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What Happened Today – August 6

The site of the Lava Ridge Wind Project, in Idaho, approved last December to be one of the largest wind farms in the country. The project was canceled today by the Trump administration.

🚩 Today showed the systematic rewiring of the government into a weapon. They’re disappearing the Constitution from official websites, deploying the National Guard to forcibly take DNA from detained migrants, and forcing FEMA disaster-relief employees to become deportation agents or lose their jobs. They want you to get tired and look away. We have to … Read more

What Happened Today – August 5

Kennedy just canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research and contracts—including future COVID and flu candidates developed with Moderna and Pfizer—actions experts warn will severely undermine U.S. ability to face future pandemics (Photo: Staff Sgt. Alexis Veliz)

🚨 The GOP is manufacturing spectacle and engineering power grabs at the same time. Epstein subpoenas target only Clintons and ex-DOJ officials while shielding Trump from scrutiny. In Texas they back a mid-decade redistricting that hands them five extra seats and urge police or even the FBI to arrest Democrats who fled in protest. Act … Read more

What Happened Today – August 4

NASA concept of a lunar nuclear reactor setup under the Fission Surface Power Project, designed to provide sustainable electricity to Artemis-era missions.

🔥 Trump is frantic. That’s why he is steering the national conversation toward culture wars to bury the Epstein files while Democratic legislators from Texas, backed by state leaders in California, Illinois, and New York, are risking fines, arrests, and political exile to stop GOP power grabs over redistricting. He’s counting on spectacle, but the … Read more

What Happened Today – August 3

Texas State Rep. and House Democratic Caucus chair Gene Wu (D-Houston) arrives in Chicago on Sunday, August 3, 2025, as part of a coordinated effort by at least 51 House Democrats to break quorum and prevent a vote on congressional redistricting maps. (Photo: Gene Wu/Instagram)

⚡ People are pushing back against Trump’s authoritarian power grabs. You can feel it in Kevin Hassett’s desperate performance defending the firing of a statistician whose only crime was showing Trump’s economy isn’t working. You can watch it as Texas Democratic Party lawmakers literally fled their state to block gerrymandering while California threatens retaliation if … Read more

What Happened Today – August 2

Alina Habba was Trump's defense attorney during his felony trial last year. He rewarded her, and now she's fighting to remain New Jersey's top federal prosecutor after federal judges there voted to replace her. (Photo: SWinxy, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

📺 Trump just confirmed another Fox News host to run federal prosecutions while his new cyber director admits he knows nothing about cybersecurity and his NASA chief has zero space experience. Jeanine Pirro joins fellow Fox personalities Pete Hegseth running the Pentagon, Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director, and Sean Duffy juggling both Transportation and … Read more

What Happened Today – August 1

Erika McEntarfer

Erika McEntarfer, the career labor economist and Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whom Trump fired after she reported disappointing July jobs numbers. McEntarfer, who holds a doctorate in economics from Virginia Tech, was confirmed by the Senate 86-8 in January 2024. (Picture: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

🎭 Trump learned to corrupt others when he can’t break the rules himself. Like the time he tried to get his vice president to throw out the 2020 election results. Or today when he simultaneously called on the Federal Reserve governors to oust their chair, fired a career government economist for doing her job and … Read more

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