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What Happened Today – September 5, 2025

Home page of the new War.gov website

The Trump administration completes its military rebrand by redirecting defense.gov to the new war.gov, digitally erasing the Pentagon's post-World War II identity. (Screenshot/war.gov)

🌪️ It’s not your imagination; reality is warping. This is the day the gaslighting went into overdrive. All organizations spin facts, but Trump and his allies are building an alternate reality where science is buried, military history is rewritten for a slogan, and top officials invent fictions on national TV. This is 1984-style New Speak … Read more

What Happened Today – September 4, 2025

Sen. John Barrasso (D-WY), the second-ranking Republican and a physician, told HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he is “deeply concerned” about measles outbreaks and vaccine policy (CSPAN).

🍲 Two Cabinet secretaries, Marco Rubio (State) and Pete Hegseth (Defense), told the world today that America can summarily execute people on drug suspicions in international waters. And that still was not the day’s most shocking news. The pot is at a rolling boil. Authoritarian moves are spilling over every edge and scalding public life. … Read more

What Happened Today – September 3, 2025

Screen capture from video Donald Trump uploaded to Truth Social showing the US military destroying a boat it alleged had drugs. Eleven people were killed.

🎭⚙️🧰 The showy stuff sits in plain view while the real power grabs are offstage. Petty political theater like a White House flyover billed as a diplomatic tribute and a Rose Garden tech dinner without Musk is the distraction. What can’t be ignored is the machinery making it stick, from new Jan. 6 rewrite committees … Read more

What Happened Today – September 2, 2025

Senator Rand Paul and former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis, who quit in protest over public health policy, highlight the administration's clash with experts and subsequent homophobic attacks. (Composite of official government portraits)

The long weekend is over, and so is the quiet. 💥 Trump came back swinging, threatening Chicago with troops and ordering military strikes while his allies pushed Christian prayer in schools and smeared a top CDC official who quit to protest the administration’s public health policies. But the pushback is just as fierce, from the … Read more

What Happened Today – September 1, 2025

Alt5 Sigma, the public company now controlled by Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff, facilitated a pre-arranged sale that guaranteed the Trump family hundreds of millions from their crypto token. (Alt5 Sigma official logo)

🥊 Today’s events represent a coordinated, multi-front assault. We’re forced to watch a spectacle of shameless grift, from the massive crypto payday for the Trump and Witkoff families guaranteed by a self-dealing arrangement to the nation’s highest honor given to Rudy Giuliani. The noise covers for the quiet sabotage of our ability to function. They … Read more

What Happened Today – August 31

The Bear Gulch Fire burns on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where the fight against a natural disaster was interrupted by the arrest of two firefighters by Border Patrol. (Photo: inciweb.wildfire.gov)

This is what America looks like when the guardrails start disappearing. 👑 Today, the White House considered a plan to displace two million Gazans, escalated a visa ban to block UN invitees, and threatened to send troops into Chicago, just as they have in D.C. and L.A. The people around him aren’t stopping this raw, … Read more

What Happened Today – August 30

A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team works with local responders on a recovery operation in North Carolina, highlighting FEMA's essential services amid hiring freezes and threats to its future. (FEMA Photo by Madeleine Cook)

The authoritarian takeover is escalating, but so is the resistance. 🛡️💥 From city halls to state highways, local leaders are drawing lines in the sand to challenge every federal power grab. This Labor Day, the May Day Strong movement is mobilizing to send a clear signal from the people: we see this takeover, and we … Read more

What Happened Today – August 29

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the State of Palestine, addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 26 September 2024, before the U.S. defied UN treaty obligations by denying his visa (UN Photo/Loey Felipe).

🗺️ Normalization moves fast. Nineteen days since the DC takeover, Chicago is next and Boston and Baltimore are already threatened. Texas already gerrymandered its districts, California voters will decide in November whether to follow, and Missouri has jumped into the fray. That’s 109 of 435 House seats already being rigged. They’re banking on exhaustion so … Read more

What Happened Today – August 28

The CVS Health logo. The company, which fills one in every five U.S. prescriptions, is not offering COVID vaccines in 16 states pending federal guidance.

✊ The consequences are piling up. Covid shots blocked at pharmacies, $218M of Florida money wasted, economic stability shaken as he tries to seize the Fed. This is what happens when one man’s power grab comes before the country. Show up Monday at your local Workers over Billionaires rally. Find one at Mobilize. Don’t rely … Read more

What Happened Today – August 27

Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy's sole boot camp, is eyed by DHS to house federal agents for Trump's domestic enforcement surge, blurring lines between military and civil operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom)

First, they came for the rules. Now, they are coming for the people who enforce them. 🧹 The goal is to leave no one inside the government who still believes in facts. A CDC director is fired and vaccine access is restricted not because of new science, but because the people in charge reject it. … Read more