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What Happened Today – May 31

🟢 GovBrief Intensity Score 64
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

OPM announces new federal hiring plan requiring job applicants to answer essay questions about patriotism and commitment to advancing Trump’s executive orders while ending racial quotas and DEI statistics.

💾 The PayPal Mafia’s government data heist is complete.

Musk spent months mapping federal systems through DOGE, then “exits” just as his old PayPal buddy Thiel’s Palantir scores contracts to build comprehensive databases on every American from your IRS records to your medical data.

This same administration cuts 83,000 VA jobs, suspends programs for at-risk youth, and slashes science funding, forcing veterans to organize D-Day protests against the government they served. They’re not draining the swamp. They’re handing it to tech oligarchs while abandoning everyone else, just like the veterans are organizing resistance against the VA cuts.

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