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What Happened Today – March 25

An F/A-18E Super Hornet prepares to launch from the USS Harry S. Truman, which has been engaged with attacks on Yemen. (Photo March 18, 2025 by the US Navy)

👀 Authoritarian overreach is now casual.Trump’s team plotted a military strike in an unsecured chat, while Musk’s DOGE scraped private data on millions—and Social Security rushed service cuts that could block benefits for the sick and poor. Judges are under attack. Troops are expelled. Chaos is a feature, not a bug. Subscribe to get your … Read more

What Happened Today – March 24

President Donald J. Trump purchases a Tesla on the South Lawn, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

👀 Authoritarian overreach is now casual.Trump’s team plotted a military strike in an unsecured chat, while Musk’s DOGE scraped private data on millions—and Social Security rushed service cuts that could block benefits for the sick and poor. Judges are under attack. Troops are expelled. Chaos is a feature, not a bug. Subscribe to get your … Read more

What Happened Today – March 23

President Obama blows a whistle to begin the 2015 White House Easter Egg Roll. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

🔥 Lines Are Being Crossed. Then Redrawn. Again. From Greenland to Venezuela to the South Lawn, the Trump admin is setting fire to norms—and everyone else is racing to catch up. Deportations without due process. Tariffs shifting by the hour. A top law firm buckled under pressure. Even Canada and Denmark are bracing for impact. … Read more

What Happened Today – March 22

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar address thousands in Tucson during their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. AOC said 23,000 people turned out for the March 23 rally. Image via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Bluesky (@aoc.bsky.social)

🛑 Trump’s crackdown is accelerating. Lawyers punished. Judges mocked. Kids in court alone. ICE may get IRS data. FEMA gutted. A Cornell Ph.D. student targeted for suing and leading protests. All of this on a Saturday. But across the West, the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour is drawing thousands. AOC and Bernie Sanders showed up. 30,000 in … Read more

What Happened Today – March 21

The U.S. is now forcing Canadians to clear a formal border crossing just to visit the Haskell Library — a building that literally straddles the border and has welcomed both nations for over a century.

Trump cancels legal permission to live in the US for half a million people… after 8 p.m. on a Friday. He also told reporters that he never signed the proclamation invoking the 1798 wartime act that let him deport people, except his signature is published on it. Somehow he found time to threaten Tesla vandals … Read more

What Happened Today – March 20

Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot was demoted after aggressively defending the administration’s removal of Jackie Robinson’s tribute from the Defense Department’s official website,

🇺🇸 Friday DispatchWhile the cameras chased shiny objects, the Trump administration moved to enter homes without warrants, torch DEI at law firms, recall Cybertrucks again, hand out cash to voters (again), and fold USAID into a blockchain-powered austerity husk. And yet—teachers marched, whistleblowers spoke, and judges weren’t having it. America’s burning at both ends, but … Read more

What Happened Today – March 19

US Institute of Peace HQ in Washington (CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Common)

🔥 20 stories. One night. Democracy under siege. Trump escalates attacks on courts, immigrants, and public institutions. The ICC is crumbling, DHS is detaining academics, and Musk-backed lawmakers push to remove judges. Meanwhile, protests grow as Tesla stock tanks. We’ve never had to cover this much in one night—because it’s never been this relentless.

What Happened Today – March 18

Dozens of Social Security offices are closing as new rules starting March 31 force more people— including seniors and disabled Americans— to handle transactions in person.

Declassified, defunded, dismantled. Trump wipes out war crimes data, slashes HIV prevention, and erases FTC guidance—while judges block his transgender military ban and EPA cash grab. Roberts rebukes impeachment talk, and Nebraska voters erupt over Musk, Ukraine, and Medicare cuts.

What Happened Today – March 17

Navajo Code Talkers who contributed to US victory at Iwo Jima are among the Native Americans being expunged from government websites.

⚖️ Trump defies judges. Power grabs escalate. Resistance grows. His admin defies court orders, stacks institutions with loyalists, and cashes in on access—while federal agencies purge records and sideline workers. But cracks are showing: Judges demand answers. Progressives mobilize. The fight isn’t over. 💥 Sanders and AOC rally this week as pushback builds. 📢 Stay … Read more

What Happened Today – March 16

Guided missile destroyer USS Gravely has been deployed to the southern border.

✈️ Defying judges.🚢 Militarizing borders.📉 Shrugging off economic chaos. Trump’s latest power moves: migrants deported despite court orders, a warship at the border, and a $5T market plunge dismissed as “healthy.” Now, he’s testing whether he can void Biden’s pardons, backing away from war crimes probes, and prepping new tariffs. 💡 Resistance is slow to … Read more

What Happened Today – March 15

Sáttítla Highlands National Monument's night sky (Photo: Bob Wick, US Forestry)

✈️ Turning planes around. 🏛️ Erasing scientists. ⛏️ Seizing sacred land. Trump isn’t just making moves—he’s rewriting the rules. A judge halts mid-air deportations. A haunting video exposes Khalil’s arrest. Norms vanish: Fauci erased, monuments threatened, the Kennedy Center put under his thumb. Even law firms aren’t safe. ⚡ Stay informed. Stay engaged.📲 Subscribe free … Read more

What Happened Today – March 14

Arlington National Cemetery removed references to non-white and female service members. (Photo: Eliizabeth Fraser, US Army)

🥊 The administration is making dangerous moves: denying citizenship to U.S.-born children, gutting the Postal Service, plotting mass deportations, and threatening annexation of Greenland while drawing up plans for increased troop presence in Panama. Courts are pushing back, but whistleblowers and protests are doing the heavy lifting. Stay alert, stay engaged. Now’s the time to … Read more

What Happened Today – March 13

Columbia Student protests in 2024 supporting Palestinian and Israeli postions. (Image:Emjackson42, CC BY-SA 4.0)

🥊 The administration is making dangerous moves: denying citizenship to U.S.-born children, gutting the Postal Service, plotting mass deportations, and threatening annexation of Greenland while drawing up plans for increased troop presence in Panama. Courts are pushing back, but whistleblowers and protests are doing the heavy lifting. Stay alert, stay engaged. Now’s the time to … Read more

What Happened Today – March 12

The federal student loan site was down the day after the department was gutted. (Image: @WesleyWhistle on X)

🚨 DON’T LOOK AWAY. The U.S. is shutting down civil rights offices, punishing law firms, gutting climate rules, and forcing Canadians to register like it’s 1925. The last Guantánamo detainees? Shipped to Louisiana. Trump just pardoned a convicted lawmaker 15 days into his sentence. 💡 The fight isn’t just in DC. Local organizing is exploding. … Read more

What Happened Today – March 11

Offices overseeing federally owned art are being closed.

The scale of today’s upheaval is staggering: Ukraine strikes a fragile ceasefire as U.S. aid resumes, but back home, education, food assistance, and climate protections are all on the chopping block. NOAA faces another round of firings, the EPA is gutting its environmental justice offices, and whistleblowers are sounding the alarm on plans to dismantle … Read more

What Happened Today – March 10

GOP House members threatened DC over its Black Lives Matter Plaza. (By Bdward3 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)

The cracks keep widening: Trump shrugs off a recession, ICE revokes a protester’s green card, and Panama dumps deported migrants. Meanwhile, Musk picks fights, Iran wavers on talks, and Kristi Noem wants lie detector tests for Homeland employees to find out who is leaking information. Stay sharp.

What Happened Today – March 9

F-16s were scrambled on Saturday and Sunday to chase aircraft from restricted space near Mar-a-Lago

The cracks keep widening: Trump shrugs off a recession, ICE revokes a protester’s green card, and Panama dumps deported migrants. Meanwhile, Musk picks fights, Iran wavers on talks, and Kristi Noem wants lie detector tests for Homeland employees to find out who is leaking information. Stay sharp.

What Happened Today – Feb 27

Unelected Elon Musk, who is not a Cabinet member, is seen here performing his act at Trump's first Cabinet meeting. He was the first person to speak after Trump and did a 15 minute set.

⚡ Trump’s reckless firings and mass layoffs are gutting key agencies—from FEMA to Social Security—while his military purge faces backlash. Today, I contacted my senators and urged them to reject his nominations, just as past defense secretaries advised. #GovBriefToday #Resist

What Happened Today – Feb 26

Trump’s radical overhaul rages on as his administration freezes USAID funds, cuts 90% of foreign aid contracts, orders sweeping federal downsizing from EPA to HHS, dismisses hiring bias cases, tests Starlink on a $2 billion Verizon contract, and retools the Washington Post’s opinion section—fueling protests nationwide.

What Happened Today – Feb 24

Trump continues backing Musk, a viral video shows a woman dragged from an Idaho town hall, and the US votes against blaming Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Get busy, call, protest, write.

What Happened Today – Feb 20

Trump moving to control USPS, Musk’s private security gets deputized, and the FBI now answers to Kash Patel. Meanwhile, protests at Tesla dealerships are growing. Find events, take action, and fight back.

What Happened Today – Feb 18

Trump’s grip tightens: Regulators submit, Pentagon staff face purges, science is gutted, and press freedom takes another hit. Meanwhile, feds and supporters braved the cold in Chicago to fight back. Will you? 

What Happened Today – Feb 17

 Musk, Trump, and chaos at every level. Top officials are resigning, whistleblowers are being silenced, and courts are bending. Europe is bracing. What are you doing? SPEAK UP. 

What Happened Today – Feb 11

Welcome to the new reality. Unelected Elon Musk is now taking questions from the Oval Office and slashing the federal workforce while Trump continues his quest to take over Gaza while meeting with the King of Jordan.

What Happened Today – Feb 6

Project 2025 continues to be implemented at breakneck speed. Today, its co-author Russell Vought was confirmed as the head of the Office of Management and Budget. Conservatives claimed throughout 2024 that Donald Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025. While that was wrong, the people who did are now running the federal government.

What Happened Today – Feb 5

Elon Musk & his team now have access to the Medicaid & Medicare payments system and are also sweeping through the CDC and Labor Dept. If you stand against him in public or online, might your health benefits get messed up in the computer? What about your taxes? No one has ever had such direct, … Read more

What Happened Today – Feb 4

Your preferences and beliefs regarding Israel & the Gaza Strip are not relevant to the idea that forcibly removing people from their homes and resettling them elsewhere is ethnic cleansing and a violation of international law. That’s what Donald Trump proposed tonight, and while America did this the minute the first colonial ships reached the … Read more

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