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What Happened Today – June 17

June 17, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 184 🔥
Extreme. News volume is off the charts.
This is an indexed score based on news activity.
100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 84% above normal.
Recent trend: 31% above the long-term baseline.
Previous 5 Days 184 | 80 | 96 | 168 | 168

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Immigration, Criminal Justice, Foreign Relations
7 Day Trending Topics: ICE, Israel, Iran

🟥 Trump’s regime is now physically targeting Democratic officials.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by ICE agents outside a detention facility in early May. Since then, Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted, Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed and removed from a press event, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander arrested in the hallway of a federal immigration court by masked and plainclothes ICE officers.

After two Minnesota lawmakers were shot and killed, Trump refused to call the governor and called it a waste of time.

A GOP senator mocked the dead. Another all but admitted U.S. troops are already fighting in the Israel-Iran war.

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s a purge that’s accelerating.

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