The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 4, 2026. Nothing new from August 3, 2026, but we added 18 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 82 so far this month, 1482 in total. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

This day in history

We haven't recorded anything for August 3, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• August 3, 2025 — USDA solicited donations up to $500K each from four firms with pending federal matters for Secretary Rollins's discretionary fund

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• January 9, 2025 — Federal grand jury indicted former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on bribery and corruption charges
• January 22, 2025 — Trump pardoned two DC police officers convicted of murder and cover-up in Karon Hylton-Brown's death, before either served time
• March 3, 2025 — MPD Chief Pamela Smith reinstated two officers convicted of murder and cover-up, overruling her department's recommendation to fire them
• April 1, 2025 — DOGE used one-line ChatGPT prompts to terminate 97% of NEH's appropriated humanities grants, gutting agency in 22 days
• June 30, 2025 — U.S. Customs and Border Protection revoked security clearances from immigrant airport workers, costing dozens their jobs
• July 18, 2025 — Trump sued Wall Street Journal reporters and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion over Epstein reporting
• July 21, 2025 — White House press secretary Leavitt removed Wall Street Journal from Scotland trip press pool over Epstein reporting
• December 2, 2025 — Former Florissant, Missouri police officer pleaded guilty to illegally searching women's phones, photographing nude images during traffic stops
• December 11, 2025 — ICE detained Tennessee construction worker Diego Hernandez Garcia, then deported him in violation of a federal court order
• February 11, 2026 — Former San Leandro councilmember Bryan Azevedo pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from the Duong family for housing-company votes
• February 18, 2026 — ICE defied a New Jersey court's no-transfer order, moving detainee Jagpreet Singh to a Brooklyn facility
• March 11, 2026 — CNN, ProPublica reported DHS sought access to restricted HHS child-support, employment database
• March 11, 2026 — ICE detained 14-year-old Brazilian girl in parked car in Marlboro, Mass.; held overnight without guardian
• March 15, 2026 — AP investigation revealed DHS, ICE, State Department and USCIS immigration data had gone stale amid Trump's deportation push
• March 17, 2026 — DHS letter disclosed ICE detained 265, deported 132 abuse-survivor immigrant youths after ending SIJS deferred-action protections
• March 25, 2026 — DHS deported valid DACA recipient Jessica Treviño, then cited her own deportation to try to terminate her status
• July 24, 2026 — ICE and CoreCivic denied Stewart Detention Center detainee Prisciliano Trejo-Ricano medical care for eight days; he died of leukemia
• July 28, 2026 — ICE and GEO Group left worm-contaminated drinking water uncorrected at Adelanto detention facility despite court-ordered fix

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