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What Happened Today – May 25

Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks at Princeton on May 25. (Photo: Matthew Raspanti, Princeton University)

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Seattle police make 16 arrests at counterprotest to conservative Christian group “Mayday USA” event in Capitol Hill after protesters threw bottles and clashed with officers in riot gear. ⚖️🎭 The scales tip and masks slip as Trump’s authoritarian drift accelerates and weaponizes civil power. He’s still demanding Harvard turn over student … Read more

What Happened Today – May 24

Graduates celebrate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point today.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Trump deregulates nuclear industry with “total reform” of independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission, cutting staff and fast-tracking reactor approvals for AI data centers and defense facilities. ⚡ Even Memorial Day weekend can’t slow the unraveling. Trump turned West Point’s sacred graduation into a MAGA rally while claiming he’s more investigated than Al … Read more

What Happened Today – May 23

The working cooling towers at Three Mile Island are emitting water vapor. The dormant cooling towers are from Unit 2, which was permanently damaged in the 1979 accident. Image courtesy of Constellation Energy.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Trump claims autism “has to be artificially induced” while citing inflated statistics at MAHA event. 💼 Trump is weaponizing economic pressure to bend people and companies to his will. Law firms offer millions in tribute, companies cut thousands of jobs as their contracts are canceled while others have to abandon workers … Read more

What Happened Today – May 22

The Treasury Department ordered its final shipment of penny blanks today. Production is expected to end in early 2026.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shocks Senate committee by incorrectly defining habeas corpus as presidential power to deport immigrants. 🏴‍☠️💰 They’re not even hiding it anymore. Trump hosts crypto investors at his golf club with the presidential seal while his officials dump stocks before tariff announcements, Vance declares courts shouldn’t check … Read more

What Happened Today – May 21

Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with the foreign ministers of the DRC and Rwanda in April 2025.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shocks Senate committee by incorrectly defining habeas corpus as presidential power to deport immigrants. 🌍💲✈️ While House Republicans spent today negotiating baby bond names and appeasing budget holdouts, Trump’s government violated court orders to deport migrants, fired independent oversight boards, and accepted a $400 million jet … Read more

What Happened Today – May 20

Trump announcing the U.S. will build a 175 billion dollar missile defense shield in three years, despite no funding, approval, or plans.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Trump falsely claims Biden has ‘Stage 9’ cancer and delayed diagnosis disclosure as part of White House cognitive decline coverup. 🎭 Every Trump policy comes with its opposite. They deport legal immigrants while claiming to target criminals. They dismantle surveillance oversight after condemning it. They promise billion-dollar defense systems with no … Read more

What Happened Today – May 19

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in 34 different companies just two days before Donald Trump's announcement about reciprocal tariffs.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Local Democratic officials join thousands in making a 30-mile human chain across Chicago suburbs to protest Trump administration policies. 👑 Trump was never subtle about wanting things his way. He is spending his days remaking America in his own image, using the system to settle grudges while elevating his preferences. This … Read more

What Happened Today – May 18

President Joe Biden greets Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and her son Jack Schlossberg on Monday, September 12, 2022, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Oklahoma adds debunked 2020 election fraud claims to high school history curriculum. 🔍 Even on a quiet Sunday, the machinery of power grinds forward. Trump’s budget bill advances behind closed-door deals while Americans form a 30-mile human chain of resistance spanning Chicago suburbs. Meanwhile, as Biden faces a devastating cancer diagnosis, … Read more

What Happened Today – May 17

National Weather Service meteorologists in Jackson, Kentucky rallied to track deadly tornadoes despite Trump administration staffing cuts that now leave this local weather office closed overnight, with the storms claiming 18 lives statewide out of 27 nationwide.

🌪️ 📡 🚩 From a deadly terrorist bombing in Palm Springs to devastating tornadoes tracked by understaffed weather offices, Trump’s America faces real-life violence while his administration quietly enables more. Now they’re lifting bans on rapid-fire gun triggers, teaching debunked election fraud claims in classrooms, and amplifying assassination conspiracy theories online. Meanwhile, his “solution” to … Read more

What Happened Today – May 16

CDC map showing measles cases. 13% of people diagnosed are hospitalized. Two doses of the MMR vaccine are 97% effective at preventing measles.

🕵️🥊 Threats and intimidation are the Trump administration’s playbook. Trump officials join the president in targeting judges, artists, and even their own employees who stand in their way. They use more than words. Senior intelligence officials are fired, the former FBI director is accused of calling for Trump’s assassination, and federal agencies purge employees who … Read more