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What Happened Today – May 24

🟢 GovBrief Intensity Score 56
Low activity. Things are quieter than usual.
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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

Trump deregulates nuclear industry with “total reform” of independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission, cutting staff and fast-tracking reactor approvals for AI data centers and defense facilities.

Even Memorial Day weekend can’t slow the unraveling.

Trump turned West Point’s sacred graduation into a MAGA rally while claiming he’s more investigated than Al Capone, his son launched a “library” slush fund seeded with settlement money squeezed from ABC and Meta, and EPA officially declared climate science fiction to eliminate all power plant emissions limits.

The erosion of American norms doesn’t take holidays – and neither can our resistance to it.

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