Today, more than one million Americans are expected to protest at events throughout the country.
From an undeclared war in Venezuela to attacks on those who oppose him, Donald Trump has learned what rules he can ignore backed by an enabling Congress and compliant Supreme Court.
There’s little choice when the White House punishes areas that didn’t vote for him by cutting education, healthcare, and even food assistance. We can’t afford to only protest once a month.
Please get to an event today. Use that time and those people to plan what you’ll do tomorrow: organize, pressure representatives, build networks. Because if we just watch football and rake leaves, the next events will be even harder. Military troops are in and around our cities tonight to enforce Trump’s will.
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Two people arrested in July 4 shooting outside Texas immigration detention center now face terrorism charges under Trump's designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
Today’s GovBrief News
New York Republican State Committee disbands its Young Republicans group after leaked messages show members using racial slurs and joking about gas chambers.
Source: BBC
October 17, 2025
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologizes for supporting Trump sending National Guard to San Francisco after investor Ron Conway resigns from Salesforce Foundation board over the comments.
Source: CNBC
October 17, 2025
Typhoon Halong destroyed 90% of homes in one Alaska village and displaced over 2,000 people who cannot return for at least 18 months, as Trump administration cuts to weather monitoring made forecasts less accurate.
Source: CBS News
October 17, 2025
Trump says Maduro offered concessions including access to Venezuela's natural resources to avoid U.S. military action, adding "he doesn't want to fuck around with the United States."
Source: The Financial Times
October 17, 2025
Obamacare premiums rise 18% for 2026 as enhanced subsidies expire, with a 60-year-old Kentucky couple facing $23,700 more in annual costs and millions potentially losing coverage.
Source: The New York Times (gift link)
October 17, 2025
Trump joins call with Indiana Senate Republicans urging mid-decade redistricting to eliminate the state's two Democratic U.S. House seats and help Republicans maintain majority.
Source: Fox 59 Indianapolis
October 17, 2025
Indiana Univ. fires student newspaper adviser after he refuses order to remove news stories, then ends all print publication as the paper covered sensitive stories about the president and campus safety.
Source: The Associated Press
October 17, 2025
Shelby County Mayor and local leaders sue Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee over National Guard deployment to Memphis, arguing it violates state constitution limiting the Guard's use as a domestic police force.
Source: Fox 13 Memphis
October 17, 2025
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow deployment of 700 federalized National Guard troops to Chicago after appeals court blocked the deployment while still allowing federalization.
Source: Roll Call
October 17, 2025
Trump confirms U.S. military strike on alleged drug submarine killed two people and left two survivors now held on a Navy ship, the first known prisoners in his undeclared war on Venezuela.
Source: CBC
October 17, 2025
Federal courts run out of funding Monday and will furlough staff after exhausting court fees and non-appropriated funds during the three-week shutdown.
Source: Axios
October 17, 2025
Trump commutes George Santos's seven-year prison sentence three months into his term for wire fraud and identity theft convictions.
Source: NPR
October 17, 2025
Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia fires two more top prosecutors who resisted bringing charges against Letitia James without evidence.
Source: ABC News
October 17, 2025
DHS deports Marine's father after arresting him on base and misidentifying him.
Source: NBC San Diego
October 17, 2025
Federal agents raid outside Manhattan migrant shelter, detaining 10 people and briefly holding a 12-year-old boy before releasing non-Venezuelans.
Source: The City
October 17, 2025
University of Virginia rejects Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence, which offered preferential research funding for screening international students for "American and Western values."
Source: The Cavalier Daily
October 17, 2025
Federal judge expands restraining order blocking shutdown firings to cover employees in unions the government stopped recognizing after Trump's executive order ending representation.
Source: Federal News Network
October 17, 2025
National Nuclear Security Administration will furlough 80% of staff managing U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile as shutdown funding runs out Saturday.
Source: Politico
October 17, 2025
Trump administration pauses $11 billion in Army Corps of Engineers projects in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore and Boston as shutdown pressures Democratic cities.
Source: CBS News
October 17, 2025
National Republican Senatorial Committee releases deepfake video of Chuck Schumer robotically repeating his real quote about Democrats' shutdown strategy.
Source: The Guardian
October 17, 2025
White House joins Bluesky with a compilation video of past trolling moments including their earlier doctored image of Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and fake mustache.
Source: ABC News
October 17, 2025
Pennsylvania requires health insurers to cover COVID-19 vaccines without cost-sharing through 2026 after CDC dropped universal recommendation following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s committee purge.
Source: The Pennsylvania Capital-Star
October 17, 2025