April 29, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score (All Time): 184 🔥
Previous 5 Days: 128 🟠|104 🟡|80 🟢|152 🔥|152 🔥
Recent Intensity (vs. 60 Days): 145 đź”´
🚧💸 Trump’s default playbook today is clear: fortify the border with troop-policed “defense strips,” mass-deport declaring Haitian migrants as terrorists, and even using postage images as clues to their whereabouts. Judges, watchdogs, and charities are pushing back, but the squeeze keeps tightening until enough of us raise hell.
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“Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina offers webinar on influencing health policy this Friday.
April 29, 2025
Trump nominee Ed Martin dodges Jan 6 and Nazi-sympathizer questions in Senate confirmation answers
April 29, 2025
FL legislature passes bill banning local water fluoridation and restricting plant-based foods from using milk or meat labels.
April 29, 2025
Hegseth ends Women, Peace & Security program on women’s military leadership, calling it divisive even though Trump signed it in 2017.
April 29, 2025
Houthis say U.S. strike on Saada migrant center kills at least 68 Africans, Pentagon reviewing the claim.
April 29, 2025
Trump fires three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members, prompting lawsuit over his authority.
April 29, 2025
Judge orders Trump administration to restore $12 million in funding for Radio Free Europe, blocking its shutdown.
April 29, 2025
Trump fires all Biden appointees from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff.
April 29, 2025
Harvard president apologizes and pledges reforms after task force reports expose campus antisemitism and anti-Arab bias.
April 29, 2025
Trump administration investigates Chicago Public Schools over Black Student Success Plan, alleging race-based discrimination.
April 29, 2025
Judge blocks Trump move to fire 1,500 CFPB workers and orders officials to testify on possible injunction breach.
April 29, 2025
White House will soften auto tariffs, blocking stacked steel and aluminum levies and offering partial reimbursements on parts.
April 29, 2025
Federal judge in California orders Trump administration to keep funding lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children.
April 29, 2025
State Department working on terrorist tag for Haiti’s Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif gangs.
April 29, 2025
Judge bars Border Patrol in Eastern California from warrantless arrests and coerced departures after profiling farmworkers.
April 29, 2025
Federal judge Randolph Moss challenges Trump claim that his border-invasion asylum ban is beyond court review.
April 29, 2025