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Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the Internet Archive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources. The San Francisco-based nonprofit operates the Wayback Machine, a popular tool that saves snapshots of websites that may otherwise be lost forever, and it has archived federal government websites at each presidential transition since 2004. While it’s normal for a new administration to overhaul some of its online resources, the Trump administration’s pace of destruction has shocked many archivists. “There have been thousands and thousands of pages removed,” says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, who notes that even a page about the U.S. Constitution was scrubbed from the White House website.
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We continue to look at Israeli torture of Palestinian detainees with Naji Abbas from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which has just released a new report detailing the mistreatment of medical workers from Gaza. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other essential medical staff were arrested by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 and held under brutal conditions, with many describing physical, psychological and sexual abuse, starvation, medical neglect and more. “It’s a whole journey of torture and abuse,” says Abbas, director of PHRI’s Prisoners and Detainees Department.
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Dr. Khaled Alser, a renowned Palestinian surgeon at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, describes how Israeli forces abducted him from Gaza last year before transferring him to Israeli prisons rife with abuse. He was held by Israel for seven months last year, during which time he says he was beaten, humiliated, denied medical treatment and tortured. He also describes routine sexual assault and sexual humiliation of prisoners by Israeli soldiers, as well as the use of military attack dogs on the detainees. No charges were filed against Alser before he was released back to Gaza. “Most of the prisoners I met inside the prison are civilians or civil workers here, working inside hospitals, schools, universities,” Alser tells Democracy Now! from Gaza. “We as healthcare workers, we don’t have any agenda against anyone. We just provide medical care.”
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We speak with foreign policy analyst Matt Duss about increasingly fraught relations between the United States and Ukraine, which have undergone a seismic shift under the second Trump administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday and is expected to sign an agreement giving the U.S. access to his country’s rare earth minerals, which are key components in mobile phones and other advanced technology. It’s unclear what, if anything, Ukraine will get in return, even as Trump pushes Kyiv to reach a deal with Moscow to end the war that began in February 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Trump is simultaneously moving to restore relations with Russia and lift its international isolation. Duss says the throughline in Trump’s thinking, from Ukraine to Gaza and elsewhere, is that “great powers” like the United States “make the decisions, and less powerful countries, less powerful communities and peoples simply have to live with the consequences.”
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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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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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