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What Happened Today – June 18

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Peter Welch (D-Vt) briefly attended a Senate Judiciary hearing on President Biden’s mental fitness then walked out as other Democrats boycotted attendance. Photo via C SPAN.

🎯 Trump is checked out while his administration is seizing control of everything that moves. While he saluted flagpoles and watched construction crews, his appointees weaponized student visas, Medicaid databases, and federal contracts into surveillance and deportation tools. They’re moving with 54-minute deadlines and contempt-of-court defiance to capture every institution they can reach. Iran is … Read more

What Happened Today – June 17

Masked ICE agents arrest NYC Comptroller Brad Lander at immigration court Tuesday as he escorted an immigrant whose case had been dismissed, with one plainclothes officer placing his forearm across Lander's throat during the detention. (Brad Lander/Bluesky)

🟥 Trump’s regime is now physically targeting Democratic officials. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by ICE agents outside a detention facility in early May. Since then, Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted, Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed and removed from a press event, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested in the hallway of a federal … Read more

What Happened Today – June 16

NIH researchers conduct laboratory work at Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, part of the biomedical research threatened by Trump's illegal cancellation of $1 billion in diversity-related grants.

⚠️ Trump is brushing away every safety system that keeps Americans alive, treating radiation standards and cancer protections like paperwork cluttering his desk. What took him four years to attempt in his first term, he’s now accomplishing in months with a GOP Congress that cheers while he waves away laws in the interest of his … Read more

What Happened Today – June 15

Vance Boelter, handcuffed and in tactical gear, is escorted by Ramsey County deputies moments after surrendering in Green Isle on June 15, 2025. (Photo: Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

😮‍💨😡 Sunday’s uneasy breath: Trump flaunts force with unprecedented deployment of tankers in the sky, ICE sweeps for blue cities, and a $45 million parade bankrolled by corporate pals, yet walls literally crumble, allies slap back, and resistance reloads for tomorrow. The harder he squeezes, the clearer it becomes that his power survives only if … Read more

What Happened Today – June 14

Despite two state legislators being shot overnight, protesters marched to the Minnesota State Capitol as part of today's No Kings protest. (Photo by Chad Davis. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. Original at chaddavis.photography.)

🩸 Trump’s extremism has pushed America to the breaking point. Millions took to the streets in the largest protests since he returned to power, dwarfing the sparse crowds at his birthday parade with the US Army. A political assassin targeted Democratic lawmakers while a driver rammed his vehicle into protesters. Now Trump is considering a … Read more

What Happened Today – June 13

An oil drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. Appeals court allows the Willow Project to proceed there despite environmental law violations, citing economic disruption concerns.

⚡ Resistance is going viral. Federal judges blocked Trump all day, 400 international academics including 30 Nobel laureates issued an anti-fascist manifesto, nearly two dozen attorneys left a firm that caved to Trump for one that is still fighting, and millions of Americans are preparing for over 1,800 “No Kings” protests today in what organizers … Read more

What Happened Today – June 12

Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking June 2, 2025 in Washington. Today, Trump called him a numbskull and demanded he lower interest rates.

🚨 Our government is rapidly escalating to physical force against anyone it deems an enemy. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed, thrown to the ground and handcuffed after interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference. They said he lunged at her and never identified himself. Both were lies. In Florida, Ron DeSantis said that … Read more

What Happened Today – June 11

Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine testified to Congress Wednesday that no foreign state-sponsored invasion is occurring, directly undercutting Trump's legal justification for his immigration crackdown. (Source: C-SPAN)

🔨 Nothing works, and the violence keeps coming. Federal agents admit E-Verify is “broken and flawed” while raiding businesses that followed the rules, DOGE’s AI tools are error-prone disasters while slashing veteran care, and Trump’s own Joint Chiefs say there’s no invasion while he deploys thousands of troops anyway. The Trump administration breaks things, hides … Read more

What Happened Today – June 10

Chuckwalla National Monument in California, created by Biden in January, is one of the monuments Trump can now abolish after DOJ overturned 87 years of legal precedent today.

🚩 Trump spent today laying the groundwork for his next wave of crackdowns. He announced plans to ship 9,000 people to Guantanamo and eliminate FEMA while calling protesters “insurrectionists”, the exact word that justifies invoking wartime emergency powers against American citizens. He even told soldiers at Ft. Bragg that he was liberating Los Angeles. DOJ … Read more

What Happened Today – June 9

Apache Leap overlooks Oak Flat, the sacred Apache land in Arizona threatened by copper mining.

Apache Leap overlooks Oak Flat, the sacred Apache land in Arizona threatened by copper mining.

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story Army posts video showing “Hang Fauci & Bill Gates” graffiti on railroad flatcar carrying tanks to Trump’s birthday parade, leaving it up for over 24 hours and 700,000 views before removing it after media inquiry. 💥 Yesterday, we wrote that the collision was coming fast. Its early skirmishes started today although … Read more