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A new audio series published by the group Federal Workers Against DOGE looks at the plight of fired federal workers whose jobs and careers were cut short by the Trump administration’s systematic defunding of government services in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy and the reallotment of resources to anti-immigration enforcement. I Do Solemnly Swear, co-created and directed by filmmaker Laura Nix, features interviews with current and former employees of federal agencies including the FAA, CDC, EPA, IRS and more. “I felt it was very important to focus on not just the illegality of the firings, but the impact on Americans,” says Nix. “We’ve depended for a very long time [on] these benefits, the safety of our highways, our water, our airspace, [but] we’re learning that these are all being taken away.”
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The Trump administration has shuttered the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific arm, the EPA Office of Research and Development. Hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists will lose their jobs under the administration’s plan to aggressively tear down environmental regulations and defund the EPA. Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, a former top administrator in the Office of Research and Development, says the loss of the division means the loss of essential services like air and water quality monitoring that protects public health. “We are losing a treasure trove of historical knowledge, of scientific expertise, and really it’s going to limit what information, what science would be available for the agency to consider in protecting our health and our environment,” she says.
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The independent news outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call are reporting that Israel is increasingly using grenade-firing drones to enforce evacuation orders. Israeli soldiers have admitted that they deliberately target civilians and likened their use of the weapons to a “video game.” Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport explains how soldiers are instructed to initiate strikes on all residents, not just belligerent targets. “Once a commander defines an imaginary red line that no one is allowed to cross, anyone who does is marked for death,” says Rapoport.
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The starvation crisis in Gaza is deepening under Israel’s brutal blockade and amid regular massacres of civilians attempting to secure aid at the only officially sanctioned aid sites, run by Israeli troops and American mercenaries. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the onset of famine are the subjects of a new report by analysts Davide Piscitelli and Alex de Waal for the research organization Forensic Architecture on the “architecture of genocidal starvation” in Gaza. “I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today,” says de Waal, who is also the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
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Democracy Now! Monday, July 21, 2025
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- Israeli Tanks & Snipers Kill 79 Palestinians at Aid Site in Northern Gaza
- At Least 19 Palestinians Starve to Death as U.N. Warns Gaza Has "Reached New Levels of Desperation"
- Pope Leo Calls for End to "Barbarity of War" After Israeli Fatal Attack on Gaza Church
- U.K. Police Arrest Another 100 for Supporting Banned Group Palestine Action
- Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla Ship Sets Sail for Gaza
- Syrian Gov't Announces New Ceasefire in Suwayda After 1,000+ Killed
- U.S.-Venezuelan Prisoner Swap Frees 250 Men Held in El Salvador
- Human Rights Watch Exposes Abuse at Krome Immigration Jail in Florida
- 82-Year-Old Torture Survivor Secretly Sent from Pennsylvania to Guatemala After Losing Green Card
- Queens High School Student Reunites with Family After Month in ICE Detention
- Journalist Mario Guevara Still Faces Deportation Even After Charges Were Dropped Against Him
- "Don't You Dare Ever Say That Again": DHS Secretary Kristin Noem Denies ICE Is Racially Profiling Latinos
- DRC and M23 Fighters Sign Deal to End Fighting in Eastern Congo
- Brazilian Police Raid Home of Bolsonaro; Court Orders Ankle Bracelet for Ex-President Charged with Coup Plot
- EPA to Shut Down Scientific Research Arm
- Trump Calls on Washington Commanders & Cleveland Guardians to Resume Using Old Team Names
- Trump Signs Cryptocurrency Bill to Regulate Stablecoins
- Trump Sues Murdoch over WSJ Report About Trump Letter to Jeffrey Epstein
- Writers Guild Calls for Probe of Paramount's Cancellation of Stephen Colbert Show
- Democrats Endorse Omar Fateh to Be Next Mayor of Minneapolis
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak to Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, about the Trump administration’s drastic defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nations. Fifty-nine tribal radio stations and one tribal television station that depend on federal funding will be among the first to face possible closure, putting some of the essential services that public broadcasting provides, including warning systems for missing Indigenous women and girls, at risk. Taylor shares how Native-led public media helps preserve Indigenous languages and helped keep communities informed during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. She fears that without these same resources and “with the climate crisis increasing, [we] are going to be operating on the margins of information and are not going to have real lifesaving information available to our citizens when they need it most.”
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We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about his bipartisan bill calling for the full release of federal documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal charges for sexual trafficking and abuse, which is also currently backed by nine Republicans and every House Democrat. Khanna explains why he’s calling for transparency and accountability regarding the Epstein case, and how Trump is working to prevent the same.
Ro Khanna also discusses the massive loss to public media and local news as the Trump administration has successfully stripped $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds over 1,500 NPR and PBS stations across the country. The major cut to funding is possible thanks to the rare process of rescission, which allows the president to request Congress to rescind already-allocated federal funding. Trump’s OMB Director Russell Vought has indicated that the administration intends to expand its use of rescission in future legislative sessions. “It’s a devastating blow to the education of our children in America and to our democracy,” says Khanna, who notes that the cut to public media comes just one week after Republicans voted to pass Trump’s deficit-enlarging budget bill. “It’s just not true that this has anything to do with fiscal responsibility,” Khanna adds.
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We speak to a survivor of sexual abuse perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein and enabled by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Teresa Helm was sexually assaulted by Epstein at what she was told was a job interview in the early 2000s. She now works as the survivor services coordinator for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and joins many voices calling for the release of federal documents pertaining to Epstein’s criminal case, though Helm emphasizes that the goal of their release must be to promote accountability and justice for victims, not as a form of political score-settling. “I really urge everyone to focus their commitment, their intention, all this time, effort and energy onto … these survivors and their healing,” says Helm. “We’re talking about people’s lives, and it should not be weaponized either way, in any administration.”
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A major rift has formed within Donald Trump’s MAGA base over his reversal of a campaign promise to release the “Epstein files” to the public. Many supporters see his denials of the existence of a “client list” belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the powerful and well-connected investor who was charged with the sexual trafficking and assault of numerous teenage girls and young women before his death, as a betrayal of Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” and expose what many supporters believe is proof of criminal corruption among primarily Democratic “elites.” Trump’s insistence that his supporters drop their fixation on Epstein-related “conspiracy theories that his people have long nurtured” is “making it exceedingly difficult for some of his biggest supporters and boosters to not start at least suspecting that he has something to hide,” says Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng, who has been reporting on the fallout from Trump and his Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein case.
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- White House Poised to Claw Back $9B in Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding After House Vote
- 14 Members of Gazan Family Die as Israel Bombs Their Home and Attacks Rescue Efforts
- UNICEF: Israel Has Killed Over 17,000 Children in Gaza and Injured 33,000 Others
- Christian Leaders in West Bank Call for Accountability and End to Israeli Settler Violence
- Sectarian Fighting Resumes in Syria's Suwayda After Latest Ceasefire Effort
- Trump Moves to Release Some Epstein Documents But Fails to Allay MAGA Revolt
- Senate Republicans Cut Off Debate to Advance Judicial Nomination of Trump Loyalist Emil Bove
- ICE Will Have Access to Personal Medicaid Data
- Immigrant Rights Groups Sue over ICE Courthouse Arrests
- ICE Targets Sex Workers in Mounting Raids
- Anti-Corruption Watchdog Flees El Salvador Amid Crackdown
- French Troops Withdraw from Senegal, Ending Permanent Presence
- DOJ Requests One-Day Sentence for Louisville Cop Convicted over Breonna Taylor's Killing
- Judge Lifts Domestic Travel Restrictions on Columbia Student Activist Mohsen Mahdawi
- CBS Cancels "The Late Show" After Stephen Colbert Skewers $16 Million Settlement with Trump
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Democracy Now! 2025-07-18 Friday
- Headlines for July 18, 2025
- "Stunning Reversal": Trump Stonewalls on Epstein Files After Campaigning on Full Transparency
- Epstein Survivor Calls for Accountability: Release the Files, End Impunity for Rich & Powerful Abusers
- Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes to Release All Epstein Files, Calls Gutting of Public Media "Devastating Blow"
- Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Israel launched airstrikes that destroyed part of the Syrian Defense Ministry and a facility near the presidential palace in Damascus on Wednesday, killing three people. This comes weeks after Israel launched unprovoked strikes on Iran, which led to a brief war that killed over 900 Iranians and 29 people in Israel. Adam Shatz, U.S. editor at the London Review of Books, says Israel’s motivation in the Middle East is to “settle accounts with any force in the region that might challenge its domination.” He also notes violent language around foreign policy has become “banal” in many Western countries. “It’s not simply Trump and the far right who speak blithely about overthrowing foreign governments, about bombing other foreign populations. It’s people who have a reputation … for being liberals and moderates,” says Shatz.
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We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United Nations definition of “genocide,” which includes an intent to destroy a group of people that makes it impossible for the group to reconstitute itself. “This is precisely what Israel is trying to do,” he says. “Israel is trying to concentrate the population of Gaza in the southernmost parts of the strip, to enclose them and to enforce, eventually, either that they would just die out there or that they would be removed from the Gaza Strip altogether.”
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