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What Happened Today – September 13, 2025

🛠️ They’ve swapped the dog whistle for a bullhorn.

The quiet part is now the whole speech as they openly draft plans to deploy troops in new American cities, publicly call for political opponents to be jailed, and brazenly demand new laws to punish the media. This is a public dare, a test to see if anyone is listening.

Everyone needs to start acting locally to slow this down. Get involved in your community, start modeling the behaviors we need in our civic life. Run for office, build up. Rushing to march in Washington DC isn’t the answer. Changing our culture has to be. We’ll reinforce the guardrails we have while building a new road.

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Today’s Quote
The Supreme Court has made clear enough by way of its emergency docket that it will overrule judicially granted relief respecting hirings and firings within the executive, not just in this case but in others."
Judge William Alsup, in his ruling September 12 that found the Office of Personnel Management exceeded its powers by directing agencies to fire 25,000 probationary employees under false pretenses.
Yesterday's Most Read

Poland’s leaders rebuke Trump for suggesting Russia’s drone incursion was an accident, insisting it was a deliberate test of NATO.

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CNN, The Independent, NBC News, The Associated Press, The New York Times, ABC7 San Francisco, Federal News Network, Nola.com, The Rhode Island Current, NPR, CNBC, CBS News