Democracy Now! Friday, February 28, 2025
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Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites.
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- U.S. Judge Says Trump & Musk's Mass Firings Are Illegal as New Wave of Layoffs Hits NOAA
- Trump Cuts USAID's Contracts by 90%, Gives Staffers 15 Minutes to Clear Desks
- FDA Vaccine Panel Meeting to Discuss Flu Shot Is Canceled
- Trump Vows to Go Ahead with Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China Next Week
- Trump Softens Rhetoric on Ukrainian President Zelensky Ahead of White House Meeting
- Talks Underway for Next Phase of Tenuous Ceasefire as Israel Releases Remaining Palestinian Captives
- Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Another Palestinian Child in Occupied West Bank
- Jailed Kurdish Leader Calls on Followers to Lay Down Arms
- 11 Killed, Dozens Wounded by Explosions at Rally of M23 Rebels in Eastern DRC
- Thailand Deports Uyghurs to China Despite Warnings over Imprisonment and Torture
- Centrists in Austria and Germany Exclude Far-Right Parties from Ruling Coalitions
- U.N. Negotiators Agree to Plan to Reverse Biodiversity Loss by 2030
- Congress Overturns Biden-Era Rule to Tax Methane Pollution
- Elon Musk Seeks to Have His Company Take Over Verizon's $2.4 Billion FAA Contract
- Protests Erupt as Iowa Republicans Eliminate Civil Rights Protections for Transgender People
- Accused Human Traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate Return to Florida as U.S. Lifts Travel Ban
- Two Prisoners Found Dead at New York's Sing Sing as Prison Guards Continue Wildcat Strike
- Activists Launch 24-Hour "Economic Blackout" to Protest Corporate Greed
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Friday 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 post was originally published on Radio Free.
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been the public face of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle many government agencies and slash the size of the federal workforce. On Wednesday, he attended Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, although he is not a Cabinet member. Meanwhile, Russell Vought, the Project 2025 mastermind and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, has been working behind the scenes to enact far-right policies aimed at privatizing public resources like Medicaid and Social Security. We speak with Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic to discuss the radical DOGE agenda. “As they make these ruthless, ruthless cuts to the programs that people rely on, … they also want to keep in place massive tax cuts for the rich,” he says.
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been the public face of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle many government agencies and slash the size of the federal workforce. On Wednesday, he attended Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, although he is not a Cabinet member. Meanwhile, Russell Vought, the Project 2025 mastermind and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, has been working behind the scenes to enact far-right policies aimed at privatizing public resources like Medicaid and Social Security. We speak with Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic to discuss the radical DOGE agenda. “As they make these ruthless, ruthless cuts to the programs that people rely on, … they also want to keep in place massive tax cuts for the rich,” he says.
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Thousands gathered in Beirut Sunday to mourn the death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s longtime leader who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September. Under a ceasefire agreement, Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon last week, but it continues to illegally occupy five locations in the country. Correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous traveled to Lebanon last week to report from the ground in southern Lebanon and to cover Nasrallah’s funeral, one of the biggest in the region in decades. The large turnout of thousands of Lebanese mourners was a “show of presence and of support for Hezbollah, which suffered heavy losses in Israel’s war on Lebanon,” Abdel Kouddous says.
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Thousands gathered in Beirut Sunday to mourn the death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s longtime leader who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September. Under a ceasefire agreement, Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon last week, but it continues to illegally occupy five locations in the country. Correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous traveled to Lebanon last week to report from the ground in southern Lebanon and to cover Nasrallah’s funeral, one of the biggest in the region in decades. The large turnout of thousands of Lebanese mourners was a “show of presence and of support for Hezbollah, which suffered heavy losses in Israel’s war on Lebanon,” Abdel Kouddous says.
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An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!
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An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!
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Democracy Now! Thursday, February 27, 2025
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- White Houses Announces Large-Scale Government Layoffs
- Trump and Musk Lead First Cabinet Meeting, Touting Gov't Cuts, Dismantling of Federal Agencies
- Protests in D.C. Take Aim at Health Insurance, Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas Interests
- U.S. Aid Slashed by 90%, Condemning Lifesaving Projects Around the Globe
- "Screaming from Hunger in the Streets": U.S. Aid Cuts Compound Sudan's Hunger Crisis
- Unknown Illness Kills 53 in Western Democratic Republic of Congo
- Hundreds of Palestinian Prisoners Freed by Israel Show Signs of Torture and Starvation
- Trump Posts AI Video Depicting "Riviera of the Middle East"
- British PM Keir Starmer Warns Russia Could Reinvade Ukraine Without U.S. Security Guarantees
- BP to Boost Oil and Gas Investments by $10 Billion, Reversing Pledge to Invest in Clean Energy
- Earth's Glaciers Are Melting at Accelerated Rate
- U.S. Records First Measles Death in a Decade as West Texas Outbreak Spreads
- Pentagon Memo Calls for Removal of Trans Military Personnel
- Trump Announces $5 Million "Gold Card" Visa for Wealthy Immigrants
- Entertainers, Media Figures Condemn BBC's Pulling of Gaza Documentary About Palestinian Children
- "Sick-Out" Held at Barnard College to Protest Expulsion of Pro-Palestinian Students
- NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Orders CUNY to Remove Palestinian Studies Job Posting
- Washington Post Opinion Editor Resigns as Jeff Bezos Orders Changes to Opinion Section
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak with Jose Saldaña, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about a wildcat strike by New York prison guards who claim limits on solitary confinement have made their work more dangerous. “The people who are living in a dangerous environment are the incarcerated men and women,” says Saldaña, who notes the strike began the same week murder charges were announced against six of the guards who brutally beat to death handcuffed prisoner Robert Brooks in an attack captured on body-camera video. “The whole world saw it, and they’re questioning: How long has this been going on in the prison system? This illegal strike is to erase that consciousness that’s building,” says Saldaña. We are also joined by anthropologist Orisanmi Burton, who studies prisons and says the proliferation of solitary confinement and other harsh measures is directly linked to political organizing behind bars starting in the late 1960s. “Prisons in the United States are best understood as institutions of low-intensity warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control,” says Burton, author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.
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We look at a rare victory for a death row prisoner before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday, three conservative justices joined with the three liberals to overturn the murder conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip, who has spent nearly 30 years on Oklahoma death row and had exhausted all other appeals to stay his execution. The justices said Glossip was entitled to a new trial after errors in his original prosecution. Glossip’s conviction stems from the 1997 murder of his former boss, who was killed by another man who accused Glossip of masterminding the killing. Glossip has always maintained his innocence, and even Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond has said Glossip did not get a fair trial. We speak with Glossip’s spiritual adviser, Sister Helen Prejean, renowned anti-death penalty activist, who says the case has brought together a remarkable coalition to fight for justice and helped to highlight the problems with capital punishment. “We don’t need this thing,” says Prejean. “It’s time to shut it down.”
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We speak with the acclaimed science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, who has spent decades writing and thinking about the impact of technology on our lives. He coined the term “enshittification” to describe how online platforms degrade the user experience over time in search of profits, though it has been widely adopted to describe a larger sense of decline and decay across society. He discusses his new book Picks and Shovels, Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence to discipline its workers, and billionaire Elon Musk’s work in the Trump administration. “The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” Doctorow says of Musk’s work through DOGE, which has gutted government agencies and wide swaths of the federal workforce. “In the reality-based world, even if you are worried about government waste, even if you want to make government smaller, you have to acknowledge the empirical fact that payroll accounts for 4% of the federal budget.”
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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