One month ago, the FDA rejects a new, more powerful flu vaccine from Moderna with no explanation. The vaccine has just completed trials on almost 50,000 people, showing it was more effective against more flu strains than earlier vaccines.
One month ago, after Trump sues or threatens to sue lots of pollsters who show that people don't like Trump, the Gallup polling company cancels its Presidential Approval tracking poll, which has been tracking Presidential approval non-stop since the end of World War 2.
One month ago, Trump receives a fake award from the coal industry, which is basically a bribe. He thanks them by ordering the Department of Defense to buy more electricity from coal sources. Companies buy less coal power because it is more expensive than other modern power sources.
Three months ago, Trump tries to pardon Tina Peters, a former election official in jail for tampering with the 2020 election in his favor. Peters broke state law, and Trump cannot pardon her since he can only pardon people for breaking federal law.
Six months ago, a full 15 judge panel of the 4th Circuit criticized the Supreme Court in open court for issuing proclamations with no explanation instead of actual rulings. The court has members appointed by every president going back to Reagan.
Six months ago, Trump announces that he will posthumously award podcaster Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
One year ago, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz added reporter Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where Top Secret info around the ongoing US military operations in the Middle East were discussed. The chat included VP Vance and Secs. Hegseth and Rubio. No one noticed who Goldberg was.
One month ago, the Department of Justice tries to charge Democratic lawmakers with "seditious conspiracy" because they made a video reminding the troops of federal laws about illegal orders. Trump -- a convicted felon -- wants to jail lawmakers for talking about the law.
One month ago, the government says it will take back a nearly 20-year-old finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. Greenhouse gases have been known for over 100 years to cause climate change in ways that hurt humans.
Three months ago, Trump announces that the U.S. military has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. He does not say why it was seized, but does say that he's thinking of a ground invasion of Venezuela, and that their President's "days are numbered".
Six months ago, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is shot and killed while onstage at Utah Valley University. The shooter seems to have connections to another right-wing nationalist movement. Kirk had said that some gun-related deaths were a necessary sacrifice to preserve the 2nd Amendment.
One month ago, the Department of Justice finally lets some members of Congress search the unredacted Epstein files, even though the law says they should have been public weeks ago. A search for Trump's name finds over 1 million hits.
Three months ago, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially labels national nonprofit and civil rights organization the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization. The official label is used for groups which kill people, such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
One year ago, Pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States, is taken from his New York City apartment by ICE agents and detained in Louisiana.
Nine months ago, Trump nationalizes the California National Guard and deploys 2,000 members to put down the protests in Paramount and Compton.
One month ago, two judges in the Fifth Circuit ignore three decades of and hundreds of court rulings to reclassify millions of immigrants as "applicants for admission". This allows ICE to arrest and hold them without bond or appeals. Before this only applied to people just arriving in America.
Six months ago, Trump posts a meme of himself as a soldier sending helicopters in to bomb Chicago with napalm, threatening them with the Department of WAR. The President of the United States threatened to use the U.S. military to kill American citizens.
Six months ago, the U.S. Open tennis tournament emails their TV broadcasters asking that they censor any boos of President Trump, who would be there for the final match. Trump is a guest of U.S. Open sponsor Rolex, who is trying to get on Trump's good side.
Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice, which is supposed to be an independent agency, hangs a North-Korea-dictator-style banner from its headquarters showing Donald Trump's face.
Two weeks ago, it comes out that ICE has been using letters from ICE "judges" to get cellphone data from whole neighborhoods. ICE is tracking everyone's location and behavior in places where no one is accused of a crime, but have been found saying mean things about ICE.
One month ago, the US Census Bureau test survey for the 2030 census includes a question about whether the person is a US citizen, something that is not supposed to be asked and has not been asked in over 75 years.
Three months ago, Netflix says it will buy part of Warner Brothers, but Trump demands that Warner Brothers instead be sold to Paramount. Paramount is owned by the Ellison family, who are close friends of Trump, and also owns CBS.
Nine months ago, Trump gets into a Twitter fight with Elon Musk, with Musk criticizing the One Big Beautiful Bill and accusing Trump of concealing his association with Jeffrey Epstein.
Two weeks ago, South Carolina police arrest a woman for joining an Anti-ICE chat group used by high school students to plan a walkout. She said she was proud of the students for standing up for their rights. Police want to jail her for 3 years.
Two weeks ago, Trump says he is taking $10 billion of taxpayer money and giving it to "The Board of Peace", a private offshore organization where he is Chairman for Life and run by his son-in-law. The Constitution says that only Congress, not the President, can say where taxpayer money is spent.
Six months ago, ten federal judges openly criticized the Supreme Court in the news for overturning lower court rulings using the shadow docket with little or no explanation, other than "Trump can do what he wants". The judges even include ones appointed by Trump himself.
Two weeks ago, ICE assaults and kidnap a 19 year-old U.S. citizen in Kansas, and are caught on film saying they don't even know who he is.
Two weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has Christian Nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson lead a Christian prayer service at the Pentagon. Wilson has argued that slavery created "a genuine affection" between the races, and that only men should be allowed to go to church and run a house.
Three months ago, ICE begins assaulting and kidnapping people in New Orleans and Minneapolis. The victims include American citizens, who are tear gassed, beaten, and arrested.
One month ago, CNN reports that Trump will have daily meetings with his staff to make sure that he can abuse the Department of Justice and courts even more to prosecute his political enemies, even when they haven't done anything wrong.
