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What Happened Today – August 8

🟡 GovBrief Intensity Score 108
Normal range. Baseline political energy.
Previous 5 Days
🔴130|🟢65|🟡105|🟠115|🟢41
This is an indexed score based on news activity. 100 = our permanent historical baseline that is adjusted for weekdays and weekend days. Scores above 100 mean a busier-than-normal news day.

💥 A local Georgia cop is dead after a shooter opened fire in Atlanta near the CDC, but Trump’s political machine continues turning up the heat.

Gerrymandering in Texas, a billion-dollar shakedown of UCLA, and armed patrols in DC streets are fueling a system that thrives on chaos and fear. If we don’t meet this fire with relentless action, it will burn through what’s left of our democracy. Check out Mobilize, Resistbot, and 5Calls — links to all are here.

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Today’s Quote

“On January 13, 2021, Donald Trump became the first president to be impeached twice. The charge was incitement of insurrection based on his challenge of the 2020 election results and on his speech on January 6. Because Trump’s term ended on January 20, he became the first former president tried by the Senate. He was acquitted on February 13, 2021.”

-New language in the Smithsonian impeachment exhibit drops the phrase “false statements” and no longer says Trump’s speech “encouraged, and foreseeably resulted in, imminent lawless action at the Capitol.”

Yesterday’s Most Read Story

Trump paused a Medicare crackdown on skin substitutes after MAGA Inc. received $5 million from Extremity Care owner Oliver Burckhardt.

Today’s GovBrief News