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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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The legendary journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of 91. Moyers, whose long career included helping found the Peace Corps and serving as press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, was an award-winning champion of public television and independent media. We feature one of his numerous interviews on Democracy Now! where we discussed the history of public broadcasting in the United States and the powerful role of money in corporate media. “The power of money trumps the power of democracy today, and I’m very worried about it,” he said in a 2011 interview. His comments hold particular resonance as the Trump administration moves to strip federal funding from PBS and NPR today.
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Democrat Pramila Jayapal is holding a series of “shadow hearings” in Congress on Trump’s immigration actions. Jayapal, the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security and Enforcement, explains how Trump’s immigration crackdown has created a “Catch-22” for asylum seekers, who are being targeted for “expedited removal” at their own immigration hearings. “If you show up, you could get detained and deported. … If you don’t show up, then you are now in violation of the immigration regulations, and you’re deemed as an absconder.” Jayapal also comments on Trump’s “big, beautiful budget bill,” which she calls the “big, bad, betrayal bill” for its cuts to Medicaid and other social services.
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Over 100 days have passed since the Trump administration’s unprecedented removal of more than 230 immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT. They were removed without any due process in the United States. Democracy Now! spoke with the loved ones of Andry Hernández Romero, a 33-year-old gay makeup artist and asylum seeker who was told he would be sent home to Venezuela, according to his mother. But instead, he was sent to CECOT, where reports of torture and abuse are rampant. His mother Alexis Romero and his best friend Reina Cardenas have not seen or heard from him in three months. He has been identified in photos taken at CECOT by a photojournalist. Hernández Romero “was detained from the moment he showed up for his asylum appointment,” says Cardenas. “He never had due process.” Adds Margaret Cargioli, a lawyer for the family, “He sought asylum because he was persecuted due to his political opinion and because he’s LGBTQ. … It is quite astonishing that in the United States, people are being disappeared in this manner.”
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The Supreme Court has sided with South Carolina’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. Lower court rulings allowed Medicaid patients to sue over the state’s restrictions on Medicaid funding for their healthcare clinics, which the Supreme Court overturned in a 6-3 decision on Thursday. Rebecca Grant, who writes about reproductive rights, says South Carolina’s restrictions will likely be taken up by other states and could result in the closure of potentially hundreds of reproductive healthcare clinics. Grant outlines the alternative healthcare methods that many are forced to turn to in the face of dangerous and — since the fall of Roe v. Wade — increasingly draconian abortion restrictions. “We know throughout history that making abortion illegal or trying to ban it does not make it go away,” she says. This underground network of abortion access in the United States is the subject of Grant’s new book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom.
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Democracy Now! Friday, June 27, 2025
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The Brooklyn-based Sikh American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his remarkable music. Singh gained fame as a member of Red Baraat and now records as solo artist. He recently released a new album titled Sage Warrior and is playing at Joe’s Pub in New York on July 2.
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- Israel Continues Deadly Attacks on Gaza Aid Sites as 17,000 Palestinian Children Suffer Malnutrition
- Senate Democrats Question Trump's Claim of "Obliterated" Iran Nuclear Sites
- U.S. and China Agree to "Framework" for Trade Deal
- Senate Parliamentarian Deals Major Blow to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"
- Supreme Court Sides with South Carolina in Campaign to Defund Planned Parenthood
- Supreme Court Grants Reprieve to Condemned Texas Prisoner Minutes Before Lethal Injection
- Masked ICE Agents Arrest L.A. Resident and U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez on Her Way to Work
- Walmart Worker and U.S. Citizen Is Released from Detention After Violent Arrest by Federal Agents
- Attorney General Pam Bondi Denies Knowledge of Masked and Hooded ICE Agents
- Federal Judge Will Allow ICE to Force-Feed Hunger Striking Asylum Seeker
- Canadian Citizen and Mexican Immigrant Become the Latest to Die in ICE Custody
- Advisory Panel Stacked With RFK Jr. Appointees Recommends Against Flu Vaccinations
- NYC Mayor Adams Announces Reelection Bid as Independent; Cuomo to Remain on the Ballot
- Legendary Television Journalist Bill Moyers Dies at 91
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Part Two of our conversation with journalist Rebecca Grant, who writes about reproductive rights. She outlines the alternative healthcare methods that many are forced to turn to in the face of dangerous and — since the fall of Roe v. Wade — increasingly draconian abortion restrictions. “We know throughout history that making abortion illegal or trying to ban it does not make it go away,” she says. This underground network of abortion access in the United States is the subject of Grant’s new book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom.
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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 Donald Trump has returned to Washington after a NATO summit where leaders agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, more than doubling the current target of 2%. The increase comes after years of pressure from Trump, who accuses other countries in the military alliance of not spending enough. “What he is interested in is catering to the military-industrial complex of the United States,” says Gilbert Achcar, emeritus professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS, University of London. “When he asks these NATO countries to increase their military expenditure, he means 'buy more U.S. weapons.' That’s what he is doing. He’s a salesperson for the military-industrial complex.”
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The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against vaccinations, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrawing U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group — known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — is the world’s largest funder of life-saving vaccinations and says it has helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 lower-income countries, preventing nearly 19 million future deaths. Kennedy also recently stacked an important vaccine advisory panel with unqualified appointees, many of them holding anti-vaccine views.
“Anti-vaccine activists have been shouting from the sidelines for decades. Now they’re making policy,” says Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democratic primary for New York mayor, the rise of Donald Trump, and the role of big money in politics. “This is the one thing that I agree with Donald Trump about: The economy is rigged — but it’s rigged against working-class people. And I think Mamdani understood that. He understood that people have got to want a change, but also they want affordability. They want an economy that is working for them.”
We also speak with him about his decades-long career as a teacher and The Last Class, a new documentary that follows Reich over his last semester at the University of California, Berkeley. The class, and much of Reich’s career, has focused on rising inequality and its impact on society. “Most Americans feel powerless,” says Reich. “This is a crisis right now.”
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Democracy Now! Thursday, June 26, 2025
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- Trump Pushes Back Over Leaked Report Finding US Bombs Failed to Destroy Iran's Nuclear Program
- Iran's Supreme Leader Claims Victory over Israel in First Public Remarks Since Ceasefire
- Israeli Continues Deadly Attacks on Palestinians Seeking Food at Aid Sites
- Israeli Soldiers Kill 3 Palestinians as Dozens of Israeli Settlers Attack West Bank Village
- Some Republican Senators Balk at Medicaid Cuts in Trump's Budget Reconciliation Bill
- "Forced to Choose Between Rent and Food": Protesters Decry Cuts to Social Programs in GOP Bill
- Trump Moves Housing Department Offices to Virginia, Displacing National Science Foundation
- CDC Workers Hold Protest in Atlanta as RFK Jr. Pulls Funding from Global Vaccine Group
- CNN: Trump Plans to Reject Hundreds of Thousands of Asylum Claims to Speed Deportations
- "All About Political Intimidation": Rep. LaMonica McIver Pleads Not Guilty to Assault at ICE Jail
- Whistleblower Alleges Trump Judicial Nominee Emil Bove Sought to Ignore Court Orders
- Protests Erupt as Billionaire Jeff Bezos Takes Over Venice for Lavish Wedding Celebration
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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