100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 68% above normal.
Recent trend: 22% above the long-term baseline.
7 Day Trending Topics: Israel, ICE, Iran
🚩 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 reversed an 87-year-old precedent to let Trump abolish national monuments like the two Biden established, while his systematic destruction of health and science continued with the NIH director openly accepting responsibility for $9.5 billion in research cuts and HHS officials attacking the health industry.
Trump built his rationale today for bigger authoritarian actions tomorrow. The language, the planning, the institutional preparation all points to what’s coming next. Relishing the fight, he even warned that any protesters at his birthday parade will be “met with heavy force.”
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CNN reporter detained and escorted away by police during live Los Angeles protest coverage, narrating encounter as it happens on air.