🔗 Every move is a loyalty test now.
At a memorial meant for mourning, the president told tens of thousands that he “hates his opponents” and wants no good for them. Science, journalism, and national honors are bent into tests of allegiance. Tylenol is politicized, reporters are silenced, and medals are handed out like party favors. Resistance is punished.
That should terrify every American. Let’s empower those who refuse to bend in our communities. That means showing up when they are targeted, defending them out loud, and refusing to be silent.
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The Trump administration used its “golden share” power for the first time to block a U.S. Steel plant closure three months after the company’s foreign takeover.
Today’s GovBrief News
Republican Senator Rand Paul calls the FCC chair’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license “absolutely inappropriate,” breaking with Trump who defended the action.
Despite his own recent leak, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth escalates his press crackdown by requiring reporters to agree to prior restraint on unclassified information.
The Trump administration plans to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, contradicting established guidance from the FDA and medical organizations.
Trump pledges the Presidential Medal of Freedom to political loyalist Ben Carson, his third such promise to an ally in September.
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