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What Happened Today – September 1, 2025

🥊 Today’s events represent a coordinated, multi-front assault.

We’re forced to watch a spectacle of shameless grift, from the massive crypto payday for the Trump and Witkoff families guaranteed by a self-dealing arrangement to the nation’s highest honor given to Rudy Giuliani.

The noise covers for the quiet sabotage of our ability to function. They are gutting public health and scrapping climate data. Giuliani is the perfect symbol of this cynical game. He’s a Covid denier who took the special care denied to others, now rewarded for helping dismantle the very systems meant to protect us all. He was disbarred for lying about the 2020 election results, but he probably won’t mind as he receives the Medal of Freedom.

Congress is back in session this week. Tell your representatives to do their job and stop the rot.

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Today’s Quote
If they’re so bad, and the American consumers are paying them, why do we hear the European companies or the Chinese companies complaining about tariffs if it’s all being borne by the American people? It’s just not happening.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Lara Trump's Fox show. Bessent knows well that governments are complaining because American consumers pay more to buy foreign products and thus their sales are reduced.
Yesterday's Most Read

One of two firefighters arrested by Border Patrol while on duty fighting a wildfire arrived in the U.S. at age 4 and is on a path to legal status.

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