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What Happened Today – May 21

🔴 GovBrief Intensity Score 136
High intensity. Big news cycle.
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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.

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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