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What Happened Today – September 29, 2025

💸 They fired the whistleblowers who exposed fair housing violations, shot pepper rounds at a journalist documenting ICE operations, and charged activists for posting an agent’s address online. 

On the same day, Trump collected $24.5 million from YouTube, slashed coal royalties while tripling public land access, and his former campaign manager registered as Israel’s foreign agent to influence young Americans and AI models like ChatGPT. The grift happens in daylight because they’ve made documenting it the crime.

Screenshot. Archive. Share. When they attack the people who expose corruption harder than they punish the corruption itself, your documentation becomes resistance.

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Look, I think sometimes the president plays with the press like a little boy and a flashlight and a dog, And he’s shining the flashlight here, and he’s shining it there. What he’s saying is, this offer from the Democrats is ridiculous: $1.5 trillion on top of funding that they already agreed to, that what they’re asking for is completely ridiculous. It’s disingenuous.
Kansas Senator Roger Marshall speaking on CNN September 29 to excuse Trump's racist, vulgar AI video post.
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Trump posts then deletes AI-generated video of himself promoting QAnon medical conspiracy after Fox News confirms fake segment never aired.

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