Today’s facts 08-30-2025

Today’s facts …

The National Weather Service is hiring back 450 people but applicants must answer questions about commitment to the Constitution, improving government efficiency, and how they would advance Trump’s agenda.

The Gun Violence Archives estimate there may have been eight transgender mass shooters since 2013. That's between 0.09% and 0.14% of all mass shooters in the database. Social media posts with false numbers have gone viral.

Trump hung a giant American Workers First portrait of himself on the Department of Labor building.

Trump has begun terminating collective bargaining agreements with federal employee unions.

Covidtests.gov, the website for free COVID test kits, is now a propaganda site with false information about the pandemic, the disease, and the vaccines.

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CVS and Walgreens are now requiring a prescription or are not offering COVID-19 vaccines in some states due to unclear information coming from the CDC.

CDC immunization chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigned criticizing RFK Jr.’s leadership and noting no CDC experts from his center had ever briefed the Secretary.

A motorcycle club did not shut down a Walmart store in support of an older veteran.

The Wizard of Oz has been reworked for The Sphere in Las Vegas. Tickets are on sale through March.

False celebrity stories about helping victims of the Texas floods circulated on Facebook benefitted ad tech firms in Southeast Asia.

A court ruled Trump overstepped by using emergency powers to impose global tariffs, but the taxes remain while the case heads to the Supreme Court.

Powerball jackpot is now $1 billion tonight.

A judge blocked Trump’s effort to expand fast-track deportations known as expedited removal because it does not allow due process.

Trump won’t spend $4.9 billion in foreign aid Congress already approved cutting the budget without lawmakers’ approval.

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