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What Happened Today – April 26

Historic meeting: President Trump and President Zelenskyy seated knee-to-knee at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican. Photo posted publicly by Trump on Truth Social, April 26, 2025.

📖✝️✈️ Trump met Zelenskyy knee-to-knee inside St. Peter’s Basilica, a rare moment of solemn diplomacy. At home, the brutality never paused: ICE raids tore through cities. Citizen children were deported, including a four-year-old with stage four cancer and no medical assistance. A Coast Guardsman’s wife was arrested over an old immigration charge while settling into … Read more

What Happened Today – April 25

Rochester, NY, a sanctuary city since 1986, is now facing a federal lawsuit challenging its policies on cooperation with ICE. (Image: Theresa Marconi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia)

A two-year-old American citizen was sent to Honduras after ICE ignored her family’s legal plan to keep her safely in the U.S. and exiled her alongside her undocumented mother. A conservative federal judge is furious. Meanwhile, a Wisconsin judge was arrested, cuffed, and detained for telling ICE to get the right warrant for a man … Read more

What Happened Today – April 24

Pete Hegseth's Chief of Staff Joe Kasper is the FIFTH senior Pentagon aide to leave in the last week.

🤡 They still think they’re in charge. We see their panic. Courts crushed Trump’s crackdown today, blocking his attacks on voting, immigration, public schools, and civil rights. The Pentagon is leaking. DOJ lawyers are faceplanting. Trump is posting desperate pleas to Russia from his phone. Meanwhile they’re selling “Trump 2028” hats and picking fights with … Read more

What Happened Today – April 23

News broke late Wednesday that Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth installed Signal on classified government PCs. (Image courtesy of Signal Corp.)

💵💰 Trump went full-on rich guy trying to control the economy today. He said millionaires would flee the country if taxed more, then turned around and attacked the World Bank, IMF, and Federal Reserve—all while his personal crypto spiked 58% after he promised a private dinner for the 200 biggest holders. Trump always makes sure … Read more

What Happened Today – April 22

Gov. Laura Kelly today asked unvaccinated Kansas residents to vaccinate. 37 Kansans currently have measles.

⛔ The guardrails protecting our society keep disappearing. Imagine any other U.S. president insisting on the right to deport people without trials. Or imagine a government building registries of people with autism. What could those possibly be used for? The outrages come daily. So do the lies. And we can’t stop calling them out.Remember: “First … Read more

What Happened Today – April 21

A federal judge has temporarily blocked ICE from setting up facilities at NYC's infamous Riker's Island prison complex.

🚓🚨 Trump is done pretending that the courts matter. People fumed about his refusal to follow orders from the Supreme Court and a federal judge last week. Today, he attacked the justices because they won’t rubber-stamp the parts of his deportation agenda that they say are illegal. He claims that trials aren’t possible for migrants. … Read more

What Happened Today – April 20

Vice President JD Vance greets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, just hours before the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death. (Image via Vance Facebook account)

🧩 They protect each other and lie about us. From billionaires buying appointments to military strike plans dropped in family group chats, today’s leaders aren’t defending America. They’re shielding themselves and calling it patriotism. Meanwhile, the leader of the nation’s health infrastructure is spreading lies about people with autism, backtracking, and trying to pin the … Read more

What Happened Today – April 19

The 50 nation African leaders conference hosted in 2022 by the State Department's African Bureau.

🕰️ Even with Trump not having any public events yesterday or today, the chaos kept rolling. Airstrikes, book bans, censorship, deportations, and rewired diplomacy all kept moving. This wasn’t a sleepy Saturday. It was a quiet churn of structural change while the boss stayed offstage and out of sight. Have an Easter candy, a matzoh, … Read more

What Happened Today – April 18

The official White House account on Elon Musk's X mocked Senator Van Hollen and his constitutent, a Maryland father who was illegally deported.

🧱🏗️ They’re building the machine, but it’s not running smoothly. Trump loyalists are seizing agencies, reviving Schedule F, and wiring up surveillance networks with Palantir and Musk’s operatives. They’ve got their TV cronies in Homeland Security and ICE playing database maker. But here’s the thing: the courts aren’t folding. Protesters are back in the streets. … Read more

What Happened Today – April 17

Sen. Chris Van Hollen meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

😶😰 The silence is growing because speaking out gets punished. This week, a sitting senator in his own party said she’s afraid of the repercussions from fighting Trump. A retired cybersecurity official quit his private job to defend himself against an improper government probe. Reporters at NBC and the AP are being sidelined. Agencies are … Read more