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Democracy Now! 2025-06-20 Friday

• Headlines for June 20, 2025
• Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel's War on Iran
• "Harming Young People": Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban & End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline
• I Was Detained, Deported From LA Airport For My Reporting on Gaza Campus Protests: Australian Writer
• "More Choices and More Power": How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-19 Thursday

• Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
• Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
• "Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song

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As New Yorkers head to the polls in the primaries for local elections this Tuesday, voters can use ranked-choice voting for up to five of their preferred candidates. We look at how the system works and especially what it could mean for two candidates who have cross-endorsed each other: Democratic Socialist State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander. “It creates a coalition that will combine the forces of both of their supporters and give them a better chance of defeating Andrew Cuomo, who is the front-runner,” says John Tarleton, editor-in-chief of The Indypendent, which is closely following NYC’s mayoral election. He also describes the coalition of groups known as the DREAM coalition, which stands for “Don’t Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor,” and the scandals that drove the former New York governor to resign. Tarleton’s recent piece is headlined “Zohran Mamdani’s Path to Victory.”

Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 17, 2025
• Preemptive Strike or Act of War? Israel Attacked Iran Amid Sinking Global Support for Assault on Gaza
• "We Loved Her": MN AG Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric
• Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran & Gaza

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Watch our full interview with Patricia Torres Ray, former Minnesota state senator and former colleague of Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman. We discuss the impact of the shooting attack on her colleagues, their work, political violence in the United States, the detention last week of Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California, and the arrest of poet Isabel Lopez at Saturday’s No Kings protest in Minneapolis after she defended herself.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-16 Monday

• Headlines for June 16, 2025
• Israel & Iran at War: Trump Is "Only World Leader Who Can Stop the Cycle of Escalation"
• No Kings: Millions Across U.S. Protest Trump's Power Grab, Overshadowing His Military Parad
• "An Outstanding Leader": Minnesota Mourns Assassinated Lawmaker Melissa Hortman as Suspect Is Arrested

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-13 Friday

• Headlines for June 13, 2025
• Israel Attacks Iran, Killing Top Military Leaders, Scientists; Hits Nuke Sites in Expanding Conflict
• "We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State": Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump's Authoritarianism
• "Millions of Lives at Risk": USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-12 Thursday

• Headlines for June 12, 2025
• Ex-U.S. Diplomat Joins March to Gaza, Says Biden Official Matthew Miller Has "Blood on His Hands"
• Block the Bombs: Rep. Delia Ramirez Pushes Bill to Halt U.S. Weapons Sales to Israel over Gaza
• "The Beginning of Fascism": Rep. Delia Ramirez Says Trump's Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy
• The U.S. Accepts "Fruits of Migrant Labor" But Not Immigrants' Humanity: Day Laborer Organizer in L.A.

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Democracy Now! 2025-06-09 Monday

• Headlines for June 09, 2025
• L.A. Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids
• "Absolutely Unprecedented": Trump Deploys National Guard to L.A. & Hegseth Threatens to Send in Marines
• "Kidnapped in Int'l Waters": Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg & Others

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Ten years ago today, Kalief Browder died by suicide, on June 6, 2015, after spending three years at New York’s Rikers Island jail without trial, much of that time in solitary confinement and brutal conditions — after he was accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. We speak with his brother and the director of a new film that aims to remember Kalief and his mother Venida and explores the impact of the trauma they faced and how his family responded. Sisa Bueno is the director of For Venida, For Kalief, which is premiering this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. It features the poetry of Kalief’s late mother, archival footage from the 1970 uprising in New York City jails, and interviews about the ongoing push to shut down Rikers Island jail. Akeem Browder is the older brother of Kalief Browder and a founder of the Campaign to Shut Down Rikers.

Democracy Now! Friday, June 6, 2025

We continue our conversation with investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the rise of unregulated tech behemoths like OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that has been embroiled in scandals surrounding its generation of easily disseminated false information, and Palantir, the secretive data-mining company that now heavily contracts with the U.S. government to provide mass surveillance and data collection services.

Democracy Now! Thursday, June 5, 2025

Extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-04 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 04, 2025
• "Death Traps": U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food
• Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation
• "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

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