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What Happened Today – May 21

May 21, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 136 🔴
High political volume. 100 = average over past 60 days.
Previous 5 Days 96 | 136 | 40 | 96 | 168

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Courts, Foreign Relations, Federal Personnel
7 Day Trending Topics: DHS, Harvard, Defense Dept

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shocks Senate committee by incorrectly defining habeas corpus as presidential power to deport immigrants.

🌍💲✈️ While House Republicans spent today negotiating baby bond names and appeasing budget holdouts, Trump’s government violated court orders to deport migrants, fired independent oversight boards, and accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar that he’ll personally keep in three years.

Courts are working overtime to block constitutional violations while Congress plays political theater, but judges can’t stop everything, and the damage compounds every day that we pretend this is normal governance instead of systematic destruction. 

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