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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

What Happened Today – September 24, 2025

James Comey, former FBI director, testifies before a Senate committee in Washington in 2016, as the administration today moves to seek his indictment, a loyalty play cloaked in law. (Official FBI photo)

😤⚖️  Political violence is exploding across America. A shooting at an ICE detention center killed a detainee and wounded two others. After installing a loyalist to lead the probe, the administration appears poised to seek a grand jury indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as the statute of limitations nears. This is governing by … Read more

What Happened Today – September 23, 2025

Adelita Grijalva (center), joined by Senator Mark Kelly and his wife, former Representative Gabby Giffords, just won Arizona’s 7th Congressional District to carry forward her late father’s legacy while narrowing the GOP’s majority. (Official campaign photo, adelitaforcongress.com)

💔🙏 Two speeches underscored the day. Donald Trump railed at the world’s leaders, sneering that their countries were going to hell. Jimmy Kimmel returned from suspension, praised figures in both parties, spoke about his faith, highlighted Erika Kirk’s public forgiveness, while his voice cracked as he teared up. Side by side, Trump’s rage shrinks against … Read more

What Happened Today – September 22, 2025

Lindsey Halligan, far right, newly installed as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, stands with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on April 18, 2025. Trump appointed his former personal attorney despite her lack of any prosecutorial experience.

🤡🐍 One in 285 Americans died during the start of the COVID pandemic while Trump and his allies lied and insisted that the disease was not dangerous. Now he drags RFK Jr. out to revive the same vaccine-autism scam he’s been flogging for years. Today was pure snake oil pitched by two conmen with no … Read more

What Happened Today – September 21, 2025

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson with President Donald Trump at the White House in 2018, a seven-year-old photo resurfacing as Trump now promises Carson the Medal of Freedom, a symbol critics say is reduced to a loyalty prize (Official White House photo).

🔗 Every move is a loyalty test now. At a memorial meant for mourning, the president told tens of thousands that he “hates his opponents” and wants no good for them. Science, journalism, and national honors are bent into tests of allegiance. Tylenol is politicized, reporters are silenced, and medals are handed out like party … Read more

What Happened Today – September 20, 2025

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Virginia obscure their faces even while delivering a routine notification, a stark contrast to California’s new law banning police masks to restore accountability (Photo: Erica Knight/ICE).

🛑 We’re at the point of an authoritarian government when the president is openly calling for the prosecution of officials he thinks have wronged him. This was in his DNA all along. He campaigned ten years ago with crowds chanting “Lock her up.” Now in his emboldened second term, he is the one demanding that … Read more

What Happened Today – September 19, 2025

Trump promoted a one million dollar “gold card” residency scheme, stamping his brand onto American citizenship and reducing national identity to a faux luxury purchase.

⚠️ Today was more than yesterday, and that should make us very wary of tomorrow. The US military is killing with impunity in international waters, a death a day this month. Media restrictions are tightening as the Pentagon warns that journalists who use non-approved material will lose their credentials. The same environmental, education, and human … Read more

What Happened Today – September 18, 2025

Washington’s National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, is at the center of a new clash after Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine demanded Congress cut flights following a fatal crash that confirmed their earlier safety warnings. (Photo by Duane Lempke).

📺 Leaders who fear truth grab the microphone and break it. Controlling the press is an early warning sign of descent into authoritarianism. Trump’s attacks on broadcasters and newspapers, even a talk show like The View, are practice runs for silencing all dissent. FCC commissioner Anna Gomez called it out today. Our job is to … Read more

What Happened Today – September 17, 2025

President Joe Biden appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in June 2022. The show is now suspended indefinitely after Kimmel’s remarks on the Kirk killing.

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (1907-1930), a young brownshirt in the early Nazi movement, was shot by Communist opponents during a dispute and later died from his injuries. Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda machine mythologized his life and death, elevating him into a martyr for their cause. A poem he wrote became the “Horst-Wessel … Read more

What Happened Today – September 16, 2025

Trump granted another extension on the TikTok sale, letting Oracle and investors claim control while folding national security into political leverage. (TikTok logo)

⚓🇰🇷 Trump is flaunting extrajudicial killings at sea while our own watchdogs are gutted and hidden reports bury right-wing violence. Now even South Korea is investigating the United States for human rights violations against its citizens. The world no longer sees a democracy under strain but a government that breaks its own rules and exports … Read more