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What Happened Today – August 14

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🔥🛑 Trump spent the day before his Putin summit rewriting rules, installing loyalty enforcers, and shutting down satellites and science that don’t serve him.

He continued his takeover of the local DC government, rewarded the rich, and made clear no one is untouchable. Public disapproval is growing, but stopping authoritarianism takes more than bad poll numbers.

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Today’s Quote

That’s why we have NASA — is to explore, not to do all of these earth sciences.

-Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to Fox Business August 14, contradicting NASA’s founding mission, written into law 13 years before he was born.

Yesterday’s Most Read Story

Trump vows to replace “old, tired” grass in Washington D.C. parks as part of beautification push during federal takeover of city police.

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