Trump governs by deadline and threat. He tells allies they have trade cutoffs, senators to vote his way or else, and gave a university president a day and time to resign. Authoritarians replace law with coercion, negotiation with extortion, and partnership with fear. The worst thing is … Read more

What Happened Today – June 28

An appeals court ruled that DOGE may take over the US Institute of Peace even though it acknowledged they first did so using "brute force."

🚨 The cracks are finally showing. Louisiana hospitals are begging their own Republican leaders to stop the “historic devastation,” while Trump threatens to primary Tillis for protecting North Carolina from Medicaid cuts. When Republicans start getting scared enough to break ranks with their own party, the damage has become too obvious to hide. Call your … Read more

What Happened Today – June 27

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.

⚡️ Multiple fronts collided today as months of systematic pressure campaigns reached breaking points simultaneously. Trump got judicial wins while prosecutors were purged, university presidents forced out, and trade talks collapsed. These separate battles had been fought for months, even years, and smashed into each other in one day. This is what happens when every … Read more

What Happened Today – June 26

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveil “Make Oklahoma Healthy Again” proposals, targeting vaccines and SNAP purchases in a push that critics warn blurs public health and political ideology. (Photo: Oklahoma Governor’s Office)

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveil “Make Oklahoma Healthy Again” proposals, targeting vaccines and SNAP purchases in a push that critics warn blurs public health and political ideology. (Photo: Oklahoma Governor’s Office)

💣 They’re rewriting reality and weaponizing it against us. Immigrants face phantom charges, universities are threatened into silence, and even your grocery cart and flu shot are being dictated by a regime hell-bent on turning propaganda into policy. Justice Kennedy told a live audience that democracy’s on the edge. Fight back before your life is … Read more

What Happened Today – June 25

Leaders gather for the Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunisation in Brussels on 25 June 2025, a pledging event co-hosted by the EU and the Gates Foundation that secured more than $9 billion for Gavi’s next five-year vaccine drive—only for U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to announce the very next day that Washington will yank its funding.

🤑 Power is cashing in while cracking down. Trump’s family hijacks war buzz for a Tel Aviv tower, rebrands imported phones as American miracles, then his administration punishes unions, journalists, and immigrant families that dare ask why. Stop this profit driven autocracy before it locks us out of our own democracy. Don’t rely on the … Read more

What Happened Today – June 24

Trump tells reporters Israel and Iran "don't know what the fuck they're doing" before departing from the White House for NATO summit in The Hague, Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

🏴‍☠️ Deportation architect Stephen Miller owns stock in the data company tracking immigrants. Trump’s former lawyer, now up for a lifetime federal judgeship, allegedly told government attorneys to ignore court orders. Trump himself owes $83.3 million but suddenly claims immunity he previously waived. Grift has always been Trump’s brand, but now his aides and enablers … Read more

What Happened Today – June 23

A U.S. Postal Service electric delivery vehicle. The Senate parliamentarian blocked a GOP provision that would have forced the Postal Service to sell all its electric vehicles, ruling the measure violated Senate rules.

🔥 Cruelty and lies have become the new infrastructure of government. Today saw the systematic demolition of accountability paired with the institutionalization of brutality with an Iranian retaliatory attack on one of our air bases. The Supreme Court didn’t accidentally bless overseas torture camps. Republicans didn’t randomly gut the GAO. These are deliberate choices to … Read more

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

What Happened Today – June 12

Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking June 2, 2025 in Washington. Today, Trump called him a numbskull and demanded he lower interest rates.

🚨 Our government is rapidly escalating to physical force against anyone it deems an enemy. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed, thrown to the ground and handcuffed after interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference. They said he lunged at her and never identified himself. Both were lies. In Florida, Ron DeSantis said that … Read more

What Happened Today – June 11

Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine testified to Congress Wednesday that no foreign state-sponsored invasion is occurring, directly undercutting Trump's legal justification for his immigration crackdown. (Source: C-SPAN)

🔨 Nothing works, and the violence keeps coming. Federal agents admit E-Verify is “broken and flawed” while raiding businesses that followed the rules, DOGE’s AI tools are error-prone disasters while slashing veteran care, and Trump’s own Joint Chiefs say there’s no invasion while he deploys thousands of troops anyway. The Trump administration breaks things, hides … Read more

What Happened Today – June 10

Chuckwalla National Monument in California, created by Biden in January, is one of the monuments Trump can now abolish after DOJ overturned 87 years of legal precedent today.

🚩 Trump spent today laying the groundwork for his next wave of crackdowns. He announced plans to ship 9,000 people to Guantanamo and eliminate FEMA while calling protesters “insurrectionists”, the exact word that justifies invoking wartime emergency powers against American citizens. He even told soldiers at Ft. Bragg that he was liberating Los Angeles. DOJ … Read more

What Happened Today – June 9

Apache Leap overlooks Oak Flat, the sacred Apache land in Arizona threatened by copper mining.

Apache Leap overlooks Oak Flat, the sacred Apache land in Arizona threatened by copper mining.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Army posts video showing “Hang Fauci & Bill Gates” graffiti on railroad flatcar carrying tanks to Trump’s birthday parade, leaving it up for over 24 hours and 700,000 views before removing it after media inquiry. 💥 Yesterday, we wrote that the collision was coming fast. Its early skirmishes started today although … Read more

What Happened Today – June 8

Graffiti under a railcar carrying a US tank calls for violence against Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Newsom threatens to hold California’s $80 billion federal tax surplus after Trump threatens university funding cuts. 🚨 The collision is coming fast. Protests erupted on Sunday from Los Angeles to San Francisco while Trump threatens military force and the Insurrection Act. In six days, US Army tanks roll through Washington for … Read more

What Happened Today – June 7

One of the first U.S. Army tanks bound for Trump's birthday parade being loading onto a rail car at Fort Cavazos. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jose Escamilla)

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Proud Boys leaders sue DOJ for $100 million over Jan. 6 prosecutions after Trump pardons, forcing his administration to defend Biden-era seditious conspiracy convictions. 👥 ✊ Tanks began arriving in Washington today for Trump’s birthday parade while he orders troops to California to confront protesters, but concerted resistance is beginning. Next … Read more