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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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President Trump said Tuesday the Smithsonian Institution was too narrowly focused on negative aspects of U.S. history, including “how bad slavery was.” Trump’s social media post minimizing the horrors of chattel slavery came after the White House ordered a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensure they align with Trump’s interpretation of U.S. history.
In early 2020, Democracy Now! spoke with the newly appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III, in Washington, D.C. Bunch was previously the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He shares stories of the work of building the museum and its collections, and the time when President Trump made a visit during his first term. “The museum has become a pilgrimage site, a site of resistance, a site of remembering what America could be and a site to engage new generations,” said Bunch.
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Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank, sabotaging efforts at creating a future Palestinian state. The project has been on hold for over 20 years, largely due to pressure from previous U.S. administrations. The “E-1” settlement would see the construction of about 3,400 new housing units and would sever one of the last remaining territorial links between major Palestinian cities like Ramallah in the northern West Bank and southern cities including Bethlehem, as well as cut off East Jerusalem. “The West Bank is nearly 6,000 kilometers squared in size, and it has been the prize for Israel,” says Mariam Barghouti, Palestinian writer and journalist based in Ramallah. Barghouti says Israeli officials have blatantly expressed their intent to bury the prospect of a Palestinian state. “Israel is not engaging in just a war on Gaza,” she says. “It is engaging in a war of annihilation of Palestinians.”
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Israel’s military says it has established a foothold on the outskirts of Gaza City and is calling up an additional 60,000 reservists ahead of a full-scale invasion of Gaza’s largest urban area. This follows days of escalating airstrikes and artillery fire that have killed scores of Palestinians in one of the world’s most densely populated regions.
Dr. Mimi Syed is an emergency medicine physician who’s been on two medical missions in Gaza working in hospitals that were under Israeli siege and was just denied reentry into Gaza, mere hours before she was scheduled to travel there for a third medical mission. Syed was planning to bring in a small amount of aid to the besieged enclave. “As a doctor, I shouldn’t have to smuggle in baby formula,” she says. “I shouldn’t have to smuggle in protein.”
Syed also received harrowing voice memos from a Palestinian medical student in Gaza with whom she had become friends. The medical student lives in Gaza City and received evacuation orders as Israeli forces prepare to invade. “I no longer have any hope,” said the student in a recorded message.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Democracy Now! Thursday, August 21, 2025
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- Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists as It Begins Gaza City Invasion
- Israel Approves Settlement Splitting West Bank in Two and Further Dooming Palestinian State
- State Department Fires Officer Who Expressed Condolences for Journalists Killed by Israel in Gaza
- State Department Sanctions More ICC Officials for Investigating U.S. and Israeli War Crimes
- Russia Escalates Attacks on Ukraine, Casting Doubt on Trump's Call for a Putin-Zelensky Summit
- Colombia's President Warns U.S. Against Invading Venezuela
- Texas House Approves Congressional Map Gerrymandered to Help GOP in 2026 Midterms
- Appeals Court Clears Path for Trump to End TPS for Immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua
- Trump Administration Officials Visit National Guard Troops in D.C., Drawing Jeers and Protests
- Trump Calls on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Resign
- Judge Rejects DOJ Request to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts Related to Jeffrey Epstein
- Missouri Community Defeats Secretive Project to Build Massive AI Data Center
- "No Azure for Apartheid": 18 Arrested at Protest of Microsoft's Work with Israel's Military
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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We speak with ACLU lawyer Eunice Cho about a new federal lawsuit brought on behalf of immigrants held at the detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The detainees allege being routinely subjected to human rights abuses, denied due process and access to legal counsel, while families have complained of being unable to find their loved ones “disappeared” into the facility. “These are basic constitutional rights that are afforded to anybody that is held in government custody. And what was happening at Alligator Alcatraz is simply unprecedented and not normal,” says Cho, senior counsel at the ACLU National Prison Project.
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“How much is Trump pocketing off the presidency?” That’s the question driving a major new investigation by journalist David D. Kirkpatrick in The New Yorker, which finds that the first family has been leveraging its place atop U.S. politics to rake in billions. According to Kirkpatrick, Donald Trump and his immediate family have made $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.
“What really surprised me about all this is just how fast they’re making this money. They seem to turn down no opportunity,” says Kirkpatrick. “It really sharpens the question of what a buyer, so to speak, might be getting for that.”
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Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration’s takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime. Along with the D.C. National Guard that Trump already controlled, this brings the total number of troops in the streets of the capital to more than 2,000. The federal takeover comes even as violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low — numbers the Trump administration now disputes, with the Justice Department launching an investigation into whether those crime statistics were manipulated by city officials.
“What we’re seeing is lawlessness, but it’s all coming from the White House,” says community activist Keya Chatterjee, the executive director of the group Free DC.
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Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration’s takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime. Along with the D.C. National Guard that Trump already controlled, this brings the total number of troops in the streets of the capital to more than 2,000. The federal takeover comes even as violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low — numbers the Trump administration now disputes, with the Justice Department launching an investigation into whether those crime statistics were manipulated by city officials.
“What we’re seeing is lawlessness, but it’s all coming from the White House,” says community activist Keya Chatterjee, the executive director of the group Free DC.
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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- Three More Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza as Israeli Attacks Kill 56 in a Day
- Israeli Hostages' Families Lead Protests in Tel Aviv to Demand Gaza Ceasefire Deal
- A Record 383 Humanitarian Workers Were Killed Last Year, Led by Israeli Attacks in Gaza
- Venezuela Mobilizes 4.5 Million Soldiers as Trump Deploys U.S. Marines to Caribbean
- Mexican President Denies Trump Administration's Claims She's Collaborating with DEA
- Advocates Rally in Support of 18-Year-Old L.A. High School Student Abducted by ICE
- Video Shows CBP Officers in California Firing Bullets at Family After Stopping Their Vehicle
- Boston Mayor Rejects DOJ Ultimatum to End Sanctuary City Policies
- U.S. Attorney in D.C. Seeks to Maximize Charges Against Arrestees, with Exemptions for Firearms
- Trump Says Smithsonian Museums Should Not Focus on "How Bad Slavery Was"
- Judge Orders Mississippi to Redraw Supreme Court Districts That Diluted Black Voters' Power
- DOJ Set to Begin Releasing Epstein-Related Files to Congress
- Minnesota Court Overturns Conviction of Water Protector Who Opposed Enbridge Pipeline
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