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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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- 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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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Amanda Trebach, a member of the immigrant rights’ group Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she was targeted and arrested herself. Video of the scene shows masked agents in plainclothes forcing her to the ground and briefly kneeling on her head. “They took me into an unmarked vehicle. They did not read me my rights. They didn’t tell me where I was going,” says Trebach, who was detained overnight before being released without charges the following evening after an outpouring of community support. She recounts her experience and explains why she will continue to fight for her immigrant neighbors in the face of the ongoing danger to her community.
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President Trump says he is working on a “deal” to end the Russia-Ukraine war by hosting a series of meetings between the U.S., European Union, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Putin is insisting Russia keep areas of Ukraine that it has seized, including the long-contested Donbas region, while Zelensky is asking the U.S. for security guarantees to prevent future invasion by its powerful neighbor. We host a conversation with two political scientists, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and Ukrainian democratic socialist Denys Pilash, about the likely outcome of the talks and the roots of the conflict. Mearsheimer says “the sides remain so far apart” when it comes to the possibility of a ceasefire during peace negotiations that “the best outcome would be to settle this war now.” Pilash, on the other hand, says there are still measures that can be taken to pressure Russia to agree to a ceasefire and to secure more favorable postwar terms for Ukraine.
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Democracy Now! 2025-08-19 Tuesday
- Headlines for August 19, 2025
- Will Russia-Ukraine War End with Diplomacy or on Battlefield? John Mearsheimer vs. Denys Pilash
- "They Kidnapped Me": L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
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- As European Leaders Gather at White House, Trump Says He'll Arrange Zelensky-Putin Meeting
- Tens of Thousands Flee Gaza City as Israel Steps Up Bombings Ahead of Planned Invasion
- Hamas Agrees to 60-Day Ceasefire Plan That's "Almost Identical" to U.S. Proposal
- ISIL-Backed Rebels Kill 52 in Eastern Congo; M23 Suspends Peace Talks with DRC
- Texas Democrat Locked in House Chamber for Refusing Round-the-Clock Surveillance by State Troopers
- Trump Says He'll Ban Mail-In Ballots and Voting Machines, Citing Advice from Vladimir Putin
- Newsmax Will Pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 Million to Settle Lawsuit over 2020 Election Lies
- More National Guard Troops Deploy to D.C. as White House Social Media Teams Join FBI Raids
- Mourners in Monrovia, California, Honor Guatemalan Immigrant Killed While Fleeing ICE Raid
- 10,000 Unionized Flight Attendants End Strike After Reaching Tentative Deal with Air Canada
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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