Democracy Now! Friday, August 22, 2025
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- U.N. Declares a Famine in Gaza, Where Over 500,000 Face "Starvation, Destitution and Death"
- Netanyahu Says He'll Restart Ceasefire Talks While Proceeding with Gaza City Invasion
- California to Hold Special Election for Redrawn Maps to Counter Texas GOP Gerrymander
- Trump Praises Troops and Officers over Federal Takeover of D.C. Law Enforcement
- ICE Agents in D.C. Coordinate with Police to Target Immigrants in Moped Traffic Stops
- Federal Judge Halts Expansion of "Alligator Alcatraz" over Environmental Violations
- State Department Is Vetting 55 Million U.S. Visa Holders for "Deportable" Offenses
- Kremlin Rules Out European Troops in Ukraine, Casts Doubts on Putin-Zelensky Summit
- Ukrainian Man Accused of Sabotaging Nord Stream Pipelines Is Arrested in Italy
- SCOTUS Clears Path for Trump to Cancel Nearly $800 Million in NIH Research Grants
- Trump Administration Ignores Congressional Directive to Fully Fund HIV/AIDS Program
- Trump Administration Cancels Grants for Sex Education, English as a Second Language
- Court Rules Alina Habba Has Been Unlawfully Serving as U.S. Prosecutor for New Jersey
- New York Appeals Court Voids "Excessive" Civil Fraud Judgment Against Trump Organization
- Eric Adams Adviser Indicted on Fresh Bribery Charges; Another Adviser Attempts to Bribe Reporter
- FBI Raids Home of Trump's Former National Security Adviser John Bolton
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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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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 content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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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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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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